Started at 0630 with the front lawn that hadn't been mown in three weeks. Mostly went well, but my Hart equipment needs new batteries, could've sworn I had four, but could only account for three, one of which broke, and the remaining two seem to have drained way to fast. While waiting for them to charge, I started on project two, finally reining in the south side where things have been growing like weeds. Not sure if most of it was goldenrod, or the Missouri equivalent of bamboo, but I went to work cutting each piece down with pruners and piling it in the back against the fence.
At one point I took a break, ordering MickeyD's delivered, which is stupidly expensive. After eating, I got back to work, finishing the pruning before returning to the front to finish that. After that, we went to work using a trimmer to cut the grass in the same area because there was no way the mower would get it done. In the end, the room mate joined in, since his equipment is better than mine, and everything along that side was cut.
Yep, no before pic, but there's the after, not real impressive looking, but at least its no longer an eyesore.
That said, I do think I overdid it, from neck pain to unquenchable thirst, as well as the coffee I had with my breakfast, I went through four 12oz Gatorades while I was working. Since I came in, I've had another coffee, and cup after cup, after cup of water which doesn't come back out. My neck is also sore, and I'm fairly certain I'm a bit sun burned.
Ugh, no grocery shopping or laundry today, those can wait until tomorrow, though I will do the mileage log and finish proofreading a story I've been working on, along with my regular night's web surfing... Well, extended version since I didn't surf this morn. Once I get that all done, it'll prolly be bedtime.
Tomorrow I'll have to start scanning documents to share with my financial manager related to Vik's passing, we need to get a plan in place so I can start taking care of the big financial decisions, and winding down his estate. I did accidentally kick over a hornet's nest yesterday, hopefully the bank doesn't repo his car now that they know he's dead, I'd rather like to keep it, even though ownership transfer will be challenging, but them taking it is not that big of a deal. And I do really need to get back to the comics, prepping that for sale, and that's the really big project. I do have someone brokering the sale of his fountain pens, and that's going well.
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So when cleaning my husband's desks (work and home) and bag, I've been finding some money...
Yeah, coins, paper, foreign as well as US, savings bonds, gift cards and certificates, and credit/bank cards. Need to figure out if'n there's anything valuable here and what to do with the foreign currency, any ideas? Paper currency's current stack is over $200, plus what I have in my wallet, and what little bit I've spent so far.
I also really need help sorting here, I've collected 9 collapsible cube storage bins worth of stuff that needs further sorting, and I'm not done yet, though I am running out of places to put stuff. Anyone in #STL up for a sorting party, especially someone who wants to take a lead on figuring out how best to further sort this stuff? I'll pay for the pizza, and within reason, anyone what helps can take what they want.
I've got help to deal with the comics, I've made 3 short boxes from his desks so far, and I think I've found all the loose ones, but there's still this downstairs:
Some stuff has already been set aside to figure out what to do with it, like his collection of fountain pens and ink, I've given a shout on Messenger to the STL Pen Show in hopes that they can help me figure out what to do with those. Craft stuff I'm giving his family first dibs. Ditto for clothes, after that...
Anyone in the furry community want to help with that side of things? We've got prints around here as well as MFM memorabilia, and possibly other stuff.
The image shows a cluttered desk with various items. In the foreground, there is a stack of US dollar bills, some coins organized into small piles, and a check for $25.00 with the number 104326 visible. A wallet with a Visa card is also present. The background includes a fidget spinner, a red and white box, and some scattered papers. A black computer mouse is visible on the left side, and a trash bin is on the right. The desk has a light wood finish with drawers, and the overall scene suggests a busy workspace.
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As I mentioned on Monday, my husband passed away suddenly. This is bad enough, but he neither left a will that I'm aware of nor access to any of his computers or devices, a rather large problem as his life is mostly stored online.
So, I've been dealing with minor loose ends while things got sorted with the morgue, cancelled the cat food subscription, and the toilet paper subscription, got a computer trade in he was in the middle of wrapped up. Got instructions from Patreon on how to close his accounts, and scared up a site that helps me find out what bank accounts he had, though its accuracy is somewhat iffy.
I'm hoping to avoid having anything to do with the courts, anyone know if they need to be involved? I'm his spouse, we're legally married, and his family has accepted that, so there's no challenge to me inheriting everything, I see no reason to get the court involved unless its required. There is however one thing that might need to involve them, and that's his Apple account, the only way I can access it is with his death certificate and a court order. There may be other less pleasant ways to get access to at least his computer, but I'd kinda not do that, though it might be necessary. Does anyone know what you get in a case like this? Just what's on his iCloud, or can we unlock his devices? I'm not sure if'n he exclusively stored to his iCloud, backed up to it, or had a mixture of backed up and not backed up files on his computer.
Beyond that, I think its just sorting his belongings and deciding what to keep, if'n you're local, I may have some food to give, some of the stuff he liked not only wasn't stuff I like, but stuff I don't think the food bank'll have much interest in, especially the perishables.
I love pizza, I mean really love, as in I could live on pizza and coffee as my only foods, and I love trying new combos. Aldi is a great source for this, while they don't carry many pizzas standardly, they often have special buy pizzas, and those can get really interesting, like this one that I thought was just a BBQ chicken pizza with a fancy title.
So I toss it on the pizza stone, ready to cook it up for lunch, and... Is that corn chips on there?
Check the label, yep, it is. Well that's new, and actually not bad, adds an interesting crunch to the pizza and pairs well with BBQ chicken. I think this is one of my favorite pizzas, frozen or fresh, but unfortunately I have no idea who makes it, Mama Cozzi's is a house brand, they relabel the source brand, sometimes without even changing the packaging other than removing the original brand, and in this case, this is not something I've ever seen here in #STL .
The image shows a round, uncooked pizza on a wooden pizza peel. The pizza dough is topped with a layer of red tomato sauce, followed by a variety of toppings. The toppings include shredded white and yellow cheese, green bell pepper slices, crumbled ground meat, and yellow corn chips. The cheese is unevenly distributed, with more of it concentrated in certain areas. The corn chips are scattered across the surface, adding a crunchy texture. The green bell peppers are chopped and spread out, providing a pop of color. The ground meat is browned and appears to be seasoned. The pizza is placed on a floured surface, indicating it is ready to be baked. The crust is thin and uncooked, with a slightly raised edge. The overall appearance suggests a homemade pizza with a mix of textures and flavors. โ The image shows a package of pizza from Mama Cozzi's Pizza Kitchen. The package is predominantly green with a red label at the top that reads "Mama Cozzi's Pizza Kitchen." The main text on the package is "BBQ SMOKED CHICKEN PIZZA" in large yellow letters. Below this, the ingredients are listed: "BBQ SAUCE, SMOKED CHICKEN, MOZZARELLA & CHEDDAR CHEESES, GREEN ONION AND CORN CHIPS." It also states "ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVE FREE CRUST" and "MADE WITH REAL CHEESE." The net weight is listed as 18.10 oz (1 LB 2.10 OZ) or 513.1g. The nutritional information per 1/4 pizza is provided: 350 calories, 6g of saturated fat (30% DV), 800mg of sodium (35% DV), and 9g of added sugars (18% DV). The package appears to be sealed, with condensation visible on the plastic, indicating it is refrigerated.
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Having maintained a few food manufacturing plants, we get contracts with specific processes and QA standards and put their labels on them. It could be made anywhere at any time.
@๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฆ Yeah, sometimes you can identify Aldi's source when its a cheaply done special buy, prolly someone's overstock (that's what a lot of their special buys are), as its their package with the Aldi brand on it, or some of the more unusual stuff is identifiable simply because one or two companies make that combo.
I think the Trader Joe's brand people use Aldi for stealth product testing. I have gotten some stuff that was almost exactly the same as a TJ's sort of product with different fillings/flavor. They show up for a week and then no more. Usually frozen stuff.
@Mark Wollschlager Technically they're the same company, Aldi US is owned by Aldi Sรผd in Germany, while Aldi Nord owns Trader Joe's, so it wouldn't surprise me if'n they're coordinating their some of their buying.
@๐ด Seph ๐ญ ๐พ Can confirm on his ability to live on pizza and coffee. ;) Luckily, he caters to my inability to do so. I like pizza, but nowhere near the extent he does. I am drinking more coffee now too, (still nowhere near his consumption). MtnDew on the other hand. ;)
Oh come on, had to use that headline, even if'n we're just talking about my accounts. For the most part I'm on the Fediverse, although I am also on Reddit and Tumblr.
For those that remember my last post about this, I got rid of my Diaspora, the idea was for it to serve as an easy bridge between Tumblr and here, since Friendica doesn't thumbnail Tumblr post usually. Diaspora does that, until it doesn't, plus sometimes posts on Diaspora wouldn't properly display here, so that was rather pointless. These days I just throw the memes up directly here, however there can be some lag if'n I forget to make a new post, and then I need help with alt text and @Altbot isn't entirely reliable ( @Micr0byte ), such as giving me alt text in the wrong language, or not at all. In fact today it managed to give me no alt text, but to message me and tell me that I should add the alt text to the image.
Here I have four accounts, this one, @Kฤpitan which is the admin and occasionally posts server, admin or moderation commentary, @Recalls which posts all the recalls I can find, and finally @The Taur Nation which is devoted to posting centaur, lamia, naga and related artwork links and occasionally artwork, rated from G-R18G, content warninged as necessary. Here there be questions, things about my life, and politics, though we do try to make sure they're properly tagged so you can make them go away.
If'n you don't like the politics, try my Mastodon, @Taurnsndhaus Admin , originally planned to be a back up in case something happened here, its boosting general content from here, occasionally original posts, so long as the post fits in a single tweet. Any politics that show up there will be local, St Louis, St Louis metro or Missouri, nothing national.
Like politics? Then my Tumblr is for you, here I post the most interesting and/or important stuff I find there, but I boost a lot more over there. Not much original content over there, despite how much I like it, I just tend to forget about it.
And lastly Reddit, which is mostly content I can't find here on the Fediverse, r/StLouis and ones related to my car (r/ChevyBolt) or my gig work. If that stuff starts showing up on the Fediverse, I'll start moving away from it.
We've started both a Mastodon and a Diaspora, mostly for crosspost testing, and having a backup for contacting @#SpaceHost Help should this instance go down.
That said, as the newest toot on @Taurnsndhaus Admin says, I'll be using that one for St Louis related toots, maybe unique to there, maybe boosting stuff from here. No political stuff unless its really funny, or #STL related. We'll also be posting any STL or #missouri based recalls there as well.
@Taursndhaus Admin 's use is uncertain at this time, testing purposes definitely, beyond that, unsure. I might post (toot?) my Tumblr favorites over there too, that's what pushed me to set up these accounts, I my send them there and re-share them here, we'll see. Beyond that, I'm not sure how I'm going to use that. Heck, I set that one up as my old #diaspora on rageoss vanished, actually the whole pod seems to have. Activity on that one is obviously uncertain as Diaspora's lack of #ActivityPub limits the reach, if it had that, I'd prolly be running Diaspora instead of #friendica
So what started all of this? It was brought to my attention that although my Tumblr posts were showing up fine on my end, albeit with some work as some posts wouldn't show a thumbnail or a link from the blog I found the post on, requiring me to find a re-share that would work, there were problems with sharing those posts. Mastodon shows nothing but a link, but that's the same whether its coming from here or directly from Tumblr; Diaspora however could show them fine when direct posted there, but when crossposted from here, all they see is a link. Clearly Tumblr is somehow breaking sharing from here as regular news articles, boosts, and any original posts here share fine, but none of Tumblr's posts do. Somehow I'm not surprised, I mean Tumblr offers an RSS feed, and I can follow feeds here just like I do any member of the #Fediverse , but their feeds are flaky at best, sometimes they won't work at all, giving me no way to follow them, other times posts lag and/or show up in clumps.
But any how, there's the whats and whys of where else I can be found.
The joys of being a delivery driver in #STL Yep, snowpocalypse, so very fun to work in.
Hasn't been a terrible week, but it's hard to make money when you have to take two days off because of weather, and then on the third day, make $105 but wind up spending $150 to get recovered on the way to your last delivery.
Rest of the week hasn't been bad, though yesterday was interesting, had a couple near stucks where it became a matter of keep moving. That or find a way out before no forward movement becomes no movement at all, including at one point driving nearly ยผ mile backwards to the nearest place I could safely turn around.
By the time I get home, I'm dead, so haven't been keeping up with online stuff including doing proofreading for people. Hopefully next week'll be better, couple cold days in the forecast, but most at or above freezing, and no snow in the forecast either.
No, really. Around 2 I decided to do a couple jobs. Got stuck coming out of the airport, and then was the fun getting to the deliveries, not only are the roads hit or miss, MODOT is struggling to clear the highways, some highways are barely usable like the 141, others are a mixture like I270S in west county.
I cancelled tomorrow's work shift, and I'm not considering going out again until Wed.
Let the world know how you feel. Great to stick on personal items or street locations.ย Spread the word. 10 Disobey sticker. 10 Stop Making Stupid People Famous stickers. 10 No Trump Stickers.
So, #today was a good day, first part was actually pretty great. Decent weather, 19/43ยฐF today, bit cold in รพe morn obviously, but considering รพat we went from 16/59 on Wed to 14/26 yesterday, definitely a much nicer day. Heck, yesterday I had to break out my old รermal overalls from when I used to ride a scooter between Florissant and Maryland Heights, MO.
รe day started wiรพ a small run from the Dispatch app, $10.50 for 10 miles. Sure, a little light on pay, dollar a mile is my minimum after all, but it ended me on Dorsett down the street from Tony's, a donut shop where I like to grab a gyro, egg & cheese on an asiago bagel, so that's fine.
My main gig, Better Trucks, had delayed รพe start from 9 (realistically more often 9.30) to 10.30, so I swung by รพe credit union to take care of closing an account. On the way I noticed a CVS order on Roadie that looked pretty good, and surprisingly when I got out, not only was รพat one still รพere, but it was joined by anoรพer order on รพe way to it. Shockingly I got boรพ, $6.80 for one, $6.40 for รพe oรพer, and a mere 3 miles of driving. Yes please.
From รพere it was a quick trip home for a half hour of charging while trying to get two more email changes sorted out. After รพat, off to รพe usual gig, and a typical if'n slightly smaller package route, my night vision sucks these days, normal for my age, so I wanted to avoid being out much after dark.
I guess รพat brings up รพe car, my 2020 Chevy Bolt. Only real negatives are รพat it's an LT, so base model, lacking features like heated steering wheel, and heated seats, boรพ of which would likely help keep me warm without as much impact on รพe battery. Speaking of battery, since it's one of รพe battery fire years, it's in 80% jail, so my range is a bit more limited รพan normal. Still, despite รพat, it works fine for รพe job. Sure, gotta charge a bit extra, but รพat's just a winter รพing... Maybe summer too, we'll see, not sure how much AC drains รพe battery.
Thanks to @Vik-Thor / Lirleni Hankeshe / lirleni@blog.taursnd.haus for finding this for me, Kimmswick is a cool little town, need to go back to do more shopping as both of us are a bit too old to visit everything in one shot.
Not much to say about #today , cooked breakfast, straightened the kitchen, dishwasher is chewing on a loadโโ Not literally, thank you.
Gotta make a batch of rice, and fill my water bottles for work tomorrow. Get a few things straightened out with my email, the fun of transitioning. Yesterday we gave the house 20% of my company's money, since the company is being wound down, this is part of why social.xcetera.biz the instance is shutting down, although we will be keeping the domain and email for another year, I have burnt m'self too many times by forgetting to change an account's email before deleting that email account.
Not sure if'n the day will have any more to it, maybe take a chainsaw to the old deck if'n I have time, and/or putting some more stuff up on Marketplace to sell/give away, watchband, and some clothes (kilt, shirt, nightshirt, maybe some shoes). I really need to find one or more selling partners here in #STL so I can get back into flipping storage units, anyone interested?
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The image depicts a backyard scene with a mix of natural and man-made elements. In the foreground, there is a grassy area with patches of dry, brown grass, indicating recent mowing or natural wear. A wooden fence with wire running between the posts encloses the area, with a pile of mulch or compost visible near the fence. To the left, a bush with dense green foliage and some red flowers adds color to the scene. A large tree with a thick trunk and spreading branches stands prominently in the center, providing shade and a natural backdrop. In the background, a grassy field extends towards a distant view of a town or city, with power lines running across the sky. The sky is overcast, suggesting a cloudy day. Various gardening tools and materials, such as a propane tank and a hose, are scattered on the ground, indicating ongoing or recent gardening activities.
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