The school district website reported 20 cases in 4 days since the school opened. They do a Shield Testing every morning for kids. Don't know how many kids are still sitting with COVID in classrooms since not all parents agreed to the daily testing. I'm glad I didn't send my daughter and I am praying all the kids will be safe. My friend's wedding in UK has been postponed because of COVID. She went through a bitter divorce and was so looking forward to her wedding.

@guysmom
So fun. Hope to do it again

@prince..ahhh..the things you remember when you talk with your friends from school. My frd was just telling me how I used to love teaching everyone even when in school. She said she still remembered my way to memorize spellings by sounding them out just the way they were written and still pronounces Champagne..Cham--Pa-G-nee!! And I was telling her how she translated everything English into Funny Irish. What I would give to be in High School again.

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lol! I can live without another bout of high school. Meanwhile, I am all set to find out what the unprintable is wrong with my voice. I already know that it is overused and might have been damaged decades ago. I need to know what to do next. Fortunately, the specialist will tell me soon. I have planned a few mostly silent gigs that will hurt my back while protecting my voice and give me some time off from the talking head job. Two out of three ain't bad, so sang Meatloaf.....

Cleaning appointment at the dentist. Walking in a couple of big box stores for exercise. (This heat wave can't be over soon enough!)

12 K hike today. Doing trail maintenance (Clipping stray branches) Fun, but exhausted! Every muscle in my body hurts.

So dang hot! I arrived home so overheated. Took a cool shower. Two hours later I am dancing with strangers and DDs in the dark. The band tonight was fabulous. We saw the girl's HS Varsity Volleyball Coach. What a great reunion. I feel like i am on a treadmill once again.

Workout, remember to check for the release of specific gigs that will fill up my August IC world, and continue with another Bryant & May book. This time they are 'off the tracks' and showing the double-edged sword of invisibility. Hackers who work for good are as difficult to find as perps who somehow manage to hide in this camera-laden world.

Driving halfway across the state to attend a meeting. I applied for two storage shops along the way, but the scheduler never got back to me. Everything happens for a reason, so the Universe is telling me I need to bring my swimming suit and go to the pool instead of sit in my room doing reports.

Staying home. Someone else on yesterday's trail has tested positive. I don't fall under guidelines of close contact, so not sure what I'll do.

I got a last minute hardware store shop that was nicely bonused. I was in the parking lot of the hardware store, so I didn't do a mental inventory of what I needed. I ended up getting aluminum foil.

My Mom's birthday is Tuesday. I found a beautiful card for her. The stupid USPS was out of stamps, so I mailed it with metered postage.

I saw a great video yesterday about how to memorize all the states on the map. I didn't grow up here so maybe you guys are already aware of these tips and tricks. Wow! the whole area from Minnesota to Louisiana does look like a chef. He holds ten plates (Tennessee) of chicken (Kentucky fried). Hilarious!! In case, somebody wants a link:
[www.youtube.com]

Met my fellow fellowship officers for breakfast, then went back to the hotel to set up for tomorrow's hybrid meeting. Chilled in the afternoon, then went out for dinner and ice cream.

So I need a few gazillion bucks asap. It is for needed research for a [presumed small and underserved] medical population. People who are dependent upon thyroid medication and also 'hard sticks' for blood tests should have an alternative method of testing for the various thyroid tests that are currently available. The last time I tried to give a blood sample, they could not get enough blood from me. I dared not get more medicine because if the dose is too high, the heart is at risk. If the dose is too low, the medication is useless. Now, before you start in with the blood and turnips jokes, you should know that there might be other people who have this issue and might need alternative testing methods besides blood draws for other conditions that require constant monitoring and potential dosage adjustments. If they can get some blood from me today, I can get some more thyroid medication. Presumably, the medication will fix the voice issue. Wish me luck-- for today and all other blood draws in future... and perhaps some clever soul will develop the alternative testing method...

*eta*
No blood today. *sigh*



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I hope you're okay!

@prince wrote:

Staying home. Someone else on yesterday's trail has tested positive. I don't fall under guidelines of close contact, so not sure what I'll do.

I am not sick and barely a contact. I am staying away from people and got tested, I won't be spreading this!

@HonnyBrown wrote:

I hope you're okay!

@prince wrote:

Staying home. Someone else on yesterday's trail has tested positive. I don't fall under guidelines of close contact, so not sure what I'll do.

@Mum wrote:

I saw a great video yesterday about how to memorize all the states on the map. I didn't grow up here so maybe you guys are already aware of these tips and tricks. Wow! the whole area from Minnesota to Louisiana does look like a chef. He holds ten plates (Tennessee) of chicken (Kentucky fried). Hilarious!! In case, somebody wants a link:
[www.youtube.com]

Just watched this....SOOooooooo amusing and helpful! Thanks for sharing!

@Shop-et-al I have a thyroid issue too, but thankfully drawing blood is not a problem. I feel for you and hope they find some alternative method to test thyroid levels. I haven't been to a lab to get a blood test since the pandemic but my doctor was kind enough to prescribe medication for 3 months at a time.

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I finally made it to Home Depot and looked in the Oops section. I found a paint color that I want for my living room. I bought a gallon for $10!

The good/bad news is that there is a potential or partial solution for the blood test/thyroid thing. A quick search revealed an at-home blood test for one type of thyroid test. This one uses just a few drops of blood. A more intensive thyroid examination would need more blood than that, or a few drops per test type (presumably). So. Your gazilllions are safe, my get-rich-quick scheme is thwarted (I had wondered aloud while hoping for blood to appear whether tech could make it possible to study thyroid with just a few drops of blood from a finger prick), and all is more or less well. I also decided to continue with my endocrine overhaul, hypothesizing that if everything else were addressed properly, the thyroid thing might abate substantially and/or become manageable via simple changes. What if my stubborn thyroid were tamed and manageable with no more than a home kit instead of the large amounts of blood formerly drawn? Mind you, I have not begun to search for reliability or other data for the home kit. I have yet to ask the doc if they would accept results from such a test. I am just thrilled that it exists, even if none of us will do something fab for all of humanity and win a Nobel Prize for the simplistic thyroid tests which would thrill people around the world. Alas.

Otherwise, it is the usual: workout, work at home, possibly clean the car, and take a nap before work.

@Shop-et-al..I have had thyroid issues for 13 years which is the exact amount of time I have been in the US (right after I got married). My mom has had thyroid for about 20 years and what has really helped us both is limiting raw, cruciferous vegetables. I do take a green smoothie everyday but always try to limit raw greens. Instead, sauteed or pan fried green veggies do nor interfere with your levels. I have managed to keep my levels at an optimal level but of course, I took the help of an endocrinologist. I was lucky to find him and he told me how general physicians are sometimes unable to monitor your levels. Each age group and gender has a different optimal level rather than one size fits all approach. He kept changing the doses until we reached that magic number of 1 which he said was right for me. My first year (2008) when I was diagnosed, I had gained a shocking amount of weight. I was able to shed all that weight and more in 3 months with medication, diet adjustments, and exercise.

I was having my blood tested every 3 months and it was such a pain to go to the lab. Now, it is once a year and I hope that continues. I am so glad I ditched the Gen. Physician and went to see that specialist.

Well, today was more walking at the Forest Park, then lentil pancakes for lunch, and marking those 50 states on the maps with my daughter. Raining like cats and dogs here. Hope, Ida spares Louisiana.

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I picked up a rewards freebie sandwich from WaWa. That will be dinner and lunch tomorrow. Today and tomorrow, I'm taping off my living room to prep for a paint job.

Yay, I tested negative for Covid! So joined the hike. 11K!

@Mum
I am interested in lentil pancakes.

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Quinoa 1/4 cup, dry yellow mung beans 1/2 cup, and you could add 2 tbsp of brown rice. Soak for 4 hours or overnight. Grind with little water. Add salt, pepper, turmeric. I add flax powder for added benefits. Add your fave veggies. I add shredded beets. sometimes, onions and peppers.
Brush a little oil in a shallow pan and add a little batter to form a thick pancake. Cover on sim and flip. Ready when both sides are golden. I serve with cilantro chutney or Sriracha/ketchup.
I always buy dry beans in bulk from an Indian store. I have experimented with many kinds of beans like pigeon peas, red lentils, broken chickpea beans. This is how they look:
[recipebook.io]

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@Mum
Thanks!

Family BBQ today. Fun, delicious and relaxing.

Happy Monday! Busy day here: workout, work, more work, still more work, and eventually work at the talking head job.

@prince wrote:

@Mum
I am interested in lentil pancakes.

Oh, about 25 years ago now, I tried out a recipe for Lentil Burgers. Personally, I enjoyed them. But my husband and then-8-year-old-son called them the "Burgers from Hell". So I've never made anything with lentils again, because I know I'd be the only one who would enjoy it!

@guysmom.. Lentil burgers are the worst!! Mashed potatoes and chickpeas makes the best burger patties. I boil both separately and them mash them together to make little patties. I add a few spices. You could coat them with bread crumbs or a slurry of white flour and shallow fry.

@Mum wrote:

@guysmom.. Lentil burgers are the worst!!

Say now....were you here at my house 25 years ago??? hahahahaha!! Yeah, I was the only one who thought they were pretty good!