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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.

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).

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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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  2. JG in MD

    I’m going downtown to the National Archives today so of course Forecast.weather.gov says there’s a 40% chance of rain. I think it’s more % than that.

    My house finch feeds his mate beak to beak. It’s so cute.

  3. anotherdemocrat

    We actually got rain last night — hours of it. I think they said 3 inches downtown. And it’s cool this morning — I actually needed a jacket. In May. In mid-May. I don’t know if it’ll help out lakes (36% full), but it’s way better than nothing.

    Gym bag is under my desk, dinner is in the break room freezer. Tonight’s workout is a run (I’ll walk, of course), so there’s no excuse to miss.

    earworm is still Big Girls Are Best

  4. DeniseVelez

    have to get back to banging the keyboard – am behind on writing schedule due to grading papers – will be very happy when this semester is finally over.

  5. bfitzinAR

    I was stuck at work yesterday and am stuck at work again this morning (secretary’s out) so I’m not being a part of the great thing going down here – we got same-sex marriage and I’m not down there doing any of the marrying!! Of 88 marriage licenses issued yesterday in Washington County, 72 were to same-sex couples – 3 of the Dem JPs were there marrying folks and I wasn’t one of them.  dammit, dammit, dammit.

    The weather has gone in reverse – 40s last night to maybe mid 60s today and wet (I got totally, and I mean totally – those shoes won’t be dry enough to wear for days – soaked last night wading up Dickson St. to the Courthouse for my QC meeting) so some more dammits.  (Although we really do need the rain so maybe un-dammit a couple.)

    And of course I still haven’t gotten answers, approvals, or other information I need to get summer payroll finished.  dammit.  (Actually there’s a 4th dammit – My PV inverter isn’t counting all the KW I’m making – and a 5th – Yahoo mail isn’t loading so I can tell the installer and he can get the “patch” to fix that.)

    But I’m still going to rejoice that same-sex marriage is happening – one more step closer to the goal of Ideal America and away from where we started.  And hope the secretary makes it in some time today so I can slip off and join the party.  ðŸ™‚

  6. Diana in NoVa

    It’s a lovely day in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Our Attorney General, Mark Herring, is trying to overturn the ban on marriage equality; our governor has appointed Democrats to the state medical board to review the antiabortion regulations instituted by wild-eyed freaky former AG Kook-a-Nelly; and Governor McAuliffe is also looking at legal ways to expand Medicaid over the resistance of the all-Rethug state House.

    I’m sitting up here in my office, looking out at the beautiful day, waiting for the coffee to finish brewing and for nephew to stop by. On Sunday he received the sad news that his father had died, in Ireland. My brother-in-law has been in fragile health since 2000 and took a turn for the worse in October. Nephew and family had been planning to fly over to Cork in early June but instead are flying today. It’s very sad. Even though one half-expects someone so dreadfully ill to pass sooner rather than later, it doesn’t make it any easier to bear when it happens.

    I’ll miss writing to my brother-in-law. For 10 years I wrote to him at least once a month, enclosing photos of my own family and of nephew’s family. Although the poor man was too disabled by a stroke to put pen to paper, nephew assured me that he enjoyed receiving the letters.

    Hope it will be a good day in Mooseland, and good luck to another’s friend in Austin in her quest for ordination.

    Nephew is here–later!

  7. princesspat

    By the time I’m awake on the sleepy west coast you all have started busy days!

    A forgotten hair appointment meant no time for the garden shop yesterday so I’ll try again today. My hair has finally recovered from the med induced hair loss last fall but it came back really curly which is a surprise. And with all the rain it curls even more…..no complaints though. I would much rather cope with curls than hair loss.

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