ExiledInIllinois

You rang? The St.Lawrence shipping season is March to November... Already a choke point there... Like article said Could put them on barges... We already do business with the Gulf Coast petrochem industry. The only way to GLs from Western Rivers is through Chicago. That be me. It ain't going downtown either, so it's gotta come up through the SouthSide here. Lots a choke points here too. Anyway... The move to intermodal has been around a long time. The only thing with regard to containers on the inland waterways is pushing the empties. Loaded containers can fit on barges and under bridges, empties ride high and empty containers can't fit under the vertical controlling height... ~19.1' ...Is the container infrastructure there yet? I guess get them to Lake Erie, but then, like article said... You got Welland Canal, St.Lawrence, and winter. The SeawayMax fleet of the GLs is set up for bulk commodities... Can it handle intermodal containers... I just see too many logjam, choke points going out the "NorthernDoor" and Chicago Area Waterways (CAWs) is the only waterborne "Southern Door." Containers are coming, I have seen a few... But the intermodal infrastructure just isn't there yet... More suited for bulk commodities, break-in-bulk... https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-87.8/centery:43.2/zoom:6 Ohio River to rail/truck intermodal? https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-78.5/centery:44.6/zoom:5

The Yanks 2 hit The Royals. 1 for the walk-off. 😳

[I always misheard that as 😆]

Why?

Yeah... They have the policy plastered all over the doors, hostess station, menu, etc... Hard to miss... But I did! 😆 Totally forgot. I understand why they do it... Probably get horrible tips or no tips at all. Some customers are bruuuutal.

That waterfalls looks kinda crazy, pretty slippery... Can never be too safe. I suggest these:

Random thought: How come you never see weeds on train tracks ballast? I can get a weed in any barren crack and not get it to grow on patches of lawn... LoL... WTF is going on here! And... Don't just say spray. I would think things are getting more and more enviro friendly. Old days they'd dump steam on the top growth... https://www.customtruck.com/blog/railroad-vegetation-management-a-crucial-clean-up-service-that-keeps-our-train-system-alive/ "...Railroads are mostly built on soil, rocks and stones that support plant life in varying degrees. The railroad ballast prism, which consists of rock over soil, is an inviting target for light-loving plants that, if left undisturbed, will regenerate themselves by root expansion, seeds or ground layering. These stubborn plants will then convert relatively sterile ballast to soil through decomposition of organic matter and breakdown of ballast rock, providing a growing site for a complex plant community. ..." "...Railroad vegetation management isn’t a glamorous topic of discussion outside concerned industries, but without this crucial service, railroads in the US and all over the world could come to a complete standstill and throw life as we know it into complete chaos." A penny for your thoughts: @BringBackFergy @Beerball @Mike in Horseheads @Gugny

I am NOT gonna even view your link unless it's BearPorno! Thank @BringBackFergy for peddling that smut!

In New Jersey, then yes... Isn't tipping the culture there? Can you do yourself $1200 worth of of electrical work? ...If the answer is no, then how can you say what it's worth? They have training to pay for, insurance, tools, etc... It's a skilled trade.

It's easy... Because like the Mexican place we went to on Tuesday, they just add 18% gratuity... ...NOW, do you add more? When you get the check... They ask if you wanna add: 3%, 5%, 10%, or customize more... ...WWGD (WhatWouldGugnyDo)? [One time I screwed up and forgot they added 18%... I added 20%... LoL... For a whopping 38% gratuity!]

... So now you are one of the brave few, it's awful sad we need boys like you. I hope the day never comes for "Here's your live round son. Stock and barrel, safety, trigger, here's your gun." Well I knew, I could see, it was all cut and dried to me There was soldiers blue blood streaming inside your veins. There is a world outside of this room and when you meet it promise me You won't meet it with your gun taking aim. For I don't mean to argue, they've made a decent boy of you And I don't mean to spoil your home coming, But baby brother you should expect me to. ...

Short scale or long scale, why can't it be long scale? 😏 ...What's a few more zeros!

NOT dead yet: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/entertainment/tony-dow-obit/index.html https://www.etonline.com/tony-dow-leave-it-to-beaver-star-still-alive-in-hospice-care-188034

https://www.xfl.com/xfl-today/russ-brandon How come 'The Drought' isn't on his resume? 😏

Fans of the Choco Taco are lamenting the news that it is being discontinued. https://www.npr.org/2022/07/26/1113692240/choco-taco-discontinued-ice-cream 😔😟🙁

Don't the umps "mud" up game balls before a game? Doesn't that discolor them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_rubbing_mud "...While Lena Blackburne was a third-base coach for the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team, an umpire complained to him about the method used at the time, prompting Blackburne in 1938 to set out in search of better mud to use to rub against baseballs. Later that decade, Blackburne discovered the rubbing mud's location (said to be "near" Palmyra, New Jersey) and founded the company that he used to sell it. ..."

I forget how it went? Why using an illegal bat have the HR count... Which at first it didn't, and Yankees won... But under protest they played it where they left off and Royals won. I was a NYY hater back then and pro-Royals... But you'd think hitting an HR with illegal bat, the HR wouldn't count, right?

1983 was a good year! This guy got really mad too! You go Lee! (NSFW, BTW)

"...Acid, booze, and ass Needles, guns, and grass Lots of laughs, lots of laughs Everybody's saying that hell's the hippest way to go Well I don't think so But I'm gonna take a look around it though Blue, I love you..."

This option. Life is too short to have set party rules... I was born on a Sunday afternoon...

After I roll one for two:

"I go out walking after midnight Out in the moonlight just like we used to do I'm always walking after midnight, searching for you I walk for miles along the highway Well, that's just my way of saying, I love you I'm always walking after midnight, searching for you..."

Thnx... Interesting! "...Not only was little expected of those first pictures taken from space, but there was serious concern that taking pictures of other nations from orbit would be seen as an act of ill will and even one of war, as sovereign and sensitive nations might resent having pictures taken from orbit..." 60 years ago they were worried about setting nations off. Now... We just have Russia monkey stomping a sovereign country... Countries... /smdh Look! I see Egypt and the Red Sea! 😏