What are you doing today? (besides shopping)

Clean this house. And snow removal- now compacted ice removal.
See if Sir Hiss a Lot will come any closer.

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prince, I have a similar situation to Sir Hiss-A-Lot. I forgot to mention that I had a situation where I still had an assortment of pumpkins left from Halloween and still present on my front porch. Into December, I saw small nibbles and bite marks on them. I don't have a front door camera.

When it snowed and iced over recently, I identified the culprit. I had a suspicion it could have been stray cats or an opossum. Instead, it was a large, plump, and chubby squirrel. I have not seen legs and a bottom like this one on a squirrel before.

To my amazement, during the course of weeks, it managed to detach the top of one pumpkin and empty it bare. Towards the end, it went at all of the remnant seeds. There were moments where I saw it hold onto the side of exposed pumpkin top with its small and puny hands, and then proceed to stick its entire head deep into the bottom of pumpkin, with its tail up.

I had a pet name a for squirrel. But I decided to go with a different nickname. I named it "Acorns!" I like to think that my old pumpkins saved this squirrel during this frozen winter.
Once the pumpkin was completely empty, I finally got to throwing it away. This was the first time I saw a squirrel really go at it and remembered this thread.

I hope Sir Hiss-A-Lot warms up inside! The stray cats here go underneath cars or into the sewers.
Today was a nice day. No clouds and a light chill. Spent the weekend logging onto some old social media and other platforms. Things are a lot better than I remember. Fun and relaxing weekend.
I was Sped Teacher for STAR kids today and tomorrow I am the music teacher. Luckily, I just have to play a few videos for them and then they'll make written observations on instruments.
It did get a bit warmer today but it didn't feel like it because it was so windy.
I drained and filled the transmission fluid on a friend's vehicle. The drained fluid wasn't the normal pink, it was dark. I also added some LubeGard red additive to the new fluid.

Should I consider this "community service?"

BTW, you should do this about every 60k miles.

When was the last time you had this performed on YOUR vehicle?
Attended a Lunar New Year celebration at my current workplace and old employer too. The industry I work in is culturally diverse. Both were well done in different ways.

It was mind-blowing to set foot on the old workplace campus and reconnect with old colleagues after almost one year. Already, teams shifted and got leaner. It was fun to catch-up though. Enjoyed the food and entertainment. There were traditional red envelopes being handed out and people saying happy new year, which caught me by surprise!
I'm doing some work on my finances and later going with a friend to a brewery for Friday craft brew and Friday fish sammiches...and a little live music.
Then coming home to bundle up as temps drop back down again. I have some errands and two shops tomorrow. It's gonna be way cold, I am nuts...but hey, full sun predicted tomorrow. full stop. yeah.
Sounds like fun @Okie
I am cancelling a trip to the city due to snowfall warning.
So, a cozy day at home.
Finished the safety training for the school division. Tidying papers, totaling my mystery shop earrings for 2024 (will take 5 minutes lol) laundry, and hibernating today.
Snow removal if the wind stops.

No Sir-Hiss-a-Lot yet.
It's pretty cold.
I let my mail pile up. I have a thick stack of tax documents. Not pretty, at all. I'm going to start placing them into a physical folder before I misplace them.
I open all my mail immediately, but then the papers I keep pile up.

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Hibernating, feeling grateful for a toasty warm house. -31°C apparently feels like -39. Feeling grateful my sub day was cancelled.

Will have to shovel through drifts in yard for tomorrow. Or learn to use the snowblower.

Did one short session so far.

Worried about how stray/feral cat will survive this.
@prince. For some reason, Chicago is not as cold as is usually in February. 1 degree C!
I subbed today and will be staying home tomorrow since my husband has to be on site every Tuesday. Tomorrow will be my day for prep/cook for the rest of the week.
1° sounds balmy right now!

Subbing at Hutterite Colony right now. 4 students in grade 4-7 but one is absent.

Roads were great (not)
Not to make you feel bad, but 61°F here. There was a light fog this morning. It feels awesome!
Grade 3/PE today. So many steps on my FitBit!

Grade one tomorrow. Different Grade 3 tomorrow.
I'm dreading going in a different part of town later this week. Two different kinds of protests going on. One is ironically sports related after trading our beloved NBA franchise player. Hopefully not as much traffic and distractions.
I subbed for art. So, the whole day was drawing Valentines with different classes. Tomorrow, again same school..same art class. Hopefully, they have a new plan tomorrow. I was bored repeating the same instructions.
Do you find that each subsequent class finishes the assignment quicker?
Luckily, I only had one art project in grade one. They had to colour characters to glue onto paper lunch bags. The lunch bags are their Valentine's "mailboxes"

One boy, redesigned his owl into a crab. LoL

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I'm finally starting to build another PC. Last one I built was in 2011, then I upgraded it in 2021 with a RAID1 set of drives. Reason for the upgrade is that Windows11 is not supported by my 2011 hardware.

Anyone else here build their own computers or work on their own vehicles, houses, personal finance? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

Are there that many people without meaningful life skills? What does this say about our US education system?
@prince wrote:

I open all my mail immediately, but then the papers I keep pile up.

May I suggest a scanner? I use a ScanSnap scanner which is what many small professional offices use. I then backup to a local NAS. Then I shred any documents with sensitive info.
@maverick1 wrote:

I'm finally starting to build another PC. Last one I built was in 2011, then I upgraded it in 2021 with a RAID1 set of drives. Reason for the upgrade is that Windows11 is not supported by my 2011 hardware.

Anyone else here build their own computers or work on their own vehicles, houses, personal finance? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

Are there that many people without meaningful life skills? What does this say about our US education system?
Regarding computers, I bought an older developer-edition type laptop that was similar to my work's laptop for personal use. It works interchangeably with my docking station, monitor, peripherals setup. I have a separate Mac setup, too. When it comes to the actual building of computers, I'm not knowledgeable about that!

I don't have many life skills! Not good with vehicles and houses. I have to hire someone else to take care of that.

Personal finances though, I would consider myself independent and astute enough compared to most, in that area.
@Okie wrote:

@maverick1 wrote:

I'm finally starting to build another PC. Last one I built was in 2011, then I upgraded it in 2021 with a RAID1 set of drives. Reason for the upgrade is that Windows11 is not supported by my 2011 hardware.

Anyone else here build their own computers or work on their own vehicles, houses, personal finance? Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

Are there that many people without meaningful life skills? What does this say about our US education system?
Regarding computers, I bought an older developer-edition type laptop that was similar to my work's laptop for personal use. It works interchangeably with my docking station, monitor, peripherals setup. I have a separate Mac setup, too. When it comes to the actual building of computers, I'm not knowledgeable about that!

I don't have many life skills! Not good with vehicles and houses. I have to hire someone else to take care of that.

Personal finances though, I would consider myself independent and astute enough compared to most, in that area.

Being independent is a wonderful skill!!!
Having a number of life skills has been key for me to surviving, thriving and all that...
but I don't have all the skills I want or need and I believe much wisdom lies in knowing when you are in over your head
and it's time to sub it out.
I have so many mentors to thank...
I still consider myself lazy, but not nearly as lazy as I used to be. Maybe this isn't considered life skills, and more along the lines of basic necessities. But I believe I made significant improvements in cooking, cleaning, hygiene, and exercising!
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