The Coffee House

[vintagesnaps]

The sun came out hosers! Supposed to be 40ish tomorrow.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary joined another wine club.

 

[terri36 7]

Gary joined another wine club.

Sucka!

 

[Cortian]

UPS delivered my E+ 40D body from Adorama about twenty minutes ago. Unfortunately, I've the rather bourgeois tasks of vacuuming and dusting to complete before opening the box to see what awaits me.

That's not all bad. I like cold packages to thoroughly normalize to room temperature before opening them, anyway.

Besides: Isn't anticipation half the fun?

 

[Gary A.]

Lol

 

[Gary A.]

We’re filling up in Cambria ... Gary could live here. Simply beautiful. .

 

[SquarePeg37]

Gary joined another wine club.

 

[SquarePeg37]

We’re filling up in Cambria ... Gary could live here. Simply beautiful. .

Is that where Hearst castle is? We stopped there on our road trip. Very pretty area.

 

[Fred von den Berg]

Happy tonight. Swansea City beat Arsenal 3-1 having beaten Liverpool 1-o in their last league game. The EPL is very tight this season; the Swans were bottom (20th) before tonight's game but are now out of the relegation zone with just 4 points between them and West Ham, who are currently in 10th place.

 

[Fred von den Berg]

We’re filling up in Cambria ... Gary could live here. Simply beautiful. .

Cambria is what the Romans called Wales. They called my home town Nidvm. As far as beauty goes, Nidvm is something of a curate's egg, but I can honestly say that I've never been to any place that I'd rather come from.

 

[smoke665]

Totally gross and not limited to men. Women will do the same, skipping the hand wash to apply lipstick!!!!!! One of the many reasons I will not go near a buffet or the communal popcorn/trail mix bowls at a party. When we went on that cruise last summer everyone thought I was nuts but I used a napkin to touch the serving utensils at the buffet and never once touched the elevator buttons or any of the handrails with my bare hands. Frankly I'd rather fall down the stairs than touch those hand rails after all the gross people who don't wash after using the bathroom or cough and sneeze into their hands.

Just for you, a little story---to think about.

A man and his wife were in a fancy restaurant. While ordering, they noticed that the waiter had a spoon in his shirt pocket, and after looking around, they observed the other waiters and busboys each had a similar spoon. So the husband says, "what's with the spoon?"

The waiter said,"well, we had this company come in and evaluate our time management and they found that people drop their spoon 74.8% more often than any other utensil. So if we carry one with us, we can reduce the trips back to the kitchen by 3 hours per shift. The husband was impressed. Sure enough, he dropped his spoon during dinner and the waiter replaced it with his, stating, "I'll just get another when I go to the kitchen for something else".

While ordering dessert, the husband noted that the waiter had a very thin string hanging from the fly of his pants, as did the other waiters, so the husband asks, "hey, did you know there's a string on your pants!" The waiter tells him, "Not all my customers are as observant as you... the same company found that we can reduce the amount of time spent in the bathroom by 2 hours each shift if we tie a string around the end of you-know-what, and when we have to go we just unzip and pull it out with the string completely eliminating the need to wash up and saving time."

The husband was impressed, but asked, "it's a good idea... but how do you get it back in your pants?".
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The waiter leaned close and whispered, "Well I don't know about the rest of them, but personally I use the extra spoon."

 

[Cortian]

Holy smokes, did Adorama ever come through! If I didn't know better I'd almost be willing to bet this 40D is brand-spanking-new!

Came in a Canon box and, despite the fact these weren't listed in the "what's in the box" detail, included USB and video cables.

I am one happy camper, I tell ya whut

 

[SquarePeg37]

Holy smokes, did Adorama ever come through! If I didn't know better I'd almost be willing to bet this 40D is brand-spanking-new!

Came in a Canon box and, despite the fact these weren't listed in the "what's in the box" detail, included USB and video cables.

I am one happy camper, I tell ya whut

I've had such great luck with used/refurb camera bodies. Once the refurb 7100 had something like 188 shutter clicks when I got it.

 

[Cortian]

Holy smokes, did Adorama ever come through! If I didn't know better I'd almost be willing to bet this 40D is brand-spanking-new!

Came in a Canon box and, despite the fact these weren't listed in the "what's in the box" detail, included USB and video cables.

I am one happy camper, I tell ya whut

I've had such great luck with used/refurb camera bodies. Once the refurb 7100 had something like 188 shutter clicks when I got it.

It'll be interesting to see on this one. The condition is such that it can't be many, I should think.

Gots to get a CF card and a strap for it, assuming it passes wringing-out.

 

[davidharmier60]

If you've never had Blue Bell ice cream you know not what you're missing!
Good stuff Maynard!

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