The orange has disappeared here, but a shot from yesterday and its AQi of mid-200s. Dead tree for symbolic effect.  

Edited September 12, 20205 yr by blessingx

Damn, what's happening in eastern Kentucky?

That's probably just the ambient heat from all the moonshine stills.

There is a lot of wood in that Ark Encounter 

Finished my latest composition.

 

On 9/12/2020 at 6:45 PM, Augsburger said:

Damn, what's happening in eastern Kentucky?

Trump did say he was going to bring back coal...

he just never said he meant "chisel coal off the side of the mountain so you don't freeze to death"

Trump is the equivalent of coal in stockings.

Well, he’s flying to California today so I’m sure things will be better quickly. Also why did Melissa slow cook beans last night if we can’t open the windows? 
 

Beans, beans, the musical fruit...

 

Day 5 of 200 plus. And no real fires around us.

 

..but we put a temp ban on beans regardless.

 

I was able to open the windows last night and air my place out. Today there is <100AQI air all over the bay area. It feels amazing to be able to spend time outside and see blue sky for the first time in a week.

Down here we are still averaging 80-150. 

Still off the charts in my area (Eugene Or).

Not much ash falling now and we should be getting much better by Thursday.

On 9/8/2020 at 4:42 AM, dsavitsk said:

When I was in high school, I went out on a very cold day to start my car and let it warm up while I got ready for school*. I started the car, but it was so cold that the door mechanism was frozen and the door wouldn't latch. I figured that if I locked it, it might latch upon closing. And since it was one of those locks where you had to hold the handle for it to stay locked upon closing, I didn't think it was a problem. Upon closing, it did stay closed, but it also stayed locked. Having a spare key, I went inside to finish getting ready.

When I came out, I put the spare key in the door and promptly broke it off. So I was left with a locked, running car and no key (and a mother who was not going to let me stay home). I don't remember how I got to school, but I do remember that when I got home the car had run out of gas and the battery had died.

* my car had a special feature that if it was really cold, the levers on the steering wheel would lose tension which turned on the wipers, turn signal, etc.

Just catching up with this thread. About ten years ago we had a Renault something, and it had a quirk. If you half closed the door the central locking would fire.

So in January I parked in a remote car park to go for a run in cross country shoes through the mud and slush snow. Got back to the car soaked in sweat, tossed the keys on the drivers seat and as I moved to the boot (truck) to put dry clothes on, the door half closed - clunk. Keys and phone inside. Me outside in freezing temperatures, soaking wet, and it is getting towards dark.

Fortunately there was an elderly couple in this carpark in the back of beyond. Their children had bought a mobile phone for them for Christmas, which they had not used. They offered to let me use it to phone for recovery from the company we paid for (RCA). "What is the postcode" "No idea - it is a remote car park" "Can't help you caller if you don't have a post code" "Please understand - if you don't help me I will die from hypothermia!" "OK - I'll walk to Little Whittenham and your guy can meet me there" "What will be the post code caller" "Look - Little Whittenham is about ten houses - he won't have a problem finding me!!"

To cut a long story short, the recovery guy extracted the keys and I got home unscathed.

Craig

Worked a rehearsal today where we repeated a segment nearly three hours. The music played throughout? Survivor's Eye of the Tiger. I actually missed 2020. 

 

When I was 16 or so, we visited my older brother who was going to grad school in Chicago. My brothers took me out one night and I used his 23 yo ID to get into a number of places, including seeing a local band called Survivor. The venue was a weird hall with hay bails along the walls for seating. It was pretty funny to see them rocket to star status a couple years later after Rocky 3 came out. 

Do you remember if they had that non-confident strut on stage back then? 

Sure, they were awkward Midwestern white guys then too.

Eye contact is overrated. 

that reminds me of the joke

Q: how do you recognize a Swedish extrovert?

A: He's the one looking at your shoes.

cf: http://www.gadflyonline.com/home/10-29-01/comm-introverts.html

 

 

Finished getting the headphone system reorganized. Pretty sure I am not adding anything new for a while.

Damn Jim!

That's a system to be proud of!

But don't get bit by that rattle snake!

Amazing setup Jim!

Hop harvest 2020

 

 

Now they are drying

Not sure of the next step, but I am sure I am moments away from beverage.

 

Edited September 18, 20205 yr by mikeymad