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Musings, Thoughts, and Ponderings of various sorts.  

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YouTube - Because I'm Trying to Watch Less TV

So occasionally I go through these mental zones where I feel like I should watch less TV.  Usually when I'm feeling guilty for not working on my writing.  And lately in my effort to watch less TV I find that I browse YouTube.  Thanks to Hernameisbuffy I've found a whole plethora of British history sorts of shows.  My latest find is Restoration Home. As someone who used to watch This Old House (honestly I prefer the Bob Villa era) this is even better.  No, I don't have any grandiose ideas
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Your Parent's Finances (lessons learned from becoming my mother's keeper)

This is cross posted here:  Worried Children Sharing Circle Okay while I wait for a really large spreadsheet to recalculate.  I'll do a brief fly by on my knowledge of elder related things to deal with.   POA (power of attorney) - you need two.  One health.  One financial.  If both parents are living I recommend having them anyway for both in case something happens to one.  If you suspect or are worried about dementia - going to say it here - get the POA prior to the diagnosis.  Because after
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You're A Mean One...

I am not really a Christmas person.  It might have helped had I had children.  Maybe even a spouse.  But with a sister (also single and childless) over a thousand miles away (and currently hiding under a rock or something) and a mother who now has a dementia diagnosis (put her in memory care back in June) the season is a giant ball of meh.  Oh I can fake it.  But over the last several years really I have chosen to stop faking it.   For me, Christmas is the height of what I've long called the da
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Yes, You Answered His Question

Awwwwww.  Look at you newbie AP Supervisor answering that question.  The one i was copied on.  Becuase there were actually two 'reversals' in his account.  Sure, you answered why yours was there.   But, well, I'm older than you, have more experience than you and frankly, I kick butt.  So I went back.  Looked at why my entry was there (accrual in one month - data from your people, reversal in the next month).  And what transpired with your write off and why it was written off.  Sure, you pro
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Yes, It's a Boot

So, last Wednesday I went to a podiatrist.  I've been messing around for longer than I care to admit with an aching/painful left foot & ankle.  I have (Achilles) tendinitis.  And was given a boot.  So I'm hobbling around on it until at least next week.  This is bringing unwanted attention.  You know, the 'oh what happened.' stuff.  Nothing.  It's tendinitis.  I'l be fine.  (now go away and leave me alone again).   Thanks to the boot I have to wear a hoe in the house (and the boot).  I h
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Yes, It Would Be Easier

I'm currently in a head desk battle with the fine folks over in customer service that do wonderful thinks like generate debit and credit memos.  The issue at the center of this particular battle is why/how did you hit the account you did?  Really, it shouldn't be here.  And had this hit the revenue account like the rest of the wayward debit and credit memos these folks put through, I would have put it on my list of things to move on the first workday and moved on.   But it hit a weird accou
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Wisdom Justice & Love

"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: "This way of settling differences is not just." This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of people normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psycholo
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When You Have Time...

So, I was asked to run a report for our tax curmudgeon.  I do this a couple of times a year for the platform.  It's not hard.  Minorly time consumptive because the number of materials involved plus the number of plants necessitates running it 3 times to keep the thing from bombing out.  I thought I was done for the year.  Dopey me.  Tax Curmudgeon asked me to do it 'when I had time.'  Now I'm in the middle of something else.  Actually, possibly two or three something else's at any given time.  S
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When Someone Calls You a Workhorse

So on Monday a coworker (the one who moved to a corporate project assignment but is still located in Hooterville) asked me to go to a working lunch.  Yes, the mental drawbridge went up even though I accepted because she is heading the transfer of power knowledge transfer of accounts payable being outsourced (to India, a lovely country but on the opposite side of the world presenting logistical issues).  And last month end (really quarter end - which meant I had more to do) which was their first
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Watergate & My Crazy Aunt

So The Impeachment of Trump 2.0 - and my ability to pay attention to it due to Covid Pandemic Work From Home World is generating some memories for me.  And I'm returning to my long neglected blog here to record (and share) this one. I was 9 or 10 years old in 1974.  Fourth Grade.  My parents marriage was dying - Mom Divorced Dad that year.    We moved that summer.  But before we moved, I have this very vivid memory of being highly upset one Saturday morning, because the next Saturday mornin
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Wait? We're Doing What Now?

So I went to pull invoices a bit ago for something I track on a regular basis.  Now, the AP clerks know I self-serve and dig my own crap out of their files.  (I also put it back where I got it).  And I kind of knew that they've been scanning invoices and such.  However, no one has bothered to educate me as to exactly what is going on.  At all.  Until today.  And I had to ask at that.   Yes, I get 'not more filing.'  And sure,  'paperless' sounds nice.  Until the auditors start asking for st
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Wait? Does That Make Her A...

So, I've had an odd moment where those things that fascinating me in a train-wreck can't keep watching kind of way meets what we'll label here as my real life.   Almost six years ago I moved because I had lost my job and the economy was crap and I put my trust in God and decided, since I don't have children or husband tying me to one place, to take my job search nation wide.  i wound up 2.5 or so hours east of where I had been in a neighboring state.  After I moved at one point I went throu
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Wait! Do You Think I Think That's An Emergency?

It might be Monday.  My usual attitude is, well, see the minion photo below.   Today, however, I pull up my email and find an email from yesterday (okay I saw it on my phone last night but didn't really read it).  Now per my check of the calendar - yesterday was Sunday and nobody has ever told me that I need to check email for costing requests on the weekend.  Hand on, let me backup.  Said request is not from one of my people.  Oh no.  The cost accountant (someone I helped train) for anothe
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Wait - who wrote the dialogue in that movie?

So I'm binge watching season 2 (so far) of Blindspot.  Yes, I have a TV addiction.  No, I'm not going to reform.  While watching an episode this morning before my weekly trip to my weight watchers cult meeting an episode dropped in the tidbit that Joss Whedon wrote 'the good parts' of the movie Speed.  Say what? Now Speed is a movie I've seen eleventy times.  I've used it for 20+ years to study plot structure.  And Joss Whedon is not who got the credit (Graham Yost did).  So I took to
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Traveling with a Grown Kindergartner (Breakfast)

Now that I have made Boss 1 and Boss 2 laugh at my stories of eating with Boss 3 (they have both had the experience of traveling with this man) it is time to share it with you. We all know that Boss 3 has an attachment to certain chain restaurants.  it borders on legendary.  We have not had a Chik-Fil-A here that long and the staff already knows him.  One coworker has vowed never to eat at Chik-fil-a without him.   We flew to Connecticut on Monday.  Tuesday breakfast at the hotel was a
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Things I Can't Relate To

Reading the local news online yesterday I encountered one of those things in life I can't relate to.   In our fair city, the ebil school board is redrawing lines for a couple of the junior highs to combat overcrowding.  The article I read on said subject quoted a parent whining because of the number of schools their kid has gone to.  Without moving.   Unhuh.  Let me do the math on my personal history.  We moved between kindergarten and first grade.  Mom divorced dear old dad and we moved
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The Sound of Silence

Someone mentioned the song The Sound of Silence in a post a couple of days ago.  Complete with a photo of Michelle Duggar.  Now I have one of those brains that comes complete with a mental jukebox.  I may be able to trace this to  my mother who had a song for just about any situation.   If you think that what came to mind when I read "The Sound of Silence" was Simon and Garfunkel - you would be wrong.  Because I am a metal head.  Oh I have a wide and varied taste in music.  But my metal head se
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The Oustiders

That you Mental Floss.  http://www.mentalfloss.com/article/80698/12-facts-about-outsiders-will-stay-gold This reminded me of a bit on TMZ that I caught once where Rob Lowe pointed out that Patrick Swayze stood on a brick in a photo. http://www.tmz.com/2008/03/03/lowe-on-swayze-check-out-shorty/
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The Joys of Humidifiers

I've declared it that time of the year.  The time when I drag out a humidifier and fire it up.  I find, based on a decade (or more) of experience that I need one at work more than at home.  The issue however has been to find one that is small and quiet.  At my psychiatrist's office last March (trust me, me on anti-depressants is much better for all involved than me unmedicated).     Air-O-Swiss Small Humidifier One upside down water bottle.  No filters.  Another - we have  no kitchenette where
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The Joys of Extended Family

Yes, two in one day.   I've been meaning to discuss this one and well a few too many Facebook posts by someone on one subject only and here I am. The daughter of one of my first cousins (1st Cousin Once Removed) is not just into essential oils.  Oh no.  See, she's gotten into pandering Young Living Essential Oils on her Facebook page.  So in addition to her redecorating efforts, her real estate stuff, fitness and healthy eating,  and non stop photos of her son I now have never ending p
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The Holding Pattern

While I sit here and wait for a massive spreadsheet to recalculate because I'm trying to delete lines, a blog subject popped into my head.  So here we are. Back in 2014 my life went sideways.  And at the time, I was already battling a depression and anxiety slide that was the result of my spreading myself too thin at work and in my personal life in 2011 through into early 2013.  I can see that now.  At the time, I didn't.  I did know I went into a slide from the scale.  I was a WW lifetime
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The "Problem" with Current Song Lyrics (including a Home Free video)

I have to share this.  I love Home Free - a Country A Capella group.  I've seen them live.  The 2016 tour dates for the first half or so of the year have been announced and they're coming to my city.   This is a video from one of their shows - but it is not music.  It's story time with Tim.  And he's reciting lyrics.  One from a 25 year old song.  and another from that current song.  (Austin is on the right with all the hair doing dance moves, Rob has glasses, Chris is in the hat.  Adam is
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Thank You For Your Suggestion

So yesterday I saw a meme on Facebook that made me go hmm.  It triggered - or rather confirmed a direction for my writing.  My writing has been on hold for a while.  For many reasons that I'm going to spare you here.  Because that is not the point of this entry.   Although the start over in the meme is what I'll probably do with the project that won't go away.  That I tried to set aside and, yes, is again nagging at me.   And when I shared, I did put a line or two about my writing w
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Start The Car

I've been surfing Youtube lately.  And I encounter music from back in the ay (the 80's) that gives me the happies   I need the happies this week.  A few times so far this week I have wanted to leave work, go home and revert to sucking my thumb and twirling my hair.   Adulting has sucked.  Work has sucked.  I have another canker sore.  But I drag myself through.  And music has helped. I had found some Black N Blue videos over the last week or so.  I'll be shallow - the bass player was cute.
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