OT - What are you doing right now?

SGH

Right now, I'm recovering from the crawfish blow out yesterday in NO. Your not going to believe this, but even there I couldn't escape the tugs. A tug boat ride for the kids. What are the odds?

Ozzie_Isaac

@SGH  they are following you!!  Hopefully you didn't need to do any fabrication on that one!

Botch

Right now, I'm saying my Thank You's.  Was riding the bike up I-15 when an unsecured, full-length 2x4 or 2x6 fell off the truck in front of me.  It hit another car first, shattered, and one piece flew to my left, the other pieces to my right.  
Damn.  

nolaegghead

@Botch - you got someone looking out for ya.  I was as hung over as hung over gets.  Got up at 6AM, moved all our crap outta the crawfish booth, then cruised around on my F800R for half the day.  Unbelievable weather, a great way to end the weekend.  Now I'm gonna cook some food.

WeberWho

Today was the last day in France for us.  I really thought that I was going to dislike France.  I've always been told that the French hate American tourist or just anyone in general.  I stereotyped them as snobs that wouldn't give you the time of day. Plus on top of that we don't know a lick of french.  I can't tell you how many people were nice and helped us out.  As long as you attempted to try to speak to them in French they could see the attempt and want to help you out.  It was totally out of my element but was kind of neat working through stuff.  A successful few days.  We had to head out of France this afternoon to catch a train.  We stopped at a local market to pick up some bread to snack on for the 7 hour train ride.  One of them was bacon bread.  It was under a few bucks and was a good treat along with a cinnamon roll.  My wife got me some good reading material for the plane/train rides.  I read the first 70 pages or so.  What a fantastic read!  I can't wait to pick it back up on the way home.  We didn't get to Barcelona until about 8pm tonight.  On the way to dinner tonight we walked past a mall.  It's an old bull fighting ring turned into a mall since it's illegal in this part of Spain now a days.  It's super cool they kept it as a ring instead of tearing it down to the ground for a new mall.  The city so far is amazing.  We just got back home and it's 2:30 am and the city is still full of people walking the streets.  It's such a different atmosphere around here.  Hopefully going to see some more stuff tomorrow tomorrow during the day.

Ozzie_Isaac

@WeberWho? that mall is awesome.  Much better than our strip malls.

grege345

You rule @weberwho? I look forward to your posts everyday

tarheelmatt

Sitting here questioning my career path....

grege345

I'm guessing Ozzie was thinking about egging when this truck was being designed. Yes it's broken

Ozzie_Isaac

grege345 said:

I'm guessing Ozzie was thinking about egging when this truck was being designed. Yes it's broken

Ouch.  Hate to see that!

SGH

Cooking a cheeseburger as a snack and cutting up some flat iron I found for tonight.

Ozzie_Isaac

SGH said:

Cooking a cheeseburger as a snack and cutting up some flat iron I found for tonight.

Pics or it didn't happen.  I want to see pics of a mini in use!

SGH

Ozzie_Isaac said:

SGH said:

Cooking a cheeseburger as a snack and cutting up some flat iron I found for tonight.

Pics or it didn't happen.  I want to see pics of a mini in use!

Done ate the burger, I was starving. Will get pics of the flat iron and sausage though. 

theyolksonyou

Ozzie_Isaac

@theyolksonyou you lucky son if a gun!  I love mud bugs.

theyolksonyou

Split a pound of crawfish,pound of shrimp, 6 andoulille   Very spicy, very messy. Very GOOD. 

WeberWho

We just got back from a 13 hour tour of Barcelona.  What a day!  We started out the day in the meat market and city market.  I was in charcuterie heaven!  These meat markets are absolutely incredible!  It was charcuterie nirvana.  I was in awe to say the least.  I agree with @cookn biker with it be a lost art.  We ate all kinds of food today along with an awesome host to show us the town.  It's 2:30 am and I'm about fried.  Just wanted to post a few pics about today

TigerTony

@theyolksonyou -- You got crawfish over there? What the heck?! Are those gulf shrimp and Louisiana crawfish?  Somethings just not right about that. If those are some of my local crawfish, I need to talk to my state legislators and keep these bugs from leaving the state. 
Although I'm happy for you and little yolk that you get to share a father and son crawfish eating experience.
You look silly with that bib on. You do realize that experienced crawfish eaters don't wear bibs, don't you?
Hope they were good.

grege345

I've never wanted to go somewhere more than that place right there! @WeberWho? Awesome

tarheelmatt

FML!  Thanks @WeberWho?

theyolksonyou

@tigertony I'm on vacation, I'm supposed to look silly with my son. 

Were in Orlando and they were live. 

theyolksonyou

Just asked the server here in Universal if the pork loin was cooked to temp. He starts with to keep it tender it's med well +. When I told him it was too done is like 140 ish. He looked at me like I had a third eye. And said he'd request it. 

WeberWho

It was another 13 hours out on the town today.  Today we went out and looked at more architecture by architect Antoni Gaudi.  Spain is also home to Salvador Dali.  I don't know what Spain grows or smokes but I want it! These guys must have taken every drug possible.  Gaudi must have dropped a lot of acid in his day.  He hates 90 degree angles. It's very apparent in his work.  The guy really had a unique mind.  So we spent a large part of the day walking the city and taking it all in. For dinner we had some authentic Italian wood oven pizza.  I ate way too much like always.  I'm off to get some sleep as it's going to be pushing 2am here... (Sorry for the sideways pictures.  Vanilla hates cell phone pictures)

grege345

This is my welcome home today. So take that @WeberWho? 

Chowman

Just changed the anode rod in my water heater. After 9 years it was all but gone . Anyone else do this? Can really extend the tank life but plumbers don't advertise this much. 

Chowman

Oops sorry guys , this is too OT , chose wrong post

DMW

@grege345 - I think I would have lost it if that happened here today. Heading down to DC tomorrow afternoon with the family. Forecast for Thursday is sunny and 72, should be perfect weather to see the city.

Ozzie_Isaac

Making some burnt ends.  Loved the sliced tip now trying burnt ends to compare.

Ozzie_Isaac

@chowman thats cool.  Nothing is to OT for this thread.  Where do you get a new anode?

Ozzie_Isaac

@grege345 not cool man.  With pics like that @WeberWho? may never come home.  Next we will suffer through pics of Fiji or Pyramids or Mt. Kilaminjaro or something.