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Today a coworker emailed the boss early to see how we would be handling the storm. The coworker lives in Rhode Island and has only has lived up North for 2.5 years and has never experienced the type of snow they are predicting. Her kid's schools have already closed. She does not want to come in Monday so she sent the email as soon as she came in.

The boss emails me saying that she spoke to the coworker and we may either close the credit union Monday or have a delayed opening. She asked what I wanted to do; work remote or take vacation time. She also asked what I was working on today. I told her that I finished the CPA audit evidence gathering this morning...a full week ahead of schedule, working on the monthly audit committee, and finish updating the system with the new budget figures for all the general ledger accounts. I also wanted to work remote Monday... as long as I have power. She comes back and says that she will make a work plan for me so I am absolutely productive all day. Ummm...WTF. Who says that? The last week of the month I prep the all the reports for the first week of the month. This month I need to update everything for 2026. I know my job. I wanted to tell her to stuff the spurs up her ass. My coworkers tell me that the last 2 guys that had my job slept at their desks most of the day. I let it go because I know she likes the last word... the problem is that I also like the last word ;-)

Later I asked her if her area in Maine will be hit with the storm. She said yes. She was happy that she planned on not coming in the office until Tuesday. Then just before I left for the day she texts me saying that she will contact me Sunday night about the weather. Umm...why? There is a Nor Easter hitting a great swath of the country. They are predicting 18 to 24 inches of snow. There is going to be weather. I can work remote...just like she is going to do. Next time I'll take the PTO time.

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ravena_kade

Today I worked from home. First time in over a month. The boss asked if it was because I was not organized enough to work from at home. Um..no... My dad's cardiologist is in the building on Wednesdays so has had appointments and then stayed 2 weeks in the hospital so I came to work as heading here from my house on 3 pm on a Wednesday would take me 2 hours. Oi. She let me work today. I am going to ask if I can WFH Monday since we are getting snowmageddon.

I did work at my new desk set up in the craft room. So much nicer than being in the kitchen. I still found my way to the fridge, but not as much as when I am at the kitchen table.

One thing that is a distraction is the cold. The kitchen does not have a radiator so it's the coldest room. The craft room is a bit warmer, but not as warm as wool. This is the first job I have ever had where I don't need a space heater. Since I sit in front of the server my desk temp is 77 degrees F. I wish I could heat my house to that, but I can't afford that. My thermostat is at 65F now, when Dad goes into the hospital I lower it to 63F. 58 days until Spring. Yay.

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+ i have a dough of orange zest and cranberries going. new made-up recipe on my part, so who knows how it will go? i generally have decent luck with on-the-fly food things, but that's FOOD...baking is always a gamble, even when i have an actual recipe.

+ along side that, i made paneer and it's doing its drain thing before going in the fridge for an overnight bout of dehydration.

much to the child's chagrin.

i've made farmer's cheese before and the only difference i really see is that it takes more straining to get all the wet out. if anyone's made it before, tips and tricks are always appreciated.

+ yesterday i had my boobs squished (the INDIGNITY) and of course, there is a *spot* that they need to reimage. even though the nurse told me -- even before we started yesterday -- that call backs to get a better/diff image are frequent enough that if i got a call, not to worry, not to borrow trouble.

so guess what i'm going to do until the resquish happens? that's right, you geniuses...ima gonna worry and borrow trouble. IT IS WHAT I DO.

[seriously, not too worried about it, but if you can send out a bit of good energy for my boobs, i'd much appreciate it. lol]

on a GOOD note, i had lab work done yesterday along with the squishy nonsense and my thyroid level has stablized on my new dose. yay, team! i think that's why weight loss has picked up again, but i can't be 100% sure.

i mean, maybe it's the whole "get back to the basics" mentality i've been trying to hold on to for the last month, or maybe it's the FORCED activity i'm making myself do every day, or maybe it's a combination of everything -- but i'm now about 10 lbs from goal.

fuck yeah, jarome. *fist bump*

i'm close enough that i'm doing a reevaluation of the big picture to see if i want/need to go a little bit lower in weight OR if i want to try to hold steady on maintenance for awhile and work on some of the more physical things i want to achieve this year.

it's CRAZY that the brain shift toward maintenance vs. weight loss is happening -- the good kind of crazy, with twirling ribbons and fireworks. =D

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earlier today i knocked over the can of wood stain i was using and it made FAR less of a mess than it could have, so i'm chuffed about that.

not so chuff worthy? bitter cold for the next week.

>.<

can i have spring here already? i'm ready to garden, ride, play, fish, and BE OUTSIDE. in the sun. and the not cold.

*sigh*

fifty-seven days until spring. i can do this.

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The celebration of life has come and gone. The undertaker brought the cremains. There is nothing comforting to me about seeing your friend of 45 years reduced to inert materials and a photo on a prayer card. The undertaker was very nice... but she brought the cremains box in one of those bags you can buy at the grocery stores for shopping, but it had an advertisement for her funeral home on it.... I was standing with DQ's brother Jay, who is dying of cancer he is choosing to ignore, and bought him a drink as well. I told him that today would be interesting for me... and filled him in on my predictions for the day.

Evie's narcissist friend tried to corner me, but because I predicted it with Jay, he blocked her and said she go complain to DQ.

I got to hear how much Evie's healthcare proxy did for her and how grateful everyone was... and Jay bought me another drink.

Then I was called out for not being social with the people from the old ceramics class... didn't see that coming... Ummm... I have a lot on my mind at the moment. Jay just said "F@ck em"

One of DQ's friend's son in law knew Evie and suggested that the closest people step into the pub and have a shot in her honor. I went with Jay and DQ and it was actually nice. At 7 pm my Dad called looking for me and wondering what was for supper and that he forgot his 4PM meds. What should he do? Take the meds...you are still alive and there is cereal or left overs for dinner. Oi.

Sunday I went to the cousins to mostly see my Aunt. I made a pasta dinner (all low sodium...blah) and brought it over. My Aunt was quiet and the girls were so so so loud. I think the younger cousin needs karma to kick her in the ass. The lead cousin just needs to stop being made to lead. And cancer cousin needs to wear her hearing aids so they will all stop yelling.

I did have a nice conversation with my Aunt. She enjoyed last week's wedding and wished she could have danced. She remembered all of it. She wants a big party for her 100th birthday and wants to have a band. Okay. And she wants it like a cocktail party the way the wedding was. She knows it's 3 years away, but thinks her kids should start planning now. Oh boy.

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I thought they might fix it quick, and they did. This patch, and one other, can be downloaded and installed via Windows Update.

What I didn't know was there was another bug also addressed by these patches.

The problem involved Remote Desktop and prevented you from connecting to a computer via Remote Desktop, I'm not sure if it bugged your computer trying to do the connecting or bugged the remote host that you were trying to connect to. Regardless, it should be fixed now.

The thing that I don't get is that I thought MS patches like this were tested through the beta program before public release. Perhaps they're just tested internally and their QA department slipped up and didn't do sufficient testing to catch these problems before they shipped.

Who knows. But at least they were prompt fixing it.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-issues-emergency-out-of-band-update-for-windows-11-to-address-major-bugs-that-broke-pc-shutdowns-and-sign-ins

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/18/1932246/microsoft-forced-to-issue-emergency-out-of-band-windows-update

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This is going to majorly PO American auto makers! Breaks my little heart. But that wasn't the reason for the deal.

Biden put a 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and Canada followed suit. China's cars are very wide in range in features: some are utter crap, some make a Tesla look like a Tonka, but Tesla hasn't really been updating their cars like they should. And above all, Chinese EVs are VERY inexpensive! How? Cheap labor, possibly even prison labor. But as a result of these prices, China has greatly reduced their use of fossil fuels and EV sales are soaring over there.

When Canada put in the tariff, China retaliated with a high tariff on Canadian canola seeds, a major farm export. With this drop in the EV tariff, China is dropping theirs from 84% to 15%. There were other items taxed in China's retaliation, I suppose those are still being negotiated.

But here's the telling bit: "Carney [Canadian Prime Minister] said China has become a more predictable partner to deal with than the U.S, the country’s neighbor and longtime ally.

“Our relationship has progressed in recent months with China. It is more predictable and you see results coming from that,” Carney said.

Carney hasn’t been able to reach a deal with U.S. President Trump to reduce some tariffs that are punishing some key sectors of the Canadian economy and Trump has previously talked about making Canada the 51st state."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jan/16/canada-cuts-chinese-ev-tariff-100-exchange-lower-canola-tariffs/

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/16/2112255/canada-reverses-tariff-on-chinese-evs

thewayne

Just a minor issue!

From the article: "The bug appears to be tied to Secure Launch, a security feature that uses virtualization-based protections to ensure only trusted components load during boot. On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete. From the user's perspective, everything looks normal – until the PC keeps running anyway, refusing to be denied life.

Microsoft says that entering the command "shutdown /s /t 0" at the command prompt will, in fact, force your PC to turn off, whether it wants to or not."

It hasn't affected my two Win 11 computers, haven't powered up my laptop in a month, so it hasn't updated. I would expect this will be updated with next month's Patch Tuesday release, but they may release an out of schedule patch to fix it.

Of course, make sure all your documents are saved before issuing that shutdown command or you may risk losing information.

And all computers will shut down when you pull the plug out of the wall or bus strip.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/16/patch_tuesday_secure_launch_bug_no_shutdown/

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/16/2144202/patch-tuesday-update-makes-windows-pcs-refuse-to-shut-down

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Last night I went over to DQ's place to help her get her place set up. Last week when I was there she had people there and the place was stacked with stuff like a hoarders garage and she tripped over things. As I reached her door I could hear voices. Turns out that Evie's New Jersey brother and family were there... all trying to sit and visit. The brother makes me tense. He is a Trumper and racist and I wished he wasn't there as I wanted to work

At one point DQ got up and then slid on a tote lid and sliced open her arm. Luckily the daughter was a nurse and went into nurse mode. Her husband seemed nice.... I never met him before...so I asked him if he would help me for a few minutes. I told him that I came over to move an a/c, a recliner, and the curio cabinet. Once they are placed we can clear the floor for her. I have been afraid that she would trip again and it actually was good that people were here with her when she did. He said "let's do it" and we did. So much easier with help. Now all. she needs to do is hang her artwork.

Today is the celebration of life for Evie. She's been gone for 2 months. I just feel off about it. There were only 4 people that saw her the last 6 months of life...but the vultures will come out for a free meal at a restaurant. I have put together photo boards and I am going early to help set up. It's from Noon to 3.

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Let's Hear It for the Boy (Expanded Edition) ℗ 1984 *Listen full album. via. ♫¸.•*¨♥✿♪

A1 Let's Hear It For The Boy 4:18

Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams, George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam
Composed By – Dean Pitchford, Tom Snow
Drum Programming [Linn Drum], Keyboards [Prophet V], Synthesizer [Memory Moog, Moog Bass] – George Duke
Engineer [Second], Mixed By – Murray Dvorkin
Engineer [Second], Recorded By – Nick Spiegel*
Engineer, Mixed By, Recorded By – Tommy Vicari
Guitar – Paul Jackson*
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
A2 I Want You 2:50

Arranged By – Deniece Williams
Arranged By [Strings] – George Del Barrio
Composed By – Peter Couch
Keyboards – George Duke
Saxophone [Tenor] – Ronnie Laws
A3 Picking Up The Pieces 4:40

Arranged By, Synthesizer – Leon Pendarvis
Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams, George Merrill, Oren Waters, Shannon Rubicam
Bass – Nathan East
Composed By – Peter Couch
Drums – Ricky Lawson
Guitar – Jeff Baxter, Paul Jackson*
Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa
Piano – Russell Ferrante
Synthesizer – Kevin Grady
A4 Black Butterfly 4:25

Bass – Nathan East
Composed By – Barry Mann And Cynthia Weil*
Drums – Ricky Lawson
Electric Piano [Rhodes], Piano – Russell Ferrante
Engineer [Second], Recorded By – Mitch Gibson
Guitar – Michael Sembello
Keyboards [Prophet V] – George Duke
Synthesizer [Lyricon] – Richard Elliot
A5 Next Love 4:23
Backing Vocals – George Merrill, Roosevelt Christmas, Shannon Rubicam
Bass – Fred Washington*
Composed By, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Synthesizer [Memory Moog] – George Duke
Drums – Ricky Lawson
Flute – Hubert Laws
Guitar – Paul Jackson*
Percussion – Sheila Escovedo

B1 Haunting Me 4:57
Arranged By, Backing Vocals, Composed By, Drum Programming [Linn Drum], Synthesizer [Jupiter 8] – George Merrill
Arranged By, Drum Programming [Linn Drum], Effects, Synthesizer, Voice [Vocoder] – George Duke
Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams, Roosevelt Christmas
Backing Vocals, Composed By – Shannon Rubicam
Guitar – Michael Sembello
Percussion [Tom-toms] – John Robinson (2)
B2 Don't Tell Me We Have Nothing 4:00
Arranged By – Leon Pendarvis
Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams
Backing Vocals, Composed By – George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam
Bass – Nathan East
Drums – Ricky Lawson
Guitar – Jeff Baxter, Paul Jackson*
B3 Blind Dating 3:39
Arranged By, Synthesizer – Leon Pendarvis
Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams, George Merrill, Shannon Rubicam
Bass – Nathan East
Composed By – Michele Val Jean, Robert Brookins
Drums – Ricky Lawson
Guitar – Jeff Baxter, Paul Jackson*
Piano – Russell Ferrante
Synthesizer – Kevin Grady
B4 Wrapped Up 4:37
Arranged By, Synthesizer – Leon Pendarvis
Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams, George Merrill, Oren Waters, Shannon Rubicam
Bass – Nathan East
Composed By – Andrew Barrett, George McMahon
Drums – Ricky Nelson*
Guitar – Jeff Baxter, Paul Jackson*
Piano – Russell Ferrante
Synthesizer – Kevin Grady
B5 Whiter Than Snow 3:45
Arranged By, Organ – Jerry Peters
Backing Vocals – Deniece Williams

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First ever visit to our new Dentist (that is actually IN Sooke, No more treks to Colwood for appointments *yay*).

Don't get me wrong. There was nothing wrong with our old Dentist. We actually quite like him. But the travel time and trying to schedule around Aaron's work was getting harder and harder, so it was just time to switch. And since Aaron had already been to the Dentist in Sooke for an emergency recently (our Dentist was not available), he already knew he liked the work they do so far and the way their office is.

Plus they are open Monday thru Saturday! Amazing!😍

Anywho, We had our initial admitting appointment yesterday afternoon. Paperwork, X-rays, and an initial assessment of the teeth.💕

All looks great still for me. *phew* I do have a couple old white fillings on the right side (upper and lower) that will get replaced in Feb., as they've shrunk quite a bit. I could have deferred till next year, but figured our insurance just rolled over, and so doing it now was better. 😄

So, I'm getting a cleaning on the 24th (A Saturday! Holy crap, we have a Dentist that's open on a Saturday now!). And then, the first week in February, my fillings will get dealt with *hooray!*. I'll need to remember to take Advil before hand.

Aaron's got British teeth, ie: They tend to crack and break down more easily. And so he'll have to have a lot more checked on as time goes on.
So he'll possibly more visits than me going forward. They really want him to consider implants, but he's pretty nervous about that option (I don't blame him).
And I guess the cost they mentioned is approx $3K per tooth (Includes the surgically installed post, and custom-made crown installed). The numbers freaked him out a bit (as well as the idea of posts being installed in his jawbone), so he's at the 'thinking' stage for the near future.

But being closer to the Dentists office will make things a lot easier all around, regardless of what he decides.

We were still in the old mind set when booking things, so my appointments are a bit wonky on the time and days (Still scheduled my things around A's work... but the place is walking distance, so that was silly of me. Leaving them as they are, but any future appointments for myself I'll just set for when ever I want them. (I prefer early, and on a weekday)😄

Note to self :

It's now easily walking distance to get there, so you Don't have to book around travel time/A's work schedule any more.