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Now it's showing me the same blue box that you're all getting, but it wasn't doing that until just now... up until then I was seeing the pictures... how very frustrating. I've tried asking google why postimage is doing this but I'm getting no answers
 
I'm feeling so 'on hold' today. My old cat died this past weekend (felt surprisingly unexpected considering I've been expecting it for months, but he'd been getting Solensia arthritis injections the past three months and doing so much better I was lulled into thinking he could last several more months) and I've applied to adopt a cat, but I'm waiting to hear back, the cat adoption process seems way too long and complicated, I feel like I'm applying for a job.
Here is the YouTube ad for the cat I've applied for (application thru the local county SPCA, so not just a YouTube scammer):
 
Mayday Bowl
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Lookout Bowl, I got first tracks down the gut of Lookout Bowl, and a bunch of turns before anyone jumped in behind me. Probably some of my best powder turns ever! The bowls are funnel shaped so once you get lower down the moguls are huge so w/out really deep coverage it's a big challenge. My quads were barking!!!

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Heading out......
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Looking southeast to the Pioneer Mtns.
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It finally feels like winter has started, turnout was light this morning, we could see as opposed to yesterday, and the few inches of snow multiplied at higher elevation and on certain aspects. I heard terms like "awesome" and "insane" being tossed around; it was good but not that good.
 
Now 12:40pm Monday, dark and blustery outside with rain later. For lunch, mic'd a Knorr rice broccoli 1/2 package washed down with milk.

Last of several days of rain wanes today. This morning drove my used 2023 Trailblazer LS into a Chevy dealer for its first oil change, tires rotation, etc. Then at a good pace while warmly clothed, walked home 3 miles on sidewalks, just for the aerobic exercise, that took about an hour. This and my second vehicle service are free under the certified used car warranty.

On the return took a couple buses. Later this afternoon will pack up gear and then after the commute traffic at 7pm drive out east a couple hours to the Sierra Nevada foothills to discretely park and sleep in the vehicle overnight. Then Tuesday morning won't need to wake up too early with a shorter 1.5 hour drive to a ski resort.

For Tuesday night if not sore, am likely to get a cheap motel in Nevada, then also ski Wednesday, and then drive home.
 
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A mixed day today. Mrs Oy and I spent a few hours in my late Mum's flat sorting stuff. It's going on the market as soon as we get it suitable for viewing by potential buyers. Breaks my heart being in there going through her stuff. :cry:

Then after lunch we had a few hours in a local park and canal towpath with the grandchildren and their first sledge. We had a small amount of snow last night. Enough to pull them on the sledge. Did me a world of good. :love:
 
My car is down in the dumps because its accelerator has bouts of not working, so I won't drive it. I am driving it to the shop tomorrow because my consultant and mr. duckduckgo said it could be lots of different things.

Had 2 tiny cavities filled at dentist today. 20 minutes total. Cost $503. This is insane, the dentists' prices here. I told my son he may has well take a dental trip back to pa where the prices of an implant are at least half of here. Dental tourism within the US, my goodness, who'da thunk it!

Took an Uber to and fro and lucked out -- two drivers who were well-informed about current news, so we had a ourselves a good old time fixing the problems of the world.

I have to get on the ball here. Still haven't put the toner cartridge in my printer, paid my bills (mostly medical), or figured out how to use the blood pressure thing so I can keep my cardiologist informed every day.

I've been working on a research project for about six weeks. It started out being whether a person who wanted to plan their own death (due to age and terminal illness or quality of life issues) was someone who was planning to commit suicide. Answer: NO. People who commit suicide want to die, at least at that moment. People who choose their own deaths so they can alleviate dire pain or have no quality of life left, they don't want to die. They'd much rather live! It's the circumstances they cannot handle, and I don't think I could either.

(These levels of pain are often more than modern medicine can handle unless the patients are given so much pain medication that it hastens their death. My mother, sister and I had to agree in writing that if that happened, we agreed to it in advance. It did happen. The nurse was trying back out of it, and I had to put on my obey or fry voice to make her call the doctor to prescribe additional morphine. I just don't think it's right to leave someone in agony who is already medicated to the gills when they agreed in advance they'd want more pain meds no matter what.)

It expanded to the issue of physician suicides in the US, to physician burnout and depression, and the systemic causes of all that. I knew it from much earlier research, but it makes me mad all over again. Anyway, I have acquired about 30 more books from the library. I've added a couple of rabbit trails - medical history is very interesting, the first women physicians, and more about the corporate/profiteering takeover of medicine in the US.

I don't know if or how I will use this information. Since I was 6 and found out about grave robbers who provided physicians with bodies for dissection, I've read a lot of medicine related books. It's my favorite thing to read about, especially forensic medicine (autopsies).

Now I've found the only place in the US that teaches people how to dissect cadavers. I'm nearly certain this is not a one person per cadaver situation. Cost $1,750. I'm going to call them for some info. I might not do it, but I have been eager to do that since I was 6.
 
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@OneEyedDiva big high five to you for balancing your checkbook. Husband was a stickler on balancing his checkbook right to the penny. I, on the other hand, used to call the bank in the old days and say how am I doing lol lol

I pretty much know how much should be in there and if I’m even close, that’s good enough for me🫣🥸🫣🥸.

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Monday, I got my chiropractic treatment and restarted, spinal decompression. Whether I can afford it or not, insurance won’t pay for any of this, I have to keep having the spinal decompression if I want to get any work done that amounts to anything.

I got the new battery for what was husband’s four wheeler. Tuesday is supposed to be a really nice day, so hopefully when I put the new battery in the four wheeler, it will actually start.

I still have to jack up the other four wheeler so I can take its flat tire to town and find out what’s wrong with it. if it just lost its bead, I’ll have them fix it. If it’s punctured, I’m not messing with it. I’m buying a new one.🤯🤯

I bought some dog and horse feed in my county‘s Tractor supply. They are starting to annoy me. While they had more bags of “my” horse feed on the shelf, it was way outdated. I had to buy something else from the same feed company. I mentioned it to the girl at the checkout, but I know that store’s manager well enough to know she probably won’t say anything to him, because the manager won’t listen to her anyway.

I needed a gate snap. After several moments of hunting, I found what I needed on the highest hook on the wall. Thankfully, I was able to hook it with my cane. I thought it was $7.99. I mentioned to the girl that’s pretty expensive for gate snap so she scanned it and said it’s $23 and my mouth dropped to the floor. I said put that thing back. I’ll order one through a farm Catalogue. So I looked online and I think she misread. $23 was for a pack of snaps. Still, I found them online through my Farm catalogs for $4.99 apiece.

I remembered that, somewhere in the barn, I have a good size container of metal fasteners so I went digging for it. Once I found it, I went digging for gate snaps and what do you know I found an open pack of gate snaps that I had bought so many years ago, I don’t remember when I bought it. Five of the six snaps were still in the pack. I’m pretty sure I didn’t pay more than a couple dollars apiece for those snaps. I saved myself quite a bit of money, and the broken snap has been replaced on the gate essentially for free lol lol.
 
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My car is down in the dumps because it's accelerator has bouts of not working, so I won't drive it. I am driving it to the shop tomorrow because my consultant and mr. duckduckgo said it could be lots of different things.

Had 2 tiny cavities filled at dentist today. 20 minutes total. Cost $503. This is insane, the dentists' prices here. I told my son he may has well take a dental trip back to pa where the prices of an implant are at least half of here. Dental tourism within the US, my goodness, who'da thunk it!

Took an Uber to and fro and lucked out -- two drivers who were well-informed about current news, so we had a ourselves a good old time fixing the problems of the world.

I have to get on the ball here. Still haven't put the toner cartridge in my printer, paid my bills (mostly medical), or figured out how to use the blood pressure thing so I can keep my cardiologist informed every day.

I've been working on a research project for about six weeks. It started out being whether a person who wanted to plan their own death (due to age and terminal illness or quality of life issues) was someone who was planning to commit suicide. Answer: NO. People who commit suicide want to die, at least at that moment. People who choose their own deaths so they can alleviate dire pain or have no quality of life left, they don't want to die. They'd much rather live! It's the circumstances they cannot handle, and I don't think I could either.

(These levels of pain are often more than modern medicine can handle unless the patients are given so much pain medication that it hastens their death. My mother, sister and I had to agree in writing that if that happened, we agreed to it in advance. It did happen. The nurse was trying back out of it, and I had to put on my obey or fry voice to make her call the doctor to prescribe additional morphine. I just don't think it's right to leave someone in agony who is already medicated to the gills when they agreed in advance they'd want more pain meds no matter what.)

It expanded to the issue of physician suicides in the US, to physician burnout and depression, and the systemic causes of all that. I knew it from much earlier research, but it makes me mad all over again. Anyway, I have acquired about 30 more books from the library. I've added a couple of rabbit trails - medical history is very interesting, the first women physicians, and more about the corporate/profiteering takeover of medicine in the US.

I don't know if or how I will use this information. Since I was 6 and found out about grave robbers who provided physicians with bodies for dissection, I've read a lot of medicine related books. It's my favorite thing to read about, especially forensic medicine (autopsies).

Now I've found the only place in the US that teaches people how to dissect cadavers. I'm nearly certain this is not a one person per cadaver situation. Cost $1,750. I'm going to call them for some info. I might not do it, but I have been eager to do that since I was 6.
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I hope you get your car fixed sooner than later, pretty important to have a gas pedal that works🤠

Boy do I hear you loud and clear on the Dentist. The last time I went to the dentist it cost me about $1600 because I don’t have dental insurance. She is very expensive because she is very good at what she does. But that was two years ago and I have to go back. I keep putting it off.

I think your research report is very important. It would be great if you could get it published if that’s what you want to do. You have somehow managed to separate out the issues of real suicide versus “I can’t do this anymore” in a very profound and delicate manner of exploration/explanation.

My husband was a mover and a shaker. When the prostate cancer metastasized, he started going downhill really fast. He would sit in his chair and say this is no way to live. I took care of him up until his last three days of being on this earth, when he went in the hospital. He told the nurses to “load me up“ — you know what that meant. He looked at me and said “you go home and take care of the animals and the farm, this is what I want. This is what we wrote in our Will — I will be fine.“

Well maybe he was fine but I wasn’t. I had and still have to deal with it. Still two years down the road and probably will to my end time. I don’t say much because IMO, it doesn’t do any good to rehash things. Once things are done, I try not to look backward. I have to push forward if I want to keep sane. I have this farm and the animals; crawling in a hole and feeling sorry for myself doesn’t gain me anything.

It is also written in our Will that we both be cremated because there is nothing in the Scriptures that say you can’t be. So I did that and had his celebration of life with the scattering of his ashes up on his favorite spot on the ridge.

This is the most I have ever spoke of his end time and probably will be the last.
 
Morning all, on early walk at 6:45, temp was 'balmy' 36 as I walked to the signal light at end of driveway and back
My plans today,taking the Gates van at 8:30 going to Walgreens ,low on the vitamins{ Calcium 600+ D, Vitamin C} I take every day,also looking for couple birthday cards. I'll call the front desk when I'm ready to be picked up.I don;t know how the sidewalks are otherwise I'd probably walk home
At 11 going to our monthly Resident Council meeting,hear reports from committee heads, learn who is moving in next couple of weeks
I've invited 2 church friends Audrey&Rob to come at 12:30 for a tour ,see my apt then have lunch in cafe
The rest of my day read yesterday & today's NYT
Everybody have a good day
 
Boy howdy!!! I am here just...apparently the old body just is sorta on strike now...it seems the bod didn't like that trip to e.r. yest...IAM SOREall over esp the
left hip///??? THE RIGHT shoulder is still badly pained and not functioning good./
Had a visit from firemen again last eve, u know why of course,fell again..
I'm still finding ekg stickies all over my chest/belly...
went to bed at 8pm, and up at 6am?/////
ah well I know some are havong moe issues than me....God Bless all of you...
 
Afternoon peeps of SF...

it's a heavy snow day today..... I was planning to take things to the charity shop and the recycle centre, but I'm not driving in the snow...







I've got the laundry being washed currently.. because my washing machine and dryer will be getting replaced once the new utility is built this week. It's going to take 3 weeks in total.. so I've washed everything that needs washing for now.. , and everything after today will have to wait.

Have the best Tuesday you can and keep warm if you've got snow........ ☃️
 
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I have been a lifelong believer that ghosts do not exist. Not just a skeptic. Now if I saw a ghost, it would be such a dilemma. Are they real or am I senile? I probably go straight into denial and start believing in ghosts.

I do not sleep under a rock. I have a bedroom. This bedroom has started making noise. Aha!

You can aha! all you want, and the other 5 people who live here will still say you are imagining things.

First, I think a frog lives in here with me. I follow the frog noise and there is no frog. Even if it is a toad, proper nomenclature doesn't solve the problem. We do have lots of frogs and toads around here. Once in awhile, one will slip inside with one of us. The tiny ones are cute, as always. The bigger ones look like lumps of grump.

Second, I hear noises besides the frog/toad thing. Sometimes it sounds like someone is scraping a plastic cup along the outside wall of the house. Yeah, yeah. I looked. No raccoons. Now don't get silly. No chimps either.

Third, I was sitting here at my desk, minding my own business, valiantly fooling around on the computer, and suddenly it feels like someone quickly poked me in the side with two stiff fingers. Got the picture? I actually jumped because I was startled. So this is like my prime evidence that something else is in my room. I make the rounds to the other occupants of this house. My stepdaughter's husband, a lovely man, says it was a muscle spasm.

That's not what muscle spasms feel like. Too benign. Pain level 1 or maybe 0.50. It didn't really hurt, IOW. Maybe it was a Pokemon.

Since I am flirting with senility, I've decided to accomplish the things on my to-do list from last year before 3 pm.
 
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Boy howdy!!! I am here just...apparently the old body just is sorta on strike now...it seems the bod didn't like that trip to e.r. yest...IAM SOREall over esp the
left hip///??? THE RIGHT shoulder is still badly pained and not functioning good./
Had a visit from firemen again last eve, u know why of course,fell again..
I'm still finding ekg stickies all over my chest/belly...
went to bed at 8pm, and up at 6am?/////
ah well I know some are havong moe issues than me....God Bless all of you...
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Wow! Sounds like that R shoulder is plain locked up aka frozen shoulder. Hopefully you slept some of those 10 hours that you spent in bed. Sounds like you need some care and therapy to get on the road to recovery.
 
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Today will be another busy one for me. After the gym this morning, we're heading over to Wal-Mart for a bigger shopping trip. I don't actually "need" anything, but we like to keep over stocked at this time of year. Even though our weather is mostly mild, if/when winter does hit, we don't go out on the roads. So we try to be prepared, in case we are home for a week or two.
 
Got some aches and muscle soreness due to the last 2 days of off-piste skiing. The skiing on non - groomed runs particularly in low light causes a bit of a rougher ride at times so the muscles take some time to adapt. I wouldn't normally go out of my way to ski bumps aka moguls but that can't be avoided on powder days.

Got training in a while, food shopping the 10% senior discount btwn 12:30-2:30 , and picking up my concealed carry permit later today. I'm sure my trainer will get those muscles loosened up! She took it easy on me last week since I was just over the flu.

Be well one and all!
 
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Got some aches and muscle soreness due to the last 2 days of off-piste skiing. The skiing on non - groomed runs particularly in low light causes a bit of a rougher ride at times so the muscles take some time to adapt. I wouldn't normally go out of my way to ski bumps aka moguls but that can't be avoided on powder days.

Got training in a while, food shopping the 10% senior discount btwn 12:30-2:30 , and picking up my concealed carry permit later today. I'm sure my trainer will get those muscles loosened up! She took it easy on me last week since I was just over the flu.

Be well one and all!
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Oh my goodness.. you're always on the go.. you must be really fit.. despite you aches today
 

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