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[singdaw]

Back to work today, and so far it has been uneventful.

[singdaw]

Which is a good thing.

[singdaw]

Four.

[singdaw]

All this talk of waffles and pancakes is making me crave some.

[bk]

I'm up, I'm up - seven hours of sleep, which should have been nine and would have been had the damn book room smoke detector not started beeping. I pulled out my last two AA batteries and opened it up only to find it takes a nine-Volt battery. Why do they do that? I closed the battery port and went to get dressed but it stopped beeping. I tried to go back to sleep to no avail - perhaps later. When I go to the bank and then the mail place, I'll pick up a nine-volt battery or two so I'm ready should it start up again.

[ChasSmith]

Mine take 9-volts, too. Sounds like opening and closing it reset it, but it won't stay good for long. It's probably similar to how, when a remote's batteries are dying, you can open it and re-seat the batteries and it'll work again for a short time.

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore:  Are your cataract surgeries the "regular kind" (whatever that is, exactly) or the laser kind that I'm hearing Medicare and/or some insurances don't pay for?

[ChasSmith]

Did I dutifully report that we did indeed get our first S-WORD last night?

It looked to be about two inches which is just enough to plow, which the neighbor did this morning. I just leaf-blew the sidewalk and the part of the driveway behind the garage that doesn't get plowed. Fortunately, the sun came out just long enough to melt off the bits of S-WORD debris. Grass and trees, though, are all totally covered, and that won't be going anywhere any time soon.

[singdaw]

I am thinking of all the dogs we've had over the years and how they suffered from anxiety when the fire alarms would wail as they signaled that a battery needed changing.

[singdaw]

Sounds like an auspicious start to the S-word season, DR ChasSmith.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore:  Are your cataract surgeries the "regular kind" (whatever that is, exactly) or the laser kind that I'm hearing Medicare and/or some insurances don't pay for?

No laser; real surgery. Something entered my eyeball, removed my len and replace it with another. I watched it all happen.

[Jane]

Home from the gym and Costco.  We still have heat

[Jane]

Keith has not been able to reach the heating company.

[Jane]

Thank you for the vibes DR John.

[Jane]

Thank you for the welcome home DR TCB.

[Jane]

From DR TCB:

Yes, the daughter of the woman across the way who has been so helpful as offered to install all new ones for me. She is now living with her mother and currently does not have a job. They have been very good about looking after me, and both felt terrible that they turn their phones off before they go to bed so they didn’t hear my fire alarm story until the next day.

I am super relieved and happy to know this.

[elmore3003]

I love this! Cat mosaics from Pompeii.

[elmore3003]

All this news today on the Lockerbie bomber has reminded me that I spoke to one of the victims a day before the tragedy.

[Jane]

DR Vixmom I am glad you had a nice trip with your friends, and were ahead of most of the snow.

[Jane]

How long a drive was it to home from NJ?

[Jane]

Welcome home vibes for DR JANE!

Thank you.

[Jane]

I checked this morning and the lower hatch of Smarty does indeed open - down just like the station wagons of yesteryear.

Cool.

[elmore3003]

I cannot remember now if she were British or American, but she was a book rep who had called the Drama Book Shop to speak to the owners who were friends. I had met her previously, and I answered the phone. I told her her that Arthur and Rozanne were out, and she said there was no message. She'd see them when she got to Manhattan.

[Jane]

I am thinking of all the dogs we've had over the years and how they suffered from anxiety when the fire alarms would wail as they signaled that a battery needed changing.

They are horrible to listen to.

[elmore3003]

Well, my Holiday Overture got a hearing yesterday in Glasgow with the Royal Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Michael England with Gina Beck, Alice Fearn, Rob Houchen, Scott Davies, and the City of Glasgow Chorus.

[Jane]

That is sad about the book rep.

[John G.]

DR JohnG, there's this ridiculous commercial for Evenity with a  blonde of indeterminate age and older partner of indeterminate sex "dancing" - well, gyrating - and all I can think of is they need your help!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wng0dxey_gI

LOL. They look like they on some sort of medication.

[John G.]

Well, my Holiday Overture got a hearing yesterday in Glasgow with the Royal Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Michael England with Gina Beck, Alice Fearn, Rob Houchen, Scott Davies, and the City of Glasgow Chorus.

Cool! Beautiful piece.

[Jane]

I hadn't seen the news about the bomber.  I vividly recall how I heard about the plane being bombed.  I received a call from a friend asking about the daughters of another friend and if they had been on that plane.

[Jane]

It was possible as the girls were flying to London to Detroit for Christmas.