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My mom would make yeast rolls sometimes. Get them while they're warm with a chunk of butter, yum yum.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
No, bread making machines back then, it was an all day process.
I love a good sourdough, probably gonna buy a loaf of rye because I bought a corned beef and I'll just make sandwiches out of it.
I'm eating an English muffin as I'm writing this, come to think about it, I like bread a lot too. :)
I literally had corned beef for the first time this week.
It was kind of like a dry brisket.
We only did drum rolls.
Yeah, I intend to start the ride in the beginning of May. I have until November to reach Snoqualmie Pass. Might take all of it, might not.
Where you starting from? Home or are you going to make it a coast to coast trip?
YIHHAAAAAAA!!!
Got good news this morning.
You're looking at a future participant for the Egyptian National Record Skydiving Attempt End of November this year.
The Dropzone will be exactly above the Pyramids.
This will be EPIC!!!!!
https://www.stw.skydiveegypt.com.eg/
Good for you. Don't get to excited, remember to wear your shute. :)
"Spread The Wings Exotic Boogie" what a phenomenal tag line.
Kate Cooper-Jensen: 16,000+ Jumps
I'm sorry, but what?! Sixteen thousand jumps?
Norman Kent: 30,000+ Jumps
:eek2::eek2::eek2::eek2:
If Norman Kent only did one jump per day, to get to 30k jumps, he would have had to start jumping over 82 years ago.
There was a guy in Idaho who was jumping off the Perrine bridge, which is the one site out here where BASE jumping is legal. He set some record for the number of jumps in one day, but it required jumping, getting a ride from the canyon back to the top, then jumping again. Presumably, somebody else was packing chutes for him, though I'm not sure. He may have been doing it himself, though that seems like a bad idea, as you would get tired over the course of the day.
From that bridge, you can see the ramp that Evel Knievel used in his failed attempt to jump the Snake River canyon.
I'll be taking a train to Washington DC, then biking to the San Juan Islands in Washington State. It's not quite coast to coast, but it's also a bit more on the west coast and a bit less on the east coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
They left the ramp??? Did they turn it into a tour site?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Sound like an adventure. Also sounds dangerous. Stay safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Say Hello to Donald for me while your in DC. :)
Holy crap, that's a bike ride!
The ramp is just an earthen structure, so it was likely easier to leave it than to do anything else. There may have been a surface on it, I've never gotten close enough to see. It may well be a tour site, but if it is, it is a minor one in a place that has better sites like Shoshone Falls and the Perrine Bridge itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I guess there's something there, though not much more than the ramp:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ev...oASAFQAw%3D%3D
That's the site, not the actual launch ramp, more of a ramp to the launch ramp. I can see why that's still there.
I don't know much about the attempt, other than there was a mechanical failure....and maybe the wind was unfortunate on that day.
Well, I finished my CSS lessons series.
Someone already owned the dot com :mad: so I used dot dev: https://css-lessons.dev/
Looks nice, though I have no knowledge on those subjects.
I got bitten by a dog today. That hasn't happened since I was in college, and that dog was mighty feeble.
Today, I was riding my bike through a campground and a largish dog came out barking aggressively. It then ran around the bike and bit my leg. The bite didn't penetrate my pants, but it sure bloodied my leg. The dog was considering a second go, and I was going to punch it in the snoot, but the owners of the dog got it to come back to camp. I don't know if they even realized it had bitten me, and didn't feel like making any big deal out of it, so I just left. A bit later, I took a closer look at my leg and found that the blood had run all the way to my sock. It looked kind of gruesome, but I continued on my ride...which probably didn't help, before returning to my camp to wash my leg and the bloody pant leg.
That was interesting.
My dad used to work claims for Allstate before he became an agency owner, and he told me the worst claim (that the person survived) he ever worked was a dog bit claim.
He said a 4-year-old girl bent down to pet a little lap dog when the dog snapped and ripped off her lip up to her ear.
It caused permanent nerve damage and naturally she had to have plastic surgery.
It's one of those things where he always emphasized to us as kids to never put your face in front of a dog, no matter how friendly you think it is.
Dogs can be unpredictable. This dog was not. It was clearly being defensive, but I was still surprised that it bit me. I thought it was all bark. Had I realized it was going to bite me, I would have raised my foot and let it bite my shoe. I doubt I would have really felt that, as my shoes are pretty tough.
Any large animal that gets near your face can do damage. I almost got knocked out on two different occasions by a very friendly Doberman. While friendly, it was a tank with a head like a battering ram, and it happened to jump up as I leaned down. The dog seemed none the worse for the collision, but both times it was a heck of a blow to me.
I also heard tell of a gal who lost both of her front incisors when a large salmon got loose from her grasp and hit her right on the chin.
That seems comical. Not in the respect that it's funny she lost her teeth, more like that sounds like something you'd literally see in a comic book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
https://i.ibb.co/DfGL75CX/fishy.png
Thank you ChatGPT
I'm rooting for the Artemis II to go well. But honestly I don't know what the benefit will be to go to the moon or even Mars. Until there is a breakthrough in propulsion, where does this lead?
Still, it's pretty cool and hope all goes well.
I've just finished the 1965 edition of Dune for the first time.
It is by far one of the best fictional books I have ever read.
That's almost exactly correct, except that it should have been more of an uppercut than a slap across the face.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Have you ever read Rendezvous With Rama? That was a good one. MANY years later, two sequels were written, and they shouldn't have been. The first book did not make humans the center of the universe. The sequels "corrected" that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I'd like to see it go well, too. There is no benefit to getting to either one that I can see. Perhaps if we found rare earth metals in the asteroid belt, or on the moon, though neither one seems at all likely. I'm not sure whether rare earth metals would get concentrated enough to bother mining without some kind of tectonic/volcanic/erosional process to gather them into more or less one place. Without that, a race to either the moon or Mars just seems to be about bragging rights.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I have not. It's available on Hoopla as an audiobook, but only in German. There's the e-book, but I have to do audiobooks so I can "read" while I do my nightly walk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I'll look somewhere else, usually the internet archive has a pretty good collection.
So far soi good for Artemis II.
The moon seems doable. The asteroid belt, not so much. That's a 3 - 6yr round trip. If it could be done robotically then perhaps.Quote:
Perhaps if we found rare earth metals in the asteroid belt, or on the moon, though neither one seems at all likely.
If we created some type of artificial gravity I guess we could send humans. People will do strange things. Sailors use to go on 2yr whaling missions.
Fun fact:
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The longest continuous, non-stop, and unresupplied sea voyage in history was completed by American sailor Reid Stowe, who spent 1,152 days at sea. Departing on April 21, 2007, and returning on June 17, 2010, his journey, nicknamed "1,000 Days at Sea: The Mars Ocean Odyssey,"
Doable isn't the question I have: Do the minerals exist in quantities sufficient to exploit? That's the question I have.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Taking care of that toilet problem. They are in good hands.
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Shaggy,
Friend of mine is thinking about a trip to the Florida Keys. Is the end of April a good time of the year???
NICE!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zvoni
As people do more streaming, this joke might become dated.
It has its good points. The temperature in the Keys tends to be kind of the same all year, with the exception of a month in the middle of winter. The rest of the year stays about the same due to the small islands surrounded by a warm, shallow, sea. That would be towards the end of the dry season and before hurricane season starts, so that would be fairly good. The dry season doesn't matter so much in the Keys, though, because mosquito control will be in place anyways.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
The final issue is the crowds. I haven't been there in a couple decades, but last time I was there, I noted that the crowds are utterly horrific pretty nearly all year. I expect that it is mostly worse, by now. The one positive note is that the drawbridge was replaced on the channel at the start of Key Largo. When that bridge went up, it could cause a traffic jam that might last for the rest of the day. I believe it is just a high bridge, now, so that issue is removed. Still, April is probably slightly better than other times. Horrific, but slightly less horrific.
Way to really sell it. :)
Seem your biggest dislike is the crowds. I guess it doesn't take a ton of tourist to make a small island crowded. Thanks for the reply.
The crowds of people aren't bad, but the traffic can be overwhelming, since there is only one highway. There are actually TWO roads getting into the Keys, which lots of people not recognizing that Card Sound Road is a good alternative. There were times when that drawbridge would open on a holiday weekend, and people could be sitting still for a couple hours, not because the bridge was up all that long, but because the traffic took that long to get moving again. The first cars would move, then the next, and so on, but the stoppage would be so long that people would set up chairs to wait with a view of the long, straight, stoppage.
Unfortunately, once you get through Tavernier, the two lane divided highway (two lanes in each direction) necks down to a single lane highway with a suicide lane in the middle. The last time I was there, it appeared impossible to make a left turn onto that highway, as there was simply NO break in traffic. That was pretty crazy. It may be even worse, now. It certainly made travel both slow and annoying.
Overall, I wasn't a big fan of the Keys. There were only two things to do down there: fishing and drinking. I don't drink, but the fishing is the best in this country.
There was an amazing abundance of life when I was down there. Unfortunately, the mosquito spraying was changed from diesel and malathion at low altitude to something else. I had heard it was malathion delivered from higher altitude, but whatever it was, lots of the more notable animals died off. Spiders may not be everybody's favorite, but the golden orb weaver spiders down there was pretty amazing...and now they appear to be gone.
On the other hand, if a person can find any accessible piece of waterfront and possibly any standing groves of trees, there is much to see. Groves of trees may not be all that appealing, though, because the mosquito spraying is not totally effective. Without that spraying, it is likely that very few people would visit the Keys. For most of the year, the numbers of mosquitos in the Everglades is pretty insane. There's a "mosquito meter" down in Flamingo, at the tip of mainland Florida. It's like those Smoky The Bear fire danger signs, but for mosquitos. It goes up to "hysterical", which is where it is most of the year. When it's at hysterical...well, they don't mean funny, they mean that you will lose your mind. The Keys were like that before the mosquito spraying. I've heard stories...
They're not big drinkers but mainly like to site see, go out to eat and listen to live music. They've driven across country more than once. They would like to see all 50 states.
It's OK, we all have our faults.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I don't know what in the world happened, but we had a low of 58 yesterday.
Right now the "feels like" is 69, which is bonkers. Usually this time of year, we're sitting around mid-80s.
I think we had the coldest night of the last winter just last week. Today and tomorrow will be in the 80s, the rest of the week will be in the 50s. It's all over the board. So far, this is already the ninth wettest April on record for Idaho, with storms yet to come. It's all rain, though, some basins are in single digit percent of normal snowpacks.
We're all over the map. 80's one day then 60's the next. Which is fairly normal for this time of year. Had some really big thunder storms roll through last week. Got some hail. That's about as close as we get to snow.
Awfully quiet around here. Wonder if shaggy left for his cross country bike trip. Or maybe no one has anything to say. :p
Say.
I leave the week after next, but I won't go quietly. First will be a couple days of training (Amtrak, specifically), then I start the actual ride. I'll be carrying a computer, and this will be such a leisurely ride that I expect to be stopping by routinely.
Sometimes, there just isn't all that much to say.