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You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.


After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.

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I remember the sun.

It has been so long since I have seen it now though, that sometimes I think it's only something that I imagined. A wonderful dream, perhaps? Possibly something I once saw in an old Sci-Fi movie when I was but a small child?

Tell me about the sun, Brenda! I implore you!

I do not want to forget!



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It's this big, bright ball of light. High up in the sky. It's yellow in colour and when its rays fall on the earth they are warm.

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Yes! That's it. That's exactly as I remembered it!

Oh somebody please take me there, so I can see it once more with my own eyes!



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I am sure that it will make an appearance in your area soon. Or if you have plane fare.

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BUT I WANT IT NOOOOOOWWWWWWW!



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lol wow...

I don't have any sort of filter. Wonder what would have happened to my already sketch water heater that probably should be replaced sooner than later.


You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.

After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.



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. . . water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-dam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.

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Thanks for the vid. When I was a kid I always thought they looked like giant mosquitoes sucking water out of the ground.

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That's a good one. I like that.

Me? At some point in my childhood my developing brain decided that water towers existed to be rain catchers that stored up all the rain as it fell and that's how we got our water. And if at any point I ever asked anybody, they knew about as much as I did and didn't give me any explanation for them that sounded any better. As the years went on and you grow up and just stop caring to figure out all the small ways the world around us works, I never really gave it all that much thought anymore.

I could see how living in California would make me think that there was no way this could possibly be what they were for, but I think the fact that somewhere in the back of my mind that memory of being a child still persisted until my eyes were open to the real purpose for them is a testament to just how much damn water we get here every year.

But seriously... We'd have to have like Noah's Ark level flooding going on all the time for my idea to have been reasonable.



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One day, as I was driving down the 605 fwy next to the San Gabriel River I started, REALLY started, to look at the high tension transmission lines along the river... thinking "These lines probably come from AES and DWP Haynes and those lines that join up probably come from El Segundo generating station... and all of that water infrastructure, the pumps all busy purifying wastewater to better-than drinking water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-bam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.

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. . . water standard and being pumped underground to make a water-dam against seawater incursion and it occurred to me how very .... VULNERABLE... we all are.

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Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, one of the biggest dams in the country blew apart, releasing a wall of water 20 stories high. Ten thousand people lived downstream. Flood in the Desert tells the story of the St. Francis Dam disaster, which not only destroyed hundreds of lives and millions of dollars’ worth of property; it also washed away the reputation of William Mulholland, the father of modern Los Angeles, and jeopardized larger plans to transform the West. A self-taught engineer, the 72-year-old Mulholland had launched the city’s remarkable growth by building both an aqueduct to pipe water 233 miles from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and the St. Francis Dam, to hold a full year’s supply of water for Los Angeles. Now Mulholland was promoting an immense new project: the Hoover Dam. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam was a colossal engineering and human disaster that might have slowed the national project to tame the West. But within days a concerted effort was underway to erase the dam’s failure from popular memory.

Premieres May 3, 2022
Flood in the Desert
They paid the ultimate price for water
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert/

Flood in the Desert: Chapter 1
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-desert-chap
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Oooooohhh... speaking of butt-puckering monents, SIX... what an accident! Thanks for the vid!

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My aunt just told me today that in the last 40 days we've had one day of sunlight.

Today was not that day, I'm afraid.

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Thought you might enjoy this SIG.

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Oooooh! Thanks for that BRENDA!

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My aunt just told me today that in the last 40 days we've had one day of sunlight.

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That's some seriously shitty weather, SIX! What's in the forecast? Something better, I hope??

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You should check out this channel if you're interested in how things we take for granted work.


After watching this video, I remember thinking how dumb the reason I thought water towers existed was, and how childlike a mentality you'd have to have about them to even reason out that this was what their purpose was.

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I wondered what was so confusing to you, so I watched the vid. I still wonder. What did you think was the purpose of water towers?

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Bummer... :(

Luck wasn't too good here either.

My car problem wasn't a bad flex pipe. That wasn't exhaust I was seeing, but just char marks and smoke coming up from oil burning off the outside that dripped from the engine leak I already knew I had. There was a piece in the back of the old pipe that needed to be welded on though.

Live test showed a dead O2 sensor. The one on the rear half that I'd never have been able to get to on my own with my equipment. Parts and labor for everything were cheap, considering, but a drive cycle afterward still hasn't gotten my monitor to check out OK. The mechanic doesn't believe that I have a problem with my Catalytic Converter at all, but who knows what's up at this point.

It's still so cold around here I think I'm just wasting gas driving around without a purpose, so it won't be getting any more real road time until Sunday when I go to install the new wall A/C unit at my aunt's new apartment when it's finally going to be 60 degrees. Warm week next week, so if that doesn't do it I just might have to fill up the tank and spend an entire day driving around for no reason.

And just like two years ago, the idiots are making me drive 100 times more to try to clear this stupid code than I would have with normal driving. So much for the atmosphere.

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Oh BTW BRENDA, I think you're right! In looking thru the inet for other Shetland compilations, I ran across a few interviews that mention a Season 7. Supposedly due out later this year. Looking forward to that!

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It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.

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At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.

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Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!

Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)

And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.

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Yeah, SIX, what's with that "driving cycle"? It seems you have to drive a certain number of miles, I guess under varying conditions (freeway speed, tooling around etc) and it sets some sort of flag. Which gets reset when the battery dies or is disconnected. Clearly it's connected to an onboard computer. Which, I guess, all cars (even old ones) with pollution control equipment have. (I didn't realize until I had the same problem with my old car that onboard computers went back that far.)

Do you have more info than that? Like - what else might re-set that flag? What, exactly, constitutes a "driving cycle"?

Sigh.

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Back and done for today.

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It happens. First hand I had 5 doubles on it which is how I started out with over 1,00points but after that I just couldn't get anything going. I managed to go out but I had to take a run or a "chow" which is 3 tiles with consecutive numbers on them like "1,2,3" and then my pair. Finished up with over 2,000 points but not enough to get anything.

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Bummer that you still can't get your car right. What I know about cars you can fit on the head of a pin.

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At least you will be dry next week. Suppose to be semi-dry here tomorrow then back to rain for the weekend and into next week. We've had such a soggy Spring up here it is not funny. Got another trough of cold area sitting over most of BC and going into Alberta and the rest of the prairies. Not fun.

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Yeah. Even though it's cold this weekend, it looks like 9 straight days of sunlight with some clouds in a row. I can't wait to see the sun again tomorrow.



We've had quite a lot of rain here too. Hopefully your dry spell is on the way soon too, Brenda.

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Five more days of radiation therapy. Only four, after today. Last one next Thursday and I will be done, done, done with that. Woo hoo!

Saw the nephrologist, and was I NOT impressed! I got more info and advice from my internist and a nutritionist! I waited a long time and he hadn't even read my chart. I had to relay everything that THEY told me past him, PLUS my recent history. And he seemed very inexperienced. No closer to finding out what went wrong and how to make it better/ not make it worse except avoid NSAIDS (which is going to be painful, literally, seeing as I have a pain syndrome.)

And poor hubby. He had a trigger point injection into his pirifomis muscle and it helped ... for a week. Now he's in excruciating pain, again. They have not found the other cause(s) of his nerve pain yet. I hope the MRI tells them something useful and that they have a permanent fix, bc right now he can't walk 20 ft w/o pain that feels worse than his broken collarbone did.

Oh, well. Onward thru the fog!

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Glad everything seems to be going well for your treatments, Sigs. Sorry to hear about your husband. Hopefully your doctors are better at troubleshooting a human body than my mechanic and I are at troubleshooting my car.




BTW... Have you ever heard anything from Kiki?

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Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.

Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?

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Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.

Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?

I used to love to walk until I developed a pain syndrome. Now sometimes I just grit my teeth.





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Puppy-wuppy takes me for a walk nearly every day, whether I want to or not. Sometimes, if I'm pressed for time or when I was on serious chemo, it' s short (a few houses down, and back). But lately I've been doing the more usual appx 0.4-0.5 miles. Puppy picks the route, so it varies. In summer I try to go earlier b4 it gets too blastedly hot.

Do you go at the same time? How far/long do you walk? Different routes?

I used to love to walk until I developed a pain syndrome. Now sometimes I just grit my teeth.

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A puppy!! How lovely and crazy making at the same time. My poor old dog is 15 and struggling with life - he’s still enjoying his food but the steps around the house are killers for him- poor sweet.

After a long rather lovely Summer and Autumn - the weather has taken a wintry turn. It would be mild for many of you - especially Brenda- frankly I can’t imagine living somewhere that cold. But I’m bunkered down with essays so it’s not much of an issue. I’m lucky enough to be close to forest where I can walk most days




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