AndyID

First day on the job in the US I asked the department admin Nancy if she had any rubbers.

A lot of the boat docks on the lake are supported on float logs. According to the dock builders the logs can last for a very long time as long as they are always immersed in water. The ones that rot fairly quickly are exposed to the air when the lake level is lowered to accommodate the Spring runoff. For that reason a lot of the docks are detached from the shore and parked in lake bays from November until May.

I have to replace some timbers on our deck and I will be using treated timber. I've been experimenting with splices held together with adhesive. Polyurethane seems to work extremely well. Clamped for 24 hours, no screws necessary.

Had my other at eye cataract surgery today. Hopefully no more glasses for me other than reading glasses. I just got the basic lenses and the whole thing is covered by Medicare. They don't cover the more sophisticated corrective lenses which can get rather spendy. Based on what I had heard I was a bit concerned about healthcare in the US before we came here but our experience has been very positive although health insurance is expensive until you reach retirement age.

The great thing about tartan is there are so many to choose from and you can double that number if you include both the dress and hunting versions. 😁

Sort of depends on which one.

The surgeon who did my recently cataract op was excellent. MrsID joined me on the follow-up visit with him. She concluded he had had his personality surgically removed.

Here's a sad example of "reluctance to pay". My childhood friend, best man and ski pal lived in Edinburgh. He made a lot of money and had all the toys. Lovely house, expensive cars and a beautiful yacht. He had not been feeling well for about a year and was being treated by a NHS doctor. He was 56 when died of a heart attack. No heart condition was diagnosed prior to his death. Had he shelled out for a better private doctor I'm pretty sure his heart condition would have been diagnosed. Of course, even if it had, he might still have succumbed.

One person can keep a secret. Two people might be able to keep a secret. Ten or more people? Not a snowball's chance. 🤣

Many, many years ago my friend Alastair and I were returning from the pub in Aviemore to the campsite at Loch Morlich in his sister's 1955 VW. The conversation went something like this: "OMG Alastair! There's a policeman standing on the back bumper and he's shining his torch in the rear window. What are we going to do?" It turned out that a torch in the storage space behind the back seat had been switched on and it was pointing vertically up at the rear window.

I quite like Yacht Rock on SiriusXM 😁

Oh, I dunno. A lot of the lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan are pretty funny 🤣 And, before anyone suggests that is not "real" opera, they better have a good argument. 😄

Thanks. Sounds like a recoding from a live performance. Unfortunately nothing like as good as the studio version on the Jailbreak album.

Ah, UK copyright block. It's "Cowboy Song" by Thin Lizzy

Living as I do in the Wild West I know a thing or two about this stuff. This is my fav cowboy song

You might if you knew it was happening 😀 This issue only comes up when digital logic samples input from some asynchronous source (for example, an operator pushing a button). There are various ways to minimize the probability that the input will be misinterpreted which make it extremely unlikely that will ever happen but it's not possible to eliminate the chance completely.

So y'all think it all went digital? It did, just not quite. It's all based of "flip-flops". These are simple electronic devices that can either represent a one or a zero. That's great except there is also the "Grand Old Juke of York" flip-flop which is neither up nor down. Precisely how long his state remains indeterminate is impossible to calculate. It's only a question of probabilities.

Just back from seeing a vein doc regarding my very close veins. The right leg is obviously extremely dodgy but after a bit of ultrasound examination his professional opinion is that the peripheral veins on the inside of both legs are completely banjaxed. (although he might have put it slightly differently). He can fix them with a minor op in his surgery now scheduled for early July. He could do the ops next week but I have to be under his supervision for three months if Medicare is going to pay for it.

No, no, no! It's obviously about enjoying Turkish Delight in the afternoon with a few of the neighbors while watching an Apollo launch. How else could you explain "sky rockets in flight"?

I'm glad you explained that. Otherwise it might have been misconstrued.

Things might have changed since you were last there. You can actually get a drink in a bar without joining a club now 😂

Presumably you marched them up to the top of the garden?

Another interesting article. These fish also seem to be good at repairing their DNA. https://www.futurity.org/living-fossils-gars-ancient-fish-evolution-3188902/

Not here. It was like summer for a few weeks then we awoke to a layer of frost followed by snow. 😀

The same as here (in Idaho). Full time residents get a substantial discount on their property tax. I'm a bit nervous to point out that for a few years we didn't own two homes, we had three! This place which we bought 28 years ago, a house in Southern California while I was working there for six years before I retired and a small apartment half way between the two at Park City in Utah which was mainly for skiing. When I got the job in CA we decided not to sell this place because it seemed like the ideal retirement home. It's fortunate that we didn't sell it because this area was "discovered" about twenty years ago and the value of this place has increased 350% since then. The other two properties were sold when I retired.