SIDEBAR #53 - Travis Alexander forum

[YESorNO]

YesorNo, there are some apps you can turn off and save bandwith. I think it was in Cnet, but it saved space and helped with start up. You can't get rid of Cortna. I've used Cnet for years for reviews

I didn't let Windows 10 download to my computer- I still have Windows 7.
I actually put the Windows 10 update in "solitary confinement" (like the murderer :facepalm and it can't download on my computer anymore
and, in fact, all updates from Microsoft will now have to be OKed by me before it can be downloaded.

 

[Niner]

Can't you see all of us going on a road trip together!? Would be a hoot!! Would need rent a big bus

the only bus I could find... :underbus: :giggle:

And to think, that huge yard sale starts in Michigan :thinking:

Bernina, all that paperwork is worse than signing a mortgage! You have been a busy lady. Congrats on the upcoming birth ..... give us a heads up in early November .... my brain will not remember that far ahead.

Niner .... have a wonderful time on your trips. I hope all goes well for your hubby. A pacemaker should help him feel so much better, too.

Thank you Spellbound! I hope the pacemaker helps him too!!!

I have never been to Louisiana, but as a foodie, have always wanted to go, just to eat.

I had no idea the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the world's longest bridge over a body of water (?). It's pretty low though, so I think it would be okay (not scary), kind of like the bridges linking the Florida Keys. But pictures of it are mind-blowing -- it seems to go on forever!

I have crossed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge many times, and although it gives me a little bit of anxiety, I guess I'm just used to it, plus it's worth it to get to the beach resorts. Still, I know many people who are paralyzed by fear and simply can't do it.

The worst bridge for me is the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in the SF bay area. (I'm sure LinusK is familiar with it.) I have no problem with the Oakland Bay Bridge or the Golden Gate (except that it's sooo expensive!), but for some reason, the Richmond-San Rafael really scares me. And there is the fact that as you approach the San Rafael side, San Quentin Prison is on your left. It's actually a very pretty sight from the bridge, but then you realize what evil lies within.

Niner's old avatar had a picture of the bridge in Auburn which is soooo far above the land below it! It looks like it's in the Andes. I think that one would freak me out!

Now that neesaki told us her dream - and you brought up this particular road!! I remember a recurrent dream starting when I was 10 or 11 years old. We lived in Novato and my mother drove us on Hwy 37 where there is water on both sides! Well, in the dream - all of sudden the car starts flying thru the air over the water, but always woke up after that! And I had that dream at LEAST 10 to 15 times. Haven't had it quite for a long time - but always remember that dream...

And the Foresthill Bridge of which you mentioned was my avatar - yes - it's 522 ft high!! Also, the Foresthill Bridge over the North Fork American River is the highest bridge in the U.S. state of California and the fourth highest in the United States. We've walked out to the middle and it's a really nice view of the canyons!

anyway - was going to sign off for the night cguru: and just wanted to "see" what you all were talking about! :gathering:

See you all tomorrow!! :seeya:

 

[YESorNO]

Okay, I bit. It was actually a very interesting variation on the Briggs-Myers test, more nuanced, I'd say.

I am "The Advocate," which they claim is "very rare, making up less than one percent of the population."

So I'm either very special or very odd, or both! I'm good with that...

“THE ADVOCATE”

"Quiet and mystical, yet very inspiring and tireless idealists"

So you are "mystical"?

 

[Niner]

Years ago one of my cats developed a cancer tumor in the neck area and I do think it was from the shots she received when she was a kitten, IMO.

That's what happened to my Emma :cat: she got a cancer tumor RIGHT where they gave her vaccination shot... lost her last October...

Okay, okay - I'll quit reading and go...

:seeya:

 

[GigiG]

I had a great uncle on my father side that was killed on a bridge while driving an 18 wheeler, so maybe that is where I get some fear of bridges. It was in the mid fifties. I vaguely remember a newspaper article I hate long two lane bridges with no where to go. I hate the High Five and other overpasses and interchanges in the metroplex. And I hate driving next to the concrete barriers.

[video=youtu;cufE4dw5d0Q]http://youtu.be/cufE4dw5d0Q[/video]


I've been over the Chesapeake Bay bridge and IIRC it was in the midst of construction, then in the tunnel? I hate tunnels too.

Wow, the High Five looks pretty intimidating. The traffic on the video looks pretty light, so I'm assuming it's much worse during rush hours. No thanks!

There is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and then there is also the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel; two separate things. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge connects the Eastern and Western sides of The Bay in Maryland.

The Bay Bridge/Tunnel connects the Virginia part of the DelMarVa peninsula (south of Chincoteague) with the Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Hampton Roads area of Virginia. I have never driven it, and don't ever intend to. Tunnels scare me, too!

Baltimore's Harbor tunnel is bad enough. At over 50 years old, it's really creepy. I don't trust infrastructure that old, especially when it's underwater!

 

[Spellbound]

I had a great uncle on my father side that was killed on a bridge while driving an 18 wheeler, so maybe that is where I get some fear of bridges. It was in the mid fifties. I vaguely remember a newspaper article I hate long two lane bridges with no where to go. I hate the High Five and other overpasses and interchanges in the metroplex. And I hate driving next to the concrete barriers.

[video=youtu;cufE4dw5d0Q]http://youtu.be/cufE4dw5d0Q[/video]


I've been over the Chesapeake Bay bridge and IIRC it was in the midst of construction, then in the tunnel? I hate tunnels too.

Oh my lord, I had to hold my breath and sit very still to watch that video .... it was like being on a roller coaster (not me, won't do that again!) and I kept trying to hold onto the door handle! Guess I won't ever be going to Texas, not even as a passenger. Yikes, but it was terrifying. And the traffic ..... does it go that fast, or was that sped up? Too many lanes for this country gal. Just give me a two lane dirt road any time.

the only bus I could find... :underbus: :giggle:



Thank you Spellbound! I hope the pacemaker helps him too!!!



Now that neesaki told us her dream - and you brought up this particular road!! I remember a recurrent dream starting when I was 10 or 11 years old. We lived in Novato and my mother drove us on Hwy 37 where there is water on both sides! Well, in the dream - all of sudden the car starts flying thru the air over the water, but always woke up after that! And I had that dream at LEAST 10 to 15 times. Haven't had it quite for a long time - but always remember that dream...

And the Foresthill Bridge of which you mentioned was my avatar - yes - it's 522 ft high!! Also, the Foresthill Bridge over the North Fork American River is the highest bridge in the U.S. state of California and the fourth highest in the United States. We've walked out to the middle and it's a really nice view of the canyons!

anyway - was going to sign off for the night cguru: and just wanted to "see" what you all were talking about! :gathering:

See you all tomorrow!! :seeya:

No wonder I can't go anywhere these days. Bridges are too scary, and your water view reminded me of driving along those causeways (I think that is what they are called) in Florida, with barely a sideguard on each side as you cross the waterways. I held my breath then, too.

And the Appalachian Mountains .... gads, I was a frozen zombie, nearly crawled under the dash board. When we got down off the mountains I could not uncurl my frozen-fists.

 

[GigiG]

“THE ADVOCATE”

"Quiet and mystical, yet very inspiring and tireless idealists"

So you are "mystical"?

I dunno, I guess it depends on how you define it (different dictionaries have slightly different definitions).

I have what I consider to be a rich spiritual life, though not rooted in any one religion. To greater or lesser extents, I can find good in all of them -- Theism, which is the antithesis of Atheism.

The "tireless idealist" thing? I totally own that part!

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

2009 - A new dinosaur species was discovered in Australia by paleontologists on a sheep farm in Queensland. The fossils of the dinosaur are estimated to be around 97 million years old and belong to an herbivore sauropod.

[video=youtu;8ZwLXduaXOc]http://youtu.be/8ZwLXduaXOc[/video]

 

[neesaki]

PERSONALITY TEST
Takes less than 12 minutes.

http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
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PERSONALITY TYPES

http://www.16personalities.com/personality-types
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I am a Sentinel- the Defender

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I'm a Diplomat - the Mediator.... Huh?

Well, my husband says that's absolutely right, I'm not too sure. Maybe he knows me better than I know myself, LOL.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Wow, the High Five looks pretty intimidating. The traffic on the video looks pretty light, so I'm assuming it's much worse during rush hours. No thanks!

There is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and then there is also the Chesapeake Bay Bridge/Tunnel; two separate things. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge connects the Eastern and Western sides of The Bay in Maryland.

The Bay Bridge/Tunnel connects the Virginia part of the DelMarVa peninsula (south of Chincoteague) with the Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Hampton Roads area of Virginia. I have never driven it, and don't ever intend to. Tunnels scare me, too!

Baltimore's Harbor tunnel is bad enough. At over 50 years old, it's really creepy. I don't trust infrastructure that old, especially when it's underwater!

I am shocked about how little traffic there was. Add several hundred cars and trucks traveling at 60mph, with distracted drivers, angry drivers and just plain mean people bumper to bumper traffic and it get's interesting. These interchanges are growing in number and that's not counting the toll roads. The new LBJ toll road opened about a year ago and it's toll is different at times - heavy to lite traffic. You pay for the convenience. When it opened a woman told the Morning News that it was racial discrimination because blacks couldn't afford to pay the price.


Look at the google satellite and you'll see how many interchanges there are now. It's been ten years since the high five opened.


I flew into Philadelphia and we drove to Richmond on 95? It was in 2005 and IIRC they were building the new one next to it. You could see the rebar and pilings. And I remember a tunnel but not sure where.


The first tunnel I went through was in Mobile Alabama. Under the water. I held my breath until we came out the other end.

 

[neesaki]

Leonardo DiCaprio to Play America’s Most Famously Prolific Serial Killer for Martin Scorsese

"Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are all notorious names in America’s history. But if it’s gruesome murder sprees and style you want, then the U.S. serial killer for you is H.H. Holmes...

H.H. Holmes admitted to killing 27 women in the time surrounding the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, but is widely believed to have dispatched closer to 200 victims. Holmes built himself the perfect murdering machine in the shape of a diabolical hotel since nicknamed the Murder Castle. (American Horror Story Season 5, anyone?) The structure had gas lines that fed into rooms, enormous furnaces, lime and acid pits, and large vaults where Holmes tortured, suffocated, and strangled his victims. All the while decked out in the natty attire of a well-to-do 19th-century gentleman.."

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood...-city-serial-killer?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003

This is one serial killer I'm really not familiar with but would like to learn more. It sounds like it has the potential to be a very good film, especially with DiCaprio. My favorite one with him is Shutter Island, have you seen that one? :scared:

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Way back when our kids were young we'd go to South Padre Island each years. The first trip we took was in my brand new 1980 Oldsmobile Toronado charcoal grey clear coat hardtop with everything on it Valentine from dh husband. A beautiful car. I loved it and called it a poor mans cadillac because dh had a silver 1980 ElDorado. Which leads to another story.


So we drive there, and then we drive to Brownsville Tx and across the Rio Grande into Matamoros Mexico to the market. When we left the market dh got turned around on the traffic circle and we drove around town and finally found a Goodyear tire shop and someone who spoke English and he gave us directions to the bridge. Except it wasn't the International Bridge. it was a railroad trestle/bridge across the Rio Grande back into Texas. Talk about hands clenched tight on the dashboard.


My mother told a story about when my father was teaching her to drive, and when they were going across a little one lane county road bridge he said turn right and she did - right off the bridge. He told her meant after the bridge. But with my father you'd jump up and do things quickly to keep from him getting pissed and throwing a fit.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

This is one serial killer I'm really not familiar with but would like to learn more. It sounds like it has the potential to be a very good film, especially with DiCaprio. My favorite one with him is Shutter Island, have you seen that one? :scared:

I read a book about Holmes back in the eighties and it scared the crap out of me. He was pure evil. He'd take in women with children and they'd never be seen again. I think DiCaprio would be good in a movie.

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

Do you ever daydream about doing something your family would think you're nuts for doing? What if we did take a big bus trip? Where would we begin and stop? Who would join us on our way? What sights would we want to see along our way? Would it include a trip to Mesa and Queensbrough Avenue? and a drive by Perryville so we could wave? and maybe a tour of the courthouse hoping to see Juan Martinez? and take KCL and her dh out for lunch? Maybe Bernina wouldn't mind if we could stop by to see Zuri our horse niece, and take her with us. Hmm how many states are represented in here? Texas, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina Washington DC and Baltimore and Arizona?

 

[ILikeToBendPages]

1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan dies in a helicopter crash near East Troy, Wisconsin, following a concert at the Alpine Valley Music Theater where earlier in the evening he appeared with Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, and his older brother, Jimmie Vaughan.

[video=youtu;NU0MF8pwktg]http://youtu.be/NU0MF8pwktg[/video]

 

[Dmacky]

Mornin Pages :wave:
Can't sleep either???

 

[Dmacky]

I found out by chance that Elvis Presley's grandfather (Vernon's dad) lived in Louisville. When I researched it, he is buried in the same cemetery as my husband, parents and aunt! I'll have to look for his stone the next time I'm there.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1751

I also found this interview Vernon gave in 1978. It's an interesting read.

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/interview_vernon_presley.html

 

[Dmacky]

Born in 1896, Elvis' Grandfather Jessie D Presley was often regarded as the 'bad apple' of his family- and described as being 'mean as hell' .

Elvis supposedly had little connection with his Grandfather. This may not be surprising since the wife he divorced, Minnie Mae, lived with Elvis at Graceland. She would go on to outlive both her son Vernon, as well as her grandson Elvis.

As mentioned in the article below ~ in all fairness, this is only one side of the story.

http://www.elvisinfonet.com/spotlight_JesseDPresley.html

 

[coffeejunkie]

A sixteen year-old boy came home with a new Chevrolet Avalanche and his parents began to yell and scream, "Where did you get that truck?!"
He calmly told them, "I bought it today." "With what money?" demanded his parents. They knew what a Chevrolet Avalanche cost.
"Well," said the boy, "this one cost me just fifteen dollars." So the parents began to yell even louder. "Who would sell a truck like that for fifteen dollars?" they said. "It was the lady up the street," said the boy. I don"t know her name - they just moved in. She saw me ride past on my bike and asked me if I wanted to buy a Chevrolet Avalanche for fifteen dollars."
"Oh my Goodness!," moaned the mother, "she must be a child abuser. Who knows what she will do next? John, you go right up there and see what"s going on."
So the boy"s father walked up the street to the house where the lady lived and found her out in the yard calmly planting petunias!
He introduced himself as the father of the boy to whom she had sold a new Chevrolet Avalanche for fifteen dollars and demanded to know why she did it.
"Well," she said, "this morning I got a phone call from my husband. "I thought he was on a business trip, but learned from a friend he had run off to Hawaii with his mistress and really doesn"t intend to come back." "He claimed he was stranded and needed cash, and asked me to sell his new Chevrolet Avalanche and send him the money. So I did."

 

[Dmacky]

Do you ever daydream about doing something your family would think you're nuts for doing? What if we did take a big bus trip? Where would we begin and stop? Who would join us on our way? What sights would we want to see along our way? Would it include a trip to Mesa and Queensbrough Avenue? and a drive by Perryville so we could wave? and maybe a tour of the courthouse hoping to see Juan Martinez? and take KCL and her dh out for lunch? Maybe Bernina wouldn't mind if we could stop by to see Zuri our horse niece, and take her with us. Hmm how many states are represented in here? Texas, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina Washington DC and Baltimore and Arizona?

plus California: Niner, and LinasK and
Delaware: Zuri
I hope we didn't leave anyone out?? :thinking:

Wouldn't this be fun? (Not practical, but fun)
Everyone write their names with a marker on a card. Then have one person at a time come in and place the name card in front of the person you think they are, just from reading their posts :smile:
I bet I could pick out Hatfield :lol: