The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[MrPixel]

An e-mail exchange between my wife and a friend that begs to be shared:

Wife: "...the true sign of spring here is the arrival of crows. They spend their days grooming all the farmer fields but later in the day they all gather and flock to downtown for the night. There easily were a hundred or more passing by the house, all going to roost on downtown rooftops which are warm and lit to discourage owls."

Friend: "Ha! I didn't have my glasses on and read your email about the arrival of cows. I thought it was bizarre that all the farmers let the cows loose in the town, and wondered why there were so many low roofs. Also curious how many cows could stand on a roof before it caved in. ..."

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Popped into the posh supermarket that gives you free coffee with any purchase. The coffee machine is broken. Café Literotica has no need to fear the competition.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Too much paid work today...Damn, I don't have time for coffee. Y'all have a nice day and rememberate me.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Too much paid work today...

Been close to 15 years since I had any of that.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, I can recommend several places you can get work as a ghostwriter. Mostly podcasts and blog posts.

Been close to 15 years since I had any of that.

 

[stickygirl]

My bf and I having sex is making our power go off and I've had enough of it

 

[MrPixel]

I've had enough of it

What's that? The power fluctuations, the BF, or the sex?

 

[NuclearFairy]

My bf and I having sex is making our power go off and I've had enough of it

Have you tried using a battery operated vibe instead?

 

[stickygirl]

What's that? The power fluctuations, the BF, or the sex?

Well I'm sure it was an ugly coincidence, but we were getting fruity and the lights went off, then stayed off. So he went downstairs, waggling, and found the trip had gone. Cool, come on then, five mins later it's getting good and ffs sake - off again. More waggling, power back on. Next time the power went on and off quickly. Each time of course computers are rebooting, printers clanking away and we're both like 'Is it just us?' So by the time we'd checked the powergrid website and reset the outside lights that were now on permanently, it took the edge off, so we had a coffee and read a book with a torch handy, ready for the next time.
So far, it's stayed on... until we have sex again, obviously.
It's sleep time now. ni-nite

 

[Rustyoznail]

My bf and I having sex is making our power go off and I've had enough of it

I've heard sparks can fly during sex, but enough to knock out the grid?

Amazing!

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Just popped in to make sure there's coffee available and that the lights are still on. See you in the morning.

 

[Duleigh]

Thought for the day:

"If I had multiple personalities I'd have a larger writing staff"
-Andrew Klavan

Proof that there's always hope!

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Well, it's morning and another cold day ahead of us. It looks like next week we will actually get several days above freezing and the overnight tems will be above freezing so we'll be getting some of the snow melted before we get any more. BP was 150/84 this morning, a little high but not dangerously so.

There's fresh coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There's snacks on the counter. Once I get some more buttermilk, I'm going to make another cornbread.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story. I'm starting the third scene which will probably bore some readers but is necessary to set up the denouement.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

A week or two back when the forecast was all teens and twenties, we kind of resigned ourselves to it just being cold for a while.

Now that the forecast is fifties and sixties in a few days, it's 'hurry up already!!!! Another cold day before then ... why??????'

 

[stickygirl]

I discovered today that our neighbours leccy went off too so it probably wasn’t our fault

 

[Duleigh]

Ugh! An MRI tomorrow morning out on "The Island." My hip has been in bad shape for several years and my doctor is getting worried.

 

[_Lynn_]

Ugh! An MRI tomorrow morning out on "The Island." My hip has been in bad shape for several years and my doctor is getting worried.

Good luck. Knowing what's wrong is better than guessing, right?


My furnace went out last night. Repairman checked it today and didn't have the parts to fix it. So another night wearing extra layers and using the electric heater.

 

[Duleigh]

Good luck. Knowing what's wrong is better than guessing, right?


My furnace went out last night. Repairman checked it today and didn't have the parts to fix it. So another night wearing extra layers and using the electric heater.

Thank you, I'm not worried about the MRI so much, it's what my doc wants to do about it. I do not like anestesia. I don't want anything that would effect my mind.

I already had my HVAC dude out here this winter. We have 2 HVAC systems and they take turns crapping out, but they usually wait for August

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Just checking in to make sure there's coffee available and snacks on the counter. See you in the morning.

 

[old_prof]

I have my follow on appointment with my surgeon tomorrow. I'm overall happy with almost everything, I'm back to doing almost everything I could 16 months ago, pre-injury, including grocery shopping, cooking, and driving, although I've not tried driving more than a few minutes yet.

Stairs still give me some problems and the damned knee hurts regularly. I don;t like taking any form of painkiller, but I've been using tylenol as many days as not over the last week. I've been told to expect another month or two of pain, before it clears up. I'm hoping so.

And the damned weather keeps promising that it will be warmer next week, but always moves out another week when it gets closer. We have not seen a temperature as warm as freezing in two weeks and nothing forecast in the next ten days either. I've never been a big fan of the winters up here, I grew up south of the Masin Dixon line, but this has been the coldest winter in two decades.

 

[NotWise]

And the damned weather keeps promising that it will be warmer next week, but always moves out another week when it gets closer. We have not seen a temperature as warm as freezing in two weeks and nothing forecast in the next ten days either. I've never been a big fan of the winters up here, I grew up south of the Masin Dixon line, but this has been the coldest winter in two decades.

Here they do that with rain. I think it's just a perverse tease. There's been three days of rain at the end of the 10-day outlook for a week now.

 

[TheLobster]

I hate Wordle sometimes.

 

[MrPixel]

I hate Wordle sometimes.

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You have my knowing empathy.

 

[Rustyoznail]

You have my knowing empathy.

Yup. Throw a dart at the dictionary time.

 

[AloneTooLong]

Good luck. Knowing what's wrong is better than guessing, right?


My furnace went out last night. Repairman checked it today and didn't have the parts to fix it. So another night wearing extra layers and using the electric heater.

my sympathies; a month or so ago the FAN failed on the HVAC; grandson told me $900 solved the problem--ouch.