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Exceptionally nice place to visit. Aberdeen is the center of North Sea offshore making that region a bit more affluent than some. Maritime Museum is worth a visit. LINK . It features the Piper-Alpha platform disaster that killed 167 men. We tend to forget that when things go bad offshore they can go very very bad.

If excellent tweed clothing interests you, when in Edinburg visit Walker Slater shop. They are also good info source about hiking trips.

While enjoying the courses you might want to look into the laws on land ownership. Scotland is still fuedal!!! A possible read is "Who Owns Scotland" by Andy Wightman. The land laws explain why so many people left Scotland.

The old joke goes...

"Nichols can be considered Harvard on the Bayou by people who consider
Harvard to be Nichols on the Charles."

Nichols still benefits the students.
LSU isn't so good at that anymore.

Late 60's out in western Gulf far beyond oil activity at that time, occasionally saw bright lights rapidly going back and forth a mile or two away, seemingly close to water They seemed to be staying clear of our vessel's course. Could have been anti-sub drills. Today they would go unnoticed because of all the industry activity out there.

A work around that might work for you is to have Copilot write Python or any other code that can interact with the OS or a particular program like Excel. I do this when working with Blender.

I have more experience with falling and cutting trees than I like.

Costs - there is always somebody without license or insurance who will cut cheaper. When your home is involved get an established company that maintains most of its own equipment. Crane's are typically leased. Prices are seasonal and are lowest in the gaps between hurricanes and ice storms.

Arborist - Certification that your trees are healthy gives you some liability coverage but will not prevent falls. Best thing an arborist did for me was telling me how to spot termite infestations that are very common in BTR.

Stumps - Often when a tree is blown down the whole root system pops out and you are left with a crater. A few cubic yards of silt fixes that. Even when a tree is cut and the stump ground a few inches below grade, you will probably experience settling and poor growth problems for years.

Recommendations - I've been impressed by Louisiana Tree Services owned by arborist Scott Courtright LINK . They will not be the low bid.

Initially I preferred Callandros chunky-style, but over the years Calvin's chicken "spread" has definitely grown on me. Recently met some NOLA people who occasionally drive to BTR just for Calvins CS. It's a Katrina thing.

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I remember playing with water powered rockets 50 years ago.

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Great toy until you tried for a horizontal launch and got the water blast in the face. The energy came from compressed air.

Louisiana Civil Code forced heirship was changed in the 1990's making it more important for everybody to spell out their desires in a will. The will should name an executor to manage the details. As long as the will is being drafted, it's a good time to grant legal and medical power of attorney. Heirs need to know the estate must pay all legitimate debts before any inheritance can be distributed. It's good to know your parent's credit situation.

For a "live like the locals" experience stay at Stanyon Park Hotel where Golden Gate Park meets Haight. It has a few suites with full kitchen if you like. Check GG Park website for public events. DeYoung Museum is great, nice cafeteria. Very popular Korean cafe is Manna 10th & Irving 2 blocks N of GG Park. Take N street car near hotel W to ocean or E to Ferry Building on the Bay. At the ocean it can be quite cool any month. On the Bay summers are hot. If you enjoy the water, ride a ferry to Sausilito, dine and return.

Wharf tourist areas are slow to emerge from Covid business loss. Several restaurants have closed. North of the renovated Ferry Building is nice. La Mar Cocina Peruana is outstanding, ask for table on the Bay unless the weather is bad...then ask for a table in bar. Outside Ferry Bldg on Sat is a very large open market. Plenty of ready to eat and outstanding produce.

COVID with work-at-home also hit Downtown hard and most grand department stores left for the suburbs. Neighborhood shops are prospering. Bernal Cutlery on Valencia is one of best knife stores in US that's moved into culinary supplies successfully.

Public transportation is great. I've read that everything now takes regular credit cards... that was not true in Nov 25...check before you try. When public is slow or complicated, Uber or Lyft always work. Want to try driverless? get a Wymo app.

I've tried using MS' own AI Copilot to troubleshoot irregular performance of MS Office software. The responses were utterly useless. You would have thought Copilot would have been dead on. Unfortunately, the MS documentation used for training is full of confusing instructions.

Moisture along outside wall is part of BTR life. It changes through time as elevations shift slightly. When my house was 30 years old I asked a landscape architect for help with a perpetually wet garden. His 1st response was "gutters". I did half the house feeding some downspouts to buried drains and things got much better.

The flow of your impressive puddle suggests that the walk to the street dips slightly towards the slab and entrance. It should drain away for its entire length. You might be able to improve drainage by having groves cut by sawing.

Your video seems to show discolored bricks a foot or so at base of wall. That's due to splatter from roof runoff. Over many years you might have some brick and mortar deterioration. A short run of gutter will fix that.

Good Luck