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.livescience.com ^ | October 5, 2018 12:57pm ET | Brandon Specktor

[Tax-chick]

Good point!

[NicknamedBob]

"I read the contents label and if I remember correctly they used to use that stuff to knock you out."

My starting fluid is black in color and doesn't have a label.

[Covenantor]

Good morning... safety alert...

[Tax-chick]

[Silentgypsy]

Oooooh—a Pushme Pullyou! It’s been decades....

[Silentgypsy]

G’orning, y’all!

[Tax-chick]

Breeders are doing amazing things with felis cattus.

[Monkey Face]

The Morning Floofs are looking very floofy this morning!

Good morning. I was going to get my hair cut Friday, (with the really cheap coupon!) but by the time I pay for everything else, the hair will have to wait. It’s getting way too long. Of course, I could always cut it myself, if my arthritic arm joints could be convinced to stop nagging me!

Almost as soon as I got home yesterday, my phone rang, telling me there had been a cancellation in St George, and could I make it in by 1100? It was 1030 and I was in the middle of a low blood sugar episode, and there was no way I was going to get behind the wheel until it was under control. Which usually takes 20-30 minutes.

I stopped at Walgreen’s to get the morphine prescription I had turned in on Saturday (dated to “do not fill until”) and that would put it on Monday. Did I miss something? Or did someone drop the ball? “We only have 50 tablets, but if you can come back this afternoon, we can have the full prescription.” Am I the only person in Hurricane who is on morphine? If not, then there is no excuse for not having a supply on hand. </rant

[Monkey Face]

BWAHAHAHA!

Good one! I won’t even ask the ridiculous questions! ;o]

[Tax-chick]

At least you have enough energy to rant!

We hiked 12 miles on Saturday. I’m still feeling it a bit.

[Monkey Face]

I have to go to Walmart and get a few food things and then stop at the Sinclair station and get a couple of gallons (edging very close to $4 a gallon, here, tourist mecca that it is, being “The Gateway to Zion Park”) so I have enough to get into St George on Thursday.

That’s the ophthalmologist and I’m excited to finally get there and get an appointment for my left eye. I’m essentially blind in that eye, and its getting harder and harder to focus on the printed word.

[Tax-chick]

Sounds like a plan. I have Weight Watchers this morning, and then lots of Life Organizing to do.

[Monkey Face]

You hiked 12 miles??? On one day? No wonder you’re “feeling it a bit.”

I hope you’re able to get the kinks out soon. <3

[Tax-chick]

Yep. In the mountains, up and down, up and down. Our youngest participant was 6 years old.

[ArGee]

Well, it’s Tuesday.

Happy Monday Part Deux, all.

[Monkey Face]

Yes, Monday Part Deux is a day to be happy on because only one day separates us from Friday Eve!

[Tax-chick]

Happy post-Monday, all y’all. Back from Weight Watchers, and I’m plowing through a long list of household and Cub Scouts minutiae. At 3:00, I’m going to Paige, Hair Designer, for a haircut.

[HKMk23]

Yeahbut...

...just about the time I start wishing stupidity were instantly fatal, I do something stupid. Maybe there oughta be a sliding scale of stupid...

Oh — wait; there is: Natural Consequences have a way of being particularly brutal to the defiantly stupid. And I include “armed conflict” among the panoply of Natural Consequences.

[Monkey Face]

I’m happy you’ve found someone to cut your hair, the way you like it. And that she is doing a good job. Speaking of hairdressers, have you heard from Jamie?

I’ll have to try to cut my own tomorrow, because I just can’t go with it this long. It’s beginning to look really scraggly while the new growth catches up. Cutting it is the best thing to do. So I’ll try to do it. Like I used to...

[Tax-chick]

I haven’t heard from Jamie for a long time. Last I heard, she had moved to Seattle. I could ask Sally; I think they’re in touch on Facebook.