Things are so much easier.
TGW-1358
Chapter: Pride and Pain
Characters: ahmya, chira, cissy, Dagger, debbie, galten, Grand Admiral Mistrial Borogrove, jared, Jochi, Lenor, Matthew, svetlana, Taritha, Teresa
Location: Jon's home, Lupine Motors
The Gentle Wolf
A modern adventure webcomic
So THAT’S what happened to the CSA hotel manager!
And BMW had (has?) the same program for tourists
who bought motorcycles in Germany.
Water update: We dodged a bullet. Turns out the water WASN’T
coming from under the slab. Instead the basket thingy that
couples the kitchen sink to the drain busted. Flat came apart
and the pipes under my kitchen sink were hanging. Since I had
a plumber here (to do the estimate) we had him fix it. I would
not have known how to fix that part of the problem plus me
getting down on the floor is not a good thing. Getting back up
again is a real chore! Unfortunately the charge was $550! But
we’ve taken some steps to greatly reduce our monthly outlay
so we had the money in the bank. I called the insurance co.
and aborted the claim. The laminate is less than pristine in
a couple of places but over all there was surprisingly little
real damage. SO glad we will not have to repair walls or
slab.
That’s great news, congrats.
Only $550? The plumber probably
felt sorry for the ol’ fart.
“That might be me in a few years!”
That’s great news! Glad it was simple and not costly
to fix. It could have been much, much worse. That
“motel” almost lost the business license over that.
Couldn’t happen to a a “better” place, but that would
have left several girls and myself out of a job. They
would of managed, me not so much. AS it was they
tore out a wall and half the floor in the place, so I
was worried for you.
Do you remember I suggested the water might be
from a source different that you suspected,
like a break in a wall or something?
Voice of experience…
we’ve had it happen a couple of times!
Just like Mrs. Carl, did it for the places’ sales,
not because she had to. I had hoped that Cissy
would get a job as a trainer/advisor for the
military, but she seems happy. And a lot of people
are no doubt thinking: “she likes me! I’ll find
an excuse to come back to flirt with her” and
then they meet Alex….
Private sector for ‘Lana then, well she should
enjoy it, once she’s used to the people and
the travel times between stops. I wouldn’t
be surprised if her baby doesn’t grow up to
be in the Navy too. (song “in the Navy”
starts to play on loop in my head)
AAAAARGH…..
Join the Navy and ride the waves.
“‘Lana”? I was just thinking I was glad
none a ya goobs were going for “Svetti”.
Heh, Lana seemed to be more American that “Sveti”
and easier for me to remember how to spell it
I was sure at some point her friends would start
calling her that anyway.
Russians usually shorten it to Sveta…
We actually dodged 2 bullets recently. Early last week our daughter
discovered a lump in one of her breasts. It took a few days and a
couple of Doctor visits (plus a mammogram) but it was determined
to be a cyst. We were glad for several reasons. Not the least of
which was I didn’t want to follow in my Dad’s footsteps. He buried
2 of his younger siblings, which I also did in 2004, AND he buried one
of his children. That’s a detail I REALLY did not want to pull! As it is
I can go out the way he did, i.e. stroke out. What with my atria just
sort of flopping around (thus not properly emptying and potentially
generating clots) and there being 2 separate wires threaded through
my vena cava and down into my right ventricle, there is always a
possibility of a clot forming. Add that to sometimes the VA pharmacy
doesn’t send out refills in a timely manner and the fact that the Postal
Service sometimes takes 2 weeks to ship one of my meds the 25 mi.
across San Antonio and I end up like this past week. I ran out of
Eliquis (blood thinner) had had to drop back to Plavix plus low dose
aspirin as a backup. They took me off the Plavix a couple of years
back (but I kept it around “just in case”) at a time when I was on
Xarelto, Plavix and low-dose aspirin. Boy! Did I ever bleed easily!
Anyhow my Eliquis finally arrived yesterday after a 10 day trip
across town. I have a horror of suffering a massive stroke! NOT
how I want to go!
My father was on Eliquis for a while, a nose bleed that
would not stop and a trip to the ER put a stop to him
using it. My wife had a lump in one of her breasts too,
same thing, a cyst. Doctor told her that her excessive
coffee drinking was the cause. They told me the same
thing about my coffee use, but in my kidney, so I had
to cut back as well.
Ccccoooooooofffffeeeeeeee….
Oh there’s my cup! (face-palm)
(Sluuuurp!) brain……. function….
returning….. some what
Well, damn. Another young hero:
https://revolver.news/2025/02/10-year-old-shields-sister-from-flying-pa-crash-debris-wakes-after-brain-surgery-asks-did-i-save-her/
Saw that. Kid’s a man already.
It’s a minor miracle that he woke up at all,
or remembered what happened. He needs
to be given the hero treatment after that!
As long as he isn’t awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Former President Biden
(God, how I love saying that)
shit all over that one.
To be given the PMoF would be
an insult because of that fool.
“Toxic masculinity” on display in all its glory!
More upgrades for the Pride?
Interesting, interesting…
I ran across this meme:
“I sent that ancestry site
some information on my
family tree, they sent back
a packet of seeds and
suggest I start over”
OOOOH the burn!