What a surprise... I was not expecting that.

Thanks for the win, Vic, Wiggo, and Carlos. The first time I won.

So let's continue this. But before the rules, I have a stupid question: What does TLPTPHW means? The history in the forums here is insufficient to answer this question.

The rules:
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1. The winner of the last thread starts the new one with a post of these rules.
2. Chooses a future event which triggers the winner, e.g. post number, date-time, and records it privately somehow (yellow sticky, etc.)
3. Everyone has fun posting until the target event is reached.
4. When the target is reached, the old winner posts a declaration of the new winner and also PMs them.
5. Shortly after this a Mod will lock the recently won thread. (My preference is for the winner to ask the mods to lock the old thread after the new one is started.)
6. No double posts. Violators buy drinks or a meal for the house in Rocky's.
7. Additional rule retained from the last round - No posts that APPEAR to be blank - these will be ignored or deleted. (Sig lines do not count as part of a post)
8. No posts from the ISS or from the TSS. ;) Just making sure yer woke up.

Congratulations!!

And enjoy your choice of parameter(s) for the next new thread!

Cheers,
Martin

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Congratulations!!

Mods are quick to lock a thread that has been won. So, you can't spend half the day walking in the rain... not looking at the forum...

Thanks for congratulations, Martin.

I am glad it's not a Micky Moused thread.

Congratulations - may this be a fair and clean "fight"

Remember, keep smiling and confuse everyone ;-)

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

oh my. I have to update my Avatar. its been 25 years now.

Posting in the wee hours of a chilly Sunday morning as a few lite showers roam about.

Cheers.

Thanks, Rob.

… and as to Carlos avatar: Congratulations to a quarter century!

Here in between blue sky sunshine and midnight dark downpours...

Thar be som'thin' astirring the weather gods!!

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Okay, what does TLPTPHW mean? THE LAST PERSON TO POST HERE WINS. And you pick that person by rule #2.

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Congrats McDuck.

As of this July I will have lived in this park for 20 years, though for the last 5-10 years 3-4 park owners have been trying to close the mobile home park I'm told, the latest raise the rent $30 a month, in Sept space rent will go from $390 to $420 a month, in Barstow space rent is min $510 currently.

The rent increases are indefinite, in 3 years the rent will be $510 a month and in 4 years will exceed Barstow by $30 a month or $540 a month before electric, gas(methane), trash, water, people are complaining according to one friend and I think the intention is to force the tenants to move out as they are not accepting new tenants. Tenants pay more in rent, how much I don't know.

The park needs electrical work to get up to current standards which is somewhere from 100-200 amps I think and Frontier Internet wants to put in last mile Fiber upgrades starting in about 2025, there are 28 homes in here out of 88 total spaces, about 48 spaces are empty, there are about 12 empty homes in here, of those 12 I don't know if any have meters and if they don't can't be hooked up to the grid, that is cause of the ancient 60 amp electrical service to each space which has no new parts and is obsolete, there is a state government embargo on new hookups until the electrical upgrades are completed which have not been started, instead the park has said no upgrades and no new tenants, they had said they would instead hook up RV's instead which so far has not happened, though a lot of guest parking has been made out of empty spaces, 2 or 3 are too small for modern homes, it's an old park and it was built in 2 stages, the A side first, then the B side with bigger homes in mind, my home is 13.5' wide and 60' long and is in a space meant for a 10.0' wide home, the B side can handle 12' wides or 24' wides, the park is 8 acres of desert land.

There are 3 spaces with homes that are not park owned, mine is one of them, there might be a few others, but most are tenants.

A mobile home is a home built on a steel I beam frame that can in whole or in part be moved down a paved highway without falling apart.

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Congratz Mr. Duck.

Winning after my sons birthday party.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Congrats McDuck. Posting while it is still safe.

@Victor.
My dad owns a almost 2.5 acre double wide premanufactured house lot. It is a 24’ by 40 something foot home.
The foundation leveling has horizontal rebar reinforced concrete beams12 inches wide by 18 inches deep and 24 feet long everywhere the home needs support. Additional steel tie down straps with 30 inch ground augers being embedded in the concrete beams on each side.
Hopefully the premanufactured home will stay put barring acts of Mother Nature.

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Winning as the sun shines after a misty mountain start.

Time to turn the kettle on.

Cheers.

@Victor.
My dad owns a almost 2.5 acre double wide premanufactured house lot. It is a 24’ by 40 something foot home.
The foundation leveling has horizontal rebar reinforced concrete beams12 inches wide by 18 inches deep and 24 feet long everywhere the home needs support. Additional steel tie down straps with 30 inch ground augers being embedded in the concrete beams on each side.
Hopefully the premanufactured home will stay put barring acts of Mother Nature.

I have these installed under my home, every few feet, there was an earthquake over in Ridgecrest @ 7.1 magnitude, the county had me pay $1500 for these in 2006, they are bolted to concrete and sunk in caliche and bolted to my home, they are very beefy, my 13.5'x60' 810sqft home came thru that quake without a scratch or crack. That's pressure treated lumber. Best $1500 I ever spent, it was part of my inheritance from my late aunts estate, which is all gone now.

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Savoir-Faire is everywhere!
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The sun is setting on another Sunday in the highlands down under.

Cheers.

Thanks Admiral for explanation.

And thanks Mike and Gary.

I enjoy the first, really warm afternoon this year. It‘s 26C/79F, cloudy.

Time to prepare for another Monday.

Cheers.

It's almost time for me to drive up the hill. I am at 7 feet above sea level now and have to climb over Donner Summit at an elevation of 7,239 feet. So do I add one and a third miles to my trip?