OT: It's Simmer Time in Arizona

long enough to create a steam-bath effect on the brick streets and slate roofs... and the mosquitoes were the size of chicken hawks ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Unfortunately Zane Grey's cabin burned down during a forest fire a few years ago. The Girl Scouts raised the money to restore it... but it's not quite the same as the real deal :-( ...Jim Thompson

...Jim Thompson

Is there some Indian equivalent of the cowboy/samurai/Robin Hood/Zorro type?

Corticosteroids use can lead to cataracts. Even the over the counter stuff. At least thats what my opthamologist says.

Cheers

Well, I've had one lens replaced already, and I'll get around to the other one eventually.

Most people will get cataracts if they live long enough.

Yep. Already done both replacements years ago ;-) ...Jim Thompson

I don't think so, but I don't really know. As I occasionally point out here, India is a conglomerate of diverse races and cultures. My state and some others aren't just administrative divisions. We don't look, talk, act or think like majority Indians. Few of us know more than a smattering of the majority language Hindi which is not even officially the national language.

Of course, every culture has good guys and bad guys stories, but I don't think we have the equivalent of those legendary characters.

Yep, the "Old West" of Hollywood and novels never actually existed. It was a lot less violent than was portrayed, and when gunfights actually happened there usually wasn't much romantic about them - that "pistols at high noon" stuff almost never occured. Shootings over grudges likely didn't go down much differently than the gangland drive-bys of today: get the drop on an unarmed guy when he's not paying attention, put a few rounds in his back, make getaway.

Yeah, I guess it's too "PC" to acknowledge that black men existed in that time to perform roles other than comic relief.

That's your problem, not enough violence.

India has had its share of invaders, just like the US. I'm pretty sure your US 1st nations and Canada's consider that they were invaded after all...

John

Who owns the land?

It was pretty hot Saturday. Left the wife behind and took a colleague down to the Anchor bar so he could see where Buffalo wings were (allegedly) invented.

It's nice to see some good craft beers- Flying Bison Lager and a (I think) Weiss beer from Resurgence were both quite nice.

--sp

A co-hort and I had to go to Phoenix-Tempe 2 weeks ago to check out a customer's power system where a problem just showed up because it was

Yeah, it's hot. Comfortable by the pool in the evening though. Nothing like that up here in the Seattle area.

boB

Flying Bison is OK. I like the Southern Tier Brewery which is down near Jamestown. And there are all sorts of little breweries opening up around here. Some better, some not.

George h.

Den mandag den 19. juni 2017 kl. 07.44.16 UTC+2 skrev boB K7IQ:

I lived in Tempe for a while, first week there the AC didn't work in my apa rtment after that the heat didn't bother me much

Ha! Over in Chalmette the mosquitoes *eat* chickens.

Cheers, James

rom

this kind ?

Hell, they must be puny. Most mosquitoes eat people, or even larger animals. ;-)