OT - What are you doing right now?

GrateEggspectations

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Messing with my pool lights.  Could really disorient someone swimming.

Four letters: P-I-M-P. Hope you had it set to green yesterday. 

CPFC1905

Well, its a funny old weekend coming up due to the conflation of mid-week European action,  re-scheduled Covided matches and the FA Cup 6th.  I’ll try my best to lead you through it carefully while making trademark erratic forecasts. 

Friday

PL : Wolves v Leeds, both sides discovering bit of form but the hosts will be too strong.  Leeds have welcomed back some long-term absentees and who will sustain their PL stay.  But 1-0 tonight.

Elsewhere, Iraq v Zambia if you fancy a wildcard in your accumulator bet. 3-7 and a big away win for the Z’s - without doubt. 

Saturday

FA Cup : Middlesborough v Chelsea, couple of things - the hosts’ name is Middles Boro  - don’t be saying that ‘burrow’ thing that you all like to do,  and,  the Blues remain ‘under special license’ due to the Russian Billionaire owner being a Russian Billionaire.  Quality will out but not without a fight. 1-3

PL : Aston Villa v Arsenal, the Gunners remain in sterling form despite a two nil reverse against Liverpool mid-week. Stevie G has improved the Villa.  A fun contest in store. 2-2

CL : Stoke v Millwall,  the steam has left the Potters and the games are being played out in lacklustre fashion now.    Millwall are just plain horrible so I hope pride kicks in and are defeated. 2-1

Sunday 

FA Cup :  Palace v Everton,  The Eagles are in season saving form right now and all is rosey after a thrilling 0-0 against Man City.  Risk is they believe their own hype.  The Toffees have other priorities, like staying up.  All results possible but I am going against type for a 1-0 and I’ll find my fancy hat for a trip to Wembley in the semi’s.   

Southampton v Man City, meh - routine 0-2

Notes Forest v Liverpool, a game hewn of 1980’s legend.  YouTube Brian Clough (RIP) if you want to know what football was like back then.   Promises to be terrific fun but again, the quality will out.  1-3.

PL : Leicester v Brentford,  the hosts still need the points and will fancy this to ease relegation fears, taking them to 33 points which is touching distance of safety.  The Foxes are wholly unpredictable.  1-1.

Spurs v West Ham : identical points and similar form.  Spurs are being Spursy in a good way at the moment while sooner or later the Hammers will run out of puff. 2-1

OK - I am off to watch the remaining two and half days of the 2nd Test so that I can join in the high octane cricket banter of @Ozzie_Isaac

lkapigian

Loading up 50 pounds of Chuck Roll for tomorrow 

SGH

lkapigian said:

Loading up 50 pounds of Chuck Roll for tomorrow 

If you don’t wear the hat while cooking that we are no longer friends 

lkapigian

SGH said:

lkapigian said:

Loading up 50 pounds of Chuck Roll for tomorrow 

If you don’t wear the hat while cooking that we are no longer friends 

Lol

kl8ton

Got my new shelves and tubs delivered. 

I set out with my label maker and froze my fingers doing this task as quick as possible. 

Foghorn

lkapigian

Getting ready to throw these on 

JohnInCarolina

making tikka masala sauce, for use in ctm pizza wraps tomorrow night 

lkapigian

FarmingPhD

lkapigian said:

Dadgum Larry, that is gorgeous!

lkapigian

Calling them done 

CPFC1905

JohnInCarolina said:

making tikka masala sauce, for use in ctm pizza wraps tomorrow night 

Chicken tikka masala- beautiful British dish.  Well done. 

JohnInCarolina

CPFC1905 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

making tikka masala sauce, for use in ctm pizza wraps tomorrow night 

Chicken tikka masala- beautiful British dish.  Well done. 

It’s about as British as the Duchess of Sussex.  Like most of the best things in the UK, it was… imported.  

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

CPFC1905 said:

JohnInCarolina said:

making tikka masala sauce, for use in ctm pizza wraps tomorrow night 

Chicken tikka masala- beautiful British dish.  Well done. 

It’s about as British as the Duchess of Sussex.  Like most of the best things in the UK, it was… imported.  

Pretty sure it is Australian.

nolaegghead

Chicken tikka masala may derive from butter chicken, a popular dish in the northern Indian subcontinent. The Multicultural Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics credits its creation to Bangladeshi migrantchefs in the 1960s, after migrating to Britain from Bangladesh. At the time, these migrant chefs developed and served a number of new inauthentic "Indian" dishes, including chicken tikka masala.[7]

Historians of ethnic food, Peter and Colleen Grove, discuss multiple origin-claims of chicken tikka masala, concluding that the dish "was most certainly invented in Britain, probably by a Bangladeshi chef."[8] They suggest that "the shape of things to come may have been a recipe for Shahi Chicken Masala in Mrs Balbir Singh’s Indian Cookery published in 1961."[8]

Another explanation is that it originated in a restaurant in Glasgow, Scotland.[9][1] This version recounts how a chef, proprietor of a restaurant in Glasgow, invented chicken tikka masala by improvising a sauce made from a tin of condensed tomato soup, and spices.[10][11]

Chef Anita Jaisinghani, a correspondent in the Houston Chronicle, wrote that "the most likely story is that the modern version was created during the early ’70s by an enterprising Indian chef near London" who used Campbell's tomato soup.[12] This is disputed by author Jo Monroe, who claims that this story was deliberately invented by the founder of a London restaurant "to entertain journalists".[13]

Rahul Verma, a food critic who writes for The Hindu,[14] said he first tasted the dish in 1971 and that its origins were in Punjab, India. He said, "It's basically a Punjabi dish not more than 40–50 years old and must be an accidental discovery which has had periodical improvisations."[15][9]

nolaegghead

Great way to use up scrap wood

Ozzie_Isaac

@nolaegghead I disliked your tiki masala post.  I know you are wanting to know why.  Basically, it was really long.  I like short posts, even better if it has a meme or dog photo.

nolaegghead

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@nolaegghead I disliked your tiki masala post.  I know you are wanting to know why.  Basically, it was really long.  I like short posts, even better if it has a meme or dog photo.

That’s ok.  I’ll just be sad and crying myself to sleep for the next few days.

Ozzie_Isaac

nolaegghead said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

@nolaegghead I disliked your tiki masala post.  I know you are wanting to know why.  Basically, it was really long.  I like short posts, even better if it has a meme or dog photo.

That’s ok.  I’ll just be sad and crying myself to sleep for the next few days.

This oddly enough, gives me the warm fuzzies and makes me feel so much better about myself.  Now I know why they do it.

Eoin

Ozzie_Isaac said:

My wife knows me well.  She just sent this floorplan.  3000 sq.ft garage, 1500 sq.ft house.  Pretty much the perfect ratio.

Assuming the garage has enough height for a lift, that's great.

Eoin

nolaegghead said:

Made some good progress moving stuff around to cut more logs.  Used a board from my first cut for a sign. 

Rewired my panel back-feed from when I was running on a generator for a month to 40A 220V welder outlet.  Going to be doing some really fun welding in next few days.  Helping a friend out welding/bolting together corbels from some vintage cast iron and 3"x0.5" bar stock.  Got nickle rods for the cast iron to steel, but I see some bolt holes and I think I'm just going to weld in studs.

Now I have a shop, I'm looking at houskeeping signs. It's like I'm the only one who understands how a shop vac and waste bin work.

Eoin

lkapigian said:

Posting this here, we had one of our trucks broken into last week, stole all the techs tools, filed a claim only to find out ,no coverage? WTF we always have, somewhere it fell off the policy...Instead of my agent digging his heels in, walked into my office and handed me a $5000.00 check....top notch...and getting the tool/equipment loss back on the policy 

Our general transit policy covers tools in vans. Van contents theft is rife, with 6 vans we get at least 1 a year.

MediumRarely

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

nolaegghead said:

How often does someone you know lose a key or get locked out of something?  I'd say couple/few times a year for me.  It's not cheap or fast to call a locksmith when you can often just pick the lock.

I once crawled through the dog door. Really if you go around a house you will usually find at least one window that is unlocked. 

That is often true.  Except our house.  We are fastidious about locking it up and security.   So far it's paid off.

We utilize the Thee G's of security.  Gates, Dogs, Guns.  We used to also utilize remoteness and hiddeness, but the city is encroaching all around so we may be adding cameras.

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Messing with my pool lights.  Could really disorient someone swimming.

Got to be honest.  Now that I think about it, while your pool is nice, I’m kind of disappointed you didn’t install a moat around your house.  And then put in sharks with friggin laser beams.

Lazy river = moat. Multitasking in Solitude.

MediumRarely

MediumRarely said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

nolaegghead said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

nolaegghead said:

How often does someone you know lose a key or get locked out of something?  I'd say couple/few times a year for me.  It's not cheap or fast to call a locksmith when you can often just pick the lock.

I once crawled through the dog door. Really if you go around a house you will usually find at least one window that is unlocked. 

That is often true.  Except our house.  We are fastidious about locking it up and security.   So far it's paid off.

We utilize the Thee G's of security.  Gates, Dogs, Guns.  We used to also utilize remoteness and hiddeness, but the city is encroaching all around so we may be adding cameras.

JohnInCarolina said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Messing with my pool lights.  Could really disorient someone swimming.

Got to be honest.  Now that I think about it, while your pool is nice, I’m kind of disappointed you didn’t install a moat around your house.  And then put in sharks with friggin laser beams.

Lazy river = moat. Multitasking in Solitude.

GUARD-DOGS

Acn

Drinking wine and enjoying El Clasico.  

nolaegghead

Piddling around the shop in a shotgun pattern of intended progress…

nolaegghead

nolaegghead

GrateEggspectations

Does anyone else feel like 90% of this thread is just trying to figure out what @nolaegghead is putting together/taking apart?