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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 28, 2020 11:24:13 GMT -5
Another year older. I'll keep up my tradition of trying to remember comics I've liked with that number if it's okay... Got a six pack of hard cider to join in with Scott and Picard later! Does this mean it's your birthday? Hooray! Have fun today! I bought all three of those issues when they were new, and they're all good. What brand of cider? I've been sampling some new ones recently.
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Post by beccabear67 on Oct 28, 2020 11:38:55 GMT -5
Does this mean it's your birthday? Hooray! Have fun today! I bought all three of those issues when they were new, and they're all good. What brand of cider? I've been sampling some new ones recently. Thanks! It's Okanagan Crisp Apple. Hope the image shows... They also have Winter Apple and Ginger Apple. Usually I get the Dry Pear. 'Born in B.C.' like me.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 28, 2020 11:49:23 GMT -5
Thanks! It's Okanagan Crisp Apple. Looks good! I've never seen it here, in fact I'm not sure I've ever seen a Canadian cider in stores here. I'll keep an eye out for it.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 28, 2020 11:49:54 GMT -5
Another year older. I'll keep up my tradition of trying to remember comics I've liked with that number if it's okay... Got a six pack of hard cider to join in with Scott and Picard later!
Happy 29th. Meet you for "a pint at The Winchester and wait for all this to blow over..."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2020 13:35:02 GMT -5
Happy Birthday beccabear67-M (flashing back to my time running the now abandoned birthday thread)
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Post by Calidore on Oct 28, 2020 14:39:40 GMT -5
Happy birthday!
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Post by brutalis on Oct 28, 2020 17:26:22 GMT -5
Happy birdday bbear! Pop a top on your apple cider, nibble on an apple fritter, slurp up some applesauce, chew on a caramel apple (tis the season don't ya know) and be the apple of your parents eyes!
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Post by hondobrode on Oct 28, 2020 22:53:27 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Becca !
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Post by impulse on Oct 29, 2020 9:14:22 GMT -5
Happy Birthday!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 9:59:58 GMT -5
Happy Birthday Becca. Hope it was a good day.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 10:56:47 GMT -5
I'm late, but Happy Birthday, BeccaBear67!
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 30, 2020 7:41:09 GMT -5
Happy birthday Miss Beccabear. I'll pass on the cider. Now a pint of a good stout or porter, that I won't pass up.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 30, 2020 8:13:50 GMT -5
Okay time for my 2020 can "go suck an egg" as The Kid in Dick Tracey would so eloquently say ....
Monday started the earliest recorded ice storm in the state of Oklahoma; October 26th. I and my co-worker were already planning to head home early as the weather was suppose to start setting in by the early afternoon. About 11am my wife calls me crying saying that our 14 year old son has to be removed from school and quarantined because Friday (the 23rd) he and several other students came into close contact with another student that was positive for covid. Why the parents of that student who was under testing went to school is an entirely different rant that I will spare you ladies and gents.
Tuesday morning, around 2am we lost power. (This week is going to be my lesson in investing in backup equipment for times like this.) It is now Friday and we still don't have power. Two refrigerators worth of food, wasted. About the only thing that will survive is some of our drinks that don't have to be refrigerated. Our electric provider hasn't really had any pinpoint estimates on when power will be restored. My wife has her phone setup to get text notifications. As of Tuesday the state had 220,000 power outages. 20,000 in the town we live in alone.
But because of my son's possible exposure to covid we can go to a friend/family's house that has power or rent a hotel room. So we are stuck in our house, terribly surviving on fast food, as we can't use any food we already have or even cook even if we bought new food. Everything but our hot water heater is electric. Our furnace is gas but we can't start it/access it as the thermostat is electric. So basically the only thing we can do is take hot showers/baths.
And if I wasn't ranting enough, due to my son's possible exposure to covid, one of my co-workers doesn't want me at work. His wife already has health problems and he doesn't want to the risk of exposure to covid to his wife through him, if my son is positive. My wife is taking him today to get his test done. Which I understand my co-wroker's concern and am not at all offended by his request. I voluntarily went home Tuesday. Yesterday I get a call from both mine and my co-workers' boss saying that I needed to get back to work if I wanted to get paid and that my co-worker had no authority to send me home as far as company policy goes. (He was on vacation this week as I imagine that's why it took so long for him to find out.) So I am back at work today. But still without power as of now. What I wouldn't give for a gas line for our stove and my wife make me a grilled cheese sandwich. I've had all the fast food I can stand in the last three days. It's so bad I am actually looking forward to one of my frozen Healthy Choice meals for lunch today.
Also I miss the days of mobile devices taking AA or AAA batteries. I spent a large amount of the last three days sitting in the truck with my wife to charge phones and cell phone backup batteries so the kids can at least have one thing to entertain them.
Ok I am done venting. 2020 written by Stephen King, directed by Quentin Tarantino, narrated by Samuel L Jackson
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Post by impulse on Oct 30, 2020 9:17:29 GMT -5
adamwarlock2099Liking your post doesn't seem appropriate, so I will just say 2020 SUCKS and I hope you get your son's negative test and some relief very soon!
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Post by Batflunkie on Oct 30, 2020 9:27:46 GMT -5
So yesterday was interesting. Had to go to work in the aftermath of a hurricane to a store that only had emergency lights on so that I could work in the dark for 7-8 hours in the backroom. But it was actually a nice day and everyone seemed to make the most of it with jokes and comradery at the expense of the higher up that made us come in in the first place
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