Modern Vespa

Roy's can be rebuilt. So can parts of Asheville and the surrounding areas. It's the torn up roads and bridges that are going to take a lot of time to rebuild. Many towns in upper SC and western NC are almost/if not totally isolated because of the torn up highways and many of them are dependent of the "Leafers" coming from different areas to bask in the Fall foliage. Places like Chimney Rock are nearly wiped out. It's going to rough for awhile.

NC here. So sorry to hear. I've been in the mountains. I'm on the coast, and it's been soaked in mosquitoes and sweat for 3 weeks. Not fun. If I can send you a care package let me know. Raft? -Danno

I just figured out why I can't stream any BBC comedy shows. Sky TV has them sown up, soon launching a payTV channel. Thanks Rupert, you [insert very very long stream of expletives].

All the old Top Gear's were put on a channel called Dave TV which everyone thought was independent but it's owned by the BBC.

Still aint paying for it.

For those who don't know in the UK you pay around $200 a year for a TV Licence which allows you to receive TV signals from all channels but all the money goes to the BBC.

This is why I don't pay it.

Yet it's still half the price of an average Sky TV package, which in my book makes it good value for money.

It's not if you don't have TV.

As an after thought Sky is massively underpinned by advertising so why is it still so expensive ?

'The Young Ones' episode 'Bomb' centered around their lack of a tv license. I use the word 'centered' loosely.

Because SkyTV is in it for profit, not public service.

It's a rhetorical free zone.

The BBC also has an uncanny habit of protecting some very undesirable types while keeping them employed for years in a way that ITV can only dream of.

I think a million and a half people in the UK refused to pay their TV Licence last year and I'm not surprised.

BBC Studios has to make a profit but the rest of the organisation is struggling to justify itself right now.

I have a rogue chicken....My current backyard flock numbers 5 hens. I occasionally let them roam free when I'm hanging out and there's not too much damage they can do (not in spring when they happily scratch up anything recently planted, or later when they ravage strawberry beds....). The rest of the time they're in a fenced area with a nylon mesh cover.

Of late, one of them has found an escape path, and when I go out to check on them in the morning, she saunters up the path to greet me (they're real beggars for food). I've done visual inspection s multiple times, gone inside the enclosure to see from a different angle...nothing obvious. I've stumbled upon some possible vulnerabilities, taken care of those, and the next morning, there she is, happy to see me.

None of the other ones appear bright enough to even follow her out, so she's the only one. I'm okay with her out this time of the year, but should she stay overnight, I think there's a good chance of a predator finding her. The other part is that I assume she's still laying eggs, but it's a bugger finding them when they're out of the enclosure.

I've threatened to do a hen's eye tour of the facility, hands and knees, next. Other option is surveillance, but I'm not sure I want to stare at the pen for hours waiting for her to go AWOL. I'm in the process of rebuilding the fence, and I'm hoping that I'll find the escape route eventually, or inadvertently close something off.

She could be a Shapeshifter disguised as a chicken......

Colonoscopy prep. Not so much the fluids (!) but I'm hungry.

You're not doing it right.

My license expires tomorrow. Went in last week and failed the vision test. It used to be easier, you stuck your head into a machine and called out the arrow directions. Since I have one eye naturally made for reading, easy. Now, a person backs up a few feet behind the counter and holds up a paper with letters printed like the vision test. Guess for the first time in my life I'll have glasses on my DL.

Had to drive witha a Vespa to car-service to ask: "is that water leak already found?" and got cold and now in fewer...and yes a) the was water under our car b) they did not know where it is coming from.

How old are you Syd ?

When I went in to get my motorcycle endorsement on my DL back in 2016, they had me remove my glasses for the photograph. I was surprised, because I had them on in all of my previous license photos since I started wearing glasses (32 years).

And today, when I returned to DMV, the same thing happened to me. Surprise!

Here's what's pissing me off today:

I'm working on my homework for my Philosophy class. These are the instructions for what to submit, according to the assignment page: Sounds good, right?

When I download the Module Four Short Paper Template and open it in Word, it is formatted in 11-point Calibri font.

I think Calibri looks better, but Times New Roman takes up more space on the page.

Teacher always knows best. Even when they obviously don't.

I'm old enough to know better.
Let's say old enough the retire, even though I did years ago.

That bothered me this morning way more than it should have.

This year our management has passed off our annual evaluation to our payroll company as a 'self evaluation' where we, as employees, go through all the legwork of actually performing the evaluation and then submitting it to our direct supervisors.

This should be fun.

The "training" videos we had to watch were some of the worst I've seen/heard. The only saving grace was their use of George Costanza as the example employee. I wonder how many people picked up on the irony.

I am so... so... SO HAPPY to have pulled the ripcord at the end of June and retired. I was going to do it at the beginning of the year, but held on until the end of June so my options would be vested. They're utterly worthless and will never be worth a penny, but really I just wanted to suck another six months of pay from the assholes.

At my last job they'd started that self evaluation nonsense. Every couple of years there was a new management or HR inflicted fad we had to put up with.

Now that I'm retired, I wonder how I ever had time to get anything at all done while devoting so much of my day to my day job.

While doing a wash job on my '81 Honda 900C yesterday, I noticed that a rock, or something equally hard, had cracked the glass lens of the bike's headlight.

This is barely a three month old reproduction headlight assembly, and I have doubts as to whether I can buy just the glass lens.

I'll look into it, but even if I do have to re-buy another entire headlight assembly, they're an amazing value at only about $55 bucks for the chrome shell, H4 bulb, and the glass lens...but it still pisses me off.

Bummer! At least you didn't get it in the face!

I almost always wear my Scorpion modular helmet, so aside from a sharp knock, I would have been ok...in this case.

I wear the open face style of helmet in my photo only about 10% of the time that I ride, but yes, a stone in the snoot would not have been a pleasant experience with this lid.

I dig the look, though.

Chips Ahoy cookies are pissing me off today, that's what.

Ok, so they were free, but these hyper-dry, nasty, shitty little excuses for a cookie are an insult to all of cookiedom and should be unceremoniously smitten from the shelves.

I don't easily toss unnecessary carbohydrates and super-processed sugary snacks into the bin, but these damn things are inedible, simply awful.

A great example of a fancy and pretty package that hides the culinary horrors within.

Nabisco should be ashamed of themselves for pushing such shitty atrocities on unsuspecting customers.

These crappy little discs of disappointment have been around since 1963?...but how?

Does anyone who has ever tried them come back for more?...culinary masochists perhaps?

They were probably better back then? I don't know. Sugar is bad for you anyway, JB.

I can't say much for Subway sandwiches, but their White Chocolate Macadamia nut cookies are delicious!

Dip them in coffee, they're not all that bad. Of course, then they tend to fall apart, and you have cookie mud in the bottom of your mug
Either way, you lose.

Perhaps the "Chips Ahoy" name harkens back to when this was the tasty alternative to the usual long-haul voyage staples of hardtack and swill?

[NSR] Oatmeal Cookies: Raisins or Chocolate Chips?

If you know, you know.

But they're no cure for scurvy, what they really needed was limes....perhaps with chocolate chips....or as the hoity-toity people call them...'Tollhouse Morsels'

Max to the rescue again.

The tendency of stupid people to reach for conspiracy theories to explain anything that disagrees with their stupid and fixed beliefs is pissing me off.

Everything is a conspiracy theory when you don't know how anything works.

The beauty in it is that as soon as their idiotic theory gets blasted into oblivion, they can shift to the next one. CTs have an inherent "out". That's the beauty of them. The very thing that proves their theory wrong is a conspiracy in and of itself. Deep state. Illuminati. I can't talk with these people anymore on a serious level. If I catch them in a lie they would say, "that's exactly what they want you to think". There is no winning, and I think that highlights another point. It is a zero-sum game wit them. Winners and losers. There is no conversation. CHEERS, Jess.

You get a lot of that when Saturn is in retrograde in the constellation Pisces. And heck, Mars in Cancer so peoples aural energy will be radiating stronger than usual, this often causes increases in group think and can create conflict between disassociated groups.

I recommend some camomile tea and try to avoid crowds until mid 2027.