Grumps can suck it, it's Friday!

[chasea]

"chasea
Used to ball, now I bike shop?!"

I'm gonna put my foot in someone's ass.

I can grump today. Days don't matter.

[j44ke]

Got up this morning and set up the hummingbird feeder. Went outside, hung it on the shepherd's crook that held the thistle feeder all winter, and then turned around to go back into the house. Nnnnnnnnzzznnnnnnnnnzzznnnnnnzzzzznnnnnnnz.

I didn't even get 5' away. Sparkly little junkies were waiting, jonesing for a sugar fix.

[bigbill]

My midshipman son is spending the summer at the house doing classes online. I'm working my normal 50 hour work week plus 25 or so hours spent on my masters program. There is a pile of dishes in the sink that aren't mine, it's a battle of wills so see if he'll wash his dishes.

[johnmdesigner]

A case of wine just arrived at my front door.
So no grumps today.

[claritycycler]

... it's a battle of wills so see if he'll wash his dishes.

Good luck with the battle!

[rwsaunders]

I decided to tackle a patch/paint/install some additional moulding project in our second bathroom during the first round of the plague and I finished late last evening. Yippee Yi Yay! Word of advice for newbies...buy excellent paint (PPG Manor Hall for me) and always buy a sample jar or two of paint so that your supervisor (my wife in this case) signs off on the color.

[bking]

I decided to tackle a patch/paint/install some additional moulding project in our second bathroom during the first round of the plague and I finished late last evening. Yippee Yi Yay! Word of advice for newbies...buy excellent paint (PPG Manor Hall for me) and always buy a sample jar or two of paint so that your supervisor (my wife in this case) signs off on the color.

This is wise. And keep the signature for at least a year...perhaps two. Written documentation is vital for all projects.

[rwsaunders]

Bruce...Mrs. RW has all of the color codes, material lists and equipment manuals from when we built the home 22 years ago...that’s what happens when you marry a banker turned HR pro...it’s all about keeping records.

[David Tollefson]

FINALLY got a call back from the spinal surgeon -- I now have a microdiscectomy scheduled for June 29th, which will end up being 10 months to the day after the L5-S1 disc let go.

I'll be happy to be able to bend over pain free. Downside is that I might miss my July test date for a taekwondo belt promotion... But in the end I'll be stronger and better for it.

[defspace]

the company president just sent out an email saying "so apparently a lot of you guys like working from home. Alright - we're going to start looking into a 'work from anywhere' model."

Bring. It. On.

[bigbill]

FINALLY got a call back from the spinal surgeon -- I now have a microdiscectomy scheduled for June 29th, which will end up being 10 months to the day after the L5-S1 disc let go.

I'll be happy to be able to bend over pain free. Downside is that I might miss my July test date for a taekwondo belt promotion... But in the end I'll be stronger and better for it.

I missed a week of work, but I'm an engineer and didn't have to lift anything for my job. I started walking around the block on day 3 and by week 4 I was walking close to 4 miles in an hour as I got more comfortable with a longer stride. I stayed off the bike for six weeks and only did one hour rides when I started back for the first few months. The area where they trim the disc has to scar over, otherwise it could bulge again at the same spot.

Free, unsolicited advice; find a flat place to walk like a park or track. Any kind of crown in the pavement will cause discomfort in the first few weeks.

[bigbill]

Had lunch with my girlfriend, my son, and her dad. It was the first time I had met her dad but he was Navy so we were cool.

[Wisco]

My lower back pain was finally diagnosed as a kidney stone, after pissing blood and being keeled over one afternoon... and a damn big one that I'm never going to pass. That kind of sucks, but given the hospital isn't that busy (we flattened the virus curve locally... at least for now) and desperate for insurance paying non-SARS-CoV-2 work, I get a Urology outpatient Laser Lithiotripsy procedure appointment next week. Getting in that fast to see and have a Specialist work on you has to be a record!

In other "record" news, one of the local used vinyl stores had a $50 mystery box offer to be their "curbside pickup stay alive" business. I bought one pop and one classical/jazz box and now have 100+ new LPs to spin. Some are questionable or duplicates, but hey. Why is is that the classical and jazz LPs are mostly pristine condition while the pop LPs are mostly scummy and will mostly need to be hit with the VPI 16.5 vacuum wet clean machine before playing?

[Sbti]

My lower back pain was finally diagnosed as a kidney stone, after pissing blood and being keeled over one afternoon... and a damn big one that I'm never going to pass. That kind of sucks, but given the hospital isn't that busy (we flattened the virus curve locally... at least for now) and desperate for insurance paying non-SARS-CoV-2 work, I get a Urology outpatient Laser Lithiotripsy procedure appointment next week. Getting in that fast to see and have a Specialist work on you has to be a record!

In other "record" news, one of the local used vinyl stores had a $50 mystery box offer to be their "curbside pickup stay alive" business. I bought one pop and one classical/jazz box and now have 100+ new LPs to spin. Some are questionable or duplicates, but hey. Why is is that the classical and jazz LPs are mostly pristine condition while the pop LPs are mostly scummy and will mostly need to be hit with the VPI 16.5 vacuum wet clean machine before playing?

And you've got a new Chris Kvale frame coming, right?

[Wisco]

And you've got a new Chris Kvale frame coming, right?

Yup. Grumps can suck that for sure.

Arrived this week and I unboxed it at the LBS. Pictures when it's built, but I probably won't ride until early June when I'm past this health issue.

[guido]

Just had a couple of Wood Thrushes singing in the yard... Doesn't get much better!

[72gmc]

your supervisor (my wife in this case) signs off on the color.

Went paint shopping with my wife for the first time in a while this week. The best analogy I can come up with is me, trying to score a layup on Dikembe Mutombo in his prime. I realized I was enjoying her enthusiastic rejections of my suggestions.

[ides1056]

I managed to catch and release without injury a hummingbird that flew into the house.

And I spotted either a Black-throated Blue or a Cerulean Warbler in the garden.

Sleeping outdoors agrees with me.

[guido]

With the Bluebird little ones fledged, Tree Swallows have taken up in one of the nests. Nice to know that 300,000 flying insects will be consumed over the next 45 days while they are in residence... 90% of those will be below 39 feet so it makes a real impact on the bugs that bug us...

[j44ke]

Carolina wren family and the house wren family got their kids mixed up in the yard. What a noise!

A young chipmunk has moved into our patio wall and we’ve been eating granola together the last couple mornings.