Misc

[susandennis]

This morning, the sun was not out yet so I tweaked my walk a bit. (Being in direct sunlight hurts my eyes but, fortunately, the tall buildings around here give me enough flat, shaded walking areas that if I plan right, I can avoid it, but it does mean that when the sun is out, so are some areas of the neighborhood for me.)

I went up to 2 Doors Down to check on their progress. Their website and their Instagram say soon. But their soon and my soon are two entirely different soons. I was able to find a bit of a window to peek in and they still have all kinds of building equipment around and they are still painting stuff so their soon will not be today or probably tomorrow or maybe even this week. But, soon.

Then I walked past a big storefront that has been everything from an antiques shop to an AT&T branded Seahawks pre-game gathering point but has now morphed into a very classy looking place that is, of all the weird things, a Snooker Club!! It's really a lovely looking spot. Very inviting. I have never snookered but once, I won a trophy for The Worst Pool Player. So I'm sure I'd fit right in. Not. But, still, welcome to the 'hood!



I made a delicious breakfast and share this pic for letmesaythis 1 because she loves food pics and 2 because a hand mishap landed two small egg shell bits into the frying pan. I didn't want to reach into the hot fat to retrieve them so I just ate them. (She has a real thing about egg shells and now, whenever one goes astray, I think of her... bet ya didn't know that, did ya, Judy?!)



And I read the morning paper. Well at least half. I started getting the tree version of the Sunday paper about a month ago because a subscription to the online version was cheaper if you let them deliver an actual paper on Sundays(ad rates - makes sense). Initially, I figured I'd just bin it but, turns out, it's the best thing about the subscription! I enjoy the heck out of reading it.

This morning's best headline:



I have not been inside an actual bank building in forever but I do imagine the mask thing is quite the dilemma for them.

Reminds me of a friend of mine who's girlfriend inherited a pistol from her dead father. Now my friend and her girlfriend were not gun people - not even close. They picked it up with his other stuff and then fretted themselves to death about how to get rid of it. Finally they decided to just get it out of the house until they could figure out something. The only storage space they had outside of the house was their safety deposit box. Yep, they marched a gun into a bank in a plastic grocery bag.

And caused quite a stir.

Once safely outside the bank, still with their gun, a very kind security guy steered them to a very nearby gun shop who managed to solve their problem and they were gun free. But, it was a long while before they got up the nerve to enter that bank again. Now, if they go in with masks...

The other great bit from the morning paper was a column about Americans and Canada and now. It quotes a Canadian journalist as explaining You need to get the pandemic under control. You need a rational person to take the helm of your country. Until then, all we’re saying to Americans is: Stay away. When you come against our wishes, pardon the expression, it pisses us off. "Ouch." says the columnist "You know you’re becoming a pariah country when the Canadians go all “pardon the expression” on you."

And in other big news, we have a weather warning!



While bill_schubert and others in Texas and Arizona and Nevada are snorting in laughter at what are normal midnight temperatures for them, we'll be suffering here! Even now in 2020, air conditioning in residences is not the norm. This is the time of year when people flock to malls and stores and theaters to suck up their air conditioning. But, wait... They also usually set up cooling stations in and around the cities and towns. But not this year. So it's not going to be a fun week. The forecast says it might get better by Friday or the weekend.

Now I need to clean up the kitchen, finish reading the paper, pack up an Amazon return and other misc stuff and then sit down to watch the ballgame.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

The story about the gun going into the bank is hilarious! Those poor people! They just wanted to be rid of it, not become bank robbers! Hahahaha..... something they (hopefully) were able to laugh at after the fact.

[susandennis]

It was actually near Christmas and I told them that the hilarity of that scene was my Christmas present from them and I would use it for years to come. I was not wrong.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I had a similar problem with our father's WWII gun. Could not get rid of it and hated having it around. The police didn't want it (no gun disposal there) and I finally sold it for $25 to a gun store. I really wanted to destroy it but it is not easy to do.

Never thought about taking it into a bank.

[susandennis]

eewwww! I never knew Daddy had a gun. I am now very grateful for that ignorance. Wow.

Turns out good thinking about the bank.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

He was in the Signal Corps and they outfitted them, I guess, with what was a fairly useless automatic. A Sig Sauer 32 caliber that held a clip with maybe 8 bullets.

Back when I was married to Fran and had bought her a competition Ruger pistol (she was on the shooting team at MIT) we used to go occasionally to the gun range so I shot the WWII gun.

It was not very accurate and really clumsy to operate. I probably ended up shooting it more than he had but it would have sucked for self protection and obviously I didn't need it.

But I didn't really like having it sit around here and was happy to have it gone.

[susandennis]

so much i never knew. wow

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

Our local municipalities have done a couple of gun buyback events with the plan to destroy the guns, and much as I'm happy for excess and unwanted guns to be taken out of circulation, I was saddened by some of the items that looked like beautiful heirlooms that were destined to be melted down.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

This was not an heirloom. It was a run of the mill automatic. I'd have been happier to have it destroyed but finally got tired of waiting. They don't do a lot of buybacks in Texas. They are way too into distribution. Half a dozen guns per person just isn't enough.

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

Yup, perfectly happy for yet-another-dime-a-dozen gun to be eliminated.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

And, yeah, they don't even bother with a warning around here until it gets in the 102+ range. Of course we've got serious AC.

[opakele.livejournal.com]

Thats why we walk in the morning this time of year.

Hot, hot, hot is not for walkies.

[susandennis]

It was really lovely out this morning. Tomorrow is a swim day, not a walk day. I'm not looking forward to Tuesday's walk :)

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

We've been having a rash of armed robberies, and the anti-maskers and racists are crowing about how it was obvious all along to them that you didn't want "those people" to be able to walk into businesses with masks because what did you think was going to happen?

One of the local businesses that, early on, told people they weren't allowed to wear masks inside because they were afraid of being held up, was the first small local business that had a confirmed employee COVID case force them to close for sanitizing.

Also, that breakfast looks fabulous! I made a cheesy spinach scramble, but managed to pluck a little bit of shell out of the eggs in the cup I mixed them in before mixing them. Is there bacon between your eggs and your toast?

[susandennis]

Mr. Eagle Eye breakfast edition... Yep! 3 very crispy strips of bacon. It was really delicious.

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, if someone is wearing a mask, it makes them that much harder to identify later.

Still, you have to admit that you always wanted to go into a bank wearing a mask, and now they have to let you do it.

[letmesaythis.livejournal.com]

My stomach lurched at the shell story but your breakfast looks delish! Thanks for the share, well, erm, the photo bit at least. :)

[amw.livejournal.com]

Banks worrying about people wearing masks is such a failure of basic security policy. Like, there is a very simple solution here that they have used at border crossings for years. Take off your headgear (glasses, mask, whatever) for 2 seconds and smile at the camera, then put it back on. I feel like this is yet another instance of banks being stuck in the ancient times and refusing to update their policies for the modern world.

[susandennis]

OMG The MY RIGHTS!!!! idiots would raise holy hell at that idea. This is AMURICA!!! I can hear the outrage from here.

[amw.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, God forbid a bank take photo/video of everyone going into the building 🤦‍♀️ You'd think folks would be more worried about the banks tracking all their credit card purchases than just noting whenever they came into a branch. Sigh.

[susandennis]

You are confusing these idiots with rational thinking people. They actually can pass until they open their mouths.

[annabelle50.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I kind of feel dumb now for not realizing why my bank is still closed other than drive through. Ha. that makes sense.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

My mom recently nonchalantly mentioned that she and my dad have a gun. GIven that this is the first time I've heard about it in my life, my guess is that they got it early in married life, stuck it in a box, and never opened that box again. She is watching too many conspiracy theory youtube videos and is convinced the end of times is coming and she's going to need to defend her house. I'll let my brothers decide what to do with it when she's gone.

[susandennis]

a good use of brothers :)

[meowmensteen]

The first time I pulled up my mask before entering a gas station mini-mart, I felt like I was doing something wrong. Like I was worried that the clerk would be freaked out. Luckily when I got in there he was wearing a mask too. That was back when we were still getting used to the idea of masks.

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

Those eggs on toast look excellent.

[howeird]

When I returned to Seattle to work for MSFT, we had two straight weeks of bright sunny weather took me completely by surprise. Then one of my co-workers from California loaned me these contraptions which went in front of the eyes, and had these quaint pieces of darkly tinted glass or plastic. They helped a lot, but of course in a couple of days it got all Seattle again.

[dominioncomfort.livejournal.com]

The story about the gun going into the bank is hilarious! Those poor people! They just wanted to be rid of it, not become bank robbers! Hahahaha..... something they (hopefully) were able to laugh at after the fact.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

The gun story is hilarious. Canadian public opinion is running at almost 90% against reopening the borders. The numbers are really scaring people.

[susandennis]

If I were you, I'd identify and steer really clear of that 10% who think it's ok to open!

[rsc.livejournal.com]

Being in direct sunlight hurts my eyes

Do you own a pair of sunglasses?

[susandennis]

A house full and I always wear them but still direct sunlight is a bitch. The eye doctor says it's because of my permanent lens. He says laser surgery might help but might not. Avoiding direct sunlight works great, tho.

[siglinde99.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I don’t know any of those people personally. There is a high correlation with anti-maskers, and general loonies, so I am glad to steer far away from them!