The Drop In Centre 3

[Kitt]

I have come to a conclusion. Weather geeks can't agree on anything! Not even with themselves. 

This morning , in the same broadcast, same weather geek, first expounded on global warming, how the average temp has risen. Then he promptly expounded on how cold it is going to be, as much as 5* below ave. 

Do peeps not understand that if a temp doesn't drop below average, the average WILL rise?

[Mikiesboy]

1 hour ago, Reader1810 said:

Glad to see I’m not the only one with this affliction! 

Yesterday, I was sure it was Wednesday… 

You are not alone, fear not.    

[kbois]

4 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

I want to say have a good Monday, but it's Wednesday, have a good one anyway!  I think it's Wednesday.. yes, yes it is.

I think its one of those weeks. Today I overslept and was an hour late to work.

Yesterday  when I was getting out of my car and grabbing my stuff (I had extra because I was going to the pool after work), I went into a panic because I didn't see my backpack and my work keys are in it. 

Spoiler

The damn thing was already on my back 🤦‍♀️

Hopefully the rest of the week behaves. Have a good one! 

[spyke]

2 hours ago, kbois said:

I think its one of those weeks. Today I overslept and was an hour late to work.

Yesterday  when I was getting out of my car and grabbing my stuff (I had extra because I was going to the pool after work), I went into a panic because I didn't see my backpack and my work keys are in it. 

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The damn thing was already on my back 🤦‍♀️

Hopefully the rest of the week behaves. Have a good one! 

This is why I keep a pair of cheap readers in almost every room of my house. Somehow, they keep getting lost on the top of my head. 🤣

This getting older sucks. Bigly.

[Gary L]

On 1/12/2026 at 5:22 AM, Mikiesboy said:

How to repel invaders...    

 

I just knew it would be a mini Rottweiler….. 

Ive been away in uk for nearly a week.  The joy of not sharing a bed with the weiners! Poor Paco is suffering 😂 

[Wayne Gray]

4 minutes ago, Gary L said:

I just knew it would be a mini Rottweiler….. 

Ive been away in uk for nearly a week.  The joy of not sharing a bed with the weiners! Poor Paco is suffering 😂 

Most gay men would love sharing a bed with w-

No. No, I'm better than this.

-einers.

Edited January 14 by Wayne Gray

[kbois]

43 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

 

No. No, I'm better than this.

No you're not 🤣🤣🤣

[Wayne Gray]

1 minute ago, kbois said:

No you're not 🤣🤣🤣

*sigh* It's true. I know.

[spyke]

1 hour ago, Wayne Gray said:

Most gay men would love sharing a bed with w-

No. No, I'm better than this.

-einers.

I've missed your presence and humor Mr. Gray. 

[Mikiesboy]

This year's snowmageddon is happening now .. schools are closed, buses cancelled, tons of flight cancellations and delays, Toronto Transit can't. It's still snowing. I guess we are shovelling .. all day. LOL   It just means i get to give my man a nice massage later.   

Have a good one, wherever you are. 

[Reader1810]

54 minutes ago, Mikiesboy said:

This year's snowmageddon is happening now .. schools are closed, buses cancelled, tons of flight cancellations and delays, Toronto Transit can't. It's still snowing. I guess we are shovelling .. all day. LOL   It just means i get to give my man a nice massage later.   

Have a good one, wherever you are. 

I just got in from three hours of shovelling — mine and my neighbour. It’s all so pretty, but it needs to stop now. Like, right now. 

I know of someone who’s supposed to be arriving from NS today. 🤞🏻his flight wasn't cancelled.  

Now, it’s hot chocolate and huddle under a blanket time.  

The recycling trucks are getting through, but strangely, I haven’t seen nor heard a single snowplow today or last night as it usually wakes me up. 

I think staying home is in my future. Yours, too, I’m guessing…

Stay warm, tim. 

xoxo
 

[Mikiesboy]

40 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

I just got in from three hours of shovelling — mine and my neighbour. It’s all so pretty, but it needs to stop now. Like, right now. 

I know of someone who’s supposed to be arriving from NS today. 🤞🏻his flight wasn't cancelled.  

Now, it’s hot chocolate and huddle under a blanket time.  

The recycling trucks are getting through, but strangely, I haven’t seen nor heard a single snowplow today or last night as it usually wakes me up. 

I think staying home is in my future. Yours, too, I’m guessing…

Stay warm, tim. 

xoxo
 

They closed the DVP as well!  I think the delays are for flights leaving...i imagine the de-icing is taking a lot of time. Yeah, we've been out a couple of times. Michael said we're getting a snow blower. LOL. 

[Kitt]

1 hour ago, Mikiesboy said:

They closed the DVP as well!  I think the delays are for flights leaving...i imagine the de-icing is taking a lot of time. Yeah, we've been out a couple of times. Michael said we're getting a snow blower. LOL. 

I can definitely recommend the Toro self propelled snow blower. I can handle it even with a bad back. Get the widest you can conviently store. The little one looked great, but the larger one we got when "shrimp" had issues and we couldn't get parts promptly is soooo much better. Now we are a two machine family and we frequently work together and dig the neighbors out as well.

[kbois]

We're supposed to get a few sporadic flurries for the next couple of days but I dont think any accumulation until maybe Sunday night. Then I guess we're getting plunged into an arctic freeze on Tuesday. 

Today is the first day in about a week or so that the sun has done more than peek out from the gloomy skies for more than  hot minute. Its a major change from the 250+ sunny days on average Florida gets. Lol. 

I wish I could take a nap. I didn't sleep much last night. My boss is gone for the day and I want to write but my brain is too foggy. 

[Kitt]

Don't quote me, but after 2 weeks, 4 HR reps from the company he retired from, 14 CSR's from the health care company, 10 phone calls during which I got transferred to the "right" person 10 times, and an unknown amount of time on hold where the same ten bars of music burned into my brain over and over, I THINK we have the insurance shit straightened out! Wish me luck!🤞

Edited January 15 by Kitt

[weinerdog]

50 minutes ago, kbois said:

We're supposed to get a few sporadic flurries for the next couple of days but I dont think any accumulation until maybe Sunday night. Then I guess we're getting plunged into an arctic freeze on Tuesday. 

Today is the first day in about a week or so that the sun has done more than peek out from the gloomy skies for more than  hot minute. Its a major change from the 250+ sunny days on average Florida gets. Lol. 

I wish I could take a nap. I didn't sleep much last night. My boss is gone for the day and I want to write but my brain is too foggy. 

At least you were not there in 2015 after it was done the last snow from that didn't melt until June 20216

 

[weinerdog]

52 minutes ago, kbois said:

 

I wish I could take a nap. I didn't sleep much last night. My boss is gone for the day and I want to write but my brain is too foggy. 

Oh!!! so when your boss is gone for the day that's when you write got it

Let hope nobody screenshot this.

[Kitt]

Woooo hoooo!

Got a call from the quacks office asking why he missed his apt on the 7th, when will he be coming in?

Ummm, because your people canceled us when the insurance went flooey?

Let's get you in tomorrow! OK, as long as you know that I THINK I have insurance fixed but cannot confirm that for a minimum of 48 hours according to the most recent health care CSR. She said to hell with them, come in and we will fix him now, fix money later!

Then she called back, said she ran the insurance, and everything seemed good to go!

I WON! I WON! I WON!

Edited January 15 by Kitt

[kbois]

1 hour ago, weinerdog said:

At least you were not there in 2015 after it was done the last snow from that didn't melt until June 20216

 

Yeah.... I do remember rubbing Florida weather in my brother's faces that year. My best friend was a little miffed too lol

 

1 hour ago, weinerdog said:

Oh!!! so when your boss is gone for the day that's when you write got it

Let hope nobody screenshot this.

Perks of property management in slow season. How do you think I wrote Shadow Effect so quickly 🤣🤣

[Reader1810]

7 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

They closed the DVP as well!  I think the delays are for flights leaving...i imagine the de-icing is taking a lot of time. Yeah, we've been out a couple of times. Michael said we're getting a snow blower. LOL. 

My neighbour has an electric shovel that enabled him to do my other neighbour’s (a double driveway) in about 20 minutes. I’m seriously looking at getting one myself. Just need to figure out which one. I’m posting an examples so you know what I mean — I Google best electric shovel Canada.  

https://ca.shopping-mentor.com/top/patio-lawn-garden/snow-removal-tools/snow-shovels/vl/electric-snow-shovels/?cq_acc=6897672676&cq_cmp=23402858805&cq_adg=189201059725&cq_term=electric snow shovels&cq_plac=&cq_net=g&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23402858805&gbraid=0AAAAA_zGFoWvYhRF_Az4aQWs4ql74XvWA&gclid=CjwKCAiAvaLLBhBFEiwAYCNTf4MO7wM0hgPY55aGBcebYCfPm5g4ouULORqpL9auZ4SLLaak35tDiRoC9UIQAvD_BwE

 

[Reader1810]

5 hours ago, Kitt said:

Wish me luck!🤞

Wishing you luck, tenfold! 

[Kitt]

Things went well @ the Doc today. Says he is at least a month ahead of what he expected healing to take. 

When he asked why we skipped a week and almost skipped a 2nd, I told him because his peeps canceled us when the insurance crap started. Seems no one told HIM they did that! Was a tad perturbed. More so when he found out I asked for him to call me and he was never given the message. 

[spyke]

8 hours ago, Kitt said:

Things went well @ the Doc today. Says he is at least a month ahead of what he expected healing to take. 

When he asked why we skipped a week and almost skipped a 2nd, I told him because his peeps canceled us when the insurance crap started. Seems no one told HIM they did that! Was a tad perturbed. More so when he found out I asked for him to call me and he was never given the message. 

Doctors are always surprised to learn about what really goes on in their front office. It's a shame that they don't take more interest in that and that we the patients have to inform them of the antics of their staff. 

[Wayne Gray]

2 hours ago, spyke said:

Doctors are always surprised to learn about what really goes on in their front office. It's a shame that they don't take more interest in that and that we the patients have to inform them of the antics of their staff. 

Well, it's not just that.

It's that providers have their daily patient load. Then they have charting to do if they didn't spend their lunch doing that. Then they get to their messages in whatever EMR they use. Then they get to their phone and email messages.

Then it's 8-9 PM, and they've been working since 8 AM. So they go home, and they do it again the next day.

Somewhere in there, they're supposed to be engaged with their front desk staff and find out what's actually happening.

It's not that they don't care. It's not that they don't prioritize. There's just only so much time to spend. And that makes it critical for us ... the patient, to advocate for ourselves. They won't hear you unless you are squeaky. So ... if it's important. Squeak like the most unoiled wheel there ever was.

[Kitt]

1 hour ago, Wayne Gray said:

It's not that they don't care. It's not that they don't prioritize. There's just only so much time to spend. And that makes it critical for us ... the patient, to advocate for ourselves. They won't hear you unless you are squeaky. So ... if it's important. Squeak like the most unoiled wheel there ever was.

While I totally agree that we need to advocate for ourselves, I had to spend a majority of my squeek for correcting the insurance situation.  Honestly, I was so preoccupied with that, I did not realize he only left 2 or 3 followup messages for him to call, or that Doc had not called back. 

My issue is that the staff from the one office apparently canceled the appointments on their own initiative. When he realized hubby had missed 2 apts he had the lady from the second office call and get hubby in right away.

Edited January 17 by Kitt