Thad E Ginathom

I've had bad experience with FedEx myself; the dude literally didn't even ring the doorbell.

I think I could be partly to blame. My address on the supplier's site is slightly wrong. Surprisingly easily called the depot today. Our for delivery again: they gave me the guy's number.

Fedex The Win? Fingers crossed.

Yes! Files arrived.

They are, erm... smaller than I expected. By about 50%. More like needle files with wooden handles. But hey, I always thought that wooden handles would be a good idea for needle files. And the magic name... Vallorbe :)

So I shall give them a loving home.

idkwti. I don't know what that is. Oh, wait...

Thad of the quick wit :)))

ok, ok... TIL? idkwti either.

As I heard it, it was tltwnim TLAs.

It's nothing like it really, but... there are several mosques around here, and there is a little snippet in the Muslim Call to Prayer that my brain twists and turns into a little snippet from McGoohan's Blues!

Don't think I'm going to get far with changing Islamic tradition, so I guess I'm stuck with this one.

It's not what it was. Used to be just pure hifi, and only "separates" (2-channel stuff to my friends in America) but later came to include general electrical goods. Still a great place to buy last-year's model at a bargain price.

Back in the day... That particular day when I moved into a house by myself and didn't have anybody else's hifi to live with, Richer Sounds was still a small company with one or two shops. And they sold real treasures. Bankrupt stock as well as earlier models. At great prices.

I did some extra work, saved some pennies, and took about 400 UK pounds to their shop. Comparing reviews and measurements had really done my head in. I put it on the counter and said "What will this buy me!" And took home some nice Sony and Akai stuff.

Bought a few other things from them, over the years. Thanks Julian Richer :)

Well it seems I've been mis-pronouncing Illinois all this time. That aside, holy hell what a voice.

That was my first thought too. I had no idea she was still around. I kinda remember that she sang, didn't realize it was for Les Brown.

ZZ Top beards

Beards often make a man look older. I eschewed (bless you!) mine when I was thirty-something. Felt like I had come out of hiding!

Looking older three decades later is the last thing I want, but occasional shaving laziness shows that a beard is not really an option. It is patchy now, and uneven in colour. Horrible!

I guess I'd better ask the doc if I need extra inoculations. I could lick the cat. But I think they might be a bit too clean to help my immune system much.

At least I bite my finger nails, so there is hope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDPqhcYSKGg

(McGoohan's Blues, Roy Harper)

I'll see your *Alpha* grumpy and raise you a "Get off my digital lawn!" - time for Little Feat Old Folks Boogie.

Get OOORFF /my/ digital lawn!

The English accent wins such arguments.

Guy's name was Stead (Steed?) I think.

British TV of my childhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2PdaP8m6oI

Stress levels increased!

...Until I have an unbroken jar in my hand. Amazon are mostly pretty good. Fingers still crossed.

I'm slightly surprised they still make the jar out of glass!

All is well with the world! A new and unbroken jar of Marmite stands on my kitchen shelf!

It was packed much the same way as the previous one: I guess it got lucky.

It's not as nice as the old Marmite.

I think there may be two possible reasons for this....

1. Things just never are.

2. The last of the old Marmite had spent years in the jar, and may have become more concentrated.

But hey, it's Marmite :)

Earworm of the day.

Belongs to a genre of rock which is heavy lyrics set to a sweet tune.

Steppenwolf, if anyone doesn't know already.

We survived Monday. You are safe.

That's Winnie the Pooh reasoning, right there.

@Syzygy, you could be right there. The books were a major influence in my childhood. That and the Irish connection on my mother's side, which seemed to inform her idea of logic.

When the sky
Is as high
As an Elephant's Eye,
It's a moray

(four lines, two songs, one joke. Stuck in my mind)

The tune is 'It's Amore.' The Elephant's eye thing should be corn and is from Oklahoma. And the moray is, well... an eel.

And they are still going around in my head.

"You and me"
"Always together"

Donna Lewis' "I Love You Forever". 90ties song with that 80ties sound. Brilliant...

Tried it. It's not really comfortable with headphones.

I regret that my thread got shut down before I could thank everyone for all the input. Yeah, the nuances of backups was more than I asked for, but there was still some very helpful content in the thread for me.

Stubbornly won't use condoms because they are not comfortable. That's why there are always headphones up for adoption here!

Since I'm unexperienced with jackfruit, how do you eat it, or prepare it? Interested because I'm in a family of pescatarians.

I've had some packaged barbeque jackfruit from the store which attempts to mimic shredded beef or pork. But it wasn't entirely successful IMO.

It is lots of what you might call softish seed pods inside. They are the edible bit. Geting them out is the hard-work bit. Cut into the fruit today, as it was getting brown spots already. Not that sweat raw, but utterly delicious deep-fried. Ate 15 pieces for dinner :)

The seeds are a bit like butter beans. They can make a nice dish too. I've always meant to video cutting the thing, and today I did. Don't know if it is youtube-able. But there is plenty already there. Look for such videos made in Kerala*. They have so much jackfruit there, you'd think it,... ahem... grows on trees!
*You don't need to understand the language, just watch!

MMMEEEEEOOOOOWWWW

My cat tried to eat 01 pill of Ritalin. They are getting smarter

My cats secretly give it to me. They don't like Attention-on-cats Deficit Disorder.

Like my Zappa stream of conciousness yesterday, it just came into my head, so I checked out the lyrics. Watched a rather poor-quality clip on youtube.

I think I have all those films on VHS. I wonder if the machine still works after ten years of being ignored. I wouldn't if I was it.

@Thad E Ginathom. Give it a try after cleaning the heads. My old Betamax still works.

Oh wait, I forgot. I haven't got a TV! And I don't think hdmi existed when that machine was born.

It used to mean leaving your body for a dose of mystical and psychadelic experience; seeing the world in different colours, experiencing being...

Now it means selling your shares :(

Which I love very much, even though it makes me cry.

@BenjaminBore, you can give me the antidote now.

Whadyamean, I never asked you to keep the antidote for me?

@atomicbob, how about two Hawkwind albums on two record players? :)

But seriously, Zappa's We're Only It For The Money is a necessary education for all, right? Even more recent generations?

Most definitely. FZ, and Tom Waits - Step Right Up.

Well it was... interesting. I may have to give it a re listen when under the influence of substances