OT - What are you doing right now?

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

CPFC1905 said:

lousubcap said:

@CPFC1905 - You are a slick operator to be able to finesse that location.
Congratulations on the successful completion of another lap of the sun.  

Credit where it’s due to SWMBO for snaring the deal. 

Those solar laps seem to accelerate don’t they? 🍻

edit: years getting longer by 5.5 seconds every 100 century.

this seems to be more plausible than the experts saying perceived life is half over at age 7.

PeteSliver

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

CPFC1905 said:

lousubcap said:

@CPFC1905 - You are a slick operator to be able to finesse that location.
Congratulations on the successful completion of another lap of the sun.  

Credit where it’s due to SWMBO for snaring the deal. 

Those solar laps seem to accelerate don’t they? 🍻

edit: years getting longer by 5.5 seconds every 100 century.

this seems to be more plausible than the experts saying perceived life is half over at age 7.

Experts?  Which experts? That guy from TEXAS or the professor or the lump expert or the anus expert or the whiskey expert or the all around expert or the expert from UK (sorry Ed, not you)

fishlessman

PeteSliver said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

CPFC1905 said:

lousubcap said:

@CPFC1905 - You are a slick operator to be able to finesse that location.
Congratulations on the successful completion of another lap of the sun.  

Credit where it’s due to SWMBO for snaring the deal. 

Those solar laps seem to accelerate don’t they? 🍻

edit: years getting longer by 5.5 seconds every 100 century.

this seems to be more plausible than the experts saying perceived life is half over at age 7.

Experts?  Which experts? That guy from TEXAS or the professor or the lump expert or the anus expert or the whiskey expert or the all around expert or the expert from UK (sorry Ed, not you)

maybe i should have used the term....science

Acn

crashbc said:

multi-tasking during a meting that should have been an email...and deciding what I want to cook for dinner tonight

I'm right there with you on the first...but I'm ordering Christmas presents.

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 - Wait til you engage the supercharger then watch the clock spin! 
Life is like a roll of TP-the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.  

Acn

lousubcap said:

@CPFC1905 - Wait til you engage the supercharger then watch the clock spin! 
Life is like a roll of TP-the closer you get to the end the faster it goes.  

I once read an interesting suggestion as to why that is.  The writer was supposing that each additional year is a smaller percentage of your life.  So the year from 49-50 seems much shorter than the year between 9-10, because it is only 2% of your life rather than 10%.  

fishlessman

time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana

nolaegghead

Battleborn

Watching the USMNT kickball team and waiting on this pepper stout beef to finish up. 

loco_engr

trying to figure out the flame boss 500 . . . hopefully I got it right

Acn

DMW

Just installed something. 

lousubcap

Does @dmchicago get a cut??  

TEXASBGE2018

A lot of you guys sure do get excited about spraying things into or rather onto your poo holes. It's really odd.

dmchicago

lousubcap said:

Does @dmchicago get a cut??  

True happiness is the clean holes we met along the way. 

JohnInCarolina

TEXASBGE2018 said:

A lot of you guys sure do get excited about spraying things into or rather onto your poo holes. It's really odd.

Different things move you as you move through the decades in age, you see?

Before you’re ten, it’s Tonka trucks and GI Joe.
In your teens, it’s boobs.
In your twenties, also boobs.
In your thirties, it’s your neighbor’s bass boat he parked in his fvcking lawn.  
In your forties, it’s your grills.
In your fifties, it’s a clean poo hole.  
In your sixties, it’s retirement.
In your seventies, it’s your grand kids.
In your eighties, it’s… oh who am I kidding you’re lucky if anything still moves at that point. 

Botch

DMW said:

Just installed something. 

There needs to be an alternative thing to load up your toilet paper holder with, rather than leaving it bare and useless.
Prosciutto?  Bacon?  News clippings?  Scotch tape?  Crossword puzzles?  Vocabulary Word of the Day (ooh, I bet they make those!)?  Saran Wrap?  Maybe a one-armed Bandit gambling machine thingie?  Butcher paper?  Tea bags?  COVID masks?  Tear-off condoms?  Or even a modification of those stupid "spinner" toys?  

ColbyLang

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

lkapigian

ColbyLang said:

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

We have been hit 3 times this year, what used to be an annual bump is now quarterly …used to be , if someone called a year after we quoted a job, and now they are ready I could suck up the small increase and honor it, call me a few months later now that price went up 35%…..used to pay $10.00 for 4x8 sheets of metal, $75.00 yesterday and no end in sight

that aside , my average ticket price is through the roof as well as my margins , so there is that

alaskanassasin

ColbyLang said:

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

 I may be out of line here but why bother writing them a letter, everything is going up. Seems like it just gives them something to **** about and time to shop around.

alaskanassasin

My wheat field looks good FYI, hopefully it does this spring too!

lkapigian

alaskanassasin said:

ColbyLang said:

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

 I may be out of line here but why bother writing them a letter, everything is going up. Seems like it just gives them something to **** about and time to shop around.

Agree, people know it’s happening , primary vendors  vs end user typically do send out increase letters though ….

plus side to this, the bottom feeders are being culled out 

DMW

Botch said:

DMW said:

Just installed something. 

There needs to be an alternative thing to load up your toilet paper holder with, rather than leaving it bare and useless.
Prosciutto?  Bacon?  News clippings?  Scotch tape?  Crossword puzzles?  Vocabulary Word of the Day (ooh, I bet they make those!)?  Saran Wrap?  Maybe a one-armed Bandit gambling machine thingie?  Butcher paper?  Tea bags?  COVID masks?  Tear-off condoms?  Or even a modification of those stupid "spinner" toys?  

That toilet paper holder has been empty since we've moved here, there's another one on the cabinet just out of camera view.
I can't imagine why anyone thought a toiler paper holder there would be a good idea, ergonomics on reaching for that would be awful.

But now I have ideas for the unused one...

Ozzie_Isaac

DMW said:

Botch said:

DMW said:

Just installed something. 

There needs to be an alternative thing to load up your toilet paper holder with, rather than leaving it bare and useless.
Prosciutto?  Bacon?  News clippings?  Scotch tape?  Crossword puzzles?  Vocabulary Word of the Day (ooh, I bet they make those!)?  Saran Wrap?  Maybe a one-armed Bandit gambling machine thingie?  Butcher paper?  Tea bags?  COVID masks?  Tear-off condoms?  Or even a modification of those stupid "spinner" toys?  

That toilet paper holder has been empty since we've moved here, there's another one on the cabinet just out of camera view.
I can't imagine why anyone thought a toiler paper holder there would be a good idea, ergonomics on reaching for that would be awful.

But now I have ideas for the unused one...

You all live on the edge.  Should still have toilet paper loaded as a backup.  Sh*t happens.  You need contingency plans.

ColbyLang

alaskanassasin said:

ColbyLang said:

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

 I may be out of line here but why bother writing them a letter, everything is going up. Seems like it just gives them something to **** about and time to shop around.

Not out of line, but we’re talking restaurant groups with 100’s of locations each…and one with over 2200…..they have to push increases in from corporate to franchisees in a timely manner. Most increases are negotiated and then get a 60 day delay. Don’t want to jeopardize my relationship with these guys over blindsiding them. Bad enough LTL freight costs are thru the nose already. 

fishlessman

DMW said:

Just installed something. 

you rich folk, a porcelain god with a face washer/ tooth cleaner AND a handle assist mounted on the wall for getting back up

alaskanassasin

That makes sense, probably not going to slip it past those guys ;-)

fishlessman

ColbyLang said:

alaskanassasin said:

ColbyLang said:

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

 I may be out of line here but why bother writing them a letter, everything is going up. Seems like it just gives them something to **** about and time to shop around.

Not out of line, but we’re talking restaurant groups with 100’s of locations each…and one with over 2200…..they have to push increases in from corporate to franchisees in a timely manner. Most increases are negotiated and then get a 60 day delay. Don’t want to jeopardize my relationship with these guys over blindsiding them. Bad enough LTL freight costs are thru the nose already. 

the price quotes in the metal industry are held for 24 hours now, if the stock is still available in 24 hours. hope theres an out clause for the 60 day period

Eoin

lkapigian said:

alaskanassasin said:

ColbyLang said:

Preparing a letter to send to all of my customers. Another price increase 6 months after the last one….just can’t keep absorbing the rising costs

 I may be out of line here but why bother writing them a letter, everything is going up. Seems like it just gives them something to **** about and time to shop around.

Agree, people know it’s happening , primary vendors  vs end user typically do send out increase letters though ….

plus side to this, the bottom feeders are being culled out 

A well run, well finaced business can manage some fluctuations, the weaklings can't. It's good to thin the herd sometimes.

alaskanassasin

we fertilize corn with anhydrous ammonia , 2021 it was $575 a ton, next year they are guessing it will be between $1,200-$1,500 a ton