OT - What are you doing right now?

nolaegghead

Generally speaking, maybe half the natives here are into mardi gras.  The other half will vacation to avoid the traffic/madness.  I have one friend in Disney right now, my neighbor (brisket camp lawyers) are in Santa Fe (unfortunately he caught covid a couple days in despite vax, but not too bad). 

Some families here spend tens of thousands of dollars as royalty in krews.  Just riding as a regular member in a big crew costs a couple thou.  About the cheapest you can get by riding in a parade is a couple/few hundred, and that's for the truck parades...the "wal-marts" of parades.

Lots of incredibly eclectic groups form for Mardi Gras.  Shopping cart parades, intergalactic crew of Chewbaccus, political parody parades, dog parades, you name it.  It's big big big.  I got trapped in my neighborhood on Sat.  Squeezed out, miraculously, to go to the shop.

Foghorn

ColbyLang said:

nolaegghead said:

ColbyLang said:

Prepping for a Mardi Gras ball. Man, I really don’t feel like putting on a tux let alone wearing one for 8 hours 

It's an elective event, and I have elected to not participate in it anymore.  I've seen it/done it so many times, got all that youthful exuberance out of my system.  We might go walk around on fat Tuesday, but that's a big maybe.

We went to a ball with @Foghorn and family one year.  Fun, but the Tux's are a lot of work and it's a messy event.

We did one parade with the kids Saturday evening. More than enough for me. Ball somewhat mandatory as sister in law is royalty. 

The ball was fun once.  I could do it again and I would embrace the opportunity, but it wasn't something that I have gone out of my way to put on my travel schedule. 

This year, if I were to attend, I would have had to miss the last night of rodeo here in San Antonio and given that I had first row seats right by the bucking chutes with a friend who is on the rodeo board I decided to stick with that.  Dressing up like a cowboy, driving downtown, dining in the director's club, and sitting in the first row is a lot cheaper than going to New Orleans (although I did invest in a $500 cowboy hat a few years ago so I didn't look out of place when I hang out with the rodeo muckity-mucks...) 

Either way I'm just faking it and hanging out with rich people courtesy of someone else I know.

Ozzie_Isaac

Foghorn said:

ColbyLang said:

nolaegghead said:

ColbyLang said:

Prepping for a Mardi Gras ball. Man, I really don’t feel like putting on a tux let alone wearing one for 8 hours 

It's an elective event, and I have elected to not participate in it anymore.  I've seen it/done it so many times, got all that youthful exuberance out of my system.  We might go walk around on fat Tuesday, but that's a big maybe.

We went to a ball with @Foghorn and family one year.  Fun, but the Tux's are a lot of work and it's a messy event.

We did one parade with the kids Saturday evening. More than enough for me. Ball somewhat mandatory as sister in law is royalty. 

The ball was fun once.  I could do it again and I would embrace the opportunity, but it wasn't something that I have gone out of my way to put on my travel schedule. 

This year, if I were to attend, I would have had to miss the last night of rodeo here in San Antonio and given that I had first row seats right by the bucking chutes with a friend who is on the rodeo board I decided to stick with that.  Dressing up like a cowboy, driving downtown, dining in the director's club, and sitting in the first row is a lot cheaper than going to New Orleans (although I did invest in a $500 cowboy hat a few years ago so I didn't look out of place when I hang out with the rodeo muckity-mucks...) 

Either way I'm just faking it and hanging out with rich people courtesy of someone else I know.

As a fellow forum member, who just wants to help others, I will use your rodeo ticket so you can go to Mardis Gras.

caliking

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Ate pie for breakfast.

This gives me so much joy. 

1. I love almost any lemony dessert thing.
2. I only get around to eating pie for breakfast a few times a year, but its **** glorious.

lousubcap

ColbyLang said:

Prepping for a Mardi Gras ball. Man, I really don’t feel like putting on a tux let alone wearing one for 8 hours 

The question of the evening-Pleated or non Pleated shirt?? 

nolaegghead

lousubcap said:

ColbyLang said:

Prepping for a Mardi Gras ball. Man, I really don’t feel like putting on a tux let alone wearing one for 8 hours 

The question of the evening-Pleated or non Pleated shirt?? 

For Mardi Gras it would be whatever is easier to remove stains…

JohnInCarolina

nolaegghead said:

lousubcap said:

ColbyLang said:

Prepping for a Mardi Gras ball. Man, I really don’t feel like putting on a tux let alone wearing one for 8 hours 

The question of the evening-Pleated or non Pleated shirt?? 

For Mardi Gras it would be whatever is easier to remove stains…

Food stains, or… the other kind?

Ozzie_Isaac

lousubcap said:

ColbyLang said:

Prepping for a Mardi Gras ball. Man, I really don’t feel like putting on a tux let alone wearing one for 8 hours 

The question of the evening-Pleated or non Pleated shirt?? 

And watch or no watch?  Frank keeps avoiding that question.

Wolfpack

No watch with a tux. A gentleman is supposed to be enjoying himself and not worried about the time. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Wolfpack said:

No watch with a tux. A gentleman is supposed to be enjoying himself and not worried about the time. 

I have heard that, but Bond wore one with a Tux.  Seems like that has softened these days.  A watch a much more refined and subtle than pulling your phone out.

lousubcap

Definitely a watch but eyed with discrimination.  Of course if wearing a power watch then that gives you license to abandon the discrimination in pursuit of targets.  

Eggdicted_Dawgfan

Pretty cool, costco in Lancaster PA. The Amish have their own parking area. Well I guess anyone in horse and buggy can park there but I’m sure most are Amish. 

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wolfpack said:

No watch with a tux. A gentleman is supposed to be enjoying himself and not worried about the time. 

I have heard that, but Bond wore one with a Tux.  Seems like that has softened these days.  A watch a much more refined and subtle than pulling your phone out.

Bond only wore a watch to have a place to stash the friggin laser beams he’d need to free himself of various ropes and whatnot.  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wolfpack said:

No watch with a tux. A gentleman is supposed to be enjoying himself and not worried about the time. 

I have heard that, but Bond wore one with a Tux.  Seems like that has softened these days.  A watch a much more refined and subtle than pulling your phone out.

Bond only wore a watch to have a place to stash the friggin laser beams he’d need to free himself of various ropes and whatnot.  

Are you insinuating it was a plot device, and not recommended as real world etiquette advice?

JohnInCarolina

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wolfpack said:

No watch with a tux. A gentleman is supposed to be enjoying himself and not worried about the time. 

I have heard that, but Bond wore one with a Tux.  Seems like that has softened these days.  A watch a much more refined and subtle than pulling your phone out.

Bond only wore a watch to have a place to stash the friggin laser beams he’d need to free himself of various ropes and whatnot.  

Are you insinuating it was a plot device, and not recommended as real world etiquette advice?

Yes, you are correct, you are one of us, we are one spirit!

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Wolfpack said:

No watch with a tux. A gentleman is supposed to be enjoying himself and not worried about the time. 

I have heard that, but Bond wore one with a Tux.  Seems like that has softened these days.  A watch a much more refined and subtle than pulling your phone out.

Bond only wore a watch to have a place to stash the friggin laser beams he’d need to free himself of various ropes and whatnot.  

Are you insinuating it was a plot device, and not recommended as real world etiquette advice?

Yes, you are correct, you are one of us, we are one spirit!

A true believer!  Whole saying is reserved for us.

Canugghead

About US$4.80 a gallon

Eggdicted_Dawgfan

^dislike^

Ozzie_Isaac

Canugghead said:

About US$4.80 a gallon

Here is mine, both my photos.  I like fueling milestones.

Foghorn

@Ozzie_Isaac, the rodeo finals were Saturday.

Botch

For the mental health folks:
 
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Ozzie_Isaac

Foghorn said:

@Ozzie_Isaac, the rodeo finals were Saturday.

Well, since I don't have a time machine, that isn't going to help.

Ozzie_Isaac

Homemade lemon meringue for breakfast, and homemade lemon icebox pie for a nightcap.

Hook_emHornsfan_74

Bond only wore a watch to have a place to stash the friggin laser beams he’d need to free himself of various ropes and whatnot.  

I was thinking the exact same thing when reading it.  What gadgets his watch had.

@JohnInCarolina you going to the game on Saturday?  I saw the ticket prices.  Ouch.

Legume

Canugghead said:

mini funnel
(tried but failed to remove cap)

Bottle kill!

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Canugghead said:

About US$4.80 a gallon

Here is mine, both my photos.  I like fueling milestones.

Pisses me off when people post misleading trash from the internet because the gullible eat it up and act on it.

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Canugghead said:

About US$4.80 a gallon

Here is mine, both my photos.  I like fueling milestones.

Pisses me off when people post misleading trash from the internet because the gullible eat it up and act on it.

These are my actual photos.  Not trash I found online.  Timestamps were on my photos.  I also made no conclusions nor assumptions.

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Canugghead said:

About US$4.80 a gallon

Here is mine, both my photos.  I like fueling milestones.

Pisses me off when people post misleading trash from the internet because the gullible eat it up and act on it.

These are my actual photos.  Not trash I found online.  Timestamps were on my photos.  I also made no conclusions nor assumptions.

Well, if it is, I apologize.  My experience, and I buy at Costco which has the cheapest gas in town, was a 3x difference between June 2020 and Feb 2022

nolaegghead

I finished making a custom fence for my old craftsman table saw (with a Delta biesemeyer style fence).  Needed a sacrificial fence and a long fence can act like a joiner for long lumber.

nolaegghead

I was a little confused by the differences in rabbets, dados and grooves. 

• A dado is a U-shaped, square-bottomed channel cut across the grain.
• A groove looks just like a dado, but runs with the grain. A lot of people call a groove a dado I think that’s OK – but imprecise.
• A rabbet is an L-shaped channel cut across or with the grain. A rabbet is always cut on the stock’s edge.

(from https://www.popularwoodworking.com/tricks/rabbet-vs-dado-vs-groove/ )