Hey y'all . . .

I'm back . . . and I see there were a few questions in the Ask Kobi™ thread that I'll get to asap . . . . but first . . .

What happened? I go away and you kids get in trouble?!?!?!

I did a quick glance and read that 5 people were banned due to the "hate" thread . . . Is that really true? If so, who were the five?


Here's a quick travelogue:

Flight out was uneventful, and if you read the Ask Kobi thread you'd have seen the shot from the plane of one of the many Nuke Power Plants™ I passed over on the Right Coast.

First off: To billycouldride . . . this should look familiar to you:



I did hit Triumph for lunch. Loved the decor, and the food was pretty good (although the menu was rather limited) thanks for mentioning it.

If any of you are in the Edison/Raritan Center area, and you want a good deli that serves the largest portions in the world, Harold's Deli is the place.

I traveled out to the Raritan Center to meet a friend and we ate at Harold's. The menu stresses that they encourage sharing. When you see a slice of cake and a note on the menu that a single slice can feed 5-6 people . . . well, that's just weird.

For example, when you walk in there is the cake display. Those tall looking cakes . . . about a foot and a half tall



My friend and his wife ordered a Western Omelet . . . just one omelet for the two of them . . .

No joke. . .and no exaggeration...a single omelet is made from one dozen eggs and the ham and bacon and onions and peppers and weighed over two to three pounds.

Pancakes are the size of a manhole cover (I'm serious) and come in a stack of three.

And a pastrami sandwich is so big it can feed 4 to 6 people.

I'm not sure what the point of all this extra extra, extra large food is . . . but it's fascinating, and it also happened to be pretty good.

Continued in next post . . . .

 

While in Princeton, was driving along a road and around a curve came upon three deer. (A mom and two little ones).

Pulled up to them and they stepped back and I fumbled to get my camera and tried to take a pic, but it was kind of blurry ans I was moving all over the place....



(I know some of you would have shot them . . . shame shame shame)

I post this because this was the only traffic I encountered...three deer.

This is in stark contrast to today when I got home . . . this is a shot I took on my way into Lost Angeles (West L.A. actually) This is a 3:00 on the 405 freeway. There isno "rush hour" here...it's like this all the time now . . . bumper to bumper in both directions . . . all the time. It's this way too on a lot of the main surface streets.



And it is at times like these I am asking myself why I still live here? Sitting in this crap all day . . . or living in lots of greenery with deer roaming around . . .

L.A. sucks.

continued on next post . . .

 

Finally . . . on the flight home . . . we flew thru, past, and around an incredible display of clouds . . . tested shooting thru the window again, this time with better results:



yet, as pretty as those clouds were . . . it meant

TURBULENCE !!!



Oh yeah . . . that was fun!


And now, onto Ask Kobi™.

Later.

 

for Harold's.... order a "wet" pastrami sandwich for lunch and you have enough for dinner that night and the next.... make sure you go to the bread bar and grab 6-8 extra slices of rye to take home with you....

 

Welcome back o great Kobi Wan. Nah the 5 people banned thing was just me giving Zap a hard time. It was really only one...Tritonxlt. Imagine that!

 

Yes but 4 was the same guy resigning up again and again.
TritonXLT, TritonXLT02, TritonXLT05, TritonXLT08, etc, etc..
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Guys I dont know who this is but it's not our Kobi!
It is definatly an imposter!

Kobi the spelling and grammer **** would never allow a post like that with his name on it.

Or this


Can we say run on, and on and on and on sentence?

This is not Kobi!
I think TritonXLT may have got a hold of Kobi's password or something!

(AHHHHH
Can't.. trust.. anyone.. anymore!
****'s are every where! PROTECT YOUR SELFS!
Head for the hills boys and if anything moves... Send it to he!! in a hand basket!)

 

PSS-Mag,

Glad you pointed out the Kobi imposter! Maybe some of that East coast charm still has him giddy with the anticipation of a move back here.

Kobi, I remember when I was a kid and could ride my bike up route 206 in Belle Mead, between Princeton and Somerville. I'd pass the horse trotter farm, and over to the Duke estate without seeing much more than wildlife and an occasional farmer checking his mail.

 

Dear PSS-Mag -

First thanks for catching some of my errors (however you missed one but I already have corrected it so don't bother trying to find what you missed).

With regard to what you deemed the "run on" sentence - actually, even in the strictest sense, it wouldn't necessarily be considered a run-on, it might be guilty of a lack of commas, but actually I wrote:

" . . . a single omelet is made from one dozen eggs and the ham and bacon and onions and peppers and weighed over two to three pounds."

I was using words and sentence construction to paint a picture of the omelet itself. (Get it? . . . the omelet was large and filled with all those ingredients . . . and the sentence conveyed that with the repetitive this and that and that and that . . . . ) And . . . when we use words and sentence constructions to paint a verbal-visual picture, this process is know as . . . . ??? Anyone? Anyone? Bueler? So, although in the strictest sense the sentence may be "incorrect", I took artistic license. You were right-on about "tow/two and beacon/bacon". That's what happens when you trust spell-check to find errors. A word may be spelled correctly, but may be the wrong word.

By the way . . . you spelled definitely incorrectly ( you wrote definatly) .

Oh yeah . . . and

"Your Selfs" ? You're kidding, right?

Kobi-

 

Hey serotta-

Funny you should mention this . . .

At one point (and I seem to be recalling that it was on Great Rd. or Cherry Valley, but I passed a sign that said Trotter Farm and I thought . . . "What the hell is a trotter farm?" It may have been on 206. Don't know Somerville. Is it past Hillsborough? The furthest north I got was Hillsborough and I know the Duke estate (on the left on your way up).

My Grandmother's brother did work on the bomb at the IAS. As a kid we used to go to Jersey every summer. The past 4 years I have visited for family reasons, but always stayed in NYC and drove out to Princeton during the day.

This time, stayed there, and even looked at houses for giggles.

Here's what I learned this time around.

A: I have not seen lightning bugs for almost 35 years. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! Driving up Washington thru the fields off the 1 toward the University at night . . . and they were all over! I got so excited I almost crashed the car.

B: Cicadas at night are so damn loud it's impossible to sleep. Louder than traffic and sirens (when I lived on Wilshire).

C: To move there one must have Eleventy Kabillion Dollars to cover mortgage and outrageous NJ property taxes, which are about twice what your mortgage is.

WTF?

So you were a Princeton (Belle Mead) kid, eh? Who knew?

Kobi-

 

Actually my Aunt and Uncle lived in Belle Mead, right next door to the Trotter farm (the Dancers). I lived in Bound Brook, 30 or 40 minutes up the road. The Duke estate was on the other side of 206 and about 2 miles down the road from my family. They had a big windmill on the property, one of the last left standing on the run in to Princeton. My Dad and Uncle took it down about 40 years ago. As the windmill fell, I learned to run away from a tall falling object at 90 degrees to the path of the fall. My uncle, evidently, didn't know that, made for some good laughing after the dust cleared.

I also ran and rode bikes in the 1/4 mile indoor trotter facility on the farm next door. Nothing so frightening as coming face to face with a horse, sulky and rider at speed in a dark cavelike indoor racetrack.

 

I stand before you as correctioned! This is our Kobi!

Boys you can come out of the hills now, all is well, just a false alarm. Sorry about that.




Edited to add:
I seriously thought that we had a case of identity theft here on F150!
There was to many to be you.
We'll just say that you had a case of jet lag.