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Gerontius

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  • Gerontius
    My car broke down -- I tried fixing it & made it worse. So I've been walking everywhere. Pet ALL the dogs. Meet ALL the neighbors. See ALL the birds and the blue sky & count the bullfrog tadpoles in the creek. I should let it break down more often.
    Gerontius
    Ran 1/2mi. this morning which felt pretty great, pet all the dogs, said hi to my friends & the neighbors, got stuff done. A good start to the day I think. Trying to keep the blues away.
    Gerontius
    Now to get some boxes packed, see about repairing the car (again), get to the Post Office (again), and all that--
    Gerontius
    To: Linux. Re: function. Dear Ubuntu 22.04.1., you will not win. I will beat you. Strong letter to follow.
    Gerontius
    I've got to go to the post-office today.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    I hate our post office, but Monday, l flew thru the line. What a relief.
    tree
    tree
    The local post office here has a memento of the mail carrier who used to deliver to
    our route. The flamingo he had attached to his truck. They change costumes & accessories
    on the flamingo, according to season.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Our mail delivery employees get arrested for stealing gift cards, the lastest arrest was 60,000 dollars in checks were stolen. It's Florida. There is always something coming down.
    Gerontius
    why is it so much fun to play an instrument, even (very) badly? It just seems like a good thing to do.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    Why? Because it is pleasant learning a new song or just practicing licks. I like that for the banjo, notation is usually in tablature since I am poor at reading standard notation.
    Gerontius
    Company questionnaires on job applications are annoying. "Describe yourself." Look--Philosophers have fought this for centuries, & you think I can cook up an answer in 15 minutes to sell termite powder? Nobody's that smart.
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    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    Courage is the ability to walk away and not answer your your stupid job application questions, but having courage is over-rated.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    @Aspychata I am strictly mercenary & would prefer to actually have a job again though. I like working & I like having money; I just hate "the workplace world" and all that silliness of paperwork that goes with.
    Aspychata
    Aspychata
    True dat- l love working, just don't like the pile that accompanied it
    Gerontius
    I'm filing my taxes, which I hate, and the doing of it is a lot less a stress than the preparation to do it. Executive functioning was never a strong point--I can't often "start" things, which is weird, cause I can actually do them.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Starting to wonder what actually makes executive functioning, functional. I tend to have zero or less than zero skills on paperwork (I either freeze up, or do it wrong.) This year went great--Returns filed, all that--but now I'm curious as to what makes people tick. How do NT's & successful ASD folks keep it together.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    This might take a few months to figure out but I cannot tell how we manage to be the most motivated people in the world, over special-interests, and simultaneously lost when working on something important to just getting by. There's something missing here; I just don't know what it is yet.
    Gerontius
    I can't find my glasses but I did have a good night last night. This is a nice morning. happy Palm Sunday for anyone on the Gregorian calendar.
    Gerontius
    To any prospective pirate captains out there wanting to improve housekeeping, please remind your crews that "poop deck" refers to part of the ship, and is neither an order nor a personal challenge.
    Gerontius
    If I play my cards right, a rare Edison wax-cylinder phonograph I foolishly sold some years ago may be returning to my collection.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Was in contact with the young fellow who bought it when I was at a phonograph swap, and he said he still had it--I offered to buy it back, and he said he's hanging onto it but would like to sell. I saw it and he has it in better condition than when I owned it, as he is a master rebuilder.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    So when I've moved and got myself settled I'll probably be getting rid of a few gramophones & phonographs to clear a patch for the Model E, which can come sit next to a few other old record players. I'll be glad to see it back; it was a nice little machine and this will help out the other fellow too.
    tree
    tree
    Oh...so the cards you'd be playing won't be Tarot? Although the return does have a sort of magical quality to it.
    Gerontius
    It's not meant to be this way, but seen from above with the body removed the frame of an Austin Seven car looks almost like a letter "A." This is dumb but it seems kind of neat.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    Was on the light rail a few weeks ago & the traction-motors sounded actually GOOD, like on a full size diesel-electric locomotive but without the diesel. I'm not interested in fancy delicate cars with heated seats and a screen in the middle of the dash-board--Tesla & similar are a little too frilly for me. E-waste on wheels.
    maycontainthunder
    maycontainthunder
    One of the reasons for such underpowered cars was the road tax cost. It was calculated on cylinder bore size. This changed in 1948 but the legacy of small bores and long stroke low-revving engines lasted well into the late fifties.
    Forest Cat
    Forest Cat
    I think it's actually called an A-frame, just like the Chevy X-frame looks like an X. That's a nice looking car.
    Gerontius
    -- Fun piece of music for you on an Aeolian Orchestrelle (self-playing reed organ.) Big fan of this channel and of this era of music in general; I can't play like that though. Got to love YouTube.
    Gerontius
    Inside you there are two wolves: it is probably a good idea not to eat wolves as they are an endangered species and that's really too much for one serving.
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    Prometheus
    Prometheus
    I saw that video on Youtube. Deep.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    @Prometheus I didn't see it. I was having fun with picking on the idea because if someone literally had two wolves in them would they call the doctor or Animal Control?
    tree
    tree
    Red Riding Hood's grandmother got eaten by a wolf, but since he didn't chew well,
    the Helpful Hunstman was able to cut the wolf open and retrieve Grandma.

    In the first version of the story that I heard, anyway.
    Gerontius
    I'm really becoming tired of the pressure put on the somewhat intelligent-- "Go to college, you NEED that!" -- College is lovely but the mental toll it takes, plus the cost, the time, the hassle, just doesn't always add up.
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    Atrapa Almas
    Atrapa Almas
    Its just for the title. 95% of the stuff can be self learnt.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    @Atrapa Almas you're right, you know. I wish it was better to get a job that would pay a living wage but whatever. College is helpful for teaching school as well, but teachers don't really get "real" pay in the USA here.
    Gerald Wilgus
    Gerald Wilgus
    College is not necessary for a good career for everybody. Skilled trades are better for some people. Machinests, especially tool and die makers, electrical, plumbing. My brother boosted his skills in Mechanical Drawing to ultimately design tooling for Pratt & Whitney. The credentials race is not for everybody. To me, a bachelors degree only tells me that you are trainable.
    Gerontius
    At the library in the city, 30 miles from the house. Here the books are pretty decent, the chairs don't look like jail furniture, & I can meet some really interesting people. I think I am going to have to move to civilization here.
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    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    If I move to a library...does that mean I check myself in and out every day like a book? That would simplify a lot.
    tree
    tree
    What kind of library only allows books out for 24 hours at a time?
    We have 3 week take outs at the library I use most often.
    Gerontius
    Gerontius
    I don't know, I was hanging out upstairs just working, studying, chilling, and trawling the web on my laptop computer. It was nice though and the people are chill.
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