Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

I hiked a trail through the chaparral somewhere above Berkeley that I probably could never find again. That was my introduction to poison oak. Tam wasn't too bad.

And a couple of women I've known...

I'd say (p)oodles, unless they have homeboys on leads instead.

A bit god fearing, but extremely good people in Utah, Montana and Colorado IME.

No, it cannot.

That was the plan. A lot of Glasgow's Blue Trains went 'bang'.

No, they just kind of sat on the lower deck people's heads. I can't find a diagram.

I found something for you after all:

They switched voltage automatically.

It was interesting and scary to say, basically, that I'm going to restart my life from zero. I have no regrets either.

We were in the Castro yesterday and I didn't see many dogs. There are other neighborhoods where I think it is a felony to walk around without a dog or a kid.

We like to pick the blackberries in late summer, but blackberries and poison oak are soul mates.

Tam must be great now, after all this rain. Roaring waters.

Cell phones send voice at bit rates as low as 5 Kbps; silence is transmitted even slower. At 8 bits equivalent, the Shannon rate would be around 60K.

Clairmont Canyon regional preserve, most likely. Great views on a clear day. Mt. Diablo has good views, as does Mt. Umunhum south of San Jose.

Around here a Subaru Forester and a Labrador with a red kerchief are issued at birth. I like dogs but I wish their owners were bright enough to realize you're supposed to take the little bags of s*it with you. The cartoon instructions at the trailheads omit that part.

One of the things I enjoyed about the PNW was the profusion of blackberries along the bike trails. Of course if you wanted to go anywhere but the trail you were out of luck.

The Montana Forest Service fire crews sometimes get sent to California. There isn't that much poison ivy in Montana and afaik no poison oak. Their species recognition when tromping through the chaparral isn't that great either.

You need to pick and choose in Colorado and Utah. Denver and SLC are colonies of California.

I didn't find it scary. When I left NH I gave my development boards, manuals, and computers to a teacher trying to patch together a high school computer course. Everything else that didn't fit into my pickup was given away one way or the other. I left a rowing dingy on the beach above high tide. Hopefully someone found a use for it.

I spent a year as a volunteer on a Forest Service mule ranch. When I was a kid I always wanted to drive a truck so I drove OTR on and off for a few years. The nice thing about that is I could quit, spend the winter in AZ, and hire on again in the spring. It was about 10 years before I went back to programming.

We have Teslas and custom bred-to-order labridoodles. The Brat is unusual in adopting SPCA mutts.

Everyone here that walks a dog carries poop bags and uses them.

Lots of people have a nanny for the kid and a walker for the dog. Kind of like the classic british aristocrat who seldom made contact with either.