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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 04:07am PT
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Ever get to tour a potato chip factory? I did with my Cub Scout troop in Sacramento.
Out in the suburbs, we got to go very few places of interest, but there was a plant out by the El Camino Drive-In where one of the dads worked. We got a tour that I only remember vaguely.
Ladies with knives at rows of conveyors, a huge oven where the raw chips were TOASTED--I remember the smell, and that I wanted only to stay there sniffing the aroma--and then LIGHTLY SALTED and then COOLED and then BAGGED and BOXED and SHIPPED.
I thought it was almost as good as the trip to the State Indian Museum at Sutter's Fort, where there were thousands of skulls to look at, and a display of white ignorance which was probably pretty good for the time and place. Of course, the whites didn't KNOW that they were showing their ignorance but they were corrected in the sixties and seventies, so...
Thanks for the k-k-k-kudos, neebee. I love my town and will keep on boosting it as long as I am here.
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 04:30am PT
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Jack City.
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 04:49am PT
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Orange and black, black and orange,
Try rhyming that and you'll become blue.
Theryago, Gnome. We don't need no steenkin' rhymes!
Nice falconensis, Bushman. A real good little pick-up with real F-O-R-D parts and good on gas, too. It's what this nation needed and Ford made it happen.
A friend of BroMike's named Greg had one, pale yellow, and it was his own, bought with his own money from something he did after school all his life--but I don't know where it was he worked.
Jobs here were scarce, with only a population of slightly under 25,000 in the sixties. Which is why many of my friends ended up working up in the park for Curry Company.
CO, Brent, Richard, his sister Mandy, myself and some others all worked there. John Decker, from upstairs, worked at Badger following his Vietnam service. Pardon me, it's now the Yosemite Ski and Snowboard Area.
Hey, I want to thank Brian M from the bottom of my heart. I'm really enjoying the book which you gave me at Facelift, The Portable Curmudgeon.
I've never been a true curmudgeon, only a crusty olfart, to my way of thinking.
I actually LOVE people, but they are stupid, sometimes, and so it's hard to like them when they are. It's probably a stupid way to be. But don't judge me so harshly. A true curmudgeon says what he thinks but I tend to hedge because hurt feelings are not what I'm about. I do like to think well of people if they are not complete boobs and egoists.
There is a line, fer sure. But I don't have no lists.
Speaking of which, where is Cosmic?
Stare well. You may miss something.
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 05:55am PT
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Like Halloween.
Yep, it's here in Middle Earth already. Shelly's a maniac, what can I say?
Just like my sister. Any old holiday means decorations, but lennypenny's slowed down recently. She now "does" her place for Fall, and for Christmas, Easter, and whatever she feels up to doing. It means trips to the basement stuff-storage bins or whatever she uses to organize all those decorations. It's hard on the elderly. She's only a bit younger than I. She's getting there. Hard to admit. The grave yawns...
At least she doesn't leave Christmas lights all over the lot like some lazy bums. My mom had the same disorder. I think many women suffer from over-decor syndrome.
Shelly, our night manager, has outdone herself this year at Middle Earth. The lobby's covered, and the mezzanine as well, with scary stuff, like faces that change to horror masks as you pass by.
If I want to wash a load of clothes, I get to be cheered up by orange and black bunting. Woot!
What's strung over YOUR dryer? El Capitan High...gotta love it.
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 08:09am PT
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Too bad the good things never last. Where's that stupid robot when I need someone to blame things on...
Ok, well then Mouse, you started it! It's the Month of the Hollow-wane again so I've nowhere to go but darkness after this one all the way to the illustrious celebrations and the celebrators, big or small...bless their ominous little hearts.
I think of this guy whenever I get a vet bill...
The Demon's Dirge
I eat dead sharks for breakfast
I eat dead cats for lunch
I eat parrot heads and puppy heads
And little kittens for brunch
Don't mess with me because
I've barbecued folks in jail
And when I'm done a eaten
I'm going straight to hell
I'll eat those little demons
And the Devils foot myself
I'll sock them way inside my gut
I'll never mind the smell
Cuz I'm an evil demon
I'm a curse's curse
And if you don't like your nightmares
Well then I'm even worse
So don't show me no ugly parrots
or baby cuts of pork
I'll mix them with my red hots
And eat them with my spork
You probably think I'm crazy
And a serial dead pet fiend
So long as it's illegal
I don't care how dead it's been
To all you little animals
And lovers of their kind
I wanna cause you lots of heartache
No really I don't mind
Cuz I'm an evil demon
I'm a curse's curse
And if you don't like your nightmares
Well then I'm even worse
M'kay?
The end,
-the devil's devil
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 09:10am PT
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OCTOBER LIGHT. John Gardner. Knopf. 1976. Four stars!
[Eerie laughter.]
[Enter hereafter.]
[Yer gonna die.]
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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night visitors too small to be the ones bugle-ing outside my window. sounds like radar from mash is going to make an announcement
over tinhorn speakers as soon as he tames the squealing feedbacksunrisesunset
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 11:13am PT
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hooblie,
Did you see any cigarette butts? Were they just loitering or partying?
Any robot tracks?
S & G - A Hazy Shade of Winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdplFZE52D8
In a manner of reading.
Another is to go to sleep, but that's in the manner of dreaming.
I've missed the mornings out on the balcony.
It's breezy out today and it had a definite chill; but it's gone now.
It's cold in the studio, though, as it's on the north side of the building in the shade, out of the direct sun.
Chilly, Not Chiloe's Chile
Sitting here in my window bright
Letting in October light
Trying to warm with all my might
Down jacket on, I'm quite a sight
The older I get the colder it get
The temperature drops I break out in sweat
Out comes the vest and the warm jacket
I wish I had some purry-furry pet
I'd sit real still in my rocking chair
Then I'd stroke his long soft kitty hair
Kick my two frozen feet into the air
And fall asleep again without any care
MFM 10/02/16
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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 - Oct 2, 2016 - 11:25am PT
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Crazy shite brought about by tent fever.
On the ascent were Dan McGrew, Frank Sacherer, Warren Harding, and Glen Denny.
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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 - Oct 3, 2016 - 05:20am PT
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Big plans for the El Capitan Hotel on M St. at Main.
http://www.facebook.com/murphyformerced/videos/820705534697125/
Happens Every Time.
The day after I post the pix of the old place, I see an article in the County Times explaining that the El Capitan is getting a renovation, or it's planned, that is. We shall see.
"The original El Capitan, built in 1872 near 16th and N streets, played host to dignitaries such as President U.S. Grant (and presumably some indignitaries, as well) and travelers heading to Yosemite. It was moved about 1912 to its current location, and an annex built in 1924.
"The original hotel burned in 1931 and the annex was remodeled to serve as the stand-alone hotel that people know today. There hasn't been any major exterior remodeling since 1936.
"There will be 33 rooms for the old hotel that would be renovated and 67 new rooms and suites included with the four-story addition.
"The new structure will be designed to gradually transition from a contemporary style to the historic art deco style of the El Capitan."
And not only that, but there is an online article from the Sun-Stroke I just found which includes the Mainzer Theater, which building houses my beloved Cinema Cafe.
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/community/article104787896.html
So...we shall see.
I took a lot of photos for Gerardo yesterday and sent them off email. He said a few weeks ago he'd trade photos for meals.
Again, we shall see.
I'm getting hungry, wish the place was open already.
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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 - Oct 3, 2016 - 12:37pm PT
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My self-appreciation night yesterday evening.A dinner with Glen Denny's book, a leisurely stroll down to the public house, and some quiet time...the place was practically empty on a Sunday night.
Then a sunset walk back home, enjoying watching people out for a movie.
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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 - Oct 4, 2016 - 12:09am PT
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What'd bikers be without tools, anyway? Pedestrians.
Boo: "What did Hardly Visible ever see in that no-see-um, anyway?"
Joom: "Not much, likely. That insect probably just wanted some, nawmean?"
Boojoom trees?
Wrong, wrongue, and Rong.
Fact is, I just don't know.
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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 - Oct 4, 2016 - 12:16am PT
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Marco Polo! Baltimore! Who's yer friend?
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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 - Oct 4, 2016 - 12:21am PT
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Pillsbury's was a photo studio in Yosemite Village.
Prior to that it was over in the Camp Curry area, I believe.
This marker stone is located outside of the Visitors Center near Best's Studio.
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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 - Oct 4, 2016 - 12:25am PT
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Plaidman's trademark tam.
Vitaliy told me he's thinking about it, but still not sure.
He likes the idea of being original, but he looks good in plaid, too.
Stay tuned, this problem is of critical import to the welfare of the Taco and climbing in general.
Fish Finder's on the fence on this one, I think. But he's got his hat already.
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