Talk about your day thread

[bart]

is his name gourdon

[96583UP]

trag plotting his LBO targets for Q4 2023

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[Higgs]

Sitting with daughter in hospital - they've kept her in for 2 nights now. Cyst sorted via surgery but now trying to sort out kidney issues. I'm so over hospitals it's not even funny. Poor kid is exhausted and hasn't eaten or really properly slept in the last 2 days. Ngl, bit worried here.

Burt - I care about you too, darling. Hope you are going OK.

[BurtReynolds]

Thank you higgs I hope you're hospital visit goes better than how I was treated here.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I’m sorry, Higgs

[JuanHamm]

Sitting with daughter in hospital - they've kept her in for 2 nights now. Cyst sorted via surgery but now trying to sort out kidney issues. I'm so over hospitals it's not even funny. Poor kid is exhausted and hasn't eaten or really properly slept in the last 2 days. Ngl, bit worried here.

Burt - I care about you too, darling. Hope you are going OK.

Sorry Higgs. I hope they figure things out quickly and get you guys home.

[Higgs]

Cheers fellas. Long story but daughter had to get transferred to a different hospital via ambulance to deal with the renal/kidney issue. Sitting with her now in another ED while we wait for her to be admitted to a ward for another day of obs before deciding on the eventual plan of attack. This is night 3 in hospital and we are all very tired.

Can't fault our care though - everyone has been lovely.

[LetMeSleep]

Not the ideal Birthday mate.

[Higgs]

Not the ideal Birthday mate.

Lol. Was in hospital with Tia at 9am and am still here (albeit a different hospital than this mornings) at 9pm. Had a hospital curried egg sandwich for lunch. Whoop!

[doug rr]

big Costco shop day..maybe McDonalds for lunch

[spike]

You’re supposed to fill up on the free samples for lunch.

[doug rr]

ive never tried a free sample at Costco before

[Chris_H_2]

i'm curious what a family of 1 1/2 gets from costco.

[doug rr]

i'm curious what a family of 1 1/2 gets from costco.

ive been given a list since we have friends coming down from Vancouver this weekend..

a case of champagne
steak
red wine
crab legs
some cleaning products
bacon
greenies for the dog
prilosec
paper towels
toilet paper

[VinylGuy]

Uncle VG strikes again!!

Niece number two came today.
Very happy she and her mom are in good shape. I can only feel sorry for Niece Number 1 and her limited reign as the only child.

[Monkey_Driven]

Congrats, VG!

[Ello Sailor]

Uncle VG strikes again!!

Niece number two came today.
Very happy she and her mom are in good shape. I can only feel sorry for Niece Number 1 and her limited reign as the only child.

More younglings to corrupt with your horror movie recommendations. Hell yeah.

[Higgs]

Congrats! What an astoundingly great day to be born!

[wease]

How’s your daughter Higgs?