The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[NotWise]

Still workin' on my first, but I concur.

I won't mind DST until I have to get up in the dark tomorrow.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I won't mind DST until I have to get up in the dark tomorrow.

I admit I will be glad to have it daylight when I get home so I can go out for walks in the evening again. Of course it's bloody cold and the rain usually moves in soon, turning everything to a swamp, but still there's more of a chance than there has been.

 

[TxRad]

Morning all,

Yes, it is later than I think. I have half my clocks changed over. Does that mean the time is different in different rooms? Probably not so I'll make fresh coffee and put out a full kettle.

It's attempting to rain today.

 

[NotWise]

It might rain here today too, but if there's any chance of it missing, it will.

I have to install a new garbage disposal. I'm going to defy one of the basic rules of manliness and read the instructions first.

 

[Hypoxia]

The kitchen appliance clocks don't set themselves, alas, and my last wristwatch migrated somewhere. All that remain are devices that transition transparently. Whatever the time system, my phone directs my medication-taking.

This strikes me as an age thang. With age, we read news bulletins for obituaries. We read clocks for medication times. We read calendars for doctors' appointments. We read street signs for escape routes. We read the weather for impending aches and pains. It's all macabre. Welcome to survival.

 

[The_Fool]

Oh wow, a Fool sighting and I missed it.

Okay, so I'll freshen the coffee for the midnight crew and refill the kettle.

Time for bed here.

Time for another cup.

Good to see you, brother.

 

[Hypoxia]

Good Lord; And I never knew. . . .

Shall I blurt? Our Western lutes (stringed instruments with necks) mostly use 3 standard interval systems: 5ths, 4ths, and 4ths with a 3rd.

4ths: bass guitars, bass viols
4ths with a 3rd: guitars, 'ukes, classical lutes & viols
5ths: mandos, violins-violas-cellos, bouzoukis, tenor banjos & guitars

5ths give the greatest tonal range within a fingerboard. 5ths and 4ths both give easy movement of chord patterns -- the same fingerings can be used anywhere on the neck. 4ths with a 3rd gives the most flexibility in forming chords.

These are just the standards. A near-infinity of variants exist: dropped or raised strings for open or semi-open or modal tunings, or distinct effects. Restring an ensemble to C notes to play Terry Riley's IN C.

Ah, morning; time for a decent cup of coffee.

I was desperate. It was a bad cup. Oh, the coffee was okay, but the cup was chipped.

 

[TxRad]

Time for another cup.

Good to see you, brother.

So how are things in the middle of the country? I know the whiskey still flows. How goes the poetry blurts? Dis you ever get that second book together?

So many questions. Plenty of bourbon.

 

[NotWise]

I got the garbage disposal in and working. It's plumbing connection is fine, but I haven't been able to get the gas trap reconnected to the outgoing pipe without dripping. The old connection was cross-threaded and sealed together with something. I replaced the trap and did what I could. It's time to call a professional.

 

[Handley_Page]

I got the garbage disposal in and working. It's plumbing connection is fine, but I haven't been able to get the gas trap reconnected to the outgoing pipe without dripping. The old connection was cross-threaded and sealed together with something. I replaced the trap and did what I could. It's time to call a professional.

So you are now faced with the sort of mystery best seen on TV:
"Who f*cked up the thread on the unit" ?

Time I had my cup of tea., I think.

 

[NotWise]

So you are now faced with the sort of mystery best seen on TV:
"Who f*cked up the thread on the unit" ?

I think I can solve that one. We've lived here for 32 years. I was replacing a garbage disposal that I installed ~20 years ago. I'm probably the one who cross-threaded the gas trap.

I might have been able to stuff more and more of some kind of sealant into the joint, but the problem now is the same as it was before. The old joints don't match up, and I can't budge the connection to the outgoing plumbing to replace it.

The house is 60 years old and that part of the plumbing is probably original (we've replaced almost everything else). The old metal fixtures don't offer as much leeway for adjustments as newer fixtures, but upgrading it is going to require someone who can break the connection on the outbound pipe. I can't.

 

[sharingfantasies]

No changing of clocks here. DST on the Navajo reservation because it encompasses parts of four states, but the rest of the state is DST free.

Rained lightly for about twelve hours. But didn't get a lot. Supposed to rain a little more later but for the moment I am sitting in a patch of sun with rain clouds to the north and south of me, so I might not get any more.

I have a septic tank that needs replacing. Sigh, that is expensive.

 

[NotWise]

No changing of clocks here. DST on the Navajo reservation because it encompasses parts of four states, but the rest of the state is DST free.

Which effectively puts most of Az on Pacific time until next fall when you switch back to Mountain time.

 

[sharingfantasies]

Which effectively puts most of Az on Pacific time until next fall when you switch back to Mountain time.

Well sort of. I don't switch time, I stay mountain year round, but there are times when the Pacific time period which does switch time is the same as our time. It is a little confusing when it comes to contacting relatives, but I like that my clocks don't change. Mother Nature makes our sunlight time longer and shorter without any intervention from humans.

 

[NotWise]

Well sort of. I don't switch time, I stay mountain year round, but there are times when the Pacific time period which does switch time is the same as our time. It is a little confusing when it comes to contacting relatives, but I like that my clocks don't change. Mother Nature makes our sunlight time longer and shorter without any intervention from humans.

The entire rest of the Mountain Time zone switches to DST. You aren't staying in Mountain time by not changing your clock, you moving to Pacific Daylite time.

I've found that to be the easiest way to understand the time changes when I work with people in AZ or have to come and go from AZ. Winter, you're on Mountain time. Summer, you're on Pacific time.

 

[sharingfantasies]

The entire rest of the Mountain Time zone switches to DST. You aren't staying in Mountain time by not changing your clock, you moving to Pacific Daylite time.

I've found that to be the easiest way to understand the time changes when I work with people in AZ or have to come and go from AZ. Winter, you're on Mountain time. Summer, you're on Pacific time.

I guess it is a matter of perspective and choosing what helps a person make sense of the time around them. All I know is that I don't change time on the clocks.

 

[NotWise]

We've had light rain for 8 hours now. The total rainfall is 0.05 inches. I guess I'll take what I can get. Maybe eventually we'll get enough to rot the dried leaves from last fall, and they'll stop blowing around.

It looks like this little storm could blow up when it gets into the plains.

 

[Hypoxia]

Arizona has so much daylight, they don't need to save any. I definitely saw a sunshine surplus in Bisbee on the Sonora border. Certain places -- Eiffel Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, Pyramids, Sydney Opera House -- are photon depletion zones where greedy cameras have seriously lowered the count of free photons. Others, like the USA Southwest, are photon-surplus zones. Excess sunshine should be piped from Texas to Buffalo where they need it.

Did someone say coffee?

 

[Hypoxia]

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It's not that bad here now.

 

[TxRad]

Another Moanday Morning has arrived.

Fresh coffee for the bitch and moan crowd. Okay, fresh coffee for the rest of you also.

I'm off to see the wizard. No! I'm off to be the wizard. No, I'm just off this morning.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Ah! At last! Large black, please.

We have melting here, at long last. At this rate, it will only be May before I can see the garden!

 

[TxRad]

Ah! At last! Large black, please.

We have melting here, at long last. At this rate, it will only be May before I can see the garden!

One large black coming up.

Bright sun and supposed to be 70. I'll send you some sun.

According to my editor, today is editing day. I hate editing but she loves to exerciser her whip. I hope she restocked on red ink.

 

[Hypoxia]

What, it's Monday already? That hardly matters here. This week's schedule: nowhere to go, nothing to do, except haul trash, pick up meds, play pinochle, and await the mand'uke's arrival. Snow has melted in our meadow and surrounding forest. Bears and turkeys haven't yet returned but our deer are poking around. A limping doe can't keep up with her flock. She'll end badly.

Yesterday's coffee, organic Honduran and not bad, is okay reheated. My partner did way too much online research on heart conditions and found correlations of arrhythmias with the solar cycle, glutamates, and artificial sweeteners, so I'm back to sugar. Oh, the pain...

 

[Handley_Page]

In case anyone is short of water, we've had a great deal of it falling (all bloody day!)
If it is of use, bring your own buckets. . . .

Time, I think, for coffee.

 

[TxRad]

In case anyone is short of water, we've had a great deal of it falling (all bloody day!)
If it is of use, bring your own buckets. . . .

Time, I think, for coffee.

One cuppa coming up.

It's almost dry enough to drag out the lawn mower for the first time this year. The weeds are growing, well, like weeds and the leaves need to be mulched.