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[beccix]

i can not connect to my interent it keeps telling me my domain name server configuration is wrong how do i repair this

[Tax-chick]

Doing fine. Anoreth’s driven herself to Girl Scouts. The Spanish choir should be arriving any minute.

[Monkey Face]

At least with Anoreth driving herself where she needs to go, it makes a trip less that you have to make!

Life is GOOD!

[Monkey Face]

I’m gone! Later!

[sionnsar]

What Happens on the business end of a jet engine....

That is so funny (and so predictable...)

[sionnsar]

later...

[sionnsar]

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[sionnsar]

Good news is it looks like they've moved the Saturday forecast for snow into Sunday.

Bad news is my planned excursion to Gettysburg Sunday has thunderstorms in the forecast. Oh well, there's always Friday afternoon (meetings end at noon Friday, and Bob & I haven't set a time for dinner in Baltimore that evening).

[Tax-chick]

She got home sooner than when her leader drove her home, which is nice. I guess she was the last one to be dropped off because we’re so close to the leader’s house.

[Tax-chick]

Just take a raincoat and umbrella. You don’t want to miss Gettysburg just because it’s raining. We were there in December years ago, with snow on the ground. Not very atmospheric for a July 2-4 battle!

[NicknamedBob]

"Bad news is my planned excursion to Gettysburg Sunday has thunderstorms in the forecast. Oh well, there's always Friday afternoon (meetings end at noon Friday, and Bob & I haven't set a time for dinner in Baltimore that evening)."

Plan on going to Gettysburg anyway if you can. It's just a couple hours from where you'll be. Thunderstorms don't last long here, and a prediction of them from this point in time is almost guaranteed to be innaccurate.

I get hungry along about three or four in the afternoon, and stay that way until I eat something.

[NicknamedBob]

"Just take a raincoat and umbrella. You don’t want to miss Gettysburg just because it’s raining."

Maybe you can also bring along a recording of your bagpipe-playing. If there are any ghosts to be stirred up out there, I'm sure that will do the trick.

[sionnsar]

Just take a raincoat and umbrella.

Rain I don't mind unless it makes it warm & humid. Only under special circumstances do I travel only with an umbrella, I usually take my trusty PNW Eddie Bauer rain parka or my waterproofed trenchcoat.

But I'm also bringing the second best of my digital cameras in hopes of good photos. (The best failed and will cost a lot to have fixed -- not in the budget right now.) Juggling camera and umbrella is a nuisance.

I have three shots at Gettysburg: Sunday afternoon, Friday afternoon, and Saturday morning (assuming NnBob hasn't drunk me under the table once again Friday night *\;-).

[Tax-chick]

He could bring his bagpipes! There’s no rule against bagpipery in a National Battlefield Park!

When we lived in Tennessee, I drove down to Chattanooga to go shopping one day with the kids. On the way back, the clouds came down over Lookout Mountain, and I thought I saw the flashes of cannon fire and got the heebie-jeebies so bad I had to pull over and pull myself together. “Why are we stopping, Mama?” “Just shut up and watch the dead soldiers, Anoreth.” “Okay.”

They’re everywhere through the river valleys between Nashville and Chattanooga. Our neighbor had a cannon in his yard, pointed north in case the Yanks ever came back.

[NicknamedBob]

I’m thinking fifteen feet separation should be enough to keep me in the clear.

“You go ahead and play, buddy! I’ll just stand over here and uh, enjoy the ambiance.”

[sionnsar]

He could bring his bagpipes! There’s no rule against bagpipery in a National Battlefield Park!

There is an unwritten rule against playing ill-tuned pipes - and pipes that have been ignored for more than two days WILL let you know; they refuse to stay in tune and they will screech horribly. (I am serious about this. I joke that "they're like a woman, don'cha know, ignore them at your peril," but the reality is worse. Women are sometimes forgiving, bagpipes never are.) This is part of why I am not playing today.

Seriously, I would have to play them half-hour to an hour every day for two weeks before they'd stabilize, and I don't have the time.

Chattanooga! Fond memories there. My grandfather was a professor at Chattanooga U (now U Tenn) and my father grew up there. They had a lovely house (Southern mansion, to my mind) on Missionary Ridge, just a couple blocks from a memorial park.

[sionnsar]

I’m thinking fifteen feet separation should be enough to keep me in the clear.

Not always. Totally open space, probably... but I've encountered situations where the sound carries a mile or more.

[NicknamedBob]

Well, I meant clear from ghostly reprisals.

As for protection from the sound itself, I’m a bit torn. I could go with standard stuff-it-in-your-ear protectors, or maybe high-tech noise cancelling headphones, or, under extreme duress, even simply endure the onslaught.

[NonLinear]

Got any 3’s?

Go Fish!

[sionnsar]

I’m too worn out — I am off for the night. See you tomorrow, hopefully.

[Tax-chick]

Chattanooga is beautiful. I wish we could have spent more time there.