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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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A single pixel can get lost in the expanse of the ether. They prefer to shine in RGB/CMY collectives.

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When I was a kid the circus would come to town every year. One attraction was a freak show. They used to bring out a couple of acts to get people to pay to come into the tent and see more.

One was a guy that could pop his eyes out. Not just out but also popping in and out repeatedly.

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Another act was a guy that would turn into a gorilla, in the end he would break out of the cage wearing a gorilla suit and run around the stage. A whip would come out to tame him back into the cage. It was well done.


Been to hypnosis shows, quite entertaining. My friend volunteered and made a fool of himself.
 
When I was a kid the circus would come to town every year. One attraction was a freak show. They used to bring out a couple of acts to get people to pay to come into the tent and see more.

One was a guy that could pop his eyes out. Not just out but also popping in and out repeatedly.

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Another act was a guy that would turn into a gorilla, in the end he would break out of the cage wearing a gorilla suit and run around the stage. A whip would come out to tame him back into the cage. It was well done.


Been to hypnosis shows, quite entertaining. My friend volunteered and made a fool of himself.
Don't need a hypnosis show to do that.:bag:
 
Magic wands don't work for the same reason we don't give teens unsupervised access to the holodeck.

Say it ain’t so.

I use a magic wand to tap circuits when they are acting up. Like a water diviner, it helps me to locate issues. It also helps the magic smoke to take when I’m done working on it. I’ll be using one this weekend on a Fender Deluxe build.
 
It's 2:00am in sleepy Sitka and guess who's awake. My nose had been running better than the 8:05 24/7 until I found a good nasal spray. Well I used it religiously three times a day and yesterday it seemed I didn't need it at all. I used it once. Then this morning I woke up with totally plugged nose and used the spray three times today. My nose is finally getting back to behaving. I even tested for Covid for that was a negative. Well thankfully the nose spray is getting back to doing its job.

I got a Dell XPS 15 for my birthday in February. We're paying it off $50 a payday. Almost done. I'm amazed that even though I've been able to turn off most of the annoying notifications, a new one started today. "My MSN settings are out of date???" At work, I always wipe all new computer drives and install a fresh Win10 Enterprise bare bones. I didn't do that with my Win10 Home because I wanted to see what Dell and Microsoft were offering nowadays. Bloatware. I think by next weekend I might my new laptop and do a "skeleton" install. I don't need all the irritating notifications or special Dell XPS updates.

When I was a youngster, a traveling hypnotist rented our small theater in Wrangell and I volunteered to be hypnotized. I played along with the show but truth be told, I never went under his spell. Years later in therapy I confessed that I had faked my hypnosis and the therapist said it was because I had trust issues. I think that was true. I was scared to be put under and controlled by the hypnotist. Some of the other young people seemed to be really hypnotized! Later as time has passed I wish I had allowed myself to be hypnotized just for the experience. I might find a hypnotist and try again just for fun.

We had a nice Labor Day weekend and as promised I cooked for Carey all weekend. We had steak and king crab one night, ribs another, bbq burgers another, and finally a slow cooker pot roast. There is a Knorr slow cooker seasoning pack available and I bought one. It made the roast absolutely heavenly. We'll gnaw on that for a couple days.

p.s. those falling down the hole illusions above are scary!!!!
 
Last I was present to a stage hypnotist is at the same hotel lemonade stand with a weekly nuts and bolts night. Guess who gets which one at the door, right? Find a match and I believe the presumption is two people will figure it out.

^ this is what one may encounter when stricken by thirst after work on site.

I don't think it's so much that I'm bored sick of computers that I'm sick of what people do with them. It took me a long time to get this desktop out of mothballs, and running sweetly. There just isn't all that much I do with the computer except for now that recording myself with the bass part.
 
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