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Shooting toward the sun is a good effect here. It emphasizes the shade, so sought-after in the original Grumby version.
4 years agoOr by not shooting toward the sun. I should have wheeled the wagon around.
4 years agoI don't think that's a dirty lens. The spots are lens flare, caused by shooting towards the sun. You can eliminate them by shielding the lens with its hood or your hand.
4 years agoScary that someone might think it's funny.
4 years agoThat’s so funny. I’ve probably been misspelling their name for years without noticing. Perhaps they know somehow, and have been tormenting me as a result. Thanks for pointing it out, although with luck I’ll never have cause to mention them again once our check arrives, if it arrives.
We haven’t been watching many films, but we have been pretty faithfully working through Masterpiece miniseries at an episode per night for the last two months. It’s a bit of a luxury, since we almost never watch TV. We’ve missed a lot of great productions that we’re finally catching up on.
We didn’t see Catch-22, intentionally. It was one of my favorite books as a young man and I didn’t really want to see what happened when it was staged as film.
I much "enjoyed" the Capital One part of this day's story. We are always thinking about what constitutes good content for a cycling blog, and I would say anything you see or hear or think or experience on, before, or after a tour, goes. So that means anything goes!
On this one, I must admit I have not been following quite closely enough to immediately know what the refund issue was about. Unfortunately the Cycleblaze search function, while good, was not able to turn up the background very efficiently. One quirk is about the credit card company. It is actually Capital One, as in Capitalism. Capitol One could also be plausible for them, especially if headquartered in some capitol city.
As part of our COVID survival strategy we have been watching a lot of old movies. One was Catch-22. Despite an all star cast, the movie is pretty poor. But the original "catch-22" idea is brilliant, and obviously lives on in government and financial organizations!
Did you see the movie Christmas Story?
I can imagine the dad looking at the letter and exclaiming, "Dadgummit Blah!!"
Wow .. your Capital One story should go in a Customer Disloyalty collection.
I'm glad you finally reached one person that was helpful!
I would have had a hard time not asking about the 17.65% interest owed (to you) on the $$.
Well, looking at the variability in colors, I really worked on that butterfly. The yellow threw me off. The spots didn't look right, but it was as close as I could come. Glad there are others out there to keep me on the right path! Thanks!
4 years agoI’m not sure of the pronunciation, but this looks very much like one of the things I said.
4 years agoLooks right, and it’s new to me too. Although I’ve probably seen it in Europe. It’s an invasive species here.
4 years agoSounds like there could be an interesting tale here, maybe best shared when the HACs reconvene some day.
4 years agoGuys, undoubtedly. Youth are so disrespectful!
4 years agoThe plant seems right, but not the animal. I’m pretty sure it’s a cabbage white butterfly. It didn’t look at all yellow fluttering around, and I was surprised by the yellow underwings, a characteristic I didn’t know of before. https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Cabbage-White-Butterfly
4 years ago
Everything changed quickly in the last two weeks so everything will certainly change again by the time you want to be in Greece. I'd go ahead and buy the tickets.
4 years ago