The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NotWise]

It looks like we've moved on now.

I've been out in the garden, digging through one of the raised beds that was invaded with bermuda grass. Fifteen inches down, from one end to the other. I'm halfway through and overheated.

Ghost stories offer some interesting challenges. What is reality, and what is perception? How much can I bend the perception of reality before I lose vericimilitude?

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Sotto voce.

He says he’s ’not wise’ but drops $64 words like verisimilitude.

Seriously?

 

[MillieDynamite]

New word, I'll have to look up verisimilitude = The quality of appearing to be true or real. See Synonyms at truth.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Okay, we're all off to see the parental units. Talk later, AHers!

 

[NotWise]

Yeah, vericimilitude = "truthiness." It's usually wise to avoid 6-syllable words, but is seemed better than "truthiness" right then.

Three quarters of the way through the bed, and it's getting warm outside. I opened up the house to let the fresh air in, and pretty soon I need to go back out in the fresh air and finish the rest of the digging.

 

[MillieDynamite]

You'll be outside in that nature. Can you dig it? (bad bad pun, hun)

Yeah, vericimilitude = "truthiness." It's usually wise to avoid 6-syllable words, but is seemed better than "truthiness" right then.

Three quarters of the way through the bed, and it's getting warm outside. I opened up the house to let the fresh air in, and pretty soon I need to go back out in the fresh air and finish the rest of the digging.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Tiring few days but excellent family meetup. I have been thoroughly schooled in the different classes of steam engine, fondled a coin from the 1400s, and we got home without any expensive crises, nor any disaster worse than a cafe running out of scones ('let them eat cake' was fine advice in the circs!)

Though someone had a bad day - we were admiring a caravan being towed next to us on the motorway, when its tyre exploded and the metal wheel, hitting tarmac at 60mph, rapidly didn't exist. We managed to slow down enough for the driver to get across to the edge of the carriageway, blocking a slip road, but as there was no hard shoulder there, I doubt there was a better place to move to. Motorways with no hard shoulder are a ridiculous idea. There were huge tailbacks within minutes. Very glad we were just in front of the delays.

 

[NotWise]

Two nations separated by a common language, and all that... What's a carriageway? What's a slip road?

I used to have occasion to drive a road in northern NM that had no shoulders. It traced the rim of a canyon and was probably too narrow for two cars to pass--and then autumn would come and the chamisa (a sort of sagebrush) growing beside the road would flower and fall over onto the road. Then there'd hardly be room for one car.

Fortunately, I never once met other traffic on that road.

 

[Duleigh]

Two nations separated by a common language, and all that... What's a carriageway? What's a slip road?

I used to have occasion to drive a road in northern NM that had no shoulders. It traced the rim of a canyon and was probably too narrow for two cars to pass--and then autumn would come and the chamisa (a sort of sagebrush) growing beside the road would flower and fall over onto the road. Then there'd hardly be room for one car.

Fortunately, I never once met other traffic on that road.

Near Canyon City CO just west of the supermax (Current home of Ted Kazinski and El Chapo) is a road that goes up on the top of a ridge of rock. It's barely one lane wide and weaves back and forth, up and down as it follows the peak of the ridge. there's half a dozen places were opposing traffic can get around each other. If you get out of your car it's a 200 foot drop, and the road is paved! (I had so much fun on that road)

What fun!

 

[desecration]

Ted Kazinski

Uncle Ted (PBUH) is no longer with us. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unabomber-cause-death-rcna88737

 

[Duleigh]

Uncle Ted (PBUH) is no longer with us. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/unabomber-cause-death-rcna88737

"Kaczynski, 81, was found dead Saturday in his North Carolina prison cell, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said."
Now Colorado finally has something to be proud of:

Stay in Colorado. The Unibomber was healthy when he left.

 

[desecration]

Maybe just for legal weed.

 

[Duleigh]

Maybe just for legal weed.

It was a play on words, there was a famous billboard at the Montana/North Dakota border that said

Stay in North Dakota, Custer was healthy when he left.

If you want weed just get a job cleaning return rental cars at the Denver Airport. The genius weed tourists find out the hard way that the smallest amount of weed they can buy in Colorado legally is a dime bag for over $200, and there's no way they can smoke all that placebo in one weekend so they leave it under the seat of their rental cars. My stepson made good money reselling that stuff.

 

[desecration]

The genius weed tourists find out the hard way that the smallest amount of weed they can buy in Colorado legally is a dime bag for over $200, and there's no way they can smoke all that placebo in one weekend so they leave it under the seat of their rental cars.

Crazy. Prices were looking good in other legal states, like $150/oz for quality buds. But free weed is a friend indeed!

 

[Duleigh]

Crazy. Prices were looking good in other legal states, like $150/oz for quality buds. But free weed is a friend indeed!

Meh, when I lived in Colorado I got so sick of advertisements telling me that weed and CBD will cure everything. I jumped through hoops with my employer begging him to let me try CBD oil on my back. They finally relented and the overpriced crap did nothing. And as for weed, it is noting compared to a proper margarita. Sadly the person who made the best margarita in Colorado is gone now and she took her secret with her.

 

[desecration]

Meh, when I lived in Colorado I got so sick of advertisements telling me that weed and CBD will cure everything. I jumped through hoops with my employer begging him to let me try CBD oil on my back. They finally relented and the overpriced crap did nothing. And as for weed, it is noting compared to a proper margarita. Sadly the person who made the best margarita in Colorado is gone now and she took her secret with her.

Well... I can agree on the people who think weed cures anything. It's an intoxicant. Sadly however all hard liquor tastes like cough syrup to me, and the alcohol buzz while different is less appealing sometimes. I'll never turn down a Sam Smith's though. The story I'm currently reading mentions Newcastle, which was good up until the late 00s.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Two nations separated by a common language, and all that... What's a carriageway? What's a slip road?

I used to have occasion to drive a road in northern NM that had no shoulders. It traced the rim of a canyon and was probably too narrow for two cars to pass--and then autumn would come and the chamisa (a sort of sagebrush) growing beside the road would flower and fall over onto the road. Then there'd hardly be room for one car.

Fortunately, I never once met other traffic on that road.

Carriageway - one side of a divided highway (what we call a dual carriageway).
Slip road - on ramp? The opposite of a Freeway exit.

3 or 4 lanes each way mostly going at 70mph, without a shoulder, is a recent idea to increase capacity. It works except when it really doesn't.

Also been down many a country lane this week, of the kind where someone has to reverse to a passing place if you didn't see each other coming around the hedges and ditches. Much to be said for having a ready-scratched car. But not on the side of a cliff, luckily. Not many cliffs in the Midlands!

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Well, cannot sleep, so I might as well put on a fresh pot.

 

[Handley_Page]

Also been down many a country lane this week, of the kind where someone has to reverse to a passing place if you didn't see each other coming around the hedges and ditches. Much to be said for having a ready-scratched car. But not on the side of a cliff, luckily.

Not many cliffs in the Midlands!

Praise the Lord !

We got some sunshine today; just the job.
The men from the Boiler fitting turned up yesterday to finish the job. Not before time, either ! Time alone will tell if it all works right!

Any coffee please?#

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Just put a pot on, HP.

 

[Duleigh]

Thanks for getting the early morning coffee TP. I was up late watching the news.

What's a carriageway? What's a slip road?

Expressions like these are why England sends us re-runs of Top Gear. Sudden thought - is there a cute colloquialism for "re-run" in "Old Blighty?"

 

[Candy_Kane54]

My garden needs attention and today will be a nice day to get out there. I just don't know if I feel up to it.

 

[orangecurious]

Thanks for getting the early morning coffee TP. I was up late watching the news.


Expressions like these are why England sends us re-runs of Top Gear. Sudden thought - is there a cute colloquialism for "re-run" in "Old Blighty?"

repeats

 

[Duleigh]

repeats

That's not cute at all... then again, neither is two months full of repeats.

 

[Rustyoznail]

***Groan ***
Going back to work in just over nine hours, after two weeks off. It wasn't quite the break I needed - a ton of shitty things happened, and I know I'm heading back into a reorganisation.

On the bright side, I managed to find a full set of four NOS front brake cylinders for the old Triumph Herald for the same price as I would pay for importing one. I know have to figure out what the weird bolts they used. Anybody know?