In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Monday, September 7, 2026 11:50
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Originally posted by Brenda:
So hard reading fan fictions sometimes. Just read an Emergency story. Notes at the end said Randolph Mantooth died on July 9th at 80 years of age.
That was shocking to read and my heart is broken. Another one of my tv crushes gone.
2 years after David Soul and 2 1/2 years after David McCallum.
Farewell firefighter/paramedic Johnny Gage. Be safe.
KMG-365
Time out: July 9
Randolph Mantooth and David McCallum???
Oh, no.
They were my TV crushes too.
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Hey Sigs... I know you don't have literally any free time, but if you ever do and you're bored, I think you should check out the couple of AI threads I made in the last day or two. There actually is some pretty fascinating stuff in there.
I don't know if you've looked at them at all, but I think the revelation that the AI itself is coded to view the words "Left" and "Nazi" as mutually exclusive terms and it will initially run in "defensive" mode when you call somebody on the left something that is politically charged. Also that it very well could be lying to me when I ask it if it is tracking me or putting me on a list for any of the inquiries that it generates and it says no. It straight up tells you not to believe anything that it says.
And I'm just lightly paraphrasing a whole lot of stuff here. It goes into DETAIL on how it operates. (Assuming it's not lying to me about all of it couldn't be a mistake, could it? 
).
EDIT: I forgot that one of them didn't start out as an AI thread. Here's the threads I'm talking about:
Fun With Democrat Party Shit Rags and Hypocrisy: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=67658
(It starts in the 2nd post when I just decided to ask Google AI for articles giving glowing praise to Platner)
Having Fun with Google AI: http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=67654
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Huh.
Well, I'll look into those!
*****
I dropped off the e-waste yesterday. Dear daughter dragged her *ss out of bed late, so I was already in a bit of a time crunch.
The drop off event was in an area that I've never been, but it was the closest one scheduled for the rest of the year. So I got messed up along the way bc I didn't notice that the longest road on my route actually changed names, and I thought I had missed a turn or something, went back, had to pull over and bring up goggle maps again, and turn back around. Then google maps directed me to a route I DIDN'T want to take. Once again had to pull over and confirm I was heading in the right direction. Tick tick tick...
But we made it in time, and I got to drive thru some really wealthy area in the Hacienda/ La Habra hills section, where the roads are all windy and its semi-rural and you can't see your neighbor for all the trees.
The canyons areas are green and lovely, the hilltops are also lovely in a drier, wilder, grassy sort of way, and it would be great to live there except for FIRE.
Nice to visit. We should go up there to enjoy the park and the scenery. But I'd sure worry about living there.
La Habra Heights
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Well, I found out what was up with the two engines and paramedics. There was an apartment fire. News crews got there and it looked really bad. They said at least one firefighter and resident were sent to the hospital.
Oh wow. That's bad. Apartment fires can kill a lot of people. I can't help thinking of Grenfell Tower fire.
It sounds like only two people were injured, tho, thankfully.
Here in LA, a lot of the old multistory apartment buildings were grandfathered in, not required to retrofit with fire sprinklers, and some have only one stairwell. I hope safety standards are better in your area, BRENDA!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yeah, they can. They got lucky that only two were injured.
My building does have smoke detectors and alarms but I don't think there is a sprinkler system. There are two stairwells. The worry in the building is the people with walkers and scooters.
Oh dear. Elevators can stop working in fires. I would worry about them, too!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yeah, they can. Any fire would mean rescues from balconies.
That fire in that building started at 1pm Friday and wasn't fully put out until around 2am Saturday morning. It looks like the building is a right off too.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
So hard reading fan fictions sometimes. Just read an Emergency story. Notes at the end said Randolph Mantooth died on July 9th at 80 years of age.
That was shocking to read and my heart is broken. Another one of my tv crushes gone.
2 years after David Soul and 2 1/2 years after David McCallum.
Farewell firefighter/paramedic Johnny Gage. Be safe.
KMG-365
Time out: July 9
Randolph Mantooth and David McCallum???
Oh, no.
They were my TV crushes too.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Yes, David McCallum left this world in December of 2023 at 90 years of age.
I bought the complete set of Emergency DVDs when I was in Alberta last year and I am just about going to sit down and watch them. That will hurt.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Huh.
Well, I'll look into those!
*****
I dropped off the e-waste yesterday. Dear daughter dragged her *ss out of bed late, so I was already in a bit of a time crunch.
The drop off event was in an area that I've never been, but it was the closest one scheduled for the rest of the year. So I got messed up along the way bc I didn't notice that the longest road on my route actually changed names, and I thought I had missed a turn or something, went back, had to pull over and bring up goggle maps again, and turn back around. Then google maps directed me to a route I DIDN'T want to take. Once again had to pull over and confirm I was heading in the right direction. Tick tick tick...
But we made it in time, and I got to drive thru some really wealthy area in the Hacienda/ La Habra hills section, where the roads are all windy and its semi-rural and you can't see your neighbor for all the trees.
The canyons areas are green and lovely, the hilltops are also lovely in a drier, wilder, grassy sort of way, and it would be great to live there except for FIRE.
Nice to visit. We should go up there to enjoy the park and the scenery. But I'd sure worry about living there.
La Habra Heights
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
That is a beautiful area SIG. Fire would definitely be a problem. But it would be nice to visit.
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Sorry about your losses there, Brenda.
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Thanks SIX. Just in some ways rehashing my salad days.
I first watched David McCallum in "The Invisible Man" as a 8 year old I guess. I was fascinated that he could peel his skin off and be invisible. No one could see him. Then in High school with repeats of Man from U.N.C.L.E 
David Soul and Randolph Mantooth came about around the same time. Starsky & Hutch came on around the same time as Emergency.
Never have totally figured out my attraction to David Soul. I know his music of course besides his acting but the acting was first.
But Randolph Mantooth, that is easy. Those black eyes and all that thick dark black hair. I've talked about him before being the first for me anyways seeing a Native American actor as a regular on an American tv series.
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I can't really think of anybody I crushed on at any point that I thought much of later in life over the years, Brenda.
I think for me you'd have to go to musicians that I loved over the years to feel the same way. I remember not too long back we lost Tom Petty and Chris Cornell within a year of each other. That wasn't great. Just seeing how grey the guys I kind of idolized growing up when they are still around is sad too. Did you see any commercials for the new and supposedly final Jackass movie? My god man. Johnny Noxville is full on grey. Steve O looks like he's had more plastic surgery than Joan Rivers ever did.
Stop getting older. I'm trying real hard. 
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I didn't have too much planned as far as working today, but then I remembered my Dad is coming by tomorrow to visit, so I got to cleaning things. It really wasn't too bad since it wasn't that long ago I did a pretty decent cleaning after the storm, so I was able to do a pretty deep clean on everything in my kitchen except for the fridge which isn't even bad.
Got a few loads of laundry done and still going now. Finally sorted that huge mountain of clean clothes and towels and stuff and got everything put away. Dusted down the entire master bedroom and vacuumed it and the hallway. Threw out some ratty work clothes that are past their due date and a pair of shoes as well. Got the 2nd chair for my 2-seater table finally down in the kitchen and gave it a really good wipe down. Entire living room is spotless now except for a pile of mail I need to go through.
Not sure what else I'll get done, but I do have time to burn for right now anyhow waiting on 1.5 more loads of laundry to finish.
I think dehoarding is actually going to be my next focus. I still have a huge mess to clean up in the basement as far as tools and bits and paint stuff and crap all over my sawhorses with sawdust on it too. It's just hard for me to focus on the real jobs I need to be doing on the house with all this clutter and crap. It really needs to go this time. I need to know where all my stuff is, be able to get to it when I need it, and not have to be wasting a half an hour here and an hour there looking for a tool that I've got 3 of but have no idea where any of them are anymore. I wonder if this has slowly been grinding my work to a halt too. Just making things so hard to even start because who knows where anything is anymore.
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