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Post by jdd2 on May 22, 2023 6:09:25 GMT -5
abracadabra...! Here it is!
Wife just got home, in shock that she got a ticket--at a tracks/crossing, she crossed (should have waited) when the lights started flashing (still before the gates dropped, but they pegged her).
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Post by howard lee on May 22, 2023 6:25:47 GMT -5
Ha! Beat me to it, John. I was preparing breakfast for our teen student. I hate for her to leave home in the morning without something in her stomach. Back to the rat race for me this morning.
Working on this tune lately. Here is now retired local luthier Bob Jones and NJ bluegrass phenom Boo Reiners tearing it up in 2011. That's Bob at right.
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Post by paleo on May 22, 2023 7:10:20 GMT -5
Good morning, another beautiful day and I was up again at 5:30 this morning. I had so much fun yesterday burning burning my brush pile, I decided to burn another one today. The burn is underway.
Next up is a trip to the pharmacy followed br mowing the lawn and then this evening off to the Small But Mighty Songwriters meeting in Iowa City.
Oh, I made it 28.3 miles yesterday on the bike, I slept good last night.
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Post by drlj on May 22, 2023 7:17:52 GMT -5
Today is the 22nd, not the 23rd. Time goes by too fast as it is. (I see a correction has been made!😀)
Nice day shaping up.
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Post by majorminor on May 22, 2023 8:02:17 GMT -5
Saturday was pretty smoky here so spent it mostly indoors. It cleared up enough yesterday we got a pretty strenuous 5 mile hike in around mid day. Afterwards I spent a few hours on the deck drinking a few ice cold Shiner Bocks and looking at the f*****g horses out on the pasture.
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Post by billhammond on May 22, 2023 8:02:52 GMT -5
Cold brew coffee, blueberries and yogurt at hand, kielbasa and eggs on deck. Weather remains idyllic. Features stories abound, awaiting editing, which they need.
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Post by tiggy on May 22, 2023 8:52:24 GMT -5
abracadabra...! Here it is! Wife just got home, in shock that she got a ticket--at a tracks/crossing, she crossed (should have waited) when the lights started flashing (still before the gates dropped, but they pegged her).
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Post by tiggy on May 22, 2023 8:54:18 GMT -5
It's a bit like a red light. Sometimes when the light changes quickly it's safer to go through than slam on your brakes and risk getting hit from behind.
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Post by John B on May 22, 2023 8:54:59 GMT -5
Crappy Pop Tarts for breakfast. I don't know why I bothered.
Work today.
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Post by Marty on May 22, 2023 8:57:02 GMT -5
Good morning
56F-81F mostly sunny.
Simon is going to be a happy kitty today. That guy lives for Summer and he will probably only come in for food/water, shelter or a cuddle now. I won't make him come in at bedtime. Riley like his comforts and will be inside more than Simon.
Hardware store today. Broke a old blade the other day and in trying install the new one I noticed that the blade guide won't adjust properly. Can't afford to upgrade it so I'll have to fix it. Drill and tap for some larger cap screws should do the job.
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Post by Tamarack on May 22, 2023 9:16:30 GMT -5
Sunny, warm weather predicted for the week.
Home from a weekend in Detroit; some relatives who travel frequently with lots of points arranged for a cheap rate at a fancy downtown hotel. Walked along the Detroit Riverwalk and walked around some historic neighborhoods. Around the hotel they were setting up for the Detroit Gran Prix scheduled for June 2-4, barricades, grandstands, flags, etc. Whilst pulling up to the hotel yesterday morning I realized I was driving on a Formula 1 circuit.
Most interesting was driving or walking past houses on Washington Road and Washington Blvd. My grandfather lived in Grosse Pointe, an old-money enclave on the NE corner of Detroit (my grandfather wasn't wealthy but was a prosperous VP of an auto parts supplier at the time Detroit was booming). Granddad's old red-brick quasi-Tudor style home is well-tended. It was built around the same time as our current house in Grand Rapids, which has some similar features.
It was mind-boggling to drive through the neighborhood in Birmingham, a northern suburb, where I spent my childhood. This was about a square mile of Cape Cod style houses thrown up around 1950 and filled with WWII and Korea vets who were busily creating the baby boom. Birmingham became upscale in the 1970s and 1980s. In recent years many of the Cape Cod houses have been torn down and McMansions crammed onto small lots. We pulled up to 1197 Washington Blvd, and sure enough, the house of my childhood was gone, replaced by a quasi-quaint McMansion with an estimated value of $1.5 million.
Back to normal today. Inspired by ePaul, I might plant some tomatoes.
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Post by billhammond on May 22, 2023 9:46:02 GMT -5
Just edited an advancer on Rickie Lee Jones, who is playing in Mpls. this week. She's now 68, living in New Orleans, and still cute as hell.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on May 22, 2023 9:52:54 GMT -5
Up, coffeed, and failing at Wordle, the day is underway. Only supposed to be 65 today, so a walk is in order this am. The wife is heading off to the beach this afternoon with a friend for a couple of days of card stamping, so I’m a bachelor for the next few nights. That’s all I got.
Mike
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Post by Dan McLaughlin on May 22, 2023 10:00:02 GMT -5
Off for a walk.
Have good ones.
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Post by TKennedy on May 22, 2023 10:05:56 GMT -5
Quite a graduation for the 973 seniors at Evanston HS in Chicago. We sat through the whole thing. It was pulled off flawlessly. Quite an an accomplishment!
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Post by billhammond on May 22, 2023 10:29:20 GMT -5
Quite a graduation for the 973 seniors at Evanston HS in Chicago. We sat through the whole thing. It was pulled off flawlessly. Quite an an accomplishment! So you did get to go in person? Earlier you said you wouldn't be able to.
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Post by epaul on May 22, 2023 10:34:21 GMT -5
973? Yikes!
My graduating class was 36. Ok, that's on the small side, but 973? Yikes!
(If I were Tyrant, class sizes would be capped at 200 and a high school would be a building, not a sprawling "campus".)
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Post by Village Idiot on May 22, 2023 10:39:06 GMT -5
It's a beautiful day out there, I wish I could be outside. Which is where I will be after work.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 22, 2023 10:53:29 GMT -5
Crappy Pop Tarts for breakfast. I don't know why I bothered. Work today. There are non-crappy Pop Tarts?
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on May 22, 2023 10:57:57 GMT -5
973? Yikes! My graduating class was 36. Ok, that's on the small side, but 973? Yikes! (If I were Tyrant, class sizes would be capped at 200 and a high school would be a building, not a sprawling "campus".) I went to grades 1 through 12 in the same one building. Total enrollment about 350. There weren't 973 people in our town. Maybe that many in the township from which the school drew its students.
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