Unutterably Silly So what are you doing RIGHT NOW?

[Stitchawl]

Now reading the daily Flood reports so I don't take the wrong roads and wind up swimming before we get to the lake! Here's the news...


Stitchawl

[WT Sharpe]

Good day to stay home, I'd say.

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Such a nice after dinner walk - in 94 F heat with 94% humidity .... sigh ...

Mmmmm can you smell that cool cedar infused breeze?

(Btw, if you've sent something, I haven't gotten it)

[cromag]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Such a nice after dinner walk - in 94 F heat with 94% humidity .... sigh ...

That's not walking ... that's wading.

[Quexos]

About to start watching an episode of Anger Management...

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Good day to stay home, I'd say.

Nah... Nothing stops just because of floods here. People move their belongings to upper floors until the waters go down, drive slower in their motorscooters having first put extensions over the tail pipes, the shops all sandbagged before the water came inside... Similar to a foot of snow in Vermont... nothing stops until it gets so bad that the school buses can't get through. New York City shuts down tight at 2" of snow. The flooding isn't a general, all-over flood either. The street I live on never floods, even when the next street over has two feet of water covering it. It becomes more of a 'plan your route to avoid the deeper places' sort of travel. It always floods in the same places, and does so every year with every major storm. We've been away for a few years, so I have to re-learn the best routes to take to get from here to there. That red truck in the picture is one of our local taxis. Bench seats in the back hold about 8-10, and they don't necessarily go directly to where you want to go, depending on other people's destinations, but it only costs about 25¢ to go anywhere in the city, you get to your destination eventually, and doesn't stop for flood waters!


Stitchawl

[Rumpelteazer]

I just got back from having my hair cut.

For once I had a hairdresser who listened to me. So no layers and no "product" in my hair. Later in the I will dye it myself.

[cromag]

My back is bothering me again. Still, actually. It was much better yesterday morning, but something must have bothered it during the day. Lying down in bed doesn't work -- the muscles stiffen up, then I move and they hurt worse. So, right now I'm sitting in a comfortable chair, waiting it out.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by cromag

My back is bothering me again. Still, actually. It was much better yesterday morning, but something must have bothered it during the day. Lying down in bed doesn't work -- the muscles stiffen up, then I move and they hurt worse. So, right now I'm sitting in a comfortable chair, waiting it out.

Her methods kept me from having my vertabra fused, got me out of a full body back brace, took me off opiated pain meds, and got me moving again as a athlete instead of an old man. They might work for you
http://www.drbookspan.com/fitfix-index
Scroll down to 'back pain'
She doesn't charge for this site, but she will accept donations if you're satisfied with the results. I just make her dinner when she comes to Asia to visit.


Stitchawl

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Now reading the daily Flood reports so I don't take the wrong roads and wind up swimming before we get to the lake! Here's the news...


Stitchawl

Well that article certainly made it seem as though it were dire, worse than ever and so on

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

Well that article certainly made it seem as though it were dire, worse than ever and so on

Of course! You can't sell newspapers with only fluff. Ya gotta get grit.
Remember what they did with the Coup here? Everybody in the world thought tanks were rolling through my bedroom, and machine gun emplacements were on every corner. The reality was that I had to go LOOKING to even find some soldiers! Same with the floods here in the north. Every 4-5 years there is a 'real' flood, with an area 1/2 mile wide on each side of the river under a few feet of water for a few days. But otherwise, it's only low-lying intersections and patches of roads. The water shown in that photo was probably 40-60 feet in diameter, rather than an entire neighborhood. These are 'rain floods,' large 'puddles' rather than river or stream overflowing. Of course, when it rains in the tropics, it REALLY rains... But nobody dies in the rain floods. Most businesses don't even close. They just raise their stock off the floor.

But that's here in Chiang Mai... Down in Bangkok it's a different story. That's all low flatlands. Sea level. When it floods down there, the water is covering miles and miles of ground. Same for several of the other provinces. Chiang Mai is mountain country. The street in front of my house is 320m above sea level. There is a large mountain just a few kilometers to the west of me, and the main street from it slopes down past my house, past the Old City, and empties into the Ping River. When there are 'real' floods here, it's the Ping River overflowing it's banks, flooding both sides for several blocks.

Stitchawl

[poohbear_nc]

Whew! Just wheeled the trash carts down the driveway - and decided to postpone my walk until MUCH later - this humidity is lethal - "too too sick making!"

[phenomshel]

I'm griping about having to have the air conditioning on. It's only mid 80's. In Texas, that'd be comfortable, with only a fan or two. Here, with the humidity, it makes the a/c feel darned good.

Today is "catch up" day. Last day of my four-day weekend. Love having a job that's closed on holidays! No more having to slog behind a cash register every holiday. So, I'll be wheeling trash totes to the curb too, Pooh, and doing laundry.

[cromag]

Resting my sorry butt. (Although my back is much better than it was last night.)

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

Whew! Just wheeled the trash carts down the driveway - and decided to postpone my walk until MUCH later - this humidity is lethal - "too too sick making!"

I did my walking today around the supermarket. I forgot my list of 12 items, and had to call my wife for it and memorize it as she read it off, then I walked back and forth to get the items in the order I memorized them. Then I pulled out my big wad of coupons and went through them one by one zigzagging through the store in search of bargains. I ended up with $321.32 worth of groceries, for which I paid $215.78.

If I had done all that walking outside today instead of in an air-conditioned store, I would have passed out. The heat and humidity were killer.