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[TBoneTX 45,572]

Thrilling non-GS/ES Friday-report-on-Saturday, see man:

 

Dropped Mini-B. at skool after he fed himself another large pill, hooray man.

Dripping rain caused us to delay ES-ing, slothful we man.

Lunch was 2 ham sandwiches, indict them and ingest we man.

 

Went ES-ing, q.v. man.

Auction pickup delayed till Saturday, OK man.

 

Returned to casa in time to service miu and take a Many-minute siesta, suboptimal-but-necessary zzz man.

 

De-skooled Mini-B. in lightly dripping rain, supposed to have quit early man.

Mini-B. thought that he'd done well on Science test retake, fingers crossed man.

This is his last Friday of Many'th grade, wow already man.

 

Din-din was Costco angusburgers and the other half of the Aldi chocolate cake, ingest Two Guys man.

 

Movie night was the last episodes of Young Sheldon, sad-but-excellent wrap-up man.

Many (2+2) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man.

The total for the week is Many (2x2x2x2 +2+1), impressive man.

 

Mini-B. took his Rx pill and our HSM cough pill before bed, ingest wee man.

We don't foresee doing any ESs on Sat., weekly streak already preserved man.

Party with the rubias ongoing, cavort we man.

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Thrilling Saturday report, see man:

 

Made it to bank shortly before noon closing.

Staff prostrated themselves in loyal worship of us ($ucce$$ful Bu$ine$$ Typhoon*), si man.

     *in the POTS industry (buy yours today, si man!)

 

Then visited rather new Filipino supermarket, huge impressive expensive man.

Got onebag of chicken dumplings for lunch, ingest Two Guys man.

 

Went back out for ES auction pickup, heat of the day man.

We retrieved a gigantic tubful of party plates/napkins, never need to buy more again man.

We also got a brass/wood lamp base, intended to recycle but might be too nice to do it man.

Total for all, incl. tax & Many% buyer's premium, = $Many ($2x2x2 +2), steal man.

 

Finally took shower, Many p.m. man.

Got nice siesta, zzz we man.

 

Din-din was weenies & beans, ingest Two Guys man.

Mini-B. has high-Many'd us after each Two Guys din-din this week, culinary we man.

 

Movie night was Airplane 2, almost as funny as the first one man.

Many (2+2) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man.

The week's tally is Many (2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2 -1), impressive for not trying man.

 

Party with the rubias imminent, cavort we man.

Evenin', absent Polish Commie- and other babes with eminently allocatable upvote inventories!

[Neonred 3,576]

On 5/15/2024 at 11:17 PM, TBoneTX said:

 

 

Nicaraguan maid and amiga came as scheduled, si man.

 

Were they cute?

 

On 5/16/2024 at 2:50 AM, TBoneTX said:

Asia, our favorite Polish Commie-babe, is in the house, oj tak!   

Silent Asia!  Silent, SILENT Asia!

How many Polish Commie-babes do you have?

[TBoneTX 45,572]

4 hours ago, Neonred said:

Were they cute?

We already reported on this, si and see and  man.

4 hours ago, Neonred said:

How many Polish Commie-babes do you have?

Asia is our favorite Polish Commie-babe, yours ours everyone's man.   

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Thrilling Sunday-on-Monday report, see man:

 

We & Mini-B. visited Mama T-B., ecstatic senior she man.

Mama T-B. lectured us at exhaustive length about usual and extra topics, si and sigh man.

No detail is too trivial for her to go aysheep about,  man.

 

Lunch was the takeout from Mama T-B.'s place, fund one lunch and donate extra desserts senior she man.

Mini-B. consumed the fried shrimp and a dessert, ingest wee man.

We consumed the baked potato, peas, roll, soup, and another dessert, ingest we man.

 

Shortly after we arrived at the casa, the power went out, powerless we man.

This was just before 2 p.m., nearly Many00 degrees F. man.  

There was never an explanation, no man.

Neighbor thought that ERCOT was hosing us again,  man.

Mini-B. was highly displeased with no internet, displeased wee man.

We could do no make-bedding upstairs consequent to the heat, no man.

We therefore attempted a siesta downstairs, suboptimal conditions man.

After about an hour + half an hour, electricity returned, more power to us man.

It took a long time for inside temperature to return to "normal," but not as bad as could've been man.

Despite the above, we managed to subdue the Many laundry loads, victorious we man.

 

Din-din for Mini-B. was onecan S+Ms, ingest wee man.

Din-din for us (much later) was 2 ham sandwiches, indict them and ingest we man.

 

Ex-Mrs.-T-B. could not stay to watch AFV, no man.

She was hosting the Rojo & daughters, powerless Rojo man.

Ex-Mrs.-T-B. had to cook for all of them, stressed ex-she and hee hee heeeeee man.

 

We returned Mini-B. after AFV and a very good Two Guys week, si to Two Guys man.

Mini-B. has not complained about any of our din-dins for 2 consecutive visits now, no man.

We also gather that he likes our casa and amenities better, ha ha man.

 

No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort we man.

Late Monday, we fly to south Texas in prep for Mexico on Tuesday, travel we man.

Prepare for Thrilling Reports as soon as we can muster same, si man.

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Partially thrilling partial-Monday report, see in part man:

 

Ran errand and paid bills, si man.

Lunch was from Popeye's*, ingest we man.

     *WUOC, financially savvy we man

Took uninterrupted siesta, zzz we man.

 

Trip-prepped, pack we man.

Miu awoke from long miu-siesta and helped by climbing in the suitcase, investigatory miu man.

Miu isn't yet certain that Daddy is going away, uncertain miu man.

We brushed miu, brush we man miu man.

Neighbor will attend to miu, attentive neighbor man.

 

Din-din was 2 ham sandwiches, indict them and ingest we man.

 

We are killing time before night flight to destination, a bit late but cheapest** man.

     **financially savvy we man

 

Supposed to be nearly Many00 degrees in south Texas / northern Mexico, Many sweatbands we man.

Expect a full report optimally Tuesday night, expectorant man.

[Ontarkie 14,294]

Safe travels and have some fun.

[mam521 2,108]

My kid was texting me from school yesterday:

 

Kid2: I got a 100 on my Science booklet.  Got 90 on my Science final.  Probably could have done better, but it's a good grade and I'm out of craps to give.

Me: Good job!  Why?

Kid2: I just don't care at this point lol. I'm out of craps to give for this school year.  I'll finish my finals and then I won't care anymore.

 

That folks, is a kid who has to endure school until Thursday at 1:30pm before being out for summer.  No more craps to give 😂

[TBoneTX 45,572]

13 hours ago, mam521 said:

I got a Many00 on my Science booklet.  Got Many on my Science final.

The reason he/she scored only Many in Science is almost certainly from being bad at P-Math, si mam ma'am.

13 hours ago, mam521 said:

1:Many pm [or, half-past 1]

See above and be mortified, see mam ma'am.

13 hours ago, mam521 said:

out for summer.  No more craps to give

Have him spend his summer shooting craps, si and  mam ma'am!    

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Partially-thrilling other-half-Monday partial report, see man:

 

Got to airport ridiculously early, no traffic and personally unprecedented man.

Naturally, plane was delayed for half an hour,  man.

Was assigned a Ford Expedition rental T-B.-mobile,  man.

Could barely climb into the thing with use of running-board & pull-handle, inflexible we man.

Took another Many minutes trying to figure out the controls in the dark,  man.

 

Rant,  we man:  Why do on-screen GPS systems talk so softly, huh man?

Did anyone think about engine or road noise, huh huh huh and no no no man?

Fortunately, after a desperate search, we found the hole to enable use of our plug-in Garmin, relief man.

 

Arrived at surprisingly full motel (a Super Many [2x2x2]) after midnight, disgusted we man.

Was assigned a quiet upstairs room as requested, good man.

However, room was on western exposure all day and A/C not set low enough,  and  man.

We showered in "cold" water and were still sweating the minute we shut it off, what's the purpose man.

We set the A/C as low as possible, Many (2x2x2x2x2x2 - 2+2) degrees F. man.

It took till the wee hours for things to cool at all, miserable we man.

 

The bath towels had not one shred of absorbent fiber left on either, unbelievable man.

The hand-towels & warshcloths were new, but obviously the lowest "hospitality-grade," note we man.

One bath towel had a deep-set stain on both sides of it, had to use it anyway man.

 

We went to bed at half-past 1 with A/C blowing hard, attempted zzz we man.

We awoke at half-of-half an hour till Many (2+2) a.m. from being too cold, A/C finally caught up man.

We tried to fiddle with it, inadequate attempt man.

Somehow, we off-drifted to zzz, but see below man.

 

We had told desk clerk to set our wakeup call at Many:Many ([2+2+2]:[2x2x2x2 +2+2]), specific we man.

The phone rang with it at half-past Many (2+2) a.m.,      we man.

From temperature and off-urinated state, we could not fall to zzz, no and  man.

Our own old, cheap electric alarm clock rang at Many:Many ([2+2+2]:[2x2x2x2 +2+2]),  man.

 

See Thrilling Tuesday report for continuation, see continuation man.

 

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Thrilling Tuesday report, see man:

 

We got ourself ready, in large help from a caffeine pill man.

Went to lobby to check out, disgruntled we man.

Desk clerk, whom we recognized from previous stays, took notes about our complaints, diligent he man.

He promised to raise them with the manager, trust we he man.

(We had used hotel points for this stay, so no T-B. expense and no refund, no and no man.)

Clerk did readily agree to store our 2 luggages, otherwise melt in rental T-B.-mobile man.

 

We hit the U..S.-side parking lot at half-past Many (2x2x2) a.m., delayed by motel caucus we man.

We scored a superb parking-space, Winter Texans all long-gone man.

It was already over Many (2x2x2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2x2) degrees F. and soupy-humid, beyond awful man.

We looked & saw the tents of illegals pitched all along the Mexican half of the inbound side, grrrRRR man.

 

On the Mexican side, the hawkers were assaultively hawking us, buy this see this dentist visit this pharmacy for cheapest prices man.

We went to bloodwork lab, very long 2-block walk man.

Our thickest sweatband was already hosed by the time we reached the place, like in August man.

 

Lab chicas all recognized us, long-time customer we man.

Bodily fluids were produced, accommodating we man.

For the stellar price of $Many ($Many00 / 2), full lab results would be in our hands in 2 hours, some deal man.

 

Went another long 2-block walk to dentist, appointment previously set man.

On the way, tried to find optometrist chica's place, always moves it she man.

Was shown it and it wasn't open yet, no man.

Inadequate time anyway, so went to dentist, original plan man.

Super-foxy hygienist clean-teethed and Zoom-teethed us, radiate in the dark orally we man.

 

Went to optometrist, visit we man.

Chica herself wasn't there, no man.

Fat chica and optician collaborated on frames and refraction exam, good teamwork man.

We paid $Many ($2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2x2x2 +2) for the following, see (ha ha) man:

 -- refraction exam, squint we man

 -- Izod frames, stylish we man

 -- high-index progressive bifocals coated with (?) polyacrylate, whee man

 -- mailing to us at the casa in about a week, usual process man

 

Returned to lab to retrieve fluid levels, apprehensive we man.

Usual items were hosed about the same as ever, nothing threaten-lifing man.

A few more items were also very slightly hosed,  we man.

We wanted a nearly clean report like we've often had,  man.

 

Went next door to barber, convenient man.

Kid who'd done us the last 2 times was no longer there, disappeared man.

We saw a barber pole across the street, next block man.

Went there and got our hairs cut for $Many ($2+2+2) -- si man, $Many ($2+2+2) -- steal man.

 

Walked a couple of blocks up to old family-type doctor, clean our ears man.

His door was locked, perhaps early lunchtime man.

Nearby parking-attendant aggressively volunteered to help us, si man.

He shouted toward doc's gated house behind office, but to no avail man.

He suggested that we both try later, si man.

Our sweatband and indeed most of our attire was drenched by now, full sunlight during all this man.

 

We considered lunching at usual place, but too expensive now man.

We reversed direction and walked a long Many or Many blocks, but saw no restaurant man.

We finally asked a local, ask we man local he man.

Local recommended a place 2 blocks further down and on side street, perspirational we man.

 

We did not spot this place but found another, looked promising and air-conditioned man.

We entered and found a seat under an A/C vent, crucial by now man.

From menu, we ordered an enchilada plate, order we man.

The waitress asked, and we opted for chicken enchiladas, hard to hose those man.

 

The large oval plate contained small lettuce/tomato salad, rice, refried beans, and at least half-a-Manyzen enchiladas that were more like large browned flautas than corn- or flour-tortilla enchiladas, noted we man.  They had fresh shredded cheese (goat?) liberally sprinkled atop them, appetizing-looking man.

 

We took a Joya cola, of some undescribed reddish-brown Mexican flavor, from the fridge, grab we man.

 

This lunch was highly palatable and filling, ingest and enjoy greatly we man.

Lunch + cola cost only $Many ($2+2+2+1) -- si man, $Many ($2+2+2+1) -- indescribable deal man.

This place is a lonnnnnng way out of the way, but we plan to return, wonderful man.

 

Returned to doctor's office, persistent we man.

Parking-guy assisted, aggressive he man.

By shouting, guy got doc's wife to get doc to open his office for us, success man.

We tipped parking-guy $1, what he was after all along man.

 

Doc saw us perspiring and turned on the A/C in his office for us, kindly doc man.

Doc out-flushed our ears, not as bad as usual but also 2 weeks earlier than usual man.

Doc then kept us there in the A/C to chat for over half an hour, thoughtful doc man.

He is Many (2x2x2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2 -1) years old but still quite with it, si man.

His English has improved since I've known him, although he interacts with very few gringos man.

We had an extremely pleasant chat about all kinds of topics, pleasant interesting doc man.

We paid our usual half-of-$Many00 for the ear job, quite a deal and well worth it man.

 

We then began our pharmacy run, obligatory man.

We went to the comparatively expensive chain store, si man.

We carefully looked through their 2-Manyzen-page monthly sales flyer, inspect we man.

We spotted our most expensive HSM for "buy 2, get a Many'rd free," hmmm man.

A clerk fortuitously spoke a little English, unusual there man.

He said that we needed to join their frequent-shopper program to get the deal, fine with us man.

The Many (2+1) HSMs thus cost us $Many ($2x2x2x2 + 2x2x2 +1) less than the next-best deal in town, financially savvy we man.

Furthermore, we are probably the only member of the Rant thread to be a member of this program, take that man.   

See https://www.benavides.com.mx , prices in Pesos man.

 

We hit 2 other pharmacies for ourself and an amigo, always must buy something for someone we man.

The last place had the strongest fan blowing anywhere in town, strong sales attraction man.

We had a very pleasant conversation with that pharmacist/owner, temperature-savvy we man.

 

We then went to a discount store to get some really unhealthy treats for Mini-B., Eat What We Want When We Want Two Guys man.

Inside was a cage that held a lively green parrot who talked loquaciously in Spanish, hilarious man.

 

Somewhat after 2 p.m., we decided to head back across the bridge, return we man.

We walked past yards & yards of tents of really savory-looking illegals, high blood pressure we man.

We blessed the appreciative CBP agents at the international border, flash our blue passport we man.

Inside the port, we weren't given much grilling by the CBP agent, no man.

 

The parking lot was quite a bit more full than when we'd arrived, early bird gets the parking space man.

We changed our shirt & sweatband in full sun, nearly impossible but crucial job man.

 

We went to a Salvation Army to donate stuff that neither Mini-B. nor we cared to see again, best to donate such stuff far out of town man.

We looked carefully for attire for Mini-B. but found nothing acceptable, good eye for flaws we man.

 

We then went to local site of Favorite Large Thrift Store, discount day* man.

     *trip planned to coincide therewith, financially savvy we man

We found Many (2+2+1) shirts for Mini-B. and a shirt & pants for us, not much but OK man.

Our discount saved us $Many ($2+2+2+1), financially savvy we man.

 

We weren't that hungry for din-din but thought we should get it with time to kill, reason we man.

We found local Mexican restaurant where we'd din-dinned twice before, good place man.

We were severely dehydrated and drank Many (2+1) glasses of Sprite before din-din arrived, gulp we man.

Din-din was 2 cheese enchiladas, rice/beans, & a ground-beef taco, good din-din man.

We were waterlogged from the Sprite and forced ourself to clean the plate, disciplined we man.

 

We then gassed the rental T-B.-mobile and went to the airport, good timing we man.

We managed to change our sweated-out shirt & sweatband in the hot restroom, sweat we man.

The flight was half-full and early departing/landing, relief man.

We hit the casa just in time to greet expectant miu and to watch late TV news, see weather we man.

We then showered (shampooing/soaping ourself twice) before unpacking, participatory miu man.

 

Miu had received considerable attention from neighbor & adult daughter, well-serviced miu man.

Husband neighbor had come to do some irritating casa repairs for us, grateful we man.

 

Except for the motel issue and unseasonable heat, we consider this trip to have been a great success, conclude we man.

We will probably sleep tonight for Many,000 hours without turning over, predict we man.

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Thrilling Wednesday-on-Thursday report, see man:

 

Zzz'd soundly until alarm, then lazed further, torpid we man.

Miu surprisingly calm and quiescent, obviously good miu-sitting care man.

Despite the Mexican lunch & din-din, we lost Many (2+2+1) pounds during our trip, whee man.   

 

Cloudy, breezy, and not too humid, noticed we man.

Decided to mow lawn, in bad need man.

Of course, partway in, full sun came out,  we man.

Many (2+1) thick sweatbands were consumed, perspire we man.

 

Breakfast/lunch/din-din (at Many [2+2] p.m.) was the "Bacon Steakburger Double*" from WhataBurger, leave casa for and ingest we man.

     *WUOC, financially savvy we man

Not bad but probably contains a week's worth of calories, probably not worth it man.

 

A planned hourlong siesta more than doubled itself, obviously zzz-needy we man.

 

Miu awoke from daylong torpor and resumed standard demands for lunch, treats, brushing, play, more brushing, more play, din-din, more treats, and more play, low-maintenance miu man.   

 

No party with the rubias tonight, recover we man.

[TBoneTX 45,572]

Scintillating Thursday repartee, yawn man.  (Bad absent Asia!  Bad, BAD absent ABSENT Asia!)

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Thrilling Thursday report, see man:

 

Went to Costco for Many (2+1) items and returned with Many (2+2+1), controlled impulses we man.

 

Breakfast/lunch/din-din (at 2 p.m.) was Olive Garden's chicken parmesan lunch special, ingest we man.

Since last time, the rats had raised the price by half a buck,  man!

A nice siesta was subsequently had, zzz we man.

 

Mini-B.'s last day of skool was today, made it wee man man.

We think that he passed all of his classes, minor miracle man.

He is already pestering us to buy him another video game, persistent wee man.

Two Guys eve will be Friday, Two Guys man.

 

We noticed that the rake of miu's self-cleaning box was stuck in the middle, oh great man.

Furthermore, the warning light wasn't flashing, all apparently normal man.

We could not get the rake to budge, follow sparse "troubleshooting" instructions we man.

An intense web-search and long call with Chewy.com yielded no replacement box,  man.

We managed to coax the rake to move back almost to starting position, trial-and-error man.

We can't call the manufacturer till morning,  man.

And why does its website list "where to buy" when no more are to be bought, huh and  man?

 

We have itineraried 2 GSs and Many (2+2+1) ESs for Friday, long drive to first one man.

 

No party with the rubias tonight, traumatized from miu-box debacle we man.

[Ontarkie 14,294]

14 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Scintillating Thursday repartee, yawn man.  (Bad absent Asia!  Bad, BAD absent ABSENT Asia!)

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Thrilling Thursday report, see man:

 

Went to Costco for Many (2+1) items and returned with Many (2+2+1), controlled impulses we man.

 

Breakfast/lunch/din-din (at 2 p.m.) was Olive Garden's chicken parmesan lunch special, ingest we man.

Since last time, the rats had raised the price by half a buck,  man!

A nice siesta was subsequently had, zzz we man.

 

Mini-B.'s last day of skool was today, made it wee man man.

We think that he passed all of his classes, minor miracle man.

He is already pestering us to buy him another video game, persistent wee man.

Two Guys eve will be Friday, Two Guys man.

 

We noticed that the rake of miu's self-cleaning box was stuck in the middle, oh great man.

Furthermore, the warning light wasn't flashing, all apparently normal man.

We could not get the rake to budge, follow sparse "troubleshooting" instructions we man.

An intense web-search and long call with Chewy.com yielded no replacement box,  man.

We managed to coax the rake to move back almost to starting position, trial-and-error man.

We can't call the manufacturer till morning,  man.

And why does its website list "where to buy" when no more are to be bought, huh and  man?

 

We have itineraried 2 GSs and Many (2+2+1) ESs for Friday, long drive to first one man.

 

No party with the rubias tonight, traumatized from miu-box debacle we man.

Yay for the last day of school. Ours was about a month ago. 

 

Check fb Market place for another littler box. They have them all the time sometimes as low at $20. I know you don't have FB but maybe the Ex to look for you or Mini-B if he has FB.

Edited May 24 by Ontarkie

[TBoneTX 45,572]

10 hours ago, Ontarkie said:

Check fb Market place for another littler box. They have them all the time sometimes as low at $20. I know you don't have FB but maybe the Ex to look for you or Mini-B if he has FB.

Gracias, D ma'am.  We had a very responsive call with the manufacturer who said that the product was discontinued a year + half a year ago, and that everything in their warehouses was sent out to distributors with no way to know who sold all theirs, si and sigh man.

 

We checked eBay but not FBM, si and no man.  Can't one use FBM without being a FB member, huh man?