'The Wages of a Long Life'

You have confused Uranus with Neptune. He was correct for most of the time.

Unless you can produce another image to convince me otherwise, there is a hill/slope and she is on here way down -unless you claim the fence is rising. I can count bricks. I'll let you off on that one.

Your planetary chart is correct, and so was the one I referred to at the time (mid 80s, I think).

In the retelling I mixed up the names of Neptune and Uranus.

It's been a long, long time and I stand corrected.

john

John (Crosley)

I walked this walk four times today; it's level.

Or approximately so, it has a slope downward toward the street, right, but not all the way to the gutter; the product of some godforsaken Soviet five year plan no doubt, since the sidewalk does not drain properly, (nor does the street, which floods after every thaw and often after many rains when ice develops, leaving the street with a huge puddle, and occasional thoughtless drivers throw huge airborne wakes of water even onto the sidewalk which is quite far away.

No, the only slope is to the right, along that seam you see, and also downward from the right to the seam, which is not drained.

Counting bricks will get you nowhere unless you can see ALL the bricks, which you cannot, and then consider this is amateur building, maybe over time and the object was to get the job done, not make it so pretty (the five year plans' offshoot mentality, I would gather).  (any other slope is negligible)

In any case, the houses generally are warm in winter which is what counts.

john

John (Crosley)