Espola's newest neighborhood

President Russell M. Nelson has requested that people stop calling his people "Mormons', and use instead "members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."

No word yet on a possible new name for the Book of Mormon.
 
espola said:
I don't use a cane for walking, just getting up, so my cane hand (right hand) is free if I am standing up.

He was straddling a bicycle because he tried to ride away until I bumped the bike into the black metal trolley safety railing

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He ended up with one leg over the bike frame and the other on the ground holding up his weight, with his body leaning against the railing. I wasn't going to let the bicycle forward, and he wasn't in a good position to go backward so he was trying to get me out of the way.

His left hand was busy holding a pack or bag under his left armpit. He was punching at me with his right. His first blow to my left ear I didn't see coming, and it knocked off my hat. After I bent down to pick up the hat, as I rose up I came up with the cane in a one-handed baseball swing and caught him in the left temple or ear as hard as I could. He swung again and I blocked it with my left arm (scrapes and bruises today). I was poking him in the chest with my cane to keep him away and trying to push things out of his bag or get the cords around his neck. The third swing (the third I was aware of anyway) I ducked and he just caught my glasses and the bill of my cap. When I bent down to pick them up, I brought the cane up the same way as before and hit him in the same place.

By then he was ready to give up the bike, so he vaulted over the front wheel with both his bags, running faster than I could hope to chase.
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Just got home from a long week. Thanks for the amusement, I almost peed in my pants.
 
Fact said:
Just got home from a long week. Thanks for the amusement, I almost peed in my pants.
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After getting an email from SDPD saying that my online report had been rejected because "this is a serious crime and cannot be reported online" I gave my fifth report on the incident to the cop who came to my residence today. He said that after he writes up his report and submits it that detectives might want to interview me.

At least he got to me before the bruises faded.
 
espola said:
I don't use a cane for walking, just getting up, so my cane hand (right hand) is free if I am standing up.

He was straddling a bicycle because he tried to ride away until I bumped the bike into the black metal trolley safety railing

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.708...4!1s3iKhJ8ISijVXZ7iKp-pppQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

He ended up with one leg over the bike frame and the other on the ground holding up his weight, with his body leaning against the railing. I wasn't going to let the bicycle forward, and he wasn't in a good position to go backward so he was trying to get me out of the way.

His left hand was busy holding a pack or bag under his left armpit. He was punching at me with his right. His first blow to my left ear I didn't see coming, and it knocked off my hat. After I bent down to pick up the hat, as I rose up I came up with the cane in a one-handed baseball swing and caught him in the left temple or ear as hard as I could. He swung again and I blocked it with my left arm (scrapes and bruises today). I was poking him in the chest with my cane to keep him away and trying to push things out of his bag or get the cords around his neck. The third swing (the third I was aware of anyway) I ducked and he just caught my glasses and the bill of my cap. When I bent down to pick them up, I brought the cane up the same way as before and hit him in the same place.

By then he was ready to give up the bike, so he vaulted over the front wheel with both his bags, running faster than I could hope to chase.
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In Japan you see thousands of bikes everywhere with large bike parking areas and rarely do you see a bike locked up . . . It's a bit more civilized there.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
In Japan you see thousands of bikes everywhere with large bike parking areas and rarely do you see a bike locked up . . . It's a bit more civilized there.
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Japan hangs doomsday cult members who attacked subway with sarin
The 1995 attack by the Aum Shinrikyo group on Tokyo subways killed 13 people and injured more than 6,000 others.

Doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara and six of his followers have been executed for their roles in a deadly 1995 gas attack on Tokyo subways and other crimes, closing a chapter on one of Japan's most shocking crimes in recent memory.
 
espola said:
After getting an email from SDPD saying that my online report had been rejected because "this is a serious crime and cannot be reported online" I gave my fifth report on the incident to the cop who came to my residence today. He said that after he writes up his report and submits it that detectives might want to interview me.

At least he got to me before the bruises faded.
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How ya feeling today E?
Hope you're healing up quickly....
 
My stereo gear from the 70's on the table I made last year for my kids' apartment outdoor balcony, now inside their new apartment.

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Today I got a call from a detective to ask me a few questions. He said he was checking to see if there were any videos from security cameras on that block.
 
espola said:
When I went to the local branch police station today in PQ to discuss my police report, the officer working the front desk told me that there are senior citizen groups that tech cane-based self-defense techniques. I don't know whether to take him seriously or not.
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" Tech cane classes ".....

Your spelling is corrupted like your Party.....
 
I'd like to report on what happened to me this week, but I'm not really sure what it was. On Wednesday I passed out on my living room floor, so my wife called paramedics. They took me to the new Palomar Hospital in Escondido (not the closer Pomerado Hospital in Poway), where I was in ICU for a day, then a private room upstairs. My wife, fearing the worst, called the kids to come down from their homes in Nor Cal, so I woke up to a family reunion. After a couple of days being subjected to every test they had (the final was an MRI on my head) they let me go home with a cheap prescription.

Now I have to hunt down my Medicare and supplemental insurance cards that disappeared somewhere during the process.
 
My wife had to delay her business trip to Manila and Hanoi because of all this. She went through a little hell because she thought the ambulance would take me to Pomerado Hospital, so she went there. They had no record of me at first, then told her that I had just been checked into Palomar. Even worse, she hasn't been to Palomar Hospital since they built the new one, so she first went to the old one, which is now being reconfigured into business offices.

This morning I had to make about a dozen phone calls looking for my missing insurance cards, and at least now I have the account numbers and new cards on order.
 
espola said:
My wife had to delay her business trip to Manila and Hanoi because of all this. She went through a little hell because she thought the ambulance would take me to Pomerado Hospital, so she went there. They had no record of me at first, then told her that I had just been checked into Palomar. Even worse, she hasn't been to Palomar Hospital since they built the new one, so she first went to the old one, which is now being reconfigured into business offices.

This morning I had to make about a dozen phone calls looking for my missing insurance cards, and at least now I have the account numbers and new cards on order.
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I'll go ahead and raise the flag up to the top of the pole now.
Thank's for the heads up.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
I'll go ahead and raise the flag up to the top of the pole now.
Thank's for the heads up.
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Just like the scumbag you love.

WASHINGTON — The White House inexplicably flew the American flag at full-staff on Monday, after flying it at half-staff on Saturday night and Sunday in honor of Senator John McCain.

The lowering and raising of the flag amplified the division between President Trump and the longtime Republican senator, who died Saturday at 81. Mr. Trump offered his condolences on Saturday to Mr. McCain’s loved ones, but he has said nothing about Mr. McCain.
 
espola said:
My wife had to delay her business trip to Manila and Hanoi because of all this. She went through a little hell because she thought the ambulance would take me to Pomerado Hospital, so she went there. They had no record of me at first, then told her that I had just been checked into Palomar. Even worse, she hasn't been to Palomar Hospital since they built the new one, so she first went to the old one, which is now being reconfigured into business offices.

This morning I had to make about a dozen phone calls looking for my missing insurance cards, and at least now I have the account numbers and new cards on order.
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Are you going to return the " Stolen Golf Balls " .......be a good Idea.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
Just like the scumbag you love.

WASHINGTON — The White House inexplicably flew the American flag at full-staff on Monday, after flying it at half-staff on Saturday night and Sunday in honor of Senator John McCain.

The lowering and raising of the flag amplified the division between President Trump and the longtime Republican senator, who died Saturday at 81. Mr. Trump offered his condolences on Saturday to Mr. McCain’s loved ones, but he has said nothing about Mr. McCain.
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I was ready to give espola the one day half staff salute, but he's okay now so the flag got run up all the way.
Im count'n on you to let me know when the old pain in the ass finally goes to the stolen golf ball rack in the sky.
 
Ricky Fandango said:
I was ready to give espola the one day half staff salute, but he's okay now so the flag got run up all the way.
Im count'n on you to let me know when the old pain in the ass finally goes to the stolen golf ball rack in the sky.
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I remember when you only laughed at nono's lunacy for the responses it elicited from the sane. Now you are competing with him.
 
espola said:
My wife had to delay her business trip to Manila and Hanoi because of all this. She went through a little hell because she thought the ambulance would take me to Pomerado Hospital, so she went there. They had no record of me at first, then told her that I had just been checked into Palomar. Even worse, she hasn't been to Palomar Hospital since they built the new one, so she first went to the old one, which is now being reconfigured into business offices.

This morning I had to make about a dozen phone calls looking for my missing insurance cards, and at least now I have the account numbers and new cards on order.
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Things got even tougher for my wife today. Delta Airlines, out of respect for the millions of miles she has flown with them, had rescheduled her Friday flight to Monday without additional charge (but only after confirming my situation with the hospital). However, due to an air-traffic-control situation in Seattle, she was going to be delayed getting to Honolulu and would have missed today's connection across the Pacific - and didn't tell her about the misconnection until she was checking in at San Diego Airport. She told them she would rather sleep in her own bed at home than in an airport hotel, so they rescheduled her again for tomorrow.
 
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