OT - What are you doing right now?

paqman

Ozzie_Isaac said:.

You balance your mower blades!!??!

If you remove too much material from one side, the mower will rattle and it will eventually destroy the mower (crack the frame, damage the axle).  One way to do it is to apply the same number of strokes on each side when sharpening the blade but when doing it with a power tool it is easy to remove too much.

I used to borrow the balancer from a neighbour (now moved to another neighborhood). 

ColtsFan

paqman said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:.

You balance your mower blades!!??!

If you remove too much material from one side, the mower will rattle and it will eventually destroy the mower (crack the frame, damage the axle).  One way to do it is to apply the same number of strokes on each side when sharpening the blade but when doing it with a power tool it is easy to remove too much.

I used to borrow the balancer from a neighbour (now moved to another neighborhood). 

That’s what I use. It was my grandpa’s. Has to be 60 years old. 

Jstroke

@Ozzie_Isaac, @paqman, I balance mine as well using that same one above. I honestly “think” I can tell the difference in the vibration either push or lawn tractor. Pretty easy to unbalance them with an angle grinder. 

paqman

paqman said:

@alaskanassasin I learned the hard way the first time I serviced it.  The mechanic gave me a good trick.  Remove the spark plug wire and then pull the crank slowly until you feel the most resistance.  At this point, the valves are closed and the oil isn’t going anywhere when you turn it on its side.

Youtube is spamming me this morning 🤔

https://youtu.be/eeEVigsVqrE

Nope, “they” are not spying on us 😂🤣

lousubcap

@CPFC1905 -Some entertaining prose right there.  Well played. 

Dobie

Ozzie_Isaac

FrostyEgg said:

Battleborn said:

I know there are not a lot of hockey fans here, but that was a hell of game. Made even better with John’s beer. I can go to bed happy tonight. 

Hockey fan here, but it's hard to watch when my team goes out first round just like every other year ever.

Shoutout to my neighbor who is a Leaf's fan, made it out of the first round! (and then lost but shhhh)

At least you made it to the first round.  Baseball fan here, and my team (St. Louis) has dug a hole so deep I have pretty much written off the entire season.

Ozzie_Isaac

CPFC1905 said:

Terrific news for you over in the new world.
https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/announcement/crystal-palace-sevilla-millonarios-united-states-tour/?utm_campaign=13924140_NEWSLETTER_Pre-Bournemouth_12.05.23&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Crystal%20Palace%20Football%20Club&dm_i=10Y7,8AFXO,513618,Y333F,1

The mighty Eagles are popping over to see you, in fact the charming fishing villages known as Chicago and Detroit.  

I looked on my phone and both places look fairly close to you all, about half an inch on Googlemaps. 

To fully appreciate the experience of a UK soccer-ball matchday the following are pre-requisites;

• the stadium is virtually impossible to find or reach by any known mode of transport 
• tickets are expensive and rendered entirely redundant by the 'e-gates' powered by Windows 95
• purchase a replica shirt, have your hilarious nickname emblazoned across the back, claim your year of brith is 1969 and have the last two digits added for solid gold comic effect, and most of all gain 30 lbs in weight before you wear it to the game
• it will rain and be about 20 degrees colder than then surrounding area, do not bring a coat under any circumstances
• consume vast quantities of beer before the match, arrive late and for the entire game shout things of extreme vitriol to no-one in particular 
• queue for most of the second half in agony as the 8 pints of lager need to be released and there is only one functional toilet
• mercifully fall asleep for remaining portion of second half, then trudge away claiming myriad corruption and conspiracies theories  
• buy a kebab for the journey home.

What's not to love?

I love our UK brethren.  They know how to do it!

Ozzie_Isaac

Waiting for some Sonoran Dogs.

Acn

DuckDogDr

Trying to sleep . Been busy with 

Mothers Day stuff a day early. Just got home from New York trying to pick up some new carving tricks .

All the critters happy to see me

Duck Cat in my lap currently. 

johnmitchell

Just got my Cherokee purple tomatoes planted. This is the only place that gets enough sun.

ColbyLang

Sitting in a hotel room in Houston watching it rain. Mother’s Day Wish granted, Ed Sheeran concert with the kids. Went browsing at 2 different specs locations for bourbon, nothing out of the ordinary. Also did the natural history museum 

JohnInCarolina

ColbyLang said:

Sitting in a hotel room in Houston watching it rain. Mother’s Day Wish granted, Ed Sheeran concert with the kids. Went browsing at 2 different specs locations for bourbon, nothing out of the ordinary. Also did the natural history museum 

Did you go to the concert too?  My wife and daughter went to see him years ago, he was touring with James Blunt.  I didn't join them but they really enjoyed it.

ColbyLang

JohnInCarolina said:

ColbyLang said:

Sitting in a hotel room in Houston watching it rain. Mother’s Day Wish granted, Ed Sheeran concert with the kids. Went browsing at 2 different specs locations for bourbon, nothing out of the ordinary. Also did the natural history museum 

Did you go to the concert too?  My wife and daughter went to see him years ago, he was touring with James Blunt.  I didn't join them but they really enjoyed it.

I did. She and I had seen him with James Blunt as well. He’s an incredibly talented artist. Last night was with 70,000 of our closest friends in NRG stadium. I paid for first level lower bowl seats so the kids could enjoy…….my 6 year old passed out halfway thru 

Ozzie_Isaac

Cooking shrimp

GrateEggspectations

Checking the yield on my homemade mosquito trap. 

lousubcap

Based on the lack (now jinxed) mosquito sightings here (akin to the drought in exotic car sightings) I would expect your yield should be around zero per hour.

But perhaps the mosquitos are enamoured by the exotics that live and cruise in your neighbourhood (nod). 

shtgunal3

Trying to get used to my first set of glasses with progressive lenses. 

lousubcap

shtgunal3 said:

Trying to get used to my first set of glasses with progressive lenses. 

I once went down the progressive lenses road and "declared victory" and reverted to the hard line bifocal lenses.  I got tired of bobbing my head to get the desired focus.  Now that was at least a decade ago so perhaps your experience will be good for you. 

paqman

GrateEggspectations said:

Checking the yield on my homemade mosquito trap. 

I’m curious to see how that will play out.

GrateEggspectations

paqman said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Checking the yield on my homemade mosquito trap. 

I’m curious to see how that will play out.

So far so good…. And it was windy and cool last night, which probably would have dissuaded them from going out. Fan is on sale at Costco. 

Wifey insisted on a service last year, but I don’t love chemicals being sprayed about the yard, where the kids spend their summers, so wanted to try something else. 

fishlessman

GrateEggspectations said:

paqman said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Checking the yield on my homemade mosquito trap. 

I’m curious to see how that will play out.

So far so good…. And it was windy and cool last night, which probably would have dissuaded them from going out. Fan is on sale at Costco. 

Wifey insisted on a service last year, but I don’t love chemicals being sprayed about the yard, where the kids spend their summers, so wanted to try something else. 

Saw my first one yesterday, got out the bug spray.

JohnInCarolina

fishlessman said:

GrateEggspectations said:

paqman said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Checking the yield on my homemade mosquito trap. 

I’m curious to see how that will play out.

So far so good…. And it was windy and cool last night, which probably would have dissuaded them from going out. Fan is on sale at Costco. 

Wifey insisted on a service last year, but I don’t love chemicals being sprayed about the yard, where the kids spend their summers, so wanted to try something else. 

Saw my first one yesterday, got out the bug spray.

Nothing quite like bug season in Maine.

Elijah

Donating. A trip to the ER for a fall ended up with a 6 year old in my son's class getting diagnosed with leukemia. I have no affiliation besides them sharing a class. Horrible news and tough times ahead. https://gofund.me/c155a24a if anyone is interested 

JohnInCarolina

Elijah said:

Donating. A trip to the ER for a fall ended up with a 6 year old in my son's class getting diagnosed with leukemia. I have no affiliation besides them sharing a class. Horrible news and tough times ahead. https://gofund.me/c155a24a if anyone is interested 

Man, that is rough.  Hopefully with treatment the little man will pull through.

Elijah

My worst nightmare honestly. I had a former coworker go through the same thing. He worked a job he hated for years soley for the insurance situation. The treatment is just one of the challenges. 

Ozzie_Isaac

Elijah said:

Donating. A trip to the ER for a fall ended up with a 6 year old in my son's class getting diagnosed with leukemia. I have no affiliation besides them sharing a class. Horrible news and tough times ahead. https://gofund.me/c155a24a if anyone is interested 

That is rough.  My wife had a friend whose son headed down a similar path, Dax Locke, unfortunately he died at 2 years old.  The torment on the parents was undeniable.  Dax was a trooper through it all.  Poor kid never knew anything different.  Still makes me tear up just thinking about it 14 years later.

lousubcap

When asked a few decades ago what my number one wish was, I responded "To die before my children".  So far so good.

That is a burden I hope to never carry.

I cannot imagine having to address and then live with that.

Good for you to assist.

GrateEggspectations

Even better haul this morning. Hard to see, but there are lots of critters caught up in this net. My father wisely suggested that in addition to the soda water (CO2) I add a worn shirt to the mix, I will keep experimenting.