GaryK

It's connoisseur, and don't worry about it. I don't mind paying a lot if it's really good. My coffee costs a lot compared to most espresso beans but it's worth every penny. I'll look for the peach tea next time I'm at the supermarket. Thanks.

Yep, good old sweet tea. Gotta love it. I also like all the other teas you mentioned. Well except peach. I've never tried it but it does sound yummy.

Speaking of euphemisms, I've always loved this bit by George Carlin about annoying euphemisms: I don't like words that hide the truth. I don't like words that conceal reality. I don't like euphemisms, or euphemistic language. And American English is loaded with euphemisms. Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it, and it gets worse with every generation. For some reason, it just keeps getting worse. I'll give you an example of that. There's a condition in combat. Most people know about it. It's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum. Can't take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war, that condition was called shell shock. Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables, shell shock. Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago. Then a whole generation went by and the second world war came along and very same combat condition was called battle fatigue. Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. Shell shock! Battle fatigue. Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called operational exhaustion. Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. Operational exhaustion. Sounds like something that might happen to your car. Then of course, came the war in Viet Nam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceits surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called post-traumatic stress disorder. Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen! And the pain is completely buried under jargon. Post-traumatic stress disorder.

What is this "Canada" thing you're referring to?

Good morning. It's just that I don't like ginger. Peach tea sounds like something I might like. I like my tea really sweet. It's a southern thing. There should be enough sugar in it to give you instant diabetes.

Oh, how typical of me. I missed that part. Got distracted by what came before that comma. Maybe you're right about my tag.

Making love is actually one that bothers me, unless you really do love the person. Since I'm dealing mainly with f**k buddies these days I tend to say, I had sex with so-and-so last night. Or I f**ked so-and-so this morning. Everything else sounds weird to me. Unless the sex was so bad you really did sleep with the person.

The GPS needed to be placed somewhere that it wasn't likely to get discovered. We've already established that a higher-end unit (mine for example) can get decent signal locks where you placed it. Driving off-road there's some risk of J/S getting a flat tire. The GPS would surely be discovered if it were in the spare tire. Putting it under the seat would, I would think, and I'll verify this in a little while, make it even harder to get enough signal locks to be effective. It's more difficult to install and uninstall. And when the vehicle is turned off I think the power to the seats goes off too. Also, let's say J/S drops something and has to go looking for it under the seats. He might well find the unit. So in that sense I think the unit is best placed where you placed it. Less likely to be noticed even during a radiator boil-over. Easy access to an external power source even when the car is turned off, easy to install and retrieve. It doesn't matter if it gets wet cause it can be submerged to several meters for up to 30 minutes; at least mine can. My only lingering concern is that there are enough waypoints on one tracking channel to find out where he's going. ADDED: I got faster signal locks under the seat than I did in the engine compartment.

I tend to agree. Mine is quite modern and I got a decent reading when it was obstructed by the block on one side. I'm sure the boys have something at least as good as mine.

Thanks, Sacha. Isn't that a given for the King of Evil Cliffhangers?

Effects of alcohol on singing?

I'm not usually much for coffee flavored candies either. But these might be an exception.

Oh, I thought it was a made-up word because I couldn't find it in the dictionary. But I just Googled it and found a reference to it on the US National Institutes of Health website and that's exactly what it is, Speech and Language Therapists. Cool. I love learning new words. Thanks for making me a bit smarter today.

Cute word, Sacha.

That reference let us know the two of them had dealings in the past. For such a minor and temporary character perhaps that's all we really needed to know about Adam. Also, in J/S case I think Adam's "annoying little queer" comment didn't make him slightly less of a sympathetic character. J/S is an annoying little, albeit fake little queer. ADDED: One thing I keep forgetting to mention. Perhaps my initial comment was a bit harsh. I should have chosen a better word to describe what I felt was a chapter lacking in terms of the usual actions and emotions we usually see from a CJ story. I hope you all know I love The Goat. Feedback can't always be positive otherwise it would just be sucking up to the author. And ultimately that does the author a disservice.

I typically spend two days a week in hospital. The doctors and nurses almost always are professional when it comes to their gloves. I'd give them all kinds of heck if they weren't. But there's this one nurse I shrieked at because she was about to remove an IV without any gloves on. She was new there. At least I'd never seen her before. A former and now dead dentist of mine used to recycle syringes. He gave a few patients HIV before dying of it himself. He used to clean the syringes by dipping them in alcohol and then pumping alcohol through the need a few times. Obviously it wasn't effective. This was in the very early days of HIV/AIDS though.

I either missed or forgot that important detail. Yeah you can get a car battery adapter for the one I have. But there's still a somewhat limited number of waypoints it will record without manually switching to a new track. And there are a limited number of tracks.

Cool. That's one less thing to worry about. Glad it's fixed for everyone now.

Jelly Bellies are good. Never tried the coffee ones. Never even seen them. Will have to look cause they sound yummy.

Something else is bothering me. Is Helen really going to just accept a letter of resignation from the road manager without following up on it? Doesn't Adam have people outside the tour who will eventually notice he's missing? I think J/S screwed-up big time with this murder.

Here's my take on it. I've got a Garmin Geko 301 GPS unit I use for geo-caching. It will record locations automatically or manually. Auto-mode is so you can just walk around and it basically creates of map of where you started and where you wind up so you retrace your steps and get back to the start. Manual mode is what we use for geo-caching. It's waterproof. It's small enough to strap to a starter. But the battery life is only nine hours. I was in bed reading the forums, but was intrigued enough to get up, get dressed and put it in the engine compartment of my car as far down as possible. It was able to get an accurate fix which really surprised me. So the only problem I see here is the battery life... nine hours! J/S would have had to get from the resort to the facility within that time for the boys to have learned where he went.

Cool. Thanks for the info. I'd actually buy the small bottles if I could get those. I'll have to ask my water company about them.

OK. I'll just update my bookmark then.

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