Odd as it may seem, I’m not the expert on any of this, but I think I’m making progress. We were talking about GoComics.com, the Andrews McMeel Universal website where hundreds of comics, including A&J, are posted every day. Specifically, we were talking about “liking” stuff there, very specifically “liking” Arlo & Janis. Turns out visitors must sign up for a GoComics account to be able to “like” and to comment and to do other stuff. That’s the not-so-good news. The good news is, you can sign up for an account for free, and it won’t kill you! But wait! There’s more! You can pay $20 a year and view comics 24 hours a day without those jumpy ads, plus you can build pages of your personal favorites and have them emailed to you. I’m really not trying to sell you anything: I only recently have begun doing this myself, right down to paying my bosses 20 bucks. I can say it’s a pretty good deal. My experience at GoComics.com is more enjoyable. In parting, I want to thank those of you who did find your way to GoComics.com yesterday and “liked” that dreadful cartoon. You rocked the house! But we’re going to talk more about that next post.
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When does church let out?
Jackie, I’ve also seen a lot of exercise equipment for sale on Craigslist for Tulsa, under the General heading.
From a post by LLee on FB. She knows a lot of really good art sites and this one does instruction via posts on FB.
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I like Asian-style art and this one really is something I wish I had so I could look at it repeatedly.
This reminds me it’s lunch time: https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22539985_1583720864999486_2305177655642223331_n.jpg?oh=3f3f1e28e1218b4bb0b911fe316c2d1d&oe=5A70F5A5
Did I scare everyone off? No posts for 7 hours? Must be some fascinating football games or good walking weather?
I spent most of day cooking. I made huge pot vegetable beef soup, a pot of chili, a meatloaf and part of beef stew. Have to add vegs to the cooked meat and make gravy for stew.
Tomorrow I am cooking a pot roast and a pot of red beans and rice with cajun sausage.
Trying to get some precooked defrostables in freezer before I start chemo. Or at least something Ghost can eat that is ready made.
Ghost is a good cook. Probably we are equally experienced at cooking. Sometimes we are so alike that is like a two sided coin or two peas in a pod. A male version of me?
I just got back from leading services at the state hospital. The Baptist minister and his wife are away in Europe celebrating their 40th anniversary for the next few weeks, and the full-time chaplain also is attached to the Nation Guard and has been involved with disaster relief, so I’ll be filling in.
Good for you, Trucker Ron! The services, etc., will be in good hands while they are away.
Jackie, used exercise equipment might bring its own germs with it; and unstable or poorly designed stuff can cause injury. But you and Ghost have thought of all that, I imagine.
Are you out there, Old Bear?
Miss Charlotte a good treadmill like Ghost and I use at the gym costs new $5-8000. A recumbent bike or trainer (?) machine $3-8000 depending on brands.
The big equipment companies refurbish trade-ins and repair them. They are still in thousands so it is hopefully not like buying at a garage sale something for $100 from an individual?
Part of problem is my gym is 25 miles away, closest one. Hospital owns and runs it so it is good. But still you will spend one hour or more commuting to exercise one hour. I will keep membership but since they found the cancer in May we have just quit exercising.
By the way, Mark, are you still exercising? At your apartment complex or a gym?
That is so important to keep up both for your heart and diabetes. You spend too much time seated. Get up and move or do some stretching and seated exercises as you type.
I am here a day early Mizz Charlotte- a full day tomorrow.
Did Zucchini foe dinner.
2 med Zucchini pealed and sliced on slicer.
2 handsful onion from freezer (medium onion)
salt
pepper
some Oregano
some walnuts from the tree in the yard (Debbe)
saute in a Tbs Walnut Oil till limp, stirring occasionally
I keep covered till almost the end.
for dinner
And I meant I have a lot to do tomorrow (today)
OK, you nailed it this time Jimmy. Today’s new strip is me and Ghost together but he is the one cleaning. I am a messy Arlo cook and Ghost is the cleanest, neatest cook ever.
Actually I love cooking with Ghost and I love having a neat, clean kitchen. Our new helper is meticulously neat which helps too. She says working for us isn’t hard, we are both neat and clean people.
I need to go rinse out my cooking pans that are soaking.
Jimmy, could I buy today’s strip? Do you need some paint money for the parsonage?
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Yeah, today really hit home. Last night (and many nights) my wife asks if she can help with dinner. Response is: When I am done cooking, you can clean up!
My son qualified for the 2019 Boston Marathon. The way that they do it now, I suppose that it is possible that they won’t accept his entry. Last year if you beat the qualifying standard by 3:23, then you got in. He beat his by 4:02. He said that his time was good enough. Since he has run it twice, it’s not a big deal if he misses. The mental and physical toll of qualifying is pretty rough. He would have breezed in but his hamstring cramped up at mile 23 as the humidity was higher than normal. Believe it or not, he needs more salt in his diet! Ironically, 5 hours later a front went through and the humidity would not have been an issue.
Today’s Hi & Lois could easily happen. Peace,
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First thought was it might be biblical, but a scenario doesn’t come to mind, then mythological [some would contend there’s substantial overlap there], but again, I come up blank. They held Achilles by the heel, and it was the Styx, not a birdbath. And who would the doll on the right be, aside from the artist’s aim to sell porn?
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Peace,
Mark: Because I’ve bought what I did (and a few accessories), I am now constantly seeing ads for that product. I find myself salivating over the beautiful, sleek models that bombard my computer. My wife doesn’t mind as long as I discuss future purchases with her in advance. She says it’s a harmless addiction… and I think she’s into them as well. She seems to enjoy asking me questions about the latest ones and how they compare to each other.
Of course I mean the Dobsons, Newtonians, and the Cassegrains.
emb, online search simply gives the title “The Bath”, so maybe it is just what it looks like. Two women bathing a baby. And you are probably right about the lady on the right. Unless she is a bath attendant.
Trucker: See those continually in Sky & Telescope, as well as online when I search for M31 or whatever. My stargazing days are mostly over, except for answering questions, mostly arising from having penned Northland Stargazing in the paper for over a decade. It has become a cheap hobby, mostly now a pleasant way to intro others to nature as it is.
The painting is simply titled, ‘The bath.’ Wonder if the woman on the left is Mom or Grandma, and doll on the right kid’s older sister, or baby’s young mother getting instructions. This painter throws in a nude or more at the drop of a hat.
Peace,
Mark: We overlapped. Peace,
emb, did you port your ‘scopes to dark sky areas or do you live in one? Here in my valley things are too bright to see the deep sky objects without the aid of a GoTo or other computerized system which I don’t have yet and won’t for at least a year. But it’s still amazing to see how much more you can see with a 100mm aperture.
Trucker:
The “Dobsons, Newtonians, & the Cassegrains” has a nice ring to it, perhaps on a proposed list of invitees to a soiree. “Yes, dear, it would be delightful to have the Dobsons, Newtons, and Cassegrains, but do you really think the Fords and the Harleys are our kind of people?”
Fun to slip such names into bona fide lists of surnames. Brings to mind Tom Lehrer’s snarky, “The rest of you can look it up when you get home.”
Peace,
Trucker: Both. Had a second-rate 6″ Cassegrain, access to BSU’s Questar [which I got on a NSF grant, and which later got stolen], and an Astroscan. Quite dark skies available w/in a few miles, and actually decent ones from our former back yard in the ’60s-’80s. Box elders along the N and S fencelines eventually made the back yard hopeless, and skies here at The Meadows are terrible, / yard lights and Sanford Health Bemidji just N of “Salisbury Plain.” Eyesight has not improved any, so am pretty much armchair now, except for the occasional bright comet and checking out Algol [beta Persei].
Peace,