The 'What are you doing tonight' discussion

[Graeme]

36 minutes ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

that is stunning! it kind of reminds me of the view from my house.

ohhhh no was not in the water. like i said it's too cold to swim plus after seeing the warning signs about the great whites there was no chance i'd go in  plus i am pretty one of them was whetting their appetite by eating a seal i saw go under and never saw come back up

so nice you live so close to the sea

yeah it was better for swimming when i lived in Sac...one year i swam from late May til the first week of November

May til November!? I hope you at least stopped to eat sometimes! I dunno if the sharks would care how pretty you are, but seal eating sounds accurate .

I love living on the West Coast, it's the most beautiful part of Scotland for definite, so diverse and dynamic. The sunsets here are breathtaking.

I don't really know anything about Reno other than it was in Sister Act, which I haven't seen since I was about 18...

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

1 minute ago, Graeme said:

May til November!? I hope you at least stopped to eat sometimes! I dunno if the sharks would care how pretty you are, but seal eating sounds accurate .

I love living on the West Coast, it's the most beautiful part of Scotland for definite, so diverse and dynamic. The sunsets here are breathtaking.

I don't really know anything about Reno other than it was in Sister Act, which I haven't seen since I was about 18...

*blushing* i meant to say i am pretty sure

Reno is fine as long as you avoid the casinos. and the area i used to live in. it kind of all came to a head when i heard a gun shot late one night, it sounded very close to my house. turns out it was the next block over  it was a murder over drugs.

where you live sounds very nice!!

[Graeme]

Was that when you decided to move up the mountain that you currently live on? Do you work up there too, or do you have to go back to the city?

Where I live is the kind of place where you can stand in the middle of the road for 5 minutes and not worry about getting hit by anything, or leave your bike on the front lawn overnight by accident and find that it's still there the following day.

The cool thing is that Glasgow City Centre's only 25 minutes away on the train though, with its profusion of bars, clubs, shops, cinemas, theatres, live music venues, museums, parks and more (I feel like I should work for the Scottish Tourist Board) so I get the best of both the urban and rural worlds. Whenever I'm bored of one, I just dip into the other.

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

it was a part of it. i moved to Reno from Sacramento and at the time that was the only part of Reno i could afford. but my dad passed away a few years back and allowed me to move. i just moved from the north part of Reno to the south, but it's not really in the city limits. once you turn off state route 341 the roads turn to bumpy unpaved roads. which is fine as i have a 4 wheel drive. it just really sucks because we have to use propane tanks out here as there are no gas lines yet. propane is quite expensive! Reno is changing a lot as more and more businesses come here, such as Tesla which is coming here soon. we have some cultural events, and we have a lot of things here in the summer like Hot August Nights where people come from all over to show off their classic old cars and participate in car shows and such. we also have hot air balloon races and Burning Man is a little more than 2 hours away. also we have tons of pub crawls for different things like a Halloween one and a Christmas one, just any excuse to have one

plus it's only two hours to Sacramento and four from the ocean and San Francisco. and Lake Tahoe is, like i said before, only like 25 minutes away. 

you would make a great spokesman for the Scottish Tourist Board! it sounds delightful

 

Edited December 16, 2016 by AxlsFavoriteRose

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

i can already tell it's going to be one of THOSE days. my dryer died, i have to see the dr. today instead of next week cos she's going on vacation for a month ( i like time to mentally prepare before i see her, ugh ) and something is going in with my nephew and i can't reach him to see if he's okay. so i am thinking a nice soak in my garden tub with a glass of white wine. or two tonight  

[BlueJean Baby]

Yeah my night will definitely involve wine. Something popped in my neck two days ago and its sore as hell. Need something to relax me for sure..

[MillionsOfSpiders]

Just drove up to my hometown of Sheffield to take my little girl to see the Frozen on ice show at the arena. I'm more looking forward to it than her 

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

57 minutes ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

Just drove up to my hometown of Sheffield to take my little girl to see the Frozen on ice show at the arena. I'm more looking forward to it than her 

oh that sounds cool! i hope you two have a wonderful time

[Whiskey Rose]

Went to do the final leg of Christmas shopping today and had to turn around because of snow squalls  On the bright side, no wrapping tonight!

[marlingrl03]

Made some homemade chicken, bean and veggie soup and also baked some gingersnaps. Kitchen a mess right now but it's all good!

[Graeme]

Got together with a bunch of old university pals, we all went out and raided the local supermarket then made an early Christmas dinner together. As you can see, I am the only one to have my priorities correct.

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

35 minutes ago, Graeme said:

Got together with a bunch of old university pals, we all went out and raided the local supermarket then made an early Christmas dinner together. As you can see, I am the only one to have my priorities correct.

looks like a good time @Graeme hope you had fun

[Graeme]

10 hours ago, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

looks like a good time @Graeme hope you had fun

Aye, it was great. Good team effort to make all the food, the meal was delicious (if I do say so myself, I was in charge of the meat, the gravy and the mashed potato) then we played board/card games into the night.

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

Just now, Graeme said:

Aye, it was great. Good team effort to make all the food, the meal was delicious (if I do say so myself, I was in charge of the meat, the gravy and the mashed potato) then we played board/card games into the night.

that sounds like so much fun! what kind of meat was it? and homemade potatoes and gravy?

[Graeme]

Just now, AxlsFavoriteRose said:

that sounds like so much fun! what kind of meat was it? and homemade potatoes and gravy?

Roast chicken breast wrapped in bacon, I made the gravy using the juices from the casserole with the meat, mashed potato is sort of my speciality, butter, cream and no lumps!

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

Just now, Graeme said:

Roast chicken breast wrapped in bacon, I made the gravy using the juices from the casserole with the meat, mashed potato is sort of my speciality, butter, cream and no lumps!

well done you! it all sounds so yummy  

[BlueJean Baby]

Just got some egg nog. Its pretty cold here, so I will probably just chill out tonight, maybe watch TV and drink egg nog. Thinking about spiking mine, but mom doesn't really drink so all I can find in this house is creme de menthe or Canadian Mist...definately won't be the creme de menthe...yuck 

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

today is the the 10 anniversary of getting my baby girl kitty. she literally saved my life after i lost my Gentle Maine Coon Giant boy...trying to find a pic when she was small...this is the best i could find

[AxlsFavoriteRose]

i have more just gotta find them...anyway Happy Anniversay my baby girl

Edited December 20, 2016 by AxlsFavoriteRose

[Axls Rocket Queen]

Just back from London seeing Lazarus, Christmas present from the husband  

[spunko12345]

On 12/15/2016 at 3:45 AM, Graeme said:

Hawaiian lava generally moves slowly enough that people can do stuff like this without much risk of harming themselves.

I've been to a really remote volcanic island in the Pacific before. It's called Isla Socorro, 700 miles off the west coast of Mexico, owned by the Mexican military, so you can only go there as a researcher under Naval escort. I went there with 5 students on a frigate.

It was amazing, so beautiful, the stars in the middle of the ocean were phenomenal, but it was one of the loneliest experiences of my life. I was the only English speaker on the whole trip and my Spanish wasn't very good at the time.

Have there ever been any instances of people falling onto that sort of thick lava. Or better still any footage?

[Graeme]

6 hours ago, spunko12345 said:

Have there ever been any instances of people falling onto that sort of thick lava. Or better still any footage?

Deaths caused by lava are relatively rare, there have only been 887 recorded deaths from lava flows, 0.32% of all known fatalities from volcanic causes. A volcano called Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has lava that moves much faster than that observed at most other volcanoes (mainly just because of differences the chemical composition), up to 60 mph. When it erupted in 1977 and 2002, large, fast-moving lava flows inundated areas of the nearby city of Goma, over 170 people were cooked over both incidents.

I don't think there's any footage of anyone falling into lava, even if there was you'd have to be a hell of a sadist to keep recording, or to watch, because it'd be a horrific way to go. If you fell from a height into a lava lake then the heat would probably do most of the work of killing you before you landed, and the impact with the hard, roasting hot crust on the top of the lava lake would likely finish the job. You can see a simulated version here, where people throw a bound package of organic waste designed to represent a human into the crater of Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia (generally if scientists want to do any experiments with a "what would happen if I threw "x" into a volcano", Erta Ale is your go-to because they have no health and safety restrictions there).

A person falling from a short distance into a moving lava flow likely wouldn't last very long, but the end would be agonising, their tissue would be destroyed on a massive scale, second by second. The parts of them that are unsubmerged would ignite as the air would literally be hot enough to cook them, the water in their body would evaporate... Grim stuff.

[RussTCB]

Hitting a Brazillian steakhouse tonight and I'm pretty stoked about it.

 

[PappyTron]

3 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Hitting a Brazillian steakhouse tonight and I'm pretty stoked about it.

 

Sounds like gay street slang.

[DieselDaisy]

5 hours ago, Graeme said:

Deaths caused by lava are relatively rare, there have only been 887 recorded deaths from lava flows, 0.32% of all known fatalities from volcanic causes. A volcano called Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has lava that moves much faster than that observed at most other volcanoes (mainly just because of differences the chemical composition), up to 60 mph. When it erupted in 1977 and 2002, large, fast-moving lava flows inundated areas of the nearby city of Goma, over 170 people were cooked over both incidents.

I don't think there's any footage of anyone falling into lava, even if there was you'd have to be a hell of a sadist to keep recording, or to watch, because it'd be a horrific way to go. If you fell from a height into a lava lake then the heat would probably do most of the work of killing you before you landed, and the impact with the hard, roasting hot crust on the top of the lava lake would likely finish the job. You can see a simulated version here, where people throw a bound package of organic waste designed to represent a human into the crater of Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia (generally if scientists want to do any experiments with a "what would happen if I threw "x" into a volcano", Erta Ale is your go-to because they have no health and safety restrictions there).

A person falling from a short distance into a moving lava flow likely wouldn't last very long, but the end would be agonising, their tissue would be destroyed on a massive scale, second by second. The parts of them that are unsubmerged would ignite as the air would literally be hot enough to cook them, the water in their body would evaporate... Grim stuff.

Is this what you say to women?