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I was referring to the "very eeenteresting" picture of Arte Johnson doing that soldier on Laugh-In from the late 60s-early 70s.

Hi Kraftie

You got it, that's exactly who it is. I can actually remember the comedy series and this routine of his.

Do you remember Henry Gibson?

I remember the character, yes. He seemed more "subtly" comedic than some of the others, and I watched "Laugh-In" when I was a kid, up to the age of 12, so I didn't understand his humor too well. I wasn't as "smart" about subtle things as most kids were and are.

He wasn't "over the top" enough--like Lily Tomlin as the telephone operator who said "one ringy-dingy, two-ringy dingy" and who snorted like a pig.

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Acknowledging that humans exist.

@Kraftie: snort!

@Maria: amen (sigh)

So it snowed yesterday, nice light powder, and I went out with a broom and swept my porch and the walkway to my driveway. Yay hurrah, felt good to get it clear.

So it changed over to heavy sleet, after dark (naturally) and this morning my porch and walkway are solid ice. And they're on the north side of my house, the last place to get sun every day.

So I put some salt down (mag sulfate) before I had breakfast. It did exactly nothing... so I got out the heavy artillery. I had a big bag of Calcium Chloride salt melter sealed away in the back of my coat closet. Dug it out, opened it carefully, and scattered a couple of cups as best I could, from the top of my front porch. I think I got most of the iced area, and it's already making little holes in the ice, bless its hygroscopic exothermic (attracts water, heats up) heart.

But now I have to wait for the sun to come around to this side of the house so I can go out and shovel the driveway after sweeping the de-iced area. And I have to keep that open bag of CaCl2 DRY. (It's pretty well sealed up, in an airtight plastic drum, so fingers crossed.)

Looking on the bright side, the snow on my car is already melting off so shoveling the driveway should be good exercise rather than a home version of the Khumbu Icefall



And with any luck I'll never need to buy another DampRid refill again as long as I live.

the shops where busy.

Have you ever climbed Mount Washington, Esme?

I actually did---on foot. I took the "easy" route. I felt funny when I got to the summit, though. I just sat there at a table (after eating a burger) and fell asleep for about a half an hour. It was really a weird sensation.

I felt much better once I took the tram back to the "base."

Hi Kraftie

No, I've never done that climb. I wasn't really outdoorsy until I lived on the West Coast and overseas - too many biting insects on the East Coast. I did a lot of low-altitude hikes in Oregon and Switzerland but no peaks worth mentioning (mycoplasmal pneumonia in my 30s left me with some cardiac damage; took years to resolve. Pilot Butte was about as challenging a climb as I could manage then.)

Sounds like what you were experiencing was a touch of soroche, but that usually hits at higher elevations.

anxiety about work today.

Overhearing mother talking about me on the phone.

Feeling a sense of unexpected motion sickness while commuting to school inside a commuter train.

I'm okay now.

yet more GOP corruption.

Just a lot of stuff. I've been feeling down and I don't feel motivated to do anything.

Apologies up front, I sometimes jump on things and might be doing that here. Do you tend to have dizzy spells before snowstorms or severe thunderstorms?

Just askin' because that happens to me, pretty much every winter. Ginger helps. (It also helps with plain old motion sickness. Folks getting chemo have used it for the nausea associated with that. You don't want to take it in capsule form on an empty stomach, but it makes a lovely tea with a bit of honey and lemon.)

(Once I figured out what was going on, it was actually useful - I am my own barometer, sort of.)

Aww crap.... what are they doing now?

they are going headlong towards fascism, by saying outright that democrats are unpatriotic and treasonous. they are conflating GOP membership and patriotism, and anybody else as un-American and treasonous. most recent utterance of it was in dotard's recent tweet.