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If you don’t have dysfunctional siblings, it means that you are an only child.

Now I will try to remember if my memory has let me down before…

My neighbor complained that Pandora would inevitably play Jonny Cash, but he discovered that Rush and Cake radio didn’t have that issue.
I found Pandora to be annoying the first time I tried it, so don’t really use it.

If memory serves, there was a certain little green man that appeared in both shows. I think he sent the Flintstones into the future in one episode.

(Ann Margrock, anyone?)

Yes please.

New manager where I work. Dude is feeling froggy. I was able to finish my new, expanded workload by shortening my 1 hour lunch break to a 23 minute one. Our contract specifies that we have one hour for lunch, and also what time it is taken. I doubt it will help me…

The work of artists like Dolly Parton and Tim Curry is on record. As long as the machine lives we can still enjoy their work.
We’ve lost so many, and more to come. We probably need to chalk it up to:”Old People Problems”.

How do you feel about listening to bagpipes while eating haggis?

When I was a baby, my mom would play bagpipe music to get me to fall asleep.

Naked, as a baby should be.

Drejk wrote:

NobodysHome wrote:

All in all, it reminds my of my dissertation. In the simplest-possible terms, I proved that, for a certain set of waves, there was only one possible form for them.

So, it's 30 years later and a hydrologist writes up a paper wherein they physically demonstrate that a different type of wave exists. I can either stand by my guns and say, "No! That's an exception because (mumble mumble mumble...)," or I can accept that there was something wrong with my math.

Maybe your math was correct, but the universe shifted since that time...

Of course. He is never wrong. Reality changed to spite him.

Yeah, that happens to me all the time.

Chicken.

Birds aren’t real?

Apparently, cats aren’t either…

Finally, something useful.

I listened to music that I like, grilled steak, and watched the sunset against a big thundercloud to the east. All without AI.

Waterhammer wrote:

Three geckos stuck to the outside of my kitchen window tonight.

Are they trying to sell you car insurance?

They were eating bugs, but now I do have an urge to buy some insurance.

Alas, no thoughts on that particular movie, since I never watched it. I'm relatively not interested these days in American animation... haven't been for a while. I think the last Pixar movie I saw was "Up."

Did you just, let it go. Let it go. Let it go?

Three geckos stuck to the outside of my kitchen window tonight.

Will the future be the 5 or 6 supreme wealthy persons trying to gain supremacy? (There can be only one.) While the rest of us shiver and starve?
If AI does all work, making humans obsolete. Yet AI is owned by the ultra wealthy. Who are humans.

Not talking about true AI. That doesn’t exist.

Human or elf wizard.

Glad you survived, Cal.

I wonder why one of the villages out on the tops we drove through today has a menhir installed in the middle of their children's playground/playpark.

It was always there…

I hate dumb things. MCAT: "The total score ranges from 472 to 528. The midpoint is 500."

Why? Who thought this was a good idea? What the heck?
(1) Why a 56-point spread? Why not 100? Heck, why not 50?
(2) Why center at 500? Why not 100? 1000?

Grr...

I’m calling Freehold takes vengeance on mathematicians.

There is a new little electric pickup truck called the Slate.

She doesn't know where I am, and two hours' drive is a small eternity to us effete Island Monkeys.

Couldn’t she get there by canal boat?

Summer time thunderstorms are normal and hoped for around here. The winters used to be less dry.
I was more complaining about the timing of right when I get off work. Then the power went out soon after I got home. Was only out for an hour or so though.

Again I get hailstruck while locking up the yard. While battling winds that want to blow the gates open. Chain-link gates with plastic privacy strips make great sails.

Innuendo, that’s what that is.

There is talk at my job about a 4/10 work schedule. It would make me much less happy.

Bikers are scary.

On my ride today, I was behind a truck doing the speed limit, or greater. So I didn’t pass them. Then, just before the end of the road, a tee intersection, she pulled kind of over, but not off the road. So, I passed. Grumbling about it. If you’re going to pull off, get all the way off. Don’t make me guess your intentions. The thing is, we had gone through a long and wide open passing zone only a few minutes earlier. If I had wanted to pass I would have done so then. I wasn’t tailgating them either. Always had four or five car lengths between us. I wish people would follow the rules of the road.

Supporting an animal shelter is good. Feeding strays is questionable.

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Not sure what a moderate amount of anvils is.

One anvil is good. Provided that it doesn’t land on you, your car, or house.

Yeah, I have the occasional use for an anvil and I don’t have one.

If you can pay for stuff with cash, you don’t need a good credit score, or if your down payment is big enough it will create a better credit score for you.

From travel shows I’ve seen about Spain, it looks amazing.

You actually start out with a bad credit score. You have to work to build a good one. Also, if you don’t continue to maintain a good credit score it will automatically revert back to bad.

Logan’s Run was mentioned awhile back. I was thinking about that movie today. The shelter that they were living in was a complete success at what it was designed to do.

Also at work today, I turned to look left before pulling out onto the street. Walking towards me was a young woman in a nice burgundy dress. An evening dress. This was at 7:30 AM. Most unusual, I thought and went on my way. A co-worker suggested that she was doing the “walk of shame”. He was probably right.
Then as I was putting my work truck in the yard in preparation to go home, I said “no hail”. About 15 seconds later I got stung on the cheek by a hail stone. Probably about 6mm diameter. The wind dropped one of my neighbor’s trampoline onto the street on my way home. I didn’t see that happen. It was just there when I got there. I had to drive around it.

In Arizona it’s on you to inform the DMV that you have sold your vehicle. If you don’t, you can be held accountable for stuff the person does with your car if they don’t register it.

It's Cap, I'd believe anything at this point.

It’s not outrageous. People cut pavers to make swept out driveways all the time. We had a water leak under a paver driveway of that type awhile back. We had to place the special cut radius pavers in place as they were removed, so we could put them back as they were. Luckily the driveway had a repeating pattern, so we didn’t have to replicate the whole section we took out. Just the radius part. Lucky, because there was no space to lay out the whole section..

captain yesterday wrote:

Taking a victory lap today, we got a 1,000 square foot patio installed in 2 and a half days.

Do you play on 10' squares or 5' squares?

The real question is: Was it a nice square/rectangle, or did you have to cut the tiles/pavers for radiuses?

Drejk wrote:

Huh, allegedly robocalls without the other side's consent could be illegal in USA?

You might want to check Telephone...

In spite of their many fines for untoward practices, they are a legitimate collection agency and they have what they believe is legitimate business at my phone number. So the process is:

(1) I pick up and demonstrate that they have no legitimate business with me.
(2) I ask them to stop calling me.
(3) I start filing complaints.

I'm on the Do Not Call list and I've filed dozens of complaints and the FCC won't bother, especially when the company says, "See? We bought this old debt and here's the associated phone number!"

So it's all about bothering to talk to someone who assumes you're a lying scumbag who skipped out on a bill and won't believe a word you say to the contrary, getting them to admit that they were wrong, and then asking them to please stop calling. Whee?

It’s that debt you owe to your parents. Probably time to pay up.

Well, if I know about it, it’s not a secret.

Cryptocurrency will break all.

I use an inversion table for my back pain. I use it for 3 or 4 minutes each morning. Keeps me propped up.

So, Lagunitas Trooper IPA is a thing. Saw some in the grocery store today. Created by Iron Maiden. Yes, I will give it a try at some point.

Waterhammer wrote:

42.

It's not tomorrow for me yet. Try again in 7 minutes, then I might be able to accept your answer.

Ahead of schedule and under budget. You should be happy.

42.

A co-worker texted me a video showing me the spare part that we had on hand. So, he was driving while he was making the video. He was also holding the spare part in one hand. Which means he was holding his smartphone in the other hand. So, steering with his belly hands I guess. Anyway, not the right part. It’s on order, should be here Monday?

It’s like have the video cable plugged into the wrong port.

So, definitely sorcery.

Did you ever use the random dungeon generator in the old AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide?

I visit the ATM at least once a week to make sure I have cash in my wallet. I don’t like to pay for small items with my card.
I would have had to call my bank to let them charge my debit card for my roof replacement, so I paid those folks with a check.

I can turn a block of wood into whatever you want, but not much of a car guy. If something is visibly disconnected or making noise i can fiddle with that part take it apart and put it back together and it USUALLY works after that and only very rarely catches fire.

I had to take my ‘68 Wagoneer into the automotive electrician because I didn’t make a diagram of how the wires connected to the generator. Had him wire it for an alternator. These days you can take a picture with your phone. If you remember…

I remember that my phone is a camera about 3/4 of the time.

Edit: Heh. Bonnet.