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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.

OK, just as long as it's not being used for cunning stunts.

It's probably just me but did anyone else wonder if some members of the crew are whizzing on the graffiti?

Slightly different for us colonials, in New Jersey at least. We lived in an area where there were a lot of smallish houses on rather large lots. Typically half an acre. They were built in the 50s. Demolishing and building a much larger home was not allowed, but you could add an extension to an existing home so the thing to do was add an extension that was bigger than the house. After five years it was OK to demolish the original house :)

Being a skier my Volvo in California sported ED4ZHLS and a Scotland emblem. I was buzzed on the freeway one morning by a Lexus bearing EBYGUM. Obviously he was either from Cornwall or Devon.

I'm quite partial to the aroma from valve (tube) amplifiers. Probably because it takes me back to when I was a yoot.

The city of Lewiston in Idaho, near the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers, has a big pulp mill. It doesn't half pong. I don't think I could live there.

Canal station in Paisley was adjacent to a Robertson's jam factory. There was a wonderful aroma of whatever they were making that day while waiting for a train.

As the saying goes: " Two sheds are better than one."

Context laddie! Context 😁

Come to think of it I saw a urologist recently who said he could fix that PDQ. I politely declined 😮

Or born in the USA. 90% of white males are.

Well, as the hat-maker ad used to say, "If you want to get a hat, get a head". (or maybe it was the other way round. I can never remember 🤔)

They are very similar and easily confused with each other 🤣

No, Hamilton is near Glasgow in Scotland.

I have a brother in the Granite City. The background radiation level is a bit higher there because of the granite.

"The streets were deserted. It was like Aberdeen on a flag day."