Painting party on Saturday went well, and we did manage to get the ceilings painted beforehand (though it took a lot longer than initially expected, as usual with painting projects IME). We still have some areas left to paint, but not very many. The main common spaces are done and look great.
My mother got a couple of really nice obits for her wartime work, but, better than that, a woman wrote into the Times to say she had been at the embassy in Belgrade and would always remember my mother's skill at Serbo-Croat: there had been one dinner party where there had been two British diplomatic couples and two Jugoslav doctors. Only my mother could follow the increasing filthy jokes the Jugs were telling and she refused, modestly, to translate the, although her end of the table was in an uproar and the others were left making duller conversation.
So I wrote to thank her, and she rang back, saying she remembered me as a little red-haired child. She also mentioned that in 1956 the Diplomatic Service had a total of three officers who could speak Mandarin, which is why her husband had been posted to Beijing as his first job. Apparently Belgrade (where plastic was unknown) was a haven of sophistication after China during the Great Leap Forward.
In any case, she said that her husband had, some time later, got from my father the untranslatably undiplomatic joke. One of them involved a donkey and a grandmother.
i'm waiting at passenger loading to take blissful delivery of my better half & get him *home* after an eventful 3 days, woooo hoooo! let me tell you, if you're going to have a heart attack (don't), do it while hooked up to an ekg thingamajig in the er with skads of highly skilled medicos swarming about!
2: What a terrific memory of your mother to hear about!
3: Yow, that must have been very upsetting. Best wishes for you and the patient.
Yikes. Hope he recovers well and soon. And continues to have good luck about where his bad luck hits.
Good luck to the English patient! And, yes, it is very comforting to have a heart attack inside the hospital.
Echoing good thought towards Brits living and not.
I've been working kind of a lot the last 10 days, trying to get discovery responses out today, and a summary judgment motion ready to file by Friday, in the same case. It became clear today, though, that some of the assumptions being made about some of the details were not correct, and that my co-defendant counsel (he's representing a sub) was quite a bit behind, so it's all getting extended to Friday. On the one hand, project taking longer. On the other, paid by the hour.
I'm not looking forward to producing documents, which is truly one of the few downsides of solo practice, but I got the other guy to do it last time we responded, so it's my turn.
3: Yikes! Hope he feels better, gets engaged in cardiac rehab and generally feels better. Sorry you had to deal with that.
3. That sounds like a worrisome three days. As you say, better to have such in a hospital but even better not to have it at all. I was surprised at how weak I was after a mild MI. Heck, I'm still surprised at how weak it left me. I wish your spouse a quick and complete recovery.
Had a low-key but busy by pandemic standards weekend. We ate at a great local place with an outdoor patio with a couple of friends, then met with them the next morning to play board games (Sleeping Gods). My primary roleplaying group has decided that we're all vaccinated and willing to get together... so, of course, travel and obligations are rearing their heads to prevent that for the next couple of weekends. We got together yesterday online and played some board games, but are looking forward to that falling away to a backup plan.
This upcoming weekend, I'm traveling up to a cabin to board game with some friends... mostly to give my wife the gift of a birthday weekend without people that she's craving.
Last night I attended the first store staff meeting since the pandemic started; they were happy to all see each other at once, instead of just coming on shifts. They're all very jaded after dealing with a hostile public for the last year, encouraging the store to maintain masks even if the governor removes the mandate next month. But they've also served together in hard times, so they're a real team.
The heart wants what the heart wants, which is oxygenated blood.
Is it just me, or is one hearing of the "Biden-Harris" (as opposed to "Biden") Administration with a frequency one never heard for Obama-Biden, Bush-Cheney, etc?
The blood service people didn't want my blood, because apparently its pressure is too high.
Let me be the first to recommend Lisinopril.
13: you'd think that would make it easier to get it out.
Maybe it punches a hole in the bag?
Wow werdna I didn't realise it was your mum. She got an obit on Radio 4 last week. V impressive.
13: Yes, weird: you'd have thought they would welcome a gusher.
17: Thanks. I think I will have to write something proper about her, except that family histories have a way of blowing up.
3: Best to you and the better half. Hope he makes a full and rapid recovery.
Also, Moby, I was a bit slow in the other thread. I'm sorry about your mom. Thinking of you.
Thanks. As you know, it's a stressful way to die even as dying goes.
12: I think it's because Biden was annoyed that he felt excluded and that they didn't say Obama-Biden as often as he wanted.
New roof on the house began this morning, so that's kind of exciting. Also, I have reached the age where a new roof is kind of exciting, which is kind of pathetic.
2: Just read the Guardian obituary. Wow. What a life.
23: Not getting a new roof can be exciting at all ages.
It's the one that used to be the Manchester Guardian.
thanks for well wishes all! & i think may be pulling out of the danger zone of me stress buying a cool dozen dresses although the lorelei song of a vintage-ish marras may prove too much for me .... going to give myself credit for various on-sale beckham etc shoals successfully navigated & firmly not think about severely limited closet space.
warmest thoughts with you, mobes. nw your mum sounds tip top! 10/14 would angle for her end of the table any day!
I had to stop myself from buying a $600 tent because of stress.
25: Here. Mostly focusing on the war years, but still, wow.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/02/patricia-brown-obituary
Cosigning 24.2, which also applies to floors, as I have recently learned.
12: Bush-Cheney was really common (particularly among the left) during his first term. It seemed intended to have the same connotations -- an unusually powerful VP sharing key decision making. I suspect that Biden-Harris is intended to undermine, with the suggestion that Harris is the puppet-master behind the scenes. But I don't think there's much to back that in mainstream reporting -- it's mostly a hangover from the election narrative. As Biden continues pushing in his Bidenesque way, I suspect Biden-Harris will taper off.
After people recommended a bunch of anime the other day, I aimlessly watched some "these are the best anime!" videos, on YouTube, which autoplayed into "these anime are terrible!" which eventually autoplayed to a five (!) hour video of how the last two seasons of Doctor Who sucks (I skipped that one after ten minutes), and then ended up in a sea of videos explaining why everything sucks. There was one video where a teenage boy complained about the last two seasons of Star Versus the Forces of Evil -- this was basically reasonable points about a show that sounds like it just ran for too long -- and then a bunch of videos by adults, all of whom are insane. Apparently there is a large number of adults who will explain to you that the purpose of Steven Universe is to normalize fascism.
I think coronavirus has lasted too long for even the YouTube algorithm.
Moby, I missed what happened with your mother, but best wishes.
Thanks. At least it's after everyone adult in the family is vaccinated.
I missed what happened as well.
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