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[Notes_Norton]

13 hours ago, craigb said:

But who finished first? 🤔😁

I finished in last place

First it was the fan, then the heat sink, then the motherboard, thus the new computer. Then the corrupted backups, it was in the shop for weeks. I guess the problem had been growing for a while before showing any symptoms.

For the recording session, they are trying to fix it (if they don't they don't get their money).

I'm still reinstalling apps and wondering what I've lost that the computer tech couldn't piece together.

[Notes_Norton]

[T Boog]

 

2 hours ago, Notes_Norton said:

I'm from Louisiana, I can relate 

[Amberwolf]

A friend in Utah has to ride a bicycle in traffic on roads with holes that he describes as worse than those of old bombed out runways.... I don't ahve a picture of what he actually rides thru, but apparently som of htem are pretty bad based on a google image search

 

I gather that some time ago, Texas tried out converting poorly maintained paved roads to gravel instead of fixing them....

 

I used to live in farm country in Texas between DFW and Red River, not far off the interstate, and almost all our roads were gravel, even in (the very very small) town.    Some of the holes and other road conditions were enough to break vehicles unless they just crawled along or sped really really fast (enough so that they could lose control), and once the schoolbus was broken (axle or driveshaft, I dont' remember as that was a loooong time ago but it was very loud and the adults were very angry) not far from where it picked me up.    

We used to have "suicide hill" a ways down the road from my house, where the white (limestone?) rock shelf the road crossed was too hard for the occasional road grading to do anything to, so the sharp drop off there just got steeper and steeper as the top of the shelf was graded down onto but the part past it would get graded away and washed / pushed away by traffic and weather, down into a "gulley", making a very short but very steep hill.   The bus broke going over that shelf.   

At some other point I was going down that hill belwo the shelf on a bicycle and skidded out in the gravel trying to avoid a hole or something, and tore myseful up pretty good before sliding to a stop at the bottom.     

One also had to sometimes avoid large bigger-than-head-sized fossils (and other rocks) eroded out of the limestone, usually ammonites, that could end up in the roadbed (sometimes having been in the roadbed and then pulled out by traffic or the grader, leaving a giant hole), or be sticking up out in the middle of a plowed field.

   

Edited 4 hours ago by Amberwolf