Happy Solstice!

It’s all fun and games until you buy a potato. Potatoes don’t scan -someone has to identify it. Hilarity ensues.

Nice decorations to go with a lovely performance...

@Steve-Miller said in Virtuoso tuba: Quite different. The Tuba has a much faster rotary valve action vs. the Sousaphone’s vertical valves. The tuba also has a fourth valve, the function of which zine never determined. Very impressive performance. I doubt it could have been performed on a Sousaphone. Very interesting! I didn't know about the differences

https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/lists/living-recipients Veey moving, emotional reading

@Axtremus said in 'Theater Kid' as the New Political Insult: "What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?" They have fun.

It seems irrelevant unless one is a creed affirming adherent. Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, ... I think, if one takes the life of Jesus as one's model, compassion and fairness would take precedence. Isn't that what makes a christian a Christian? One wonders how many adulterers (and other "sinners") the minister extends communion to on a daily basis.

@AndyD The idea of rhubarb custard candy made me chuckle. Despite all the positive reviews I don’t think I’ll be sampling it, though.

Not understanding the social "vibe" here (at all) but then I'm anything but a "centrist."

Well, I got 3 of 4. I missed the last one because I misinterpreted what they meant by "where it fits." Yeah, pretty hard test for a non-native speaker of English.

@admin said “now-useless artifacts” I wish you would stop calling me that.

@wtg The clear cover is a great solution.

"Well that was a long walk down a windy beach, to a cafe that was closed" (Bill Bailey)

Attend a regional science fair. You will see many high school (sometimes even middle school) students presenting very advanced biomedical science projects. I have been volunteering as a judge at a regional science fair for several years now, and each year I volunteered I have been thoroughly impressed by the caliber of the students and the sophistication of the science projects they brought to the fair.

wtg to Mr wtg: Want to see a house? Mr wtg, after seeing the first 10 interior photos: That would make a great jigsaw puzzle.

That looks interesting. America has always, in my lifetime anyway, been a pendulum swinging back and forth. Our problem is we keep swinging in ever wider arcs. I consider myself a center right conservative - Buckley, not Trump. Unfortunately, when you use the word conservative you are immediately lumped in with MAGA, which movement is adding $1.8T to the debt every year. That's not conservative.

Second bagel recipe I posted turned out much better. [image: 20251220-105641.jpg]