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Post by jdd2 on Jan 19, 2024 17:53:09 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Jan 1, 2024 21:48:26 GMT -5
We're fine, a few things fell but surprisingly few given the shaking, Power didn't blink off, even momentarily. Heaters clicked off, but that's built in safety, so just reset/reboot. Gas did click off at the meter, but there's a switch there--push and hold to reset/restart the flow. Water is okay, but initial flow after the shake it was rusty brown, having shaken that loose inside our ancient pipes. Sewerage seems okay, but if there's a problem that may take a while before it backs up. Kitchen cabinets all have little quake locks so they don't open and spill things out, each one required a firm hit at the top to release/reset and get open again.
Up the way, the northern end of the peninsula near here, it was def big, lots of semi collapsed houses and so on. You may see/hear the name Wajima on the news, the biggest town up there, lots of damage and also fire/fires damage. Hard to tell at this point, but houses, both there and many places, are built together like row houses (town houses?), so if one burns, the whole row is in danger.
It was a little while before dinner, wife was planning to make tempura and fried chicken--lucky that that had not started and so no pot of hot oil on the stove. So dinner was delayed, and all the stuff ended up in the wok instead. Simpler and came out fine, easier cleanup, too.
There's a good alert system here. Actually many integrated/related/connected alert systems. The trains all stop automatically, e.g, some people spent the night on the shinkansen that comes here, take a while to check everything and get an integrated, scheduled system going again. There's a nuke about halfway up that way, no problem with that, so they say... Also a half dozen more of those down the coast the other way (north/across from osaka, their power stations), no reported damage there.
Minor tsunami, 1.2 meters in wajima, less than that anywhere else. This big one was an onshore quake, different than the undersea, off-the-coast one 12 yrs ago that created the giant waves then.
My wife went outside immediately (gotta keep the doors open so we don't get stuck inside), I stayed inside and held a monitor while watching the big TV do its dance. CDs on shelves didn't seem to move at all. A guitar, out and leaning against the stereo cabinet didn't seem to change position, tho it was rocking. I looked around outside, no apparent damage, but sometimes that's not noticeable right away.
We slept fine, there was an aftershock early, 4:30-5:00 or so, but we didn't get up. I was out for a bike ride yesterday, may go again in a little while.
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 18, 2023 17:40:55 GMT -5
This is a guitar he worked on, a '76 that had the tuning issues of the strike-era guitars. He filled and the re-routed the saddle slot in the right place, bone nut & saddle, neck reset, refret, and also due to a pick guard crack, lifted that off and put it back on, releasing the tension there. IIRC, the neck reset was warranty, the rest on my dime. He added a small card on the inside of the top, repaired by Frank Ford, dated--which is reverse printed so readable with a mirror.
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 14, 2023 2:31:47 GMT -5
The real money would be in locks of fake hair.
Or some of the real bits (get it now!! --DNA confirmation certificate included!!)
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 13, 2023 8:53:09 GMT -5
I received this by UPS today: ... Did you have to sign for it?
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Post by jdd2 on Dec 7, 2023 8:05:01 GMT -5
Hey, since it's one undercurrent of this thread, I've finally signed up for social security--I'm now a (vilified) blood sucking dependent of america. So have at me. I hadn't applied before, since I only have about $13-14k of lifetime earnings (high school jobs, most of my army time was at about $100/month), and I thought any SS benefit would only amount to like $30-$35/month. But someone nagged me into trying. Turns out it's 10 times that, and they back paid it to february of this year.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 29, 2023 7:35:33 GMT -5
I trim my eyebrows, at least when the barber doesn't. I wonder if by just letting them grow you could do the reverse of that, use them for a comb-over going backward?
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 29, 2023 7:30:23 GMT -5
While I'd've first said outside somewhere, just let all the boxes pile up, how about--since there's no place for it--just don't unload it/let it be unloaded?
'The contract' for the shipping of parcels apparently dates to 2013, and according to one comment "the Postal Service "considers the contract proprietary" and won't disclose it." So does this contract run indefinitely? This is now its 10th anniversary (if I've got the math right). So may it's time for some new contract terms.
And note that I'm not blaming or assigning responsibility to anyone here, least of all you.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 29, 2023 4:49:43 GMT -5
... 3. I needed a quick nap. ... Leave out the 'quick' part, and that's one of my go-to things to tick off on the daily list.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 29, 2023 4:47:21 GMT -5
Millring has been giving us a blow-by-blow of all this, but seeing it like this makes my blood boil. John has, if anything, understated the magnitude of the problem. It's testament to his fortitude he's kept ait this long. Yeah, the early version of that story right here. The comments seem to (mis?)attribute some blame for the situation that's not in the article, certain people in congress, besides the appointment of dejoy. I'm with Marty on the US mail being something that should have priority. Instead, let the boxes (as junk mail) pile up and be delayed for days.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 28, 2023 14:45:03 GMT -5
wapo.st/3N4Fr3JNo need to comment, it's all been said in the comments there.
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Post by jdd2 on Nov 15, 2023 16:55:00 GMT -5
The winter 'buri' season has started (yum!), the newspaper clip is of several hundred being caught/brought in at a couple local ports (buri = yellowtail). Size is 8-9kg, but up to 14. Crab season has started, too, tho they're too pricey right now, so maybe later. I usually ask for any that are missing a leg or two, instead of the pretty ones.
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 28, 2023 20:51:30 GMT -5
I've seen Her (worth seeing), and also Them, Us, Him & Her, and It.
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 9, 2023 9:31:55 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 3, 2023 0:01:44 GMT -5
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Post by jdd2 on Oct 3, 2023 0:00:08 GMT -5
Y'all are just jealous that you weren't named after james taylor...
...and that you're not worth $740 million.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 30, 2023 5:11:45 GMT -5
I've been on a piano kick: Oscar Peterson--Tracks; a few different Ray Bryant discs; Chick Core + Ayumi (double disc); Chick + Peacock; Gene Harris; lots of various Michel Petrucciani
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 29, 2023 15:47:06 GMT -5
Actually buy a used car?--just carry a usb cable, and pick up a kia/hyundai from wherever you might be.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 29, 2023 15:39:43 GMT -5
Okay, at this point I think she really should be stepping down... I am confus-ed. Perhaps too oblique?--re recent comments about senators hanging on forever, and the passing of the one from california.
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Post by jdd2 on Sept 29, 2023 8:46:00 GMT -5
Okay, at this point I think she really should be stepping down...
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