Have you planted anything of your own? There are a zillion options.
Not much this year, but I hope to in the future. This year I did use a packet someone sent me (you perhaps?) full of "bee-friendly" flower seeds and a packet of swamp milkweed seeds for the front corner garden. Been watering daily, but nothing so far. There's a thousand variables there, though. I may have planted too deep, the milkweed was supposed to go in the ground prior to the last frost, etc, etc...
I don't think I sent you any seeds! I did send a recommended-planting list tho.
I get this, I think. I had a similar reaction five years ago, when I got out of the hospital after almost being killed by diabetes I didn't know I had-- although it sounds like your situation is rather more concretely inevitable than mine.
It's inevitable for all of us, eventually. I'm still getting used to the idea that actions I do or do not take will, in whole or part, determine my lifespan.
I suppose the first post was a bit melodramatic --lots and lots of aggro--though it is factual. I mean, there is always the "anvil falling on head out of the sky onto my head" scenario as well.
What's actually happening is, alas, far more probable.
The way I think of it is, I've signed the deal memo.
When a band is negotiating a record contract with a representative of a label, at some point they'll be asked to sign something called a "deal memo." The label reps like to present it as a simple token of good faith, but in actuality it's a contract to sign a contract, and is just as legally binding as the final record deal would be. Once you sign it, you're locked into signing with the label, and your wherewithal to negotiate terms is limited by the existence of that agreement.
So while I'm still hammering out the details with the A&R grim reaper from Tartaros Records, I've signed the deal memo, and I've got a pretty good idea what the general shape of the final contract is going to be.
Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 22, 2024 22:45:11 GMT -5
I heard today that they're doing ANOTHER salary study and this time they're including the public schools. We have been hemorrhaging staff to them ever since they started hiring ridiculous numbers of mental health people, for 20 to 35 thou more than we can pay at this writing. Just today I talked to someone we just lost to the high school down the road.
This means seriously higher pay for all of us, and soon. And maybe some live people applying for our open jobs.
Not only did I run the latest Hypno up to be "printed" this afternoon, but I finally found a chair I was willing to sink some $'s into (for my spine's sake). I've been hemming and hawing for literally years now and it feels good to go ahead and take the plunge. It wasn't cheap at $600 (before Rewards discount) but it was TIME. It's a Sealy and not only does the lumbar support feel nice, but I like the neck/shoulder and arm support, too.
I'm having them put it together, so its not technically mine yet, but soon...
"Who is this disturbing my slumber? Why, it's a tender morsel ready for slaughter!" - My Hagatha the Swamp Witch prop
Not only did I run the latest Hypno up to be "printed" this afternoon, but I finally found a chair I was willing to sink some $'s into (for my spine's sake). I've been hemming and hawing for literally years now and it feels good to go ahead and take the plunge. It wasn't cheap at $600 (before Rewards discount) but it was TIME. It's a Sealy and not only does the lumbar support feel nice, but I like the neck/shoulder and arm support, too.
I'm having them put it together, so its not technically mine yet, but soon...
Okay, so I've had a week to get accustomed to this new chair, and I gotta say, I'm feeling all round better. Amazing improvement in my legs/knees since owning this thing. I always wondered just how much the old chair was contributing to some of my ills. It's still too early to say for sure about the seeming health benefits, but I feel all round better since I got rid of the previous chair, and I have to attribute it to something.
"Who is this disturbing my slumber? Why, it's a tender morsel ready for slaughter!" - My Hagatha the Swamp Witch prop
Delighted to discover that the hoot owl is still living in the pines in my yard. It's been a long while since I heard it. Brought a smile to my face while I was on the porch petting the cat late last night.
"Who is this disturbing my slumber? Why, it's a tender morsel ready for slaughter!" - My Hagatha the Swamp Witch prop
Post by Killer Goldfish on May 24, 2024 11:37:37 GMT -5
I filed a Child Protective Services report last thing last night, and for the first time ever I saw some immediate action. Here I was thinking they would find it too sketchy to investigate.
Had the curbs, driveway, walk-up, porch, side-porch...basically anything street-facing made of concrete pressure-washed today and it looks amazing! It somehow makes the whole home look "newer" just getting all that polished up.
"Who is this disturbing my slumber? Why, it's a tender morsel ready for slaughter!" - My Hagatha the Swamp Witch prop
Post by Killer Goldfish on May 26, 2024 18:40:53 GMT -5
No idea what got into me today, but I found the energy to go out for TWO rounds of heavy-duty gardening. I woke up 2 hours early and went out to do some guerilla transplants. I asked the president of the HOA yesterday if I'd get in any trouble for removing a random walnut tree coming up under Bob's deck. She said absolutely not, the foundations of Building B need to be protected! I also learned that the ppl there now are renters and that the y it I'd inexplicably owned by a property-management company that is not the one we use. (Weird.)
So I went out, removed the tree, and then just kept digging to remove most of that creeping sedum junk which is all they have in that flowerbed around the deck, except for a single hosta scorching to death in the afternoon sun. In went 2 coneflowers, 2 Big Bluestem tufts, 4 tiny-ass milkweed seedlings, a spiderwort, a Denver daisy, and a non-creeping sedum that flowers in screaming purple and which was getting way too much shade in the Gulch Portal.
Then, after getting a shower, I unaccountably went out again to pot up extra irises for a co-worker, plus a white bleeding heart, and planted stuff I got yesterday at the nursery: Dropwort, more Big Bluestem, an aromatic aster, and I removed a lot of invasive crap. Now we shall see.
Got invited to join my nephew's D&D group. Haven't cracked a Player's Manuel in decades. Might be fun.
Just be aware that it's a completely different game now from what it was back in our day. Much more concerned with its own internal tropes that have built up over the past 40-odd years, and not nearly as focused on being a Howard/Tolkien/Moorcock simulator.
