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Parked on a road near deal island, md. Its just me and some noisey Canadian geese. Came out early ro set up telescope. Waiting for Polaris to show so I can polar align my mount. meantime nothin to do and Im freezing my backsides off.

Aktungbby

03-08-20 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Rockstar (Post 2653228)

meantime nothin to do and Im freezing my backsides off.

I can relate: I went sailing Friday as usual and 30 mph winds, overcast skies, adverse tides, temps in the low 50's, with 4' swells put 'paid' to the effort. My captain opted for an early return to port. The westerly winds with whitecaps were such that we had to crab aircraft style to negotiate the extremely narrow marina entrance on a 9 hp Nissan outboard! For on old Minnesota boy from the 'frigid wasteland', even I had goosebumps all afternoon.

Aktungbby

03-11-20 12:25 PM

Jeeze! No sooner does my wife do her jury duty, then I get a jury duty summons...like clockwork; every two years for property owners! Being half-deaf is no excuse; they give you headsets to wear now!:k_confused:

Jimbuna

03-12-20 08:13 AM

Enoy, you never know you may get to sit in on an interesting case.

Aktungbby

03-12-20 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimbuna (Post 2653901)

Enoy, you never know you may get to sit in on an interesting case.

I'm Enoy'd alright! :D After five years as a Federal SSA Appeals bailiff(incl. finding a used choir-robe sales for them to wear on the bench:yep:); and 9th Circuit Justice's en banc security on execution occasions till 0200AM-then round up 'their Grace's' taxi rides home!!!....:zzz: :yawn: :Kaleun_Sleep: :roll: :nope: plus sitting in jury chair all day long hurts my extrucker's back! And I'm hardly judicially impartial toward creeps, neer-do-wells and white-trash generally!:O: My wife's D.A. career used to get me out of serving, but she's retired now.

Aktungbby

03-14-20 02:33 AM

The anal-retentive paper chase

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Originally Posted by ONKEL NEAL

First, allow me to correct your mistake. Preppers had all the supplies they needed ready and on hand in January. The shortage of TP is not caused by preppers, it is caused by non-preppers, who always laugh at preppers, wait until the last minute to get the stuff they need for a quarantine, then PANIC, then they blame the preppers. See how that works? Us preppers sleep just fine.

Success! After a day of hard sailing terminated by big waves, high winds and near misses, I managed to go shopping at the local Lucky's supermarket at 11:30PM tonight and got the only three packs of toilette paper on the shelf!! Cosco was empty and so was the Lucky's earlier in the evening, when my wife had gone to shop, getting a tip from her favorite clerk "that the truck would be in this evening"...so rather than awaiting a morning Saturday consumer rush...OF NON-PREPPERS, I opted for the late night sortie....TAA DAA.... NOT: my wife- "But Honey! That's single ply!!":oops::wah::dead:

raymond6751

03-15-20 12:25 PM

WW3

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Mork_417

03-15-20 06:43 PM

I got put on notice today and told to pack my stuff. Looks like they are going to activate our BCP plan due to the Corona virus. if so, I'll be living in a locked data center for three weeks with three other team members. Nobody comes in, and nobody leaves. Starting to get that horror movie vibe about all this.

:/\\!!

Aktungbby

03-15-20 10:04 PM

Good news! The governor hath decreed that persons above the age of 65 should 'self quarantine'....:yeah: so no jury duty for me! I'm being a good citizen and obeying the guv!:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

Jimbuna

03-16-20 09:47 AM

^ Some people have all the luck.

STEED

03-17-20 05:21 PM

My place of work has now implemented guidelines, my hours are now cut to two hours as on my watch all the stuff in the evening has now all been cancelled. I feel sorry for some of the staff in other areas on zero hour contracts. And I have noticed face masks being worn.

Oh well on the upside classic TV like classic Dr Who Tom Baker for me. :)

Jimbuna

03-18-20 05:58 AM

Just back from shopping at the local supermarket and amongst many items missing from the shelves are hand sanitizer so that begs the question "What were the scruffy buggas washing their hands with before the hoarding of foodstuffs etc. began"?

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