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In Columbus Ohio. Worst fear came true, couldn’t pee. They put a catheter in. I still have a 300 mile drive home. Felt absolutely horrible all night.

The first lightning bugs of the season started to display tonight. Other Springwood/lightning bug news: the Loopy 5s (my rare ones) are up for being added to the endangered species list. The Georgia DNR is doing a survey of Springwood’s flora and fauna. And UGA will again be conducting classes out here.

Honestly, it's your own damn fault for being in Ohio. Here in the Cafe, we LITERALLY discuss the perils of traveling to Ohio almost every day!

Sorry to hear that. Try not to let them start removing body parts - that is a slippery slope. Once they find oot your medical insurance works it is off to the races!

I dislike humans too. the end.

Please keep Ryan in your most powerful prayers, thoughts, vibes, what ever you have. Thx

Made it home. Filling the antibiotic is the only thing I have to do this weekend.

As opposed to waiting in the sitting room. At the dermatologist, just had a squamous cell carcinoma cut out of my arm and stitched up. Then they removed a basal cell from my hamstring. They painted my face and chest and now I’m waiting three hours before I have a red light treatment.

My daughter teaches HS in the city. They were putting on a show, but rather than pay for rights to something, they wrote it themselves. She got some really interesting perspectives. Set in the late 1800's West, it was about a Black lesbian running for Sheriff. Yep, her opponent was typical Wild West Sherriff material. TONs of references to current culture wars and politics. All told from the perspective of mostly black inner city teens. She did learn a bunch about their perspectives, more than she normally gets from them

There's a small retention pond outside my office where ducks occasionally gather. This morning there was another visitor, a hawk I think, looking for his breakfast. While I watched the hawk dove on the ducks, who in turn dove under water to foil the hawk. The ducks stayed on the water until the hawk took off to find an easier meal, then they swam to the edges of the pond and waddle up on the grass.

I’m about ready to get on 271 which joins up with 90 east of Cleveland, then 3 hours to Buffalo

I'm guessing around 1979

When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

If I see Fetzer valve on my bill I am gonna know I was had!

They said I could leave after the IV antibiotics are done. Less than an hour.

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It crashes if I put it in a conversation trust, which I’m planing to do. Upside is my land tax is also greatly reduced, and I can apply the lost land value to my income tax for 10 years. As for usage, I will not be able to develop or subdivide the estate (wasn’t planning on it), but I can still build whatever on existing home sites, and plant whatever in my fields. Won’t be able to log the forest (wasn’t planning on doing that either).

Thanks, Aire. We were hopeful your dislike of humans today wouldn't extend to frogs or pigs. Or cats

Let them live

Same shit different day. No really different shit but still shit

And before it does it can make your mind play tricks on you. I had my wife in the ER for a UTI and the curtain in her room had squares printed on it. She wanted me to fix the top square and move it down where it belonged. I told her it doesn’t move, it’s printed on. She insisted I had to fix it. Our son joined in and told her it was ok, it was made that way. When the doctor came in she asked him to show these guys how that square is supposed to be. It was sad but also funny. They got that fixed with an antibiotic and she lived another 15 months with a sound mind.

When my heart did that I had to get four stents...

Having no debt was the prerequisite to retirement for me, so we made extra payments on the mortgage and kept up the scheduled maintenance on our cars. Our pension is enough, so far. Haven’t had to tap into the IRAs or 401ks. Edit: But we are looking at buying an AWD vehicle so we can go skiing. Neither of our cars is particularly good on snowpack.

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Went with the Cranberries today: Wordle 643 2/6* ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ ARGUE 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GROUT

When things like this make you frustrated and depressed, it's very helpful to remember you can always resort to revenge.

She caught a student plagiarizing a paper word for word. At first the student denied it even though my daughter had a copy of the original paper. The student finally broke down and said that she didn't think that it would be plagiarized as she paid a lot of money for the paper on the internet.

I drive her crazy.

I don’t think they used the red light. They covered my eyeballs with a cover so my eyes didn’t get fried I didn’t see them remove the red light and replace it with a flame thrower. Jeeze Louise did that hurt. Three ten minute sessions, I almost said uncle. I never expected it to burn like that.

Can there actually be "too much" @Kirby in our lives? I don't think so.

not confused, just the act of copying material off the internet in lieu of reading the book. Sometimes now I'll use others' words because it is what I want to say. But I put in quotes & cite the source.

He's napping under his desk like he does most days.

I’d take a solid C and original work any day. After my school district started using the Google suite, I could run the plagiarism check on student work submitted in Docs. But I didn’t really need to use the checker because the copied text would be in a different font style or size or grayscale. Most of the time a student who copied said the source material is exactly what they knew and wanted to say, but they had a hard time coming up with the words. I get that. Then I’d have to explain that if they have control over a subject, then they have words to talk about it. And I’d show them how to cite long passages and add original commentary in their own voice. It’s hard to own up to the truth that “I’m still trying to understand this” when the teacher (the school) has an inflexible timeline and that essay is due. Especially if getting a C is out of the question for them.

Still funny.

I would use the model number and the googles and some of the 5 gs to procure a repair video. I would bet it is the fill solenoid and / or air in the system.

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Don't need this anymore, we can replace that, and we have a rebuild kit for those

The crime wave. Stay away, as roaming bands of criminals will get you! This has been a crazy winter though. 2-3 days of steady rain weekly for the past few months is not the norm by any means. We have rain forecasted again for the middle of next week.

If you are awake, go. I always get a lot more office stuff done when no one else is around.

3/23/23. 53 miles on the group ride this morning. We had to detour from our planned route since the Rio Salado trail was closed due to flooding in places.