Blame it on the dog.

This week I created the DNS records for a new domain name that combines a top snack food brand and a top Marvel character.

~ maybe not "a" top maybe "the" top ~

One reason this sounds more impressive than it is: around the group, people refer to screw-ups in these highly visible processes as "resume-generating events"... :eek: So it still fits in this thread, some apprehension is still part of my days.

The gig is kind of 99% boredom, 1% terror. A lot of jobs are like that. Piloting, I'm told, is like that.

Skydiving, it's all fun and games until you get to the ground. :haha:

Skydiving: It's not a race. The guy that gets to the ground first does not always win.

My enthusiasm for this stage of the project is flagging. Perhaps some breakfast will help.

The rain has been incessant today and it's still raining now.
It's just after 2300 and the wind is starting to howl.
The conifer in the bank of the stream at the bottom of the garden is no doubt swaying back and forth.
It's about 50' tall and doesn't seem to be very deep rooted.
Equally worrying is the row of Ash and Sycamore trees on the opposite bank.
They must be about 70' tall and they're fully in leaf so susceptible to damage in high winds.
If any of these were to fall they wouldn't reach the house but clearing up the resultant mess would be a real pain in the fundament.
Still, there's nothing I can do about it...

Goodnight all.

Shelter in place.

Good luck to you and your trees.

Thanks!

I've just shone a torch down the back garden and nothing has fallen over...


... yet.:eek:

How's it looking this morning, Carruthers?

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It's still there as are the Ash and Sycamores t'other side of the stream.

The trouble is it also has a large covering of ivy which doesn't help matters and the last few yards of the garden, where it grows, slope steeply.

It leans towards the slope and the light as well.

What will be, will be, I suppose!

Yeah, there is no stopping gravity,.. but if we could...

Playtex and Maidenform would be bankrupt.

As we all know, gravity begins at home. ;)

These aren't the best of photos but they at least outline the situation.
As you can see, the conifer leans slightly to the left but it also leans towards the camera.
That's a yew at bottom left which is less of a worry.

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I clambered down the bank in an attempt to illustrate the problem from the ground up, as it were, but it wasn't easy.
I couldn't get any further away from the tree due to a fence behind me and the ground on the other side is mostly covered by ivy which is very wet at the minute and I didn't want to slide down into the stream.

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This is why I worry!

That English Ivy is the devil.

It's considered a noxious weed around here. I've ripped out miles of vines. It kills trees from above and below, strangling the roots and crushing the canopy.

Kill it on sight.

There's a crab apple tree out on the road which has been almost completely smothered by ivy.

Only a few branches ever see the light of day and they are only apparent when there's blossom.

The ivy is so dense around the trunk that you can't actually touch it.

I know, I've tried!

It's fun to saw that yew has a yaw. (sorry)

That yew told me to say "Fuck all yaw."

I have both 2018 tax returns in envelopes to take to the post office tomorrow. I think they're right :/

After getting over the emotional planet-sized roadblock of doing the taxes by myself ....this was always me and beest against the world (especially the last few years as we did them during chemo) ......and I just couldn't hand it over to someone else because I promised him we'd be OK and I could so it and this was part of it.....

I then had to address the incredible complexities introduces by the various incomes related to his death and my actions with those.....

And then the stupid Federal tax form is all changed so I couldn't follow our ritual of 20 years of working from the last year's......

but I think I'm good to go..... right up to the wire.... :D :cry: it might be OK...

Often a job that's done imperfectly is better than a job not done. Essentially the story of my life.

This is true of the IRS in my experience

Go monster!

Thanks. The fuckers are mailed. fingers crossed any bad things I might have done accidentally were not criminal or expensive.... I just followed directions to the best of my ability but it really is a total crapshoot. I realized as I was inking the final version last night, there were two forms that didn't get mentioned anywhere, so I researched some more and found out what schedule I needed and did all that malarkey....and it did reduce my liability further, except that I was aalready maxed out on that avenue. Oh well. Every form I was sent is mentioned somewhere so..... (there were about 30)

Attamonster!

Sent by magick

Wish I had known you were struggling. That's what Amanda does for a living. I think she does a good amount of Michigan too. If you get a notice from the IRS , let me know.

Thanks, I didn't want help. Except from beest :/

Grief has the weirdest ways of making itself known and this was one of my unwelcome grief guests

Girl, you done said a mouthful.

The struggle was mostly emotional. math and following instructions, I got. I think. but thanks. And i will :) Hopefully I won't need to. It was the Federal that took some time. Michigan basically just takes the figure off the Federal form and wants to know your school district number

Whatever it is, I'm trying to be there for you.

People die. Purple live. The dead have the easier path. The survivors have to keep waking up every day and get on with life. Anything I can do to share your load, just ask.

█?

I think my last purple shirt went in the trash a while ago. I'll tidy my beard in support.

<3

I will, thanks

I'm about to drop a load. Wanna share that?

I'm trying to get the level below my eyes...

:p:

I think you're talking shit

Tell him what he's won, Johnny!

:lol2:

You wanna talk shit? Here is my current problem.......

Thunderboy goes to U of M Dearborn. It's technically a different University from The main Ann Arbor Campus. (And U of m Flint) but students may join U of M teams on any campus and use the facilities etc. We live in Ann Arbor so it has been very easy for TB to join the Men's Water Polo Team which practices here in Ann Arbor.

But.... Canham Natatorium has has a cryptosporidium outbreak. So the team is "quarantined" and may not travel to the tournament in indiana this weekend unless they pass a poop test. He went yesterday morning, they said they needed him to come back in the afternoon to see a doc to get the requisition. he got stuck in traffic and missed it by a few minutes, they sent him to the 24 hour lab. they found a requisition in the system, did the test, the results are ready but no-one will give them to him. he has to return to the requisitioning body .... which just says U of M labs on the order. The people on the phone told him to go back to the 24 hour lab who told him to call the people on the phone...... There is no time to start over :(

Even if he didn't see a doc, someone authorized the requisition. Call Michigan Medicine Laboratories (MLabs) @ 800.862.7284 and have them pull up the requisition to give you the doctor's name and phone number. The results should've been sent to the doctor's office. Call that office for the results and have them faxed to whoever needs it.

It's worth a try.

thanks, he did -MLabs were who told him he could get the result from the 24 hour lab ...who gave him the MLabs number...... they gabe him the non-freephone number too

I have his GP trying to help now. So lucky she had a baby the same time who ended up in the same class at the same schools so is now a friend too.... she's going to get her hoard of nurses on the case first thing in the morning. Prob is, they mostly work with the other Non U M hospital, but any port in a storm, right?

What do we think the collective noun for nurses should be? hoard seems rude.... A "Caring" might be accurate but pukey.... A Swab? yes, I kinda like that. A Swab of Nurses

Rack of nurses

staphylonurses

(staphylo = cluster)

A hosiery of nurses







Know how to tell which is the head nurse?

She's the one with dirty knees.

"Hark a herd of nurse" Hawkeye Pierce

well, we got the result, he's clear, but they're not going anyway. Indiana doesn't want them

They might've got stuck in traffic and missed their start time anyway.

....and one (the smaller) refund is in the bank...maybe I didn't fuck up....

Don't jinx it!

lol. I have a feeling the Feds are not liking their return....

President Trump pardoned the Thanksgiving turkey.

It's rumored that the Rear Admiral (2 stars) commanding the Navy SEALs wants to board the turkey before Thanksgiving; because, he wants it kicked off the turkey farm and stripped of its feathers even though it was already planned for the turkey to go into retirement. Despite the Presidential pardon, the Rear Admiral wants the turkey on the table.

The Secretary of Agriculture, who oversees poultry, is believed to have tried make a deal with the President which would allow the Thanksgiving turkey to be boarded; but, taken off the table and retired with all of its feathers while the alternate Thanksgiving turkey took its place. The Agriculture Secretary did not; however, apprise the Admiral (4 stars) who is Acting Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration which oversees sea food and who had no comment regarding SEALs. The Agriculture Secretary is expected to be fired this weekend.

That one it didn't write itself or just roll off the tongue, you had to work for one.
Thanks.

Just a tempest in a stewpot, nothing to see here.

w00t! The Fed return is in! I did it! I did it!

I also learned -as the boys did their FAFSAs this weekend- that I put my ss wrong on the state return -I transposed two digits. Didn't seem to bother them, though.... they still gave me my money back :/ this is what happens when you do it manually without a second pair of eyes. get your mind out of the gutter. yes, you.

Rock on!

Good Girl monster.

Sometimes Jeremy Corbyn looks almost like he's alive. It's kinda creepy.

Sitting in the waiting area at the gas station. My 24 year old car is next in line for safety inspection and emissions test.

Did you pass?

Yes! They came with my car and I jumped in a drove away instead of updating you all.

And then I fixed my dome light that hadn't worked for a year or so on the door setting. I spent like 2 hours cleaning contacts and checking continuity and voltage and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Finally a Google search told me that I needed to fix a loose rivet, so that's when I noticed a loose rivet was actually the problem. An awkward maneuver consisting of a center punch in a vise and holding the dome light over the punch while holding a nail set with the same hand and whacking it with a hammer with the other hand fixed it perfectly. Replaced the old dim bulb with a bright LED and it's better than new.

Heh, get away quick before they change their mind.

Exactly!