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I remember seeing gopher mounds in the fields that were popping up in our direction every year, but that came to a halt 30 meters from our garden when we got our cat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
She likes to gift us one or two of these buggers every year. :bigyello:
That is one of the issues. The woodchucks we had were larger than any normal cat (there are some massively fat ones that would outweigh a woodchuck). We have a few varieties of gophers out here, some of which are quite tiny. They live pretty similar lives, and are related, but not the same thing.
How much wood can a woodchucker chuck?
How far up can an upchucker chuck?
We had a guy named Chuck who worked with us decades ago - could not hold his liquor...
I believe the song morphed into "How much chuck could Chuck up-chuck if Chuck could up-chuck chuck".
It's sad that we cannot purge a memory like that and free up some space for better stuff!
Sounds like there WAS some purging, just not of the right stuff.
Finally! I was waiting for someone to post that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bonker Gudd
So you sang about how much Chuck could Chuck up-chuck? So throwing himself up?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
Yes - get a bunch of 20-something-year-old programmers in an office and it's easy to memorialize someones bad night in song! I can recall losing the office drinking contest one Christmas - actually recall is not the right word - I can vividly still see the photo's they took of my passed out body with various blow up doll toys!Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
We would throw pennies at people who came up with bad ideas during development meetings! Oh the 80's!
We all had VAX-programmer hats made. Also had a VAX-a##hole hat that we gave to the programmer with the most bugs!
No one liked Keith - so we re-arranged the keys on his keyboard to say "Keith Sucks!" - lol!
You guys were wild! lolQuote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
I alphabetized a keyboard, one time. Makes it easier to find the keys.
Guess you found the key for success
Better yet, I had a guy working for me who was a dedicated hunt-and-peck typist with an "a" and "s" in his name. I swapped the A and S keys, which is a change so simple that most people wouldn't necessarily notice it....but he couldn't log in anymore.
Happy Friday! I have a weekend full of yardwork in the 95 degree weather :(
Yeah, 100 degrees in Modesto but that's normal for mid July. Thank God for A/C, always 75 in my house during the summer months. I was just thinking about when I was growing up, we lived in lots of houses without any type of A/C except maybe one fan in the living room. Don't know how we did it, I do remember it wasn't fun, I'd have a stroke now a days.
You are probably too far but I assume you didnt feel the earthquake last week?
I have AC, but haven't needed to turn it on, yet. The downstairs (where the computer is) stays pretty comfortable as long as the temperatures stay below 100. Might be turning it on this weekend, though.
We have 27 solar panels so usually we dont get more than a $10 electric bill during the summer when we run the central AC all day and well into the night
Yeah, I was in my kitchen fixing dinner and had stopped to check something on TV, then I felt my wheelchair rock slightly and my balance was affected a little. It wasn't normal and I wondered if there had been a quake but I thought I'd had probably just twitched without realizing it. You were a lot closer, hope you didn't get any damage.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
I'm about 110 miles from the epicenter and definitely felt it. I was at my desk at home and everything started shaking, rolling motion and then I got disoriented. It kept going and I was thinking I should get up and either get cover or go outside. Probably about 20-30 seconds. No damage as just wasnt strong enough but man those people in Ridgecrest got it bad!
I'll be down in Ridgecrest area in a few weeks. There was another aftershock yesterday. Perhaps I'll be shaken.
I've thought about doing that. My summer bills are trivial, currently, but my winter bills are high due to having mostly electric heat. So, I use electricity when the sun doesn't shine. In fact, it's a bit worse in this valley because the winter inversion often means that we're under/in thick clouds for weeks on end. So, I probably can't generate when I use the most electricity.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
But not stirredQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
There is new Tesla solar technology where they use their battery technology to store solar energy in batteries at your house (in your garage perhaps) for later use when the sun dont shine. This will change things drastically. If we generate too much electricity its "supposedly" sold back to the electric company and we build a credit. Seems better to keep all we generate for use whenever and not have them ding us for a "delivery" charge on electricity we sold back to them. Just more ways to nickle and dime us so we get nothingQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Our electric company is very reluctant to allow solar development. It can happen, they just don't want it to happen too fast.
Do they offer free solar cookies?
They don't offer free anything, not even a free kick in the pants...which nobody wants to begin with.
We have some companies offering free solar here but you dont own the panels and any extra electricity is not yours
We appear to do a lease to own kind of thing, primarily, but the power company doesn't want too many people taking them up on the offer. Basically, you spread the cost out over a lengthy period of time. I haven't looked into it very closely, at this point. Too many uncertainties, at the moment.
Another evening of slaving away taking out our avocado tree. My neighbor is helping and we finally got it out after 3 days of part time work (due to the heat). Its a massive stump!
Where's Chenko gone?
Wheres the beef?
Inside the iguana.
the iguana is inside the cow
Everything is inside your mind.
I had a kitty-cat walk past my tent two nights back on my last night out. It was a BIG kitty-cat, though. I didn't see it, but found the prints in the dust the next morning. At first I thought it was a dog, despite having no claw marks. When the tracks left the trail and didn't come back, I realized that it had to have been a mountain lion.
Fortunately, it didn't appear to have caught my scent, or it likely would have tried to bury me.
Maybe he didnt like your scent :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
That's why he would have tried to bury me.
The post race slid while I was counting fish. If you can't count on fish, what can you count on? Fingers are so old school.
Fish can count on fins