What did you accomplish today?

420God said:

The portable units are kinda weak, almost need it pointed right at you.

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We've got an old DeLonghi "pinguino" portable that gets us through the hottest weeks of summer, but we only run it in one room (master bedroom).
It ain't bad!
I think we paid around $350 about 10 years ago.

I lost my helper again. Well kind of. An older coworker, that was kind of my mentor, lost his helper so I told him he could have mine. He needs him more than I do. So back to working by myself again.

neosapien said:

I lost my helper again. Well kind of. An older coworker, that was kind of my mentor, lost his helper so I told him he could have mine. He needs him more than I do. So back to working by myself again.

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Generosity. A fine trait to have in a mod.

Will you interview for another helper?
Or bare knuckle it through the rest of the season?

lokie said:

Generosity. A fine trait to have in a mod.

Will you interview for another helper?
Or bare knuckle it through the rest of the season?

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Yeah probably just by myself for the next several months. Now that most of the pools are opened it's manageable by myself. Just storm cleanup sucks by yourself. Like what I'm going to have to deal with tomorrow.

I haven’t been on much lately this is my busy season, been working about 80 hours a week. Picked up another mowing contract for a larger sized business park and a new 52” vride. Ive never made more from mowing than I have this year I usually try to focus on landscaping and hardscapes but this year mowing is taking over. I’ll try to come around more often the grass should stop growing so fast sometime within the next month or so

Well, another bullet to be bitten today as I admit how bad my eyes have gotten. It's expected when at my age, especially after being born half blind. And it's been more than 2 years so I'm due a check up anyway. But having trouble seeing the computer screen without moving closer and looking over the top of my glasses tells me something's changed, I'm getting old.

So more walking around as I try to recover from overdoing things in the Dam. Wonderful...

So plans went backwards, thanks to being an old fart I have to get a prescription and check up from an eye doc before I can get new glasses. No big deal, just a pain in the ass, can have that done next week.

But I found the freezer I wanted, and they decided to deliver it this evening (seriously, no special delivery, just standard free service) so now the madness begins as I move things around so they can get the new one in and old one out ASAP. Just what I need with my pain levels, but we're talking "good" movement and exercise when done properly and, as I say, I'm crippled and not helpless.

Having a decent stock of medicine thanks to trip to Dam is a help, have not needed to touch an opiate or benzo since Sunday, so that's a good thing.

get the bifocals, the no line ones. it took me about a month to get used to them, but i love them. i used to take my glasses off to see anything up close, then i'd walk away from them and forget where they were......spend a lot less time trying to find them now.

Close up is no problem, nothing needed there, it's just certain distances where I see the change now.

As expected, I'm getting older

yeah, close up is no problem for me either, which is why i would take them off, and i've always been preoccupied with shit, so i'll walk away from them, then i have to spend an hour trying to find them.
the other day they were on top of the pressure washer, which i had put away in the basement....took them off when i was coiling the hose up, forgot them, took me half a damn day to find them

I've accomplished a lot today. I've finished my task, gardening and house interiors.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

yeah, close up is no problem for me either, which is why i would take them off, and i've always been preoccupied with shit, so i'll walk away from them, then i have to spend an hour trying to find them.
the other day they were on top of the pressure washer, which i had put away in the basement....took them off when i was coiling the hose up, forgot them, took me half a damn day to find them

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It's why I prefer a certain size and shape so I can slip them down my nose and look over them.

Best one is when I decide to use contacts, I only use one in my right eye, mainly because the left eye is so bad you could use a lens as thick as the bottom of a beer glass and it wouldn't make a difference, and because you can't look over the top of a contact I use the left eye for close up and the right for distance.

You adapt

don't know if i could do one contact, end up walking in curves

Yeah, I just need glasses for really tiny shit. the distance you would bring small things closer to check them out is where my eyes started sucking.

i'm exactly the opposite, if it's within ten feet, i can read tiny print, once you get more than ten feet away, it gets progressively worse. i can see good enough to drive in the day time without glasses. can't read anything on vehicles, but i can see the vehicles, and pedestrians. night time is a different story, and a rainy night? i should NOT drive on rainy nights, glasses or no.

Roger A. Shrubber said:

i'm exactly the opposite, if it's within ten feet, i can read tiny print, once you get more than ten feet away, it gets progressively worse. i can see good enough to drive in the day time without glasses. can't read anything on vehicles, but i can see the vehicles, and pedestrians. night time is a different story, and a rainy night? i should NOT drive on rainy nights, glasses or no.

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Yep, rainy night on a blacktop road with no lines sucks

I was told I needed reading glasses a long long time ago....... I just quit reading.


Problem solved

here's an actual accomplishment, i was nice to someone for once instead of ignoring them, and it paid off. i was at the restaurant smoking wings and a kid in a pickup pulled up in the parking lot. he started fooling around in the back of his truck, and i went out and asked him if he needed any help. he said no, he was from U.T. and they were doing a soil survey to see how things were bouncing back after the fire. i asked him what they were checking for, he said pretty much everything, not only the mineral composition of the soil, but how much of what kind of organisms were living in it.......can i get a copy of that report? sure, give me your email............sweet, complete soil survey just for being nice....i guess i ought to try it a little more often.....but it kind of hurts

If i don't have my reading glasses I can't see shit, my co-worker asked how come I can still read a tape measure and I said I can't, I just remember where the marks are.
Close enough for government work right.

Bareback said:

Close enough for government work right.

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Give that man a raise.. possibly a promotion..