@peter4jc said:
Had my "welcome to Medicare" exam today. What a flippin' waste of time; how's your diet? do you exercise regularly? repeat these words apple, tablet, ****, draw a clock that shows ten-to-two o'clock, repeat those three words again, would you like the pneumonia vaccine...
But I did get shot one of two of the shingles vaccine - that's some nasty stuff - for $3.90.
I'll be getting mine soon, too. My girlfriends sister warned me; "Whatever you do, when they ask you if you've ever been depressed you have to instantly answer 'NO', or you'll find yourself on the way for an involuntary psych eval." Sounds like good advice.
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Rebuilt a suet feeder with a tin roof, suet cage and plywood sides. We have a smart Blue Jay that seems to find a way to get to the suet every time I rebuild the feeder. Our Wood Peckers get most of the suet but that dam Blue Jay.
spent a delightful half hour finishing this afternoon's cigar and watching ants on our sidewalk, how the different sized ones interact and move. How much work an ant puts in dragging a 1" piece of dried out earthworm across a 2' slate, moving backewards, encountering debris that hinders easy going, stopping occasionally to get its bearings. I was impressed that such a small critter had so much energy. A fly was watching, too, and would buzz the ant once in a while.
Pressing soap chips into a soap puck, took the last one out of the press and reloaded it with more soap chips.
Also, had a nice Tom Sawyer moment, I was going through the chokecherries from my MILs and pitting them and putting them in a jar to soak with whiskey for old fashioneds and my daughter came by and took over the job. The chokecherries are a bit more bitter than normal cherries which should play well in an old fashioned.
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back when I was making wine I made a batch with about 1/3 choke cherries; it was by far the finest wine I ever made, went through a strong malolactic fermentation in the bottles too. Just put a sheet under the tree when they were dead ripe and shook the branches.
Half my passwords didn’t work even though I use the same for all work related passwords.
I just let my assistant/secretary go on her first day. She plans on filing a grievance with her mommy when she gets home.
@deadman said:
First day back and working from home.
Half my passwords didn’t work even though I use the same for all work related passwords.
I just let my assistant/secretary go on her first day. She plans on filing a grievance with my Boss when she gets home.
fify
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list. Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
@deadman said:
First day back and working from home.
Half my passwords didn’t work even though I use the same for all work related passwords.
I just let my assistant/secretary go on her first day. She plans on filing a grievance with my Boss when she gets home.
fify
I told her to hold my calls I was at lunch and in 5 minutes she hands me to phone and says, “It mom”.
Fired I say
So I looked out of my kitchen window this morning (because looking out of your kitchen wall gets you nowhere) which faces the garage. Something was odd about the garage window; it was covered with moving insects. Upon closer inspection, I found it was 783 house-flies - or in this case garage-flies - and they were on the inside! I'm convinced it was @Patrickbrick who left some fly bait in there two weekends ago.
@peter4jc said:
So I looked out of my kitchen window this morning (because looking out of your kitchen wall gets you nowhere) which faces the garage. Something was odd about the garage window; it was covered with moving insects. Upon closer inspection, I found it was 783 house-flies - or in this case garage-flies - and they were on the inside! I'm convinced it was @Patrickbrick who left some fly bait in there two weekends ago.
I read today that an extract of the leaves of beautyberry when added to amoxicillin will kill mrsa. The crushed leaves also have been used in folk medicine as a mosquito repellent, verified by tests by the USDA (which then patented one of the chemical constituents). We have a couple of plants in our front yard and it is neat finding a use for them other than their ornamental value.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200716120658.htm
Beautyberry leaf extract restores drug's power to fight 'superbug'A compound from a common shrub boosts an antibiotic's activity against antibiotic-resistant staph bacteriaDate:July 16, 2020Source:Emory Health SciencesSummary:Laboratory experiments showed that the plant compound works in combination with oxacillin to knock down the resistance to the drug of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
Insect repellent[edit]American beautyberry has been used as a folk remedy to prevent mosquito bites.[10][11] Four chemicals isolated from Callicarpa have been shown to act as insect repellents: borneol,[12] callicarpenal, intermedeol, and spathulenol.[13] The use of callicarpenal has been patented by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Research Service as a mosquito repellent.[10]
Cleaned out my garage a bit today with the family which consisted of hauling out a bunch of stuff, trying to consolidate it and dump the carp, and packing it back in before a 4:00 family Zoom meeting. Still have a lot of work to do to clear a spot for my family to have a workout space in the garage, but we made a dent.
Amazon dropped off my shipment of a fuse holder and some fuses which I used to repair my water cooler board. The circuit board has a small fuse soldered on it which had blown and I did a adequate job soldering an inline fuse holder to either side and it seems to be working. We'll see how long that lasts. I should have desoldered the fuse and soldered the wires from the inline fuse holder into the pads, but was feeling lazy.
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We've got a Baldfaced hornets nest in our garden shed. It is the size of a basketball 12 ft up in the inside front peak next to the vent. The dam thing is also right over the door. I have some of that shooting spray but there is not a clear shot at the nest unless I'm standing right in the doorway underneath the nest. I would be easy to get trapped in the shed with about 50 pissed off hornets. I'll wait till a cool night and give it a shot.
@First_Warrior said:
We've got a Baldfaced hornets nest in our garden shed. It is the size of a basketball 12 ft up in the inside front peak next to the vent. The dam thing is also right over the door. I have some of that shooting spray but there is not a clear shot at the nest unless I'm standing right in the doorway underneath the nest. I would be easy to get trapped in the shed with about 50 pissed off hornets. I'll wait till a cool night and give it a shot.
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I'll be getting mine soon, too. My girlfriends sister warned me; "Whatever you do, when they ask you if you've ever been depressed you have to instantly answer 'NO', or you'll find yourself on the way for an involuntary psych eval." Sounds like good advice.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
Put in the last planting of beans and summer squash.
Rebuilt a suet feeder with a tin roof, suet cage and plywood sides. We have a smart Blue Jay that seems to find a way to get to the suet every time I rebuild the feeder. Our Wood Peckers get most of the suet but that dam Blue Jay.
spent a delightful half hour finishing this afternoon's cigar and watching ants on our sidewalk, how the different sized ones interact and move. How much work an ant puts in dragging a 1" piece of dried out earthworm across a 2' slate, moving backewards, encountering debris that hinders easy going, stopping occasionally to get its bearings. I was impressed that such a small critter had so much energy. A fly was watching, too, and would buzz the ant once in a while.
The herf cat just decided I didn't have enough holes in me.
Trapped in the People's Communits Republic of Massachusetts.
Pressing soap chips into a soap puck, took the last one out of the press and reloaded it with more soap chips.
Also, had a nice Tom Sawyer moment, I was going through the chokecherries from my MILs and pitting them and putting them in a jar to soak with whiskey for old fashioneds and my daughter came by and took over the job. The chokecherries are a bit more bitter than normal cherries which should play well in an old fashioned.
back when I was making wine I made a batch with about 1/3 choke cherries; it was by far the finest wine I ever made, went through a strong malolactic fermentation in the bottles too. Just put a sheet under the tree when they were dead ripe and shook the branches.
These were picked a bit early, they should be fully ripe by August, I believe.
Burned a great stick while building the privy at the North 40
This dummy thought it would be a good idea to see what the middle of the kitchen floor tasted like...
Still smelled like the hotdog you dropped on it last week. 🤣
First day back and working from home.
Half my passwords didn’t work even though I use the same for all work related passwords.
I just let my assistant/secretary go on her first day. She plans on filing a grievance with her mommy when she gets home.
fify
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
I told her to hold my calls I was at lunch and in 5 minutes she hands me to phone and says, “It mom”.
Fired I say
Gave the dog his new water bowl/pool
So I looked out of my kitchen window this morning (because looking out of your kitchen wall gets you nowhere) which faces the garage. Something was odd about the garage window; it was covered with moving insects. Upon closer inspection, I found it was 783 house-flies - or in this case garage-flies - and they were on the inside! I'm convinced it was @Patrickbrick who left some fly bait in there two weekends ago.
I hope not, sorry if any food got left in there. I don't think I put anything in there, sorry if I did though.
MOW badge received.
You're good. Sorry, I forgot to put a 'wink' or lol in there.
herf flies, you can get rid of them by bombing Tony.
I thought maybe it was one of the new members that didn't pass the Excellent Herf initiation. (They probably don't drink coffee)
Tearing my workshop apart in preparation for an overhaul. Totally disrupting and long overdue.
I read today that an extract of the leaves of beautyberry when added to amoxicillin will kill mrsa. The crushed leaves also have been used in folk medicine as a mosquito repellent, verified by tests by the USDA (which then patented one of the chemical constituents). We have a couple of plants in our front yard and it is neat finding a use for them other than their ornamental value.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200716120658.htm
Beautyberry leaf extract restores drug's power to fight 'superbug'A compound from a common shrub boosts an antibiotic's activity against antibiotic-resistant staph bacteriaDate:July 16, 2020Source:Emory Health SciencesSummary:Laboratory experiments showed that the plant compound works in combination with oxacillin to knock down the resistance to the drug of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callicarpa
Insect repellent[edit]American beautyberry has been used as a folk remedy to prevent mosquito bites.[10][11] Four chemicals isolated from Callicarpa have been shown to act as insect repellents: borneol,[12] callicarpenal, intermedeol, and spathulenol.[13] The use of callicarpenal has been patented by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agriculture Research Service as a mosquito repellent.[10]
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Shoveling chicken s#it today.
fired up the antique waffle iron that a friend gave us as a wedding present 32 years ago. Waffles! for a late brunch.
I made bacon, waffles, and coffee for breakfast. We had olallieberry and I had whiskey soaked chokecherries on our waffles.
Cleaned out my garage a bit today with the family which consisted of hauling out a bunch of stuff, trying to consolidate it and dump the carp, and packing it back in before a 4:00 family Zoom meeting. Still have a lot of work to do to clear a spot for my family to have a workout space in the garage, but we made a dent.
Amazon dropped off my shipment of a fuse holder and some fuses which I used to repair my water cooler board. The circuit board has a small fuse soldered on it which had blown and I did a adequate job soldering an inline fuse holder to either side and it seems to be working. We'll see how long that lasts. I should have desoldered the fuse and soldered the wires from the inline fuse holder into the pads, but was feeling lazy.
Finished the six page response to the internal audit that the City Auditor conducted on my division.
If you want to bomb me send it to Tony @0patience
If you are a newbie I got Dem nachos....
We've got a Baldfaced hornets nest in our garden shed. It is the size of a basketball 12 ft up in the inside front peak next to the vent. The dam thing is also right over the door. I have some of that shooting spray but there is not a clear shot at the nest unless I'm standing right in the doorway underneath the nest. I would be easy to get trapped in the shed with about 50 pissed off hornets. I'll wait till a cool night and give it a shot.
Would smoke do any good?