OT - What are you doing right now?

alaskanassasin

Scheduled 2 for Feb 20th and 3 for March 8th. That should give me some wiggle room on who is ready when. @SamIAm2

JohnInCarolina

Feeling... uncomfortable.

http://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1568737458799661056?s=20&t=EKRQHGO4Z7i6jRIoiq0suw

EzraBrooks

JohnInCarolina said:

Feeling... uncomfortable.

http://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/1568737458799661056?s=20&t=EKRQHGO4Z7i6jRIoiq0suw

Paging @PhinnGerbang

lkapigian

Our gig for the next 2 nights 

Some non winged in the mix

WeberWho

lousubcap

Great to see him get there given he is hard-over with retiring at the end of this season.

Acn

Finishing birthday cake at breakfast.

Ozzie_Isaac

WeberWho said:

To bad we couldn't watch it!  MLB doing their best to make being a fan as hard as possible.

TEXASBGE2018

Heading to judge the State Fair of Texas Annual Chili Cookoff for the 1st time since the pandemic hit. This is one of the qualifiers for Terlingua so should have some great entry's this year.

Gulfcoastguy

Thinking about making more pineapple salsa . I picked some jalapeños at dad’s before changing his flat tire and taking him to get new tires. Some of the jalapeños are ripe(red) so it might be a fun experiment.

ColtsFan

Smoking chuckies 

alaskanassasin

What are you going to use those for @ColtsFan?

ColtsFan

alaskanassasin said:

What are you going to use those for @ColtsFan?

Making pepper stout beef for an eggfest next weekend. Doing a little prep work

alaskanassasin

Nice. Enjoy sir!

lkapigian

Wondering if the Fist Bump officially replaced the High Five

Canugghead

Stormbringer said:

Bracing for impact … SWMBO is excited about this 

Hope you folks are safe.  Just got an update from a friend in Cape Breton, they’re safe but lost power, wind gusting badly, lots of damage to trees and power lines, many roads unpassable.

lousubcap

@Stormbringer - was thinking the same thing regarding riding out the storm.  But you get to leave the destruction in the rear-view mirror, at least this trip.  

kl8ton

lkapigian said:

Wondering if the Fist Bump officially replaced the High Five

I think it did.  

Acn

kl8ton said:

lkapigian said:

Wondering if the Fist Bump officially replaced the High Five

I think it did.  

I think it did 5-10 years ago.

JohnInCarolina

Acn said:

kl8ton said:

lkapigian said:

Wondering if the Fist Bump officially replaced the High Five

I think it did.  

I think it did 5-10 years ago.

These days the cool kids do the trifecta: high five, fist bump, and chest bump:

ColtsFan

Done

Stormbringer

@Canugghead @lousubcap thanks for asking. We made it out of the chalet this morning. A tree went over during the night preventing us from leaving, a local with a chainsaw made short work of it. 

We are now in a house overlooking St. Margaret’s Bay, there is no electricity but we have a gas stove, a roaring fire and plenty of wine. 

nolaegghead

Stormbringer said:

@Canugghead @lousubcap thanks for asking. We made it out of the chalet this morning. A tree went over during the night preventing us from leaving, a local with a chainsaw made short work of it. 

We are now in a house overlooking St. Margaret’s Bay, there is no electricity but we have a gas stove, a roaring fire and plenty of wine. 

Was thinking about you all, Canada isn’t used to this level of storm.  On our gulf coast, building codes call for all kinds of storm mitigation.  Hope the same exists for that area

lousubcap

@Stormbringer Glad life progresses at an altered pace with a bit of a challenge.  Hopefully this satisfies the storm chaser desires as Mother Nature takes no prisoners.
Stay healthy and safe out there-and safe travels across the pond.  

Botch

AGGIES!!    

Gulfcoastguy

Just spent an hour with online help from mackeeper. After updating the Macs software the antivirus wasn't starting when I log on. Apparently reinstalling is their standard procedure, this is twice in this year.

SGH

ColtsFan said:

Done

Man that looks good 👍 

Botch

Deleted facebook.  I'm f*ckin sick and tired of the interface going out of its way to make sure nothing works.  

Acn

Making a second pot of tea and working on plans for when we’re in London.

SamIAm2

Preparing for hurricane season by taking down the shade sails above the spa decking.  Removed all PVC post caps and cleaned in 30 second cleaner. This is the pole at the South West end of the house.
The small south sail is almost down. All of the stainless steel rigging hardware will be removed except the for the small brackets that hold the two small connectors still attached to the structure. Those hanging adjustable connectors shown in the photo have been removed.


South section removed. You can see the rigging required to handle the normal winds. The turn buckles can be adjusted after I rehang the shade sails. 

Getting started on the North West shade sail section.

Done removing the North West sail.

The full 35 gallon rain barrel will stay but the PVC pipe for draining the spa, the deck box, and the spa vacuum will be stored inside if needed.

The shade sails are neatly folded with their attached hardware and stored in the shed, along with the clean post caps. It took me just about two hours to complete this task.  I know from experience that it will take longer to put the sails back up.  @GrateEggspectations - no trip to my favorite hospital room was required today. Will endeavour to refrain from repeating the previous experience..