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[threemeninaboat]

2015
ee to me: you've got your surgery checklist, take all your meds, don't forget the ex lax, drink lots of water...


2022: me to ee: you've got your surgery checklist, take all your meds, don't forget the ex lax, drink lots of water...


ee is having carpal tunnel surgery this week. I'll be on an internet conference wed-thu on the Business of TBI which is a lot of HR and medical coding zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz .

I'm going to try to make this home conference "fun" I got a bath bomb, and some hot coca, and some booze, I'll order delivery food.... but it won't be anything like the last brain conference in New Orleans.... or the one we were supposed to go to in Dublin.

I am just a bundle of joy over here.

Okay:

The kumquat tree produced a few hundred kumquats this year, they are ready and delicious.

I got a Buddha fountain for the skunks to drink out of but I'm really enjoying it in the living room. It really felt like buying "stuff" but garden ornaments are one of the few nice moments of the COVID era. and it makes the air in the living room feel softer.

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[elusis]

Conferences are terrible.

I miss them.

Sigh.

[altamira16]

This is so funny.

[threemeninaboat]

I feel very much the same. I think the combination of messing with my sleep, being cold, and probably drinking too much the whole time is just the worst.

[elusis]

I think the combination of messing with my sleep, being cold, and probably drinking too much the whole time is just the worst.

Agreed on all counts.

And yet, the excuse to go somewhere (anywhere), eat a few meals at places you've never been, run into people you know and have some interesting conversations, and sit in an absurd hotel bar drinking Manhattans absolutely alone while counting it all as work is also GREAT.

[threemeninaboat]

SIGH

[altamira16]

I have seen this kumquat tree, and I ate a kumquat. It was the only kumquat I had ever eaten.

[annie_r]

hot coca snerk!

Did you order the Buddha fountain? I need a bird bath/fountain and had an idea for a clay one, but never figured out exactly what I wanted to do. And that was a few years ago at least.

[threemeninaboat]

It's this one
https://www.houzz.com/products/18-buddha-statue-indoor-or-outdoor-garden-fountain-with-led-lights-prvw-vr~175493239?m_refid=PLA_HZ_175493239

but I got it at Ross so it was $45.