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I am thinking of trying to find time to work on my website. I need to figure out how to make it work for me.
Morning. Shadowless and gloomy grey monday morning under a leaden sky that seems to have affected the traffic today, been in this cab 20 minutes and must have moved two hundred meters, maybe a new world record or something :)
do they charge by the meter or the time?
tee hee - actually is kinda scary
bananas with 2 twinkles t'nite
12 am Mon Dec 16
28° Clear
FEELS LIKE:
16°
WIND:
SW at 17 mph
do they charge by the meter or the time?
$27 fare to go one suburb, usually $15 maybe. The joy of civilisation hey :)
is it sub of a burb? or sub of a urb?
...for the second week in a row Green Bay came back in the second half with 5 TDs outscoring Dallas 35 - 10
...and just moments ago the Packers defence came though again with another interception. Game over. Green Bay makes an incredible comeback in the Cowboy's house to win 37 - 36. There is still a playoff pulse.
If they keep this up (and Detroit loses to Baltimore tomorrow) it will come down to a grudge match with Da Bears (after what they did to Aaron Rodgers last month) to see who goes to the playoffs. You can bet there is a lot of bad blood between these two.
iz cold in green bay land
lalala
In between the lines there’s a lot of obscurity
I’m not inclined to resign to maturity
If it’s alright, then you’re all wrong
But why bounce around to the same down song
You’d rather run when you can’t crawl
Your worst inhibitions tend to psych you out in the end
if i had a dime for every time i refreshed this page :lol:
If I had a dime for every penny I have I'd have ten times as much money.
about 25 blocks away I guess, too far to walk heh. Have to cab three suburbs now, pity me :)
THink it was warmer overnight than it is now, strange daze \m/
If I had a dime for every penny I have I'd have ten times as much money.
No one cent coins here, really missing out :)
No one cent coins here, really missing out :)
You're not missing much. They're mostly clutter now. A penny doesn't get you much these days. When I was a kid, you could buy several pieces of penny candy for each penny. But those days are long gone.
Dana
I found some time to render last night. Set up a lovely scene with some of my newer never used content. Test render, looking good. Tweek this a little, add this over here. Test render, yep getting there now. Load one of those, adjust the pose a tad, Test render. Ah ha!! Add another of those here, pose it, another of those over there and tweek it some. Test Render, yes now were talking.
Set up advanced Render Settings, set render size, forget to render to file, but HEY this PC is a Monster it's all cool. Hit render, wander off to play in the forums. Time slips by, then BLINK!!
Monitor going to Sleep. Huh? Wait don't do that!! Click mouse, wiggle mouse around, NADA, nothing happens still a blank screen. Push Windows Menu button frantically, more nothing. Monitor happily asleep. Well crap, CTRL ALT and Delete you Pain in my back side, so there!! Whole system just keeps on snoring away. Yep, had to do a Forced Shut Down. The full system had locked up. Why Am I telling you this? I dunno? But there is a morale to be learned here...
Always save your Scene files as you work (never did), always Render HiRez Large files to File and NOT a window, and even monster PC's have limits (was not watching the RAM slowly MAX out).
I blame it all on Uncle Gandpa, he told me it was all fine. I never liked his stories much and will not take his advice again either. :-P
No one cent coins here, really missing out :)
You're not missing much. They're mostly clutter now. A penny doesn't get you much these days. When I was a kid, you could buy several pieces of penny candy for each penny. But those days are long gone.
Dana
...yeah I remember those days. If you had a quarter in your pocket, you could get one heck of a good sugar high.
You could buy a 12 oz. bottle of Coke (with real sugar) for a dime and where I lived get 2¢ back for the bottle when it was empty. Back then, it was us kids collecting bottles to satisfy our sugar fix. A couple six or eight packs worth and you were set for the day.
I find pennies are still useful when visiting Washington State o California as both states have a sales tax.
Also excellent for making a commentary, to the local transit system at the farebox when they raise fares and cut schedules.
I have something like four jars including one big one that must weigh 50# filled with pennies nickles & dimes. Be interesting to go to one of those coin exchange machines at the market and see just how much it is worth.
No one cent coins here, really missing out :)
...the old Australia Penny (prior to when the currency was decimalised) was slightly larger than the US half Dollar.
The new 1¢ coin was discontinued about 12 years ago.
So I guess that now makes one's thoughts obsolete...;-)
You're not missing much. They're mostly clutter now. A penny doesn't get you much these days. When I was a kid, you could buy several pieces of penny candy for each penny. But those days are long gone.
Dana
...yeah I remember those days. If you had a quarter in your pocket, you could get one heck of a good sugar high.
You could buy a 12 oz. bottle of Coke (with real sugar) for a dime and where I lived get 2¢ back for the bottle when it was empty. Back then, it was us kids collecting bottles to satisfy our sugar fix. A couple six or eight packs worth and you were set for the day.
I find pennies are still useful when visiting Washington state as they have a sales tax there.
Also excellent for making a commentary, to the local transit system at the farebox when they raise fares and cut schedules.
I have something like four jars including one big one that must weigh 50# filled with pennies nickles & dimes. Be interesting to go to one of those coin exchange machines at the market and see just how much it is worth.
It was $.25 for a large bottle of soda, with a $.05 deposit on the bottle...glass, not plastic. I think they were 2 quart bottles, none of this liter stuff. Drakes Devil Dogs were $.05, and they were a little bigger than they are today, I think, and had a little more cream filling. Candy bars were a nickle, too, and were bigger. Somehow I think they tasted better, too. $.10 for a bag of chips, Fritos, Funyuns. $.10 for those Drakes apple pies, the two square ones in the package. $.12 for the Hostess pies (Cherry was my favorite). $.15 for a mini Table Talk pie.
They might let you smell the pie for $.15 now! :lol:
Dana
No one cent coins here, really missing out :)
...the old Australia Penny (prior to when the currency was decimalised) was slightly larger than the US half Dollar.
The new 1¢ coin was discontinued about 12 years ago.
So I guess that now makes one's thoughts obsolete...;-)
Only there. We still have pennies. I found a brand new shiny one in my change the other day. 2013. In the same change I found a 1951 wheat penny. Both have been put aside. Papa Gino's isn't getting them back! :lol:
I wouldn't use those machines, they take a percentage from you. Roll them up yourself.
Dana
...we used to have 8 oz, 12 oz, 16 oz and quart bottles. 8 oz were 1¢, 12 and 16 oz 2¢, and quart bottles were worth 5¢. All were glass as well.
Cans had no deposit. Soda wasn't sold in cans until they changed to aluminum.
Milk bottles also had a deposit if you had home delivery.
We also had a company that provided home delivery of juice as well in half gallon bottles.
There was also a local soda bottling company named Black Bear, we would go to where you could get cases of pop and allowed you yo mix and match flavours. The company is still in business and has expanded but still prides themselves on producing the old fashioned style sodas I still remember.
...and yes, you can still get a full (24 12oz. glass bottles) case.
Smallest currency is a five cent coin here, you can feed them into the supermarket machines :)
Maybe you're right, maybe that was a one quart bottle. Our local bottler was White Eagle. Mom used to get a case now and then, and we could get different flavors like you said. They had a couple of nice ones, too, that you couldn't get elsewhere, like pineapple. It was the quart bottles, though. I suppose maybe they had smaller ones but I don't remember them.
I remember coming home from school, going to Pat's (the corner store) and getting a bunch of penny candy, a pastry, maybe some chips, and a bottle of Diet Rite Cola or Tab or Fresca, and going home to watch Dark Shadows, then reruns of Batman (they'd show two episodes back-to-back). Sometimes I'd skip the soda and have a big mug of milk, usually with some kind of syrup in it.
Dana
There aren't even many parking meters here that still take a nickel. In my old city you used to be able to get two hours on a nickel. Then it went to one hour. Now a half hour takes a quarter sometimes! It depends on the area you're in. Some areas are tougher and more in demand so it's more, some areas you can still get an hour for a dime.
Dana
Nickles are still useful, because they still think the public is fooled by something priced at $10.95 as being a bargain, compared to $11.00. That's all the nickel gets you though...the false feeling of getting a bargain. It can't even buy a postage stamp. Then if the item is taxable, there goes that nickel and then some. That's all the pennies are good for these days, making up the tax. My state is crazy, sales tax is 6.25 %. I haven't checked, but I bet they round up even though it's not .5. If something taxable is $1, I doubt they'd let it go at $.06, but as I said, I haven't checked. It's rare that anything costs just $1 anyway! Maybe I should go to the dollar store and test my theory. Even there I've noticed that a lot of things are not just $1. :roll:
Dana
All the shop machines here round totals up or down to the nearest five cents. Nothing much at the local $2 shop is actually $2, think it is kinda endearing to have such a hopeful name :lol:
...for me old man Romanaski's grocery was the "hangout". Friday was the night as that was collection day on my paper route and I'd always be "flush" with tip money That meant a pack of Twinkies and a 16 oz Coke or Kayo Chocolate drink in addition to the usual candy fix. The store was an "old school" grocery two blocks down the street that served the neighbourhood long before the "mini mart" days and even boasted a full service butcher dept. We did a fair amount of our shopping there, particularly for fresh meats.
You can see the outline of the original doorway was larger as it was inset into the building. There was one large window on the right where the two small ones are now and another on the left. The original stairway also came straight out from the font entrance and there was no front lawn or wall. In the stone block foundation, the outline of the old receiving doors which led to the cellar storeroom can still be seen.
OK so now this is scary.
As I was doing a "memory lane stroll" of my old hometown tonight on the Net (yeah, a sure sign of getting old) I happened to come across a photo (see below) of the actual building which the old store occupied (since converted to a home) in Google images. In the header it mentions it is for sale for the price of 128,000$!
...say what, 128K?.
If that building were here in Portland, it would go for a minimum of a half million at least. So I did a little more browsing to find house prices where I grew up are ridiculously low compered to here. Lovely cozy homes in a nice old neighbourhood going for a fraction of what they would cost here in Portland.
A lot of the high costs for homes and rentals here is due to an imposed urban growth boundary established years ago to curb LA type urban sprawl. The only "green" part about it however seems to be what the realty brokers and property management companies are pocketing.
If I were in the market for purchasing a home, heading back to the old hometown would be a good deal.
This used to be Pat's Variety. It was brown with yellow trim and didn't have those shuttered windows, I think they were wider, but maybe not. I remember those steps leading to the door.
And that is the stone wall right across the street where we'd sit on a warm summer day drinking soda and carrying on.
Dana
And this is the near death corner. One fine summer day I was cruising down the hill on my street. When I got to my house, one up from the corner, I leaned back on the pedal to brake. It didn't catch for some reason, I continued cruising at full downhill speed toward this corner. Phone pole dead ahead, kittie-corner stairs...the bottom two were stone (it seems they've removed the bottom-most stone step which made this structure stick out even more) and a fire hydrant. I screamed, jammed on the pedal harder as I turned to go around the corner to avoid the pole, and slid onto my side and came to rest between the pole, stairs and hydrant. The street I was heading to was a very busy one. Fun memories.
Dana
...that's pretty cool (not the bike crash though).
Below are the street I lived on, the house I grew up in and where the old neighbourhood schoolyard used to be.
Gone are most of the magnificent towering elms (Dutch Elm Disease did them all in) that lined the street on both sides that formed a canopy of leaves during the summer which provided welcome shade on hot humid days.
The house has seen quite a few changes originally there were three windows where the picture window now is and the front porch has been redone. There used to be a huge maple (there was also one in the back yard as well) and a flower bed with a spruce tree.where the small tree to the right is The grey house on the left is where one of my best mates "Ziggy" used to live.
The third picture is from the alleyway shows the extension (built by my grandad) where my brothers' and my room was.
The old school yard (I went there for my first two years before being transferred to the school run by our church) is now an apartment complex, the school, a classic old red brick structure, having been closed and raised in 1992.
...the You Can Never Go Home Again Complaint Thread
It would be nice to have a house on the moon :)
I am astounded
apparently after being put on a six day roster against my will working 5 nights a week any of those 6 days with only 48 hours notice needed as which is my day off
they can and ARE rostering us all off next week on a public holiday
ok I WILL get paid six days for 4 nights work instead of 5 days for 3 nights but I have to work an extra day so they do not pay me double time on the public holiday.