My friends, I hope things are getting better for you, wherever you are. Spring weather finally has arrived here. I sat on my front porch last night until well past dark, and it gets dark later these days, you know. You can almost see the buds growing on shrubs and trees. The groundhog in the ditch has been receiving, and the birds are going berserk. The window of my office is open as I write this, and it’s going to be very difficult to get much paying work done today. I repeat: I hope things are better for you, too.
That Synching Feeling
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133 responses to “That Synching Feeling”
Boy – rub it in! My 4 foot snow fencing is still completely covered by snow – one bright spot – the area over the septic tank has melted – and behold – there is grass!
Jimmy, Florida is looking better here in Keys even though one of my friends sank his much modified boat off Flamingo and added fuel to fire with CG rescue. If someone hadn’t Gotten me a blind date with Mike we definitely would never have met! Never saw each other after that.
It is downright hot here.
You must be living in Miami. We’re under water.
‘Twas I at 12:49 a.m. today. Brain didn’t function enough to enter my screen name.
Met future wife during freshman orientation at college. We just happened to sit next to each other one supper, chatted, and ended up walking several miles around town. Then we started doing that purposely. It wasn’t all smooth: early the next academic year she dumped me. Early the academic year after that, she needed help for a physical science course and thought of me. From then, it was, indeed, smooth.
OF due 1143-1203 CDT.
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
50°+ here in Michigan. Feels so much warmer than that. Still a lot of snow on the deck. After that the piles will start to recede. It IS getting better.
The groundhog in the ditch has been receiving what?
Still listening for robins. Kind of neat that a welcome sign of spring is grimy black snow piles by the roads. Peace, emb
It is doing well in New Mexico, Jimmy, thanks for asking. After the best snow storm in 4 or 5 years the weekend before last temperatures are back in the 50s locally. Unfortunately our mountains still only have snowpack of 50-75% of average.
But I actually wanted to gab about today’s retro strip – you nailed my wife and I’s current sleep cycles. Actually, yesterday’s retro also rang true for our household. My wife says I am afflicted with ADOB (Attention Deficit Oh Boobies!) syndrome. I don’t disagree.
Visitors of course Ghost Didn’t you read Wind in the Willows at Oxford?
My traveling companions have finally awakened and talk about incompatible sleep pattern! I love them but this is a conflict! I am getting nothing done
Mr. Ghost was schooled at Cambridge? I never suspected as much.
Oxford? You mean like where Ole Miss is located?
ADOB has never been a problem for me. I can multitask. 🙂
I wonder how long it takes to delete 32,000 emails…including how long it takes to decide which 32,000 emails to delete. Based on how long it takes me to prune and groom my inbox, one would have to have many minions for that.
Ghost how did you know I gave up deleting? Along time ago, I wasn’t expecting such popularity but I have another and thought I might do a massive purge like the chickens
Yeah, Jackie, euthanize your hard drive. That’ll probably work. 🙂
Me, to The Vice President To Whom I Report: Boss, for the sake of convenience, I’ve decide to no longer use the company email system. Effective immediately, please route all official messages to my personal email account on my personal phone.
TVPTWIR: Let me get this straight. Instead of using the company’s secure enterprise server to encrypt and send highly confidential information to your company-furnished and secure smart phone, you want us to route it all to your personal email account on a flip phone you bought at Wally World?
Me: Well, it isn’t a flip phone, and I didn’t buy it at Wally World…but yes…yes I do. It’s more, you know, convenient for me.
TVPTWIR: Well, Ghost, consider how much more convenient it would be for you to get no email at all from us, when you don’t work here anymore.
Does that mean you quit?
That Anonymous from NM up there should have had my name attached. Sorry about that. – Bryan
hc, the title of one of Erma Bombeck’s books is “The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank.”
Jimmy, what does “the groundhog in the ditch has been receiving” mean? Glen is the groundhog who shows up regularly in my yard. I named him after one of my employees who moved reeeeaaallly slooooowwwllly, until I saId something like “Glen, take your break now.” Then he became a blur and disappeared.
OF due NOW-1445 CDT. emb
http://www.nps.gov/features/yell/webcam/oldFaithfulStreaming.html
Jackie, Ghost is referencing current story about former SecState who wants to be next POTUS, following in the wake of her husband. See “going from bad to worse” in dictionary.
Nope. The alarm went off and I woke up. 🙂
Jackie
My son is same way – Hamburger instead of prime rib.
emb
St Paddies 1965 was one of “THOSE STORMS” covered the state & more.
That was the spring that set flood records that still stand. Got a feeling NE
will see them soon.
Snow gone here – 3 feet yet in north east CT
C in NH
how is cast? did you get it adjusted?
Prayers for David
Debbe
It was just bottoms of nests – no pressure washers so helped clean off clumps.
Denise – regarding the groundhogs: I think the spring hormones are running amok!
Taylor Swift has reportedly insured her legs for $40 million dollars. Financial inflation…worse than I would have thought. Ego inflation…about what I would have expected.
However, she has apparently not yet stopped wearing miniskirts in public without being paid each time someone takes a look at her gams.
Apparently my cousin who I had dinner with is a fan and he is close to my age. I thought she was a kid thing like Bieber or other silly ingenues.
Jackie
Gee, I wish I had insured my legs before all this stuff happened. Now maybe I wouldn’t be hobbling around slowly and (almost) painfully. Oh wait, does it work that way?
Dear Old Bear, and other friends who have asked, the cast felt better the next day so I didn’t think I needed to go back to the doctor. It’s still less comfortable and good to walk in as the first one was, but I’ll wait it out; next appt. is in two weeks. Ghost, I appreciate your good advice and always welcome your comments; Denise and Debbe, the same.
The specialist says that my fibula broke because I have a special kind of flat feet, that put a lot of stress (torque?) on the bone (who knew?) Anyway, my steps feel very uncertain and risky, so I’m being very careful. Daughters are a great help and comfort to me. Jackie, my daughters are early risers and I’m the late sleeping one! But they are in their own homes so we are not bothering each other.