Coffee and Breakfast from the Mini-Cart
This is an Unhosted Cart.
Froggy Bottom Coffee Cart — Open Now
About The Author
80 Comments
Recent Posts
- Day 14: Louisiana Senator Approvingly Compares Trump to Stalin
- Day 13: Elon Musk Flexes His Muscles
- Day 12: While Elon Musk Takes Over, We Podcast With Driftglass and Blue Gal
- Day 11: Harm of Fascist Regime’s Foreign Aid Freeze Comes Into View
- Day 10: The Fascist Regime Blames a Plane Crash on Nonwhite People
Happy Friday to all my fabulous pals at the FRoggy Bottom Cafe!!!. Have to admit it does feel weird to be back at work and I hate that it takes me away from here. LOL I am enjoying but after going 2.5 months barefoot at home my shoes are killing me. It is like breaking them in all over again. No surprises from the Diva Dogs yesterday. I guess they got it out of their system on wed.
I did get some great news last night. One of my designs got mentioned in the Bay Area Reporter. Kind of exciting.
http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=606
Good morning to you.
Congrats on the mention. And an interesting article. I’m always impressed with how far people are willing to go to prove just how small-minded and bigoted they are.
Thanks!!! I am hoping my designs and actions can help get the word out and help stop or reverse some of these actions. I will be extra busy this weekend doing new designs about certain states and about issues that seem to be heating up. I also will do some blogging on some of them as I am feel like everyone needs to get in on the fight to stop this mess.
It always surprises me at the pockets of bigotry here in the Bay Area. Lots of my friends have experienced it whether they are gay or muslim or… If we can’t be accepting in a place as liberal this – I fear for us all.
Congrats on the mention and keep up the good work…
I lived in SF for 8 years and loved it but there are alwys what I call rednecks no matter where you live. I have no problem with someone being country. It’s the damn redneck that hate anything different who are dangerous.
Good Morning Froggy Ponders. How are you doing today Andi? And Refinish I’m happy to see you got memtioned. Just one more step toward fame and stardom.
Thanks!!! Hope you are doing great today also. I will be checking in again later once I get to work when I can. I have to get showered and get on the road.
Well you just have a good day at work, but remember you are just starting back, so don’t over tax yourself.
I’m fine, FM. I hope your recovery is coming along nicely. Are you still wired?
Haven’t had a wink of sleep all night. The pain killers she gave me are doing their jobs and just being wired has had me cleaning the house all night. I’m going to give her a call this morning and see what she can do.
Other than that, it has been a great day, night, day.
That should have read the pain killers are not doing their job.
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope your doctor can get your medication straightened out. Pollyanna glad game says: at least you are getting a clean house out of it.
You are certainly right on the clean house. Which reminds me I’ve got clothes in the dryer I’ve got to take care of. I’ll be lurking around for a while.
(CabinGirl puts on her white coat)
What do they have you on? (You probably said last night, but I wasn’t here then…)
If I remember correctly he said they gave him loricet. Isn’t that like a generic percocet?
Oh, forgive me.
Good morning :o)
vicodin. They should bump him up to the percocet, especially with 3 extractions in one sitting.
Hell, I’m on percocet for just one extraction.
Can I toss a few questions at you CabinGirl, about vicodin and percocet? They are hydrocodone and oxycodone, right? Is the chemical difference basically just between a hydrogen molecule in the structure and an oxygen molecule? Or is it more complex? I ask because I can tolerate percocet (with a decent anti-nausea drug) but cannot tolerate vicodin at all, and I’m not sure why.
If the answers are terribly science-y or too detailed please blow off the questions. 🙂
Poor Family Man.
Poor George — it must have been hard for him to sleep with you cleaning all night.
sending warm thought of love and healing!!!! Feel better soon and get better drugs.
Insomnia kicked in again this morning…oh well back to the meds tonight for sleeping.
Busy day….back to back meetings starting at 8am…aaaacccckkk!
Cat is the smart one!
I’ll be around a bit…then see you probably on Monday
The dogs say if you come over here, they’ll teach you the joys of leafy sleep.
Still too early to give up couch and warm leg….!
That is probably one of my favorite pictures of all time.
I love them lumps!!!! Mine are that way except they have a dog bed outside and sleep on my bed inside. LOL
Informal, formal good morning :o)
Today I have a meeting with my attorney regarding my Father’s estate and the challenge coming from two of my brothers and my Mother aginst me as executer.
Court date on March 7th. Funny, I just found out that my brother Jimi (wannabe Hendrix) just cut off all of his hair that has been flowing down his back for years. Interesting what some people will do to alter people’s perceptions of them. Me, I’m going to make sure my hair is braided up nice and neat and make sure to polish my gold earring. ;o)
and hugs to get you through all the challenges.
My sympathies. I went through this a few years back with my stepfather’s will (nobody is ever going to get me to agree to being an excuter again). Good thing for all to keep in mind is that the attorney’s fees come out of the estate. Keep it up long enough and whatever is being fought over will be significantly consumed by the costs of the fight. And in our case, the eventual settlement was almost exactly the same as what was offered at the start.
The term estate is so far from what is actually there to begin with. I own half this house with my Father and now one quarter of his half. They are blocking me from buying them out in an attempt to force me to buckle and let Jimi be administrater. I’ll let it go into foreclosure before I bend to anyone. Period.
And it won’t hurt my credit, I think, because I’m only on the deed. Not the mortgage. It’s amazing how many mortgage companies have contacted me in the last few months, but there’s nothing for me to do because they are blocking me from getting a mortgage and buying them out which would allow me to keep my kids in the same house and school that they’ve been in for ten years now.
Real nice huh?
Sorry you’re going through all that Supersoling. I know it’s an effing nightmare. I used to work for an estate attorney in Florida (we also did tax & general probate work) and then when my mom died, I spent the next year in court with her asshat felon boyfriend who sued me for her estate. Deepest sympathies, dude, on your loss as well as all the damn stress.
Good luck-I hope everything goes your way.
Sorry you’re going through that. Good luck.
Keep that braid and earring and be yourself, and feel the froggy power behind you!
Thanks to all. Yes, be myself. I wouldn’t have it any other way. They don’t fully understand yet who they’re F’ing with ;o)
This would’ve all been settled fairly by now if we could’ve kept it informal like I had hoped we could. There is no will. Only verbal wishes expressed by Dad which mean nothing in court. What gets me is Mother has been divorced from Dad for thirty years and is there, I assume, to add moral weight to Jiki’s case against me. Once she opens her mouth he’s screwed ;o)
Yeah, ours wasn’t over much either and involved a house — it just had to do with my mother getting some additional money to pay off the mortgage on the house. I think it helps to point out to them that the lawyers fees come out of the estate; it took awhile but we finally got the point across that making a big fight out of it isn’t in anyone’s best interests. As it was, the additional lawyer’s fees caused by my stepsister objecting were 40% of the amount needed to pay off the mortgage.
It isn’t about the money, what little there is, with these people. It’s about control. It’s also about teaching me a lesson for having the nerve to live my life independent of them. Conform or be cast out.
Thanks for the advice Andi.
That’s one thing I got from being an executor — there’s always some emotional undercurrent involved (e.g., who is the most loved) but the hard fact of decimating an ‘estate’ is still a good way to counteract that.
Anyway, good luck to you and I hope the stress level stays somewhere managable.
Come to think of it, all my best friends are "cast aways" of one kind or another. Onward, brother, and feel the force of all of us cast-aways right beside you!
Not to mention the fees she had to pay to her lawyer if she had one. I was once involved from a business point of view with an estate that involved 8 siblings. The executor was not a sibling. So there were 9 groups of lawyers involved. We kept pointing out that we were the only people benefitting from this but it still took them 10 months to reach a settlement.
I’m a lawyer and I think having to pay all of those legal fees is a tremendous waste of resources. (Of course, if I’m forced to sit in rooms for long hours with disputing siblings screaming at each other, I’m going to insist that I get PAID for it. It’s not like I’m doing it for the entertainment value.)
Oops, answered you in the wrong spot.
I had a really bad experience when I tried to handle things informally after my mom’s death. My dad asked my brother and me to sign over to him our share of the house. Then he would pay us our portion of the equity when he sold it. Well, he sold it a year ago and I still haven’t got my money. And no legal leg to stand on, and really, even if I had, no desire to sue my dad. Because it’s not about the money. It’s about being able to trust your family member to do what they say they will do.
Oh well.
Mom put everything in living trust when she was first diagnosed with cancer — everything ran smooth as silk. Well, except for one unnamed financial institution that took forever and a day to close out one of her IRAs and get the payout to us. My oldest sister distributed everything execpt about $50K to hold on to for final bills. No fights over anything. She even worked up a spreadsheet so we could keep track of what we received and what we should be getting in terms of 1099s for taxes.
I know that the spouse’s folks have a couple of trusts, including a special needs trust for my bro-in-law. I should really sit down with them when dad-in-law is better to go over details; spouse is trustee but I think they were going to add me as secondary trustee, since I’ll probably be stuck with all the work… 🙁
she did good planning. That is really the way to go — it avoids probate and gives the trustees (who are usually family members) the power to make decisions. (Of course that doesn’t mean the trustees won’t get into fights, but at least you don’t have to get the probate court involved).
to you with all of that. Go get ’em.
Thanks Shermanesqe
You give them hell from me to!!!! I keep telling mu mom to make a list of what she wanrts done and what she wants each person to get and she won’t do it. I don’t want anything but a few keepsakes but do not look forward to fighting my evil sister-in-law over any of them.
.
Dutch Meetup (NL) :: YOU ARE INVITED!
I am pleased to let everyone know AP and hubby arrived at Schiphol Airport yesterday morning. They are staying in an appartment in Amsterdam’s Albert Cuypstraat, close to the US Consulate (who cares), but more importantly near Concertgebouw – Stedelijk Museum – Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum with the famous Rembrandt painting Nachtwacht. There has been quite some renovation at musea, so some of the paintings may be relocated elsewhere or are on a tour.
Rembrandt Van Rijn - NightwatchWe would like to arrange a meetup this Friday at the American Book Center (20:00PM) where hubby will present poetry reading. I’ll try to be there and get acquainted with both BooTribbers. I hope to be able to see more EuroTribbers or true Kossacks in Amsterdam this weekend.
≈ Cross-posted from my diary @BooMan — AP Visit to A’dam plus Poetry Reading Dutch Meetup (NL) ≈
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
.
Poets, Artists, Songwriters, Storytellers, Singers, Comedians, Writers… join us! Come to the Treehouse to showcase your talent or enjoy that of others. You have a microphone and a piano at your disposal. Performers come from all over the world and you will hear a variety languages at the Open Mike Night.
You are free to offer your publications or cd’s to the audience, and you may also (in consultation) submit your work for the ABC and the Treehouse websites. Read some Open Mike Reviews
The Open Mike Nights start at 8 pm. Admission Euro 4.50 incl. 1 drink (free admission for performers)
ABC Location - Voetboogstraat 11 in Amsterdam● ABC Treehut in The Hague
“But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”
▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY
Bev Harris from Blackbox Voting has the top recommended diary over at dKos regarding Sequoia voting machine logs and anomalies. It took only a few comments before DHinMN jumped in to rip it apart. What are they afraid of?
But by having a huge fight, about side issues, in the comments section, it boosts the reader total to over 200. Thereby causing MORE people to read the diary. Because everyone wants to see what’s going on. And the more people that read your diary, the more likelihood there is that it stays on the rec list.
So in some ways, having an enemy in the comments section is the best thing that can happen.
The problem is tha the issue itself, and the evidence she provides become secondary to the nastiness. Which seems to me a very effective way to squash real investigation short of banning.
Btw, Jpol is over there tangling with the disruptor and even got in a plug for Bootrib :o)
dKos has, what, 80,000 registered users? Even if only 1/4 of them are actually active and are possibles to check the site on a given day, that’s 20,000 potential readers. The majority of people don’t have time to read all the rec diaries, much less the comments that go with them. Let’s say that half of the people read only what interests them plus clearly hot diaries. That’s 10,000 users that could possibly read that diary. How many of them are going to plow through all the comments too? Not many.
Go count how many people are actually commenting on that diary. 50-100? If it gets up to 200 people it would be red letter day. Figure for every person who comments, there are 9 who follow the comments but don’t say anything. You still have 8000 users who read the diary alone. And those, like me, who start to read the comments and realize in the first 5 comments that this is an ongoing argument that DOES NOT INCLUDE THE AUTHOR, probably are going to stop anyway.
So, I still think on the whole, an enemy in the comments is good as long as there are plenty of other people on your side.
The boran2 boy and I are off to go snow tubing. See ya later!
Sorry to hear about FM and Supersoling. Good luck to both!
Don’t be sorry for me. I’m getting ready to wipe the floor with their sorry carcasses.
Enjoy the tubing with the little fella :o)
Just found out that a package I’ve been waiting for allegedly arrived February 7. Got to go over to the office and see if it might be sitting in the package delivery room — that was about the time I was at the folks and the spouse may not have noticed a delivery tag. If it’s not there, I’ll be going through assorted claim paperwork with FedEx…a hassle I did not need. sigh
Other than that, today is erranding day, especially since it’s the last good weather day for a while; rain is due back in next week. Looks like March is “coming in like a lion” this year, which hopefully means it’ll “go out like a lamb” when I fly down for the SoCal Meetup.
Okay, time to get stirring…
that I posted the Bucket O’ News this morning — wanted to post the latest net worth figures (rich are getting richer, poor are getting poorer — imagine that!), but wasn’t quite up to doing a full diary on the report…
Been missing for a while… first, because I was super busy trying to organize school-type-stuff, and lately because I’ve been having a very large argument with one of my teeth. Last friday night — so right before a long weekend during which I could do almost nothing — it decided to go totally apeshit and put me through ridiculous amounts of pain, swell up half my face, and reduce me to eating mashed potatoes and soup — not to mention that I’ve now missed every responsibility all week as I’ve been primarily sitting around in a pained stupor in between trips to the endodontist.
Tooth pain just really, really sucks. I can handle just about any pain except for tooth pain, which makes me feel like a total wuss.
On the plus side, it’s getting much more under control now (I’m looking less like a drooling, rabid chipmunk with each day since I got cut open to let the crap drain) and I get to go have a root canal on Tues. It’s sick when you’re actually looking forward to a root canal, but there you go. I’m already fantasizing, too, about the glorious meal I’m going to have when I can actually chew stuff again.
My roommate randomly set up a dogster account for our puppy, which amuses me, anyway.
Happy friday!
Well, you’re here on the right day for dental woes. I had an extraction on Wednesday and Family Man — who clearly has a sadistic oral surgeon — had 3 in one sitting yesterday.
Hope you’ve been otherwise well.
I guess the stars must be aligned in some dental-crisis-provoking arrangement or something. That really sucks. Best of luck to all — there really isn’t much more misery that I can think of than really prolonged nasty tooth pain. It’s a weird “plan” on nature’s part, IMO, to stick really sensitive nerves inside teeth.
Otherwise, I’ve been doing alright. Winter has been getting me pretty bad this year, which is particularly odd given that we’re having a generally very wimpy winter even by California standards (it’s sunny and in the high 60’s today). But I think it’s about day length more than weather, and I’m starting to perk up again a bit.
Getting everything arranged for school was a bit of an uphill battle, too, since I wasn’t actually sure I’d be able to go to Sac State until like a week before classes started — by which time everything I needed to take was, of course, full, and I also had virtually no time to arrange money to actually pay my tuition until I work out some stupid financial aid complications.
I desperately owe you an email, too. I’m sorry I keep utterly falling off the planet lately. Hope you’ve been doing well, too, other than tooth stuff…
Only a month left to Equinox, Spit — at least that’s positive.
Dental stuff for me is an ongoing thing. I’ve dropped approx $6-7K into my mouth over the past handful of years. And frankly, even though it’s permanent, I’d rather have an extraction than go through all that root canal then crown stuff only to wind up having the damn tooth extracted anyway. The one they yanked on Wed had already cost over $2K worth of work in the past, going all the way back to the 9th grade.
I’m doing about as well as can be expected, all things considered. Medical stuff is a bitch as always, but I’m mostly used to it. Gearing up for the move to Ohio, trying to slap together a few different small business plans to develop & evaluate in more detail once I get there because I’m terrified to keep trying to live on SSDI.
Sorry to hear you’ve been having a rough winter, but it’s good to know that you got all that school stuff worked out, even if it was frustrating.
And dude, don’t stress about the off-blog contact. Whatever, whenever. Good to see you, even in passing. 🙂
are in pretty horrible shape, too. After this crisis is handled, I have another 2 molars that have been abcessed for years — one of which has had a temporary filling in it for about 4 years now (there’s not much left). Those are next on the list for either root canal or extraction. And then I have about a bazillion cavities to worry about.
It’s never, ever going to end. Thank dog I have insurance now, though even with it, our copays and stuff aren’t cheap.
Is the move coming up pretty soon then? Or is it still in the working-out stages?
My roommate is getting ready to travel back, probably within the next 30 days or so, to find a house. Whenever anything else happens will pretty much depend on what she finds, the lease terms, etc. So we could be on the road as soon as 60 days, but I’m guessing the moving truck will come in April.
Did you manage to get a decent course schedule this semester, or did you get screwed into boring stuff by the paperwork snafu?
with two very, very boring classes, but at least they’re prereqs for other stuff. So at least I can call it Progress! or something.
So far, all we’ve really gotten done in my chem lab is learning (again!) how to properly clean and calibrate various glassware. There’s nothing quite as boring and tedious as cleaning and calibrating glassware. And the lecture part of the course is going over exciting things like how to calculate error and crap like that.
Physics isn’t much better right now, but that’s really just because I don’t really like Electricity & Magnetism. I’ve tried it before and had to stop for various reasons.
Eh, it’s not horrible. Just not much fun.
Spit, I have gone through childbirth 4 times, one of them without any anesthesia at all and the other 3 with only minimal pain control measures and I can tell you that you’re absolutely right about dental pain. There is nothing that can have you wimpering and wishing you had a loaded gun like an abscessed tooth.
I think I freaked out my poor girlfriend over last weekend, when I was trying to make do with over-the-counter pain meds. She’s used to me being all stoic and crap through just about anything, but man, I spent all of Sunday night just howling and cursing and whimpering. The dog kept running up concerned to my side of the bed to make sure I wasn’t dying.
Now I’m planted on the couch at night, both because she (Cara, not the dog so much) has to get some sleep and because I’m supposed to try to sleep propped up a bit to minimize the swelling. But the pain is getting a lot better now anyway; the endodontist dude just wound up leaving a gaping hole in my tooth and another in my jaw so the pressure doesn’t keep building.
Fun times. There’s nothing quite as lovely as draining pus.
I’ve had plenty of random extreme pain (though most of it has not been long term), but this is right up there with the worst of it.
Once, a horse bit me square on the nipple — it’s sort of like that, only continuously. For a week.
A friend’s grand daughter at the coffee shop.
larger
Ya know, there are days that I wish I had a pacifier too. This is one of them.
Cute picture.
Someone’s teething.
Greetings to all from the snowy, windy, wintry Catskills. Quite interesting to watch these large, fluffy snowflakes blowing across our windows horizontally. The felines are fascinated.
Hope everyone’s faring relatively well –considering our various trials (no pun intended). This does seem to be the time for subterranean conflicts & imbalances to surface ..
Can’t help but ponder your posts on estates & human covetousness while seated here in my mobile collander. I sit here, alas, due primarily to my long-time partner’s neglect in legalizing his stated intentions, regarding the house we built on this land (just south of my current location) before his death. How foolish I was to eschew ‘holy matrimony’ on personal principle — in that case, of course, it’s all settled automatically.
I’m not bitter, of course — only chilly.
Hope the wind dies down soon. Chores to do, y’know. </slacker>
larger
larger
Info on native American artist here
Oh wow that’s cool. I love the colors and patterns and I see he’s using an airbrush too. Right up my alley :o)
Wouldn’t it be amazing to be his pupil? Or even just hang with him and watch?
Thanks for these pictures.
It’s looking very, very good. I really look forward to seeing it the finished.
Woo Hoo! First day in months that I haven’t had to wear a fleece vest or pullover…sunny, 55°…long sleeve T weather…come on Spring.
Sending clear skies and warmer weather your way WW.
Bu’s happy too, out in the courtyard snoozin’ in the sun.
Later
Peace
Thanks once again, dada, for sharing a serene, beautiful image & brightening my day!
I’m definitely out there with Bu in spirit. Snoozin’ in the sun is absolutely delicious. Can’t wait for the actuality!
Ristreto Coffee and Tea
Speaking of the Holy Bean of Gaia, I was exceptionally pleased to find out about this regional coffee roaster’s organic, fair trade coffee. Their wholesale price is very reasonable & they do sell online. I’m very happy to be able to support both fair trade organic & regional businesses.
Hope you will, too!
Note: this coffee is served at Big Indian’s Full Moon Lodge & sold at many outlets nationwide.
Here’s to the golden bean & to those individuals who bring her blessings to us all.
You’re really liking the Full Moon idea, aren’t you? 🙂
Sure — I’d love to see you & I don’t like driving!
😉
Thanks for the link, looks interesting. I definitely prefer to buy organic and fair trade coffee.
In the 5 years or so I’ve been back in ND I’ve only run across a coffee once that would compare to my favorite in N CA, made by Thanksgiving Coffee Company for Daybreak Cafe, Arcata, CA
(Didn’t find it listed there, but emailed them on it.)
I’ve you’re ever in Arcata I highly recommend that cafe for a great breakfast selection.
Come on over, and please remember to unrecommend this one on your way out!