The New Coffee Room

Wow Mik, you are good!

@jon-nyc

Tut, tut, tut. Age is a variable. And you just may be more a bit more variable than most. I am as constant as the north star.

Jon's just getting old.

It's a restaurant for people that have wives who can't cook. WT think it's good eatin'. I've dined there: boiled chicken and vegetables. Who cares?

If that's for real--I like that lots and lots. I kind of think that's a show, they certainly "hype" the tubes. I had a Magnatone M15. I used it for R&R and I used it for my stereo. 30 tubes I think--but most likely less.

Let me add: I rewired both my 6 string and my 12 string for stereo. Each pick up on the guitar played through a different side of the amp. It created a wall of noise (as opposed to a wall of sound.) I was cool, though.

She's wonderful, brilliant and lovely. Best woman EVER.

(I don't actually believe this--it's only to bring Jolly back.)

Hey, Brenda, congrats on 40 years of happy marriage and Mik, great you've lived this long: real the challenge is yet to come.

It's Lizzo on a bike.

(OK, she is just freakin' NASTY.)

Great pictures Horace, looks like a wonderful time.

Neil Young's "Philadelphia."

This is like the Orlando Police taking 2.5 years to occupy my back yard. It's at most 25 miles long and 12 miles wide. Geez, take it over already.

Putting that "1" in front of the "79" makes the car a whole lot nicer.

@jon-nyc said in Slightly later than mid-life crisis car…:

I used to have a Fiat X1/9 when I was in college. Two seater, targa top, beautiful car. Not all that fast. But damn if I couldn’t do a 90º turn on backroads at 60mph. My ass was 11” off the ground when I sat in that thing.

I say ‘on back roads’ only because, there, the downside of going into a slide was limited. I’d slide into a corn field rather than a wall or a utility pole.

I had a Fiat 124 in college and loved it. A couple of years ago I when I retired I wanted to get a sports car, was thinking of a C8 Vet. It was a computer with wheels. PLUS every one I saw on the road had a guy 20 years older than me driving. I ended up buying a 124 Fiat (2021). All Mazda inside but a Fiat styling. Guys know it's a POS, but women:

"Ah, Senior Tomas, you have de Italiana sports a-car, no?"
"Si Seniora, I indeed have de Italiania sports a-car."

"And Senior Tomas, you drive de Italiana sports a-car verry verry fast?"
"Si Seniora, I drive de Italiana sports a-car verry verry fast!"

"Then maybe Senior Tomas, you take me in your Italiana sports a-car and drive me verry verry fast?"

So technically, the car doesn't go very fast, but that never was the real point of the car.
Anyway, It works for me.

Hmmm. So, I had a girlfriend die: Apple. In those days I talked a lot of smack, slapping down the liberals, fightin' for the conservatives. All in fun. Not taking it all too much seriously. I added a lot of "personalities," for fun, too. (I once had one of my "personalities" reprimand another "personality" for bad behavior on WTF!--we wrote ourselves long posts.)
Anyway, Apple took me seriously, I guess, kind of, but REALLY. She died loving one of the personalities
I created. I think. I'm not sure about anything. I had a Commie Queen at the old Communist site RevLeft fall in love with me there too. I've stopped all that. The internet is a dangerous place.

Anyway, there was Apple.

Why aren't you dead already?

Do your think they use toilet paper or just their tongue?

Reminds me of the John Cleese joke: so John went to Auschwitz and arrived at the gate slightly after the last entry time and they wouldn't let him in. He said, "But I'm a Jew!" and they opened the gates and let him in.

^^I'd like to point out, I may have phrased this incorrectly. I never met in person, let alone watched Shogun with Richard Chamberlin.^^

@Axtremus said in Off to the Tuscan countryside:

@Horace said in Off to the Tuscan countryside:

Spend 2 hours on the plane in Business Class at the gate.

Gotta remember what's important and look at the bright side of life.

Yes, in a lot of cases Business Class gets sent ahead of the the other classes.

@Mik

The job is still out there, tho' now called "Groom of the Robes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Robes

But maybe not in a so intimate position. Henry VIII seems to have other occupants than the one in Wiki.