37 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 1-16-18”

  6. What can I say, time travel is my superpower. 🙂

    I’d trade that for immunity from the flu though.

    Cheryl is feeling somewhat better and is back at work this AM. Me and ‘Liz are still pretty ill. It’s pretty much been a liquid diet now for 2 days, drinking lots of water. Even the thought of food makes me wanna dry heave. 😦

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  8. I think our governor has declared a health emergency. While that may sound drastic, when she declares a state of emergency, it releases funds to be used for whatever that emergency is. I also think there is a whole school district outside of Birmingham that was shut down last week due to the flu. Mr. P was part of a study last Fall….he either got the flu shot or a placebo. They call him periodically to ask if he has had any fever or chills. BG has had the flu three times. I am hoping her immunity is built up. I am refraining from saying anything about my own health.

    Florida has to be the most litigious state I know. In our office FB group agents are constantly asking for attorney recommendations for every little thing. It has always been my training to avoid an attorney. First there is the cost. Second, you will be called in for a deposition and your Errors and Omissions Insurance starts to look like a big juicy payoff.

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  10. Thanks for asking, Kim. It’s complicated. We don’t know what the root problem is, he stopped eating and drinking over the weekend. Thing is, he did that once before about three years ago and we did the whole nine yards of testing ($) and it was not diagnosed. The vet re-hydrated him and in a few days he snapped out of it. Is this the same thing? We don’t know, but don’t want to go through the same drill again. Hubby was off yesterday and took him to our vet, who sent him to the emergency vet, where they can get test results faster. We opted to let them re-hydrate him, got an antibiotic, and brought him home. He doesn’t seem to be in distress or pain and ate some chicken this morning. He’s my Siamese boy, Bruce, and I can’t stand the thought of watching him die but we don’t quite know what else to do.

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  13. I pulled the Jeep out of the driveway to make room for Stucco Man. Real Estate Guy also is coming by to put up some wood over the garage window that needs to be stuccoed over, it’s in bad shape and we decided a while back it would be easiest and cheapest just to stucco over it rather than get a replacement window. There’s also wood damage below the window that would have to be repaired if we did that.

    I’ll plan to work from home this morning as that work begins and then can play it by ear whether to go in for a while or see if my editor is OK with letting me work from home all day. I have a story to work on at least.

    Linda, hope Bruce rallies, it’s tough when you’re not sure what’s going on.

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  14. LA Times story about the coming layoffs in our company:

    http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-ocr-layoffs-20180115-story.html

    OC Register and other Digital First Media newspapers face ‘significant’ layoffs

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    Southern California News Group, which includes newspapers such as the Orange County Register and the Los Angeles Daily News, will be hit with “significant” layoffs in the coming months, the group’s management announced Friday in newsroom meetings that took place across five publications.

    Meetings were also held at the Daily Breeze in Torrance, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune in Monrovia and the Press-Enterprise in Riverside.

    Up north, the Bay Area News Group, which is owned by the same parent company, Digital First Media, and includes publications such as the Mercury News and East Bay Times, also informed staff on Friday that buyouts and “involuntary terminations” were on the way. …

    … Once largely owned by families, newspapers have over the years increasingly been snapped up by private equity investors and hedge funds and stripped down to cut costs.

    “We’re run by a hedge fund; their business is making money,” said Lisa Krieger, a reporter for the Mercury News who is also on the contract bargaining committee for the Pacific Media Workers Guild. “They have a short-term investment perspective. Our mission, as reporters and editors, is long-term — providing the same high-quality coverage that our readers have depended on since 1851, and which is essential to a well-functioning and informed democracy.

    “Yes, our revenue is down substantially, as is newspaper revenue nationally. But our editors are leading efforts to reinvent ourselves, to push hard into new ways of doing business to create an essential product,” Krieger said. “This requires an investment in staff, not cuts.” …
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  16. My friend, Karen, expressed yesterday that she is feeling isolated. I know it is because I am less “on call” than usual. I am trying to figure out what to do to help. I think they are changing internet providers so all she must have is phone service. I think I will see if someone at church might help although she is most comfortable spending time with me. I do not have a clone. Someone else needs to help besides just me. I know Donna feels that way about Carol, too.

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  19. Stucco Man is on the job. Now I’m trying to figure out if I can get the ok to work from home or if I’ll need to head in for a while.

    Janice, yes, sounds exactly like what I go through with Carol. She recently asked again if I could come up to see her on a Saturday but I told her things are still just too chaotic right now.

    It will be so nice to have the stucco back on the house where the foundation work was done, that’s really been an eyesore for 2+ months now. Then again, “Eyesore” is my house’s middle name.

    Real Estate Guy says we should replace the garage window instead of stuccoing over it, which is fine with me. He says it can be done very cheaply. Wonder if we could get wood trim for it, just so it can be painted to match the rest of the house when it gets painted.

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  21. Yes, I’d prefer a window and Real Estate Guy says it can be done without a ton of expense (by dog park friend). Vinyl. Ugh. But … It just replaces a metal/aluminum slider window so no harm, no foul. I’d just like a trim along the outside that maybe could be painted. Or maybe no trim.

    Stucco Man said he’d charge $100 to stucco over it. Real Estate Guy said let’s hold off and see if we can get a simple window to put in there instead at minimal cost.

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  22. If nothing else, it provides more light in there. And I like being able to look out onto the backyard. And, yes, it would be a safety feature also.

    There was a window also on the other side of the garage looking out into my neighbor’s backyard but they boarded that up (it’s boarded from the inside, too) after one of the previous owners committed suicide in the garage. My neighbor was traumatized by it all (not surprisingly) and couldn’t bear to have any view into my garage for years. 😦

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  23. Dishwasher sprung a leak last night..puddle in the basement along the wall…no water in the kitchen thankfully….Now husband is ordering a part online…looks like no dishwasher for me (other than my hands) for a while….ok DJ…is this the start of something big??!! 😜

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  25. I have a subscription to Family Circle magazine. The February issue recently arrived and its theme is Love for Valentine’s Day (logical assumption). As I flipped through the magazine, in the section about decorating the home, they feature two men and their two boys as the married couple with kids. This is not my Family Circle magazine that I have enjoyed for years. I want to unsubscribe. I did a quick view of their website and did not yet find how to unsubscribe. Does anyone know what I need to do?

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  26. Janice, I would look near the inside front cover or wherever the magazine has their contact information (maybe a few pages in, and probably in small print, perhaps around their table of contents). There should be a mailing address, email address, phone number, etc. listed, so that you can contact them one of those ways.

    Ick. That would get me to unsubscribe, too.

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  28. I’m not on Twitter or Pinterest, but given that you’re two time zones behind me, Michelle, and sometimes post here before I’m even up for the day, I think you will look great at 8am. 🙂

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  29. I feel I should clarify my “Ick” comment above (3:39). Homosexuals, like all of us, are made in the image of God. My “ick” isn’t about the person, but the act. (Which is something my highly-imaginative mind automatically tries to picture when I see images of homosexual couples.)

    But there’s something — I don’t know what to call it; ick may or may not be the word, it might be something far beyond that — that gives me a sick feeling when I see homosexuality normalized in our culture.

    And you know it’s become normalized when families are depicted as a same-sex couple, particularly with children, in children’s books or mainstream magazines like Family Circle.

    I don’t know what to say but that the slide of our culture toward acceptance and promotion of something that was once considered deviant is disheartening and makes me feel kind of yucky.

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  30. I see many ads now with gay couples being featured.

    Kevin, yes, same publication.

    Stucco Man is gone and did a very good job. It looks so much better out there now. It left the house 2-toned but that’ll be fixed when I paint. At least it’s all put together again.

    The other night I woke up and smelled skunk. The mystery was solved today when I was talking to my neighbor who asked if I’d heard her “melt down” the other night. I hadn’t but she proceeded to tell me how their 2 big dogs (Labs), along with her son’s 2 big dogs that they were dog sitting) cornered a skunk in the backyard and were, of course, sprayed. Then they all charged into the house and began rubbing all over her furniture & freshly-shampooed rug (this is the neighbor who’s pretty OCD about a clean house). She flipped, said said she absolutely lost it and was screaming and screaming at them, was sure someone would call the police. She punched her husband to wake him up as he was sleeping through it.

    Anyway, I assured her I hadn’t heard any yelling, I only smelled skunk …

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  31. This was one of the Christianity Today articles offered in their email today. Thought some of us might find it interesting. (I haven’t finished it yet.)

    “The Rise of Reformed Charismatics
    A 21st-century global movement sets the Word on fire with gospel preaching and powerful spiritual gifts.”

    http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2018/january-february/rise-of-reformed-charismatics.html?utm_source=ctdirect-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=9474712&utm_content=560458670&utm_campaign=email

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  34. That’s what I said, DJ when I asked the publicist about it!

    We read that article, Kizzie, and thought it very interesting. I sent a copy to my daughter who does not live far from several of those churches.

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  36. School was good, but I am tired. It was sort of funny. Both my aide and I looked at the class list and thought I was getting one boy and two girls. Well it was two boys and one girl. We just went by the name and we were wrong. Luckily I didn’t say anything or act surprised. One boy basically has to talk at all times, but he was on task, just very verbal.

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