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Thursday, July 27. 2017Thursday morning linksStudy Offers Glimpse Into American Sex Lives Half of Class of 2016 are ‘A’ Students—Even Though Their SAT Scores Stink "A" is for Attendance California Growing Too Much Marijuana And Can't Get Rid of Surplus " Dr. Lloyd Minor, dean of Stanford University School of Medicine, says “there is nothing more frustrating to a patient than talking to their doctor, wanting advice, and that provider is typing away and looking at a computer screen.” Global Warming Discussions Need Apocalyptic Thinking Or Something Poll: Most Climate Change Believers Haven’t Changed Their Lifestyles Westchester at Liberty - In a welcome move, HUD will cease micromanaging the county’s housing policy. Halper: Obamacare Repeal Woes Due to Inherent Difficulty of Taking an Entitlement Away Huffington Post Deletes 2016 Tweet Predicting Hillary Has 98% Chance Of Winning Election… This was a pretty famous tweet and somehow it’s disappeared. Probably an oversight … The Democrats’ Anthropological Field Trip to Study Americans Undercover Video: CNN Producer Admits ‘Automatic Bias’ Against Conservatives Believing 'Speech Is Violence' Justifies Actual Violence LIMBAUGH: Republicans Are Squandering An Opportunity They Never Thought They’d Get At what point does a president become too erratic to function? WINNING! Walmart Unveils Manufacturing Plan to Create 1.5 MILLION New AMERICAN Jobs Trump to Announce Apple Supplier Foxconn Opening Wisconsin Plant Migrants Overwhelm German Courts with Asylum Lawsuits: ‘This Will Paralyze Us for Years’ Sultan: Don't Be Pro-Israel, Be Pro-Sarah Rolling Stone has a crush on Justin Trudeau Wednesday, July 26. 2017Physical work, exercise, and the desire for life free from physical effort and discomfort
Hansen himself has always done farm work and brain work. Just one of many quotable paragraphs:
Wednesday morning links"Why is Michigan's Upper Peninsula not part of Wisconsin?" Shrinkflation at the supermarket Sneaky Would a supervolcano wipe out civilization? Roomba maker may share maps of users' homes with Google, Amazon or Apple Why Randi Weingarten has to lie to attack school choice Feds Dole Out $3 Million To Fight “Microaggressions” In Science Fields… Princeton’s new ‘men’s engagement manager’ to combat aggressive masculinity on campus Toxic femininity vs "toxic masculinity." Sheesh. Can't we all just get along? Berkeley Radio Station Cancels Richard Dawkins Appearance Over His Denigrating Comments About Islamism-- But Not Over His Far More Extensive History of Attacks on Christianity Muslims are a protected group Like him or not, ya gotta admit Rush has fun with his radio show He just has to talk about his iPhone Drugs vs. Border: How Smugglers Get Creative (video) Rescind the Obamacare Rule Exempting Congress Coyote: Public Choice and "Privilege" Economy Needs Workers, but Drug Tests Take a Toll Democrats 'Better Deal' Agenda Isn't New, And It Isn't Better Dems promise freebies, Repubs promise jobs growth The Democratic Party’s False Centrism Trump Is Offering Populism, Minus the Free Candy PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SICKENING TREATMENT OF JEFF SESSIONS " Trump seems surprised by all the difficulties he's facing as president. Does he have any idea of how his treatment of those who work with him will make it even more difficult to find competent people who are willing to come work for him?" Does anyone doubt that the New York Times has already prepared the title for the editorial on terminating the Trump presidency. Perhaps it reads: "Now, Finally, He Must Go! Tuesday, July 25. 2017Tuesday morning linksPhoto: Buy Maggie's Ant Kill Can't Afford a Vacation? Blame the State! The billion-dollar palaces of Apple, Facebook and Google Tesla battery, subsidy and sustainability fantasies The stair story: Everything You Need to Know about Government, in One Story Steve Jobs Wanted to Break Up the Education Monopoly TNR: Climate change is killing us right now Kotkin: Why the Greens Lost, and Trump Won - It’s tough to prevail with an agenda that makes people poorer, more subservient and more miserable. That disconnect is one part of how this awful guy made it to the White House. New Warmist Prognostication: A One In Three Chance Of Record Rainfall Menton: Official Announcement Of New Supplemental Petition To EPA Charlie Gard: parents end legal battle as time runs out for critically ill baby Government vs the person The Edenic religion of the Left What’s the Matter with Democrats? The Democrats have unveiled their new slogan: a “Better Deal.” Are Democrats turning to an alliance between neocons and neoliberals? If so, it’s a terrible strategy In Bizarre Rant, Schumer Claims Gas Prices ‘Never Go Down,’ Despite 12-Year Low Under POTUS Trump Needs To Be Smart About How He Fires Mueller JUSTINE DAMOND: A Casualty of Islamophobia THE EU: AUTHORITARIANISM THROUGH COMPLEXITY: Monday, July 24. 2017Monday morning linksBear chases 200 sheep over cliff edge Where was the shepherd? Killing feral horses Falling in love with your friend’s spouse? Charlie Gard And The Experts Vatican archbishop: All should accept that global warming is a fact Hot Temperatures In Summer Have Been Declining For Decades Former UN climate chief: Only three years left to save the planet Ozone Hole was life or death issue The 'Amazon Washington Post,' and Why It Needs to Be Destroyed ICE Plans Crackdown On Teen Gang Members, Which Is Apparently A Bad Thing Or Something Dear Sanctuary Cities: ICE Is “Open For Business” AN ANTI-KOCH RAMPAGE AT WAKE FOREST Professor Wants to Combat Merit by Basing Admissions on Lottery A Word of Thanks From a Welfare Recipient ‘Buy American’ has little meaning in today’s world of globalized supply chains Remembering a WSJ Pulitzer winner: Joseph Rago’s column on the wacky comparisons between Trump and ‘1984’ Will Progressive Democrats Abandon Busybody Dream Of Perfecting Humanity? To read Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd is to return to highschool, where eye-rolling is argument, and lack of style is a sin. Mueller found the man (Trump), now he’ll find the crime - If Bloomberg News report is accurate as to expanded probe of Trump, then we’re heading into Soviet territory. FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Ordered Mueller To Deliver Uranium To Russians In ‘Secret Tarmac Meeting’ London Caves to Political Correctness Germany: NO GROPING, DAMN IT! A New Look at the Death of Europe Poland appears to be dismantling its own hard-won democracy Dutch Euthanasia is “Killing” Israeli 'mental first-aid' method offered to attack victims abroad Operation Good Neighbor: Israel reveals its massive humanitarian aid to Syria Sunday, July 23. 2017Easy hiking?This hike pic from the Isle of Harris looks unchallenging, doesn't it? The pic does not show what was needed to get to that plateau - or to get down from it. As our guide said, "Be careful with your steps. This hike has consequences." Meaning a possible violent death. I'd rate the challenge of our 9-mile hike up and around Hushinish a 2, but for fear and danger...difficult to rate 8-10" rocky and unstable sheep trails along cliff edges. Can't be chickenshit in life. Go go hi ho. It's always worth it when you get to the top. More pics from the Isles of Harris and Lewis when I get them organized.
Stuff you vigorous outdoor people can use: A brief review of hiking ratings
There are so many rating systems that it can be confusing or misleading. And when it comes to off-trail wilderness hiking, which we did a lot of in the Outer Hebrides, you really need a guide who knows the terrain to estimate what sorts of challenges you can handle. In less wilderness areas, of course, we all get a kick out of doing off-trail explorations on our own. Not always a good idea. Many difficulty- rating systems are based on altitude changes, steepness of grade, length, agility-requirements, and risks (eg weather, cliffs, boulder fields, etc.). Other rating systems are based on technical difficulty alone. I'll pick one example: the famous and popular Tuckerman Ravine trail up New Hampshire's Mount Washington. Alltrails rates it as Hard on their Easy/Moderate/Hard system. But what does that really mean? 9 year-olds prance up it with daypacks. What it means is that there is a substantial altitude change, variable weather (foolishly-unprepared people have died of exposure up there but it would be difficult to be that stupid), and high rocky steps at times, but it is a relatively easy hike if you are in good health and cardio condition. It's a 7-hr hike up to Lion's Head and back down - what Europeans call "hill-walking." In the European system, the Tuck hike probably would be rated in the 2 range on their 1-5 rating system. Several of our Hebrides hikes would be rated Hard (if you sometimes have to be on your hands and knees grasping rocks and heather to get up the steeps) in some US systems, but all were around level 2-2.3 in the Euro system. I like that Euro system which takes into account your fitness level and the hike's challenges. In my view, though, those Euro ratings - "Easy" to "Expedition-Level" - do underestimate the challenges. The Euro level 2 to 2.3 range is plenty for me. On level 3, I suspect that I would be a slowpoke in a group. People do not like to have to wait for the slowpokes. On straight steep uphills, off-trail, with unstable footing, I need a minute to catch my breath every 20-30 steps. I call that "admiring the scenery" or "taking a picture." Since we're talking about hill-walking - all-terrain hiking - and not technical mountaineering, we are mostly talking about stamina and cardio conditioning. Strength is not a major factor but mental and physical stamina are. Trailmaster posts about two common American rating systems in Choosing a Difficulty Level for Your Hike is a Key to Wise Hike Planning Here's another piece about different rating systems for hikes and mountain bikers: TRAIL DIFFICULTY RATINGS SIGNS And yet another to rate hikes you have taken: Hike Evaluation Calculator Photo is from the popular hill walk/climb, Breakneck Ridge Trail in the very pleasant village of Cold Spring, NY. It's a 6-mile hill walk but the first mile involves lots of scrambling and a 2000-foot altitude change which is why some people rate it at a rather high - too high - 3 because anybody in decent shape can do it.
Mrs. Fawlty, she go crazy!From today's Lectionary: You have searched me and known me...Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24
Saturday, July 22. 2017Saturday morning links
No One Hates Your Transgender Child. We Hate What You Are Doing to Him How fentanyl is making deadly drugs even deadlier Loving a Borderline Idleness kills manliness How Capitalism Averted The Bee-Pocalypse The Man Who Got Americans To Eat Trash Fish Is Now A Billionaire The 20 most in-demand jobs that pay more than $100,000 World War II Military Surplus 1911’s Coming To Store Shelves Ice cover in Greenland is steadily increasing, in defiance of rising carbon levels and even greater levels of green rhetoric. Claremont McKenna Punishes 7 Students Over Blockade Of Heather Mac Donald Speech California College Chancellor Wants To Abolish Algebra Requirement, Calls It A ‘Civil Rights Issue’ How bad is grade inflation? Minnesota Schools Adopt Transgender Toolkit for Kindergartners I think the real problem is that he’s embarrassed them by solving the problem quickly, easily, and cheaply. That is unforgivable. Food Stamp Use Falls to Lowest Level in Seven Years Political Intolerance Is Rising Media Spins Positive Trump Poll as Negative Where did white voters back Hillary Clinton? Clinton Scandal Only Deepens — So Why Is Trump, Not Hillary, Targeted For Investigation? Latest Deep State Leak Proves Obama Was Spying on Trump Campaign Early On MUELLER EXPANDS HIS PROBE AGAIN - It’s all Russia, Russia and Trump, Trump -- all the time. Mike Pompeo: Russia Interfered In The 2016 Campaign — And Campaigns Before That [Fill in Name of Government Program] Would Have Worked Had the Right Person Been Running It Gorka: America is back with the first 6 months of Trump President Trump Kills 16 Regulations For Every New One, Crushing 2-For-1 Goal Netanyahu Unbound Slovenia’s Side of Melania’s Story: How the First Lady’s Upbringing in Communist Eastern Europe Shaped Her Fight for Freedom in America Amsterdam to punish unsuccessful dating attempts Sweden: A Failed State? The Red Cross and the Holocaust Iran’s terrorism goliath - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps terrorizes its own people and casts a dark shadow over the world A free ad for Wilderness Scotland
Not expensive. Group sizes are 2-8 people. They will expect you to be in fair physical shape, regardless of age.
Also, if you ever do find yourself out there, here's a cool day trip from Skye: GO TO ST KILDA
Friday, July 21. 2017When you leave a tetherball in the forestFriday morning linksPocket knives and .22s: Times Change Out From Under Us (H/t Am. Digest) Why ‘Vogue’’s Attempt to Embrace ‘Gender Fluidity’ Backfired Why We Should Allow Boys to Fight Taking Care of a Friend’s Dog For The Weekend? Better Have a License, NYC Says NPR: Having That Extra Child Could Cause “Climate Trauma” Want To Stop Global Warming? Stop Having Kids And Eating Hamburgers LIBERAL TALKING HEADS TURN AGAINST THE WEST When Institutions Go Left John McCain's unfortunate news: What does it mean? Run, Kamala, Run President Trump's Voter Fraud Commission Meets, Smeared by Deniers The U.S. Military Rewrites the Basic Laws of Biology...What's Next? Thursday, July 20. 2017Thursday morning linksHow did dogs become our best friends? New evidence ´Let them eat food off the floor, play in the soil!´: It IS important to expose your children to germs to boost their immune system, expert urges At age 111, America's oldest veteran is still smoking cigars, drinking whiskey and loving life The Royal Family's dress code uncovered Why Americans Are Having Less Sex Perfect: Listen, Area Boss Gets It USA Today: People Might Be Upset By Lack Of Women, Black People In ‘Dunkirk Green Cronyism Gone Wild: It Looks Like The State Of California Is Bailing Out Tesla What Facebook Can Learn From Company Towns - As the technology firm plans to build a village in Silicon Valley, history suggests what can sustain a company town long after its founders are gone. No Justification for Importing More Low-skilled Labor, Study Claims The Myth of Technological Unemployment - If the nightmare of technological unemployment were true, it would already have happened, repeatedly and massively. The Mother of All Disruptions - Yes, robots are coming to the workplace, fast—and yes, America will change. These Technologies Are Changing Farms in Some Surprising Ways - As agriculture adopts recent advances in automation and data science, farms will become super-efficient — and perhaps a bit lonely. My University Treated Me Like a Criminal Over a Joke Why It's a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence The English Language Is Under Attack. We Must Defend It.
WaPo’s Latest Worries About How Somali Community Will React To Police Shooting Epstein: The Single-Payer Siren Ronald Reagan has the answer to GOP’s ObamaCare riddle The Left’s ‘Hamburger Problem’ Is Not Going Away
Elizabeth Warren Attends Martha’s Vineyard Fundraising Dinner Hosted By Big Bank Executive About erasing history:
While Nation Is Focused On Healthcare, The WH Press Corps Continue To Push Russia Conspiracies Taxing Hospitals Is a Lousy Way to Fix Health Care- Higher hospital profits were a feature of Obamacare, not a bug. Fmr. U.N. Amb. Power Emerges As Central Figure In Obama Unmasking Investigation - Congress demands answers on why Obama officials demanded classified intel that harmed Trump Pavlich: Clinton’s Russia dirt Tucker Carlson Calls Out Dems For Double Standard On Russia USPS broke law in allowing workers to boost Clinton campaign, watchdog says New Documents Suggest “Puff Pieces” On Dem Sen. Kamala Harris Due to Major Spending With PR Firm Palestinians: Another Lopsided Deal Palestinian Authority’s 2017 Budget Shows ‘Huge Increase’ in Funding for Terror Payments UNESCO is an Immoral, Anti-Semitic Organization - Decent Countries Should Leave Wednesday, July 19. 2017Wednesday morning linksWhy Andrew Wyeth’s Art – Once Derided – Has Outlived His Critics Another Reason Men Don't Work: Imaginary World More Enjoyable Than The Real World Disney Vows to Give Epcot a Magical, Long-Overdue Makeover 2 Monkeys Were Paid Unequally; See What Happens Next (video) California: Golden No More LINDA SARSOUR'S SAUDI ARABIA ARRESTS WOMAN IN SKIRT FOR "DISRESPECTING TEACHINGS OF ISLAM" For Climate-Change Hypocrites, U.S. Is Too Frackin' Much LGBT Mega-Donor Reveals Next Goal: 'Punish the Wicked' Gay Marriage Opponents Leaked Email Shows Hillary Camp Internally Bragging About “Killing” a Story Linking Bill Clinton $500K Moscow Speech to Magnitsky Bill What killed Senate health care bill? Liberal Medicaid alarmism Democrats Will Soon Regret That Republicans Failed To Repeal ObamaCare CBO Analysis of Trump Budget Shows Need for Entitlement Reform, Pro-Growth Tax Policies Tuesday, July 18. 2017Life in America: I like my dentist, etc.
His political incorrectness would get him instantly fired anywhere but in his own office, but his female assistants just get a kick out of his bawdiness and Trumpism. We always talk about weight lifting and hiking and a little about sex. Conversation becomes a bit one-sided once my mouth is full of cold stainless steel tools of torture, but I am getting the hang of it over time. I wish he were a bit slower, because yanking a bad tooth before the novocaine has taken full effect is unnerving, but getting out of there faster is preferable for me. Why does it help so much when that sweet Filipino gal puts her hand on my shoulder when the going gets tough? Filipino Magic. Wonderful people - the best. He recently completed his 6th muti-day hiking and camping trip in the Grand Canyon with his brother, a buddy, and uncle. No wives signed on. 45-lb packs. I suggested that it might be time to try a new place, and he said they would, having done all the basic GC trails including the worst one which scared the crap out of him. Maybe the Indian Trail. Like me, he is acrophobic but does it anyway. (Lots of people hate heights, so it's really normal. Even when I am snorkeling somewhere, and there is a steep drop-off on a ledge or reef, it gives me the creeps but I generally conceal my fears as much as I can. It's a guy thing.) Isn't facing down your fears the thing that builds the "can-do" in a person, whether male, female, or gender-confused? One of my greatest fears is walking into a dental office, but I take the valium he gives me, then man-up and walk in with a flirt with the sweet gals and a fresh joke ready - ready to act cool...like a mass-murderer to the execution room.
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Monday linksLate due to extended delightful dental fun There Is No Human Right to a Big Mac EVANGELICAL FUNDAMENTALISM AND CATHOLIC INTEGRALISM IN THE USA: A SURPRISING ECUMENISM “Do Not Cite Research By White Men” 6 behaviors making men unemployable Do All Moms Truly Believe Their Boys Are Rapists? Reynolds: How long do you want to live? Amazon Prime does more for northern food security than federal subsidies, say Eskimos That’s right: Nearly half of America’s Class of 2016 are A students. The Yale Record Found Dave Brooks Scared-of-Sandwiches Friend Why corporate elites support mass immigration Jane Sanders: This Fraud Probe Is “Incredibly Sexist,” You Know Vietnam: Are PBS and Ken Burns about to Rewrite History Again? Recycled Gore: The former vice president resurfaces, with another round of familiar apocalyptic predictions. THAT "IRANIAN CANCER RESEARCHER" WHOM US BANNED WAS A JIHADIST Report: Anti-Israel Textbooks Turning Young Americans Against Israel Shock: Snopes Factchecks MSM's Fake News The news: “I Hate To Say It, But I Wake Up In The Morning Looking Forward To What Else Is Coming” For Liberals, The Shadow Of Donald Trump Looms Far Larger Than The Man The Myths of 1953 - Newly declassified documents reveal the CIA to have been mostly a bystander in the Iranian coup. Israel and Hezbollah: The Battle before the Battle Monday, July 17. 2017Skye and Outer Hebrides photo travelogue, #2 of 3: The Isle of SkyeOur group of 8 assembled at the Inverness train station, and proceeded by van through the mainland Highlands to Skye. Highlands, where they cut down all the trees centuries ago:
Like many or most of the place names in the Hebrides, "Skye" is Norse. And speaking of languages, 60% of Hebrideans speak "Gallic." That's the Scottish Gaelic. All signs are in "Gallic" and English. Luckily, they also speak a strange form of English which is possible to understand at times. Once over the new bridge to Skye, we took a 2-hr warm-up hike during which the weather changed from fog to drizzle to heavy rain to peeks of sun. A good intro to island weather. Not for sissies.
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Continue reading "Skye and Outer Hebrides photo travelogue, #2 of 3: The Isle of Skye " Monday morning linksAncient Peat Bog Sheds New Light On When Sahara Turned Into A Desert – But Not Why It Happened The 4 Best Reasons to Skip Church — Debunked Anglicans and Episcopalians: Why bother going to church, when you can get the same liberal lecture from television? Student gets stuck in giant stone vagina in Germany Were chastity belts a myth? Stone vagina didn't have one on When Your Doctor Is Fitter Than You Are Book Review – 4/5 Stars: “101 Things ALL Young Adults Should Know” Ride Hailing Is Being Blamed For Taking Down Credit Unions In New York City San Francisco Bans Chocolate Milk … Because Anything Enjoyable Is Obviously Evil Why can't governments just give us the short list of what is permitted? California Doesn’t Have Money To Fix Roads, Drops Millions On Gun Violence Research The New York Times Thinking Speech Is Violence Is Laughable NY Times Goes Mac & Cheesy With Science How the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders The ancient Greeks invented them Haiti Official Who Exposed The Clinton Foundation Is Found Dead. Interesting: Fusion GPS Co-Founder Refuses to Appear Before Senate Judiciary Committee Editorial: Campus rape? Call the police. Colleges Pay Diversity Officers More Than Professors, Staff Climate-change fearmongering has turned totally unhinged IS GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM A COMPLETE FRAUD? California wants to run the auto industry Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage Experiment Does Not Bode Well for the Rest of Us It's a job-killer They said they'd be extinct by now Pruitt blasts Europe, Merkel for ‘hypocrisy’ on climate Research Team Slams Global Warming Data In New Report: "Not Reality... Totally Inconsistent With Credible Temperature Data" I think I am normal, and I don't care This Is What Happens When You Ask Pro-Taxers to Pay More Natural Law: Mark Levin on Rediscovering Americanism GOP Guest Hits MSNBC Host With Stat of Journalists Donating 96% to Clinton The weaponization of the law, particularly the civil courts has become so common, that we no longer notice it. Is Major Medical insurance junk insurance? Democrats' Real, Pervasive Collusion With Russia Somehow Lost In Media's Hysterical Anti-Trump Campaign I've Worked with Refugees for Decades. Europe's Afghan Crime Wave Is Mind-Boggling. Italy Threatens EU With "Nuclear Option": Give 200,000 Migrants EU Visas, Sending Them North Europe: Frustrated, Joe plops down in front of his TV, only to hear his favorite comedian mock White males like him while praising the politician responsible for mass lay-offs and mass immigration.
Sunday, July 16. 2017Have some old Madeira, m'dearWine dating from the American Revolution era discovered at historic New Jersey house The tune is feminist-approved -
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From today's Lectionary: Hear then the parable of the sowerMatthew 13:1-9, 18-23
13:1 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 13:2 Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. 13:3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. 13:4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. 13:5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. 13:6 But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. 13:7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 13:8 Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 13:9 Let anyone with ears listen!" 13:18 "Hear then the parable of the sower. 13:19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is sown in the heart; this is what was sown on the path. 13:20 As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 13:21 yet such a person has no root, but endures only for a while, and when trouble or persecution arises on account of the word, that person immediately falls away. 13:22 As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing. 13:23 But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty." Scottish Breakfast menu
Pic: I like Kippers. That's the morning I ordered kippers with fried eggs. Best kippers I ever had but, sheesh, it's just too much. I never ordered haggis or blood pudding (pudding in the UK can mean sausage), but Mrs. BD is fond of the latter. Funny thing I saw: A food truck on a scenic overlook in Skye serving sliced haggis on a burger bun with ketchup. Very popular. Seemed revolting to me. Scottish breakfast menus are a variant of English breakfasts with a Scottish accent. Typical items on the menus we were presented with in Inverness and the Hebrides below, whatever combinations or numbers of items you wish, of course - it comes with the room: Tea or coffee (Scots, Aussies, and Brits take the tea) Porridge (aka Oatmeal)
Saturday, July 15. 2017Zipper pulls on the left sideHad to buy an emergency Gore-tex rain jacket in Inverness. The old one I brought with me had lost its Gore-tex effect (that happens over time), and it only took an hour of cool drizzle to realize it. Crazy mixed-up Europeans put jacket zipper-pulls on the left side. I am not well-coordinated enough to manage that easily. It feels awkward and unnatural to put the thing in the slot with my right hand, taking too long fumbling with a darn jacket zipper when I could be falling off a cliff or sliding into mud instead. My Barbour is the same way. I know, First World Problems but guys learn their zipper routines very early in life and they become automatic.
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CoolersPeople tell me Yeti coolers are the best. Might be. They are the most expensive, by far. Keeping things cold for a day or two can be accomplished by any Coleman cooler. My conclusion is that the Yetis are a status symbol, but if somebody gave me one, I would use it.
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