Modern Vespa

Maybe not more than three, though.

We spent a few days camping at Fallen Leaf Lake near South Lake Tahoe this week. We have a slightly delayed start to the camping season this year so it cheered me up to get it underway. I will never get enough of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Simply breath taking!

Very nice photos! Thanks for posting them.

Fallen Leaf lake is one of our favourites.

When the world is getting me down (as it is right now) and I need to take my mind off things, this is one of my go-to happy places. And I've posted this before, elsewhere, somewhere on MV.

This wasn't even my era -- I was 3 years old when this happened.

The thing that I absolutely love about his short, short performance is that it represents the exact moment when Grace Slick ascended to Rock & Roll Legend. And I can even name the exact point in the song: in this video, it's at 1:24.

She just fucking nails it, and does it live in front of 400,000 people.

There's so much win here.

Funny how small things can set the tone for your day.

Sitting in the straight through at a red light on the Stella on the way to work this morning, a motorcycle pulled up next to me in the lane to turn right. I looked over and got a fist bump from a guy on a CBR.

That felt good.

I was able to see her and the rest of Airplane a few months later on November, 30, 1969. I was 13 and went along with my older brother and a friend to the Palm Beach Pop festival. Many great acts during those three days - Grand Funk, the Byrds, Hendrix, Joplin, King Crimson, Sly, among many others, with the Stone closing it out. Good times. Gracie had a voice like an angel and could belt out like a hurricane.

Had this delivered today.

Vertical solution.

Nice Rack.

Old member of my first unit finally got sentenced. Only took them 2.5 years with him out on bail the whole time.

https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/parents-spike-daughters-milkshake-to-sexually-abuse-her-sheriff-says-bexar-county-sheriffs-office-texas-sexual-assault-christopher-ashley-thomley-camera-computer-equipment-oxycodone-cough-syrup-medicine

His wife who helped him do it got 10 years probation. Which goes in the pissing you off thread (seriously texas why does a child rapist get PROBATION for systematically abusing her own daughter for years?). But chris is going to die in prison. So that's a relief.

might not take 40 years ...

Choosing the perfect music track for this cheered me up:

Hazzard types
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Bats flying outside my house this morning at 4am.

Better than inside I guess.

They fly over my house every night on the way to the Botanical gardens

No Daisy Dukes?

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This song rocks! Yeah, I'm definitely cheery when I here it. 😂

that's not the *REAL* version. which we listened to at parties when i was in college.

Well shit, first link I found. Dunky butt was on point as well. Give me a break, I'm like 10 years older than you. My tech skills blow.😂 Party on.

ain't no shame in this game. I'm gonna break it down and beg like James.

Please, please!😂

Mrs Syd and I attended a performance of Gillian Welch and her musical partner David Rawlings. Excellent show, the they started White Rabbit. Two voices, one acoustic guitar, and they blew up the place. It was incredible.

Welch and Rawlings doing White Rabbit? I'd love to hear that!

Pulled apart the remote for my Sony TV and cleaned it.

Soooooo much better.

If only other things were as easy to fix.

Dust slows down electrons.

I'm in the middle of fixing a Rotimatic. Just a slow-blow fuse gone - but all brick'n'mortar electronic component stores have long since gone the way of the dinosaurs, so waiting for postal delivery. We bought this cheaply as a non-worker after seeing a video of one working and decided this was a must-have kitchen appliance!

So fun riding them, right? I wish I was a sociopath. I care. And I owe.

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It's National Beer Day in the UK!

Jess,
This song and a few others are cemented in my memory from that amazing summer.
I would have held your hand in 1967 so you didn't get lost in the crowd in Golden Gate's panhandle. We'd walk closer to the stage where the Airplane were doing another free concert, and you'd see that Grace really was a pretty gal!
I probably documented here that, at 18, I left home from Amherst MA, to hitch-hike (easy and freq. in those days) to see the Big Sur (Baez album cover!) After camping there, caught a ride with a guy going to 'Frisco. He took an apt smack in the middle of Haigh/Ashbury.... "can you cook, kid?"
"Sure!" Summer of Love in the Haight!.....totally by accident.
I cooked for him for my room and board and wandered the city in bare feet with my Martin 0-16NY concert model. When I'd made $2 I'd knock off work for the day - and make friends. By December things were less kind in the Haight and I wandered down to LA - met some fellow peaceniks. We organized the first Love-In near Pasadena. Met a girl and got married.
The summer of Woodstock - I was in TX training as a combat medic (conchy) then off to the central highlands of Vietnam. (ever see We Were Soldiers?
So, always figured I'd made it to 2 of the 3 of the biggest events of my generation!
Anything from 1967 comes on the radio - I want to take my shoes off!
O.S..

Luckily it coincided with Fathers Day meaning it was always going to be beer day whatever.

I hosted a family BBQ where both mine and my partners parents were present and many a bottle of Ale was consumed in the afternoon sunshine.

I have been cutting down on my alcohol intake (never was a big drinker anyway). So far all the non-alcoholic wines I've tried have just tasted like less-sweet grape juice.

I have, however, discovered some quite good beers: Clausthaler, Bitburger, and Guinness Zero.

My wife likes Michelob Ultra, which I have dubbed beer-flavored mineral water. Michelob Ultra Zero is even more so. On the plus side, it is only 29 calories per 12-ounce serving.

It's too bad that I know that I'm drinking a non-alcoholic brew. Otherwise I might benefit from the placebo effect and get a bit of a buzz off it.

Looks like a puffed up tortilla. Or a thin sopapilla. What do you use them for?

I dug deep into the closet and retrieved a couple more pairs of old motorcycle boots today. I bought the men's boots mail order (no internet yet) in 1979 from an ad in the back of EasyRider magazine. They are branded "Nasty Feet" but we're made by Chippewa here in the USA. The women's boots were purchased from a vintage store in Arizona about 20 years ago but we're originally made in the late 1970s.

I reached out to Fukurokuju, a vintage boot shop in Tokyo, to see if they are interested in the women's boots. They are a size 5 US and a little too small for her.

I've amassed quite a collection! 😂 This cheers me up.

^ This just gave me a "cheer" hit. I was born and raised in Tucson, but have only just started going back after a bit of a hiatus. It has been ages since I've seen/heard sopapilla come up in conversation Gotta get into the grove getting over there and getting some decent Sonoran Mexican food.

After living in Arizona for 36 years (now in Sparks, NV) the thing I miss most is the Sonoran Mexican food. They just don't make it spicy around here.

Rotis? It's a flatbread - can be used like a pitta bread for kebabs etc, or just to eat in accompaniment to your curry.

We'll mostly use it for tortillas - surprisingly it's hard to find decent tortillas around here. Although there are tons of Hispanic residents, they all seem to do their own cooking.

All of it's other "charms" notwithstanding, Tucson is at least recognized by UNESCO as a Creative City of Gastronomy.

One of the guys I hired at Apple (young guy, more or less straight out of college) admitted sheepishly to me that he was so enamored of his Rotimatic that he had bought three of them -- two of which went to family members.

I've always been fascinated by the concept, but lack both counter space and glucose control, so not for me.

Does everyone else cook their wagyu burgers in the same pan at the same time as their veggie burgers?

I always feel evil when i do

It's a different world.