OT - What are you doing right now?

JohnInCarolina

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Any room in the cab for a couple of crawfish under the seats? 

HeavyG

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Nice touch having the taillights lighting up.

Sea2Ski

I have the wood burning stove going in basement.  I only fire it up when there is a good chance of losing power. With the storm coming, I threw some large apple splits in it knowing I was going to be outside for a bit getting ready for the imminent storm. I figured it may smell good. I was right. It smelled heavenly. Lasts pretty long too.   

Battleborn

fishlessman said:

just talked to a neighbor, all the catalytics were cut out of his work trucks last night. 8 trucks in 15 minutes and an unmarked uhaul with plates and numbers covered

Those are huge right now. Those and F-250/350’s are being stolen at record paces so far this year. 

Killit_and_Grillit

JohnInCarolina said:

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Any room in the cab for a couple of crawfish under the seats? 

Crawfish season just opened up. 1) Part of me says let the kid ease into forum shenanigans @JohnInCarolina  2) also this kid is me on steroids so choose battles carefully. He can be...a lot 

JohnInCarolina

Killit_and_Grillit said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Any room in the cab for a couple of crawfish under the seats? 

Crawfish season just opened up. 1) Part of me says let the kid ease into forum shenanigans @JohnInCarolina  2) also this kid is me on steroids so choose battles carefully. He can be...a lot 

I look forward to meeting him someday.  Seriously though, that truck bed is one of the coolest things I’ve seen here in a while.  

nolaegghead

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Great practice for high school! 

DuckDogDr

Counting down the hours ....4.5 more to go until I'm off for 9 days

GrateEggspectations

DuckDogDr said:

Counting down the hours ....4.5 more to go until I'm off for 9 days

Nice. What will you do during your time off? I took 2 days off last week, giving me a 4 day weekend. The challenge is that there isn’t much to do in the present lockdowns. 

DuckDogDr

Going to finish some purple martin poles, get at least one scuba dive in. Work on a fence for mine and my girlfriend's goat. Mechanic on my scout. Carve a few decoys and sleep !

northGAcock

nolaegghead said:

Killit_and_Grillit said:

Great practice for high school! 

I got good money there will be one of these in your shop soon.

fishlessman

Battleborn said:

fishlessman said:

just talked to a neighbor, all the catalytics were cut out of his work trucks last night. 8 trucks in 15 minutes and an unmarked uhaul with plates and numbers covered

Those are huge right now. Those and F-250/350’s are being stolen at record paces so far this year. 

i watched the tape yesterday, way too methodical on how it was done. definitely someone he knows and someone thats been in the yard many times. right down to knowing where to aim the high beams on the uhaul to help blind out the camera. going to be loud for a while with straight pipes. too easy to do with the trucks sitting high and a battery sawzall

ColtsFan

fishlessman said:

Battleborn said:

fishlessman said:

just talked to a neighbor, all the catalytics were cut out of his work trucks last night. 8 trucks in 15 minutes and an unmarked uhaul with plates and numbers covered

Those are huge right now. Those and F-250/350’s are being stolen at record paces so far this year. 

i watched the tape yesterday, way too methodical on how it was done. definitely someone he knows and someone thats been in the yard many times. right down to knowing where to aim the high beams on the uhaul to help blind out the camera. going to be loud for a while with straight pipes. too easy to do with the trucks sitting high and a battery sawzall

Chain type ratcheting pipe cutters are common too. Noise free and fast.

shtgunal3

On a Zoom call. Started at 7:15. Scheduled to end at 11:30

lousubcap

shtgunal3 said:

On a Zoom call. Started at 7:15. Scheduled to end at 11:30

Good practice for the Friday forum Zoom/Speakeasy session.  

Killit_and_Grillit

Moving in the snow is bull$h!t but at least it’s got a great view. 

Now if we could just get the water working 

nolaegghead

fishlessman said:

Battleborn said:

fishlessman said:

just talked to a neighbor, all the catalytics were cut out of his work trucks last night. 8 trucks in 15 minutes and an unmarked uhaul with plates and numbers covered

Those are huge right now. Those and F-250/350’s are being stolen at record paces so far this year. 

i watched the tape yesterday, way too methodical on how it was done. definitely someone he knows and someone thats been in the yard many times. right down to knowing where to aim the high beams on the uhaul to help blind out the camera. going to be loud for a while with straight pipes. too easy to do with the trucks sitting high and a battery sawzall

Probably could braze some tungsten rods along the pipe where they would cut it.  It would knock down all the teeth on a sawzall blade or foil a pipe cutter. At least make it a motherf*cker to remove.

HeavyG

Watching NASA TV - hoping Perseverance lands successfully!!

fishlessman

something cool, when you bury a copper bushing in dry ice it sings like a loud tuning fork and vibrates the cooler

Ozzie_Isaac

fishlessman said:

something cool, when you bury a copper bushing in dry ice it sings like a loud tuning fork and vibrates the cooler

Nicely done!  Bet that is a relief.

Gulfcoastguy

I started my hot pepper seeds a couple of hours ago: Aji Amarillo, Caribbean Hot Habanero, Jalapeño, and Chocolate Habanero. That ought to melt the ice.

lousubcap

Wondering how I incited the great "Bump" feeding frenzy.  But if it garners Zoom participants, then all is well.  Friday night 2/19-be there!

Wolfpack

Watching the US women dominate the game, in all aspects except the score, over our friends up North. 

SciAggie

Watching the NatGeo channel and a program about the Perseverance rover they just landed on Mars. 

I found it interesting they used old school black powder to deploy the supersonic parachute that holds a 2.7 billion dollar rover. 

Botch

SciAggie said:
I found it interesting they used old school black powder to deploy the supersonic parachute that holds a 2.7 billion dollar rover. 

As an explosives engineer for over half my career, this is interesting to me.  Never worked with black powder, but I've also never looked into properties below -60º F, nor properties in a vacuum, so I'm guessing BP has some advantages in those environments.    

lkapigian

SciAggie

@Botch We use BP charges to pressurize and separate the airframe on our amateur rockets. It’s far more reliable for us than Pyrodex or some CO2 devices - but we are amateurs. 

I was really surprised they used it in that application as well. 

nolaegghead

@botch @SciAggie there's a great show on explosives that I watched the other day.  I'll look it up and let you know what it is (on my DVR), but I think it's Nova or something like it.  I am certain it will be available free online to stream, if Botch can watch on his dial-up is another question (or did you just upgrade?).

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

@botch @SciAggie there's a great show on explosives that I watched the other day.  I'll look it up and let you know what it is (on my DVR), but I think it's Nova or something like it.  I am certain it will be available free online to stream, if Botch can watch on his dial-up is another question (or did you just upgrade?).

Please share, I am interested too.  I might have to go to a Starbucks to watch it though.

Botch

nolaegghead said:

@botch @SciAggie there's a great show on explosives that I watched the other day.  I'll look it up and let you know what it is (on my DVR), but I think it's Nova or something like it.  I am certain it will be available free online to stream, if Botch can watch on his dial-up is another question (or did you just upgrade?).

Oh damn, you're cruel!  
I've had a 26 Mbps connection for many years now, slow but its the best I have available (besides direct satellite linkup, which is beyond my technical skillset).
It's fine for movies or streaming, for me (and actually have never streamed a full movie, I'm a book guy).  It slowed terribly when @AnusMan posted 248 hi-rez photos of shaving foam, and 156 forum members replied without deleting anything.  I still get grief from that, but it is what it is.