What are you doing right now

[consitter]

Doing overtime once again.

 

[BillR]

Going over the songs for my next band gig.

 

[consitter]

Reflecting on some things that happened not long ago...

 

[BillR]

Been watching Beatle tunes played on ukulele.

 

[rhino 2]

Just finished watching an old video; Paradise by the dashboard light...
Meatloaf with Aspen Miller... Fantastic! first time i've seen it...ThumbUp

''HOLYCOW''

 

[mynameisearl]

Setting in ICU with and old friend

 

[BillR]

Setting in ICU with and old friend

I hope everything works out well.

 

[consitter]

Reading posts and twiddling my thumbs.

 

[BillR]

Gonna go up and join the new YMCA in town.

 

[rhino 2]

Just woke up from a well deserved nap..
Kinda like dyeing but without the Commitment.....

 

[1dn5up]

Watching the outside thermo drop. Down to 2* :gah:

 

[Sully]

2* thats COLD :AGGHH:

we are only at 24* with Wind Chill 17*

 

[BillR]

Going down to 15 tonight with wind chill of 1. High tomorrow is 27. Next Saturday is supposed to get to 61. :wave4:

 

[trike lady]

I just checked the weather here at this time they have it listed as 0F
They have a wind chill advisory posted. Yeah its cold.

 

[consitter]

Just staying warm here. 10* now, but supposed to go down into single digits by morning. Will be walking from workplace to a frosty truck I'm sure. Good thing I wore my Carhartt coat to work.

 

[trike lady]

If its really nasty on Monday I'll bring out the red long johns. I have a Walls jacket with Sherpa lining and a Carhartt with quilted lining and a CE Schmidt Sherpa lined sweatshirt zip up. I have 3 different hats to choose from and heavy gloves and a pair of 200 gram thinsulate winter boots.
Dress right for that very chilly walk.

 

[consitter]

If its really nasty on Monday I'll bring out the red long johns. I have a Walls jacket with Sherpa lining and a Carhartt with quilted lining and a CE Schmidt Sherpa lined sweatshirt zip up. I have 3 different hats to choose from and heavy gloves and a pair of 200 gram thinsulate winter boots.
Dress right for that very chilly walk.

How far do you have to walk? I walked about a mile a couple of week ago when it was 10* out wear my carhartt coat, jersey gloves, a t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a pair of Rocky wellingtons that were just waterproof, not insulated. Surprisingly, I was toasty warm. The only part of me that got a little cold was my face.

 

[trike lady]

I walk about 2 blocks, maybe.
This is a shot out the window, where the white arrow points is the Big Lots store I work in.

 

[consitter]

I walk about 2 blocks, maybe.
This is a shot out the window, where the white arrow points is the Big Lots store I work in.

Walking that far? Shoot, I could do that in a pair of shorts and a t-shirt.

 

[trike lady]

Another thing I do on my job is go out and collect the carts and I don't put my jacket on and so the long-johns or even a thermal shirt keep me warm. The patrons like to scatter the carts all over the parking lot :gah and others put them in the cart corral :clapping:.
I'll work 2 days this week coming up and I know that when I last looked there was a lot of stuff with bad dates.

 

[consitter]

Worked in a grocery store in my teenage years. How did we solve the buggy problem? We took all the groceries out to the vehicles for the patrons. I worked there for 4 years. How much money do you think I got in tips? Two dollars the entire time. Didn't expect it either. If somebody takes your groceries out to the car for you these days, they pretty much stand there with their hand out (not that I have anybody help me often, mind you).

 

[trike lady]

In Butler PA you shop in any of the grocery stores and no one helps you with the groceries to the car. I carry mine on the bus in a backpack and a shopping bag and the bus stop is right out back of the apartment. There really aren't many employees in the store at night 4 maybe 5 and by 8:30pm one will go home. I am the closer along with the manager at 9:00pm the rest of the employees leave and I clean the store and leave with the manager after she counts the cash.

 

[consitter]

'Carry out' grocery service is getting to be a dinosaur these days. The only store left in our area that still does on a daily basis is the one I worked at as a kid. My local one will do it upon request, but again, there's always a hand sticking out at the end.

 

[trike lady]

That's true. Shopping in Aldi's bring a quarter and shopping bags. When you think back to years ago, people had jobs. A full service gas station: Gone. Publix supermarkets in Florida helped you with the groceries to the car and the job was normally held by a retiree. Publix called it a 'Service' and no tipping was required or allowed.

 

[1dn5up]

Oh my!

 

[mynameisearl]

Back in ICU visting old friend still no change

 

[rhino 2]

I had a Niece in ICU.. For weeks i went with the wife almost every day' Not the happiest place in the world... But it's something you have to do... And not just for a love-one you'll also find out it helps other people who are there for their love-ones just by you being there and talking with them...
Your a good man...ThumbUpThumbUp

 

[consitter]

My daughter stayed in ICU at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital for 32 days in November and December of '09 before and after her brain surgery. The hospital is 3 hours away from home and they allowed us to just stay in our daughter's room the whole time. My wife slept on a pull out chair/bed and I slept on the floor on egg crate supplied by staff. Where we were getting hardly any light from outdoors, we started staying awake at weird hours. We would go to sleep at 6pm and wake at 2am, and other hours just depending on when we felt like sleeping. The staff there told us that was common, and said it was called 'ICU psychosis'. I was just so glad when Raeden was able to finally go home. She stayed in the hospital a total time from October 23 to December 22. Made it home just in time for Christmas.