Good morning!!!!

daugen · Jul 13, 2014

85 degrees heat index of 95. Got the shrubs done and then in for a shower.
will spend the afternoon in the nicely cool basement listening to some Allman Bros to keep me moving...
ancient stereo in the basement, running a huge old video disc player that also had a cd slot in it. And it refuses to die...
built like a tank. Run by a 30+ year old Sony receiver that proudly announced digital pulse power for its amplifiers, someone else can explain that,
driving two sets of equally ancient Bose out door speakers that still put it out.

Little early for a cold beer but then I have a lot of fluids to replace...:drink:

daugen · Jul 13, 2014

since I'm not a texter, I'm not up on acronyms I suppose, so I had to look it up...:confused3:
Pronounced 'swimbo': 'she who must be obeyed'. Your wife, dumbnuts! She's the kind that makes you go to SOFEs 'significant-other forced events'!

ah, got it. But that could be your Mother, your Wife, or your daughter...

rswyan · Jul 13, 2014

80 and mostly cloudy ... supposed to have thunderstorms starting in about an hour ... wife says they are building.

I just woke up, still on the first cup of coffee ...

Worked up in the shed until about 4:30 AM last night. Got the automatic drain valve installed on the air compressor, the stationary tub leveled, the faucet installed on the tub, and more CPVC glued up for the plumbing.

Got the end of 3/4 poly (water) supply line dug out the other day ... it appears that the doofuses that originally installed it ran it in the same trench as the electrical supply to the shed ... the line is laying right on top of the AL direct-burial wires where they turn 90 degrees and go up into the conduit on the outside of the building.

Not exactly sure what I want (or need) to do about that ...

mostly_gas · Jul 13, 2014

Good afternoon all. 75F this morning, 89F for the high sunny w/50% chance of rain. Funeral and birthday party this afternoon (in that order).

brin · Jul 13, 2014

daugen said:
since I'm not a texter, I'm not up on acronyms I suppose, so I had to look it up...:confused3:
Pronounced 'swimbo': 'she who must be obeyed'. Your wife, dumbnuts! She's the kind that makes you go to SOFEs 'significant-other forced events'!

ah, got it. But that could be your Mother, your Wife, or your daughter...

I know Drew ...hard to keep up with my granddaughter when she texts me in the special computer texting code...LOL

mostly_gas said:
Good afternoon all. 75F this morning, 89F for the high sunny w/50% chance of rain. Funeral and birthday party this afternoon (in that order).

Hot and Humid here...in the mid 90's with near 199% humidity ...no rain in sight....Uhhh....You are really going to have an emotional shake...Sad then Happy...that's tough....

sodamo · Jul 13, 2014

1155 update: 73F and 2.35 inches rain since good morning post. Still raining, guess I'll stay inside.

Breakfast was good

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dave1949 · Jul 13, 2014

Upper 80's and sticky in NW Ohio today.

Visit with mentally declining Mom not going so well tonight.

:banghead::banghead: It's never been an easy relationship.

Just shoot me.

300UGUY · Jul 13, 2014

dave1949 said:
Upper 80's and sticky in NW Ohio today.

Visit with mentally declining Mom not going so well tonight. :banghead::banghead: It's never been an easy relationship.

Just shoot me.

My folks argue constantly. Always have. I fear when the 1st one passes, the other one will not know who to argue with. Could end up being me....

dave1949 · Jul 14, 2014

300UGUY said:
My folks argue constantly. Always have. I fear when the 1st one passes, the other one will not know who to argue with. Could end up being me....

Mom will be 88 next month. She is noticeably losing her thinking abilities, which she says she realizes. At the same time she doesn't want to be wrong about anything and is incapable of accepting suggestions. For example, we were on our way to the city park, I had asked her to drive so I could see how that was going. She stopped at an intersection and put on the left turn signal when the park was to the right. I said I think she should turn right to get to the park; she turns left.

The park has been in the same place for the last 100 years.

The driving is getting a little shakey too. Rapid acceleration, 35 mph in a 25 mph residential zone. I know it makes her nervous to drive with me in the car, so I didn't ask her to go far or through any thick traffic. I tried to explain that the slower she goes, the more time she has to process information and react. I doubt it took. She hardly ever leaves town anymore when driving but there is more to watch for in town.

I haven't known many dementia or Alzheimer's sufferers, but those that I have known tended toward accentuating their core personality traits. In Mom's case, any sort of discussion rapidly becomes something highly irrational and very emotional.