Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Of course he has never been known to be earlier than one hour late

Bird, I dread afternoon appointments at doctors's office. Guy yesterday came in 58 minutes after my time. Said he had an emergency
procedure next door. Maybe he did. Or maybe his emergency was just booking too many patients.
I always try to make first thing in the morning appointments but of course they aren't always available. And if it's a rush, you get tacked onto the back of the day's load and your 3 o'clock becomes 4:30 with a very tired doc. I had seven years of oncology doc appointments for my wife and none of them were on time. The surgeons were the worst. Oh if only I had a Kindle back then. It's what saves me now. The Good Lord did not bless me with a lot of patience. The Kindle is an effective workaround for me, thankfully I love to read.

For anything not an emergency and if no one comes out to talk to me, I walk after an hour late. Starting doing that about five years ago.
Always check in at desk before I leave and am pleasant. Just voting with my feet.

Good plan on walking. My doctor visit last week was a hour late. I was first patient. But I cut the DR some slack this time. They shut the local freeway down because of a deadly accident. That was westbound. But all the gaulkers going eastbound had traffic backed up over 10 miles. He was not in a very good mood when he got to me.
I need to bring some headphones along to listen to some of my Audible books.

 

[ronjhall]

Going to lower my flag until the 50 mph stuff is gone. Sleet 40 miles away now but we won’t see it. Gotta put the garbage wheeler out and tie it to a pole with bungees.

Found a fault with my Uncommon flag pole. Cannot lower it with only one arm. But my current flag has held up for over 2 years. A good record. Most only last about 1 year at best.

 

[Bird]

Bird, I dread afternoon appointments at doctors's office. Guy yesterday came in 58 minutes after my time. Said he had an emergency
procedure next door. Maybe he did. Or maybe his emergency was just booking too many patients.
I always try to make first thing in the morning appointments but of course they aren't always available. And if it's a rush, you get tacked onto the back of the day's load and your 3 o'clock becomes 4:30 with a very tired doc. I had seven years of oncology doc appointments for my wife and none of them were on time. The surgeons were the worst. Oh if only I had a Kindle back then. It's what saves me now. The Good Lord did not bless me with a lot of patience. The Kindle is an effective workaround for me, thankfully I love to read.

For anything not an emergency and if no one comes out to talk to me, I walk after an hour late. Starting doing that about five years ago.
Always check in at desk before I leave and am pleasant. Just voting with my feet.

I, too, prefer the earliest appointment possible. My wife's appointments are usually in the morning. In fact, this appointment was originally scheduled for 9:30 a.m. a week ago today, but the day before, they called to change it for reasons unknown. And I usually carry one of my Patrick McManus books to read at this doctor's office.

And the last time I had an appointment with my cardiologist, I got there about 30 minutes early; no one in the waiting room at all, and I saw no one anywhere except the nurse sitting at her desk. 10 minutes after my appointment time, she got up and called me to one of the examining rooms, had me step on the scales, took my blood pressure, asked if anything had changed since my last visit, then left the room and shut the door. That was not the most comfortable chair I ever sat in, so after an hour, I got up, walked right by that nurse without saying a thing, and left. That was on June 7, so it's been more than 5 months and I haven't heard from them. The pharmacy did contact them, supposedly, for authorization to refill a prescription.

 

[Looking4new]

6 now and going to 28F. Wind E 8 mph. Sun and cloud mix. Barometer is falling. Snow tomorrow.

I gotta go back into town today. Get some packages the courier wouldn't deliver to the house. We only have two couriers that deliver to the house. One has the UPS contract and the other one is Fed-Ex.

Not too much planned for today other than the town run.

re; Dr.s that are late for appointments. My Dr. was over 2 hours late for a morning appointment with me. I asked her what the point was of making an appointment if she wasn't going to keep it. I asked why she was late, she lived 5 minutes from the office and yet I could keep the appointment and I lived over 3 hours from said office. She was never late for me again. Remember this Dr. I had since 1965.

I sure am looking forward to the day the powers that be let RNG go back home.

Have a safe day all

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 29˚ clear skies, no wind, heavy frost, turkeys playing chase on the pretty white golf corse.

Eric I don't know why they make them so high. ?? :laughing:

Today November 15th is the first Official day that you can star putting up you holiday decorations. There is also an official take down day so we don't have any of those houses that still have Christmas lights in July. The previous owners left a star in the attic and a note about it being part of the neighborhood decorations, I'll have to read the note again and see what that is about.

I bought some paint remover to redo a black bench and now my wife is having second thoughts, might need to put that project on hold.

RNG hope today is the day you are allowed back to your house. The new motorcycle - when you combine a drone and a motorcycle (from another thread) Video: Cops on flying bikes to patrol Dubai by 22

 

[newbury]

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Drew, I bought a Quickjack car lift a few week ago. UPS delivered it. 3 boxes each weighing close to 100 lbs. They seemed to weigh more than that. Driver was not happy about the weight. But was friendly and set them on the pallet forks for me. Moved the boxes to shop until I can assemble it. The shipping was free for the lift. I wonder what 300 lbs cost to ship UPS.

Good Morning All.

Morning.

Ron - Please post (either here or in another thread) about your set up and use of that lift. It sounds VERY interesting.

 

[ronjhall]

Morning.

Ron - Please post (either here or in another thread) about your set up and use of that lift. It sounds VERY interesting.

My son has one to work on his Mustangs. They set so low he cannot do anything under them without raising them. It will be at least 3 weeks before I even think about unpacking them.
The best price I found was at Costco.
Will report back when I get it assembled.

 

[txdon]

Ron they would be great for rotating tires also.

 

[daugen]

raining and raining but having a good morning getting things done.
Finally tracked down a carpenter and he's coming out next Monday for a variety of projects.
Best news is gym at local community college said they would be delighted to take my old but unused...Bowflex gym out of my house and back to their gym. If only I had made this call four years ago, sigh. Takes three strong men to get it out of second floor without tearing up sheetrock, plus there is a chair lift to compete with. Never should have moved it here from PA.

To me, reasonable and professional practice would suggest talking to the waiting patient if the appointments are running more than half an hour behind. Just taking the time to walk out and talk to the patients shows someone cares. When they do nothing and act like not my department, which seems to be normal, frustration mounts. Particularly if the patient is in serious pain and needs help now, not in two hours.
We are reduced to cattle. I'm stuck in my local hospital chain, very few viable medical alternatives locally.
The problem is when the whole hospital chain is unenlightened and then we are all cattle as routine.

 

[hawkeye08]

Ron, coastal hay has very little weed seeds in it. Also nicely sweet smelling. Will use for mulch in vegetable garden where plastic is not used.
Wheat straw last year was a disaster. I used coastal hay in PA and it worked well, just till it in at end of year. I need to get more organic material into the sandy soil here so this helps. Am told the best coastal hay is harvested close to the ocean, salt air helping to sterilize the plant in some way.
Coastal hay on top and mushroom soil added on the bottom. The latter not being available here, would do wonders to enrich the sandy soil.

Drew, wheat straw here can be weed free (from good farmers) or full of weeds (from struggling farmer that cut corners and ended up with weeds in their crop). When we get straw, we get it from the good farmers and don't have a bunch of weeds.