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Speaking of traveling I'm looking forward to getting out of these 110 days into some nice Oregon weather for a week. Flying out Sunday morning and the high temps there look something like our lows here. Also have an August trip planned for Alaska and a September trip to Minnesota for the wife's family reunion.

Leave it to Mississippi to fuqq up a wet dream. I’m 20 miles from the Louisiana state line and the GPS is showing an hour and 20 minutes to go 10 miles due to road construction.

Enjoy danm.

Setting you up Bucky.....

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He was setting up for a nine but I and you missed it

Nah, this is my homemade pitbike with a gokart cvt no lever clutch or fixed gears.

Rope wrapped around thr shaft is working fine for now. Should last for the weekend, just inconvenient.

Someone at work texted me that there's layoffs coming. I don't know how, every single nursing department is horribly understaffed. No chance they're cutting any suits, it'll be nurses. And the new ceo has already said he prefers new nurses because the old ones are too expensive and push back at change. We'll see. Happened to me in 09 at a hospital that eventually went under last year.

Did you snitch..??

Mid-80s morning here and my get up and go is less than enthusiastic.

Saturday greetings y'all. Enjoy !

Good Saturday Morning to All! It's 79° on the way to 93° today.

Morning, peoples. Family weekend at the Beach house. My sibling passing through today and hers tomorrow. Hoping everyone behaves themselves

What kinda fun would that be?

Did the yard work today. 85 degrees at the time with 75% humidity. Yeah... I think I need 8 bottles of water.

Man that humidity is killer...

I was foolish, too. 107 and 9% RH, so I mowed the lawn, sprayed the outside of the house and lawn for bugs, trimmed 5 bushes and a small tree and blew off the whole front yard.

It was the first time this year that I added an electrolyte tab to the water bottle. Oof.

When I was growing up, we had two coconut trees in our backyard. Every so often we'd get asked by our Samoan, across the fence, neighbors if we wanted our trees trimmed. My Dad was more than happy to let them do the trimming and take all the coconuts they wanted but they would always cut open a few coconuts and offer them for us to drink or if they were "spoon meat," eat straight out of the shell.

Memories make us rich.

Good Sunday morning gents. No 5 miler for me today. Headed for the airport.

Safe trip DED, enjoy.

Hopefully your flights are uneventful DED and you have a great vacation.

On a random unrelated note: this past week in my sleepy little town implemented these Bird electric scooter thignies (Bird is the name of the company that the town teamed up with). Electric scooters that you stand on to buzz around town. I think they have a fleet of about 30 of them in town as a starting point.

Apparently you can download this app and rent a scooter. $1 to sign one out then $9/hr to use them. You have to be 18 yrs old, have the app on your phone, and a credit card for them to charge you for it. Apparently they are located in "nesting" areas around town (outside city hall, outside the hospital, outside library, outside the community college, etc) and you can drop them off wherever you please - you don't have to "nest" them. GPS tracking will show you where unused scooters are located. Supposedly at night, the scooters are all collected by couple trucks that pick them up. They recharge them and redeliver them to the "nesting areas" for use the following day. My guess is they swap out fully charged ones and pick up used ones that will be charged overnight for the next day swap outs.

Our town doesn't have a taxi service and very limited Uber or Lyft operators. We have a pretty good bus system but they only operate weekdays from 6am-6pm. Maybe the scooters will work nicely for kids that don't have cars or transportation to the college or people that need to run a quick errand somewhere rather than walking. Maybe others will rent them to tool around town just for fun. It should be interesting but at $10/hr to use them, it seems kind pricey.

With that said, I'll probably rent one someday just to check it out if it ever stops raining this summer.

Today's forecast calls for on and off rain (again) all day today and tomorrow.

Mornin Ya'll...

Mrs. and I will be saddled up on the Mowers today, with these recent rains we've had our grass has finally come alive again... after that we'll be riding the mowers to the local watering hole for refreshments... Bloody Mary's for me is in the future!!!

I'd take the Voucher... did this at O'Hare one year... caught the next flight out to CO Springs.. it was a direct shot and even though had to wait an hour, we arrived before the original scheduled flight we took the voucher on as it was overbooked (weight wise) plus sat on the ground for Maint. to fix a panel... our bags arrived later in the week... LOL

Bucky - Seen those scooters and even E-bikes in San Diego. Not sure how the business model is going, and never used them, but it seems like a good idea... until homeless needing meth $$ start tearing them apart to see what's inside and stuff.

Yeah, Bird does do bikes too but the town just started out with the scooters. It's a third party that supports them (Bird), not necessarily the town. My guess is they got some grant funding from the state or the federal government for some "green initiative" something or other and this is one of the projects that won funding approval. If memory serves me correctly, last fall the town also bought a electric car or SUV that is to be used/shared by the building, zoning, and town maintence departments.

Sounds good on paper but we'll see if it lasts. I'm not opposed to trying new things but this town is not a tourist place and I think the money could be better used elsewhere. Who knows, it may have been part of a grant or accepted proposal for funds that had to be spent on certain particular things (like this) in order to receive further money for other projects like rebuilding some local parks and the new high school and elementary school which they finished up last year.

I'm all for investing in educational systems, town parks, roads, sidewalks, infrastructure and such. I likely wouldn't vote against that. The town or the surrounding towns need a shot of new industry since over time many of the older industries moved out. A developer came in and bought up a bunch of the buildings downtown and are in the process of gutting them (buildings are outdated inside but have beautiful front face architecture). However they are turning them into apartments and condos. Without a booster shot of new industry in the area or the surrounding area, the town will turn into a bedroom community where people live but commute to work elsewhere.

Gotta love that. Always good to take frequent breaks from work.

I'd easily pay $200 to get out of Detroit and arrive in Orlando.

What's the solution to my recently accepted life situation? There is probably not a single nor 100% correct solution.

My son is 18 and starting college this coming fall. He has a solid girlfriend and they spend a lot of time together (I applaud that). My daughter is 16 and doing some pre college/advanced high school classes this summer and spends a lot of time with her friends (I applaud that too).

Recent reflections from me... it seems like just last week we were a lot younger and we spent our weeknights and weekends at baseball and soccer fields. Dance classes. Doing fund raisers. Water balloon fights in the backyard. Going to the local town events, face painting and that stuff.

I am blessed that they do find time to hang out with the old man but (selfishly) I would like to spend more time with them. They friggin' grow up too fast and I'm getting premature empty nest feelings.

No matter if it's your kids, your friends or family members, cherish your time with them. Before you realize it, things can change right before your eyes.

I think it was 8 track that posted a comment in another thread that I will never forget. "The days are long but the years are short. Enjoy every moment."

Good catch Bucky