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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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As for Burch, he could maybe use some birch on his butt, but it's not my concern.
I don't go where he goes.
He's not bothered me.
But I'm really stoked about Lurch's talent. I never knew!
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Oh, Lurch, please call Burch
And tell him lunch is cancelled
The grapes haven't soured
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 21, 2015 - 02:35pm PT
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but wait, there's more
F. Junipero Serra
F. Troop
F-Test
F-prime of x
F bomb
Fi al vi!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2015 - 09:18pm PT
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Fooling around with the VA again today on minor things was like sitting in solitary, except for the awful muzak. At least I had my AC unit going.
I went out in the heat today...oh, boy.
One errand was to run the pkg. of slides over to the PO to mail to Jim Shirley. I've had them for two years, should have sent them long ago.
It is still 86 degrees outside!
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Furthur on down the road, this old song still accompanies me, despite the usurping of Aussies crazed on coca.
I muted the muzak by playing oldies. This fell out of the bag.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Jul 21, 2015 - 09:50pm PT
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This then will be a share to far but fitting in so well
The dude abides:
Every day I or she checks our meeger balance.
Then on Thursday last a $99.70 charge to proactive acne cream out of Canada
WTF? We didn't order any such thing.
Call the Bank. . . .
Wait twenty minutes her, playing the menu prompt game.
NOT me
See often if you refuse to answer any of the recorded questions, Not a one,
The line goes dead then rings a courtesy line and a living being picks up.
It can still take time at least (z may know or Clint Cummins) seven to ten minutes to get through.
I have no patience and it is pointless weed less in this heat I cannot keep my temper in check, so I hang on listening to commercials for the Special Olympics, and that terrible zac o zit Muzak
Hey they got dead and they flames of billy Joel. But it sends me into a tizzy,
The wife is calm and purpose driven, eye on the goal.
And worked in banking.
We can't get it straight at first so a conference call transpired.
The result of which is that clear fraud is found and the charges are reversed.
Still so thin the margin in my account, I burn the gas in the heat to go to the Main Street branch. I am calmer and I sit the eF down. That gets attention immediately. "can I help you sir" a terse yes, from me gets me an invite to move to the proper desk.
Taken to the cubical I explain the situation with names of the fraud lady from the phone call and her extension (phone# too for redundancy.)
The call again is made the confirmation is again confirmed.
I do not trust, been here before and I don't want to hear it.
Do not over draw my account !
if the kids camp tee shirts hit, it will blow that meager balance and trigger an overdraft charge.
(they started camp on Monday, remember This is the prior Thursday that this is happening) )
Okay no wat? They say they can't do anything about that. . . .?
I close the account.period.
The branch manager sees it going south, I vibrate, reals for real you can see me start to shiver like and I jump up to pace it off, like walking off an injury in a ball sport. It tones down the volume of the vibrating gnome, at least, at most/best, it gets the head boss involved.
He looks me up, with his superior access, on the computer.
Then looks at disheveled sweaty Gnome, and back at the screen.
This account sees no debit or credit action only cash in and cash out,
It is on the screen. He looks,in hopes of a more balanced response, at the wife
She has come into the bank, now worried, hot from the car park, but better turned out than me. We peck our cheeks for effect and I turn this cluster fix over for her to straighten out.
He says to her, put money in the account to cover what's might be pending,
We both say at once say no, cancel the damn account.
This is not what the Main Street branch is all about.
It is a cheery old fashion bank with three story vaulted ceilings ornate forties style.
The manger sucks in a breath and says "I see you have had this account since 1968."
Yeah what of it you suck, the bank sucks, (I think, to my self)
and if you look this is the last of three, the oldest, and a non-business so not free.
Please let's not pretend that you won't be charging me $37, next week for what ever hits today, it is nine thirty am.
He says the charges have been reversed, well no the accounts been frozen to investigate the fraud claim,( this I already knew)
We are not budging,
The manager sets his pen to paper and hands said paper to the wife
It says that as the stop payment is held up by who knows what? the fraud investigation.
The bank is depositing the Hundred dollars to cover any overage.
The cards are cancelled. The bank will take its money back when this all works out and then re-issue and activate new cards.
Ookaayy . . . . that's a new one but the cards are in our pockets seems like if we hand 'em over then no foul, a fair ball is in play, the bank will cover with its own money if a charge beyond the balance hits, it will, - the damn tee shirts, we know.
Seems unbelievable but when checking as the sun came up this morning, there is another $99.70 proactive, Canada e charge again,
I'm board with this. . .
By 1 pm today there was an error in the amount of cash balance on hand,
still the cards are inactive
Ho wait that error. . . It was in our our favor.
.( By more than the hundred bucks the bank gave us) we hope that it is on the way
To being straightened out.
The bank manager? The original "loan"? What ever is going on we will hold tight. The bank will walk back the mistake, and God willing we will have some cash in a day or two. When the cards are re-issued.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2015 - 10:11pm PT
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Martha My Dear
Martha my dear though I spend my days in conversation
Please
Remember me Martha my love
Don't forget me Martha my dear
Hold your head up you silly girl look what you've done
When you find yourself in the thick of it
Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you
Silly girl
Take a good look around you
Take a good look you're bound to see
That you and me were meant to be for each other
Silly girl
Hold your hand out you silly girl see what you've done
When you find yourself in the thick of it
Help yourself to a bit of what is all around you
Silly girl
Martha my dear you have always been my inspiration
Please
Be good to me Martha my love
Don't forget me Martha my dear
Reversal of fortune?
Fidel/ET Savings...how may I direct your call, sir.
Sir, we have no Mr. Elliot working here.
Have a nice life, sir. Thank you for calling Fidel/ET Savings.
Must thank Gnome for the update on Billy Joel. Too much, you old DJ Dog.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 21, 2015 - 11:22pm PT
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We didn't start this fire, either.
http://gripped.com/news/climbers-face-the-flames-and-extinguish-squamish-fire/
There is a character in Shibumi named the Gnome, BELIEVE IT OR NOT!
The PlO goatherd shook his head. "This Nicholai Hel must be very rich from the point of view of money, eh?"
"Not so much as you might imagine. In the first place, his stunts are expensive to set up. This is particularly true when he has to neutralize the government of the coountry in which the stunt takes place. He does this through the information brokerage of a man we have never been able to locate--a man known only as the Gnome. The Gnome collects damaging facts about governments and political figures. Hel buys this information and uses it as blackmail against any effort on the part of the government to hamper his actions. And this information is very expensive. He also spends a lot of money mounting caving expeditions in Belgium, the Alps, and his own mountains [Pyrenees]. It's a bobby of his and an expensive one."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2015 - 12:04am PT
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Staying with the very subtle Japanese theme, I'd like to discuss the price of rice here in California.
There is a type called Calrose, which seems to be the most-sold variety. I do a lot of shopping at Grocery Outlet. The brands of rice there are not that great, for they are very standard, just what uninformed housewives might buy based on price alone.
I've been fortunate to have discovered there is a HUGE difference in what money can buy. I shop for rice now at the Kialee Market, the Asian store in the next block down Main, across from the Arts Center.
I buy five pounds for $3.99 of a generic type of what is coyly labelled as "Carose Rice" by the folks there. The stuff cooks up very well, absorbs flavors well, so far as I can tell. I have only cooked it with bok choy and soy (a pretty good-tasting variety from the Hmong store, as well) and am pretty much sold on it and the greens as a staple now.
The bok choy is such a deal. Huge package of four to six bunches for a dollar, when available.
I'm not equipped with the knowledge needed to discern anything else, as yet. But I'm eating better and enjoying the new tastes and textures has a lot to do with that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calrose_rice
http://www.kodafarms.com/calrose-is-not-the-same-as-kokuho-rose/
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2015 - 07:10am PT
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Jack Meade had one in HS.
His GF lived out in Snelling so he needed economy (32-mile round trip) to see Lisa, a MHS cheerleader.
Jack used it mornings to deliver Ralph J. Gleason, The Sporting Green, Herb Caen, and Art Hoppe to SF Chronicle subscribers.
My father insisted on getting "outside news" that the Merced Sun-Stroke did not provide.
He also listened to Paul Harvey's broadcast every morning while shaving.
Mr. Clockwork, Boomer was.
My brother Mike found a great deal on a Honda 250, meanwhile, then upgraded to a Triumph convertible painted reddish-orange with a pair of racing stripes.
Fast and furious, back in the day.
Dust and Deity, according to THE ESTABLISHMENT.[Click to View YouTube Video]
"He must be able to tell you where the best donuts are."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 22, 2015 - 07:16am PT
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F.BI, F.AA, F.CC ... keep those cards and letters coming, my firends [sic].
To get to the Rollen Donuts, take a right off F. St. to E 21 St. Proceed to G Street. You'll find all the donuts you can eat and
if you're hankering for some adult entertainment, right yonder across the street will be the Merced Adult School
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2015 - 07:32am PT
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For Throwpie, who's been up in the Gorge with his sailboards.
Joe Friday on Wednesday.[Click to View YouTube Video]There are three million stories out there in the Naked City (down by an astounding four million but it's a different Naked City.)
The country's capital could use a man like Jack.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 22, 2015 - 07:45am PT
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And here is what we get from "The Detectives?"
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Watch those thirty-year mortgages like a weatherman, son.
Edit: Following a morning nap which stretched out to be a near-siesta, I awoke to a sort of diatribe from an imaginary neebee decrying the video above. I closeted myself in the bathroom to think on it and discuss it with the higher power.
Results: I don't subscribe to any hate of our sitting president, his race, nor the issues he must meet to defend his program, if indeed he has one: and the main reason I posted the video was to show the lengths to which political enmity will go to try to destroy a person or party's credibility.
This one claims that the president is a liar bent on concealing his past for his own gain by the simple device of not allowing his private information to become part of the real issues. It's tough to do and it is what is called an ad hominem attack--we see these all the time here on the forum.
Bill Clinton "stepped into it" based on his misdeeds while in office and besmirched his legacy. Mr. Obama is smart enough not to allow the past to control the present. This, to me, is common sense. It may be Paine-ful, in that canards will fly, but that's part of the job. He, the lone black man of the group of men known as POTUS, is not being impeached, but simply hated, so his device to counter the slurs must be working.
It will remain as posted, not that our little corner of existence has much of an effect on anyone's way of thinking, but we do sometimes think about consequences here in the control booth.
Viva la Constitution de los Estados Unidos!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 22, 2015 - 10:09am PT
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a Skate shop at the mall. . .
skateboarders are so much of what is or was punkthis is the shop sticker secreted under the banister of the mall's guard rail
the placement is only visible to you as you ride down the escalator,
The placement is across from the shop, facing the shop but below view from the entrance.
sufers stance or skate boarders proper stance to absorb the transition on the half pipe, planning to 'alie' the channel.( jump the gap not grabbing the board)
I am not the manipulator that some around here are,.Anyone , please put this guy on a surf board or. . .
this one is not down sized if that helps
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 22, 2015 - 10:29am PT
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]seems that our form of organization is woe-fully lacking .
the drive I stored a lot of pics on went missing,
after I dumped half of my shots to clear room for more.
it is not indexed in any way,
I have to put on strong glasses and trip down memory lane. i'm in the background, hmm. . . always it seems.
seems like a life time ago'because it was.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 22, 2015 - 03:37pm PT
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Some folks don 't know Jack, some folks don't know Joe.
That's a fact, ma'am. I have a good idea what town the old lady was messin' 'round in, but I'm not certain, so I'll say no more.
Could anyone ask for Moore? I spose.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2015 - 12:12am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2015 - 12:30am PT
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A wednedsay walk in Applegate Park.
A young Hmong woman needs no bookmark.
The young men fly and the old men play.
The cares of the world just go away.
The wonders of nature abound and thrill.
The Fountain of Laura provides us some chill.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 23, 2015 - 12:46am PT
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And the roses wither in their season,
Losing beauty but still mighty pleasin'.
The Roses are in the Lotus Position.
All is well in the Land of the Free,
and the Home of the Brave.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 23, 2015 - 10:00am PT
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They demolished a power plant that nobody liked, now a sculpture has been created to honor it.
The monument has three components to its installation: a 3,500-pound steel sculpture, half ton steel bench made out of turbine blades, and 250-pound, 360-degree spinning easel, the latter part of a project called “Easels Everywhere,” a global art project he’s trying to launch.
Is Chula VistA a dull place or what? Ask Joe on Friday when the sculpture goes up. None of Dr. Filth's sexless patients were harmed in the filming of this video.*
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*Historic note:
Dr. Filth is a real person in the holocaust who cut off male genitals and kept them inside of a cup around her neck made out of skin. I know, it's gross, but it happened and this is what it is referring to. The part which says "and she also keeps the cards that read 'Have Mercy on His Soul'" shows that his assistant was forced into running the gas chambers for her.
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