Tales of Home [9]

{{Sounds good Halfy- have a great time and enjoy the company.  }}

Once you get 20+ you really get to appreciate the enthusiasm for little kids' games of imagination. Just offer bits and pieces now and then and buy into it and you can have a great time!

Rough night Halfy?

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It's not so much whether I'm the hobbit I used to be as the hobbit I needed to be.

halfwise wrote:don't go out with the grad students....don't go out with the grad students....I'm too old for this shit....don't go out with the grad students...

ha ha yeah, going out with grad students is the nearest thing to an out-of-body experience I ever had. Its like I was floating in the ethersphere thinking, yep done that, yep over that, yep U dumbass don't do that,....blah blah..yep..wanna go home and chill...blah blah bored..my face aches....

halfwise wrote:don't go out with the grad students....don't go out with the grad students....I'm too old for this shit....don't go out with the grad students...

yes. don't.

{{Good to see you back about the old place Norc!   }}

heh i am always back when i procrastrinate..

Need I suggest that's why you see me around here so much?

halfwise wrote:Need I suggest that's why you see me around here so much?

hi comrad.

{{First storm of the season rolling into Scotland as I type- due to hit proper later today, fortunately doesn't sound too bad, so far-

'The Met Office has issued weather warnings and said Storm Ali could bring winds of 80mph and a danger to life from flying debris...Travel disruption and huge waves in coastal areas are also expected.

Oh good! }}

80 mph is no weather for kilts...

The Met office issues forecasts in mph? So much for the conversion to metric.

{{UK is kind of split on metric- we still weigh stuff in stones and pounds and we still tend to measure height in feet in inches and distance in miles, but we measure liquids by the litre.

Bit windy here jut now, sea's looking interesting too, high tide will be quite the swell I think judging on this picture taken by a friend on the ferry earlier- }}

Its very blustery but warm still here in the South East. 37MPH. Trees are thrashing around a bit & my windmill in the garden is a complete blur its going so fast, but, no damage yet, no fallen trees etc

{{ Last ferry that ran today before they decided that just maybe it was best to suspend the service for a bit- glad I wasn't on that! }}

I have friends working on both the Alaska State Ferries and the Washington State Ferries. They're required to chain the cars down to the deck chocks on days like that. Otherwise you know somebody will forget to set the hand brake....
If a car gets free and starts playing "loose cannon", careening off of its neighbors and getting them moving, then one by one the cars start shifting and piling up on whatever is the low side, causing the ferry to list more, which then causes more cars to break free. It can look like a very expensive junkyard when you finally get into port

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{ Last ferry that ran today before they decided that just maybe it was best to suspend the service for a bit- glad I wasn't on that! }}

Have your local council thought about investing in a submarine passenger service instead?

Started cranberry harvest today. Long day. I can feel it!
We'll be going pretty much steady now till Oct 31.
Then we'll hibernate,
'cause that's what farmers do.

{{Hope you have a good harvest Dave worthy of all your effort- and hope even more Trump leaves you someone to sell it too when your done!! }}

Congratulations & good luck Dave. I can appreciate the hard work you do.

good luck Dave.  
Ladies wee-wee tubes around the world thank you very muchly.