OT - What are you doing right now?

Gulfcoastguy

JohnInCarolina said:

At the international spy museum.

What happened to not sinking this thread?

JohnInCarolina

Gulfcoastguy said:

JohnInCarolina said:

At the international spy museum.

What happened to not sinking this thread?

Oops.

Legume

It’s just John ruining things again.  I’ll bet he’s ruining DC as well 🤣

JohnInCarolina

Legume said:

It’s just John ruining things again.  I’ll bet he’s ruining DC as well 🤣

Pretty sure DC was ruined well before my arrival.

I hope that’s not too political a statement such that this thread doesn’t sink and Ozzie has to start another.  That would be devastating.

MediumRarely

SWMBO said lunch on the water. Boat, Buck Island National Monument, snorkle, swim, pétanque, lunch. Now home for another swim and the sunset.

Leaving the island soon for a couple of months. Gotta jam as much of this in as Catherine can stand.

Ozzie_Isaac

MediumRarely said:

SWMBO said lunch on the water. Boat, Buck Island National Monument, snorkle, swim, pétanque, lunch. Now home for another swim and the sunset.

Leaving the island soon for a couple of months. Gotta jam as much of this in as Catherine can stand.

Stunning as usual!!  Thank you for letting us live vicariously through your photos.

lousubcap

@MediumRarely - Great sense of humour right there for the rest of us.  Maximize the remaining near-term window of opportunity.  
Better to be luck than good although you have both going for you.  

Gulfcoastguy

Went to buy a bow saw at Ace. A bottle of Deez Nuts Pecan Rub followed me home.

Eoin

Anne's been to London to see our daughter. Brought back some gozlemes stuffed with feta and spinach. Also this dodgy looking jar of Mr Naga. The label says 70% naga chilli content. It went well with the gozlemes.

alaskanassasin

That looks awesome @Eoin

Battleborn

It’s back in southern Nevada stores. 

GrateEggspectations

Battleborn said:

It’s back in southern Nevada stores. 

The party I am travelling with has gone through a few tubs of this. 

nolaegghead

What I like about these Festool and Fein self-cleaning vacuum bags is that they fill up ALL THE WAY until the bag is like a dense brick.

Because I'm cheap, I use the regular old wet/dry shop vac to pull all the crap out of these to reuse them.  Then use the Fein/Festool vacuum to clean the pleated filter on the shop vac after dumping.

JohnInCarolina

From the top of the Washington monument 

Ozzie_Isaac

JohnInCarolina said:

From the top of the Washington monument 

Cool pictures, but sad to see the grass in such rough shape. (Says the person surrounded by sand and rocks)

alaskanassasin

Ozzie_Isaac said:

JohnInCarolina said:

From the top of the Washington monument 

Cool pictures, but sad to see the grass in such rough shape. (Says the person surrounded by sand and rocks)

  Grass will look like shvt until we hit daily averages of 70

lousubcap

Just scheduled the latest (for us oldie's) Covid booster for tomorrow PM.  

lkapigian

lousubcap said:

Just scheduled the latest (for us oldie's) Covid booster for tomorrow PM.  

so iis this your second or first booster

lousubcap

Second booster-never met a shot I didn't like.  Got the first booster the day it was approved for oldies back in Sep.  

lkapigian

lousubcap said:

Second booster-never met a shot I didn't like.  Got the first booster the day it was approved for oldies back in Sep.  

thanks @lousubcap , need to look into getting my second booster....though as shot up as I am I have still gotten sick albeit mild----

Yno

Double vaxxed and boosted, but we still got it. Pretty mild, like a minor cold. Tested negative on the 18th, positive on the 22nd and 26th, Ynette is negative today, but I am still positive. She was showing slight symptoms a few days before I did. So I hope I will be negative in a few days.

And yes, I will get the second booster as soon as I can.

Kayak

lousubcap said:

Second booster-never met a shot I didn't like.  Got the first booster the day it was approved for oldies back in Sep.  

I'm going to give my first booster it's full run - 6 months??? After that, absolutely. I have a coworker who just decided one day he wanted another booster, so walked into a pharmacy and got one. This was months ago. He's still the same jerk today, so I guess it didn't hurt.

fishlessman

lousubcap said:

Second booster-never met a shot I didn't like.  Got the first booster the day it was approved for oldies back in Sep.  

alright.....youve talked me into two boosters

JohnInCarolina

Just got back into Durham.  Got in earlier than expected, so I was able to hop on some work calls I hadn't necessarily anticipated joining.  No rest for the working stiff...

Ozzie_Isaac

Slowly, but surely.  Need to get kitchen repainted, because they had to redo the stucco after painting the first time.  Need to get sink plumbed, and Eggs in too.

Acn

JohnInCarolina said:

Just got back into Durham.  Got in earlier than expected, so I was able to hop on some work calls I hadn't necessarily anticipated joining.  No rest for the working stiff...

That drive is so hit or miss.  I've made it from Baltimore to Durham in 5 hours and in 11 hours.  

First time I did the DC > Durham trip was nearly 20 years ago now, to pick up my then girlfriend, now wife from her parents' house.  My now FIL said the drive should take about 5 hours, the last 1 in NC.  There was no traffic when I left late morning and I hit the NC line in about 2:45.  Thinking that was way too fast I stopped at the rest area and called my Dad and chatted for about 45 minutes.  Ended up beating his estimated time by 20 minutes, rather than an hour plus, and to this day my FIL will warn my wife about driving too fast, but never me.  

lkapigian

Picked up 230 pounds of Chuck Roll , starting cook tomorrow from Friday Event for 400

lousubcap

@Acn - very well played right there.  

nolaegghead

Have to recut the bullnose, so hot glued to a board and will run through the sliding wet saw.  Anyway, made some progress.  

JohnInCarolina

Acn said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Just got back into Durham.  Got in earlier than expected, so I was able to hop on some work calls I hadn't necessarily anticipated joining.  No rest for the working stiff...

That drive is so hit or miss.  I've made it from Baltimore to Durham in 5 hours and in 11 hours.  

First time I did the DC > Durham trip was nearly 20 years ago now, to pick up my then girlfriend, now wife from her parents' house.  My now FIL said the drive should take about 5 hours, the last 1 in NC.  There was no traffic when I left late morning and I hit the NC line in about 2:45.  Thinking that was way too fast I stopped at the rest area and called my Dad and chatted for about 45 minutes.  Ended up beating his estimated time by 20 minutes, rather than an hour plus, and to this day my FIL will warn my wife about driving too fast, but never me.  

That’s interesting.  I’ve never hit too much traffic in NC itself.  Mostly the pain points have always been around Richmond and DC itself.

The trip up took 5+ hrs on Saturday, mostly due to some weird weather around DC.  Today we got it done in 4 flat.