I love Vegas! And its a Rich Man's Town, par excellence.

Glad for you on the plan and mission. Hope it all works out.

And Orange County ain't LA, its better. It has, after all, the John Wayne Airport, and Newport Beach, and Laguna Beach, and Dana Point, and lots of other ridge type swaths of suburban interspersed with fine parks and walking trails and fishing and sailing and boat docks and restaurants and oodles of fine ladies in tall boots and skin-tight yoga pants. It's to die for. Once past the flatlands of Irvine and into the undulating portions of Southern Orange County; that is where God hangs out on Friday night and Saturday Morning.

I wouldn't live there but I want everyone else to move there. I visit a friend frequently that has a townhouse in the area. I will visit again around March -I'm helping her move back to Sicily. She is fleeing to the mother country because of the huge sucking sound of the scummy overflow from LA that is causing her to go insane. So she's opting out and going back to Sicily; where people are reasonable and live sane and easy going lives and eat great food and lounge about on the sea shore. And get fresh fish from the market every morning. It's where God hangs out on Sunday. To rest.

I hate you right now. Forecast calls for a foot of snow tomorrow, followed by temps 10-20 below zero over the weekend. That's not windchill temps either.

Orange County also has The Fling in Santa Ana, one of the best dive bars I've been to. Cousins live in Fullerton and Dana Point, along with Mill Valley, San Diego, and West LA. I like the OC area. Fortunately, I've been able to spend a lot of time there in the past three years.

I spent one year in Florida. It happened to be one of the coldest winters on record. People were bitching because they couldn't wear shorts! This was in South Florida, down in Miami and Key West.

Central Florida, around Orlando, get's a layer of frost every year, and I'm led to understand things get more Mediterranean as you go further north, if you count constant thunder, lightening, and rain as "Mediterranean." Tampa Bay isn't clowning when it calls itself Thunder Bay. I know the snarky thinks that's a play on thunder thighs, which isn't true because women don't walk around a nasty ghetto.

Don't be fooled by my quasi-intellect. I'm about the most uneducated person you'd ever meet, either in person or online.

I did spend a few months working at Jester's cafeteria. I was a temp and actually got more hours than the regular employees.

It was one of the most miserable jobs you can have. Unfortunately, that would have been my upper bound of pay, hours, and standing. Even if the studentry doesn't care, I care about not donig better in my own life. It was also the first time I realized I was getting old; those 19 year old girls looked goofy, awkward, and nothing remotely close to sexual.

Me too! Of course, it's been a ****ing struggle, but it's mostly been a slow upward motion,

You know, long boots and yoga tights are the standard outfit out here as well, and certainly, there is no lack of good-looking women.

I do somewhat struggle with this. Sometimes I like nature, but I really like being in the thick of city life. I like being able to walk out the front door and have a choice of 100 places to eat.

There are some absolutely beautiful hikes around Los Angeles. When you really start to explore the city, it ends up being a patchwork of flatlands and massive hills, people and desolation, and of course, rich and poor.

I just like to get away to nature sometimes, but living in the thick of it for any amount of time gives me cabin fever.

I thought the OC was always the spillover of LA people. The cute girls move there to work at Disney, gets marred to a lawyer who's had enough of the "big city," and the rest of the LA rejects move out to the east end, buys a motorcycle, and builds a meth lab.

It's all a part of the Californian (not American) Dream. I'm glad your friend got to experience it.

I'm guessing most of the OC-types are those from West LA. I say that bacause I don't like West LA much at all: Santa Monica and Venice may as well not exist to me.

I watched a couple cool documentaries on golf on netflix recently.. it got the golfing juices flowing.. cannot play in KC these days, though, It's too cold.

One was on Seve Ballesteros, the other was called "The Short Game," which followed youngsters, ages 7 and 8, from all over the world, competing in the U.S Kids Golf Championship

I sat on the stage (the theatre had been rearranged) of the Old Vic on Boxing Day evening watching A Christmas Carol, drinking beer, and eating fine chocolate.

Apart from Marley's chains, the whole thing could have been darker, IMO, more Victorian London. More cathartic. Child prostitution, vagrancy, alcoholism...

Then perhaps you should have been drinking swill and eating gruel rather than indulging in such luxury, Charlie.

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I like street art. Stik says we're living in a golden age in London for it.

This one is great:



There is a political aspect to it also:

http://www.hookedblog.co.uk/2016/07/...shok-1-in.html

I get the winter blues but light therapy helped a lot. Not sure how effective it would be for people with severe depression. My depression during the winter is pretty mild.

Happy New Year everybody!!

Neighbor helped me shovel out my car, which had about three feet of snow piled in front of it. Fortunately, it's so windy that no snow collected on the car at all.

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what? you can t shovel out a car by yourself.
people back east are such wimps i can see.

what are you going to do when teotwawki happens

I could and have. But my neighbor, a much younger guy, offered his help.

If I need to depend upon my survival skills, I'm a goner.

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where you live you should have a basic at the least a survival stash and things in a go bag in case of something strange happens. called a bug out bag or b.o.g.

I barely have enough in my home to sustain me beyond a couple days.

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you take your chances and have to live with them. whats wrong with having some extra food and water at your place. and a sack to run out the door with in case of fire or evacuation. it can be all stuff you have anyway.
do you think fema is coming to town to give you food and shelter along with all the 5 million near you.

There's nothing wrong with it, I suppose, but I don't worry about such things, perhaps because in my 64 years, I've never needed that sort of preparedness.

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if your house has never burned down you then not get insurance.
if you never had a heart attack do you smoke drink and eat fatty foods.

next what if only you lose all electric power for say just a week. can you survive in the winter if you cant go outside for some reason..

As I said, I'm probably a goner. But I do plan ahead for some things. If weather looks really bad, I will stay elsewhere with someone who can see me through a week.

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Is snow still edible?

Some.

I'm at work now; fortunately, I still have lunch from Wednesday. It appears I haven't eaten much lately.

Remember to watch out where the huskies go and don't you eat that yellow snow.

How do you pronounce the often?

I always pronounce it OFF FIN rather than OFF TEN

But I was watching some movie or TV show recently when someone said off-ten and another character corrected them saying the T is silent.

In my experience I seem to hear both versions about equally. Just wondering what the lounge thinks?