This is one of those posts that I had written and then forgotten to publish, so it’s slightly old news, but still funny.
I think I mentioned already that I started a Meet-up group to have people to go dancing with (because John really doesn’t want to dance). The advantage of starting the group myself, is I get to choose the events. I prefer outdoor patios and plazas, and I’m starting to get familiar with the local bands.
I scheduled our first meet-up at St. Philips plaza, where there are 3 restaurants, a large plaza with a stage, and regular live music. I chose a night where they had a band I knew was danceable, and posted the event.
The day before the event, a guy posted to the group saying he was legally blind and asking for detailed directions. I wondered how he would find us, but I posted directions as best I could. Of course there was no way for me to know ahead of time what table we would be seated at, but I created a table sign and posted a picture of that for everyone. But I didn’t know how much good that would do him.
On the night of the event, I got there half an hour early because I knew there can be a wait for a plaza table (and we can’t reserve them ahead). Sure enough, there was a half hour wait. So I sat on a bench in the front to wait. I was quite nervous about the whole thing. I didn’t know any of the people coming and had no idea how it was all going to work out.
After a bit, I noticed an elderly man getting out of a taxi cab. He stood on the curb, a little hunched over with a backpack on his back, and looked around vaguely. I realized he could be my legally blind meet-up member. I went up and asked, “Michael?” He was so relieved. And I have no idea how he would have found us, had I been seated somewhere at all the tables in the plaza.
We got seated and people trickled in, found my table sign, and soon I had a decent sized group. Everyone was super nice, and they all helped out with keeping an eye out for Michael, who could see well enough to find the dance floor on his own (aim for the stage), but could not find our table coming back.
At the end of the evening, Michael asked for a ride home to save on cab fare. I was the only one going in his direction, so I agreed to do it. Although I didn’t really want to be tagged as Michael’s designated ride from here on out for all our upcoming events. But I figured I’d worry about that later. I got him home safe and myself home safe, and called the whole night a success.
Then I scheduled our next Meet-up at the same venue, but a different band. A couple of days before the event, Michael posted to the entire group and said, “Can somone give me a ride from Grant and Campbell area? I’m legally blind and don’t drive. But not in your car Kristina. I had a problem with the exhaust smell.“
It was the funniest message I’ve seen in a long time and I’m still rolling on the ground laughing. He posted that to everyone! “But not in your car, Kristina”. I’ve been fired from the task of providing free rides to near-strangers! How low can I go?
I sent the message to John saying maybe I don’t want to replace my Mini Cooper after all (we’ve been meaning to replace it, because it’s getting quite old). And John replied, “It’s a FEATURE!” So it’s our big joke now. My car is so bad, people would rather pay for a cab than bum a ride with me. So now I don’t have to give people rides.
Although this spring when I had good friend come visit and I was talking about getting a new car, she politely suggested I not buy another Mini Cooper. (Right, Tracey?) LOL.
Also thanks to Tracey for the great photo of lights at night that I’m using on the Meet-up site. I actually think Tracey’s daughter Amy took the photo, so thanks, Amy.
And thanks to all of you who have been willing to ride in my car recently!
Peak pool season has been eventful this year. Thank goodness I didn’t have a big line-up of visitors expecting a pool-themed tropical vacation. That would truly have been a disaster, because my backyard was out of commission for most of May! At peak pool season! And then my pool got knocked out of commission on top of it.
It all started suddenly, early one morning the first week of May, when diesel-belching, earth moving equipment appeared in the alley immediately behind our house. When I went out to investigate, I was told they needed to replace the city gas line.
They cheerfully explained that they would not impact me. But not impacting my gas service did not mean not impacting me. They start work before 7 am, and they leave their machinery to sit and belch diesel fumes all day long even when they aren’t using them. When they are using them, it’s super loud. It’s been impossible to enjoy the backyard.
I naively thought it would take a few days. Four weeks later, I think they are finally done. It was a nightmare.
Meanwhile, we had an insane pollen season this year, due to an overly wet winter. I have never seen so much pollen in my life, and I’ve lived on both the east and the west coasts. How is it that there’s more pollen in Tucson than anywhere I’ve ever lived? (Don’t visit me in May if you have allergies.) Everything got completely coated in sticky yellow-green.
I was trying to keep the excess pollen vacuumed out of my pool, but what I didn’t realize was our filters had become caked with pollen. At one point I emailed John, complaining that something was just wrong, I could not get the pool clean. “This is Sisyphean!” I said.
This is what my pool looked like on May 21. It was green! I’ve never seen anything like this before.
Finally it dawned on me to ask John to clean the filters. Note to us all – if mechanical equipment isn’t working, clean or change its filters!
After he got the filters clean, the water started clearing. At first. But by May 25 it was green again. What’s going on?
We did our best to clean it out, and then went camping for two days. When we got back, our pool looked like this.
Can you believe that color? What should we do? Did we need to drain it and start all over?
Apparently our cleaning efforts were too little, too late. My guess is, we didn’t have enough circulation for too long, due to pollen-clogged filters, causing our problem to escalate into an algae bloom. I’ve never experienced that in the 3 1/2 years we’ve owned this pool.
It was evening by the time we got back from camping, so we just shook our heads and went to bed. The next morning, which was yesterday morning, the pool guy came. John and I take care of all our own cleaning and maintenance, but we hire a company to do the weekly chemical balance for us so we don’t have to store pool chemicals. Our technician took one look at that hot mess, and applied a shock treatment.
Meanwhile, John and I are continuing to run the filter pump on high 24-7, I’m brushing the pool twice a day (sweeping the sides and bottom), and John’s hosing the filters out every evening. Here it is how it looks today, just one day after the shock treatment.
It’s like a miracle. Fingers crossed we’re good now.
Meanwhile, as of yesterday I think they are finally done working in the alley.
And through all of this, the alley construction, the green pool, everything, we’ve had a nesting dove watching over us. She doesn’t seem to ever leave.
Although actually, I looked online and the parents share nesting duties. Often it’s the dad on the nest during the day and the mom at night.
Also, I believe the nesting dove is a white-wing dove, not a mourning dove. They are hard to tell apart because I can’t see its wing in the nest. But I have been seeing this white-winged dove hanging around late in the day, and wonder if it’s the other parent.
It’s a poor photo, but you can still see the white fringe very distinctively.
So, now googling white-winged dove instead of mourning dove, I get, “White-winged doves incubate their eggs for 13–19 days, depending on the temperature and elevation. The female usually lays two white or creamy buff eggs in the nest on consecutive days, and then both parents take turns incubating them, the male during the day and the female at night. To keep the eggs cool, the parents press their bellies against them, absorbing some of the eggs’ heat.“
Way to go daddy bird! He’s got the hottest shift. We were wondering whether they were actually somehow cooling the eggs rather than warming them, because it’s 100 degrees out there!
We have a very determined dove nesting in our potted guava tree in our backyard, just a few feet from our house.
No matter what happens, she does not move.
Biska is curious and got up into the plant pot and was trying to climb the tree to get to the dove. She broke off some lower branches and was generally being a nuisance. So John installed this temporary cardboard barrier to discourage Biska.
The whole time John was working to set up the cardboard, the dove just sat there on her nest. It’s a very small tree and the dove is only at about head height. John was inches from her as he worked. I also had been sitting in those chairs before I knew she was there, but I’ve since moved the chairs away.
Biska’s like, “I want to play with the bird in there!” But now she knows she’s not supposed to put her front paws up there, and she’s a pretty well behaved dog. I occasionally have to call her away, but she is mostly ignoring the bird now. We’ll see what happens when there’s baby birds!
Here you can see how close the tree is to the house.
It seems like a poor place for a nest, but my friends tell me that the nesting dove’s biggest threat is the ravens, who will try to eat the eggs. So maybe it’s a genius place for a nest. Being so close to the house and guarded by a dog might deter the ravens.
It’s been two weeks, and we’e never seen her leave the nest, no matter how close we get (we’re trying not to harass her, but it is our backyard).
We first noticed her on May 15th. It’s now May 29th. Those chicks are due!
Hi, this is just a quick post to let you know that everyone’s biopsies came out cancer-free, yay! We had three members of the family with suspicious lumps and bumps that needed removed and biopsied in the last couple of weeks. Although actually, now that I think about it, this isn’t just a quick post to let you know about our happiness about everyone getting negative results. This is a quick post to nag us all (you and me both) about getting our cancer screenings done!
For example, did you know that, “The American Cancer Society recommends people between the ages of 20 and 40 get a professional skin exam every three years – especially if they live in sunny climates. This recommendation jumps to once annually for people over age 40.“
Uh…oops. I…need to do that! I’m old! And I have blond/red hair! And I live in Tucson! And I am outside as much as possible because that’s what makes me happy! And before I lived in Tucson, I lived in Albuquerque! There’s not much atmosphere between you and the sun up there in Albuquerque. So yeah, I should go do that. Pronto.
Also, do your mammograms. The guidance is, “Women between 40 and 44 have the option to start screening with a mammogram every year. Women 45 to 54 should get mammograms every year. Women 55 and older can switch to a mammogram every other year, or they can choose to continue yearly mammograms.” Mammograms are fast and easy, somewhat uncomfortable, but not invasive. No prep, no IV, no nothing. Easy-peasy! It can’t get easier than this, so just go and do it.
Ok, yeah, it’s a bit uncomfortable. Sure, let’s talk boobs for a minute! For those of you who have never had a mammogram, how it works is you’re supposed to stick your boob into a machine between two horizontal plates so they can x-ray it without x-raying your entire chest. Big-boobed women always whine about mammograms because they have a lot that gets smashed flat into those machines. But think a minute about small-boobed women’s mammogram experience.
Some of us have boobs so small that they don’t stick out far enough to even get into the darn machine! So the technicians are tugging and tugging on our boobs, and we’re pushing up against that machine like we’re trying completely merge into one human-machine cyborg, but there’s still next to nothing sticking out far enough to get between those x-ray plates except one itty-bitty nipple. The technicians are frustrated and it feels like it’s your fault because you somehow aren’t woman enough with your little-boy boobs. Actually, all the technicians I’ve ever had were super sweet about it; I’m just joking here. Bottom line is, the mammogram appointment is not the most dignified moment of one’s day regardless of boob size, but just get it done and laugh about it afterwards.
And finally the important one that most people dread, but isn’t really all that bad – the colonoscopy. They used to say to get your first colonoscopy at age 50, but they’ve lowered that to 45 because the rate of colon cancer in young people is going way up. And don’t just rely on one of those “mail in a sample” tests they are advertising nowadays. Sure, those tests might (might) catch it if you have late stage cancer, but you want to catch it a long, long time before that. Trust me on that. My colon cancer treatment in 2020 was a living nightmare and I will never be the same again. A routine colonoscopy is a walk in the park on a beautiful day in comparison.
Also, the at-home colon cancer tests are useless to protect you against getting cancer. Whereas colonoscopy is not just a screening, it’s a protective measure! During your colonoscopy, the doctor will remove all the polyps that can turn into cancer. I had three polyps removed during my routine colonoscopy last week. That’s 3 polyps that could become cancerous, that weren’t there a couple of years ago during my previous colonoscopy. The doctor was able to remove them right then and there, during the colonoscopy. So it’s not just a screening! It’s an important cancer preventative measure.
As my regular readers remember, I could have died because I didn’t do my first colonoscopy until age 53, at which point, I had a tumor and it had started to spread into lymph nodes – stage 3 colon cancer (with no symptoms). So do your colonoscopies early! Once you’ve done your first one, they will be able to tell you when you need your next one. It may not be for another 10 years if you were all clear with no polyps. I do them a lot more often than that, of course, now that we know I’m such a high risk.
Ok, I’m going to quit nagging you now. But one more note – this post is not a comprehensive list of all the common and recommended cancer screenings out there. It’s just the 3 I felt like talking about this morning. You know how to google. Figure out what your priorities are for your age and risk factors, and make those appointments!
And here’s my accountability – John and I are going to get our skin cancer screenings done asap, right John?
Let’s start with this incredible photo of my nephew. Way to go! Looking GREAT! What a lot of effort that must take.
Sorry that photo is a bit blurry, it had been passed around various family member’s cell phones a few times before I got a hold of it.
Next up, Laura is now an officially certified open water diver. The training for that is intense! She can now go on diving trips around the world, as well as nearby trips held every weekend in Monterey Bay.
Congratulations, Laura!
And lastly, I finished my Master’s Naturalist certification. I now know far more than I ever thought I would about the Sonoran Desert. The problem is, the environment is so huge and complicated that there’s still vastly more that I don’t know than I do know. John likes to quiz me and I’m like, I have no idea! I don’t know even a fraction of all the weeds and shrubs and prickly things in southern Arizona.
Here’s a secret if you’re in Tucson and hearing birds and someone asks you, “What bird is that?”, just guess “house sparrow”. Practically every single recording I take has house sparrows in the background. So you’re bound to be right!
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I did a lot of writing for the certification program, including a very long blog entry (that they haven’t posted yet). I’m hoping I have a chance to post that here for you soon.
At graduation we each got a mineral. The one they gave me is a small piece of quartz and pyrite (fool’s gold), about 1.5″ long. I like it a lot!
My certification class was an enormous amount of work and it was part of the reason I got so far behind with this blog. It went for an entire semester, from January until May.
We have one more congratulations post coming up, and then back to regularly scheduled programming.
More good news: Callan just got a performance bonus at work. It was completely unexpected and very welcome. Congratulations, Callan!
John is also doing very well at work. He has been moved to a different section that better utilizes his skills and his relationships with some key customers. He got right to work and quickly discovered an early-stage proposal that could be greatly strengthened based on what he already knew about the customer’s needs, as well as information he had gathered researching his company’s other products. At his recommendation and direction, they rewrote the proposal to take it in a completely new and better direction. John was then the key technical presenter during a 2-day meeting with the potential customer.
John already personally knew the individuals representing the customer from work he had done in Albuquerque, and they were very glad to see him on this proposal. His management made note of all that, and have put through a request for a promotion. We’ll see if the promotion goes through, but even if it doesn’t, I don’t think I’m exaggerating by saying that John single-handedly saved this proposal. (John is too humble to ever say anything like that himself, but this is my blog and I can call it how I see it).
Laura also had a major work victory, and this time, all I have to do is quote her coworkers’ feedback, and nobody can accuse me of exaggerating. For context, Laura works at as a technical professional at a consultancy. Her usual tasks include data analysis as well as project management. And she’s a great public speaker.
Laura doesn’t do sales, but a sales team in her company needed a technical presenter in a hurry during a proposal presentation, and they reached out to her.
Here’s the situation, in Laura’s words: “Yesterday I was asked to join a sales call to answer one of the oral interview questions (provided to the pursuit team 15 min prior to the call), and I only had 5 min prior to the call warning plus 20 min during the call while the pursuit team presented their pitch deck to prepare my response.“
She goes on to explain, “While I was giving my response, the other folks [Laura’s coworkers in sales] were in one of our side chats sending these messages:”
“Laura is AWESOME”…”She really is. I have goosebumps.”
Laura’s company also has an excellent system for more formal reporting of positive feedback. A couple of days later, the feedback came in from three different coworkers on the sales team.
Her first coworker wrote, “Hi Laura, I want to give you a big shout out for coming into our presentation yesterday on 5 minutes notice to deliver a great answer to the client’s question yesterday. You stepped into a really difficult situation since you had no prior context of this proposal or presentation. You delivered a very thoughtful and professional client example to address the question. Our team really appreciates the great contribution on incredible short notice. THANK YOU!”
Her second coworker wrote, “The format for orals includes questions delivered fifteen minutes before the session begins. One of the questions was a bit unexpected and also hit an area that the proposal team felt less confident about. I reached out to a number of persons to help immediately. Laura answered the call. Having worked with Laura, I had great confidence that she would make our team look professional when talking about her data strategy and governance projects. She did so much more than that. She was calm, collected, detailed, and spoke with articulation and eloquence. She likely presented better than those of us who had prepared slides and stories. It was a tour de force performance and left the entire team feeling confident about winning this work. I was confident that Laura would be good. She was outstandingly excellent and I am so glad I asked for her help.“
Her third coworker wrote, “Laura, I just wanted to provide you huge Kudos for knocking it out of the par for our demo/question session. We pulled you out of whatever you were doing, gave you a 5 minutes update of the situation, asked you to answer a scenario with about 10 questions and be ready to present in only 20 minutes. When it was your turn, you shined! It was incredible. You were professional, articulate, thorough, clear, concise and delivered the answer as a resident expert! I think our client was so impressed as well that they did not have one question for you. It was definitely a “Wow” moment. If we win this deal, your contribution will have definitely been a deciding factor. Thank you!!”
I have two or three Kudos posts to write. Let’s start with the new jobs!
Guen has a new job this month and so far it’s going very well. I think she’s been there about 3 weeks, she loves the job and they love her too. It’s a full-time position in home health care. Congratulations, Guen!
My brother Mark also has a new job. At his previous job he had been a manager with a large number of employees. He had just been promoted to Director level when suddenly they laid off half of their staff, including Mark. He was quickly able to get a new job with a company he has worked for previously, up in Milpitas, CA in the Bay Area. He and Jonathan will be up there for now, with Yang and the younger two still in San Diego. Mark says Yang will stay in San Diego until their younger two kids are through high school, which is still a few years yet.
John’s long-time friend Gerald has also gotten a new job offer. He cautions that it is still in the early phases (various hoops to go through yet, I assume he will need a clearance, etc.) If it all works out, he will be moving from the Chicago area to Washington DC. That will be a huge change for him because he has lived in his same apartment for decades.
The job itself will be a huge change for Gerald too. It’s not clear to me what he will be doing, but my guess is that it could involve translating technical documents for an intelligence agency (Gerald can read technical Arabic). That is a far cry from his current position of teaching physics to freshman at a small liberal arts college. Congratulations Gerald! It’s hard to make such a big change at our age. Way to go!
More kudos coming up in the next couple of posts, stay tuned!
Did I tell you John finally had time to install the range hood? This is old news, in that he got it installed over a month ago, and I forgot to post these photos earlier. But also the hood sat in a box in the garage for several months. It was a lot of work for him to install so he had to wait until he had a long weekend, with good weather, without other more pressing priorities.
First step, after much measuring and planning, was to cut a hole in the ceiling.
Yep, there’s our 5 inches of flat wooden roof between ourselves and the sky. I’ve mentioned this crazy roof several times before, but I still can’t get over how many mid-century houses in Tucson were built this way.
After cutting the hole, he had to install the vent pipe and run an electrical outlet to it. Our electrical wires are in conduit on the roof (since there’s no crawl space for them!) Then it all needs sealed up there so it doesn’t leak in the rain.
Next came the supports for the ducting and the hood. The new electrical outlet is hidden underneath the range hood duct. It was a trick to get everything lined up, the hood plugged in, and the insulation added inside. In this next photo you can see it’s all staged and ready to be lifted, with the hood resting on some old boxes.
The chimney ductwork could be extended to various lengths. It was a challenge to decide how high or low to position the hood. We needed it to be close enough to the stove to be efficient at venting. We also wanted to be able to easily reach the controls, but still be able to see under it. There was initially an illusion that we would knock our heads against it when working at the stove, but that turned out to not be the case at all. It’s well out of the way.
We’re happy with the color. It looks black in the photos but it’s not. Black was too intense, and stainless steel was too shiny to go with the more muted colors in our kitchen. This is a dark stainless (I think it was called charcoal) that seems to work well with the stove.
I bought that range hood on a 50% off sale, sometime back in 2023, so by the time we got around to getting ready to install it, it was not returnable anymore. Good thing it worked out! The kitchen is finally done!
If you click on “View Machine” in the bottom left corner, and then pan around, it seems endless. I have no idea how big it is. It’s like a digital marble game. With cats?
I still didn’t get it. I thought the comic was clever in that we can only look at a little bit of it at a time. A metaphor for life. It is intriguing to look at. But not being a gamer, I didn’t initially realize it was interactive.
Until I noticed the little “edit” button in the lower left. It appears you can create your own marble game!
The tools are on the top right in edit mode. I clicked on the tool set and clicked on a brick. The brick positioned itself in the middle of the game, and now the balls bounce off the brick. Lol.
Here’s another I started, that doesn’t do much either. You can choose a variety of tools, move them, and turn them around. I’m not sure why one of my games has yellow balls coming from the top center, and one has green and red balls coming from elsewhere.
OMG this is fascinating. Here’s a screenshot of a new one I’m making.
You might ask yourself, how did those blue balls end up in the middle of nowhere in the top half of this game? Well, those two long baskets that slightly overlap will sometimes collect balls on their handles and then toss them upwards when the baskets dump. I took the screenshot right when they bounced.
I’m figuring out that the goal is to get the balls fed back out of the game through the exit gears (which look the same as the entrance gears except they’re turning the opposite way and there’s a little triangle arrow). If the balls sit around too long without going anywhere, they disappear. Oh no, my balls are dying!
I’m getting some balls fed out the gears, but I’m still not getting any of my red X’s to turn into green checkmarks.
Ah-ha! I finally figured it out. The colored balls are supposed to go out the gear with the triangle colored to match. Blue balls go out blue triangle gears, yellow balls go out yellow triangle gears. That’s simple enough. I’m not getting any points for putting yellow balls out the blue ball gear. Those of you who are gamers (Callan, Guen) are laughing at me right now. Yeah, I’m a beyond-newbie.
Yay, two green checkmarks. But how am I supposed to get those yellow balls, that are coming out so low on the right hand side, up to their exit on the left? I will have to defy gravity. That’s what those swinging baskets are for. I will have to figure out how they work.
It appears that readers who create their own working game can submit it. Maybe the submissions get added to the entire thing you see when you click on “View Machine”. In which case, no wonder it seems crazy and endless. And that might be why the different games I started have different colored balls coming from different locations. That might be how it inserts into the bigger game. Like puzzle pieces, there are probably a set number of tiles configured in standard ways along the edges, and we can do what we want within the tile. This is very cool.
I still don’t understand the cats though. My toolbox has no cats. Maybe when I get better I get cats?
My friends all do Wordle. Maybe I should create marble game tiles.
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