Anyone around? I'm literally needing a time (clock) check. Both smartphone AND Microwave are off in

what time they're showing.

By the looks outside, and it's going to be a rainy day - it might be around 6A.

But both were saying 7:45.
And the phone was saying PM.

So what time is it?


(Maaaaybe once or twice my cell's gone off in the 3 1/2 yrs I've had it .
But not with the microwave going wrong, too.



TIA!

Got a gift of a small jar of Apple Butter... What do you eat with it? Ty

I could put some on cheddar slices?
Maybe toast, cheese and that.

Any other suggestions? 👍

Hi. I wanted to wish anyone who's celebrating Sukkot a wonderful set of days...

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From when I was 7 to 46 I lived in two about 2/3rd"s Jewish Neighborhoods in Manhattan: '60 - '00, or '01. [An aside - re the High Holy days on the weekdays we gentiles loved having a sort of
off-school day in school bc with about 1/2 - 2/3 (not everyone observed ) of our Jewish friends, and classmates out our teachers couldn't really teach anything new! ]

I used to love watching the Sukkahs being built. Always an architecture, and structures fan so it was fascinating. If I didn't know which day it started I'd know bc I'd hear the voices, and sound of the metal pipes being put together not too far from my different windows.
I loved the pine, fir tree branches used for the roof. The singing was pretty nice.
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Since I mentioned I love architecture & structures; there was an outdoor exhibit back around ? '15, maybe earlier in NYC's Union Square of modern, or very creative, and differently designed Sukkahs.
It was so Interesting, creative, often beautiful!

I've also aways loved exhibits, challenge-games, or competitions (whether for prizes, or fun) where everyone is given certain materials to start with often with some set of parameters, and they then add some of their own items into the final piece.
This type of contest was done before TV cooking show competitions, before the internet in specialty magazines; in my case jewelry making magazines.
This exhibit so fit the bill.

And sorry for anyone's Sukkah structure that got messed up in yesterday's deluge!

Was looking at latest Webb Telescope image, and that reminded me of the whole graphic image set up..

they gave us when it launched, traveled near to the L _ point. The visual path, where it was, how far traveled, how many miles to go, speed of trave, how it would deploy once it arrived etc

While a bit frustrating for how long it took at least to me - exciting, too!

DU4 "shock" 😄... (no place to put in du4 threads as far as I could tell)

So I looked at the various visual formats offered

•du4
•du4 Night mode
•du4 Skinner mode

I like the new du4. Been mostly using it.
I've only been here a little past 3 years. So I'm not even recent anymore per se but compared to a bunch of you... 😄
Just saying bc haven't been looking that long at du3, relatively speaking.

The Skinner Mode might be visually useful on certain occasions. Kinda nice to have a bit of a hybrid approach for very long time people.

So people have commented positively about
Night Mode which I finally got around to taking a look at .
A good idea. 👍 I set mine 10P/10A.

But I've been up waaaay too late and a little bit ago I went to look at some other stuff elsewhere on line.

But when I came back and saw the Night mode -
I gasped!
😦 Whu happened! How did *this* happen! What is this?! (socery)
Being so ridiculously up late - totally forgot I'd set it up to that! But Not Only that I even forgot for a split second that it *was* an option - so I thought something had gone blotto! 😄😄

I guess better go to sleep now. 👍

So let me tell you how I fell in love w The Twin(s) Towers

I'm a born, and bred NYC'r. Among the things I love are Art, Crafts, and Architecture. In our city we have an abundance of all three (plus the other Arts). I love, and enjoy a variety styles of in all three.

I was an Art Student ('70-'74) at Cooper Union: a well regarded College for Art, Architecture, Engineering, and Science while the towers were being built. I sometimes hung out with the Architecture students, and picked up their attitude about The Towers:
"they were "the boxes" that the real buildings came in!". Snarky, huh?!

That remained my attitude - though they were a useful visual marker for the occasional directional short comings: until, I went to work in one - the South Tower 2. I'd already eaten there once at Windows on the World, gone the Observation deck. Probably had taken a look at the massive underground shopping center.

But now this was going to be a five day/week thing: up on the NE corner office of the 73rd floor! Geeeebz, how many people especially back then worked that high up! If you've seen photos of the whole complex you know there was a massive plaza between the two, along with the famous "The Sphere" ?bronze sculpture that sat in the center of a round, low, sluicing black granite water fountain.

It took me the first four of my M-F work week to get up the nerve to walk across that plaza from the short but wide set of stairs that took you up from the street, look up at that seriously tall building, go inside, and take two elevators. And how many people took two... (you know).

Then what did I do those First Four days?
Ah, ha - I had a trick! The way I'd naturally go to work (no extra travel manuverings) would leave me getting off of either two subway trains that came in nearby under, or right next to under the Tower Complex where you could go up to the street, or walk towards, then right into the underground shopping mall, and go right to your elevator(s) to take you up. Me: B1 - 70th flr, then elevator #2 70th flr - 73rd flr.

I didn't have to see it at all(!); just how high up I was going. Yet on my very first day, on my very first work break I walked right to the windows to look out. I guess a couple of my childhood vacations where my dad would drive us to this, or that mountain - "you can see 3 States from here!" must have had some subtle effect on me. Not to mention that literally about 6 wks earlier my cousin took me up into, and down out of The Rocky Mountains Northwest of Denver, CO to visit a lake 10,000 ft up! So, really, what was like around 700+ ft in comparison.

So we had this incredible view! Out across Brooklyn, maybe a some of Queens. Going northward straight up Manhattan - Midtown like a forest of stone, glass, and steel often with bits of gittering from the sunlight! The East River turning into The Harlem River, parts of The Bronx Following up the Hudson River a bit northwest up to the more green sections to the Tappen Zee Bridge. Some part of northwest NJ.

The look of the weather! The wildest was being fogged in. A soft gray cloud of "nothingness" all around us! If it was windy - well, I not yet drinking coffee never saw the subtle sway of the coffee in a cup that my co-workers mentioned; but when I used the bathroom I could hear the pipes creaking. Yeah.

Otoh, on a sunny day with a few clouds - wow, it was like being on a quite high hill when looking at
the area north of the WTC, Soho, The Village, where the buildings were relatively low 4 - ?10 stories because you could see clearly defined shadows of these clouds over Manhattan slowly marching across it. So cool!

There were the winter months where we'd see part of the sunset. And I'd watch the shadows of the towers march from East Manhattan into Brooklyn.
Some of my work associates would listen to what I'd point out. I happen to work only afternoons. One day I came in, and they said, "you missed the rainbow over NJ this morning!" I was disappointed, you don't see that many rainbows in NYC (I have seen a few!), and see one from that height. I was also kind of proud that they noticed it, and told me. Like I got some of them looking.

Now from the ground coming into, or leaving work I'd see the difference casts of light onto the whitish structure, regular midday, then more yellow, and golden later in the day, to even a pinkish sunset cast. I'd see the colors of the sky reflected in the windows: shades of blue, clouds of white, blue white, light grays, blue grays, darker grays, peach, orange, and pinks It was a panoply of Nature's sky reflected on them. A built, gigantic, unexpected "canvas".

And that's how I fell in love with The Twin Towers.

What is a song(s) Not about Summer - that Reminds you of Summer?

Let's grab some last rays of Summer, and bottle them up!

When Spring arrives here in the NE USA I think of
renewal, rebirth, and new birth. And a sense of expansion.

For me the best Summer weather (sunny, w/wo a few clouds, low '80's, low humidity) feels like an incredible sense of expansiveness!

There are two songs that capture that for me.

Roam - The B-52'S
Sort of semi built into the title associating Summer Vacations getting in a car, bus, plane, boat and going somewhere!
The first 4 lines with Kate & Cindy's glorious hamonizing with just a hint of synthsetizer:
"I hear a wind
whistling air
it's whispering
in my ear"...
*Full music kicks in!*

The next one is purely on the music & the singing
(not the words). I didn't see th video for it till years later which does have some summery associations through the activities you see.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World -
Tears For Fears

When those first 5 notes come on; my ears, my emotions pick up!
Then that beautiful, floating synthesizer repeated set of notes emerges, a bit later the full band, and singing starts.
They harmonize well which augments the feelings.

I sing the words which have nothing to do with Summer but in a sense don't attach them to the music, and vocalization.

Both of these; could be a foot of snow outside - these songs come on the radio (or pop up in my head) and it's like a little magic bubble surrounds me. .

I'd add while not as evocative in the sense of floating as these two above, and actually talking about something you might do in the summer, but also later Spring, earlier Fall, too:

Martha & The Vandella's - Dancing In The Street"
embodies that sense, and scene of Summer Fun!


Any of you have any songs like this? 👍

Drumphf's 91 Felony Charges appear in NY Times Square Ad

Did I miss something? My google search engine articles below it show...

title/photo/ on the bottom are icons for the source,

And now at can't type any more related to this

Lawrence O'Donell: "They couldn't even make it through one week without turning on each other". 😄

Hopefully even MORE reasons to sink drumphf's Freedom Boat!

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