Recent content by John cycling

The wind has been blowing all day and the trees are swaying. The forecast is for 2.5 inches of rain today, which is quite a bit for this area, followed by 4 more days in a row of plentiful rain, plus 2 of the 4 days after that. I went to a BYOB exercise class at the Senior Center this morning...

@GoodEnuff - You have an interesting diary.

Sonnet 123, By William Shakespeare No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change: Thy pyramids built up with newer might To me are nothing novel, nothing strange; They are but dressings of a former sight. Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire What thou dost foist upon us that is old...

It's an oxymoron, like "safe drugs", "hypocritical oath", "health science building": (on a structure full of drug dealers) etc.

They are easy to make. You don't need to buy one. I made one like in the photo for ~ $33. Here's the Youtube video <-- with instructions. It was too big for me so I shortened the length to 3 feet, and reduced the width by several inches. Overall it weighs 22.5 pounds, so I added 1.25# weights to...

It was probably closed to avoid any politics, and left at the top because it's a current event. It's the first one at the top in the forum he mentioned.

You can search the address on free websites like this one, <-- then check the name and apartment/condo # listings.

You could look it up on a website; for example this one. <-- However, that website like others is only a rough approximation, and is generaly quite inaccurate. The best way to find out is by talking with him.

I could solve the cube in less than a minute just a few years ago, with a low around 43 seconds. That many young people can solve it now in less than 10 seconds is amazing.

Landline definition: A telephone connected by physical wires, not mobile or wireless. A telephone line that transmits signals from one station to another directly along a wire, without the use of radio waves. A telecommunications line, service, or connection that uses wire running over land or...

I prefer having a wired connection, still use a land line for that reason and have never used a cell phone. Frontier (used to be Verizon) was charging $75 a month for the land line, and only 1 mgbt of internet each month. Thus I switched to Xfinity cable for internet as it was $10 a month (now...

Elizabeth Cotton was 76 in that video, born in 1893.

If this was me I'd move back into my house, and learn to drive - which would also give me something to do. Then if I wanted to sell the house and get a smaller one or move somewhere else, I would go ahead and do it. Plus I'd definitely not give them my savings. The point for me is that I'd want...

Me: Hello. Pc: Hello John, how are you doing today? Me: Fine. You? Pc: Fine too, John, thanks. I'm just calling to tell you I've sent out 3 more disclosures and more of the information you've requested. Me: Great. Did you include the check? Pc: .................. long silence...