I won't say it wasn't serious, but I've handled it. Just a treadle out of skew in the windmills of my mind.
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I've only just noticed that the picture of Jarrow in 1912 shows a cooling tower for a nuclear power plant.
The Spanish Inquisition sketches were some of my favorites from Monty Python!
But my unreliable memory suggested that they were spread out over several different episodes, while recent Googling suggests that they al occurred during the same episode.
Wonderful Brit standing up to the relish Gary.
As to my sick days, I was given a cash reimbursement.
The year before, the retiring teachers were given their previous years salary over 3 years, if they had 200 unused sick days.
Like you I had over 200 sick days accumulated. They were added to my years worked for purposes of calculating my pension. I was happy to have not needed them
Thanks for the compliment, Bob.
And thanks, Bob & Mike, for the interesting (to me) info about sick day policies.
I'm not aware of any sick day policies during my career. If I couldn't make it to campus for some reason, I'd try to arrange for colleagues to cover my classes for me, or at least find someone to write on the chalkboard in my classroom that my classes were cancelled for that day. (Later, when I could send email to the entire class, communication was easier and sometimes I could even send them a description of activity they could complete in class without me.)
Some days I probably wouldn't have noticed Gary, but it was a day when I was having to visit a lot of sites, about half of which were unavailable
I haven't been over to York for a while, but at this time of year it gets packed, so I'll probably leave it until the new year now
Thank you very much my friend
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I have a morning routine that takes me to a bunch of different websites, so I'm likely to run into examples of widespread internet troubles.
Your York comments sound like a New Year's resolution!
Afternoon Guardians. Hope y'all are having a blessed Sunday. Happy trails
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That light-colored wood is very appealing, David!
Its been overcast and dreary here all day, but I've been watching the KC football game and the sun is shining with blue skies 140 miles to the west. By the time it gets here, if it gets here at all, it'll be dark
Happy Sunday y'all
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Very cool grain on that wood, Mike!
Pizza with a side of fries, now that’s living!
I thought the same thing when I saw Mitch's photo. I've never actually ordered that, but I'd LIKE to!
I hate dealing with leaves, but it is nice to be done. We have a few trees that are stragglers, but I think I was able to wait long enough this year to let most of them fall. (Most years it’s a balancing act of waiting for all the leaves to fall but beating the snow.) I was also grateful that it’s been pretty dry here this fall, so the leaves were mostly dry.
I thought I had finished raking Monday, at least until next spring, but the gale force winds on Wednesday brought down lots of leaves in addition to the snow we got.
It was. The Timberwolves’ City Edition jerseys this year are “Prince-inspired,” and for the handful of games they’ll be wearing them, they also have a matching alternate court and special lighting. I’m not really a huge NBA guy, but Julie has become a pretty big Timberwolves fan since we’ve lived here and sometimes gets tickets through her job.
Thanks for the confirmation, Barrett.
My daughter and son-in-law are big Anthony Edwards fans, but he seems too "mercurial" for my taste. I prefer the guys like Jokic from Denver and Curry from Golden State and SGA from OKC who seem to consistently play well without having to work themselves into some kind of emotional frenzy.
This one in London (I believe it was just outside Kensington Gardens) still appeared to be a phone, but that was 8 years ago now, which explains how tiny Eleanor and her cousin Sybil are in there.
Cool old pic!
I always seem to be a day late posting pics here lately. This was from last night, we were out running errands and stopped for beer and deep dish pizza.
Everything looks delicious!
You had a Channel 11?!
I think we had just got up to 3 here in 1970
When I was a kid, the television sets had a "channel knob" that I think had numbers 2-13, but most of those channels were empty. I think we had Channel 3 (a CBS affiliate) and Channel 8 (an NBC affiliate) and Channel 13 (an ABC affiliate). There were 3 national commercial networks, distributed through hundreds of local TV stations that usually had their own local programming in addition to network programming. (When I was in high school, we got a UHF antenna and the TV set had a separate knob for UHF stations. I don't remember the range of channel numbers on that knob, but we only could tune in to Channel 35 (a Public Broadcasting System affiliate).
We are leaving immediately after work today to fly home to St. Louis to be with my oldest daughter's family for the holiday. Looks like the weather shouldn't be too cold, so I hope we don't freeze our warmth adjusted Florida butts off! Probably won't post much this week, if at all, but I hope you all have a great holiday.
Have a safe and enjoyable trip, Jeff!
The weather throughout the Midwest looks quite wintery, especially Saturday and Sunday.
Thanksgiving honey do's today.
That's quite "moody burl", Bob!
I'm seeing gently flowing rivers, but then I blink my eyes and see a raging horned (and possibly bearded) beast!
I'm having all kinds of difficulties with the set of multi quotes I'm trying to respond to here, so I'll stop this post now.
I hope I can carry the rest of the quotes I saved to a new post that treats me with more respect!
- GT
About 12.30pm, Gravel said he was heading off, and I walked to the bus station, to get my bus home. I'm just waiting for a couple more parcels, and then I'll go out to pick some others up from the newsagents up the road 
More work tomorrow, and probably the same throughout the week, but for a different outfit at least. I'm sure we've all worked with/for total incompetents, who earn a good wage regardless 
