Looks like a contrail from one or more airplanes near the same altitude of the clouds.

Too bad those advances will be monetized as hard as possible and limited to those that can afford it.

Aqua and Toy Box. Dog bless the early 2000’s

Iirc, we introduced a strider-style bike around that age. Even ride-on toys can fill that role as we in the northern hemisphere move into the colder months.

“Paint me like one of your French girls”

Too late!

The skins of my enemies

Desert southwest USA here. For us, it’s usually roadrunners, armadillos, and blue tail lizards. Although, the blue tails along with the horny toads are becoming a touch more rare it seems.

Looks like your Corgi is operating within specs

Definitely not the cheapest option. I should probably look at migrating somewhere else one of these days. At least it was easy to set up for my Synology NAS.

I’ve got about 12 TB in Amazon Glacier. Granted, I’m using this as an offsite backup for my NAS, rather than regularly accessed for consumption.

Long days and pleasant nights

I’m partial to Player of Games, but Excession was great.

Excellent mention! I need to find a replacement set one of these days.

The Stand by Steven King. Also, his Gunslinger series.

Yorkshire Red, neat, over ice.

Three of the small tea bags and a liter cup of ice.

Electric kettle, just off the boil, four minutes brew time.

If I have the time and ingredients, I’ll keep it hot, one tea bag, and do a splash of cream/milk with some Demerara sugar.

How does one use the three shells?

That may be the porn/softcore flick by Digital Playground and Adam & Eve, circa 2005. Was a solid renter at the video store I ran. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477457/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_(2005_film)

No matter how hard one squeezes, there’s ALWAYS three or four drops of pee leftover, poised to strike after one finishes their business.

Monuments Men is arguably way better than the book. The movie humanized the content and made it more approachable.