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Just back from service. Unpolished, untouched, just happy inside where it counts is my 166.073

 
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This one today. Love the taupe (colour) dial. Acquired not running. Stuck together with congealed oil, and cleaning it returned it to health. Uses the same movement as Omega F300.

 
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Cedric the cicada!

I went out the door this afternoon and spied a cicada coming out of his (her?) shed on a short step. Cicadas and their din are a part of Texas summers and have been all of my life. Despite living with a grove of post oak trees full of cicadas in our backyard when I was a kid, capturing them, playing with them, tying a thread on one of them to allow it tethered flight, I never before saw one coming out of its shed.

When I was a kid we called them locusts and collected their "skins" to affix to our bedroom curtains, or simply line up on our bedroom dressers.

The sound of cicadas in the trees this time of year are a thread from my childhood. In the past year or two, American media sources have tried to gen up some sort of general alarm about the summer sound of cicadas. This is laughable as it has always been so in the South.



https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/dog-day-cicada/
 
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Cedric the cicada!

I went out the door this afternoon and spied a cicada coming out of his (her?) shed on a short step. Cicadas and their din are a part of Texas summers and have been all of my life. Despite living with a grove of post oak trees full of cicadas in our backyard when I was a kid, capturing them, playing with them, tying a thread on one of them to allow it tethered flight, I never before saw one coming out of its shed.

When I was a kid we called them locusts and collected their "skins" to affix to our bedroom curtains, or simply line up on our bedroom dressers.

The sound of cicadas in the trees this time of year are a thread from my childhood. In the past year or two, American media sources have tried to gen up some sort of general alarm about the summer sound of cicadas. This is laughable as it has always been so in the South.



https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/dog-day-cicada/
In my mind, it wouldn't be summer without the sound of the cicadas and other nighttime insect chorus members. I grew up in a suburb of NYC and the they were plenty noisy there too. One of the first things I notice when visiting elsewhere is the lack of these noisemakers.
 
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After 3 missed deliveries, back to SGUS, sent back to me overnight air for Saturday delivery that UPS just decided not to do, two more missed deliveries, stalking the empty local UPS warehouse for 30 minutes while on hold with UPS customer service and the UPS manager in another town agreeing to get the driver to meet me at my local UPS store I have it back. This was after a 4 hour drive to another state for a dental procedure (new crown) I wish SGUS would use the USPS or at worst FedEx.