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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Don't wind up with your name on a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed].

The AI that uses the covid vaccinations to enslave humanity says The song that was number 1 on your 7th birthday defines 2021 for you. (Cost-cutting measures enacted by the galactic ministers of parliament means humans got the idiot AI)

Top of the American charts on my seventh birthday is Walk Right In by the Rooftop Singers.
 
Don't wind up with your name on a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed].

The AI that uses the covid vaccinations to enslave humanity says The song that was number 1 on your 7th birthday defines 2021 for you. (Cost-cutting measures enacted by the galactic ministers of parliament means humans got the idiot AI)

Top of the American charts on my seventh birthday is Walk Right In by the Rooftop Singers.

Mine is Hello,Goodbye, by The Beatles. ????? Not sure what that says about me, or how my year will turn out, but, it does give one pause.:unsure:
 
Don't wind up with your name on a [Invalid or Expired Link Removed].

The AI that uses the covid vaccinations to enslave humanity says The song that was number 1 on your 7th birthday defines 2021 for you. (Cost-cutting measures enacted by the galactic ministers of parliament means humans got the idiot AI)

Top of the American charts on my seventh birthday is Walk Right In by the Rooftop Singers.

Define yourself by looking at the R&B, not the pop chart.

I think this is the one that you want. Some good songs that year.

List of Hot R&B Singles number ones of 1963 - Wikipedia
 
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I never get on a full elevator now. If too many push their way on, I play elevator cop or get off and wait for another.
To this day (even with a less than 100% right knee) if it's less than 10 floors, I walk. With all the money saving measures on maintenance and staff cutbacks in all areas of business, I'll go with stairs every time. When I was younger it used to keep me in shape for when I had to go to industrial sites or aboard ships.
 
To this day (even with a less than 100% right knee) if it's less than 10 floors, I walk. With all the money saving measures on maintenance and staff cutbacks in all areas of business, I'll go with stairs every time. When I was younger it used to keep me in shape for when I had to go to industrial sites or aboard ships.

I try to do that as well. These days, I don’t know which is riskier, riding an elevator with three in the cab or passing huffing and puffing people in the stairwell.
 
Unlike an airplane, when a helicopter has an engine failure, the pilot has literally seconds to access the situation, find a landing spot, and bring it down. You have to be good.

Why I will never ride in a helicopter again unless it's a medical emergency. I've flown in a Bell 47 a couple of times. Yeah, it's cool but I kept looking up at the rotor shaft and that's all that's holding it up. :eek:
 
One of the senior management quips the heavyweights from [another newspaper] are visiting today. The very same heavyweights take several minutes to catch their breath at the top of the stairs leading to my team's "office". It is a very long set of stairs, but I take it daily. Over and over and over. There's no lift. There are four lifts in the building that run from the ground floor to the first story. Only stairs to "up top". :rolleyes:
 
Why I will never ride in a helicopter again unless it's a medical emergency. I've flown in a Bell 47 a couple of times. Yeah, it's cool but I kept looking up at the rotor shaft and that's all that's holding it up. :eek:
The only chopper I got a ride in was an Army medivac. I was in worse shape when we got to the hospital than I was when the medics loaded me in.
 
One of the senior management quips the heavyweights from [another newspaper] are visiting today. The very same heavyweights take several minutes to catch their breath at the top of the stairs leading to my team's "office". It is a very long set of stairs, but I take it daily. Over and over and over. There's no lift. There are four lifts in the building that run from the ground floor to the first story. Only stairs to "up top". :rolleyes:
and how many stories is it to the up top?
 
One of the senior management quips the heavyweights from [another newspaper] are visiting today. The very same heavyweights take several minutes to catch their breath at the top of the stairs leading to my team's "office". It is a very long set of stairs, but I take it daily. Over and over and over. There's no lift. There are four lifts in the building that run from the ground floor to the first story. Only stairs to "up top". :rolleyes:


I once looked at a house with a one person elevator. It had a pair of steel rails that the cab climbed, very simple, no hydraulics or ropes.

In some places, it’s a work of art.

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and how many stories is it to the up top?

From the first story to the roof is about a story and a half. Client begrudged us office space and our team was assigned to the large utilities room. Yes it is that kind of wonderful relationship. I / we knew it our first day on site.

The building is huge, and is far longer than tall — a low mirrored glass ship on a sea of grass in a tony neighborhood. Our project manager takes stock of the view as we approach for the first day on site and says

Scratch one flattop
 
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