:eek: A fan of edible melons I am not.

Orbital or belt sander with 80 grit or rougher.

I touch up the edges of my tires if they've sat for a while and hazed over.

Hey, I'm allowed to be a language and etymology nerd too. This was dinner table conversation, even at big holiday dinners, in my family when I was growing up.

Very different industries that we work in. I'd go nigh just about anywhere if it meant triple my current salary. - well, except back to the north east of course ;)

I've got the Colorado trip booked up - and then I'll be in Cali this fall for my cousin's wedding in San Fran. I'll poke around and report back.

Rent a bike and ride up Mt Diablo when you are in SF area.

A little clarification about the derivation and meaning, if I may? Modern English 'smart' isn't any form of loan word; it is derived directly from Old English smeortan (verb) and smeart (adjective). Most all Germanic languages had or have cognate words, e.g. Low German smertan or Old High German smerzan.

The words (verb and adjective) in English originally had mainly to do with 'sharp pain' as you note. However, they began ameliorating in the Middle English period -- so quite early -- first to 'quick; active' and then, by the seventeenth century to include the meaning 'clever' and by the eighteenth century 'stylish'.

Bah. Wrong on the details, apparently, but explained what "smart as a whip" means. :p

Got a job offer, but it would be less than I'm making on unemployment and I'm only skating by as it stands now. I don't think I could maintain my current "lavish" lifestyle.

Two interviews tomorrow though. I'm going to stall.

Ooh, that smarts!

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Same here. That's why I need pics. I never knew what wisteria was/is.

Absolutely -- you got the important bit. The pedantic details -- well, I'm a professional 'history of the English language' geek, so please forgive:thumb:

Well if anybody doubted the effect of unemployment insurance on reserve wage and job search duration, we now have empirical proof.

Well to put it in a different perspective it's more than $30,000 less than my prior position.

Now that I think about it when my student loans came off deferral I'd be screwed.

I feel for you. I wasn't making anything up north, here is a touch better; but no magic pill.

Thinking about something like that, but I need to make the height consistent. This guy had a good idea, but I have no way to mount the tire to do it:

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Oh no, I appreciate having another item to add to my memory banks! I'm just not used to being on the receiving end of such things, because in almost all groups I'm the one asked what things mean and which phrasing is correct. AG actually checks with me several times per week while writing work emails.

Nail clippers. The bigger ones for toes.

Back to the dinner table! ;)

We have an anecdote.

Loosely related, but I recently found some videos on youtube by a dialect expert/coach where he critiques the accents of actors in various movies (and discusses fictional/constructed languages, too); I don't know what the hell it is about it, but I'd watch every video he makes (at this point, that's about 35 minutes worth).

And I don't mean to be insensitive to that, or to argue with the logic of your behavior.

The reason the studies that show Unemployment insurance increases the reserve wage, and increases unemployment is illustrated by your situation. The fact that you're making an economically rational decision reinforces the validity of what economic theory predicts.

Martin Feldstein had a proposal to reform unemployment insurance that solves this problem. The money that currently goes into Unemployment insurance instead would go into a fund similar to a 401k for each individual worker. You get laid off and you need money you can tap it tax free. If you don't need to tap it, you get to keep and it keeps growing for retirement. Preserves the safety net, and solves the reserve wage problem.

Wine, duh!

Could you rig something to attach to the (already cracked) seat stay bridge area? Or if not that, a truing stand?

60°A with heavy overcast and light drizzle. I can't talk myself into bundling up. I'm a wuss. I'm also quite tired. 102°A at home.
I seem to be much more affected by minor temperature changes than I used to be.

And the non-edible? :innocent: