A look at the traffic, now & before virus, in several Asian cities.

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Grant
Darwin NT

Meanwhile in the US the air is getting really clean.

We have a great view from our backyard and can see miles out.

However, due to the smog that surrounds Los Angeles, we were only able to see the San Gabriel Mountains and Downtown Los Angeles a day or two after the smog is cleared by the rain — then it’s back to seeing only a few miles out.

But now it hasn’t rained in a week, and we can see further out than I’ve ever seen in the last three months:


We can see all the way to the Cucamonga Peak, which is a good 50 miles from here.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Doing laundry. I like the fix the service guy did to one of the washing machines. He had trouble replacing a quarter slot money switch.

He got it in and working. Now the washer has a slight problem. He made putting quarters in it voluntarily. You can put your money in or not. If money is tight for the month. Just forget the quarters and slide the rail in and out. Free washing. The driers are pay only. So not a problem. As far as I’m concerned. I just consider it a perk if you need it. Especially those on a fixed income.

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I've had a Whirlpool large capacity clothes washer that I only pay electricity on since about 1980, it still works as good as when I paid $600 back then for it.
Of course it has no place for softener, so that has to be done manually in the rinse cycle and I always forget to do that.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

The latest feat of panic buying?

What else, hair dye and other assorted hair care products.

Crazy...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

How many blue haired old ladies are going gray?

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My sister in law stopped dyeing Her hair black years ago after retiring, She can't go back cause She like Me has an auto-immune disease.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

My mom would dye Her hair blond before She retired, afterwards Her hair reverted to it's natural color of Strawberry Blond.

All Her children were Strawberry Blonds, My sister even dyed Her hair. My brother and I never dyed the hair, He had no gray in His hair at 61 when He passed.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

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An Ancient Computer Language Is Slowing America’s Giant Stimulus

* Unemployment systems run spaghetti code that’s hard to change
* Pandemic, economic shock expose shortage of COBOL programmers

... The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed aging, inflexible computer systems at the heart of the U.S. economy -- and a shortage of experts to fix the problem. This is slowing the government’s effort to get billions of dollars in stimulus checks to millions of newly unemployed citizens.

“The good news is that, as I recall, COBOL wasn’t one of the more difficult languages,” he said. “I’m sure some of these younger kids could figure it out.”

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Oops! Garbage in Garbage out!
Some residents got water bills over $1 million in this Fort Worth-area city

When Courtney Mitchell opened her water bill earlier this week and saw the jaw-dropping amount of $3.1 million, she did a double-take.

“I started laughing, and showed a picture of it to my husband,” she said

However, Mitchell said the error is a serious issue that she can’t take lightly.

Mitchell’s bill was corrected to $105, but she is still unhappy with the city, saying the rates are higher than they should be.

... When the information was sent to Munibilling some of the readings showed the decimal point in the wrong place,

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The Australian government is planning on releasing an App to track people in case of community transmission of the Coronavirus after the present restrictions are relaxed. Naturally, everyine is creaming about personal privacy etc. There was one post to a blog that sums u my thoughts perfectly.

So if I accept Facebook and Google tracking me so intimately to feed their profit margins, how could I be opposed to letting my own country in on that data for a while too. It’s for a FAR better reason, to minimise the spread of coronavirus and to save the lives of the people I may infect if I catch it. So I put it to all Aussies: if you’re a genuinely privacy conscious person who turned off all those settings that I didn’t bother with, then I 100% respect your values. But for every other person in this country, don’t choose this moment to defend your privacy when you’ve never cared before.

(added Italics for emphasis).

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Darwin NT

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Darwin NT

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Darwin NT

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Grant
Darwin NT

Where is world's end? In Trosa, Sweden of course.

But apparently in Norway as well.

Then Hell is also in Norway.

Then Hell is also in Norway.

I know that, it has the nearest railway station to the Shetland Isles.

Then Hell is also in Norway.

I know that, it has the nearest railway station to the Shetland Isles.

Yes.
I haven't seen any sign posts like "Welcome to Hell" though...