May 24th 2012 07:18 am The big house III
I don’t have much time today. I say that a lot, don’t I? Well, I mean it today. I’ve got to get myself to Knoxville between now and 5:30 this afternoon. However, I’m dropping off the next installment of the treehouse series.
Posted by jimmyjohnson / Vintage A&J
105 Responses to “The big house III”
Bob on 24 May 2012 at 7:21 am #
Enjoy the trip, Jimmy. Hope you’ll make it up to the mid-northeast somethime.
phil in Missoula, MT on 24 May 2012 at 9:04 am #
Hey, all you Heinlein readers, check this!
http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-funds-100-year-starship/22662/
It does disappoint me that this comes from DARPA though
David in Austin on 24 May 2012 at 9:20 am #
Phil,
I am pleased that the commercial launch to the shuttle has so far been a success. D.D. Harriman would no doubt be proud.
Karla on 24 May 2012 at 9:39 am #
Jerry in FL,
I’m a day late as usual but wanted to mention that 4×4 is even more helpful if you have a truck due to the lack of weight on the back end. Not so much fishtailing and easier to get out of a parking spot after the plow has come by. But, they sell sand bags you can keep in your bed to help with that as a cheap substitute.
Karla
Mindy on 24 May 2012 at 9:43 am #
Sandbags for traction in ice and snow, sandbags for rising water, I do so wish I’d gotten a patent on sandbags. Or sand.
Russell Way Out There on 24 May 2012 at 9:51 am #
Mindy, you could retire on just what sandbags the Army uses annually.
Jack in Minnesota on 24 May 2012 at 11:09 am #
The plot thickens in todays strip…
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 11:19 am #
But, hilariity will ensue, no doubt. Jack, You’re in Minnesota. Want to join in the 4wd discussion.?
sandcastler on 24 May 2012 at 11:25 am #
Arlo, buy the sloop! Run off and live your dream while you can.
Mindy on 24 May 2012 at 12:08 pm #
That’s not just Arlo’s dream, sandcastler.
MWL on 24 May 2012 at 12:28 pm #
We prolong our adolescence for as late as we can.
Fearing responsibility, becoming a man…
Up until the last fifty or sixty years children became men and women when they hit 16 or 17 years of age. Now we delay childhood well into the twenties and even the thirties.
Not that there is anything wrong with leisure activity.
nick chik on 24 May 2012 at 1:10 pm #
Bad news…Three major newspapers in Alabama, as well as one in New Orleans will cut their publications from daily to 3 times a week in the fall. I don’t know how this affects Jimmy but it can’t be great news.
sandcastler on 24 May 2012 at 1:51 pm #
nick chick, if only USPS could become that efficent delivering junk mail.
Eric on 24 May 2012 at 2:13 pm #
Jimmy,
Have a safe trip! Hope to catch your KNS appearance this afternoon!
Eric Smith
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 3:19 pm #
Sorry to pose a serious question, but does anyone have any personal knowledge of something called Hashimoto’s Disease? I have researched online, but I would like to hear from someone who knows something about it. Thanks.
Mark in TTown on 24 May 2012 at 3:51 pm #
Jerry in Fl, my suggestion would be to find a a Merck manual, the version written for non-medical people. It has very detailed information about most ailments. I use it for reference in my coding work. That said, all I know about this disease is that it affects the thyroid gland. My medical dictionary says it is an autoimmune disorder that results in hypothyroidism.
Mary in Ohio on 24 May 2012 at 3:52 pm #
Hashimoto’s is a thyroid condition – hypothyroid – underactive. I have had no thyroid function since 1990. Take synthetic thyroxine daily. Once your ThyroidStimulatingHormone levels are stabilized, it is usually a matter of just the one pill a day. The opposite – hyperthyroid- is Graves’ Disease, which former first lady Barbara Bush was diagnosed with. There can be tumors involved, but not always – in my case, thankfully, nothing but the shutdown. It is fairly common as you get older, more often in women. When the doctor ran my first blood test my TSH level was 90 and my cholesterol was 350. After a couple weeks the TSH had dropped to 45. Normal is 4-5. You have to get the level adjusted slowly because, basically, in my case, I had very little metabolism going on, and starting me at a high level of synthroid would have been the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a banked fire. Hope this helps.
Gus to the rescue! Cutting right to the chase!
Jack in Minnesota on 24 May 2012 at 4:41 pm #
Jerry in FL
I missed most of yesterdays posts and had to look back to see where the 4WD discussion started.
They do indeed salt the roads here, but salt takes time to work and depending on conditions may not be of much help when you need it. The major roads such as the Interstates are the priority and they do keep them in good driving condition most of the time. Secondary roads, not so much. In a major storm all bets are off.
Four wheel drive can be a lifesaver and it can have the opposite effect. You can get over-confident and get into trouble. I was hit head-on once by a four wheeler whose driver wasn’t able to stop once he got it going and came over into my lane to avoid rear ending a string of cars.
I have saved my own bacon a few times using the four wheel drive. When I was being sucked into the ditch by heavy snow or slush, I pointed the wheels away from the ditch and stood on it and was able to get it back on the road. Rule of thumb – engage the four wheel drive before you need it.
Other than that, it does make it easier to get moving in the snow and provides much more steering stability (as long as you watch your speed). All that being said, I think a good front wheel drive car with anti-lock brakes may actually make you safer. Many cars these days have full time all wheel drive as well. And, there is an unwritten but well understood rule in Minnesota – you don’t leave anyone out on the road in cold weather. Someone will always stop to help if you are in trouble.
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 6:20 pm #
I have the Merck as well as the PDR. I had never ran across Hashimoto’s until I read yesterday that somebody on a sitcom had it. When I looked at the symptoms it sure sounds like me although the doc’s have been attributing everything to Parkinsons although I was recently put on 75 MCG of Levothyl Oxine. I know enough medical to play one on tv but I’ve never had occasion to read up on the thyroid. Thanks to everyone for the help and advice.
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 6:26 pm #
levothyroxine. sorry. It was incorect on the bottle.
Anne in Tn on 24 May 2012 at 7:19 pm #
Checking in to say that Jimmy did great in Knoxville, as did Rheta. It was a fun time for about 400 people. The line for purchasing books and having them signed was long, so I guess Rheta got her roof paid for and Jimmy earned enough to keep body and soul together to keep strips coming. He refused to tell how Gene’s journey will turn out.
sandcastler on 24 May 2012 at 7:41 pm #
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/may/23/friendly-exes-rheta-grimsley-johnson-and-jimmy/
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 7:55 pm #
it weren’t spelled right neither.
Mindy on 24 May 2012 at 8:05 pm #
Which “other” daily newspaper in New Orleans is going to thrice-weekly? The only daily we can remember is the Times-Picayune, famous for it’s blind proofreaders. Of course, we migrated back to the Old Dominion quite some time ago but back in the day…
Anonymous on 24 May 2012 at 9:15 pm #
Thanks for the link, sandcastler. Nice article. While there, I read some more articles in the news. I love to read local news from other locales!
Tennessee Dave on 24 May 2012 at 9:26 pm #
Thank you for coming to Knoxville! It was great fun hearing you speak about Arlo and Janis. I look forward to reading your book. Thanks for the autograph!!!!!
Ghost Rider 6 on 24 May 2012 at 9:44 pm #
Ah, is there some reason why the the sailboat seems to be down at the stern or at the bow?
Mark in Boston on 24 May 2012 at 10:06 pm #
Tomorrow’s A&J:
Cell phone rings again. It’s Mary Lou.
“Oh, sorry, I dialed you by mistake. I’m trying to call an ambulance.”
(Kidding! I’ve got no idea what will happen in tomorrow’s strip.)
Mark in Boston on 24 May 2012 at 10:07 pm #
Ghost Rider 6:
Maybe Gus is trying to sell it just before it sinks?
Mark in TTown on 24 May 2012 at 10:37 pm #
Mindy, you hit it right the first time. Others are the Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register and Huntsville. According to the story I found, they are going to Wednesday, Friday and Sunday editions. Supposedly they will run the entire week’s worth of comics among the 3 days they print. And they will continue (for now, my words) with free online editions. So we will get the issues with the most advertising in them as print, because they earn enough to be worth the publishers time to print.
On another topic, I have gotten interested in a tv series on BBCAmerica, called Whitechapel. Sort of like the older CSI shows, with less humor and more twists in the plots.
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 11:46 pm #
I have been looking for a more detailed view of the ocean floors around the world and I just found Wunderground.com. FANTASTIC! You can go anywhere in the world with just a few clicks and go in closer with a click or two. I haven’t checked to see just how close you can get, but the detail is amazing. They talk about California breaking away, but look at Yokohama, Japan. It is just on the verge of sliding off and disappearing into the deepest trench in the world. Change of subject-you may not have to put up with me much longer. I am almost to the point of one-handed typing now, but I will try to keep it up for now. I just get tired of making an error in almost eevery word.
Jerry in Fl on 24 May 2012 at 11:48 pm #
Get new glasses. That’s c-l-i-c-k-s.
Jerry in Fl on 25 May 2012 at 12:05 am #
OK, it’s a little more complicated. Try this: http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=26.5&lon=78.6&zoom. That gets me Florida and you can go anywhere from there. I zoomed in on the Bahamas until I was looking at individual houses and I stopped there.
Jerry in Fl on 25 May 2012 at 12:09 am #
OK, that doesn’t do it either. I get to it through underground weather. We’ll try it again tomorrow.
hc on 25 May 2012 at 6:35 am #
We need to talk more about sailboats (will Arlo get it???) – not snow, slush, ice, salt, plows etc. Give us a break until at least October! We’ll be back shoveling again too soon.
Mark in TTown on 25 May 2012 at 6:45 am #
Jerry in Fl, have you tried Google Earth? It has ocean floor details also. And one for the Moon!
sandcastler on 25 May 2012 at 7:37 am #
Mindy, from the local newspaped.
http://mobile.washingtonpost.com/rss.jsp?rssid=615&item=http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/new-orleans-times-picayune-to-limit-printing-to-three-days-per-week/2012/05/24/gJQA8kSEoU_mobile.mobile&cid=-1&fullSiteUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnew-orleans-times-picayune-to-limit-printing-to-three-days-per-week%2F2012%2F05%2F24%2FgJQA8kSEoU_story.html
sandcastler on 25 May 2012 at 8:14 am #
The big story in Knoxville yesterday was:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/may/24/rheta-grimsley-johnson-and-jimmy-johnson-meet-at/
Mindy on 25 May 2012 at 8:57 am #
The Times-Picayune initially was two dailies, the Times-Picayune and the States-Item. Then it became the Times-Picayune States-Item…now it’s a thrice weekly? Oh, say it’s not so!
phil in Missoula, MT on 25 May 2012 at 9:08 am #
Anonymous (or whoever you are):
If you like local news, here’s a fun website.
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/
Front pages from 877 newspapers in 88 countries
Robin in Fl on 25 May 2012 at 9:13 am #
Jerry
You might consider using Win7′s voice-activated typing thingie or something like Dragon naturally Speaking. Then you wouldn’t have to leave.
Bill in Paducah on 25 May 2012 at 9:13 am #
Thanks for the post sandcastler. Now we need someone who attended to tell us which strips Jimmy read!
sandcastler on 25 May 2012 at 9:17 am #
Anne, can you answer Bill’s question?
Anne in Tn on 25 May 2012 at 9:56 am #
Oh my goodness Bill and Sancaster…. Let’s see if I can find few. Pg 29: Mortgage burning party; Pg 31: Paying more attention before we were married; Pg 36: The kind of man every woman wants; Pg 40: Let’s talk; and I can’t find the one that brought the house down when Gene found them necking on the couch.
Having had a youthful marriage that did not last, I am envious of ex’s that still value what they had together even though lives have moved one. Rheta interjected that if her insecurities and weight swings gave Jimmy fodder, she was grateful. She also volunteered her favorite comic strip was Arlo and Janis.
Bill in Paducah on 25 May 2012 at 10:26 am #
Can’t wait to get home and revisit Beaucoup!
By the way phil in M,M, like I wasn’t already wasting enough time on the internet! (What a great site!)
sandcastler on 25 May 2012 at 10:57 am #
https://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowrqkB/forbes/CAIiEMLAYxMFzi82gmfpWiajiWMqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowrqkBMKBFMPKAAg/3_numbers_in_the_battle_to_save_the_new_
Great article in Forbes on The Times – Picayune.
Jeff in Ann Arbor on 25 May 2012 at 11:27 am #
The Ann Arbor News was the first to fall. Same owner as Times-Picayune. They chose Ann Arbor to experiment with because we were perceived to be the most web-connected city of the cities their papers were in.
The online replacement (annarbor.com) is not very good. A fraction of the reporters that they had before, and even fewer copy editors. (The joke in the comments section is that they’re crowd sourcing copy editing.) The staff is stretched thin, and much of what would have been reported on in the past is now just a reprint of the police reports. Very little followup of stories.
Mark in TTown on 25 May 2012 at 12:34 pm #
Jeff in Ann Arbor, the online edition of the Birmingham News is no better than you describe Ann Arbor. And it is on my worst list for invasive, intrusive advertising. Including popups that come right thru the Internet Explorer popup blocker. I know advertising revenue supports the news organizations, but there should be some limits as to what is allowed by their web hosting services. When I go to read the news, I don’t want the screen covered with banner ads and popups and video clips that I can’t turn off.
Judy in Conroe on 25 May 2012 at 1:07 pm #
Jerry in FL – hypothyroidism (low thyroid) runs in my family, although it has never been labeled Hashimoto’s disease. Both my sister and my daughter developed the condition around age 12 or 13; the stress of pregnancy threw me into hypothyroidism, so my onset was pretty quick.
Usually, people get their thyroid levels checked with complete blood study that includes a T3 and T4 test for presence of the thyroid hormone. However, for best diagnostic purposes, the TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone) test should also be included. Thyroid hormone levels can be normal or low normal in early stages of the disease, but the TSH (put out by the brain to control the levels of the thyroid hormone) will be elevated, as if the brain (pituitary) is “kicking” the thyroid to get it up to normal performance. High levels of TSH (as Mary said, normal is 4-5) show that the thyroid is not performing properly, and the treatment will include taking thyroid hormone. Overactive thyroids (high T3 and T4) usually need surgery or chemical treatment that removes all or most of the overactive gland, and that results in little or no thyroid production – or low thyroid.
Doctors do not usually prescribe thyroid hormone (synthroid) for low normal levels if the TSH is normal, because high levels of hormone are so destructive to the body. Yes, you lose weight, but you also tend to lose bone mass, have tremors, and high blood pressure. With high enough levels (hyperthyroidism) you can get eyes that protrude, and this condition may not reverse even when thyroid levels return to normal. Some of the symptoms for high thyroid hormone and low thyroid hormone are the same (fatigue, trouble concentrating) so diagnosis should be made by blood test and not by symptoms.
Once you are taking synthetic thyroid hormone or synthroid, it can take some time to find the appropriate dosage. All the hormones in the body sync together, so changing the amount of thyroid will change the amount of testosterone, and the amount of adrenal hormone, etc. etc. which then will rebound to affect the amount of thyroid hormone produced and how the body uses it. The usual course is to start small with the synthroid and gradually build up over time until things stabilize. Of course, different factors such as stress or illness or growth or aging, may change the amount of hormone needed or produced, so then the process to find the best dosage starts all over.
Check with your doctor to find out whether you have received the T3, T4 and TSH tests on your blood. If you have and they are normal, perhaps one of the other hormone levels (remember all the hormones sync together and affect the metabolism) needs to be checked. Good luck!
Once you get the proper diagnosis
Judy in Conroe on 25 May 2012 at 1:10 pm #
delete last line of previous comment – thought I had already deleted that. (Jerry isn’t the only one with problems typing – I’ll blame it on my low thyroid!)
Judy in Conroe on 25 May 2012 at 1:22 pm #
Jerry – I just went back and read that you are taking 75 mcg of Synthroid, and that is considered a fairly low dose – good place to start. The average thyroid produces about 300 mcg of hormone. Most people taking Synthroid end up taking about 100-150 mcg, although as you age you need less because the metabolism slows down. I used to take 100 mcg and now take 88. My daughter took 150 when she was growing quickly and now is down to either 112 or 125. I hope the Synthroid helps you. Many of the symptoms of Parkinson’s are the same as those of low thyroid, which may make it hard to figure out what’s causing what. Maybe, since all the body’s hormones work together, one affects the other.
Ghost Rider 6 on 25 May 2012 at 1:49 pm #
Welcome to WebMD.
No, I think it’s great that we can share health issues and info with each other. Lord knows we probably all have some.
Well, maybe the sailboat was level yesterday and Gus was tilted. But I don’t think so. And today’s cartoon certainly didn’t shed any light on that question.
Mark in TTown on 25 May 2012 at 1:55 pm #
Today’s strip makes it sound like finishing the summer session was Mary Lou’s idea, rather than Gene’s. I think she wants to make sure he doesn’t put off getting his degree, because as Creedence’s song says, “Someday never comes”.
Judy in Conroe on 25 May 2012 at 2:12 pm #
I agree. Once you get away from school it is very hard to go back. Probably Mary Lou wishes she could have gone to school and doesn’t want Gene to waste his opportunity.
Judy in Conroe on 25 May 2012 at 2:16 pm #
I think Mary Lou is being unselfish and wants to be sure that Gene does not feel he sacrificed anything for his relationship with her. However, if you want to look at the selfish side, that “little piece of paper” can make a big difference in salary should he choose to work for somebody else, and Mary Lou and her child(ren) would also benefit from that if they marry.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 25 May 2012 at 2:28 pm #
Phil- I’ve had the Newseum site on my list for years and haven’t tired of it. Sometimes I look at the foreign papers just to see what the language looks like! Otherwise, I usually start with a paper from near my MBH’s home burg and progress to one from FL’s Space Coast.
Hey, y’all! As of 12:04 pm today, I got to be a grandpa for the second time!! Daughter, husband, and other grandson are doing as well as the new little (?) one. At 8lbs. 6 oz., he’s not exactly tiny, but he was also a week or so overdue. Apparently, heretofore, he was quite well-fed….
My MBH has been with them for 12 days already and will stay another 2 weeks, so I am baching it for what will be about a month.
sideburns on 25 May 2012 at 2:30 pm #
If you want to get rid of the ads, Mark, start using Firefox and install AdBlock+. There are very few ads that can get through it, and you can almost always add a custom rule to deal with them.
Bill in Paducah on 25 May 2012 at 4:08 pm #
c e-p: Congrats!
Mary in Ohio on 25 May 2012 at 4:17 pm #
Ann – thanks for the review on JJ and Rheta!
Jerry – good luck with working with the synthroid! Hope it can clear up some of the symptoms you’ve been having. (Pads of tissue – not fat – build up in the wrists and around the vocal cords. The former can lead to numbness and tingling in the hands, the latter to hoarseness and snoring because your airway is getting blocked.)
Mark in Boston on 25 May 2012 at 4:58 pm #
Gene should get his degree in hospitality or food service management. Then he and Gus can enlarge the restaurant and expand their catering services, eventually establishing a national brand.
Galliglo in Ohio on 25 May 2012 at 6:20 pm #
phil in Missoula, MT: Thanks for the link! Yes, “Anonymous: was me. I did not even notice that my moniker was not on my posting. Dunno what happened, unless it happened when I cleaned out cookies on my system. Oh my gosh – I’m beginning to sound like Mindy! But there is no one I would rather sound like – Mindy, you are fun!
Mark in TTown on 25 May 2012 at 7:13 pm #
Galliglo, you have to be careful when tossing your cookies!
c e p, Congratulations to you and the new parents.
sideburns, thanks for the tip. My personal computer died and I am using the one provided by my employer for now. It has IE7 and I can’t change it because the software I work with is only compatible with that. I had tried out something called Ghostery, which worked fairly well at blocking ads and tracking cookies, but it was interfering with other things so I had to remove it.
sideburns on 25 May 2012 at 7:56 pm #
I have both Ghostery and Adblock+ active. Mark, there’s no reason you can’t use Firefox for most of your web surfing and use IE for those few sites that insist on it. For that matter, you might want to try User Agent Switcher, an add-on for Firefox that lets you lie to sites about what browser you’re using. You’d be amazed at how many sites work fine with Firefox once they think you’re using IE.
Mindy on 25 May 2012 at 8:10 pm #
I am?
Lost in A**2 on 25 May 2012 at 8:13 pm #
I remember when Weather Underground started (both times, actually). I thought the name for the web site very appropriate, considering where both started.
Jerry in Fl on 25 May 2012 at 8:43 pm #
For those who don’t know about the first WU, think Patty Hearst. That wasn’t it but close. Family obligations for two days now and I am tired. Tomorrow.
John in Virginia on 25 May 2012 at 8:51 pm #
I remember the Weather Underground. The first one, not the weather channel. Jerry, the Weather Underground didn’t grab Patty Hearst, that was the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. Weather Underground was into campus bombings and such, actually took out a nice brownstone in, I think, Brooklyn, when a bomb maker goofed big time. If memory serves, the Underground produced the “Anarchist’s Cookbook” of bomb making, which, according to reliable folk lore, was actually “cooked” by certain law enforcement agency undercover guys who altered just a few of the “recipes” so they’d go boom if someone tried to follow them. I have a copy of the cookbook. Never tried cooking since the recipes may or may not be, shall we say, tainted? What a period in American history…but is it any better now?
Mark in TTown on 25 May 2012 at 8:58 pm #
Hey, I was looking around Ebay and searched for Arlo and Janis. The only item that came up was one I had never seen before. Arlo and Janis Holiday cards. Jimmy, when did you get into the greeting card business? The link is too long, but here is the item number: 437405588.
Galliglo in Ohio on 25 May 2012 at 9:29 pm #
Mindy — yes, you are!
Lost in A**2 on 25 May 2012 at 9:55 pm #
The Weathermen were an offshoot of Students for a Democratic Society.
Jerry in Fl on 25 May 2012 at 11:44 pm #
John, perhaps I should of gone into it in detail,but I assumed that my hint that it was a similar group would spur most people’s recall. Speaking of recall, I think that the police accidentally burned down several buildings in the act of eliminating the SLA. A smaller version of the fiascco in Waco later.
Jerry in Fl on 26 May 2012 at 12:01 am #
1 2 many c’s.
Bob on 26 May 2012 at 6:43 am #
c e-p: also congratulations. Curious though – will you also be beethovening and brahmsing?
Rick in Shermantown, Ohio on 26 May 2012 at 6:53 am #
The strip of 05.26.12 is interesting.
It’s not often that Jimmy treats us to a double play, and I always enjoy seeing it.
Either one of the last two panels could have served as the conclusion for the strip.
Lost in A**2 on 26 May 2012 at 7:08 am #
I don’t remember the details of the end of the SLA. However, wasn’t a block of Philadelphia destroyed along with MOVE?
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 26 May 2012 at 7:56 am #
John/VA, Lost. I think the brownstone was in Manhattan, perhaps Lower West Side. We had moved from NYC to the Upper Midwest 20 years before, but still got the Sunday NYT. I tend to perk up when it’s the home town. Also remember Ada Louise Huxtable [NYT architectural critic] some years later bemoaning the zoning red tape that was holding up rebuilding on the site. If I remember, there’s now a posh residence on the site.
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 26 May 2012 at 8:08 am #
Closer to home than I thought, in Greenwich Village: 18 W. 11th St. Wiki: Dustin Hoffman lived next door. 18 W. 11 is on the south side of 11th St. not far west of 5th Ave., an expensive neighborhood then and out of sight now. Two elegant churches nearby on the west side of 5th, Church of the Ascension [Episc.] and First [?] Presbyterian.
Mark in TTown on 26 May 2012 at 8:47 am #
Lost in A**2, yes, the police dropped some kind of device intended to drive them out of the building. Only trouble was, the MOVE people had been storing gasoline and other things in the building which caught fire. Sort of a large scale version of what happened when the Pinkertons firebombed Jesse James house. Both groups got more than they bargained for.
Bob, near Mark on 26 May 2012 at 8:49 am #
The MOVE incident in Philadelphia happened in 1985.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 26 May 2012 at 9:49 am #
Here is a picture of the new townhouse at 18 W. 11th. Its worth is more than the entire monetary worth of most of us on this blog, which is related to what the Weather Underground was most disturbed about. Their approach to such perceived problems was counterproductive intrinscically, not just because they blew themselves up.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/372050202/
The Church of the Ascension is on the NW corner of 10th St. and 5th Ave, around the corner and down the block from 18 W. 11th. The larger First Presbyterian, which I doubt I’ve ever been in, takes up the full [short*] block on the west side of 5th, btw. 11th and 12th streets. So it’s on the same street as 18 W. 11th, but on the north# side and farther east. It also is not itself on 10th and 11th streets, because of a large lawn.
*Standard Manhattan blocks are short N/S, 20 to the mile, and about 4-5x longer E/W.
#I’ve probably mentioned before that N, E, S, and W in Manhattan are all rotated about 20 degrees clockwise from the compass directions. When the city was still confined to the area S. of Greenwich village, in the early 1800s, “they” laid out a grid for the whole 12+ mile long island, and Manhattan is essentially oriented about 20 degrees clockwise from true N/S.
Mindy on 26 May 2012 at 10:49 am #
Lest we forget…thank you to each and ever veteran out there, regardless of branch of service and regardless of whether or not you ever saw combat. Thank you for just being there for us.
Mindy on 26 May 2012 at 10:50 am #
“Veteran” should have been capitalized simply as a sign of respect. I apologize.
sandcastler on 26 May 2012 at 10:56 am #
Mindy, was an honor to have served the GAP.
Ghost Rider 6 on 26 May 2012 at 5:15 pm #
In past years, some here have remarked on the incongruity of wishing someone a “Happy Veterans Day.” Not to try to speak for all veterans, but this one would like to be wished a “Peaceful Veterans Day,” with the sincere hope there may actually be one in the near future.
Jerry in Fl on 26 May 2012 at 5:26 pm #
My thanks to those who have provided advice and shared their experience. Someone commented recently that it is interesting how the subjects flow in this forum. It’s very true and it is also amazing how we manage to be respectful of our differences which is certainly not the case any other place that you read comments. I was also thinking of the incident in Philadelphia when I said several buildings were burned down. I will be in Philadelphia in October and in New York the day before that. I will try to visit the aforementioned areas although I will be busy and there are some normal tourist sites that I want to visit. It has been 48 years since I visited the Empire State building. Does anyone recall the story of the plane flying into the ES buiding by accident after the end of WWII? There is a fasinating book abou the incident which I may still have somewhere. I don’t recall the title.
Mindy on 26 May 2012 at 5:51 pm #
Peaceful to you Ghost, but John wants Happy so Happy he’ll be. I think you both earned your choice.
Jerry, I read something about that. A B-25 in early to mid-1945, and at first people thought the Nazis had made one last gasp or else the Japanese had hit from the east. The only way I remember the model is that it’s the same one used in Catch-22. Odd how memories work, no?
Jerry in Fl on 26 May 2012 at 5:59 pm #
In trying a little research I cannot find any book solely about this incident, although I did read the book. There are some photographs out there and a wikipedia article. What is amazing is that this incident was so much like 9/11 yet the fire was extinguished in 40 minutes and today there is no sign of the crash. Another strange thing that happened was that an elevator fell 75 floors and the operator survived.
Jerry in Fl on 26 May 2012 at 6:03 pm #
Mindy, you are correct. It was a B-25 that had been manufactured, flown overseas, but never even outfitted with weapons before it was flown back to the states where it was supposed to land in New Jersey.
John in Richmond Texas on 26 May 2012 at 7:17 pm #
RE: way up top – Phil in Missoula I Love the front page web site ! I will check that often, wheat crop better than expected in Amarillo and a new super hot pepper in Brownsville I also like listening to distant radio stations, (when you can find local stuff instead of national sydicated talk shows) it’s a little armchair traveling
Mindy on 26 May 2012 at 7:29 pm #
Foxnews.com headline re the Hatfiend v. McCoy wars in West Virginia which is coming out as a television miniseries: “FAMOUS FUDE BROUGHT TO LIFE.” No, friends and neighbors, little ole Mindy didn’t type that wrong, Fox did! And I kidded about the Times-Picayune having a blind proof reader!
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1657273164001/hollywood-heavyweights-bring-famous-feud-to-life?intcmp=features
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 26 May 2012 at 7:32 pm #
I was a 2nd and later 1st Lt. postal officer at RAF Sculthorpe near Fakenham in Norfolk, England and also in charge of the APO in RAF Waddington near Lincoln, Lincolnshire from Sept. ’52-June ’53. All UK bases were RAF bases, but many, including Sculthorpe, were manned most by USAF personnel. Waddington was manned by the RAF, but had enough USAF personnel that it merited a two-man post office. Sculthorpe was a B25 base [I checked Wiki to be sure I had the planes right; I did]. The pilots were not fond of them.
My BOQ roommate, for a couple of months, was a married Captain whose wife was still in the states. Eventually she arrived and he moved to a house they had rented. Several weeks later he bought the farm on a routine flight, someplace over Europe if I remember rightly. I don’t remember, and probably never knew what had led to the accident. My wife of five weeks was still in the states, but stayed to finish nursing school at the Cornell School of Nursing at New York Hospital so she could later earn her PHT [Putting Hubby Through]. That was a long 13 months [I been stationed in Germany and France before the transfer to the UK]. One condition of her staying was an eventual trip to Europe. I think we took six altogether.
curmudgeonly ex-professor on 26 May 2012 at 7:34 pm #
The Empire State Building was struck in July 1945, if memory serves. Its extremely solid construction seems to be why there wasn’t more damage. At the time, I was living in Paradise Falls, PA, but getting the NY Herald Tribune daily.
Bob, maybe a little Beethovening would add some panache….
emeritus Minnesota biologist on 26 May 2012 at 7:42 pm #
Oh. And yes, I do remember the Empire State Bldg. accident, but did not remember the plane or circumstances. 28 July ’45 was between my soph and jr. years at Stuyvesant H.S., and I was visiting an uncle in Monroe, LA [or friends of the family in LaPlace, LA] then. Dumb place for a Yankee to be in July, especially when the wind blew from the paper mill. Interesting insights, however, into race relations.
Galliglo in Ohio on 26 May 2012 at 9:19 pm #
Did not see that fox.com headline regarding the Hatfield/McCoy disagreement. I did see that it was going to be on. Not sure if I want to watch it, since it is about some distant relatives. Yes, I must confess – my paternal grandmother was a McCoy. Ah me….
Mindy on 26 May 2012 at 9:30 pm #
Uh oh, Galliglo. My Dad was friends with Sid Hatfield before the Matewan shootout. Of course, he said it was Baldwin-Felts and the Lively guy that killed him, not the McCoys. Dad was also friends with some of the McCoys, oddly enough. He had the ability to make almost anyone like him. But I ramble again. Sorry.
John in Virginia on 26 May 2012 at 11:53 pm #
Someone ask Mindy what her Dad was doing in the Matewan area! He wasn’t quite ten, as I recall him saying, but he traveled up there close to the Virginia-West Virginia line with his Dad and I recall it being a Depression/Prohibition era commercial effort.
The store of his presence up there is interesting but not unusual for the times. What’s really interesting is that she has some old very old photographs of her Dad and Grandfather with members of both families. I wish we could have gotten videos of her Dad telling his stories.
Jerry in Fl on 27 May 2012 at 12:36 am #
Faux news thought that it was a miniseries about Elmer. “Kill the Wabbit. Kill the Wabbit.”
Galliglo in Ohio on 27 May 2012 at 8:37 am #
Mindy and John: I remember a Hatfield family coming to visit when I was a child. The older folk would sit around and spin tall tales but, alas, we youngsters were too busy playing to listen. Now I wish I had…
Robin in Fl on 27 May 2012 at 11:40 am #
Public service announcement: in our area there is an urgent need for blood, especially O neg. unfortunately, I am unable to give, having lived in high risk areas, but if I could I would. So if you can, please do.
Jerry in Fl on 27 May 2012 at 3:09 pm #
Ditto that. I wish that I could. Robin, watch the weather. I think that tropical storm winds will reach at least to Tallahassee by Monday night.
Jerry in Fl on 27 May 2012 at 4:17 pm #
As the tropical storm approaches the atlantic coast at the Fl-Ga border, be aware that winds up to 55 mph are predicted. That could happen in the next few hours. As they say, monitor your local news and weather sources.
Robin in Fl on 27 May 2012 at 5:06 pm #
Jerry
We’re tucked into the NW corner of FL–we can see as much of AL as FL from here. Don’t think we’re going to see much from that storm. Could use the rain, though.
redagainPatti on 27 May 2012 at 8:58 pm #
Hey old friends and new ones… I am back….
and btw… Wunderground.com was the first site I was a fan of in the early days of learning how computers work. I am under the same nick on the blogs on there..
Interesting to drop back in here to see you talking of my other home on the web.
Then you guys talk about a computer program of which I sat and read stuff to teach it how some folks say things down here in Mississippi. — Dragon by the way I was told they are using this to help the new I-Phone 4 talk and understand folks.
The most interesting thing however was the bit from Mary in Ohio on 25 May 2012 at 4:17 pm
“Jerry – good luck with working with the synthroid! Hope it can clear up some of the symptoms you’ve been having. (Pads of tissue – not fat – build up in the wrists and around the vocal cords. The former can lead to numbness and tingling in the hands, the latter to hoarseness and snoring because your airway is getting blocked.)”
Mary, BLESS You! My mom is dealing just with this right now..
Bless too, all of the Veterans for what you gave and did for us all.
Hugs from Northern Mississippi – redagainPatti
- now retired from the classroom and full time caregiver to her mom.
Jerry in Fl on 28 May 2012 at 1:02 am #
Welcome back Red, but you don’t sound red to me. Robin, we certainly do and, not that I’m asking, but, we do sound like neighbors. Not trying to tell you what to do but, even in this friendly community, you have to be careful about personal information. Even though I really know nothing about computers, I wanted to contact someone who had written a certain book and in a few minutes, without spending a penny, I had his wife’s name, his address and telephone and an overhead view of his home and the same for his son. I lost interest and decided not to contact him. A long time ago I told a story here about another forum which I won’t go back to because it was too dangerous. Sorry about getting serious but, I do get longwinded when it’s late.
Dan in SWMo on 29 May 2012 at 11:07 am #
On the subject of the Hatfields and McCoys, there are a lot of Hatfields down here in these parts. I still remember a billboard that I used to see advertising something or other as “the real Hatfield”!