Sunday, March 22, 2020

That was a big hole

Doing routine maintenance I notice something.

I didn't post anything for all of 2018. I don't know how that happened. I didn't plan it. I didn't realize it happened.

Hmmm. It reminds me of the rest of my life.
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11 comments:

chickelit said...

They pulled a shitload of diamonds out that hole in its prime. Sorta like your blog.

Hey, now that ritmo has been officially banned from Althouse by Meade, he'll show here.

Give him time.

March 23, 2020 at 12:54 AM
chickelit said...

BTW, I did the same thing with my blog -- nothing in 2019. I'm thinking about posting there again.

March 23, 2020 at 1:02 AM
Trooper York said...

I think you should post back at your old place.

There are a lot of wonderful posts that people can enjoy.

Your World War2 post are particularly inspired.

March 23, 2020 at 3:29 AM
The Dude said...

That is big news indeed, CL - Ritmo is still alive?

March 23, 2020 at 7:37 AM
chickelit said...

Meade called him a "social sadist."

March 23, 2020 at 10:49 AM
chickelit said...

Meade also banned "anti-de Sitter space" whom Palladian always thought was Titus in drag. Banned on blogger means they will be deleted liked Mary as there is no mechanism to to "ban." By the way, I agree with the sentence. Neither contributed anything but discord.

March 23, 2020 at 10:59 AM
The Dude said...

I don't care who you are, that right there is funny!

March 23, 2020 at 11:01 AM
The Dude said...

I posted comment that prior to seeing your second comment - I lost track of who and what goes on over there, so I never heard of that second person. I never got the sense that Titus was smart enough to play a character other than Titus. It's just as well I bailed on that site as I would have just been banned anyway.

March 23, 2020 at 11:07 AM
chickelit said...

Sitter space went by a number of aliases, none of which I ever learned or care to research. He always passed himself off as a jet setting wealthy dude with gay inclinations. Whence the comparisons to Titus. I knew that Titus's "dumbness " was always a deliberate schtick.

March 23, 2020 at 11:56 AM
chickelit said...

The photo also reminded me of a little town in Wisconsin called Redgranite. The link explains the town's name. My dad used to frequent the place in summers because it was attractive to WI scuba divers. The water was clean and algae-fee because it was spring fed instead of farm runoff which contained lots of phosphates. And there was lots of interesting machinery underwater. I heard once that the quarry was the state's deepest body of water but couldn't be counted as such because it was manmade. We enjoyed going with my dad up there because of the cliff which were good for jumping off. Little known is that there were several other quarries sited just a few miles away on private land which we managed to access back in the day. On of them had a 40ft cliff which we were all too chicken to dive off, but that didn't stop us from jumping. That is where I first experienced gravity and freefall. Ah, growing up Wisconsin.

March 23, 2020 at 12:05 PM
The Dude said...

There was a quarry right up the road from where I used to live. It filled up with water overnight after the quarrying operation hit a spring. There was a lot of machinery underwater. This one also had nice cliffs, none of which I ever dived off of, although others did. I did used to swim there often. It is now closed and fenced off, and surrounded by a housing development, but that's a story for another day.

But the best quarry swimming story was about local rebel legend Bummy Bumgardner who did a high speed run off the top of the highest cliff on a bicycle. While I didn't witness this particular feat, it was said that he not only survived but he managed to swim out towing the bicycle behind him. Well, I know he survived, as I saw him from time to time driving his three-wheeled Harley around town, stylin', right up until I moved away. Where he went, what happened to him - now those are mysteries...

March 23, 2020 at 12:33 PM

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