TSCLT 7.0: Hemis, Harleys, Hooters-n-Harridans

[bellisarius]

Careful there Bucko, you'll trigger somebody.

A simple "Good Morning" will trigger some around here.

I'm following Wat's example. Read and rest.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I gots me a long weekend here. All this resting may be too much for me.

 

[riverj]

I gots me a long weekend here. All this resting may be too much for me.

Hammock time is always good

 

[Bidin~Time]

Hammock time is always good

I initially read that as Hammer time is always good.



<cleans glasses>

 

[Que]

I've been collecting obsolete technology. It's easy to do because everything is on a obsolete. Or as voice to text calls it Lobster Elite.

The small one is usually with me when I'm hunting thrift stores but recently, because I had her in the week instead of on the week and I was by myself and happened to pick up a couple of really nice examples of those early Slimline Bell System push button phones.

We are playing telephone and she is terrible at it because she's never actually seen anyone pick up a landline. Ever.

I never really thought about all the things that we knew as children that she hasn't had an opportunity to observe. She doesn't know for example that while waiting for a call your receiver has to be hung up else I'm going to get a busy signal.

She doesn't know that the person making the call has to wait for the other person to speak first to ensure that they have the receiver at their ear.

I'm going to have to buy a typewriter and show her how to use it. On an actual typewriter with good feedback for touch typing. Urban kicking myself for not picking up all those beautiful mechanical manual typewriters when they could be had for a dime a dozen. At this point I would settle for an IBM selectric.

 

[riverj]

I initially read that as Hammer time is always good.



<cleans glasses>

Both would suffice.... Rest well

 

[SpeareChucker]

I skipped the whole thing.
During the day, it was very quiet.
I think this neighborhood has an aging demographic.
I pretty sure that due to the flooding, the downtown cancelled its annual display.

For today, they coffee is fresh and hot.

 

[Que]

I'm puzzled over that for a bit until I realized the L was missing in flooding. I thought perhaps there was some sort of a food fight... maybe there was some series of food trucks known as the fooding....

 

[SpeareChucker]

I see that now.

Is it worth fixing?

 

[Que]

Naw. Give the pedants something to "crow" about

 

[SpeareChucker]

Too late.

They'll find something else though.

 

[Que]

I let my phone get quite low and as I prepared to throw it on the charger and go to sleep I noticed that the little push button LED light on my cord that I used to find the port didn't work. First I thought the small one had somehow worn out an LED and then I realized the cord wasn't working at all. Then I came to realize oh not only is the air conditioning not running at the moment there are no lights anywhere.

This place blows one of the two circuit breakers regularly so I throw on some shoes to go look into that and I realize my entire block is dark.

Fortunately I have a yuuuuge battery in the Prius.

The phone will be nicely charged in the morning when I get up. Hopefully, I'll remember that that's where I put it.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Yeah, I hate that.

The good thing is that a lot of my electric line is underground, so once it is fixed at the pole, I am good to go.

I also always have a flashlight handy.
You never know when one of these giant oak trees are going to go down.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Happy Friday!!! As in, just another day ending in Y.


Slept pretty well last night. Maybe it was all the Numbah Wun Fuckee before bedtime.


Just workin' straight on through. That's Wat's old technology.


More of it: coffee. And it's damned good.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Not much going on here.

We were spared the daily afternoon thunderstorm yesterday.
I was able to get clothes on the line taking advantage of
available wind and solar to get my drying done.
It took hours instead on minutes...
I think it's the humidity.

 

[bellisarius]

Morning folks.

Had the usual booming, popping, and hissing around here.

Haven't decided on whether I'm going to do the reg. Friday breakfast or not. Make that decision on the second cup.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Good morning, and it is.
I love the smell of burning frustration in the morning.

Trump did not deliver for the haters and now they don't know what to do...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

We had a chance of t-storms yesterday afternoon.


We got . . . sod-all. Nothing. Zip. Nada.


We could see clouds, we could hear thunder, and we could see the flood alert on our weather radar thingie, but it didn't come to pass in our Humble Little Mountain Town.


The clothes dried great . . . in the dinosaur juice dryer . . . .

 

[SpeareChucker]

I fear that until the river, tributaries and diversion channels return to more normal levels
that we're going to have enough humidity to drive local storms for much of the early summer.
The land south of the ridge here just refuses to dry out too and regular rain
doesn't help one little bit.

 

[bellisarius]

T'Storms forecast starting tomorrow. It's the start of the monsoon season here so I could have written that forecast last year. (And the weather person probably did.)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Rain is weird here. I'm still learing the patterns.


Flooding is not so weird. When it strangles frogs on a hillside, it has to run downhill.


Got that one . . . .

 

[SpeareChucker]

My weather widget is stuck on Sunday...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Well, as long as Wat isn't washed away in a flash flood.


He'd prefer not to have his carcass found hanging in a tree.


Nekkid.


Oh, the humanity!!!

 

[bellisarius]

Flash flooding is fairly common in some areas out here. We lose and or rescue several folks each year that insist on playing in the arroyo's.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Our flooding occurs too slowly to properly be called flash,
unless, maybe, you're dumb enough to play in the creeks...