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Egads Iron Butterfly. We’ll need some Blue Cheer and (gulp) The Seeds to accompany such a fine selection of ancient brain bending classics. I feel groovier already🤩.

She said we met at a ‘vegetarian’ meeting but to the best of my recollection I had never met herbivore - 🤪.

The nicest part about having me around is that others are given the opportunity to improve.

Always sad for humanity to lose an icon. Starr was an especially nice icon who was not featured enough because he was NOT controversial. I also have to wonder what the life span is/was for the linemen of his era. I met several old time Vikings players once. Those guys were truly damaged from that game. Fingers angled off at 90 degrees, loads of scars and orthopedic basket cases. If they lived til their 80’s they’d be so miserable.

When your wife says, “gimme just 5 minutes” - think 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter and both teams have all of their ‘time-outs’.

Jeez pal - there’s NO reason to tailgate me when I am doing 55 in a 35.......... AND - those lights on top of your car look ridiculous!!

I felt the same ‘uselessness nonsensical’ angst when the single cup keureg coffee brewers 1st showed up, and they became way too popular as far as I’m concerned. If you need more than one slice of ‘perfect’ toast SIMULTANEOUSLY then just buy 2 of these monstrosities.

Last year we canned a couple of gallons of salsa. We kept a variety of tomatoes. This year we only planted Cherokee Purple tomatoes. Should have product by July.

I memorized the button locations on the various remotes. Not all of the buttons, just the primary functions. Most remotes have tactile or shaped buttons. I use those to orient my finger search. Had poor vision all life and this just evolved as the best method for me.

I would expect that as knowledge deepens and technology offers more options, that protective gear could be tailored to a sport. That is the case made here. They claim/explain that specially designed goggles protects ‘girls’ lacrosse players better than helmets against the ‘types’ of injuries ‘girls’ typically suffer. I emphasized ‘girls’ because this does not apply to ‘boys’ lacrosse where a more physical game is allowed to be played. But they went beyond this claim and suggested that wearing helmets actually caused girls to play more recklessly resulting in more injuries. It would be nice if someone showed the data to support their assertions. I also wonder how long before transgender men encroach on the sport. Curious times indeed. I had a son in football. He was headed to college on football scholarship until a concussion evaluation discovered a congenital neck problem. No more contact sports for him. I was glad. He enjoyed the game but it was too crazy for me. Nick’s a big guy and was often targeted because of his size. Well high school boys are big, strong and naive and aggressive..... and the coaches wanted the ‘wins’. It is scary how emotional some avid sports folks are.

Geology ‘rocks’ - but - geography is ‘where it’s at’ 🤓

The Mrs, an avid horse rider, said that in such muddy conditions that horses innately seek the safest and best footing. No casual rider that cares about their animal runs them on slick slippery terrains.

Well when you consider the human tragedy and enormous expenses associated with AIDS the ‘wild and loose life’ certainly does have its downsides.

It would be fun/interesting/humbling if they set aside a seating arrangement just for those who attended the 1st Woodstock.

2 great white sharks spotted the survivors of a sunken ship in the distance. “Follow me son and do like I tell you.” The 2 sharks approached the people bobbing in the water. The dad shark instructed his son to swim around the group showing just the tip of your fin. When they’d done that the dad told his son to circle the group once more showing his entire fin..... and they did. “Now eat them all.” After devouring the hapless prey the son asked his dad, “why did we have to swim around them, why not just eat them?” “Son they taste better if you scare the 💩 out of them 1st.”

They are somewhat ‘busy’ in appearance. Not my cup of tea.

Jack, a handsome man, walked into a pub and sat up at the bar next to a blond gal and stared up at the teevee. It was the six o’clock news and there was live coverage of a man poised to leap off a building. “Do you think he’ll jump”, asks the blond. “Thirty bucks says he does”. Whereupon Jack lays 3 tens on the bar. “You’re on” says the blond, but before she could get her money out the man dives off the building. “Well a bets a bet”, and she hands over the cash. “No, I can’t take your money. I saw the news earlier and I knew he was gonna jump”. The blond says, “so did I but I didn’t think he’d do it again.” Jack kept her money.

About 10 years ago I tried going back to tubes with Cary products and went through tubes like candy on Halloween. It was frustrating and embarrassing and eventually maddening. I sold it all and went high end solid state, Accuphase. Could not be happier. My 0.02$.

I would love to see photos of this rig...........

Couple of points. 1st my experience is with noise I hear but do not actually observe. I do know the sounds I am hearing come from motorcycles but it could well be that I only hear the noisy cycles and the more muffled units glide by unnoticed by yours truly. 2nd it would be nice if my concerns were acknowledge as merit worthy. There are cities that pass sound ordinances and they do enforce them. Where I live we have an ordinance against the use of air brakes on trucks because of noise. So y’all can listen to the concerns of citizens or ignore them until they pass laws to regulate the problem. Being considerate of others is fundamentally worthy.

Yet you say that the ‘sound’ of your ride puts you in a “zen” state. These days you do not require the noise to ride fast. You say the noise is not to gain attention. So is it a pacifier - a sound that adds value to the experience and would detract from the experience if absent? From my perspective the only thing motorcycle noise effectively does is render the vehicle menacing which any number of riders and riding clubs do employ to ‘flex’ the power of their presence. If I hear you correctly the rowdy noise is a learned association with pleasure. If so have you ever tried riding without the noise? If not then you’re argument becomes a presumption. In fact you may find more pleasure riding w/o the unnecessary rumble. To be clear I do not want anyone to feel threatened with my concern. I am NOT dissing motorcycles or their riders, and I am not advocating against them. I am saying that they are unnecessarily made to be far too loud when for all practical purposes the excess noise adds nothing to the ride nor to the character of the rider. The take away is until you try riding silently you cannot make a valid argument for or against noise containment. On the other hand I have not done much riding at all so my perspectives are pretty limited as well. But I do read here that most bikers use ear plugs and other sound dampening devices - so noise is truly an issue for most folks.

Of course the purpose of a ‘vehicle’ is transportation, the sound made by that vehicle is entirely collateral. From the get-go the noise they made caused problems for others. Horses did not like the putt-putt cars. If they could have been made quieter easily from the start I believe they’d have been made that way. Now, for some, the noise is apparently needed to gain attention. Look at me, here I come, mine is louder - whatever. Does the volume or character of a loud vehicle make anyone better, smarter, better looking, or better at anything? On a personal level - not one bit.

I don’t think the bikers coming through here are intentionally being noisy. It just does not take much because of the geography. But they do come in caravans and that’s quite extreme. Curious how a throaty car or bike adds to its persona and by extension its owner/driver. Maybe in time tastes/expectations will change and a silent electric rage ravaging the highways will gain favor. Personally I like road travel to be free from road/car noises. Interesting too that this all began just over a century ago. Before the internal combustion engine road noise was the clopping of hooves. Trains were/are noisy but were/are nowhere as prevalent as personal vehicles. Oh well...... such is life. Appreciate your thoughts.

Ah spring, finally I get to start working on the yards and enjoying them. I live where mountains channel out onto a prairie. Essentially I live in the throat of a giant natural horn. Spring also means the return of motorcycles, in singles and throngs. Traffic noise of any level resonates and amplifies around here and motorcycles, well they can be quite a nuisance. Okay, I definitely understand that many here are motorcycle fan(atic)s and I would never suggest that any of you should curtail your enthusiasm for open air riding. But we now have the advent of truly serious and capable electric motorcycles that offer the wonderful addition of a more silent power plant. So how important is the rumble and roar to the experience of being a biker? Would riders be just as happy, or perhaps happier, riding a quieter high powered electric bike? Off road vehicles have the same problem. Imagine a pristine snowfall deep in the forest and the addition of whining snowmobiles permeating the landscape for miles around. It is noise pollution that can now be controlled. Would any of you motorcyclists consider electric for your next purchase?

After this years ‘flu’ I updated my will 😵! We’ve already had our ebikes out for a couple of local rides and look forward to some easy riding longer tours soon. I’m 67, the Mrs is 64 and this technology makes us look and feel like we’re back in our 20’s. Not cheap - around $3K per bike - but they work and are still inexpensive daily fun compared to a Disneyland vacation and they are less fattening too. Getting old truly does suck, which is why we choose to fight it tooth and nail........ we’re not going down w/o a good fight cuz what’s worse than dying is living life as a house bound cripple.