soutxed
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Post by soutxed on May 23, 2024 8:07:50 GMT -5
Sneakers--If you still haven't received the registration sticker, you may need to call the county tax office and ask them for a replacement. Better yet, take Uber to the nearest office and get one. OTOH, if you tax office is like ours, they may give you a hard time. Some of our tax office employees are rude and incompetent. Voted against the tax assessor-collector. Are you sure you can trust the check you mail to the bank get there?
Patty--Will be leaving tomorrow afternoon to get to Victoria before rush hour. Coming back Sunday but may wait until late afternoon as temperature will be in the 100's. Suppose to be 108 here Sunday.
Went to local Mexican resturant to get their cheese enchiladas which many say are the best in south Texas.
Then wife wanted to pick up a couple of items at Target. Wish I had done curbside as the walk across the parking lot was so hot. Heat index: 110 degrees. Feel sorry for the men painting the house.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 23, 2024 15:17:07 GMT -5
Sneakers--If you still haven't received the registration sticker, you may need to call the county tax office and ask them for a replacement. Better yet, take Uber to the nearest office and get one. OTOH, if you tax office is like ours, they may give you a hard time. This week, everything showing in Informed Delivery we received OK. The registration sticker is showing in today's Informed Delivery. The thing is a replacement costs $6.50 and more if you take an UBER to the tax office. The tax office employees in Harris County are pretty good.
Are you sure you can trust the check you mail to the bank get there? There seems to be no problems with outgoing snail mail.
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Post by patty7841 on May 23, 2024 21:11:38 GMT -5
Soutxed: Be safe on the roads. I heard about the extremely high temperatures in Texas and Florida. It is supposed to be a busy hurricane season. Not at all good. Have a good trip.
Sneakers: Now you are all stocked up with food, but it does not last long with 4 people eating it. Stay cool with the high temperatures. I get really lazy when it is hot and humid. Glad your foot is stable.
Have a safe weekend Everyone!!!!!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 23, 2024 21:48:40 GMT -5
Went to bed after the KHOU Channel 11 ten o'clock news.
Kept on waking up and needing to go make comfort stops. Got up about one in the morning.
Paid the second installment of City of Friendswood property taxes, the water/sewer/trash bill from the city, and my Amegy Bank VISA bill. Also put my check from UTMB Health in the mail. Found out it dated back to 2022. Better late than never on a refund.
Fell asleep in the business room task chair, woke up about nine o'clock in the morning. Had John put three letters in the outgoing snail mail. Had to remind him to put the flag up.
Lunch today was late. Had a can of Dole pineapple tidbits in pineapple juice and a Stouffer's Lasagna with Meat and Sauce. Didn't finish up until almost three o'clock.
Stock market was down today. Boeing was down over 7% today because they are having cash flow problems.
Got box from chewy.com with Pedigree dog food in it. Two 30# bags.
Got box from amazon.com with 48 Amazon Basics disposable diapers in it. That should hold me for a while.
Got five pieces of snail mail. Mine was all junk mail. Isaiah took the letter addressed to me, recognized it was the Tundra sticker, and handed it to his father. I had to get up and find out that AJ had the letter.
Watched something on TV until 6:30 PM. Then, turned on SiriusXM Classic Rewind on the Amazon Echo Dot.
Looks like our snail mail is coming in bigtime tomorrow. Informed Delivery showed a dozen mailpieces. We should be caught up after that.
Watched the FOX 26 nine o'clock news. To bed about 9:45 PM.
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Post by soutxed on May 24, 2024 7:02:33 GMT -5
Patty--We will be leaving after lunch and should get to daughter's house in time for dinner. It will be hot but hopefully the A/C in the Escape works. It hasn't been giving us problems. Sunday the heat index will be 118 degrees so we will leave late and arrive around sunset when it will be cooler to unload the car. The painters finished yesterday. Felt sorry for them working in the heat, but they brought an ice chest full of water. This crew did an excellent job, and we will recommend them to anyone.
Sneakers--Let's hope the registration sticker comes in today. Informed mail here is not always right. Yesterday ours said we had no mail, and we got an election mail and a booklet with coupons. One set is for fast food, and we will take it on our trip. I am surprised Boeing is only down by 7% given all the issues with their aircraft.
Went to gym and talked to a couple of other grandparents who have grandchildren graduate this weekend.
Went out to eat to celebrate the end of the painting. Also, the musician was a longtime friend.
Wife talked to sister who has three grandchildren graduating from three different children, all in San Antonio. She is mixed as the graduations Spead from tomorrow until June 7. She really doesn't want to stay that long as she doesn't sleep well at daughter's house, the only one who has room for her. Nor does she want to stay in a hotel that long.
See if I get a chance to post, otherwise, have a good weekend.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 24, 2024 12:56:44 GMT -5
Sneakers--Let's hope the registration sticker comes in today.
Registration sticker came in yesterday (Thursday). AJ is out running around in the Tundra this morning.Informed mail here is not always right. Yesterday ours said we had no mail, and we got an election mail and a booklet with coupons. One set is for fast food, and we will take it on our trip.
Usually, Informed Delivery matches what we get. Except for last week's mail. A lot of today's mail was shown last week. AJ wants his voter registration card and it's showing as part of today's mail.I am surprised Boeing is only down by 7% given all the issues with their aircraft.
Boeing was down 7.6% yesterday because they are having cash flow problems. They are down considerably more than their last high was.
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Post by edindetroit on May 24, 2024 15:54:07 GMT -5
Watched something on TV until 6:30 PM. So generic you've forgotten what it was?
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 24, 2024 16:09:48 GMT -5
Watched something on TV until 6:30 PM. So generic you've forgotten what it was? Probably was the six o'clock news. Several possible stations but I forgot which one last night. If I had to make a guess it would be KPRC Channel 2 (NBC) which I have on right now.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 24, 2024 16:26:56 GMT -5
Neglected to comment about something that happened 47 years ago yesterday. At eight o'clock in the morning, I started my first full-time job at Boeing in Wichita, Kansas. Had to go in half an hour early for the first day to do paperwork. Spent 32.468 years at Boeing moving here, there, and everywhere. They relocated me seven times in the 32-odd years. Spent a majority of my working years in Texas, first in Abilene (Dyess AFB remote site) and then Houston.
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Post by edindetroit on May 24, 2024 18:42:56 GMT -5
I spent 32.333 years at the aerospace place I worked at. 10 years in the shop as a machinist and 22 years in engineering mostly as a mechanical designer. After they picked up stakes and moved to North Carolina I went to an auto supplier that had added an aerospace group to try to diversify their business. After 7 years of that they figured out they pretty much sucked at aerospace tooling and threw in the towel sending a bunch of us packing. They did give me a severance check for $12,000 if I would sign a thing saying I wouldn't sue for age discrimination. I didn't care so I signed it and took the money. Next was another auto supplier but that only lasted 5 months. My last stop was a company in southern Michigan that made air and water filtration systems. I really misjudged how hard it would be to transition back to 2d design after all those years in 3d. I was a mess there but did manage to last 2 years before they cut me loose right at the start of the pandemic.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 24, 2024 23:36:55 GMT -5
Went to bed just after ten o'clock, woke up a few times. Decided to get up at two o'clock, just as AJ was going to bed.
Stayed up drinking sugar-free tea for a couple of hours. Woke up on and off and got up just before 9:30 AM.
Took the trash out of the business room and handed it to John with the comment it was trash day. John got the trash out.
Watched the morning news on FOX 26 and the ten o'clock news on KPRC Channel 2.
Watched the eleven o'clock news and "Jeopardy!" on ABC 13, followed by the noon news on KPRC Channel 2.
Had my Friday home health visit while I was keying in my HEB order. Stuck my left foot to my left side out where the nurse could get to it. Had a male nurse today who commented he's been doing wound care for thirty years.
Lunch today was a can of HEB Fruit Cocktail and a Stouffer's Meat Lovers' Lasagna. Also, some Red Diamond sugar-free tea.
Watched CNBC from one o'clock to three o'clock in the afternoon.
Watched KPRC Channel 2 from 3:00 PM to 6:30 PM.
Right after six o'clock, HEB arrived with the groceries: A loaf of HEB Super Duper Butter Bread Four one-gallon jugs of Red Diamond Sugar-Free Tea Four two-liter bottles of regular Dr Pepper Two one-gallon jugs of HEB 2% milk Three large single packages of Stouffer's Meat Lovers' Lasagna Two fresh broccoli crowns A package of HEB chicken leg quarters Four eight-ounce cans of Dole Pineapple Tidbits in 100% Pineapple Juice A box of eight HEB Strawberry Fruit and Grain Cereal Bars A box of eight HEB Blueberry Fruit and Grain Cereal Bars Four eight-ounce cans of HEB pear halves A box of eight HEB Apple Fruit and Grain Cereal Bars Two five-ounce boxes of HEB sour cream and chive potatoes A box of eight HEB Mixed Berry Fruit and Grain Cereal Bars An fifteen-ounce box of HEB Apple Rolls cereal
After the news was over, I turned off the TV and turned on The Blend from SiriusXM on the Amazon Echo Dot.
Got John to go out and get the mail. We had quite a stack. I had the original bill from AAA and the new cards for AJ and myself arrive in the same batch of mail. They had called me up and made me a better offer over the phone than they had in the mail. I had a number of things. Including an offer for a fee-harvesting credit card that only wanted $150 a year for a credit card with a $500 credit limit. It went in the paper shredder.
Watched the CW 39 nine o'clock news and the KPRC Channel 2 (NBC) ten o'clock news.
Joined the Houston Astros-Oakland Athletics game in progress. The Astros won 6-3.
Chalupa is on the floor next to the paper shredder. It doesn't seem to disturb her when I shred.
Have four pieces of mail showing for tomorrow on Informed Delivery.
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Post by patty7841 on May 25, 2024 21:59:07 GMT -5
Sneakers: Hope you did not get any bad storms. Today was a quiet day on this thread. You post a lot so hopefully you are OK.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 25, 2024 22:26:35 GMT -5
Watched the Astros-Athletics game after the news was over. Astros won 6-3.
About 11:30 PM, when the game was over, I went in my bedroom.
Had to fiddle with the mattress cover a few minutes before I could get into bed.
Settled down just before midnight.
Woke up a few times for comfort stops. Was able to take care of them with my bedside urinals.
Got out of bed about ten o'clock in the morning. Turned on the ABC 13 Saturday morning news.
After sleeping to ten o'clock, I then went to sleep in the business room task chair until almost noon. Woke up to a football game.
Got a jug of Red Diamond Sugar-Free Tea and wiped it out. Used it to wash down my morning pills.
Lunch today was a roughly eight-ounce can of HEB Pear Halves to start with. Popped the pull top, spooned out the pears into my mouth, and drank the juice straight from the can. After that, I took my three lunchtime pills and put a large single size Stouffer's Meat Lovers' Lasagna in the microwave. Sat in the wheelchair that won't go down the hallway waiting for the first cooking phase to finish. Got up when the first part was done and started the second part. Then, went back in the business room. Stayed there a while waiting for the lasagna to cool off. Ate the lasagna.
Watched the Astros-Athletics baseball game. Athletics won 3-1.
John went out to get the snail mail and we didn't get what was in Informed Delivery. Probably mail carrier rushing to get her daily rounds done for the holiday weekend. Hopefully not the old problem recurring. We'll find out Tuesday.
Joined the ABC 13 national news in progress, then the ABC 13 local news. Local news didn't talk about the storm we had a week ago Thursday much for a change. We have less than 2000 people in Metro Houston with power outages.
Turned off the TV and told the Amazon Echo Dot "Play classic rock!" I'm listening to 1970's classic rock from Amazon Music right now. Specifically, "A Horse With No Name" by America.
I decided I didn't want frozen pizza for supper. I had a couple of bologna and Monterey Jack cheese sandwiches on HEB Super Duper Butter Bread.
Watched the CW 39 nine o'clock news and the KPRC Channel 2 (NBC) ten o'clock news. Plan to go to bed shortly, will take my bedtime pills.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on May 25, 2024 22:31:25 GMT -5
Sneakers: Hope you did not get any bad storms. Today was a quiet day on this thread. You post a lot so hopefully you are OK.
We were partly cloudy and warm today. The weather guesser expects us to stay that way for a while.
I am OK, I did sleep to almost noon today and didn't write until a bit ago.
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Post by Unclebal on May 25, 2024 22:47:43 GMT -5
I didn't do well in the School Bus Road-eo. With one of the tasks, you have to back up through some orange pylons and stop one foot before a bar at the back. Backed up really well and stopped, but then decided to go a tiny bit farther and knocked the bar off its supports. I immediately lost all points when that happened. I'm still kicking myself about that it. Not sure if that knocked my out of the top three, but it sure didn't help. One good thing, without knowing it, they put drivers in groups of 5, as a team. My team won and we all got a small trophy saying "1st place team event. One kind of bad thing happened too. To do this competition, they have to move school buses to another yard. After the event is finished, they ask some of the drivers to move the buses back. The bus that got, would have been difficult to out, going to the left. So I thought I'll let the bus to my left go first. He pulls out and as he turns, the back right corner of that bus hits the left side mirrors on the bus I was in. Ouch. I say it's kind of bad because I didn't do anything wrong. The other driver was one of the organizers of the event and just make a bad turn. Had to fill out a report, but I wasn't a fault, so, for me, no big deal. Who's ever bus I was in that got hit, will have to us a different one Monday. No one got hurt at least. My blood donation on Thursday went well. No problems. patty7841, you do win a small trophy if you finish in the top 3 from you city. There is also a trophy for best rookie and top score overall. They also have door prizes. I won a $25 gift card and a "Genuine Ford Parts" baseball cap. Too bad I drive a Buick, but a nice hat anyway. Thanks for wishing me luck patty7841. soutxed, sure is helpful they have live streaming at the church now. Sounds like it can come in handy. Big race day Sunday. First, it's the Monaco Grand Prix, then the Indy 500 and finally the Coca-Cola 600. I probably say that every year. edindetroit, sounds like you were a valuable employee. Too bad the jobs went away. Take care everyone.
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