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Good morning from ATX. Currently 77°F and partly cloudy. Excessive heat warning in effect. Received some intense rainfall yesterday around 1 pm for about 2 hours. 98°F may be our high today.

- Actually went cycling yesterday morning. Rode up and down the street, perhaps 1/4 mile. Huge win for me because of neurological issues. Experienced balance problems while walking since December, 2022. Not so while riding. Plan on cycling more often, weather permitting.

- Made oyster stew. Simple recipe. Got something like 75 cans oysters in pantry. New Sunday staple. Great Omega-3 source.

- Watched Olympics coverage. Admirable performances. Happy for Team USA.

Monday, Monday.... Wishing y'all a great start to your week.

Speak of the devil. Heh.

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Monday morning and hard at work. I figure about 45 more of these -- minus days like Labor Day and Memorial Day and other Monday holidays plus a couple vacation Mondays -- until I retire. IT's the worst day on my job, lots of weekly meetings, busy work and so on. Ah well.

It was a nice weekend. Fairly low key but spent some time in teh woods and had a nice dinner at a Thai restaurant we like.

It is sunny and hot in the east. Still getting hydrated after my morning run.

Have a good one folks.
 
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We wee setup to do the Worlds Longest Yardsale . it stretches from Alabama to Michiigan. People do vacations to travel US 127 for the sale and Jan likes to sell her craft shades at the sale. A big rain and wind storm came and both of us are standing in it trying to hold down tents. We had five tents and four were destroyed. We werent set up totally yet so we only lost 60 or 80 shades. A couple of years ago, we lost about five grand at the same spot to similar storms. You cant leave your trash for the owner of the site, so with a mangled tent frame, you have to take it apart to have room to haul it off. If we do it again, I think we are going to look for indoor venues.

Besides the storms, it is a lot of work for oldsters setting up and tearing down in 90 degree plus heat. Glad to be home dry and in air conditioning.
 
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So will you move back to Silver Grove?
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Probably not. My wife was born and spent her early years in Manhattan, then moved with her family from NYC to DC, which is the only other place she has lived. While she loves Silver Grove and visiting my family I'm probably not going to persuade her to move there any time soon, just like she is not talking me into moving to NYC where she has family.
 
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Good morning from ATX. Currently 78°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect. Today's high may reach 101°F.

Attack yesterday on Al Asad AB. Been there back 2005. Hate to hear.

All reservations made for upcoming Scotland visit. 7 flights and 2 floats on the agenda.

Can hardly believe how cheap rooms are next to Frankfurt Flughafen. Like $80 per night. Plan on renting a room Dec 4 rather than burden my former in-laws with driving me to FRA at O dark thirty. They live around 130 km from airport. Flight departs at 10 am on Dec 5.

@cordmaker : Over the south coast of Greenland on return flight. Note aqua lake near mountain peak in lower middle part of image. Too cool.

Y'all behave.

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Good morning folks,

I join you Austin in sending prayers to the U.S. troops injured at Al Asad air base. It is tragic and stupefying that Americans are still getting hurt in that shithole of the world.

I was through there a couple times. I remember after being out in the field with combat troops in maybe 2005, flying into there before going back to Baghdad. I had enough time to hit the KFC. If you want to renew your love of the colonel’s chicken, eat it after a couple weeks of MREs.

Back to DC today. On the subway. I’ll check in later.
 
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AustinTXCat said:
Good morning from ATX. Currently 78°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect. Today's high may reach 101°F.

Attack yesterday on Al Asad AB. Been there back 2005. Hate to hear.

All reservations made for upcoming Scotland visit. 7 flights and 2 floats on the agenda.

Can hardly believe how cheap rooms are next to Frankfurt Flughafen. Like $80 per night. Plan on renting a room Dec 4 rather than burden my former in-laws with driving me to FRA at O dark thirty. They live around 130 km from airport. Flight departs at 10 am on Dec 5.

@cordmaker : Over the south coast of Greenland on return flight. Note aqua lake near mountain peak in lower middle part of image. Too cool.

Y'all behave.

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Thanks ATX, love seeing your pictures! Now if we could just see some pictures of train engines it would make my day!
 
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Good morning from ATX. Currently 80°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect. Today's high may exceed 102°F.

Much excitement during Olympics yesterday. Loved Cole Hocker's come-from-behind W. Watching more events again today.

Yeah, football season starts soon. I'll miss opening day due to Scotland trip. Go Cats!

Happy I'm alive. Wishing y'all another great day.

Coming into Akureyi, Iceland. Summer weather, on average, around 8-10°F warmer up there than down south. Note snow-capped peaks.

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Good morning folks. Overcast and not yet hot in the east, but with the promise of oppressive humidity to come.

We had a big planning session at work yesterday where I laid out in some detail the major initiatives we need to execute through 2025. At some point it occurred to me that if I stick to my plan to retire in September, 2025, that we were planning stuff beyond my work life. Like a lot of you guys I’ve been working since I was 15 and it was odd to be mapping out things that will go on after that part of my life ends. But exciting too.

For now, plenty to do. Getting on the subway. So I’ll catch up later.
 
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MdWIldcat55 said:
Good morning folks. Overcast and not yet hot in the east, but with the promise of oppressive humidity to come.

We had a big planning session at work yesterday where I laid out in some detail the major initiatives we need to execute through 2025. At some point it occurred to me that if I stick to my plan to retire in September, 2025, that we were planning stuff beyond my work life. Like a lot of you guys I’ve been working since I was 15 and it was odd to be mapping out things that will go on after that part of my life ends. But exciting too.

For now, plenty to do. Getting on the subway. So I’ll catch up later.
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I retired at 52 and 5 years later I was city commissioner for 6 years and then mayor for 4 years simply because I was not cut out to be inactive. The first five years I did my bucket list with some trips and building projects on the house. After that I needed some things to keep my brain from going stale. Even after my jobs with the city I kept the city web site going and updated until last year when I was 77.

The beauty of retirement is that you can economically be free to do what you want to do. That makes a new job a lot of fun because you don't have to have the money, just enjoy the job. On the city job I totally pulled my little town into the 21th Century. I redid ever damned ordinance in the city and basically got rid of the bull shit laws all towns let creep in one at a time. You can now burn stuff in town, shoot birds and vermin, used fire works, but you can't raise hogs or chickens because humans, hogs and chickens together can cause flu. The mayors before me would put in 5 hours a week. I went to work at 7:30 a.m. (official hours were 9:00 - 4:00) and left at 5:00 p.m. Within a few weeks there were five or six guys every morning that would stop by for coffee and give me advise on what the town needed. Some of them would bring in doughnuts etc. Soon it became a social club for several of the commissioners and business owners and in four years the town was totally changed. I loved ever minute of it.

Retirement is freedom. It is wonderful to be free to do what you want.

The last murder in my town was in 1951, so it is a very safe place with very few laws outside of state law. That is what happens when libertarians get the job.
 
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Good morning from ATX. Currently 80°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect. Today's high expected around 100°F.

It appears another body found in Lake Austin. Gent was in his 60s. No foul play suspected.

Enjoying these Olympics. Keep the Gold coming, Team USA.

Wishing y'all another great day.

Different view of Selfoss waterfall, Iceland. Truly spectacular. And cold.

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Good morning folks. Rainy and gray in the east. The air is really thick with humidity even when sheltered from the rain,

Last workday downtown this week.

Quiet weekend ahead. None of my kids will be in the area. My wife is going to North Carolina —her college roommate and her husband bought a new house in Raleigh (or Durham, I don’t know that area well. Near the Duke campus apparently.)

Subway always yielding a new sight —and I don’t mean that in a mean spirited way given what follows. A blind woman just got on, felt her way to a seat near me using a cane (after first almost sitting on top of some passed out black guy) then pulled out a thick oversized book -a little bigger than the old Life magazines and maybe five times as thick. The pages look blank, but must be embedded with braille. Her finger is moving very swiftly right to left. Good for her. I can’t imagine negotiating the subway system and whatever she has to do on either end to get through the day.

Hope it’s a good one for all of you.
 
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GM all, (That's how they do it online now...) (acronym, acronym...) Good Morning all,

Sitting at my desk at home. I do hope all is going well for you.

Working, working,... Have a great day, I will be lurking....

Am off tomorrow, mostly off today in the head...BUT Too much to do to take the time...
 
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My sister just got home a few days ago from India on a medical mission trip. They got caught up in the outage that grounded so many planes. Got out of India ok, but held up in England for 2 days. They had to physically wait in line for five hours at the airport to get arrangements to leave made. Somewhere along the line she got covid, but she is ok and back to work now.
 
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Good morning from ATX. Currently 78°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect. Another triple-digit high expected today.

- Nail-biter between US and Serbia in men's BB yesterday. Expect more of the same this coming Saturday since France is playing on their home floor.

- Rode bicycle about 1/2 mile during lunch yesterday. Felt good, but I'm way out of riding shape.

- Grabbed Olive Garden yesterday afternoon. Calamari appetizer = awesome. Lots of leftover Lasagna and Chicken Parmesan.

- Leaving for Scotland 2 weeks from today.

Happy Friday, y'all!

Here's a park in Reykjavik. Note disc golf. Temperature was 55°F and chilly that day on July 12.

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Good morning folks.

Glad it is Friday.

Woke up today determined to get in a run before work. It was raining fairly hard, but I talked myself into thinking it was ending and headed out -- into what quickly became a drenching squall. The rain was coming down in sheets and being blown hard by the wind. I stuck it out and finished my three miles but it was brutal.

FInally dry and having a therapeutic coffee.

My wife left early this AM for her visit with a friend in North Carolina. So I have the house to myself. My daughter may come over and take me to lunch tomorrow, but otherwise I'll enjoy some solitude. I've never minded being alone, at least for a few days at a time.

Hope it is a good weekend for all.
 
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Hello all,

Off day... Not sure what I am going to attempt to do. Have some personal decisions to make and am making some of them. Trying to get to where I have some alternatives. (I am trending in that direction.) I know I am being vague but it's not like the world is ending in this but I am working to ensure I am onboard with what I am having and wanting to do. Yeah...

No need for this crap but it is what is happening..... (The code will be provided later... 😁 )
 
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Good morning from ATX. Currently 78°F and clear. Excessive heat warning in effect. Today's high expected around 95°F.

- Watched more Olympics coverage yesterday. Men's 4x100m still can't get over the hump. Sydney was beautiful, and in many more ways than her own very lovely self. Another world record for her. Many good performances. More action scheduled today. USA!

- Fell off my bike. Thankfully, in the grass and I had a helmet on. Nevertheless, rung my bell. Our Ring camera caught all the action. Wife very pissed.

- Heading out for a hike in a bit.

Wishing y'all another outstanding Saturday.

Here's me just before hiking up to Arctic Circle on Grimsey Island and earning certificate. Oh, and also shortly before seagulls began dive-bombing the crap outta me.

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Good morning folks.

Sunny and mild in the east after a day-long rain.

Congrats on crossing the Arctic Circle Austin, and getting certified. Those types of milestones are fun and fulfilling.

Got the exercise part of today’s program out of the way. Still planning the rest of the day.

With my wife traveling, I rewatched a movie I hadn’t seen since 1982 last night —Under Fire —Nick Nolte and Gene Hackman and some hot 39-something woman as war journalists in Africa and Central America. I saw it fairly soon after college and would have sold my soul then for the life of the Nick Nolte character. Watching last night I recognized how much of it was fairly ridiculous, but some parts still seem authentic. It’s not the worst movie. Maybe I’ll watch “The Year of Living Dangerously” tonight and see how badly that one has aged.
 
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I woke up to a cool 61°F this morning. Our cool front passed through and it is cool and clear on our way to a predicted 79°. That is ssooo much better than the 90's.

I enjoyed the USA men's basketball game. Came back from 13 down in the fourth quarter.

You all have a good Saturday. @AustinTXCat be careful on the bike. You don't need to hurt yourself and miss out on Scotland. We need pictures!
 
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Got a text from the same co-ed team I played an all nighter with a couple of weeks ago and they told me there was another one in Elgin (where I live) today and ask me to play. Of course, I said yes. These are tournaments to raise money for Childrens hospitals so the proceed go to a good cause. I am wearing an old jersey that has USA in Red, White, And Blue and a big Star in the middle in honor of the Olympics. Our first game is in 50 minutes so... I am out of here. Yall be cool and enjoy the weekend.

Oh, and yeah, hell of a finish by Curry in todays gold medal game.
 
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Before my time.... Any of you remember Burl Ives (This song)

I remember Burl Ives but not this one...Seems like a memory worth remembering....

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I have a vivid memory of this song.

@Ben101er who used to post here knew Burl Ives personally. Burl would stop by to see his family. I love Burl Ives.
 
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Have they officially cleared you Bert? No statute of limitations on murder...
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FLASH!!!!!!!

IN CONTROVERSIAL MOVE, SMALL TOWN MAYOR PARDONS HIMSELF FROM ANY OR ALL OFFENSES, PAST OR PRESENT, UPON HIS EXIT FROM OFFICE.

*Unnamed sources say that he spent much of his time in office chatting with buddies on the internet and editing basketball games.
 
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