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You may recognize me from such places as #NOLAtwitter.
You may address me as Sir El Spotto, as befits my status as a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Sealand (OMS), or you can just call me El Spotto. It ain’t that big a deal.
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I grew up in the Santa Ana winds state. As unpleasant as they were when we visited family in southern CA, a New Orleans summer wind is magnitudes less enjoyable.
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The breeze in New Orleans summer generally precedes a bad storm. For no particular reason, here is a weather map for about 4:30 my time.
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Good friend also added “the kids are at a sleepover and we get a call from the other parent who is not in our contacts”.
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To paraphrase Big Nose in The Life of Brian, I don’t think it means wine exclusively but any alcoholic tipple of a refreshing nature.
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But also, if he could do all that with a couple fish and bread, imagine the bottomless basket of eggs…
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🤣😂
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Um, hello? He shared after that. And word is that it was a dang fine cup.
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He is welcome to join in. Needs to bring his own eggs, though.
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Only the finest commercial farm, caged hen, grade C eggs!
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Counter protest time!!!
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It was a fun moment. He was a genuine person and my mom was taken aback that someone whose music she knew was just a neighbor at the park.
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I showed up a store once for an espresso machine leaking in the metal countertop. When it let go, it did so in such a way that 220 was able to flow into the puddle on the counter…which nobody told me about until after my forearm contacted the puddle looking underneath for the leak. 🤬🤬
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Me over here flipping the main service breaker to do anything. Still saying “please don’t kill me” to the wires before I test them with my multimeter. 🤣
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One of the first times my mom came to visit after I moved to New Orleans, she had commented on his music. We went to the art market over on Carrollton. Asked her if she wanted to meet him. She looked at me funny then I waved and asked how he was doing and introduced her to him. She smiled so much.
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I think the electrician was hoping the kid would remember his book learnin and go shut off the breaker. After the third outlet, I would have yanked his butt off the ladder and had a quiet conversation outside.
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…repeatedly!
This one sticks in my brain because the electrician improperly wired the 220 going to the Bunn brewer and espresso machines and burned out over $10k in electrical components that I then had to completely rebuild before the store opened.
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I did facilities for Starbucks at one point. Was installing my equipment while an electrician and his apprentice were wiring up some outlets. The apprentice, on a ladder, was working with live wires. The electrician, as the kid was being shocked, said “don’t shock yourself”…
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One of my favorite subreddits outside cute animals is r/osha which is all about people doing dumb and unsafe stuff on construction sites. This ladder in a boom lift would for right in.
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It’s times like this I wish we had a recall or vote of no confidence in our system.
When folks from away ask why we the people aren’t in the streets and on strike, I point to how our opposition party is busy shaking hands with the regime.
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Glad I’m not the only one who goes looking for these old gems.
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If I do not see someone using that ladder from the basket, I will be sorely disappointed. Please film it.
(Kids, do NOT do this at home or anywhere else)
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What, you weren’t just phonetically typing an accent?
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lol. I thought druids or chaos or some other parade that never reschedules because of reasons.
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While I appreciate the reference, I think Daleks are a better fit for our situation. Terry Nation conceived of them as xenophobic space Nazis who would turn on one another for not being “pure” enough. They were also keen on upgrading to improve their ideological and physical orthodoxy.
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Who the hell puts their fork down on the inside of a jar lid?
…oh, wait, it’s him.
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I see no tiny seahorses…
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I’m here for the hip pearls. Can’t say I have ever seen them worn that way before, but then again I am but a lowly knight and rarely hob-nob with the upper crust.
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Helps that the odd couple are hilarious together and the Grumpy Old Men movies were just plain fun.
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As is Loyce, please pass the mahnahz.
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I do not miss those sumbiscuits.
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No worries. I have the goods, my card authorized the charge, they can’t seem to finalize it. Not really my problem at this point.
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Oh, they delivered it on launch day. But they seem to have forgot how to finalize a charge. What they are doing is never ever going to work. My card has authorized the charge. They should not submit a new one.
This is all on them to figure out.
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Using a crystal radio kit I built hooked to my window screen for an antenna to listen to old radio serials like The Avenger, The Shadow, and Buck Rogers on an L.A. station. We lived in the Bay Area at the time.
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After my mom died (she left me a down payment) I looked at 5 houses in the area. Tornadoes took out 3. So I stopped looking in the New Orleans area.
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Yum!
What sort of fish did you use? Arapima? Alligator gar?
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Ok, but what about volcanoes. I saw the documentary with Anne Heche and Tommy Lee Jones about it. Be particularly careful near the La Brea tar pits.
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Gotta love timeline synchronicity. 🤣😂
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Yes indeed!
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I’m no fan, but is it not just as likely that these are for crowd control for the upcoming parade this weekend?