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Started by mamselle, May 27, 2019, 09:31:29 AM

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Quote from: secundem_artem on July 10, 2022, 02:55:30 PM
Ever stand behind somebody in the checkout line and being amazed/puzzled/horrified at what they were buying?

Today, I had to run a variety of errands.  Upon my return home, I realized I had purchased bullets, beer, and antidepressants.

One of my more random sets of purchases included a new case for a shotgun, lipstick, and potting soil. And after I bought the house I currently live in, was doing some basic reno before I moved in and in my cart at the hardware store were a couple dropcloths, zip ties, and bleach-based cleaner. The lady at the checkout gave me a look, and I probably didn't help my case when I said "I swear there isn't a body in the trunk of my car!"
I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.

apl68

While walking to work I saw an 18-wheeler loaded with pipe coming down the highway.  It was barely moving.  I recognized it as a rig that I'd seen parked in a nearby parking lot during my morning walk a couple of hours earlier.  Rigs rest there overnight fairly often.

Anyway, the rig was barely moving.  A number of cars passed him to get out from behind.  Then I was able to cross the highway.  A moment later the rig overtook me going the same way, barely moving fast enough to overtake me on foot.  It was moving in fits and starts, the cab lurching from side to side, cargo and trailer clanking with every lurch.  For a moment I worried that he might try to pull into our library parking lot to take refuge.  He continued on toward the city limits and out of sight.  I'd never seen anything like it.

A staff member who used to work on a farm and at a truck stop suggested that the rig may have been having fuel filter problems.  It probably happened just as the driver got out on the straightaway.  He may have been hoping to power through until the engine could blow out the fuel filter.  I was concerned because it's all two-lane blacktop down that way, with no very good pullover spots for a big rig for miles.  There is a solar farm construction project on that end of town.  Just maybe he was carrying material for them, and was hoping to limp there.  I just hope he doesn't end up stranded on the road in a curve where others can't safely get around him. 
All we like sheep have gone astray
We have each turned to his own way
And the Lord has laid upon him the guilt of us all

mamselle

Scary.

Do your local police have enough staff that one of them could escort him to safety?

Might be worth a call, if you haven't already done that.

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

Langue_doc


mamselle

Don't know where else this can go, but I just found out a brilliant, quixotic, gifted writer I've known for years has had a serious stroke--as in, give up the car, can't fully see out of one eye, can't process certain kinds of info--which may mean her last couple of brilliant,  wonderful projects may not get done.

Carpe diem, folks...none of us knows.

I'm just so sad, for that loss to her of the parts of herself she valued, and did so much with, and for the painstaking work she's done to get herself as far as she has since May, when it happened, and....yeah.

We've said we'll be in touch weekly, going forward, and I treasure her friendship, so am glad for that, but just, still, so sad.

Glad she's alive and making progress and all that, don't mean to minimize those things, but...the losses...in so many different ways, have got to be so hard.

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

downer

The job ad for a course that starts in 2.5 weeks says urgent!
https://philjobs.org/job/show/21010

I bet they find someone to teach it with little trouble.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."—Sinclair Lewis

AmLitHist

The new crop of clementines is in the stores.  I bought a bag (very cheap), and they are really juicy and sweet.

apl68

I just learned that Clementine Churchill liked oranges.  Makes perfect sense!
All we like sheep have gone astray
We have each turned to his own way
And the Lord has laid upon him the guilt of us all

Juvenal

When I lived in Canada (Alberta, mid-Fifties, quite remote) what we had were what must have been satsuma oranges, brought from Japan, each paper-wrapped, the whole in a wood crate.  Neighbors would come by (it's difficult to deal with 40 below at the patio BBQ in January, so kitchen table) and the whole crate would vanish in an afternoon.
Cranky septuagenarian

apl68

One of our local real estate brokers lives on our street.  Their next-door neighbor has a "For Sale" sign.  It is being handled by one of the other realtors in town.  I hope that's not a sign of any trouble between neighbors.
All we like sheep have gone astray
We have each turned to his own way
And the Lord has laid upon him the guilt of us all

downer

Won't we need a thread on what a shitshow it is trying to teach first year students from the pandemic who have basically skipped high school and gone straight from middle school to college?
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."—Sinclair Lewis

mamselle

Someone just started a Fall Semester thread....that might be a good place to discuss those issues--if they arise...

;--}

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.

apl68

I saw an advertising notice on my computer that spoke of getting "Cash Out of Your Home."  And I reflected that I'd never collected the Man in Black's music to start with, so no need.
All we like sheep have gone astray
We have each turned to his own way
And the Lord has laid upon him the guilt of us all

apl68

While sorting through a recent book donation, I found copies of The Aviator's Wife, The Winemaker's Wife, and The Shoemaker's Wife.  Seems to be a theme going here.
All we like sheep have gone astray
We have each turned to his own way
And the Lord has laid upon him the guilt of us all

mamselle

Possibly all plays on "The Pilot's Wife," which is actually a rather good entry in its author's "historic periods in the same house" series.

M.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Reprove not a scorner, lest they hate thee: rebuke the wise, and they will love thee.

Give instruction to the wise, and they will be yet wiser: teach the just, and they will increase in learning.