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Tuesday Morning Herd Check-in: Greetings of the Moosekin

  Make sure you let your peeps know where to find you!  

The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least content.

For those new to the Moose, Kysen left a Moose Welcome Mat (Part Deux) so, please, wipe your feet before you walk in the front door start posting.

The important stuff to get you started:

– Comments do not Auto-refresh. Click the refresh/reload on your tab to see new ones. Only click Post once for comments. When a diary’s comment threads grow, the page takes longer to refresh and the comment may not display right away.

– To check for replies to your comments, click the “My Comments” link in the right-hand column (or go to “My Moose”). Comments will be listed and a link to Recent Replies will be shown. (Note: Tending comments builds community)

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– Finally, the posting rules for a new diary: “Be excellent to each other… or else”

(Some other commenting/posting/tending notes for newbies can be found in this past check-in and, of course, consult Meese Mehta for all your questions on meesely decorum.)

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From our intrepid news team, the Open News Thread:

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Let the greetings begin!

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  3. iriti

    61 degrees in Winchester, VA this morning. Headed for 79 this afternoon. A week ago it was 40 degrees colder.

    If this is Tuesday it must be my early day, which I love because I get off work at 2:30. The birdies are just starting to awaken outside my office window.

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  4. michelewln

    After being sick since August and with no insurance I actually was able to go to the Doctor yesterday with my new Medicare card and got an antibiotic for this infection plus an inhaler for the COPD. On May 23rd I’ll see my new doctor.

    Lots of white blossom trees blooming at the moment and enough pollen to choke a moose. Still waiting for the really pretty purple blossoms to come out.

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  7. pittiepat

    Turned on the a/c for a bit and ceiling fans (when it hit 80 degrees in the house) yesterday and will again today.  The NWS has once again upped our chance of strong-to-severe storms overnight and into tomorrow to 100%.  Then we’ll be back into the 40s-50s range for 4-5 days.

  8. Melanie in IA

    Current temp of about 50 ° and supposedly heading to the low 60s. However we may have thunderstorms all day, so I’m not sure where the heat would come from.

    Hope you all have a great day!

  9. nchristine

    went through last night.  The ice pellets woke me when they were hitting my bedroom window.  Lots of lightening.  More rain this week and below freezing again Friday morning.

    I’ve got a couple of daffodils that will bloom in the next few days.  The rest will be next week sometime.

  10. Broke and Unemployed

    Buenos Dias, Moose.

    Riding the bus the past 5 years has put me in direct contact with an interesting cross-section of people that I wouldn’t see otherwise. It’s apparent right away riding that bus that Englilsh isn’t the only language in the world.

    There’s not many Latinos in this area, so the language I hear the most by far is Arabic. Chinese is next, then probably Hindi. Rounding out the top 5 are Afrikaans and Amish.

    Yes, Amish. The Amish have their own language that is closely related to German. I see them at the Akron bus station sometimes. They take a Greyhound out to visit relatives in other Amish communities, and wait at the bus station for an Amish taxi home.

    The other 4 languages are mostly, but not always, from foreign students going to Kent State and U. of Akron from Saudi Arabia, China, India, and South Africa. They all have interesting stories. They hate the weather and the food and miss home, but like having the opportunity to study in America.

    A woman from Nigeria I talked to was actually a practicing doctor in her home country, but needed 2 more years of school to get licensed here. Some of these people stay and put down roots here. A woman from Sri Lanka I talked to met a guy from Nepal here and they got married. It’s likely they will stay in Ohio. Arabs that come here tend to be already married, so some of them stay and raise families here, and there is a new growing Arab community right under noses. But all most people know is that you can now get a kick-ass falafel sandwich in Kent, without knowing the backstory.

    Anyways, wall of text, but as I get ready to ride the bus it makes me think of all the interesting people that ride it that I would never see otherwise. Most of the other comments included cute animals, so I have that too:



    That’s my guinea pig Yoshi. She’s a little oinker. Have a good day, Meese.

  11. Jk2003

    Rainy here in st Charles today.  Two weeks to closing!  Today I am going to take everything off the walls.  And do laundry, of course.  And call my senators.  I won’t bother with my congressman, I’ve only got two more weeks of his “responsible leadership” .  The district into which we are moving flipped blue last election after some redistricting.  I hope he can hold it in 2014.  I miss being represented by a democrat.  

  12. anotherdemocrat

    More thunderstorms tomorrow. Tonight’s workout is a bike ride. Got to get home as fast as I can, put the ypga mat on the car & the bike rack on top of that, then load the bike, then get on the highway & down to where my practice will be, all in an hour & a half after work. That’ll be fun.

    But – omg, I just noticed this from last night — my whole day is made:

    Tim Guinee  

    @TimGuinee  

    “@beckythecyclist: @RevolutionOnNBC #Revolution #TakeBackThePower Loved it, though it is better when @TimGuinee is in an episode.” Thanks  

    I’m going to be hard to live with today. I really do like the show a lot, it is total my type (post-apocalypse, people trying to get stuff back together), but I really do like TG & wish his character wasn’t only in flashbacks. Oh, and we have that damned bi-weekly meeting today. Maybe I should just go home.

    And my friend Lisa just gave me a quilt! A beautiful, hand-made quilt. I’ll take pictures later. She has made quilts to be auctioned for the Walk for years, this year it kinda fell to the side because they got a Prius to be auctioned. So she just took it back, and gave it to me. It matches the colors I had my apartment painted after lasy year’s flood. It is perfect.

    So despite it being meeting day, today doesn’t suck, not at all. Meetings suck. But today doesn’t.

  13. wordsinthewind

    and my hands are better. It’s been miserable so seeing all my fingertips intact and not hurting is significant. Now I need to be careful not to go overboard until they’re fully healed, this is actually the hardest part.  

  14. princesspat

    And I’m rushing out the door to care for the grand girls and get them to school on time. Yesterday I was late….’cause this is the to early for me to be awake time of day!

  15. DeniseVelez

    Am running late – had writing to do for BKos, and then have to head to school in an hour to do a guest lecture – so hope y’all have a good day.

  16. Nurse Kelley

    I appreciate whatever moisture we get out of this storm, and I don’t even mind the cold, but why does this nonsense always happen on trash day? 🙂

  17. bfitzinAR

    over the rest of the week – including a possible 28 low tomorrow night that could wipe the few flowers that have just bloomed on my cherry tree (hold the good thought – that poor tree is having major surgery as the last two drought-record heat summers have killed about 1/3 of it).  QC committees last night not bad (probably on “best behavior” as we were meeting at the Sheriff’s Annex) and we passed two potential new hires (a 2nd Social Worker for JDC and a domestic violence forms clerk for the Circuit Clerk’s office) on to Finance (tonight’s meeting) which has to approve them since they weren’t in the 2013 Budget before the full Quorum Court can vote on them.  The full Court vote would actually be a formality since unless/until the AG rules it to be unlawful the Finance Committee is a Committee of the Whole (a full Court meeting that isn’t presided over by the Judge).  Are we having fun yet?  Priority registration is getting more desperate as the juniors and sophomores start enrolling and try to get into our classes we reserve for seniors (some of them for graduating seniors).  These kids seem to think that they only have to take required classes to graduate – they purely don’t want to hear that they’ve got 30 hours of upper division electives too.  Oh well – 7 interruptions since I started writing this so I guess I’ll wish you all well and get back to work.  Y’all take care, bf

  18. Melanie in IA

    Below your name at the top of the page, it says “[subscribe]”. Let’s say I click on that. What does that do?

    What about JanF’s RSS Feed? Is that the same thing? What is being fed, and to whom? If someone subscribes, will you know they did?

  19. slksfca

    Sunny here but there’s still a bit of a cold north wind (I can feel the drafts). Still, we’re supposed to warm up nicely today and tomorrow. After that the fog will likely sneak back in.

  20. JG in MD

    Summer checklist during the second week in April??

    Fan in living room, doesn’t help a lot, sun is over balcony all day.

    Two denim skirts, one circa 1980 (Lands End denim, it will never wear out). T-shirts? Some still wearable I think. Tomorrow’s downtown trip will be in a denim skirt and whatever is presentable for a State Dept anteroom.

    Replaced the cardboard kitty litter trays and all the newspaper and scraps on the floor around them in the closet. Yep, that’s a dirty job, but better than washing plastic litterboxes in the bathtub.

    Carried bags of used kitty litter, boxes and newspaper down to the trash room. Trashmen have been known to see cardboard and newspaper and put these horrors in the recycling bin instead. Hope that doesn’t happen.

    Life in the twilight years. Isn’t it sublime?

  21. Melanie in IA

    new cover picture. It is Vance AFB. Must feel really close now.

    (His profile picture is of himself at about age 2, with his sissy’s big white sunglasses on his face and a WIU cap on his head. He was sooooo cute!)

  22. Pam from Calif

    Woke up very very late.  Ugh, my cough is back and the winds that we’ve had didn’t help. Thankfully the winds have gone.

    Sunny & bright~high 60sF in the San Francisco East Bay

    Julie London – When I Fall In Love

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

  24. Melanie in IA

    Brown rice cooking. Hot Italian sausage browning. Once it is cooked, I’ll take about 2/3 of it out of the pan and save it for another purpose. Then with the rest, saute some chopped zucchini and mushrooms, added canned stewed tomatoes, simmer until the rice is ready…

    We eat early. Old folks…

  25. slksfca

    Just got back from a walk around the neighborhood. I was feeling kinda blue because my hip aches and I’m trying to cut down on the pain pills, which is no fun, but the walk boosted my mood quite a bit. Didn’t hurt that it’s a glorious warm day outside. I was hoping to run into my little black friend, that corgidor, but no luck. I didn’t see a single dog in fact. They were probably all at the park romping.

    Tonight I watch last night’s Dancing With The Stars, which I DVR’d last night. I have it down to a science: by fast-forwarding through the commercials and the extraneous crap, I can cut the length of the show down from two hours to one. 🙂

    I hope everyone is having a great day!

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