Mundane Thoughts or Comments

[Guildedagain]

The reason your partner lets you sometimes endlessly browse guitar forums is that it's it gives them a break from hearing you play.

 

[RBSinTo]

The reason your partner lets you sometimes endlessly browse guitar forums is that it's it gives them a break from hearing you play.

Guildedagain,
While I can't speak to the quality of their musicianship, I'd bet none of the Guildsters either seek or need the permission of their significant others to browse guitar forums.
RBSinTo

 

[davidbeinct]

Guildedagain,
While I can't speak to the quality of their musicianship, I'd bet none of the Guildsters either seek or need the permission of their significant others to browse guitar forums.
RBSinTo

Not the forums but if I’m on Reverb I’ve been known to lie and say I’m looking at naked pitchers.

 

[Canard]

I spent the morning yesterday doing hummingbird resurrection.

There is an ant-moat between our hummingbird feeder and the bracket that supports it all. I have always left the ant-moat in place year round as it is easier to hang the feeder from it than from the bracket. In the winter the water in the moat freezes.

This has never been a problem before, but yesterday morning we were slow getting the feeder out--we must take it in at night to prevent it freezing--and I guess a poor little humming bird tried to drink from the frozen moat and got its tongue stuck to the ice. It was almost dead when I found it. I had to warm the ice with my finger--very painful as it is so !@#$%^* cold--and then had to use my pocket knife to chip away the ice to free it up. I held it cupped between my hands and carried it into the house, where we put it a vented take-out food container which we placed by a heat register.

After a bit, the little bird came to life. Through a vent in the lid of the contain, I poured a little sugar syrup.

Once the morning crow patrol had finished in our yard, I let it go. It flew away a bit unsteadily.

It will probably lose part of its tongue--bad news for a hummingbird--and in its weakened condition, it may not fare well with other hummingbirds in the constant battles over possession of the feeder. It may not survive.

It is hard to know which bird it is. There were four of them out there yesterdatymorning fighting over the feeder. Such stupidly wasted energy in the situation--there is more than enough syrup to go around—don’t get me started on larger general analogies, eh?

Normally in the winter, I have to swap out feeders every hour or so. Yesterday, the feeder was frozen in about 20 minutes, even with a heavier syrup mix. I broke out my trouble-light and put a 40 watt bulb in it and aimed it at a fresh feeder I put out. The bulb did !@#$ all nothing towards keeping the feeder from freezing. So I upped it to a 100 watt one, and this seems to be having a positive effect. Still have to check the feeder every hour or so.

I have taken the ant-moat down. I felt quite badly about all this, negligent for leaving the moat up, negligent for being late with the feeder.

And after a day of the new feeder-heater deployment, what do the hummingbirds seem to think of the 100 Watt incandescent bulb?

Absolutely !@#$%^& great!!! The hummingbirds now always use the florets on the feeder that are closest to the bulb. Sometimes they will just come and hover in front of it for a bit. Hummingbird warming station!!!

 

[davidbeinct]

When did doctors start overbooking like airlines? I’m with my mother at her doctor’s office and she’s being seen an hour after her appointment time.

 

[davismanLV]

When did doctors start overbooking like airlines? I’m with my mother at her doctor’s office and she’s being seen an hour after her appointment time.

That's something that makes me SO ANGRY!! My primary care doc at Southwest Medical runs on time and is like clockwork. As soon as you go to a specialist, Cardiology, Orthopedics, Gastroenterology, etc., they make you wait forever!! So rude and unprofessional!!

 

[walrus]

I have a few specialists that are very good about the wait time, and a few that are not. My cardiologist is the worst, I make the first or second appointment of the day (7:00 or 7:15 am) and he's still at least 40 minutes late! And then they take my blood pressure and wonder why it's high!

 

[mushroom]

My old cardiologist was excellent at time management. One time he had an emergency call out and had to cancel while I was in the waiting room. Fair enough. He remembered and apologised at our next appointment.

 

[davismanLV]

I have a few specialists that are very good about the wait time, and a few that are not. My cardiologist is the worst, I make the first or second appointment of the day (7:00 or 7:15 am) and he's still at least 40 minutes late! And then they take my blood pressure and wonder why it's high!

I tried that too!! I'd get the first or second appointment of the day for Cardiology!! YAAAAY!! Then sit in the waiting room for an hour or more thinking, no wonder y'all are so behind later in the day!! Good grief. Then I tried taking the last one of the day, thinking I could be late and it wouldn't matter, but then somehow magically since they get to go home, they've caught up and see me almost on time, then I'm stuck in rush hour traffic getting home. There's really no way to win!!

 

[JohnW63]

I figure any Doc who could get called to the emergency room, like a Cardiologist or a OB/GYN is not always going to be on time. Those docs get called away but also have to visit the patients while they recover from the emergency. And... when you go to see a specialist, you do have questions and you do what them to check you out and discuss your condition. We don't want the quick brush off just to keep the appointment schedule on time. If they leave room for these longer than expected office visits, they may have hours that are unbillable if every visit is a quick one. They don't want that either. Now, a general practitioner who just does the general health checks and prescriptions... That's one doc I can't make excuses for. I try to get an appointment after work, so I really don't care how long it takes. That keeps my blood pressure reading down.

 

[Guildedagain]

The Crowbar, a place where Corvids hang out.

 

[GGJaguar]

While some people age like fine wine, I'm aging like milk. I'm getting sour and chunky.

 

[JohnW63]

Paying for your car registration and getting the tag at the same time in about 5 minutes at a kiosk in my local grocery store really feels weird.

 

[davismanLV]

Paying for your car registration and getting the tag at the same time in about 5 minutes at a kiosk in my local grocery store really feels weird.

It feels wonderful!! I'm like, okay... waiting in line boom and it's done and I walk out with my tags and registration? Done!! The best. Thanks Albertson's!! Although this one old guy (he was 5 years my junior) didn't know how to do it, and he talked INCESANTLY, so I knew he was nervous. So when I finished mine I turned around and said, "Do you need help with this?" OH GOD YES!! So I helped him through and he had no idea what to do or how to do it. So then he wanted to buy me a beer, and I said, "Naw... you owe me nothing. Let's meet up here next year!! Maybe then!!" LMAO!!

 

[JohnW63]

The 1.95% processing fee is well worth not being at the DMV and getting the tag, NOW, is a bonus. I just have to remember to visit the kiosk on TIME, for once.

 

[gjmalcyon]

While some people age like fine wine, I'm aging like milk. I'm getting sour and chunky.

Yep. I think I'm yogurt that's been left out in the sun, on the way to becoming cheese.

Really, really, really stinky cheese.

 

[davidbeinct]

I don’t mind paying convenience fees but only if a convenience is actually provided. Our town is using a website that quits when we select the Apple Pay option.

 

[Guildedagain]

The birds in your backyard some time back.

Is the Hell Chicken the ancestor of the modern day turkey?

Moon Sniper ;[]

 

[GGJaguar]

Celery is anemic rhubarb.

 

[WaltW]

I've scheduled my Colonoscopy (every 5 years) for February 5 at 8 AM. This is my first time with this doctor, she took over the practice of my previous Gastroenterologist, who retired right after my last test. I was thinking of scheduling an Endoscopy, you know while I'm out cold, but I changed my mind. I have know way of knowing if the same scope is used and that the Endoscopy would be done first.
It's a shame that as I grow older these sort of thoughts just kind of ooze out; like loosing the hair on top of my head and having it sprout in places I never had any.