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People ask why I post so much. I'll tell you why. (Original Post) usonian 5 hrs ago OP
Nyuk! Nyuk! Nt Fiendish Thingy 5 hrs ago #1
Seems like a Wubwubwubwawu! is called for in support of that 31j20b3 5 hrs ago #2
You can post as much or as little as you want MustLoveBeagles 5 hrs ago #3
Oh yeah? usonian 5 hrs ago #4
Curly was my favorite MustLoveBeagles 5 hrs ago #5
Same! Oh, yeah! Say that to the back of my face! You knucklehead!! MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #34
But do you tell them the secret woid? usonian 2 hrs ago #37
Never! Unles it ever showed up on Groucho's,show haha MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #40
btw, president start with a today and end in A today? MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #41
Thank you MustLoveBeagles 4 min ago #50
😂🧐🥸 MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #30
I like/love your posts! Ars Longa 4 hrs ago #6
What a fine compliment. Thank you. usonian 4 hrs ago #10
You tend to be a good reality check for this board. IMO Ars Longa 4 hrs ago #13
The three men I respected most and learned the most from growing up. Yuk, yuk. twodogsbarking 4 hrs ago #7
You have a delightful sense of humor Usonian, JMCKUSICK 4 hrs ago #8
Some days are crazy. usonian 3 hrs ago #14
Lol, you prove me correct again lol JMCKUSICK 3 hrs ago #17
Everybody comes up to you with tears in their eyes and says, "Sir, please post more!" erronis 4 hrs ago #9
Thanks usonian 4 hrs ago #11
... yellow dahlia 3 hrs ago #26
I see it in their faces..... lastlib 4 hrs ago #12
Comic geniuses. usonian 3 hrs ago #15
yessireee! n/t lastlib 3 hrs ago #16
Of course not. Biophilic 3 hrs ago #18
I should be working but I'm doing this BaronChocula 3 hrs ago #19
Ha! I don't ask, just am grateful for ya! Easterncedar 3 hrs ago #20
Same here! calimary 2 hrs ago #28
Thank you! nt' warmfeet 3 hrs ago #21
agreed AllaN01Bear 3 hrs ago #22
Dr Howard Dr Fine. Dr Howard Pesky1 3 hrs ago #23
And a usonian 3 hrs ago #24
How do you find the time...... Martin Eden 3 hrs ago #25
Short answer is "I don't" usonian 2 hrs ago #31
Omgosh, really beautiful shot. All I have time for these days MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #38
I would post way more photos except for the internet copying and stealing machine. usonian 1 hr ago #42
My cousin from Palo Alto, when living in San Francisco Martin Eden 1 hr ago #44
Contact me if you want to see more prosaic sites. usonian 1 hr ago #46
The "Mist Trail" in Yosemite? Martin Eden 22 min ago #47
It was easier in 1986! usonian 14 min ago #48
I might ask - why don't you post more, u? yellow dahlia 3 hrs ago #27
Only 32 hours in a day! usonian 2 hrs ago #32
0h...alright. yellow dahlia 2 hrs ago #39
Beaut! MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #36
Me too. (Also nothing to do with postponing chores.) hee, hee, hee h2ebits 2 hrs ago #29
Oh, this takes away from photography and piano. usonian 2 hrs ago #33
Sorry for the long post, long day. Happy to kick!🥰 MerryBlooms 2 hrs ago #35
I don't think you post so much and I'd be happy if you did mahina 1 hr ago #43
Only too much relative to undone chores. usonian 1 hr ago #45
no one asks ME that Skittles 11 min ago #49

MerryBlooms

(12,595 posts)
34. Same! Oh, yeah! Say that to the back of my face! You knucklehead!!
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:44 PM
2 hrs ago

I play What's My Line and other old black and white TV for my feral Russian Blue colony on my porch during their supper.
Their big papa loves What's My Line and You Bet You Life. The old Groucho game show. lol go figure?

I also play guitar, but, he really wants bluegrass. No idea what any of this means.
He and his lady gal, btw, both survived the Almeda fire together. Showed up at my house. After all these years, big papa finally touched me. It took me 3 years to convince him the heated beds that his kids were in felt good!
Patience and looking blinks.
Sorry went on way more than I should've.

I appreciate you!!🤣🥰🤗

MerryBlooms

(12,595 posts)
40. Never! Unles it ever showed up on Groucho's,show haha
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:57 PM
2 hrs ago

But, I think me and them Russians have watched all, never never started with a Tia and ended in an a 🙃

MerryBlooms

(12,595 posts)
41. btw, president start with a today and end in A today?
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:00 PM
2 hrs ago

Worked camed home took care of 83 sis and making potato salad
On break and now back at it
Later tater 🥰

MustLoveBeagles

(18,449 posts)
50. Thank you
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:56 PM
4 min ago

I appreciate you too! I had a Russian blue when I was a teenager. I still miss that cat. 🐈

usonian

(27,293 posts)
10. What a fine compliment. Thank you.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 05:43 PM
4 hrs ago

I post for several reasons (included in the above)

1. Really serious, and actionable political news, as in meetups, rallies, and heavy-duty points such as "The Democratic Party needs to be "revolutionary" not passive. After all, there's this King George ....


I grew up in the Boston area.

2. Just fun. Spirits need a boost.

3. Graphics. Enjoy my amateur fakes and memes. I thank the internet for providing background images.

4. Techie stuff. I get almost all my material from HackerNews, hopefully understandable stuff. It's really important to know.

I think that's it. (Gets idea for next post)

JMCKUSICK

(6,919 posts)
8. You have a delightful sense of humor Usonian,
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 05:32 PM
4 hrs ago

Last edited Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:12 PM - Edit history (1)

And I for one, while enjoying your posts in general, do very much look forward to your occasionally subtle and not so subtle injections of humor.

So post away my chore avoiding friend lol.

usonian

(27,293 posts)
14. Some days are crazy.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 06:02 PM
3 hrs ago

Spare you the details, I had some work done at the well pump, and some anxious moments when the booster pump refused to start (black magic was invoked) and then home pressure was low until I flip-flopped a ball valve, which magically restored normal pressure.

When you buy a home, there's never a map of important stuff. I suspect that it's a tee valve, and that the flipping flushes some dirt or gold nuggets down another line. Metal detector didn't map out the pipes, because they're all plastic.

By the way:


Green Acres!

lastlib

(28,883 posts)
12. I see it in their faces.....
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 05:50 PM
4 hrs ago

"...with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right....."

usonian

(27,293 posts)
31. Short answer is "I don't"
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:26 PM
2 hrs ago

Long story short, I'm really far from everything, so I make a big shopping trip once a week.

"Places" of interest are at least 50 miles away, so photo trips involve the driving plus the hiking around plus the camera gear.

Daughter and Son-in-Law are a 3 hour drive away.

I do plan to relocate to the SF Bay area. I spent 30 years there and miss the ocean and restaurants and such.

There are some interesting things to do there.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036163941





Pacific photos were some of the best.

MerryBlooms

(12,595 posts)
38. Omgosh, really beautiful shot. All I have time for these days
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:51 PM
2 hrs ago

Is a few of cats and coons if I'm lucky lol. I did get a couple of my elder sister for her kid I thought were nice
You do really nice work

usonian

(27,293 posts)
42. I would post way more photos except for the internet copying and stealing machine.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:01 PM
1 hr ago

I don't want to have to pay someone to buy my own photos back.
Maybe if I can find an online gallery that keeps bots out?????
Those bots are damn clever.

Here's a short video.

https://vimeo.com/1198589589

Longer post here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036163941

I worked some 7 years in the building nearest the Carillon. Amazing times!

Martin Eden

(16,101 posts)
44. My cousin from Palo Alto, when living in San Francisco
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:04 PM
1 hr ago

Was roommates with one of the founders of Burning Man. He was at the very first event on the beach, and has been involved with it ever since.

Maybe one of these years, while still able, I'll travel from my home in Chicagoland to that cultural phenomenon in the desert.

usonian

(27,293 posts)
46. Contact me if you want to see more prosaic sites.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:27 PM
1 hr ago

I have a national parks pass as a senior and a veteran, though climbing up Sentinel Dome or Taft Point with heavy cameras is a chore.

And forget about the Mist Trail. Maybe with my grown up "kids" instead.

I got great photos on the Pacific coast ( and lots of other places) Some from the Pacifica Pier, which was demolished in ocean storms.

Take pix TODAY, because "you never know"

Martin Eden

(16,101 posts)
47. The "Mist Trail" in Yosemite?
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:39 PM
22 min ago

One of my first times backpacking was in 1986 hiking up that trail past Vernal and Nevada Falls. My visit there was too brief, on a monthlong trip between jobs.

I've spent much more time hiking in the Midwest and Southeast, with forays to Utah, the Rockies, and Northeast. Last October my wife and I with our two dogs vacationed for a week in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I don't recall the name of this waterfall, but it was a nice spot.
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usonian

(27,293 posts)
48. It was easier in 1986!
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 09:47 PM
14 min ago

I live on a ridge, and its a hike going anywhere but the workshop.

usonian

(27,293 posts)
33. Oh, this takes away from photography and piano.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 07:32 PM
2 hrs ago

Photography is seasonal, whatever flowers the deer don't eat get to live, and I am far from everything in terms of trips.

I REALLY need to spend more time with the piano.

And there's ALWAYS something needing fixing.

I've got some new window covers to put up and a kitchen drawer to repair. Wait till I find the idiot that thought long staples shot into the end of a flimsy board consists of "drawer construction". That just shatters the board. eventually.

mahina

(20,860 posts)
43. I don't think you post so much and I'd be happy if you did
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:03 PM
1 hr ago

And I’m thankful every day for those DUers who do post a lot with great content that I would never find otherwise.

Wuwuwuwuwuwu!

usonian

(27,293 posts)
45. Only too much relative to undone chores.
Thu Jul 2, 2026, 08:08 PM
1 hr ago

I frequent DU and Hacker News. They are both VERY well moderated.

Mahalo!

My daughter is an a hula halau in the SF bay area.

Winning at Merrie Monarchs? Maybe soon.

🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

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