What RUINED your day today?

[Dirtymind]

Concussion. I had a wedding I attended over the weekend. Had breakfast, skipped lunch. A joint and a couple of champagnes later, Im talking to someone and Elvis leaves the building. Ostrich egg on the side of the head from bouncing of concrete

[ObiDongKenobi]

Ouch, my sympathies, Dirtymind

[Dirtymind]

Luckily I have a very hard head 

[MintJulie]

This is a WMMD  & a WRMD

We just decided we are going to go up to the cottage for Thanksgiving.  BUT, we're going a week early.  Leaving this Wednesday 11/15 morning and returning the Monday 11/27 after Thanksgiving.

WMMD because the cottage is one of my favorite places on earth. 
WRMD because I have no internet and I will miss you guys.

[Writers Bloque]

This is a WMMD  & a WRMD

We just decided we are going to go up to the cottage for Thanksgiving.  BUT, we're going a week early.  Leaving this Wednesday 11/15 morning and returning the Monday 11/27 after Thanksgiving.

WMMD because the cottage is one of my favorite places on earth. 
WRMD because I have no internet and I will miss you guys.

Sounds sad but lovely. Do you own a cellphone with mobile hotspot? I use mine with my laptop when I go places. If not, just follow Ben Franklin's advice on the trip "Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about." I mean a cabin, in the middle of nowhere, and your boy toy, hehehe.

[Writers Bloque]

Well my good day died.

Mr. and Mrs. Jones died this morning. Mrs. Jones died on the dirt road, laying in the sun, and Mr. Jones, distraught, got locked into a life and death fight with two younger males who decided to take advantage of the brumation time to move into the swamp, and while Mr. Jones put up one hell of a fight, he succumbed to his injuries. He killed one, and mortally wounded the other before he crawled onto the bank and died. Sir watched over them until friends of his, and the Jonses helped scare the other alligators away, so Sir could carry them to be properly buried. Dad gave him permission to use the empty part of the yard closest to the swamp to bury them. Damn, I loved them, even when they would scare me. Fond memories and pictures of me pet patting them when I was a toddler. They were gentle giants who were more interested in the fish people caught than eating the people fishing.

[msslave]

Sorry for your loss Writer. I'm glad they got a nice burial.

I remember a Perigron Falcon that was on a falcon cam. I would watch each spring as she returned and raised her chicks
 Her name was Mae. Then one spring another female killed her in combat and took over the nest. I couldn't.watch the falcon cam anymore.

The natural world can be cruel. Remember the good times you enjoyed watching them.

[MintJulie]

Do you own a cellphone with mobile hotspot?

We get no cell coverage at all there.  Sometimes we can connect to the neighbors wifi, but usually it's not good enough

We use hotspot when traveling in the RV.   We just changed our plan from 15GB to 50 GB hotspot data.   No change in cost.   In fact, with this top level plan, we not only get the 50GB data hotspot, but with our AARP membership we get $10 off per line.   So we went from $200 for the four of us to $160.   The little one will be getting an iPhone for Xmas, Dan's old one and he gets the new model.  With 5 on the plan we go from $40/person to $35/person

I'm so sorry to hear about your babies WB.  Hugs to you and your family.

[Writers Bloque]

Sorry for your loss Writer. I'm glad they got a nice burial.

I remember a Perigron Falcon that was on a falcon cam. I would watch each spring as she returned and raised her chicks
 Her name was Mae. Then one spring another female killed her in combat and took over the nest. I couldn't.watch the falcon cam anymore.

The natural world can be cruel. Remember the good times you enjoyed watching them.

They were funny. Dad has pics of me napping on the bank of the slough (pronounced sloo) with him fishing and the two alligators just napping and sunning. One pic of me as a toddler in my state of returning to nature, riding Mr.Jones, who my mom and dad swore that the old alligator was happy. It makes me sad, but they were as much a part of nature as I am, and everyone in the area swears up and down that ninety percent of the alligators are kin to the Jones. I mean there are other cool alligators humanized in the area, but those two were the law and peacekeeping evil snapping turtle slayers. I called my wife and we ordered some simple marble tombstones for them. Thank you Ms.Slave, Sir salvaged the two dead males Mr. Jones fought and there will be gumbo tomorrow night for the memorial service. 

[Writers Bloque]

Do you own a cellphone with mobile hotspot?

We get no cell coverage at all there.  Sometimes we can connect to the neighbors wifi, but usually it's not good enough

We use hotspot when traveling in the RV.   We just changed our plan from 15GB to 50 GB hotspot data.   No change in cost.   In fact, with this top level plan, we not only get the 50GB data hotspot, but with our AARP membership we get $10 off per line.   So we went from $200 for the four of us to $160.   The little one will be getting an iPhone for Xmas, Dan's old one and he gets the new model.  With 5 on the plan we go from $40/person to $35/person

I'm so sorry to hear about your babies WB.  Hugs to you and your family.

I think after your first encounter with them, you would have grown attached. They did play pranks, like sneaking around you, and then hissing when they are a good distance away, or if you were sunning in the yard they would plop down besides you. But mostly too old to be dangerous. There was only one person they attacked, but he lived. Some idiot was acting brave in front of his girl out there and started muck walking near Mrs.Jones last clutch of eggs. Witnesses said she gave him plenty of warnings to move on, but he was being an idiot, so she knocked him down and dragged him away, up the bank, and into the road before letting him go. Of course the local police wanted to put her down, but since she did not draw blood, they left her alone. Ticketed the guy for pestering nesting gators. He was lucky she wasn't in the mood to kill him. But other than that, they were everyone's friends. Though there is that one time Mr. Jones got a bit frisky, stealing girls bathing suit tops. But in his defense they were colored like what he would eat.

[msslave]

I remember getting close to crocodiles in Mexico. There was one huge fella that hung around a restaurant on the beach. Add an ambience you don't usually find at a beach side restaurant. He'd just lay there on his belly sleeping.

I decided to move in for a close up shot. I kept moving closer...gotta get just the right shot

Next thing I knew the big boy was up on his feet. Who'd of thought something so big could move so quick.

Yeah, I got one shot and I was outta there.

[Pornhubby]

Angry client decided to fire off a long missive at 10:45 pm last night. Today I have another case set for mediation that is a mess. And I am shaking like a leaf. Neuro difficulties flaring up due to “stress and anxiety.”  Say a prayer…

Why aren't you taking a month long vacay. Ok maybe not a month, but you've got to be able to go "off grid" for a week. It's scary reading that you're so stressed and anxious its causing that kind of physical reaction.

Happy to tell you all that I got this case taken care of. I was so fucking worried, because the defense attorney has had Covid twice this year. She was hospitalized, and she has the long Covid now. So we have not been able to do anything on this case, but there were all these pretrial deadlines that were not observed, and we are in Federal court. And there’s nothing worse than angry Federal judge.

So she leaned on the adjuster we got the case settled. The clients are okay with everything, and we’re going to be fine. But that was a close one. Much too close for comfort. I got a late order from the judge at quitting time. He canceled all of the hearings and deadlines and the pre-trial scheduling order. I just have 30 days to get all the paperwork finished now.

[Shiela_M]

Very happy to hear things are calming down with that case. 

[MintJulie]

Happy to tell you all that I got this case taken care of.

Put it to bed.  Woo 995

[msslave]

WOO to another legal victory. All these wins you could get your own TV show.

Umm...how about "Have Tort Will Travel".

[Shiela_M]

Everybody having earth shattering problems with health, weather issues, and family, so I feel a bit self conscious complaining about something so trivial, but I just swore off salads for the foreseeable future.

I had a container of "constellation" tomatoes for salads. I bought this literally four days ago and already two were moldy, so I wont eat anymore. Thankfully the container was nearly empty. Right after that, I cut off a part of a head of lettuce, and saw a small brownish area in the inner layers of the lettuce. I though it weird that it was going bad that deep into the lettuce even though it was still fresh looking on the outer leaves. On closer inspection, I realized that what had actually happened was I cut a worm in half that was living on the inside of the lettuce...

A..

FUCKING..

WORM...

🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

I'm eating nothing but bacon for the next god damned month

[msslave]

Things could be worse Hun. Think about eating a big bite of apple, then finding half of a worm.

Sorry you had such bad luck with fresh veggies. Bacon solves lots of problems. It's like the American version of the British sitting down to a cup of tea.

[ObiDongKenobi]

Things could be worse Hun. Think about eating a big bite of apple, then finding half of a worm.

Sorry you had such bad luck with fresh veggies. Bacon solves lots of problems. It's like the American version of the British sitting down to a cup of tea.

 

[msslave]

Last two days I've woken up with severe back pain that traveled down my leg to the sole of my left foot. I can hardly for about a hour of exercise and a few pills.

I got a lot of relief during week's test of the spinal cord stimulator. When they "pulled the plug" on the test December 16th, things have been getting a lot worse.

I'm so grateful that the scheduled surgery was moved up two weeks to Monday. That's when a permanent device is implanted. However, it won't be activated until a week after the surgery.

So while today I'm posting in WRMD I know there's a lot of relief coming my way.

[Shiela_M]

Sorry to hear that love. It's a shame they couldnt just leave the temporary device in place until the surgery. That would make more sense to me.

Maybe you'll get a notice saying they can bump it up another two weeks. Can always hope.💋