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Helsinki
Quoted from Darcy:Thanks, it is the 2nd one. EM pins fit into it with ease. Seats 5 comfortably, with room for 2 more in the 3rd row.
I haul 2 pins in mine as long as the head is off of one. My 2nd one also. They should really promote this car more. Even people that don't like the looks realize how nice it is once the drive one.
Matthews, NC
Leduc, AB
Quoted from Deaconblooze:I'm moving in 1 week
That sucks. 
Wishing you the best on your new place.
I know everyone looks at a vacation differently, but right now in life I don't think my first choice would be via cruise ship. I'm not a big people person in general, doubt it would be a good idea for me to float out into the ocean surrounded by them with no escape (man overboard does not count!).
That is one big boat -- I imagine it is a love/hate relationship at its stopping points. Vendors love the incoming wave of tourist money, locals hate the incoming wave of tourists.
Quoted from robertmee:My current window...hotel in long beach. Here for 9 days on a startup for work.
It's amazing those cruise ships are able to stay upright!
Quoted from Allibaster:It's amazing those cruise ships are able to stay upright!
When you're standing on the 17th deck looking over the rail, you're really hoping they do. It's all about ballast and weight...Center of gravity well below the water line.
We cruise usually twice a year and enjoy them. Lately we've been doing festival cruises...just got back from our kid Rock cruise...5 days, a dozen bands, two KR shows, and the booze and weed flowing like water. We aren't drinker's or smokers but still have a great time. 2500 rednecks and they are far nicer than the typical entitled cruise crowd we get on traditional sailings.
Link to video on boat with Yelawolf...we were front row in front of the guitar player on left when kid rock almost fell over into crowd. Drunk as a skunk.
Quoted from robertmee:My current window...hotel in long beach. Here for 9 days on a startup for work.
That looks more like the view from the Crown Plaza hotel on 6th street in San Pedro overlooking the port of Los Angeles than Long Beach. That ship looks like the Emerald Princess that left berth 92 Friday afternoon.
If you're here for 9 days I suggest you head over to club 82 in downtown L.A. (Tuesday is league night with a lot of pinsiders there), or check out Ayce Gogi in Van Nuys to play Iron Maiden, Houdini, and total nuclear Annihilation. They got rid of th JJPOTC though. I believe they are holding a tournament there on May 5th.
Quoted from vicjw66:That looks more like the view from the Crown Plaza hotel on 6th street in San Pedro overlooking the port of Los Angeles than Long Beach. That ship looks like the Emerald Princess that left berth 92 Friday afternoon.
If you're here for 9 days I suggest you head over to club 82 in downtown L.A. (Tuesday is league night with a lot of pinsiders there), or check out Ayce Gogi in Van Nuys to play Iron Maiden, Houdini, and total nuclear Annihilation. They got rid of th JJPOTC though. I believe they are holding a tournament there on May 5th.
Long beach/San Pedro/Wilmington...they're all the same to me...lol. Sorry, don't know where one turns into the other. But you nailed it...the Crown Plaza. Princess ships been going in and out. Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. Norwegian Pearl too. I've sailed the Emerald before and the sister ship Ruby.
Unfortunately free time is limited, as startups usually are. But if I get a free night I'll try. Flying the Red eye back Tuesday so can't make league night.
Köln
Quoted from Allibaster:Beautiful Spring day in Wyoming!
What a gorgeous view. I don't think I'd ever leave the deck....Well, maybe to go inside quick and grab a beer. 
Quoted from Darcy:That is one hell of a long extension cord!!
I've got electric run underground and an outdoor outlet not far away. 
Originally it was for the pond aerator but also provides the juice for whatever she does in there. . .
Not exactly from the window (maybe I need to change the title to "A Picture from your Neighborhood") but this buff colored deer has been hanging around in the cow pasture and I happened to have the camera with me this evening. It seems rather tame; still has its spots so I imagine its younger. I almost wonder if it escaped from a deer farm from somewhere in the area.
Office window.
Animals I’ve seen so far since I moved here:
Rabbits, squirrels, hawks, vultures, crows, humming birds, stray cats, dogs, bees, wasps, 1 gofer snake, 1 rattle snake, frogs, 1 toad, neighbors, a few coyotes and one disgusting camel spider.
Quoted from PACMAN:They love that desert plant. Can you see it?
Had to zoom in, but found him/her. Is that Indian Paintbrush its after? I'm not much of an expert when it comes to desert plants.
Rattlesnakes? No Thanks!!
I have no idea what it is, i just bought a bunch of different things and planted them to see what would live or die. Happy to report 75% of the stuff i planted lived. The other stuff got too cold.
Quoted from TractorDoc:Had to zoom in, but found him/her. Is that Indian Paintbrush its after? I'm not much of an expert when it comes to desert plants.
Rattlesnakes? No Thanks!!
Quoted from PACMAN:Animals I’ve seen so far since I moved here
Set up a trail camera outside there, and report back in a few weeks.
I bet you get some cool critters on camera, including some at night time.
Quoted from TractorDoc:this buff colored deer has been hanging around in the cow pasture and I happened to have the camera with me this evening. It seems rather tame; still has its spots so I imagine its younger. I almost wonder if it escaped from a deer farm from somewhere in the area.
Seems like there is more to the story about this deer. In the South and Midwest (USA), I never see deer hanging out with cattle.
Gilligan's Island
Quoted from pinworthy:Work progressing on my new garage/shop
31 days later about 95% finished
You think that's crazy, you should see the guys in China, with a rope tied around their waist. I have a photo somewhere....
Sorry couldn't find the photo, Basically a guy standing on a decorative beam trying to fix an air conditioner, with a ratty old rope tied around his waist, 35 stories up.
Probably his wife holding the other end of the rope....
Quoted from BobLangelius:You think that's crazy, you should see the guys in China, with a rope tied around their waist.
Oh yeah, I’ve seen it.
Over in Pudong (in Shanghai) I was watching a heap of dudes washing the windows of the huge Jin Mao tower, one of China’s biggest buildings.
They were basically sitting on wooden children’s swing seats, hanging from ropes 100s of metres long. The had a bucket on their side and it was all done by hand.
Like these guys ....
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But on the side of this ....
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Craaaazyyy
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