Caturday Delay

So, it's a Saturday.

Stranger is chillin' out downstairs in the bay window, where he cannot be photographed without a fiber optic attachment, so we'll get 'round to that, later. Perhaps.

It's almost time for SiL to go run the wrecker at Atomic Raceway, where they race nuclear wessels. That means quality time with the nephew. I've offered to go outside with him while he plays in the backyard pool, but so far, he's not interested. Maybe once Mom leaves.

I'd rather be outside!  Y'know, Cabin Fever. I got the keys to the Camry a while ago, and set off on my first post-op drive by myself. I went up to G-Vape to get a couple of coils like the ones in the picture, above. Genuine Kanger or not, coils are still a crapshoot. The Kangers are apt to last longer, but you still get the occasional one that turns to shit inside a week. But they're only $3/ea., so it's not a crusher.

Then, I went into Portsmouth proper, seeking the GasBuddy pricing so's I could fill up the Camry. SiL's about to head up to Waverly, and 1/8th tank ain't gonna cut it. I found gas for $2.659, which is better than the $2.799 average in New Boston. And I got to drive around, yay!

Okay, let's go do this.

[UPDATE] More.

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Tabbeh Tuesdeh

Lounging on my bed, as he does these days.

Travel Tuesdeh, too. The Ohio is as swollen as my foot.
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Monday

These steps used to be a struggle.

Greening.

Hung out with my nephew, here.
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Travel Mode

Yes,this is me going from house to car to doc, and then inside the doc's.

 SiL decided I should see the nicer parts of town.

The hills in the back are Kentucky. The mist is the Ohio River.

bluesman showed up!

'Twas a beautiful day.

Medically-relevant: incisions are healed, no danger of infection. No need for dressing either side. Can remove splint and wrap as often as I like. Next week, we might start with 25% weight-bearing. 

UPDATE: foot photo, not so gross, today!

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Compare, Contrast

From the new Amazon Studios pilot, The Man in the High Castle (which you should watch, and then complete the survey to insure it becomes a series!), in which the Axis powers win WWII, and split the U.S. into three zones...

From the town in which I now live, in a timeline where the Allies won WWII, as you might recall.
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Scenes from New Boston

If Bill Clinton were still a fat hillbilly and grew a beard, he would look like this guy. Sorry I couldn't get closer without being obvious.

Available real estate.

More available real estate. $69K. Commercial below, residential above. Right on U.S. 52!

The buy-here-pay-here lot with four vehicles for sale.
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SiL's Birthday

Video taste.

Hanging Rock, OH, where people are often killed by rock no longer content to merely "hang."
No, I'm serious.

Steel mills in the distance. That'd be Ashland, KY, a/k/a Land of my Birf.

The Mighty Ohio.

Doctors who play golf?  What will  they think of next?

We were seated in the darkest corner of the restaurant. I passed my phone around to use as a flashlight so's we could see the menus.
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Stranger, C.J., Stranger

Kitteh in a dryer.

Kitteh on a stepladder.

Not so much snow.
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Help Me Get Fat Again

After all, who doesn't want a quadruple bypass on Medicaid, with the pain med administrators watching every penny?
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OHfficial

Ohio has a freak flag, huh?  $23, very little waiting (like, a minute, maybe, while the laminator was doing its thang).
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Gallia Street

Not much in the way of actual sidewalk along U.S. 52.

E-mail me if you see Megan.

1930. After the roller coaster, but before the lake was filled in.
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Hem, Haw

A nice old Victorian (?) across the street from the Kroger in Portsmouth. A realty office, if you can believe that.
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Mayor Santa

All us old people and grandkids show up to eat the city's tax dollars in pancakes and snausage.

City Hall Xbox tree.

Hyperlocal history: A scale model of the roller coaster that used to be in the field across the street from where I live. Millbrook Park.

Hyperlocal history: Looking east from just a half-block east of here... in 1885.  :) To the left of the phone pole in the foreground, right, you notice a tree in the far background. To the right of that is now where the Wally*World is located. To the left of the wooden rail in the left foreground is where Millbrook Park is, today, and where that roller coaster would eventually be built and torn down.

Roughly the same spot, recently (Google Street View).

Santa arrives!

"Coffee is for closers, Santa!"
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Coach Nephew

I learn the dangest thangs.
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Family Cat Time

The family does its December evening stuff. Shot by my sister-in-law.
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New Chair

Adjustable height makes all the joints work better.
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Portsmouth Past

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