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All this talk of killing. Let's get serious. Flies are the real problem. Servants and minions of Bael. At long last someone has come up with a solution you can eat with.





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My brother, me and his friends often went fishing on weekends.
We live about 6 miles from the Atlantic Ocean and could take the bus there.
Typically, their fishing gear were poles that came apart in 2 or three sections, had a reel attached and a metal tackle box used to carry hooks, lead weights (sinkers) and an assortment of tools and gadgets used in fishing.
The bus got us to the pier, where they could walk out a few hundred feet to fish in deeper water than fishing at the shoreline. There was a bait store and the entrance to the pier where you could buy supplies and live bait. If you are serious about catching fish there's a good chance you would want to attach a live shrimp on your hook.
With the sinker, your bait will drop to the ocean floor. Not all large fish look for food there, so you need a bobber that is a plastic ball about 2" wide that attaches to your line and holds the hook only as deep as you set it. As a bigger fish swims along, he sees the shrimp and takes a bite.

We all started out using lightweight fishing gear that was ideal for anything under 10" long... ideal if you were standing along the edge of a canal or small lake. If you wanted something more serious, everything had to be upgraded. I remember my brother buying a used reel from someone at the pier.
It was called Quick Finessa and had features that allowed the user to reel in larger fish. That thing was so different from the 'toys' we had earlier it allowed casting a line 2 or 3 times farther than the smaller reels. Larger bait, thicker line... we were catching larger fish.

Since I was the younger brother, I only got to use the Quick Finessa when my brother took a break as I normally had the job of catching the tiny fish 2-3" long. I could put 4 little hooks on a line, bait them with pieces of shrimp and in a few seconds catch a few 'shiners' used to cut into strips to bait the larger hooks.

I don't recall what happened to the fishing gear as we each went different ways me playing music for a living and my brother went away to college. I'm sure if I mention Quick Finessa, he will have some stories of his many fishing trips where we always had a 'reel' good time!

The forecast this evening called for a possible tornado.
We don't get many tornadoes in New Jersey.
But, about 3 times per year we get warnings of potential ones.
To the defense of the news, we actually do get a few small ones.

One time one formed right in front of me.
It got started on a hot summer day, No clouds at all.
An SUV stopped at a 4-way stop sign and when it drove away, a very small tornado started,
During the next 5 minutes, it got bigger, and bigger & bigger
and was shaking large trees. Luckily it ran into a tall brick college dormitory,
or it probably would have kept growing.

About 20 years ago, a tornado went down a main street one block from where I was living at the time.
I didn't know it at the time. The next day I learned about it, as I witnessed the damage it
did to a strip mall a block from my house. It ripped the roof off of one building and some
air conditioners out of the walls of other buildings.

This summer New Jersey got some water spouts off the coast in the Atlantic Ocean and
also a tornado that fell some trees.

Getting back to tonight, I decided to walk to a store to buy some chicken. The store is perhaps a mile away.
When I got outside, it was strange. It was totally overcast, complete cloud cover.
It wasn't raining, but it was quite threatening. I debated driving or not, and chose to walk anyway.
As I began to walk, I noticed that every 3 seconds or so, lightning happened.
There was lots of lightning, but it wasn't the typical cloud to ground lightning.
It was all above the lower cloud level.
So, the clouds would light up all over the sky every 3 seconds or so, and thunder was mostly
not present.

On my walk back, the cloud lightning still continued every 3 seconds, and the last 600 yards, or so, it
started to drizzle a little bit. When I got 2 steps from my front porch, the clouds let loose.
They were pouring out buckets of water. Luckily, I had a wind breaker on, and my house key out of my pocket already. So, since I was in the rain less than 2 seconds, I didn't get drenched.

I lucked out....this time.

Since someone brought up the game of chess on here earlier,
here's a puzzle, that may be challenging for some and easy for others.

The last 2 times, you played black.
So, this time you are playing white, and it is your move.
Note that your queen is under attack by black's rook.

What are your 4 best moves in order.
Use K for King, Q for Queen, R for rook, B for bishop, N for knight and p for pawn.

The lower left hand corner is space a1.
The upper left hand corner is a8
The lower right hand corner is h1
The upper right hand corner is h8.

So, for instance, in the situation below,
if you were to move your king one space to the right that would be;

1. Kb4 (or K a4 to b4)

So, what is your best first 3 moves and the best response by black to each move ?
And then what is your 4th move ?

It's YOUR move. Do ya feel lucky ? Do ya ?

May the force be with you.

Click on the board to see the entire board & active pieces.



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Tell me it ain't so... Mega Million rolled over again and the jackpot has reached a billion dollars. The lure is so great the lottery website is lagging with response.
Personally, having a billion jackpot wouldn't make me want to run to the lottery booth any more than 100 million jackpot.

Yesterday at around this time, I booted up the new Star Wars game on my PlayStation. Jedi: Fallen Order, is the name of it.

I completed the storyline 5 minutes ago. So how's it like?

Well, it's a brutal, tricky, savage, irritating and amazing piece of gaming. They DID say it was a mix between Dark Souls and a good old fashioned adventure platform game, and I really loved that. I played on story mode for the most of the game, but that was so I could enjoy the game even more. And enjoy it, I did.

It's a fantastic game, with a way too short of a story. But we do get to say hello to a few old favorites from the franchise!

8/10!

I suggest that this wonderful site develop an al Gore rythym to screen out the fairly large percentage of scammers. Could be based on location, use of language, history, stories, etc. The few false positives could have a path to easily reapply, based on a few key variables. But then we'd miss all the great stories/proposals. Any folks have some of these to share, all intended to get USD's wired or mothers/kids in need of costly medical treatment? V-Aa.

...indeed. I play the lottery as follows. But with no other gambling habits. About a dollar weekly, and my small winnings so far yield about half back. Not all that different, allegedly, for the slots and tables.
Now, the liberal politicians in all States here, claimed that much would go to education, decades ago, when all began state lotteries. Over time, it seems that only Georgia hasn't lied about this. For the rest, I'm told, it all goes into the general fund. Mostly then simply pissed away. But at least some small amount goes to government schools. Which under teachers' unions do much the same. Digressing
I've been doing so since a long term tenant in one of the family estate rentals won the one million jackpot. A nicer bloke you'd never meet. Factory worker. Decent and humble.
So as tiny as the struck by lightning chances for a big win may be, if it comes, I can stop being a dilettante at my charity giving. As evidenced by plenty.

A California man gets to GameStop 8pm on Wednesday to be the first in line when they opened on 'Black Friday'
Stock was limited and that store had only two PS5's and four Xboxes.

A Sony CEO stated that console (PS5) inventory was completely sold out.

I'm concerned about the 36 hours... I'd need Astronaut style absorbent underwear for a stunt like that!

The things people do to get their game on.