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Old 03-21-26 | 07:29 PM
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1 hour of yardwork activity achieved. None was completed with AI. My intelligence is real and spectacular.

Shower, visit 70 year old friend for birthday and mid afternoon meal. Nap may occur in late afternoon.

Careful. You are bumping into ‘humble genius’ territory.
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Old 03-21-26 | 07:34 PM
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[QUOTE=terrymorse;23715502]Leaving the coffee stop today. This might be a new record for this area:

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Yikes. My smugness over buying an ID4 is almost more than I can bear.
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Are you an art connoisseur? Can you explain why it's in three sections?
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This might be a new record for this area:
Good luck in the coming weeks.
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Freak land.

Did you work on restoring the cemetery?
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Old 03-21-26 | 07:41 PM
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The Big Boy is coming to Philly for July 4th.

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Are you an art connoisseur? Can you explain why it's in three sections?
Good luck in the coming weeks.
This is the response I expected.
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Careful. You are bumping into ‘humble genius’ territory.
Tongue in cheek is a common theme with my contributions.
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SIL flipped her car today. Luckily, just a broken nose and some lacerations.
Oof. I'm not a big fan of broken noses. But I guess it coulda been worse.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
It's quite probably we've had our last significant rain till next fall. That's how it works here.
We've got a single raindrop in the forecast for Monday after next. We'll take what we can get I guess.


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Looks a little psychotic compared to Bob's Big Boy. East coast will do that to you though.
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This is the response I expected.
Well?
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Looks a little psychotic compared to Bob's Big Boy. East coast will do that to you though.

that hair might be psychotic
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Originally Posted by rsbob
Riding the fault line?
Pretty close to the fault line, for sure.

The bike is on the North American Plate, the land on the other side of the water is the Pacific Plate, somewhere under the water is the fault line.

One of the most popular local bike routes is "The Loop" through expensive Portola Valley. The fault line runs right under the road.



At a few places on Portola Road, you can put one foot on the Pacific Plate, and the other foot on the North American Plate.

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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
East coast will do that to you though.
I'm doing just fine in the land of year-round rainfall.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
I'm doing just fine in the land of year-round rainfall.
You should move to Portland if you're into that sort of thing. Enjoy that rain all day and then go out for salmon sliders well after the sun goes down, then go to some hipster club after.

Ramona would always joke about us heading home around 9pm, saying "all the cool people haven't even gotten dressed to go out for salmon sliders yet!"
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Originally Posted by DougRNS
that hair might be psychotic
That hair is tight! Looks like a wave bruh.

All this Big Boy talk has me thinkin' about the Big Boys, hella rad Texas action from BITD...

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Originally Posted by indyfabz
The Big Boy is coming to Philly for July 4th.

https://www.stocktitan.net/news/UNP/...simr8nnrf.html
Well, in many ways the Big Boy never left, sir.

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I'm kinda getting Big Boy burnout in a way. I wanna see the 844 again.







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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
You should move to Portland if you're into that sort of thing. Enjoy that rain all day and then go out for salmon sliders well after the sun goes down, then go to some hipster club after.

Ramona would always joke about us heading home around 9pm, saying "all the cool people haven't even gotten dressed to go out for salmon sliders yet!"
I don't want a salmon slider.
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Well, in many ways the Big Boy never left, sir.
I actually went to a Bob’s Big Boy in Carlisle, PA in 1986. I was disappointed that adult beverages were not served.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
I'm kinda getting Big Boy burnout in a way. I wanna see the 844 again.
There's going to be one somewhere out west sometime soon.

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Originally Posted by terrymorse
Pretty close to the fault line, for sure.

The bike is on the North American Plate, the land on the other side of the water is the Pacific Plate, somewhere under the water is the fault line.

One of the most popular local bike routes is "The Loop" through expensive Portola Valley. The fault line runs right under the road.



At a few places on Portola Road, you can put one foot on the Pacific Plate, and the other foot on the North American Plate.
On an average Sunday ride, I probably cross it 4 or 5 times.
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Originally Posted by indyfabz
I actually went to a Bob’s Big Boy in Carlisle, PA in 1986. I was disappointed that adult beverages were not served.
I worked at the Elby's Big Boy on Steinwehr Ave in Gettysburg one summer, and 2 of my 3 sisters worked as waitresses there. No booze sold there either, It was a family restaurant.

The summer I worked there, when I started in June I thought it was really busy. Then came July 4th weekend and the place seemed like it was PACKED all day, every day, till Labor day weekend. The day after Labor Day they closed down half the restaurant, it was so slow
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