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Post by Rockoonz on Jul 23, 2014 21:36:06 GMT -5
So is it my turn now? Rockoonz is our Etsy handle. I don't remember how we settled on it. It is what it is.
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Post by Peruano on Jul 24, 2014 7:18:43 GMT -5
I spent a year and a bunch of other trips in Peru while working on a graduate degree. It left an irreplaceable mark on me that I have carried for the 45 years since. Tom
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blackout5783
starting to spend too much on rocks
Member since November 2011
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Post by blackout5783 on Jul 24, 2014 10:42:14 GMT -5
I picked up Blackout in college. My sophomore year I supplied the microwave for my room. My parents gave me their old one, which I think was the first microwave. Ever. Or maybe one of the development prototypes. Anyway it weighed about 70 lbs and you could fit a whole turkey in the damn thing, so you can imagine the power draw it had. I think it was the 8 megawatt model. The lights would dim on our block at home and the power company had to fire up the auxiliary generators or there would be outages.
So needless to say the wiring and breakers in the dorm weren't built for the 7500 amps the beast needed to heat the leftover pizza. And when my roommate or I tripped the breaker, the whole wing of the building would go out. We started to go around warning people that we were going to make Ramen so they could save their files on their computers and turn off their lights, fans, TV, etc.
Full disclosure, the above story may contain inaccuracies. I drank a lot in college.
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jul 24, 2014 18:48:30 GMT -5
I spent a year and a bunch of other trips in Peru while working on a graduate degree. It left an irreplaceable mark on me that I have carried for the 45 years since. Tom Well, that makes sense. So, your handle is not after the bean? (Makes wonderful Mexican food, lol!)
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Post by Jugglerguy on Jul 24, 2014 20:58:24 GMT -5
If I had gotten the nickname "blackout" in college, it would have been for completely different reasons, as far as I can remember.
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 24, 2014 22:10:56 GMT -5
If I had gotten the nickname "blackout" in college, it would have been for completely different reasons, as far as I can remember. As soon as I saw college and blackout in the same sentence, I was thinking the same thing! LOL!
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Post by rockjunquie on Jul 24, 2014 22:13:06 GMT -5
I spent a year and a bunch of other trips in Peru while working on a graduate degree. It left an irreplaceable mark on me that I have carried for the 45 years since. Tom The romantic in me likes to think there was a woman and long lost love involved somehow.
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Post by Peruano on Jul 24, 2014 22:32:08 GMT -5
rockjunquie, There was a woman involved. My wife of now 47 years went with me, and later admitted that she envisioned never surviving the trip. Travel by buses, sleeping in 50 cent hotels, police station floors when no 50 cent hotels were available, and walking around in blue jeans with bags of lizards in a country where women wore skirts and mantas. Our average expense for the year was around $7 per day including all transport except airfare, all meals, hotels, handicrafts, cigarettes, and everything else. Oh the good old days. I think I was treated with a great deal of decorum, respect, and hospitality, in part because my wife was with me. We were lucky to have the chance to do so. Tom
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