What are you doing today 2023

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One other thing.... since this car is equipped with the SLP performance package, and the B4C police pursuit package, the fuel pump was going to cost much more than the quote. That's the price you pay for go fast goodies. :)
 

Well the laminate flooring is all out. My son took most of it out while I made a plumbing problem worse in the little laundry room. Kitchen sink backs up into the laundry tub. Tried snaking…no dice. Tried liquid plumber…nope. Took plumbing apart under laundry sink to snake that pipe. Nope. Now leaking under laundry sink because that stuff never goes back together quite right….oh well. Next trip…
 
Jules said:
@Kaila, wishing your DH well in his procedure this week. Also hoping your stress levels aren’t too bad through all of this.
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I just came by here (SF and this thread in particular)
for a few minutes.....
mainly to collect all the hugs and support, that you all gave, and left for me, at my yesterday's post. Thank you!

And thank you so much, for this post, jules.

I am truly up and down, (emotionally) frequently. This is a very big challenge. Me being physically disabled for years, with him helping me, while I increasingly care for him in all ways that are possible for me.
Lots of unknowns for us, after this step. Trying to cope.
He's doing okay, atm.

Thank you to everyone!
And take care of yourselves, too, of course!
 
~Reorganized one of my storage totes to be able to fit 5 Coffee Mate canisters and have better access to the supplements stored inside.
~Reorganized the items in the cabinet beneath my kitchen counter. It took less time and was easier than I thought it would be.
The tray that the Coffee Mate was in came in quite handy for organizing the small bottles.
~Slept for several hours during the daylight hours into the night.
~Sorted laundry.
 
squatting dog said:
I already had the estimate from the dealer. 600 to700 for pump, and $2320 for labor. o_O
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$3000 to install a new fuel pump? I put one in a 1998 GMC Safari van about 12 years ago and it cost me about $200 for the pump and sending unit for the fuel gauge. It only took me about 6 hours to drain and pull the tank and install the pump and put the tank back in the van. I had watched several YouTube videos and had everything ready (tools and supplies) before I started.

At $2300 for labor, their labor rate must be astronomical. Are you certain about these estimates? That's just plain crazy.
 
Been There said:
It looks like it may be another rainy day here in Florida. We had plans to work outside on the driveway and carport, but if the rain continues, that work will be postponed. I guess our choices will be limited to inside activities, like playing video games or maybe going to Lowes for supplies for projects planned that we hope to complete before I return to Virginia,
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Last evening around 6 pm, I saw a box truck pull up next door. Being a bit nosey, I watched this fellow trying to unload something really big, but I couldn't make out what it was, so I had to go see for myself. It was a hospital bed. Why would they send out one man to deliver such a huge thing by himself. I asked him if I could give him a hand and he said I better not because if I get hurt, the company would fire him.

I watched this poor guy struggle with this bed and finally, I just jumped in and helped get it out of the truck. After that, he was able to roll it to the door, then he had to lift it through the doorway and set it up. He really had to struggle with it, but he got it done and I told him he did a great job. The neighbor man is really weak now. We had to help him off the sofa and onto the hospital bed, which he should have had at least a week ago. My opinion is he has only days left, but I'm no doctor, so I am probably mistaken, but when you can't even lift yourself out of bed, that's bad. He can't even walk to the bathroom.

I feel bad for the both of them. This is terrible to watch. I know I don't have to, but she is all but alone. She gets a visitor now and then, but I think she is tired of them also. When I see her go out for the mail, I will also go out and talk about anything except her husband. He won't even eat now. After we had him settled into the new bed, she tried giving him applesauce and he refused it. I tried talking to him to no avail. He dreams a lot, but I blame that on the drugs.
 
What can I say. Every day I wake up is Saturday. But today is also the last day of Spring 2023 so a report is in order haha.

This Tuesday morning, from 7am, lots of html work using Excel and Notebook txt files to duplicate operations with variations, so those perusing my landscape website will be able to understand what they are looking at least over my Spring 2023 work. So have details at a terse level for names of places and things. By late am had 4 web pages half completed with embedded images and another fifth page yet to do from my rose garden work. Am continually running the code locally from my computer on Firefox to see what it looks like as that makes noticing issues more obvious.

This below code with embedded text info, just displays a single image 1000 pixels wide and 428 pixels tall with an option to view an enlarged 50% pixels 300 pixel wide crop. By having an Excel framework, I was able to load variables from exiftool commands saved as text strings.

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About 11:30am took a computer break and drove a few blocks over to a local stream side park with several old basketball courts. Lots of young moms with toddlers and other lively kids. Thus for my right shoulder rotator cuff rehabilitation, for my 6th session now, shot a Level 7 ball at baskets for an hour. Sunny so wore my just washed marine blue baseball cap. Hadn't shot any basketballs in at least two decades before 3 weeks ago. After the injury mostly healed, my right arm felt as coordinated as a 7 year old. So aiming and shooting a basketball is a good skill to link back my eye visual to motor brain controls and yes folks it seems to be working though I have no fantasies of actually playing games with others in the future.

A few other kids and men under other backboard baskets. Usually shoot playing my solo version of Around The World, with 9 counterclockwise locations around the key starting from basket side left. Miss any shot and go back to the start. Usual rule in group play is miss and lose a turn to the next player. Next turn to shoot, go back to last missed shot. But I play the more difficult style, go back to start. But for the sake of rehab, I like being forced to shoot all the short shots and believe me, sometimes I'll miss several in a row from right beside the basket by not focusing seriously. 4 locations on each side plus the freethrow line, #5. Location #4 and #6 are at freethrow line distances to the sides. I've got to the right side again today but so far have always choked getting closer. But hey, I'm an old guy.

For lunch,(no breakfast today) Mic'd a 12oz package of frozen broccoli florets. Then ate from a Pyrex baking dish, in front of my keyboard, working slow, with cold milk just added mayo and salt.

USPS mail came early afternoon, and with it an online eyeglasses buy, my new silver metal frame eyeglasses using my 3 year old KaiserP eye check prescription. Have been surprised at first impression that its PRISM function seems to be much more effective. This old senior often struggles at distance after looking at my computer from 18 inches for hours.

Mid afternoon, out for urban street walking 2+ hours including a bit of absorbing the universe sitting beside a local urban creek in a noisy traffic zone where few ever go and at this time of year, lots of shady green leaves of cottonwood, willows, maples. Was in a CVS for a Recess Peanut Butter Cup 2pk and a Wholefoods. Ate a pepperoni pizza slice while sitting at a shaded bench outside near the WF Exit door. Thus people watching amusements including lots of women.
 
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Morning breakfast clubbers!!!! 70deg F here to start the day, into 90's again...breathing is still difficult...dunno what I'm up
to today, got one bill to pay...I have to be cautious as to how
I move my head or the glasse's will fall off LOL...ah well...
Slept badly for some reason, think maybe cause i took a pain pill for my back very late in the day, so that it probably screwed
up my sleeping meds...such a life I live !!!! :cool::p
 
Been There said:
$3000 to install a new fuel pump? I put one in a 1998 GMC Safari van about 12 years ago and it cost me about $200 for the pump and sending unit for the fuel gauge. It only took me about 6 hours to drain and pull the tank and install the pump and put the tank back in the van. I had watched several YouTube videos and had everything ready (tools and supplies) before I started.

At $2300 for labor, their labor rate must be astronomical. Are you certain about these estimates? That's just plain crazy.
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Yeah, stupid ain't it? Dealer quoted 16 hrs labor @$145 per. and estimated the pump 600-700.
Found the pump for a bit under $200 and since I have other cars, I could afford to lay this one up, and so far, I'm still able to crawl around under a car. :) I feel bad for those who have no choice but to use the stealerships because it's their only means of transportation.
 
The birdies woke me up at 4:30 was able to go back to sleep until 5:45
On my early walk around 6:20, temp was 65 with a slight breeze, didn't walk far halfway down my street,came back to water plants/flowers in our garden
This morning, my friend Mary&I are going on our weekly 'road trip',to a local grocery store, Tops. I do need a few items considering I had to toss some of them when my old frig died on me
The rest of my day if its not too hot/ humid take another walk
 
Old Salt said:
Just got back from a doctor's appointment. Thanks to our sagging healthcare system he hadn't received the surgeon's report about a cystoscopy that took place two weeks ago. Which was fine with me! I feel great and young (okay, forget about my failing memory) and firmly believe that I'll live forever! Based on that, I proposed to the very sympathetic and cheerful young nurse but sadly she is already married! :)
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It would have been good for your doctor to have gotten that report before your visit. Hopefully they'll call as soon as they get it. So glad you're feeling so Chipper! 😀
 
Well, that’s one for the books. Woke this AM to find a missed call in my phone (I leave the ringer off)… from Redditch, England at 2:30 AM my time. Would love to know the story behind *that* one ! 😉
 
Landed in my new place, Monday, at noon.
Movers were at my house, 8 am, Monday……started unloading at 1 pm Monday, all unloaded at 3:00 pm.
There were 3 guys.
I am totally amazed……they were awesome.

Tuesday, yesterday morning, had internet and cable tv, by 10 am.

So…..guess what I’m doing…..unpacking.
Yesterday, did the grocery thing, wasn’t real cheap, bought quick things to make for now…..but I did buy some healthy things…..milk, bananas, grapes.

I’m sure I will love it here…..very friendly people…..everyone says hi…..Micki loves it…..she SEES PEOPLE…..she has to stop at every person. She’s good with the elevator, and going down stares……but not up stairs.

Have been bad…..didn’t get up till 7 yesterday and today.

Micki slept in the bathroom last nite…..thunder storm, rain.

Now……to work on schedule.

Back to unpacking.
 
Soooo hot out there... I've just spent an hour in the garden, cutting back the big laurel hedge..it's not so much a hedge as a wall ... about 30 feet high... about 40 feet wide... but I have a big space behind it, and my neighbour over the back.. our adjoined back fence. The laurel wall hides that fence.. and I left about 10 feet deep of space from the boundary fence.. to the back of the laurel and in that space which we jokingly call the ''beach''.. and in that area I keep the huge plant pots when they're not in use.. and various other items... some wood etc.. so I've decided I don't need any of that stuff any more, so I've hauled it out, and I'll take it to the recycle centre soon.....but jeeez it's so hot...came in to have a cool down..
 
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MickaC said:
Landed in my new place, Monday, at noon.
Movers were at my house, 8 am, Monday……started unloading at 1 pm Monday, all unloaded at 3:00 pm.
There were 3 guys.
I am totally amazed……they were awesome.

Tuesday, yesterday morning, had internet and cable tv, by 10 am.

So…..guess what I’m doing…..unpacking.
Yesterday, did the grocery thing, wasn’t real cheap, bought quick things to make for now…..but I did buy some healthy things…..milk, bananas, grapes.

I’m sure I will love it here…..very friendly people…..everyone says hi…..Micki loves it…..she SEES PEOPLE…..she has to stop at every person. She’s good with the elevator, and going down stares……but not up stairs.

Have been bad…..didn’t get up till 7 yesterday and today.

Micki slept in the bathroom last nite…..thunder storm, rain.

Now……to work on schedule.

Back to unpacking.
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Many congratulations MickaC...it is so exciting moving into a new home.
I wish you much joy and happiness.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷
 
Walked the dog.

Haven't decided what I'm doing today.
Should run the vacuum in all the down stairs rooms.

Gentle hint from hubby about not buying sugar cookies at the store.
I make a batch of sugar cookies with pecan bits in them,,, we are out of them.

I did get the 'new lacy curtains,' that I bought at a road side sale Sunday ,,hung on the kitchen windows.
Big change from what I normally have up.
 
Been There said:
Last evening around 6 pm, I saw a box truck pull up next door. Being a bit nosey, I watched this fellow trying to unload something really big, but I couldn't make out what it was, so I had to go see for myself. It was a hospital bed. Why would they send out one man to deliver such a huge thing by himself. I asked him if I could give him a hand and he said I better not because if I get hurt, the company would fire him.

I watched this poor guy struggle with this bed and finally, I just jumped in and helped get it out of the truck. After that, he was able to roll it to the door, then he had to lift it through the doorway and set it up. He really had to struggle with it, but he got it done and I told him he did a great job. The neighbor man is really weak now. We had to help him off the sofa and onto the hospital bed, which he should have had at least a week ago. My opinion is he has only days left, but I'm no doctor, so I am probably mistaken, but when you can't even lift yourself out of bed, that's bad. He can't even walk to the bathroom.

I feel bad for the both of them. This is terrible to watch. I know I don't have to, but she is all but alone. She gets a visitor now and then, but I think she is tired of them also. When I see her go out for the mail, I will also go out and talk about anything except her husband. He won't even eat now. After we had him settled into the new bed, she tried giving him applesauce and he refused it. I tried talking to him to no avail. He dreams a lot, but I blame that on the drugs.
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The lady's husband died at 5 this morning. I had just fell asleep in the recliner when a rap at the door woke me. I saw it was the next door lady and I thought she was going to need help with her husband. She said, I think my husband just died. Are you able to check him? I said, "Yes, I can do that. " I knew my friend that I'm staying with had those Nitrile gloves he uses when he cleans the toilets. (Funny, huh?) so I grabbed a pair and went next door. When I looked at him, I didn't see his chest moving, but I felt for a pulse in his wrist and neck and found none. He was, in fact, cold to the touch. I told her that I am very sorry, but he is gone. She said that one thing they never spoke about is what do I do in this situation? I told her probably a good idea to call the Coroner. She did and he came right out and made the call.
 
Making the hour and a half trip to he's cardiac appt. He had a couple of issues during his radiation that they want to check out.
Hopefully all checks out.
We usually make a day of it and shop, eat out, this and that.
Started a new sourdough starter.
 

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