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Called me yesterday. The big dog in this area. "Parr8, we have done a market adjustment on your salary". "OK?" , I am thinking that they are cutting money because they are paying nurses too much. "Effective last paycheck you will see an additional 3.50 an hour on top of your base pay" Dang! Now I can almost afford to fill up to 3/4 of a tank instead of just half! Nothing I asked for, but I will damn sure take it!

So my dogs can have a life of leisure. Apparently they did not like that one pillow. Einstein sent me this while I was in a meeting.

43 years of mixed blessings for me an Mrs Further

Still in ICU but doing a lot better. She was sitting up and laughing and a shot walk down the hallway. This is just one arm

I will not be joining the Big Ten this year. I will also not be joining the LIV Tour. And just to be clear, I will also not be trying to break any stage records this Tour. Thank you for your interest.

I have previously posted that my paternal grandparents were old order Mennonites. You know, horse and buggy folks. Back in my childhood days, when we got actual winters, with snow on the roads and stuff, horses and buggies gave way to horses and cutters, or sleighs. When my grandpa died in 1974, my dad inherited his cutter, and he had big plans to make it into seasonal yard art, but that never happened. Might have had something to do with how he hoisted it into the rafters in the shed, and how much of a chore it would have been to pull it out and put it back every year. Well, now Dad is gone, and Mom is ready to sell the house, so it is time to de clutter (or de cutter in this case) . We put the call out to all the cousins to see if someone in the family would take it. My cousin's son said he has a place for it, so we are happy it will stay in the family. Anyway, the job today was to take it down from the rafters and put it on the ground, ready for them to come and pick it up. It was quite a big job, as Dad had built a storage crib under it that was full of wood scraps and other junk. So last time I was there, I tore out the crib, and made it ready to just pull out all the loose stuff so we could set the cutter down. I really don't know how my dad got it up there 48 years ago, but my youngest brother who was 10 at the time said he was there helping and all he remembers is that it involved ropes and pulleys. Well, we were a bit better equipped for setting it down. We used my 2 ton engine hoist, to which I bolted a transverse channel iron to the lifting beam. Once we had the weight off the wires suspending it, we just cut the wires and lowered it with the hoist. Once it was down to waist level, with one man on each corner, (me, my two brothers and a nephew,) we were able to carry it out and set it on the trailer.

The more often I clean my glasses, the more often they need cleaning. It's like the schmaltz is attracted to the cleanliness.

I call him Rusty ok

Look, here's something to put your mind at ease. The contact area of those brake pads is probably about four times as big as the contact area of your tires on the road. See? Doesn't that make you feel a lot better about the brake pads now?

That’s what it is ! I hope it’s the lesser of two weevils I crack me up 😆 So are weevils bad ?

Came home to this

Are you getting a company car. A panel van with “Bubba’s Blood Cleaning & Filtration” in vinyl wrap. That would be dope.

The new job is still with the same company. Same region just a different branch. Rate will carry over.

Sure, I will use some of my massive amounts of free time to watch!

3.17 walk with Nancy. IMG_3319.MOV

It's called a bombardier beetle. You want to get rid of as many as you can, because I saw a documentary about how bad a problem they can be if you let them reach adulthood.

A lot of people thought they could drink Canada Dry. They can’t, Canada has too many breweries for them to do that.

Was the job "knife fighting"?

She must have had a lot of charm to bury a knife fight OTJ

I think that this is actually a denouement as it wraps up everything nicely.

I checked it on last nights ride. We did the biggest climb we can ride to from home, 1.2 miles @ 8.5%. O2 was flowing real well😁

My dad hates flying. His buddy told him once that it is perfectly safe. You're strapped to two large containers of kerosene in something as thin as an aluminum can doing 700 mph with two huge fireballs on either side of you. What could go wrong?

Please tell us that you’ll still be entering the Publisher’s Clearinghouse.

8 km to work and then off to cafe today.

9 on the Varsity. Was going to do some weights, but the gate key wasn’t working and the office personnel had left for the day.

By tomorrow, I'll post June tomorrow.

I guessed are doing time & not distance for totals so: 72 minutes total for 3 swims (24 mins ea) Today 19.1 outside on the steel bike. Nice ride on major roads w wide shoulders. I thought I sucked during the ride but I got a couple Strava PRs and a bunch of 2nds. My first outside ride this year. (sad)

Actually us. We’ve been shopping for new bikes for a while. Ordered two of these this morning. Hers may be here in September, mine not til November.

Wrong! Hot dogs are crap both indoors & out. Give me a brat with mustard & kraut. Chilling with family and doing fireworks. Gonna smoke a Tri tip.

7/1/22. 29.7 miles this morning

It was a knife fight. But you would think one of them would be smart enough to bring a gun to a knife fight.

Are you looking for a knife fight?

Broom to clean house? or did she need it for transport?

We all want to comeback as an Aero Airedale.

Phil is all we really know and I can’t imagine watching the tour without his voice in the background. I grew up watching the Lakers with Chick Hearn and was really bummed when he died. But you know what, the current play by play guy IMHO is better. Less colorful but so smooth & professional. The tour will not be the same without Phil but it could also be better.

She has arms?

For my May & June totals: Cycling: 789 miles Walks/Hikes: 44 miles

My summer reading showed up, six actual books, written by…. ….Douglas Adams I need some zany, and an improbable outcome

I find it makes for a nice green lawn in the droughts of August when everyone else's is turning brown.

Watch starship troopers and get back to us. edit: I see that once again TK is first into the information breach with reasoned discourse.

Covid exposed

It's the wife too. Talk all you want, I won't be here.

6/30/22 24 miles today Was raining at 6:30, but dried off quickly