cool!

Where on TV?

Letterman. He's in the President's band and it was a secret that Michelle Obama was surprising Dave on the show, but now that taping is presumably over, I guess I can put it on the Internet without pissing off the Secret Service or getting our son's tutor in trouble.

Not certain what to say about this thread... :cool:

Oh, I see my post up there. So we recorded Letterman that night, and even though the musicians all look the same in their uniforms, we could pick our guy out easily. He was playing the clarinet right next to Paul's keyboard.

He said that playing on the show was a blast, but the rest of the day sucked. (My words, not his.) Secret Service had the whole building locked down, and he and the entire band had to wait the entire day sitting on the floor of a small room on a different floor from Dave and Obama until it was time to go on. So he couldn't meet Dave or talk to any guests or anything. But he loved actually playing on the show.

You tormented crossword puzzle freaks and suffering students of English Comp, who need an object for your derision, center for your dartboard, chose Shakespeare/Bacon. Although there are five times as many English words today, he(they) started the great expansion of words for words sake.

Nice. Made me think of this:

well done.

This is not me.
But apparently looks like like me. Seen by a friend on an online advert.

Hmmmm. I wonder why she looked twice and considered it might be me?
I obviously give out that mature dating website vibe.

Now comes a California law suit involving 2 nuns, an archbishop, a pop-singer, and a land-developer ...
which it will be decided by a judge whose last name is O’Brien.

Who do you think is going to win this ?
Or... when it comes to a battles with nuns, where has
Archbishop Jose Gomez been for the past couple of years ?

2 Nuns, a Developer and Katy Perry Walk Into a Real Estate Deal
NY Times - MICHAEL CIEPLY - JULY 2, 2015

Okay, really whoring it up here...
But if anyone is already a member of Trip Advisor, could you give me some positive feedback? Sundaegirl72

It doesn't get me money, it won't change my reviews (feel free to read them, they're almost certainly the same as I've written on here) and won't really do me any good.
But they've introduced some kind of points system. Presumably to counter bad publicity about pretend reviewers by encouraging real people.
So what I'm suggesting goes against the letter of the law, but not the aim.

Y'all know me. I've been to every place I've reviewed.
And I've left the most honest review I can.
I may have skipped a few places out because a bad review lingers like a bad smell and it's not fair if somewhere was just having an off-day. If I make a complaint it will always be at the time, not from behind a keyboard.

Oh actually, that's a lie.
I complain here, or to my Mum. But I don't sound off on a website for rating places.
Phew, pulled myself back from the brink!

I also try to follow Infinite Monkey's rule of making an effort to thank staff personally.
Please and thank you are ingrained here, to taxi drivers, bar staff, people in pet shops etc. But time is what I have to give, so I do try to emulate her and go out of my way to find Teh Management and tell them how impressed I am. And yes, I'm one of the sad sacks who fills out the feedback questionnaires printed on till receipts. Because I remember when that was important to me.

Very simple, who legally owns the property? They are the only one who can sell it.

Often, Google maps doesn't work fast enough or is too complicated to use while driving, but on the way home from NEPA yesterday, it worked BEAUTIFULLY.

Route 81 is under construction in the vicinity of Pine Grove and Ravine. It's closed in one direction and traffic shares one side of the highway (a single lane in each direction for about 25 miles or so.) On the way up on Friday, there was an accident along this stretch and we got stuck at a standstill between jersey barriers for about 45 minutes while the wreck was cleared.

So we already knew traffic was heavy and this was a bottle neck on the way back home. As we approached 209 from the north, traffic slowed down to a crawl. I pulled up Google maps and saw traffic was mostly black with bits of red here and there for about 20 miles on 81. We had a hundred yards or so until the exit onto 209. (I highlighted the section of 81 on the map below where there was traffic.)

I asked my wife to enter in our home address into Google, and let it direct us home. It told us to take that 209 exit and get onto 325 South.
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Let me tell you. 325 south is absolutely spectacular. It is straight as an arrow and the road surface is smoother than 81 and there is zero traffic on it. For 25 miles I barely had to move the steering wheel at all. And I was going faster on 325 than I had been going on 81 before the traffic jam. It's a beautiful road. Goes right through state hunting land next to a reservoir. Scenic and fast and ZERO traffic. Yeah baby.

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Good find, probably built to sneak the mistresses of the Harrisburg politicians, or Fort Indiantown Gap Generals, in and out. :haha:

There was one spot where I saw two backpackers crossing the road way in front of me, and I slowed down enough to see the Appalachian trail sign as I zoomed past.