2025: AUGUST

I had one that turned on by pulling the key chain and turned off by pushing it in. This one would not stop! Horrible noise. Wrapped it in a thermal hoodie until I could get outside and smash it with a brick. That didn't work so ended up drowning it in a jug of sudsy water.

disarming an alarm

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August 7

Finally weather was cool enough to walk to the post office. Handicap access was cleaned up- not well but what is to be expected. Saw the postal worker as I was taking a photo of their broken door. She told me a crew was there on Wednesday. When she contacted the landlady about the door the landlady says she is not going to replace it. So they will likely replace it and send her a bill. For a postal building it is NOT handicap friendly. People offer to help me. And that is appreciated BUT automatic doors would be nice or at least ones that opened with a "shove" of the butt

The walk back I took note of the road conditions- the State need to get on the stick for rt 28 & 137. Street gutters and drains are clogged with debris.

walk to and back took from 8:37am until almost 10 am. Likely would be less time if I did not have to do the rollator over tree roots on the short cut.

August 16 2025

Beautiful day out there.

ISO smooth flat surface. Left for my walk to lottery  8:35am. Using rollator  went the paved way. Had to turn around and come back here because it was too bumpy for my body. So headed for the short cut and lottery using just a cane bur needed my shoulder bag for cough drops, camera, cellphone money lottery slip etc. Took the same amount of time amazingly but not that bumpy torture of the rollator. My first attempt I noticed they patched the road near the puddle that is gone . Then on the trip to lottery saw gum  tin that contains nicotine. AND saw that the State patched and cleaned up 2 gutters (that I noticed) and looks like the post office door was fixed.YAY. Sidewalks are still sandy and slippery. baby steps I guess.

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August 27

I woke this morning while dreaming of cleaning a toilet where someone had flushed a litter pan full into the toilet. What was left was a standing cat turd cemented to the bowl with clumping litter.

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Well looks like my free stuff went untouched. But I will not be discouraged that was just one day. This morning doing 7 rounds I hauled out another milk crate and filled it up and stood bags around the crates. scratched out books on the signs and made another Free sign. What a relief that clears my inside stairway of clutter. It has all been sitting there since June of 2024 when I was getting rid of stuff like all us old people do LOL  Books, crafts, DVDs, kitchen gadgets and cookies sheets rolling pin etc. Then I fell and have not driven or been anywhere since then. Anything not gone on Sunday afternoon will go in Monday's trash. If that is too much for me I will do a bag a week. After all by then it is all trash. It pains me to throw away books but...

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Random thoughts as August fades

Sweaty palms. I drove off Cape for the first time with my Saturn back in 2003. I took the Mid Cape- which after that one time I never did again as people drove too fast. Got where I was going and turned around to come back to the Cape. Approaching the Sagamore bridge I noticed my pams were sweating so profusely I could not hold onto the steering wheel. ( wore driving gloves from that point on) On the Cape I happened to look at the Speedometer and  going down hill I was going 90 MPH. Holy shit. took my foot off the pedal and thank goodness I was approaching that steep hill and slowed down to 55 pretty quickly.

Those French Salt Crystal deodorants are the best thing for sweaty palms.

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My favorite wtxh was a red one encased in clear ( of course) plastic. It was to be worn around my neck. After a few jogs at night it fogged up and never ran again. It was so pretty. My grandmother Grace Moore was given a clock for christening the US Regent ship. I had it after she died in 1959. It ran perfectly until the day JFK was shot. Stopped never to run again. It was in my barrister's chest with other special things. Picked it up on day and it started run ning again. That was 2009. stooped again I guess forever. Way off the subject with this- my favorite song that Ma Chrystie played on the piano was Grandfather's Clock

grandfather's clock

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speeding & sweating-oh and hypothalmus controls sweating so maybe during surgery they touched it during Eric's brain surgery.

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this morning while working on my youtube playlists. Most songs are 60s 70s 80s and newer pop music from Eminem, Rob Thomas, 50 cent etc. but saw a short for a duet of Karen Carpenter and Ella Fitzgerald I think. Not an earworm but the Karen C one is- Masquerade. I usually do not do sappy- made this an exception.

Masquerade

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