GTKY: Daily Question Thread - May 2023 Edition

[TGP]

 

 

16 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?

Mom is gone. Thus no plans. 
 

16 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

It was more of a wing-it deal back when Mom was alive. 

 

“Wing it..” —the phrase— has nothing to do with feathers, flying, or flying creatures. Huh. 

[ttuckerman]

16 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Sorry about that, I woke up with the urge to go to the local all day breakfast place, so off we went and ended up running errands until about 4 pm, by which time I'd completely forgotten about doing a question.....so

 

Question.  Saturday, May 13th.

Have you completely forgotten to do anything lately?

 

and so it doesn't happen tomorrow....Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?  Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

 

13th  No, I have a wife.

 

14th Mother is gone so no.  Winged it when she was alive.

[ttuckerman]

4 minutes ago, TGP said:

“Wing it..” —the phrase— has nothing to do with feathers, flying, or flying creatures. Huh. 

Theater, As actor studying his lines in the wing of the stage.

[Zink]

21 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Sorry about that, I woke up with the urge to go to the local all day breakfast place, so off we went and ended up running errands until about 4 pm, by which time I'd completely forgotten about doing a question.....so

 

Question.  Saturday, May 13th.

Have you completely forgotten to do anything lately?

 

and so it doesn't happen tomorrow....Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?  Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

 

 

13th Not lately but it does happen more often than I'd like nowadays. Used to have a fairly good memory.

 

14th MIL lives with us and mom's a few minutes away. I've been cooking different things all day for them and the wife. Nothing says loving like good food.

[Thoramel]

23 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Sorry about that, I woke up with the urge to go to the local all day breakfast place, so off we went and ended up running errands until about 4 pm, by which time I'd completely forgotten about doing a question.....so

 

Question.  Saturday, May 13th.

Have you completely forgotten to do anything lately?

 

and so it doesn't happen tomorrow....Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?  Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

 

 

13th: I asked my wife if I had forgotten anything lately and I got a list back. 

 

14th: We don't typically worry about mother's day in my family. And my MiL is best avoided most of the time. So we don't have any traditions. That being said, my folks and my sister were all available today so we all drove to a restaurant roughly equidistance from us all and hung out on a patio for a couple hours eating and having a good time. I picked up my folks tab as a happy mother's day gift. Which made both my folks angry as they don't like it when their kids pay for them. Which made me laugh. Good times.

[strawhat]

On 5/13/2023 at 9:31 PM, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question.  Saturday, May 13th.

Have you completely forgotten to do anything lately?

 

and so it doesn't happen tomorrow....Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?  Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

 

Oh, certainly.  I've also mostly forgotten things: like when I supposed to inform Mrs. Strawhat that Pa Strawhat had ordered some tomato and bell pepper plants.  I eventually remembered, when Mrs. Strawhat was planting her tomato and bell pepper plants.  Oops.

 

Ma Strawhat passed a couple years ago, so we will be focusing on Mrs. Strawhat, Eldest, and Youngest.  I bought Mrs. Strawhat some gardening supplies that she needed/wanted, and did a good chunk of the picking up for a family dinner.  Eldest and Youngest bought her a few things and spent some time with her during the usual Sunday grocery shopping.  We also had a family meal together with Pa Strawhat and Strawbonnet 1 (who normally resides with her father, but was with us because of Mother's Day)--Nothing fancy, just chicken wings from a national chain.  We all got more than enough to eat and set out plans for the next family dinner in only a few days (part of a fundraiser).

 

We don't have any set traditions, we just take the day as it comes--Well, I guess the family meal is a tradition.  We always make sure to get together, but the time and contents of the meal change.

[Glitterwolf]

On 5/14/2023 at 4:31 AM, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Sorry about that, I woke up with the urge to go to the local all day breakfast place, so off we went and ended up running errands until about 4 pm, by which time I'd completely forgotten about doing a question.....so

 

Question.  Saturday, May 13th.

Have you completely forgotten to do anything lately?

 

and so it doesn't happen tomorrow....Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?  Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

 

 

May 13th...Forgot to answer this question...

 

May 14th. My Mother passed away in 2007.

We do visit my Girl's Mother of course, brought her a nice plant she loves.

The Vixens are in charge of buying a gift for my Girl and so they did.

 

 

[Jasper_the_2nd]

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is you memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?
 

 

[Jasper_the_2nd]

46 minutes ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is you memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?
 

 

So yeah, I was just about to ask about hobby goals, since we're half way through the month, when I got a funny feeling, and went back and checked, and sure enough I'd already asked about that about a week ago.

Sigh.

I blame it on getting older.  That or being over stressed with going back to work.  Or both.

Probably both.

Anyway, as someone who has always relied on his memory over things like taking notes and making lists, and all that good organizational stuff, I find it very frustrating, which likely leads to stress and makes it worse.

So I guess I need to start being more organized.  Or something.

 

[Glitterwolf]

54 minutes ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is you memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?
 

 

 

Pretty good actually.

Now, remembering names is a bigger issue.

[ejala]

Names are impossible. Other facts vary.

[TGP]

1 hour ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is your memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?

I make an excellent INQUISITOR. 

 

I can easily remember when, or if, the suspected miscreant has given a sufficient answer. 

1. Wrongthinking is punishable. 
2. You never know when to expect the INQUISITION. 

[chaosscorpion]

On 5/13/2023 at 10:31 PM, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Sorry about that, I woke up with the urge to go to the local all day breakfast place, so off we went and ended up running errands until about 4 pm, by which time I'd completely forgotten about doing a question.....so

 

Question.  Saturday, May 13th.

Have you completely forgotten to do anything lately?

 

Constantly as I juggle work and home life.  Things get missed and recovered on the first bounce.

On 5/13/2023 at 10:31 PM, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Sunday, May 14th.

It's Mother's Day, at least here in North America. On your Mother's Day do you plan to, or did you plan to, do anything special for your mother, or your wife or significant other?  Do you have a tradition or do you wing it every year?

 

I called my mother, and sent her a gift.  I would have preferred to spent at least a portion of the day with her.  It was my wife's weekend.  We spent it knocking out her list of things for the house and garden.  My wife and the boys typically go for a Mother's Day backpacking weekend.  It got moved a couple weeks this year.

1 hour ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is you memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?
 

 

If I ask a question twice it's because I didn't get and answer the first time.

[Corsair]

2 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is you memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?
 

 

I'm happy when I go into the bathroom and remember why I went in!

[Thoramel]

3 hours ago, Jasper_the_2nd said:

Question, Monday May 15th.

How is you memory, in terms of asking people the same questions over and over during an extended period of time?
 

 

 

It varies depending on how interested I am in the topic. I can tell you all about a journal article on valuing non market goods and services from three years ago, but I can't remember the names of my interns who started last week.