Seen in Print

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Beautiful, Roy, and exciting, just sitting there!

[NJPiney]

Having both raised two boys and been one myself, the list of possibilities is almost endless. I think back to my youth and the fascination of my group of friends with fireworks, and am grateful I have both hands and all fingers. I classify men into two main categories, those who admit to having done dumb things in their youth, and liars. ...

Your perspective here, and HONDO's "Seemed like a good idea at the time" T-shirt photo, reminded me of an episode (in addition to the almost obligatory times I played with fireworks) in my early adolescence when I climbed this bridge's support structures - to the very top - and crouched-down waiting for a trolley to rumble overhead so I could experience the scariness, as if an amusement park just at the opposite end of this valley, containing four rollercoasters, wasn't enough, which I spent hours on.

Holy Crap! I used to climb trees for a living and would never have attempted that. You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Having both raised two boys and been one myself, the list of possibilities is almost endless. I think back to my youth and the fascination of my group of friends with fireworks, and am grateful I have both hands and all fingers. I classify men into two main categories, those who admit to having done dumb things in their youth, and liars. ...

Your perspective here, and HONDO's "Seemed like a good idea at the time" T-shirt photo, reminded me of an episode (in addition to the almost obligatory times I played with fireworks) in my early adolescence when I climbed this bridge's support structures - to the very top - and crouched-down waiting for a trolley to rumble overhead so I could experience the scariness, as if an amusement park just at the opposite end of this valley, containing four rollercoasters, wasn't enough, which I spent hours on.

Holy Crap! I used to climb trees for a living and would never have attempted that. You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

OK, since you've mentioned tree climbing, two of the guys who climbed that bridge superstructure with me used to exercise by chopping down trees in that woods off to the right in that valley photo. We'd get the tree ready to "Timber!" and one of us would climb up it, to very near the top, and hold on, while the two friends finished-off the trunk at ground-level (forgive me, please, if you read this story from me previously on this forum).
The purpose of the guy up in the tree at that moment was for the ride downward, to deliberately fall with the tree .

The "cool" part was that as dangerous as it likely was to fall with that tree, the guy holding-on (for dear life - usually me) simply scurried around to the side of the falling tree opposite to which face we had determined it would fall upon, and (sometimes) close our eyes to "protect" them. The branches of the side opposite the mental-case rider-downer would swipe the branches of neighboring trees aside (we kept our heads against the trunk, all the way down), away from the passenger, and those same branches would act as springs for the tree and its rider as it hit the ground. Extending our arms steadily away from the trunk, as we rode the falling tree downward, helped, too. Not one of us was ever hurt.

We considered the whole exercise as exercise, and were happy for it. Those trees were in the woods in the left quadrant of this neighborhood photo. Our houses were along the second street from the tree valley.

We never told our parents about this lamebrained adventure.

[HONDO74]

Murph
We need to give you a trophy for being able to avoid getting a Darwin award.....

[rogruth]

Murph,
We used to climb around under a PRR bridge over a creek in my hometown. We thought it was fun to be right under the tracks when a train went over.
You could feel the heat from the locos and feel the stress in the bridge. Diesels weren't as much fun. No heat and you didn't feel the action of the drivers at all on the bridge. We worked up to jumping from the top of the bridge into the creek, about 30 feet. We also used to hop the trains and ride a little way. We knew there were certain stops they had to make so it wasn't much problem to get on and off. One day one of my friends (?) dared me to jump from the train as we moved over the bridge so why not, it was only a little higher. I did it and obviously made it OK. The problem was the tongue lashing I got from the conductor who was in the cabin car and saw me do it. He also knew me and often let me ride in the cupola.
Stupid? Probably. Fun? Oh yes! Just like the tree riding.

Hondo,
I might have qualified also.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I've started to get calls from webhorez again , this time telling me Microsoft is in trouble and that my specific computer is compromised.

I suspect dey may be computerbichez who mean to do me harm.
What do you experts say?
P.S. When I used *69 to call them back, I was told the number didn't exist.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph
We need to give you a trophy for being able to avoid getting a Darwin award.....

Oh, we got the award, allrightee, presented by a forest nymph (a vision in black vinyl, o'course) who tried to get us to perform the next tree cutting exercise also wearing black vinyl. Well, that was where I drew the line on such frivolity, Mr. Hondo, as I am SURE you can well understand, you being a fine upstanding Renaissance gentleman , of course .

[HONDO74]

I've started to get calls from webhorez again , this time telling me Microsoft is in trouble and that my specific computer is compromised.

I suspect dey may be computerbichez who mean to do me harm.
What do you experts say?
P.S. When I used *69 to call them back, I was told the number didn't exist.

It's a SCAM, no one from Microsoft will call you.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I've started to get calls from webhorez again , this time telling me Microsoft is in trouble and that my specific computer is compromised.

I suspect dey may be computerbichez who mean to do me harm.
What do you experts say?
P.S. When I used *69 to call them back, I was told the number didn't exist.

It's a SCAM, no one from Microsoft will call you.

Scam.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you. That's what I thought but needed the reassurance, beyond my visceral reaction to them, from you good souls here.
Thank you, again, most sincerely.
Murph

[rogruth]

Murph,
You probably know this but also do NOT answer there questions with any form of yes.
If I am asked "Is this Roger?" I answer with something like "Who wants to know?".

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thanks, Roger.

[webenda]

Do you see it?

[webenda]

Owl Delivery

[rogruth]

USPS trying to speed up local delivery? Or what?
I didn't think they at the top gave a hoot.