A year ago last November, my son's buddies had a surprise birthday party for my son at the local bowling alley. I was invited for I was pretty much a father figure to all of his buds. We had some beers, finger foods, and a lot of laughs. We left the lounge area and grabbed a couple of lanes and rolled two games. I could not believe just how poorly I bowled. It was fun but very frustrating. I blamed it on not finding but only one house ball that had a thumb hole large enough for my hitchhiker thumb and it was way too large. I found my ball in my business storage shed a couple of weeks ago. It still fits my hand. I don't really think it would help my game... It was a long time ago when I bowled.
Speaking of a long time ago... there have been changes to the game since I last bowled. The big improvement is the automatic scoring. That was always a rub for somebody to keep score in the league play. The lights shining though the score sheet would make your hand sweat which would make releasing the ball difficult.
The big non improvement is instead of paying for a game, you pay for a given amount of time. That is pure greed from the house and ruins the game in my opinion. The other change is the price of bowling these days. It's not a poor man's sport to enjoy anymore. It takes some serious money to bowl and you are forced to bowl at a fast pace. Pure BS They ruined bowling and I'm surprised it still exists.
It is quite a bit cheaper to play a round of golf. That's just crazy.

The game above was Monday. Today is Saturday and Kansas was absolutely destroyed by the 5th ranked NCAA team, Iowa State, 56 to 74. I guess that's why I'm a fan of college basketball. It's never a given who is going to win.

I pulled my chicken thighs off the smoker at 155° and finished them up on the Weber. I brought them in when they reached an internal temp of 175°. I used thick sliced bacon for my wraps that wasn't going to crisp up in a 225° smoker. I'll cook them using both cookers next time. That was the best of both worlds.

In northern Nevada, every now and then my phone will briefly connect with a 3G network, the connection last one or two minutes at most.
The only thing I can think is it was put in place by the bureau of land management, the department of transportation or the forest service, it was set up with or eventually had solar panels installed to charge the batteries
Why is it still operating? I think it was either forgotten about or it's some back up plan. Personally I think it was forgotten about or it was put up on some mountain top and people didn't want to go remove it.
The connection is sporadic, you most certainly won't be streaming Netflix

It looks like the rains have moved out of my area. I show a total rainfall of 1.31" of much needed rain. It isn't nearly enough rain to help matters but it was a start. At least it was a slow rain that most of it stayed where it fell. The rain and clouds kept the temperature in the mid fifties with very little wind. Sixty one is the predicted high for tomorrow and then in the low seventies through Thursday. It sounds great to me.

Yeah what is up with out any snow lately, but tonight I think I saw some rain here... I got my mother tulips for Valentime's

olbriar said:

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Nice repost, I've always enjoyed that one.

olbriar said:

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I'd like t' see anyone born after 1970 try starting a car that has that starter switch.

Smoked bacon wrapped chicken thighs and fried breaded okra. That's my Valentine's gift to my wife... one of her favorite meals. She is baking scratch chocolate chip cookies for me. One of my favorite desserts.

puppykickr said:

i got one of these things a couple of years ago.

at a cost of ~$1500 i feel that the battery is now about done for.

i have traveled about 1500 miles so that is about $1 per mile, which makes this the most expensive vehicle i have ever drove

a new battery is about $700

is this the common experience with these things?
because for me, it seems that this is just more of "You will own nothing, and you will be happy"

in my opinion, this is an expensive toy, not a viable means of transportation

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I am sorry you are having battery problems. My first e-bike was purchased in May of 2019. I sold it to a good buddy so I could buy the new and improved bike by the same company. The original bike had 1,024 miles on it when I sold it and is still serving my friend well. The upgrade bike is closing in on 22,000 miles and most were logged using the original battery. I don't think your short battery life is typical but I can only base that on my own personal experience. I do not get the distance a charge provided when the battery and the other's I've accumulated were new but even the original battery will still give me close to 40 miles of aggressive riding per charge. My good luck with my batteries may be due to my riding style. I do not ride a given distance, I most often ride until I have drained a battery... sometimes two and sometimes three batteries. I never drain a battery below 15% remaining capacity and a rarely stop riding before I have the battery drained below 20% remaining. I charge my batteries after every use. It might well be a sweet spot for the batteries.

rootabaga said:

Hmmm...I'm gonna bet you are in the camp of "the glass is half empty."

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Yes, it is, because of the hole in the bottom of the glass...

banned for being a conversation stopper ....

Louisiana Man - Seekers

Don't Go Breaking My Heart - Elton John & Kiki Dee

Nonfactor

I have DirecTV. They are proving an Olympic plex that airs more than an event in split screen. Right now there is an interview, curling, and women's hockey

Coffee from early this morning, mixed in with water.

Rgarner said:

He's zero tech. If he accidentally pressed some bizarre combination of keys, he probably wouldn't know it. I was thinking virus because of the nasty junk he's been getting into with that phone. The good news is that it came back on and seems to be "normal" (for a Samsung anyway). When he tried to make phone calls this morning he was getting only Cricket, the carrier, but now it's working all right, I guess.

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We are helping you too. We are acutally showing you and texting you, mostly on what to do, follow Hadron's advice.

The sentiment may be real, but I do believe he has misdialed...

I asked my wife if she would love me if I was ugly. She said she does.