Kelli and Shannon take a brief break from eBay Madness.
Huzzah to Herself, who started another lap around the sun today, and an hour early too.
Pal Kelli came out from the Great White Midwest to celebrate the milestone with her (and do a little eBay bidness on the side).
I (not pictured) have been serving as cat wrangler and chief cook-slash- bottle washer. Also, eye candy. You’ll have to trust me on this last one. No paparazzi!
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March 12, 2023 at 5:25 pm |
PO’G: Two out of three (cat-wrangler, chief cook et al, and eye candy) is enough to win all professional sports leagues, most elections, and earn you MVP honors.
Please pass on my Happy Birthday Congrats to Herself ….. and reflect on the many blessings you, PO’G, enjoy! 🙂
March 13, 2023 at 7:42 am |
My batting average is not great. Miss Mia Sopaipilla despises company and has been unsettled for days. The cooking, however, has been praised.
Meanwhile, it’s not my fault I have to shave in the dark. Somebody peed in my gene pool. I blame my parents. Also, society.
March 12, 2023 at 6:18 pm |
Happy Birthday to Herself! All the best!
March 13, 2023 at 7:45 am |
She had a good one, Mike. A hike, plenty of eBaying, banana bread, baked salmon, asparagus, taters, rosé, three different kinds of cake, birthday greetings from friends and family, the works.
As regards gifts, a new iPad to replace her 2016 iPad Pro (A1673, 32GB) may be in the pipeline; we just need to figure out which one. Apple’s product line is getting a little screwy.
We lowballed the iPads, never thinking that 32GB would prove inadequate for casual use. Now about two-thirds of my apps are offloaded and I still don’t have enough free space to update the OS.
March 13, 2023 at 8:05 pm |
Excellent! Glad Kelli has a respite from very bad weather. We are getting clobbered with snow in the Northeast. 20”-26” or more of snow expected later tonight Monday until 8 PM on Tuesday.
It’s raining now. Big storms very typical in March. We may lose power – it’s the heavy stuff not powdery.
March 13, 2023 at 8:07 pm |
Sorry for the double post and in the wrong spot, too.
March 13, 2023 at 9:08 pm |
Libby; You must live pretty high up to be expecting 20 to 26″. Are you in the Northern Sierras or the Southern Cascades. I don’t see any other weather systems in the country with that much moisture.
March 13, 2023 at 11:33 pm
Well, it appears I missed the heavy storm in the Northeast. Wherever you may be, I hope that you fare well.
and if your in Mammoth Lakes, CA, I understand that snow tunnels may be necessary.
March 14, 2023 at 3:13 pm |
Sorry to say, Libby’s forecast was spot on.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/14/1163334629/noreaster-storm-snow-new-england-outages
March 14, 2023 at 4:30 pm
Jeez Louise. Snow like that is fun if you’re a kid, but if you’re an adult who has to deal with it? Oof. No thank you, please.
March 12, 2023 at 8:28 pm |
Happy Birthday Shannon! Please let him live another year.
March 13, 2023 at 7:47 am |
She’ll keep me around a while yet. Someone has to rustle the grub and wrangle the cat.
March 12, 2023 at 9:23 pm |
Happy birthday to Herself. And what’s the day when you hit the tape on this lap?
March 13, 2023 at 7:50 am |
That halcyon day would be March 27, if I make it. Every year it seems to come around faster, but that finishing stretch is a long slog. Einstein was right: Time is relative.
March 13, 2023 at 2:54 pm |
Question is, can we make 70 laps?
March 14, 2023 at 11:15 am |
Easy sleazy. The good die last.
March 12, 2023 at 9:27 pm |
Happy Birthday to Herself! How wonderful to have a pal visit and help celebrate the occasion. Looks like there is plenty of eye candy at El Rancho this weekend! Cheers!
March 13, 2023 at 7:52 am |
They’ve been having big fun, Libby. Kelli dodged the latest snowstorm back home and the weather here has been pretty cooperative. Plus she’s picking Herself’s brain for eBay tips and tricks. What’s not to like?
March 13, 2023 at 8:04 pm |
Excellent! Glad Kelli has a respite from very bad weather. We are getting clobbered with snow in the Northeast. 20”-26” or more of snow expected later tonight Monday until 8 PM on Tuesday.
It’s raining now. Big storms very typical in March. We may lose power – it’s the heavy stuff not powdery.
March 13, 2023 at 8:15 pm |
Re the iPad. I have the same situation not enough space to update for a year +. 32 GB 6th generation. I updated my iPhone last year and still paying for it so I limp along with this iPad.
March 14, 2023 at 6:26 am |
Yow. Now that’s what I call snow. Kelli was heading home yesterday to another dumper, but not of that heft. I hope you keep your lights and heat on. Chihuahua.
Yeah, we screwed the pooch when I bought these iPads way back when. The choice was 32GB, 128GB, or 256GB, and I couldn’t imagine needing (or spending the money for) 128. If they’d offered a 64GB model I’d have gone for it and gotten a little more operating life out of these things.
We have a similar choice now — too much storage or not enough — and if we get Herself a new iPad Pro I’ll go for too much. What’s the old gag? You can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much memory and storage?
Meanwhile, I’ve offloaded every app I don’t use every time I pick up my iPad and am going to score a SanDisk thumb drive to store all the other bits I don’t need immediately. It’s a whole cheaper than a new iThing that I rarely use.
March 13, 2023 at 1:40 am |
I would enjoy the opportunity to be the first miscreant to offer your fine Mrs. a delightful Happy Birthday ! Of course it would seem that my well wishing is T+ the happy date, but time is relative and well wished thoughts are forever so my greeting is timely and sincere. I hope that she had a fine time yesterday, today, tomorrow and infinitum. Although, with eBay involved it’s hard to appreciate that it might have been better. Ah, the days when ebay touted themselves as only a venue between a buyer and a seller.
Regarding your fine day of emergence, doesn’t that occur in about 10 days or so? March is a fine month isn’t it?
March 13, 2023 at 8:00 am |
O, she had a fine few days, with her buddy in town and stuff to do. I tried to stay in the background like the creaking of an old house settling. Make the food, wash the dishes, deliver the odd bon mot or two, bow, scuttle away to my hidey-hole to play with the Internets. Also, the cat, who requires some soothing when visitors are in town.
March 13, 2023 at 10:04 am |
Are you saying that she knew well back when, but is happily discovering in later years, that by picking the smelly old dog as “the one”, that she made the right choice? Lucky dog.
March 14, 2023 at 8:59 pm |
Speaking of birthdays… Al Jaffee turned 102! Maybe cartooning is the secret to a long life. (Or maybe it just makes it feel long?)