Modern Vespa

An hour commute is a nightmare for me. Done that, won't do it again. I have a room dedicated as my office. When I'm not working, I'm not working. I'm a few steps away from a bathroom that only two people share, my espresso machine, my kitchen… and when I have nothing that requires my attention at work, I'm a few steps away from my basement workshop, garage, and everything that I actually care about. But, if I need to work extended hours (which I did frequently with my last employer) at least I'm not in an office trying to keep the lights from going out.

Plus I'm making about 25-30% more than I would doing this for a local company, and we didn't have to move to Charlotte. We're close to our family and friends still.

I've been a 100% remote telecommuter (remember that term?) since October of 2004.

Santa Paula?

Correct. You've got a keen eye. The people in the riverbed try to use the airport as a shortcut into town. The drug problem seems to be getting worse.

So THAT'S what sunroofs are for!

A weirdly worded announcement on the door of a closed Popeye's Cajun Chicken restaurant in Rapid City, SD...

Well, at least they left you a word salad to tide you over until they re-open.

Tasty

That's how I busted my curry hook. That looks like a typical Friday shopping trip.

There's got to be an easier way to balance your bike.

Sounds like it was written by a lawyer.

AI isn't what it is cracked up to be...!

What's wrong with that? Gotta heat up one's bedding before turning in.

A while ago I saw a note on the door of my bank, it read :-

"To improve our service to you we will be closed until 10.30."

Over the past week we've seen some weird animal behavior in front of our house. Some Cooper's Hawks have a nest in a big tree right out there and they've been dive bombing people on the backs of their heads as they walk down the street. At least seven people have been whacked, including Mrs. GBaby who was hit twice and had her ear bloodied!

This is the third year in a row they've raised a family in the same tree and in the past they've gotten a little more bold in the way they might look at you once the eggs have hatched but nothing like this has ever happened before. It's always been cool to have them around, seeing their system of the male hunting and then passing the the prey off to the female on the same telephone pole day after day. The amount of little birds they catch and rip to shreds is impressive but if they're going to be ripping peoples scalps and ears, I'm going to have to disinvite them for next year.

I made a sign; there's quite a bit of general foot traffic, kids walking to school, and lots of people walking dogs. They are oddly selective about who they hit; it's a small percentage of the possible targets. Most people don't even know what happened and are really freaked out, so the sign might at least give them an explanation if we don't hear them screaming and go out to clue them in.

nope

You didn't know?!?

Wish I could find the pic, but when I bought several 12ft sections of PVC piping to build a yard drain, I didn't consider the length of the piping with respect to my then-new Frontier; just wanted to keep the number of couplings to a minimum.

Piping went diagonally across the bed, through the cab slider, over the folded passenger seat, out the passenger window and over the passenger mirror.

Really glad I opted for that slider.

Thanks for the thoughts! What we've been doing is carrying an umbrella which seems to work. My research has indicated that the aggressive defense phase runs from when the eggs hatch to when the littles one leave the nest so it's really not too long of a time period and should be over soon. Going by what I saw last year, it won't be long until the parents just split and you don't see them for six months while the little screamers hang around by themselves for a week or two begging and getting nothing until they either figure it out or starve.

They attack the back of your head because there are no eye there. Take one of your old John Deere caps and put a pair of eyes on the back. I would also wear some stout sunglasses to confuse the front facing "eyes".

The eyes don't work, at least for magpies.

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There's a prettier way to warm the tent

Literally

Saw this today in the store
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Walking thru the farmer's market today, spied a young guy busking with a cello. Didn't hear what he was playing. Got closer on my return, expecting. I don't know, something classical.

It was an Ozzy Osborne tune.

I have three security cameras at home; one over the garage aimed at the driveway & front yard (for security), one in the garage aimed at the garage door (to be able to confirm the garage door is closed), and one in the living room, partially aimed at the cat tree (I had no where else to put it, and CATS!).

I was scrolling through the notifications this weekend looking at the images that the cameras captured and ran across this one from the living room.



A user from Discord said it looks like the ghost of a Barbie doll hanging upside down.
A FB friend guessed "some kind of (moving) insect?" based on the somewhat symmetrical marks near the top of the image.
I'm assuming that it's not a spirit based on the blessing/cleansing we had an old-school Latin mass priest do when we moved in.

Nothing appeared on the other two cameras at that time, so whatever it was, it was in that room.

I'm with the Barbie ghost. Nothing wrong with the priest having a go at the place, but are they even trained to deal with ghost Barbies?

It looks to me like the ghost of Tweety P I E did Sylvester finally get him?

Another aspect of the whole thing that I find to be odd/creepy is that it is inline with the skylight, as if something either entered or exited the room through the skylight. Dunno. They are trained in blessing scooters, though:

That's my ride, exactly! Wonder if he visits Wisconsin....

What about exorcisms?

How to upgrade the front end of your Sprint or Primavera.

And don't forget the backend

Still not as good as ESS.

What a waste of time and money.

Rear disc...

And the transmission cover appears not to fit.

Earlier I was watching an Automotive Podcast when the Presenter used the phrase " I nearly fell off my chair " and as he said it I looked at my phone at a News feed and the Headline was " We nearly fell off our chairs".

Hmmmmm.

Umm, that is a rather large unicorn..

Rather unfortunate camera angle if anyone asks me....

This afternoon in the Walmart parking lot...of course.

WTF?! There sure is plenty of weird shit going on in your part of the country. Keep the observations coming.

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