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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-10-2024, 07:07 PM
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Those adjustable Feit bulbs are tempting ( we sell ‘em at our store), but so far I’ve resisted. Mostly because I don’t want to need yet another app.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-09-2024, 11:21 AM
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Racer, your menagerie rivals mine (I'm tech support for the whole family, so I claim it all )...
3 desktops, 1 Win and 2 iMacs
3 laptops of varying vintage
at least 5 iPads of varying vintages
3 iPods (I think)
2 active iPhones and one Samsung
2 network printers, a couple of TV sets, a couple of Rokus, not sure what else...
Crazy what we accumulate innit?
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
02-22-2024, 02:50 PM
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Been away myself, life and all. @Racer X 69, so so sorry to hear your news. Sending many positive vibes up your way. I hope you can find the perfect spot for Mrs Racer 2.0, and may you missing her be mixed with happy memories of your love.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
02-01-2024, 12:23 AM
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Harts Pass was one of my dad's favorite places when I was a kid in the '60s. The folks always tried to drive that road at night - you can see oncoming headlights so you have time to plan where to edge past the other fella. Downhill direction got priority as a common courtesy thing.
Last time I went up there was in 1999 - my brother and I took my dad's ashes up to his place. Parked at the top, and set out up the ridge on the Pacific Crest Trail, taking turns packing the ashes and a river stone my uncle had engraved. Mind, the rock was probably about 70-75 pounds, so our motivation to keep going fell rapidly as we went up that dang ridge. We finally said heck with it, found a suitable place for the memorial rock, and scattered Dad's ashes to the winds. And OF COURSE, the wind swirled around right at the wrong moment and gave us both a faceful of Pops... I'm quite certain he got a great laugh out of that!
Thanks for the photos and video, Racer - brings fond memories back.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-19-2024, 03:08 PM
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One of my buds at work just had a cataract done. He says the difference is absolutely amazing.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
01-18-2024, 09:17 PM
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My computer says it has been four days since the last post in The Eternal Thread. WTF?!?
BACON! Tokyo! Dogzilla!
Oh Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-23-2023, 11:15 AM
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Today is a day of expressing gratitude for the good things in our lives. Like a delicious Turkey. Wrapped in bacon…. And friends, family, health, that sorta stuff. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
11-20-2023, 11:24 AM
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bacon! dogzilla! tokyo? drivel!!!! busted shift key |
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-30-2023, 12:02 AM
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I made my Mum a cribbage board from some driftwood cedar a few years back. She loves it, non-traditional shape and everything.
Jim
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
10-14-2023, 08:28 PM
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Ah, the things hidden away inside the forum…. I am nowhere close to the top, but at least I have made enough posts to get four digits! :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-20-2023, 10:11 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
09-07-2023, 09:34 PM
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Always enjoyed seeing that sign on our trips down to Kansas City area!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-29-2023, 12:10 PM
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Your brother has been laid to rest in a beautiful place. Were you able to do it at the Falls? (that funicular was pretty cool to ride up and down the hill)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-29-2023, 11:05 AM
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Well, that would have been serious motivation! :D:lol:
But would it be better than the prospect of getting back to a place where bacon was freely available? Hmmm
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
08-23-2023, 01:14 PM
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One of my uncles was in AOG back in the 70s/80s. He was a sheet metal worker, and went off to fix several planes that had "issues". The one I recall best was a trip to Greece (Athens I believe) where the plane slid off the runway. I got a really cool leather cowboy hat out of it... :)
Mmmm Bacon!
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
07-04-2023, 09:18 AM
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Beautiful day to be on the water (any water!), Racer.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
06-14-2023, 08:35 PM
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Racer’s house gets snowed on pretty regularly, since he is up in the foothills of the Cascades and gets plenty of orographically cooled precipitation. My house is almost at the edge of Puget Sound, some 90 miles S of Rancho De Racer. We get snow too, but much less frequently. As far as temps, getting into the 20s (F) is pretty common, teens or lower is rare. A lot depends on the direction a cold front is coming from. We get an amazing variation in conditions across the region, as the weather splits and flows around our two mountain ranges and recombines . One part of Pugetropolis may get hit with heavy snow, while ten miles away it’s just a dusting. Or rain and sun, or 10 degrees temperature difference. Drives forecasters crazy until they get used to it.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-19-2023, 09:29 AM
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The day MSH Popped her cork, I was at home in the ‘burbs north of Seattle, was actually in the shower when I heard a big booming sound. Since I was a geology student at the University of Washington and we were all keeping a very close watch on the volcano, I immediately checked in with the radio ad boob tube and saw what had happened. I basically spent the day glued to the set…. Talked to a buddy of mine who was over in Pullman at WAZZU, his tale of how the ash clouds descended over them was freaky.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-13-2023, 06:33 PM
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Huh. It’s almost like periodic inspections of the trailer fleet would be a good idea, eh? :cool:
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-13-2023, 07:50 AM
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
05-12-2023, 08:37 AM
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We just had our own version of the Great Molasses Spill, here in northern Pugetropolis. Slightly smaller in scale, however… |
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
04-02-2023, 06:14 PM
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Mmmmm, bacon…. Glad to see The Thread has been carrying on as usual whilst I dealt with a bout of influenza B. Mostly better now. :)
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-10-2023, 04:28 PM
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I can neither confirm nor deny the existence or involvement of any such substances. I will, however, report that today the bright glowing thing in the sky has been shining. Not any warmer, mind you, but a lot drier and making it worthwhile to amble a mile or so down the beach and back.
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-09-2023, 09:38 PM
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On a mini-vacation in Cannon Beach, in the state of Oregano ;) Enjoying a typical almost-Spring day of wind, rain, occasional slush-drops, more rain, etc etc. BUT - we’re at the beach! Snow on some of the higher hills and occasionally the low low hills all the way down from Pugetropolis. We stopped off and made our casino contribution to one of the local tribal nations, crossed the Astoria bridge as seen in “The Goonies” and “Short Circuit”, and ensconced in our favorite beach side hotel.
None of which has a darn bit of anything to do with a K-3 and why I won’t buy one, but it does count as one more post in The Thread. |
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Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II
03-07-2023, 08:02 PM
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Well, here is one more post for the count! ;)
Welcome back Bertwert
Mmmmm bacon
but not a K-3
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