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Sunday All Day Check-in for the Herd

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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 contented.

On weekends (and holidays), you may find the check-in thread earlier or later than normal because … it is the weekend! Moosies need their beauty rest:

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)

– Ratings: Fierce means Thumbs Up, Fail means Thumbs Down, Meh means one of three things: I am unFailing you but I can’t Fierce you, I am unFiercing after a mistaken Fierce … or Meh. Just Meh. (p.s. Ratings don’t bestow mojo, online behaviour does).

– The Recommended list has a prominent place on the Front Page because it reflects the interests of the Moose. When people drive-by, we want them to see what we are talking about: news, politics, science, history, personal stories, culture. The list is based on number of recs and days on the list. Per Kysen: “The best way to control Rec List content is to ONLY rec diaries you WANT to see ON the list.”

– 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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12 comments

  2. DeniseVelez

    went outside when the sun came up to snap pics of the early spring flowers around the house

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    but what was most interesting were the still unhidden vines of the massive wisteria growing up a tree in my driveway- it is as old as the house, so is about 100. Most of the vines are thicker than my leg. It usually blooms the same time as my lilacs – in April…nothing yet.

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  3. Diana in NoVa

    51 F. here on a cloudless, sunny morning. About to get dressed, pick up Miss Pink Cheeks, and take her out to breakfast at Virginia Kitchen. Looking for a high of 72 F. today and I don’t have to cook dinner tonight! Elder Son has got out his smoker and plans to smoke a chicken for dinner.

    Didn’t do a thing yesterday except a little grocery shopping. Today I may visit Whole Paycheck again because I noticed they had blackberry and tomato plants for sale when I stopped by yesterday. I had a blackberry (thornless) but it stopped bearing, so I’d like another one.

    Hope everyone will have a good day today!

  4. anotherdemocrat

    back to the 90s today

    Eating breakfast, watching Up. Did so little yesterday I haven’t even thought of next week’s lunch. Sigh.

    Today: church, grocery shopping, cooking.

  5. princesspat

    I’m enjoying a quiet moment, reading the Sunday papers online. My sister returns to her home in New Mexico today, last nights Cinco de Mayo dinner was tasty….I’m going t stay quiet today!

    An old friend has written a book that should be fun to read.

    Retired principal Harriet Arkley writes the book on “good news” chairs for children

    When Harriet Arkley of Bellingham was an elementary school principal in Illinois, being sent to the office often was a good thing.

    That’s because her office had a decorated chair where students sat down to talk about good news in their life, from getting a new puppy to tackling a tough assignment in class to being nice to a new kid on the playground.

    Danny Westneat, at the Seattle Times

    Unions are back with city-by-city wage campaign

    Not long after finishing a news conference on a deal to bring a $15 minimum wage to Seattle, David Rolf, president of the local home health-care workers’ union, SEIU 775, got a heady phone call.

    It was the office of “a certain big-city mayor from a certain big city on the East Coast,” Rolf said. (He wouldn’t tell me which one, but what else could it be but New York?) The message: As soon as you’re done in Seattle, get on a plane and get out here to explain to us how you did this.

    “There’s going to be an escalation in this at a national level, very soon,” says Rolf, who co-chaired Mayor Ed Murray’s advisory task force on the minimum wage. “Right now there is tremendous momentum for this, well beyond Seattle.”

    Remember how unions were supposed to be dying?

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