AndyID

Where, hopefully, 'urricanes 'ardly ever 'appen.

Save some for me. I've been looking for an excuse to visit la Belle France.

Yes, I was coming to a similar conclusion. Essentially the CO2 is forced to occupy a much smaller volume as it is no longer able to dissolve in the liquid.

On my recent jaunt from Pocatello I stopped at Lima in Montana for a late breakfast. Coffee and bacon in toast made to order in a little cafe/diner that was like stepping back sixty years in time. The service was superb too. This was the view from my stool at the bar.

You could be right. Judging by the total destruction of the bottle there must have been a serious explosion 😆

We had a little do on New Year's Day for the neighbors. There was some champagne but nobody wanted any so it stayed outside in a cooler on the deck and was forgotten about. Today I happened to look inside the cooler and discovered that a rather large bottle of the stuff was completely shattered in the cooler. It was extremely cold here for around a week around the middle of January and I think the champagne must have frozen solid, expanded and shattered the glass bottle. Champagne freezes at around -8C so it's not surprising that the glass let go because I think it was much colder than that. There were also two smaller bottles in the cooler but they remained intact although one of them does seem to have lost some of its fizz.

Ah yes, there is level according to gravity at that particular location then there is level as meets the eye.

You could use the excuse that you had to put drops in your mince pies.

Home again after a pleasant 550 mile drive from Pocatello to North Idaho. The reason it was pleasant was because the weather was beautiful. Lots of sunshine and the mountains have lot of snow. It was also quite relaxing because most of it was with the cruise control set at 82 mph and there was very little traffic on the road. The route was North on Interstate 15 then West on Interstate 90. The I-15 section crosses the Continental Divide West to East at 6,800 feet then recrosses East to West at 5,800 feet. Quite cold up there but the road was free of ice and snow. Truly spectacular on a clear day as it was today.

I get that a lot. It might have been saved. You'll find out next time you visit

At this altitude a helmet and a brandy to calm the nerves ain't all bad 😂

But you can go to work on an erg. Joules might not be too happy. 😄

It was a wind-up 🤣

What's wrong with the inch-ounce?

I've spent the last few weeks in Utah and Colorado doing this sort of stuff. This is at Snowmass ski area, Aspen. received_365433886443422.mp4 Weather at Buttermilk, Aspen yesterday was great. Seven inches of new snow overnight then not a cloud all day.

If this is up to date you should be able to replace the battery and there is a slide out key in the fob. https://www.stohlman-vw.com/service-tips-and-tricks/change-battery-in-vw-key/

The thingy for my Fiat has a battery that needs to be replaced every so often. It also has an actual key that slides out in case the battery is flat. Maybe your's does too?

Gratings from Sandy, Utah. I'm staying with friends who have a house near the Little Cottonwood Canyon. There are two ski areas there, Alta and Snowbird. A serious storm has passed now and it dumped a lot of snow up there. Despite our close proximity to the ski resorts it took two hours to get there yesterday. The road was closed due to avalanche control work and by the time it opened there was an enormous line of cars. We still managed to run out of skiing energy well before the lifts stopped running. Tomorrow we plan to ski at Deer Valley although I prefer to call it "Dear Valet" because it's rather posh.

But you did spend a fair bit of time on Rose Street 😄

I ordered a pair of compression socks for my very-close-veins from Amazon Prime. They arrived on Friday then they arrived again, today, Saturday. Same order number and I was only charged for one pair. So I decided to keep them and pay for them. Unfortunately Amazon didn't think of that scenario on their web interface so I eventually managed to talk to someone in some distant land or possibly on another planet. Unfortunately I think my request banjaxed his system 🤣 After a long "please hold" he asked me to call back later.

The last time I went to a rugby match 😟

All being well I'll be posting annoying pics of me and my ski buddies in Utah and Colorado for a few weeks 😂

Funny the people you meet. I was at our local last night and I was chatting with a guy who turned out to be the pathologist at the hospital in town. He and his wife were both in the Air Force and she is now a 747 pilot for an airfreight company 😆

It's an acquired taste that I failed to acquire, although they used to make some very entertaining clocks, at least I thought so at the time.

That's considered normal in the US for anyone in a senior or managerial position and it's quite prevalent in the UK now. I actually moved to the US to escape from it 😆 I was technical director at a small electronics/software company and the pressure was a bit extreme. I got a job in Phoenix as a staff engineer with ITT (no supervising) being paid as much as I was earning in the UK. That worked well for just over a year until my manager quit, so they put me in charge of his department (and paid me a lot more money). About a year after that they fired the director of our entire group and they gave me his job (even more money). And so it went. The last hi-tech outfit I worked for in Southern California paid me a ridiculous amount of money but hi-tech should really be called high-stress. I kept that one for six more years then chucked it at age 57.