Running Bear's March 2025 Coffee Shop

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I'm up.

Decided to write an article for the gaming blog on my giant church angel and the forces she runs with. So that occupied the morning.

In the process, I decided it was time for surgery on the angel. In game terms, there are two variants of her "superpowers" I gave one a test drive yesterday, and decided it didn't fit my play style. The powers are indicated by which weapon she carries. Sword or Spear. Mine has the spear.

But the two-handed sword that comes with is HUGE, and adds about three inches to the height of the model. OK, she's already got a shield in the other hand. Cut this one down to be one handed, and shorter. Just need to prime it, and cut the old spear arm off at the elbow (where the new sword arm ends.

then I have to figure out if I want to magnetize, and swap them out, or glue it in permanently. I'm leaning to glue. I'll paint the sword and arm to match, then do a test fit and see if I like it better or worse.

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Good afternoon all. A large coffee please, Flo. I see Bill is paying. Thanks, Bill.

Dawn wants the house redecorated and has a painter - decorator starting this week.

Hospital doctor has just rang and is prescribing more antibiotics for me.

Younger granddaughter visiting after school. Brownies this evening.
 
Patrick said:
Morning all,

Thanks for the coffee Bill! I need it this morning.

Partly cloudy and 36° this morning, going for 76° later.

Peach tree is getting ready to bloom. Hopefully there is no surprise late freeze. No apples this year as the trees are gone.
Thinking about what to plant. I picked up some green beans, beets, carrots and okra seeds from the library. Our library has a free seed exchange where they get vegetable and flower seeds. The assistant library director lets me know when new seeds are available and what they get. The wife and I watch her kids on occasion...lol

3 more weeks until vacation. Got a little over a week to use or lose. Not sure going somewhere is in the cards yet. Thinking about doing the rest of RT66 from Tucumcari, NM to at least Williams AZ, and then veer north to see the Grand Canyon and possibly on to Lost Wages and back through Utah and Colorado, because we can. Not sure if we want to include the RT going through Santa Fe and that portion of the road only lasted about 12 years before being by-passed. We may possible go on to Santa Monica to complete the route, but not sure yet. Nothing really big along the way I want to stop and see, but the scenery and pictures along the route. Just to say I saw that. I have several books and maps of the route that have interesting stuff, but I think I just want to experience it on a drive. I have been on the original RT66 and some early segments from Springfield, MO to Tucumcari, NM. I have been on the Interstate replacements of 66 from Joliet, IL to Flagstaff, AZ.

BBL
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If you do go to Santa Monica, be sure to visit the pier. Parking at the 3rd Street mall garage is cheap for the area. Walk on down and go to the end of the pier. Used to be able to drive out to the west end.
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The Rt 66 historical society officially made the pier the "unofficial" end of the route, since so many people drove out there anyway back in the day. The technical end is at Lincoln Ave? IIRC. Fed highways have to end in either fed highways, or international borders. And we don't have good submersible cars to drive 7 miles out to sea yet.

BTW: the "End of Route 66" sign on Ocean Ave by Palisades Park is not accurate either.

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Pier Burgers and shakes are good on the pier. In SaMo, on 3rd Street promenade, Barney's Beanery is good pub food. Or, if you like Cheesecake Factory, there is on in the mall on 3rd street (by the parking garage. They've got patio seating, that is good if you want to look out over the city/ocean.

And, the old "Pier" sign doesn't actually say "Pier"
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Back in the late 20s/30s, they made a breakwater, and put in a yacht harbor anchorage. Charlie Chaplin's girlfriend at the time got one of the first berthing permits in the harbor. But, after marina del rey hit with piers for tying up to, the yacht harbor died. But the sign is still cool.
 


Well, today is off to a resounding start. My Windoze laptop updated to the latest and greatest version, and promptly began having multiple issues. The store app quit working, email quit working, several under-the-hood apps quit working, it started blue-screening every few minutes, and I'm rolling it back to the previous version. I hope that works.

Edit: Not only did it not work, now Windoze update is no longer available. If I'm having these issues, imagine what a non-tech-savvy user would be going through.
 
Patrick said:
Morning all,

Thanks for the coffee Bill! I need it this morning.

Partly cloudy and 36° this morning, going for 76° later.

Peach tree is getting ready to bloom. Hopefully there is no surprise late freeze. No apples this year as the trees are gone.
Thinking about what to plant. I picked up some green beans, beets, carrots and okra seeds from the library. Our library has a free seed exchange where they get vegetable and flower seeds. The assistant library director lets me know when new seeds are available and what they get. The wife and I watch her kids on occasion...lol

3 more weeks until vacation. Got a little over a week to use or lose. Not sure going somewhere is in the cards yet. Thinking about doing the rest of RT66 from Tucumcari, NM to at least Williams AZ, and then veer north to see the Grand Canyon and possibly on to Lost Wages and back through Utah and Colorado, because we can. Not sure if we want to include the RT going through Santa Fe and that portion of the road only lasted about 12 years before being by-passed. We may possible go on to Santa Monica to complete the route, but not sure yet. Nothing really big along the way I want to stop and see, but the scenery and pictures along the route. Just to say I saw that. I have several books and maps of the route that have interesting stuff, but I think I just want to experience it on a drive. I have been on the original RT66 and some early segments from Springfield, MO to Tucumcari, NM. I have been on the Interstate replacements of 66 from Joliet, IL to Flagstaff, AZ.

BBL
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There is a steam train to the Grand Canyon at Williams. It could be a fun stopover. When I did it, there was a steamer, that got a little help from an F7.
 
Good morning from a now very bright 11:25am in So. Central Wisconsin. It was a gloomy and dark ride to the eye clinic at 5:50 this morning. The roads were still damp from an overnight rainfall. Little traffic

Got to the Clinic at 6:10 for intake. 6:25 they took Terry for prep. 6.40 they came and got me to sit with her before they took her in for the cataract surgery. At 7:55 after 2 doctors gave her the talk and a check of eye dialating they took Terry in to surgery. At 8:15 she was back with me in her room. 3 nurses swarmed her, took out the IV, read her her rights I mean directions and the wheel chair arrived to take her to the car. In the car and out the parking ramp at 8:40. Dunkin for coffee and she wanted a croissant with sausage, egg and cheese. I napped from 9 to 10:30, she was playing the commodities market on her computer she uses for stuff like that. Easy morning and she thanks you guys for all the well wishes for both surgeries. Tomorrow at 9:45am is the follow up visit. But all is great

I am waiting for the plumber’s text message to tell me he will be here within 30 minutes.

I’m been upstairs since we got home but she tells me she will call if I’m needed. Heading to the trains
 
Received a telephone call from my hospital doctor. Still waiting the results of the procedure last Friday. One thing he told me, I was allergic to sweetcorn. Great. I am not fond of it, but eat it because Dawn loves it and I put it in cooking.
I have to have another course of antibiotics.
 
TLOC said:
Good morning from a now very bright 11:25am in So. Central Wisconsin. It was a gloomy and dark ride to the eye clinic at 5:50 this morning. The roads were still damp from an overnight rainfall. Little traffic

Got to the Clinic at 6:10 for intake. 6:25 they took Terry for prep. 6.40 they came and got me to sit with her before they took her in for the cataract surgery. At 7:55 after 2 doctors gave her the talk and a check of eye dialating they took Terry in to surgery. At 8:15 she was back with me in her room. 3 nurses swarmed her, took out the IV, read her her rights I mean directions and the wheel chair arrived to take her to the car. In the car and out the parking ramp at 8:40. Dunkin for coffee and she wanted a croissant with sausage, egg and cheese. I napped from 9 to 10:30, she was playing the commodities market on her computer she uses for stuff like that. Easy morning and she thanks you guys for all the well wishes for both surgeries. Tomorrow at 9:45am is the follow up visit. But all is great

I am waiting for the plumber’s text message to tell me he will be here within 30 minutes.

I’m been upstairs since we got home but she tells me she will call if I’m needed. Heading to the trains
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Glad everything went well for you guys, good to hear!
 
Good afternoon all!

Kind of a late check-in today. Currently a very windy 44F. Only supposed to get to around 50F. Glad I have
nothing to get done outside. It wouldn't be a pleasant day for anything like that.

Got the wife off and rolling for her 3-day meetings for work, and got the daughter to school. Been puttering around
the house doing some light domestic duties.

Daughter and I will probably run uptown for dinner. I'm not making anything the next couple of nights for just
the two of us.

Bill-Thanks for the morning coffee, I drank my fair share!

Have a safe day everyone!
 
NorthBrit said:
Received a telephone call from my hospital doctor. Still waiting the results of the procedure last Friday. One thing he told me, I was allergic to sweetcorn. Great. I am not fond of it, but eat it because Dawn loves it and I put it in cooking.
I have to have another course of antibiotics.
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My mother was allergic to corn. You don't realize how many things contain corn until you can't eat it.
 


Rain all day so no golf but got my income tax done. They sent me a message within an hour that it was accepted by both the federal and state. Got back $6,400.00 from the federal and $1,500 from the state. Now that I'm playing golf 4 days a week and cleaning up around here. It's hard to get anything done on the layout.
Swal
 
Lunch of champions! (Not shown some left over cauliflower and asparagus from yesterdays dinner)

I made this from 2 packages of Top Ramen (Chicken). I cooked the noodles until they were kind of soft (not super soft) and removed them from the water. I then stirred into the noodles the soup powder, some Korean BBQ spice I got at Costco, and a small spoon of gochujang Korean hot pepper paste, and a couple spoons of Kikkoman Soy Sauce and some shots of the La-Yu Japanese hot chili oil. So a plate of noodles, not ramen soup. But made using the ramen packages. I got the idea as we sometimes buy these Thai pan noodles that look like ramen packs and include the same sort of stuff.

Baked some Chick-Fil-A style nuggets from Costco and put those on top. Won't claim it's healthy or anything but it was quick and tasty. And the cauliflower and asparagus count as the healthy part.

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kbkchooch said:
Sorry to hear the mower saga! I bypassed that switch when I go my JD X300 years ago, and since then it gets serviced by the JD dealer at home. Every year I get it back with my jumper wire laying on the seat. I guess they wont leave it in place.
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By law they can't. Good thing he left and didn't toss it. I have a jumper wire on the seat and the RIO switch (mower backup safety) All this because of a lawsuit.
 


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