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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 11:57pm PT
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Adventuresome duo.Ready for adventure.
No helmets need apply.
Do it all on the fly.
Charge ahead you'll find the way;
If not there'll be another day.
Fail to plan or plan to fail,
Let's just do it!
Oh, no! It's hail!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 03:21am PT
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Why homeless Britons are turning to the Sikh community for food
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31557192
Article on line and passed on to me by a Sikh friend of one of my cousin's daughters.
And my story about an encounter at the library.
On the way home from the county jury selection process a few days ago, I stopped into the county library.
I had not been into the place in quite a while as the card they gave me was stolen along with my wallet last summer.
It was not a top priority to replace it.
However, I really wanted some books on the International Exposition from 1915.
The computer catalog listed several located in the Stoddard Room, which houses Californiana and some of the older and better-known California authors' first editions.
There were none of the ones I needed to look at on the shelves.
I took my problem to the circulation desk and spoke with a woman about twenty-five years or so younger than I.
It turns out that Sheryl knew me well enough through my wife Liz to let me go ahead and waive the California ID business.
She issued me a new card with a key-chain dealibob and now I can check out books again.
She had to charge me one dollar out of the two that were due in fines, however.
What nerve!
She remembered Liz fondly because they hung out with the local bikers.
Sheryl came to our wedding! I didn't know her, nor did I know her and Liz's biker buddies.
But it was like always, with Mama Liz, she had befriended Sheryl back then and had given her much thoughtful advice and helped her out a few times in sticky situations.
It's just amazing how little acts of kindness and thoughtfulness now come back on you years and years later.
So we can thank Sheryl and Liz for the sequence of images from the Exposition and the rest: of the Solomons, the last century's notable events, etc. that have appeared here in the last few days.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2015 - 04:09am PT
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The stink in small rock hell tells me my rant
Was needed and justified, the remains of a burst pipe and the timing !
Man it went down so strange as this time yesterday day this whiny BIOTCH
Was sitting on me
Why
I cannot say
My , I have spider sense it has saved many things and people
SPIDEE Sense, not crazy
Meditate on that!
More to the point
People have died when I ignore a very specific feeling
Bad things at shows were an early learning program
Years go by
Tons of times
to prove me right is hard but not
Impossible
Nuff said!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 04:20am PT
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I need to post these two images from the art thread.
They are each rather disturbing in some vague way.
Share the joy, share the vaguely disturbing, I always say.
No offense to either Alison or to neebee.
I feel better now.
These two and the other 20th C. B&Ws earlier are from
Through Our Eyes: The 20th Century as seen by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 06:54am PT
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Bang Zoom
Meet the Chula Vista woman chosen as a finalist to go to Mars... and never come back
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/feb/17/chula-vista-woman-finalist-mars-colony-mission/
However, there are a few challenges, not the least of which is that there may not be enough donuts to go around.
Crew starvation
Crew caloric consumption requirement is greater than calories available within food store
Crew dehydration
Crew water requirement is greater than potable water available within potable water store
Crew hypoxia
Partial pressure of oxygen within crew environment is less than 15.168kPa13
Crew CO2 poisoning
Partial pressure of carbon dioxide within crew environment is greater than 0.482kPa (0.07psi)13
Cabin underpressure condition
Total cabin pressure is less than 20.7kPa (3psi)13
High Fire Risk
Molar fraction of oxygen within crew environment exceeds 30%14
Table 2: Failure conditions employed within the Habitation Module
35 page study results here:
http://web.mit.edu/sydneydo/Public/Mars%20One%20Feasibility%20Analysis%20IAC14.pdf
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:03am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:16am PT
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Climbing content-wise, Olympus Mons, on Mars, is the largest and highest mountain in the visible Universe. Rumoured to be much higher than Mt. Everest. {The central edifice stands 21 kilometers (around 13.05 miles/approx. 68897 ft) high above the mean surface level of Mars.}
OT (and not), just who is your favorite Martian. Also, I wonder how many sherpas made it onto the final 100 list.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2015 - 07:59am PT
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Snelling & Snelling
And a big book seller the name will come to me it began with a B. . Also a 'twin' Damn I cant even remember . . .?baker & Baker??
This is going to bug me now
So later in a bit, I'll try to get back! To YA
Dunn & Bradstreet!!
Man still
I was sixteen it was a system, they offerd jobs to students
In youth literary mags, and then it went down hill fast I ended up running a video rewinding
'Desk' in a warehouses!
I have to go be Daddy'O's and shovel snows!
Screw the snow let it lie . .
That comment got me to thinking which led to a
Head ache, !
How many days in the Ditch? Consecutive summers, days in the vicinity,
non extended 12 day stands ?
What happened to my '71 impala?
I've pointed out I don't talk to the family much, when was that trip?
hey what year was it with the family unit?
We took an RV that the grace company gave dad for the summer a winabago
They spent a lot of wine down time, the folks Did,
Dad scraped the door shut on the winding 101?
Which was fun . . I got to use the escape hatch the rest of that summer!
I went to look for the bicentennial sweater that is a treasure it was not '76 it was from '85?!
This means that what? The trip with my folks is memorable but it seems I'm all akimbo
Ferkoktta too!
Hertz we try hader! The RV was a perk the trip was rough on us kidz
at each other
and me
Biddy biddy bom! Anatefca .All day long!
sun rise..,, ,sunset. , (the way the came out, No post work)
I was small then too it was when I was able to sing the entire score(every song and line)
Of fiddler on the roof! So working backwards that must have been seventy two?
Where did I spend the bicentennial ? If not in the valley why do I remember it as being so?
Just a bit over a year all totals, at most, damn no wonder I'm such a whiney BIOTCH !
Never got enough time in the Big ditch
, I'm depressed!
Hey, no more whining we said!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 08:06am PT
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Julie, not as tall as Mt. Everest, but very tall nonetheless. No mons jokes, puleeeze.
Chatanooga Choo Choo! You probably recognize this guy by his hat.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
'Visas will not be issued to people with hair like beetle'
– Sign at the Afghan consulate in Mashad (East Iran) in the nineteen seventies
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 08:44am PT
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But later things changed.I got myself and the dog a cut using my new ST Visa Card.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 10:13am PT
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I wonder why I didn't get one of those cards? Is it accepted on th Hippie Trail?
Remember when Leary was in the Grateful Dead?
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 22, 2015 - 10:18am PT
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We sometimes had signs that said "Anywhere out of here"...
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 22, 2015 - 10:47am PT
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I can R me A. m ember the liquid ratio but inot can re a member not a thing
Nothing!
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Feb 22, 2015 - 11:06am PT
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I know where we were on July 4, 1976. At Patty and Malcolm McGregor's at Sunrise Mountain Ranch on Agua Fria Road outside of Mariposa. I know this because our new baby was just a few weeks old when we hitchhiked over from Santa Cruz.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 22, 2015 - 11:17am PT
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Skeeter! Kentucky gal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeeter_Davis
http://www.cmt.com/artists/skeeter-davis/
It's funny how two articles will disagree critically.
[quote]Say there, hey, Mr. Dingus.
Nice of ya to try and ring us.
We're all fine and doin' swell.
Really ain't much more to tell.
Burma Shave.[quote]
[Click to View YouTube Video]Gypsy,
I am reminded of the signadura who called you over from her fortune-telling shack in Planada on the opposite side of the road and proceeded to do her thing with the oil and the water in a bowl to show you your futures.
(She was not exactly Corsican, living in Planada.)
And when she delivered her prognostication, that you were pretending to like one another, and that the child would be nothing but a burden for you two, you both laughed, gave HER the evil eye, and headed back to the other side of Highway 140.
HAHA! Fooled that old gal!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 22, 2015 - 12:06pm PT
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Say Gypsy, did you ever make it to the Shetland islands?
My grandpa lived there.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Feb 22, 2015 - 01:08pm PT
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hey there say, mouse... not to worry... as to bunny...
from what i learned, he was a sweet rabbit and had a long life, by his owner, though he died, finally, through old age, :(
the owner is yes, sad... but we hoped to help him feel better, and:
after she surprised her friend with this, she knew she had done well...
sweet pets, so innocent, yes... wish life was full of such
gentle friendships, the world over, in human form, as well as critter form...
:)
good thoughts for the day... and all from a little bunny, whose job
on earth is now... done... oh my...
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