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Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF! Don’t forget to let your peeps know where to find you.

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Friday Coffee Hour and check-in is an open thread and general social hour. Come back when time allows through the day – the conversation continues.

It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:

Always remember the Moose Golden (Purple?) Rule:

Be kind to each other… or else.

What could be simpler than that, right?

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  2. JanF

    64 cool degrees here in Madison WI. Expected high of 79 degrees and still a chance of thunderstorms. Last night we were in a tornado watch until 1am but I slept through it!! I assume there were no tornadoes because I woke up in my own bed.

  3. trs

    Going in to work an hour early today. On Fridays in the summer, one person works on Saturday morning, getting the pool ready and picking up trash. Now that the pool is open, we kick into that schedule. I am working this Saturday, since I will be out of state the next two Saturdays. So, I work half a day today and half a day tomorrow. We also generally stagger our shifts – the other maintenance guy starts at 7:30 and goes until 4, while I start at 8:30 and work until 5. Today, we’re both starting at 7:30 so we can actually get some work done before I leave at 11:30. It’s tough on a Friday afternoon getting anything but the basics done in the first place (a lot of regularly scheduled tasks on a Friday afternoon), and doubly so with one person. I’ll be happy when the maintenance supervisor comes back from his ankle fusion surgery in a couple weeks (he’s been out since the end of February).

  4. Portlaw

    going up to 90. I guess I can deal with it without too much whining.  My mother-of-all-colds is thinking of leaving me, it’s Friday and the headline on HuffPo says that Bush is at peace! Who could ask for anything more?

  5. Otteray Scribe

    It is supposed to warm up to 86 later today. Severe clear at the moment, but forecast is for scattered late afternoon thunderstorms. Typical for this time of year.

    Shortfinals got here last night.  We stayed up too late talking. He opted to get a motel room at a small place just a mile or so down the street. Kidling is working 5″50AM to 6PM, so she gets up at 4:00. The guest bedroom is just off the kitchen and downstairs bathroom, so she surely would have waked him up. He got tickled when he saw her tactical gear on the dining room table, which includes her Smith & Wesson handcuffs—in pink.  

    We plan to go picture taking today. Lots of historical stuff. I plan to show him the exact spot where Grayson sneaked up on Tom Dooley and arrested him. Tom was on the run for allegedly killing Laura Foster. He had just bought a new pair of boots and had blisters on his feet. He was sitting on the bank of the Doe Creek with his feet in the cold mountain stream when Grayson threw down on him, arrested him, and hauled him off to trial. My friend Sharyn McCrumb wrote a fact-based novel about him, “The Ballad of Tom Dooley.” I collaborated with her on the dialogue, to get it to have an authentic feel for the way a psychopath thinks. Whenever I show up at one of her book readings, Sharyn introduces me as, “Ann Melton’s therapist.”

    Here is an authentic version of the old folk ballad, not the overproduced smarmy version by the Kingston Trio:


  6. Diana in NoVa

    heading for a high of 91 F.  Wonder if it’s our corporate masters who’ve stopped the weather people from mentioning the air quality on certain TV stations.  We’ve switched to watching another station so I know that today is “unhealthy for sensitive people.”

    The day has started well–my weight is at my dream level, my money was deposited in the checking account a day early, and tomorrow is the first day of meterological summer!

    This would be a great morning to garden, if I can get my act together.

    What are you going to do today?

  7. slksfca

    Yes, I’m up early again. Got into some uncomfortable position while asleep which eventually woke me up. I’m not in any real pain though, so don’t worry. It’s just mildly annoying, nothing more.

    Today is predicted to be slightly warmer than yesterday, with a big warm-up coming tomorrow. Beach weather, but I’ll be otherwise engaged: prowling the gayborhood with my friend Kim. She and I plan to have a fun Saturday walking around and people watching. A cocktail or two might also come into play.

    But all that is for tomorrow. Today I’ll try to get a haircut, if there isn’t too long a wait at my local barbershop. Then I’m supposed to meet up with my friend L for a pint at the pub later in the afternoon.

    Hope everyone’s Friday is fabulous!

  8. Jk2003

    It rained like a son of a gun last night.  Rain again this evening.  The swingset will be delivered this afternoon.  My husband works tomorrow so we won’t put it together until Sunday.  My daughter is pretty excited.  My son is too young to anticipate.  

    Happy Friday everyone!

  9. Melanie in IA

    Mr Hourly says it will be in the low 80s, windy, and thunderstormy today. Current temp about 64.

    The food pantry gig was quite physical yesterday. I moved and sorted about 2 cubic yards of clothing and other stuff, and we kept almost NONE of it. (The rest gets moved to Goodwill.) We only keep children’s clothing, only in season and in good shape. We don’t want winter boots and coats right now, or blanket sleepers, or heavy sweatshirts, or large women’s clothing… Or the children’s clothing with obvious stains, or the shoes that have no match.

    So I sorted it all and moved almost all of it into my car and took it to Goodwill. I did keep some great t-shirts and jeans for boys, and a few things for little girls. Guess I sound like I am whining, and maybe I am just a little. I’m glad to do it, but will forever remember now to only donate stuff when it is in season, and suited to the recipient.

    Today will be easier for me, nothing scheduled but plenty to do. Jim will be at work — FOUR more days, including today.

    Heard from Son yesterday — “What’s the license plate on your car? … Okay thanks. Bye.” ::sigh::

  10. wordsinthewind

    blue cloudless skies with storms forecast for this afternoon. Looks like a busy weekend as mr w will be traveling next week, the dogs and I will be staying home. Sometimes these trips aren’t scheduled but when people call and they have a service contract off he goes. This should be a short trip although that’s not always possible to predict, he stays until the instruments meet specs again. It helps that he is in labs doing important research so he can feel good about the hours.  

  11. slksfca

    Does anyone here do IRC chat, or know anything about it? I haven’t been on IRC since the late ’90s, but it’s recently occurred to me that there are probably congenial folks to be found there. I just don’t know where to look.

  12. Melanie in IA

    citations for this favorite quote:

    People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

    If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

    If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

    If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

    What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

    If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

    The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

    Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

    In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

    -this version is credited to Mother Teresa

    People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.

       Love them anyway.

    If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

       Do good anyway.

    If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.

       Succeed anyway.

    The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

       Do good anyway.

    Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

       Be honest and frank anyway.

    The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.

       Think big anyway.

    People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.

       Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

    What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

       Build anyway.

    People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.

       Help people anyway.

    Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.

       Give the world the best you have anyway.

    -this is the original version, and is The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith

  13. anotherdemocrat

    We might get rain over the weekend. But since I really, really want it to rain, it probably rain. (Rain late Saturday night/ungodly early Sunday morning would solve my race dilemma)

    My glitchy shoulder tensed up yesterday. I don’t think it was because of Wednesday’s swim practice, I think it was what an exhausting workday yesterday was. Our call queue light just about never stopped blinking, so the calls were constant all day. Ugh.

    Today: do bills & work. Tomorrow: damn alarm goes off at the same damn tims as today because my tri practice is at a lake up north of town, and it begins at 7:30. (I have to leave my house at 6:30 am on Saturday morning, the day before I’m supposed to do a race). Then bike racking & packet pick up. Then a nap.

  14. PadreJM

    expecting a high of 77° today, and a full week of sunshine ahead.

    Among the area attractions near The Dalles, where I live, is the Maryhill Museum.  One will find there this unique work of art which uses an amazing illusion (even more dramatic in person).  I thought y’all might find it of interest:

  15. pittiepat

    silly by the rainmaker the past two days and today will be more of the same.  Woke about 5:30 this morning to the sound of distant thunder but almost before my feet hit the floor the storm hit.  It’s been pouring for the last 3 hours although once again the worst of the weather is to the west and moving north rather than east.  Flash and river flood warnings aplenty.  For those of you in the path of today’s forecast storms, keep yourselves safe.

  16. PadreJM

    We had some donated by Free Geek, in Portland, a great group, but they’re all loaned out, except for two, which we need to keep in house for use by clients in our facility.  I don’t know when we might get more in, and I’ve got a couple of homeless students who really need them.  They can’t always get to the library or to our place to do coursework.  (One is “special needs,” doing an online alternative school program, the other is a young adult in a community college alternative energy vocational training program.)

    We’d be happy to reimburse the shipping costs, and provide a gift-in-kind receipt for tax deduction purposes.

  17. JG in MD

    Tall gold bins labeled “Shoes and Clothing” are showing up in parking lots in our area. I’m trying to remember to bring my extras and throw them in when I see one.

    I’ll check them out to see whose they are.

  19. Nurse Kelley

    Predicted low tonight is 30° – I hope that’s wrong.

    I have a date with my coffee grinder….

  20. michelewln

    You know the pollen is bad when your cat is sneezing her little head off too. There is something blooming now that both of us are allergic too. To make things worse I can’t take anything for allergies until after my appointment on Wednesday. I have a massive headache and the junk dripping into my stomach at night is making me nauseous.

    Been working on art. I did these yesterday of my favorite little lady and her dragon.

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  21. princesspat

    After a long wait at the Dr’s office yesterday I came home with antibiotics, and inhaler, eye drops and a sinus rinse. I still feel lousy but hopefully I’ll be able to breathe again soon.

    I’m super annoyed to be so sick, but my blood pressure was sky high to so I’d best just calm down and read my book.

  22. bfitzinAR

    storm moved through last night – it didn’t bother me nearly as much as the one RazAlert and two Code Red warning calls. Not sure why I signed up for them.  Aside from being in my house, which I obviously am when I take landline phone calls in the middle of the night, I have no “appropriate shelter” to take.  Hope everybody weathered the storm safely.  I’ll try to check back later, but if not, y’all have a great weekend.  {{{HUGS}}}

  24. slksfca

    …and got a nice haircut without having to spend much time waiting (no appointments at the barbershop!). With my new look I feel at least six months younger, LOL.

    Then I came home and instead of going to meet L at the pub, I took a much-needed nap. L hadn’t called me anyway so I didn’t feel bad putting that plan on hold for now. Anyway, tomorrow is going to be a Big Day, with lots of walking all afternoon, which will be fun but tiring, so I’m glad I’ll be starting the day tomorrow rested up and relatively fresh (hey, there’s only so much freshness at my age!).

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