OT - What are you doing right now?

alaskanassasin

DoubleEgger said:

DoubleEgger said:

Channeling my inner @WeberWho

Ordered parts via overnight delivery to be to delivered today. The boys in brown decided to not deliver it today even though I dropped $34 on shipping. I found out it wasn’t coming at 3:45 this afternoon. I was pissed off big time as the boys in brown said Monday. I found the parts, drove the 1.5hrs in the driving rain in rush hour Atlanta traffic to get to the store 10 mins before they closed. Paid twice as much as the online order but they had the parts on the shelf. Another 1hr 45mins home and an hour putting it all back together. 

I dang sure hope this works. 

Did you run across any good pho?

GrateEggspectations

Battleborn said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Am not much of a cocktail guy, but I’m a sucker for a homemade whiskey sour, so I mixed up a couple.

Your pictures always look so elegant. I picture your house to be an update version of Todd and Margo’s house from the 1989 classic cult film, Christmas Vacation. And I mean that in the most positive way possible. 

Thank you. Love that movie! Watch it at least once or twice every Christmas. I recall that you are also a big fan. Pretty sure there are some big Christmas enthusiasts in your household, as I think I’ve seen the Christmas decorations come out with a healthy lead. 

We are not nearly as cutting edge for our time as Todd and Margo were. More old than new in our  old house. We do like the uncluttered look though. We can fool most visitors into thinking we don’t have young ones, but there’s a lot of tidying involved. 🙃

ColbyLang

Icing my ankle. Parents versus kids in the final soccer practice of the season. Took me about 4 minutes before I slipped (we got an inch of rain yesterday) and rolled it and myself onto the wet ground. Kids laughed, parents gasped. Swollen to about double my other ankle. Yay

Ozzie_Isaac

ColbyLang said:

Icing my ankle. Parents versus kids in the final soccer practice of the season. Took me about 4 minutes before I slipped (we got an inch of rain yesterday) and rolled it and myself onto the wet ground. Kids laughed, parents gasped. Swollen to about double my other ankle. Yay

Awe, dang! Hope you heal fast.  Rolled ankles are no bueno.  

ColbyLang

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Icing my ankle. Parents versus kids in the final soccer practice of the season. Took me about 4 minutes before I slipped (we got an inch of rain yesterday) and rolled it and myself onto the wet ground. Kids laughed, parents gasped. Swollen to about double my other ankle. Yay

Awe, dang! Hope you heal fast.  Rolled ankles are no bueno.  

Gonna park me on golf for a bit. Did get a great selection in a local bourbon raffle at a grocery store. Paid retail. 

MasterC

Nice stable there

JohnInCarolina

ColbyLang said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

ColbyLang said:

Icing my ankle. Parents versus kids in the final soccer practice of the season. Took me about 4 minutes before I slipped (we got an inch of rain yesterday) and rolled it and myself onto the wet ground. Kids laughed, parents gasped. Swollen to about double my other ankle. Yay

Awe, dang! Hope you heal fast.  Rolled ankles are no bueno.  

Gonna park me on golf for a bit. Did get a great selection in a local bourbon raffle at a grocery store. Paid retail. 

As Frank likes to say… better to be lucky than good any day!

Sorry about the ankle though.  That is not terribly lucky.  

WeberWho

I fired up the PK for the first time. This thing drafts like crazy. I've never seen such blue smoke before! Nothing crazy planned other than some chicken thighs for lunch.

WeberWho

A big thanks to @6baluts for letting me pick his brain about the PK. He set me up with a bunch of great information that made the cook effortless. 

Mid-cook:



6 of 8 sauced with Caribbean Jerk:



Done:

GrateEggspectations

@WeberWho

Great looking inaugural cook. Those units have always had me curious. Not so common in my parts. 

GrateEggspectations

While we’ve had some warmer temps here, I got the fam out for a day on the slopes while it was still possible. Next weekend is probably the end of the very end season. Hills were empty, which was fun. 

DoubleEgger

Canugghead said:

@DoubleEgger that sucks, glad you got it sorted out. Care to share some deets when you have time please? curious mind wants to know/learn.

The TL/DR version: Put a thermometer in your fridge and leave it there. 

The fresh food part of the fridge had gotten warm. It was gradual so you didn’t really notice it at first. I had some veggies in its own dedicated drawer that were freezing. (I have a five door refrigerator.). I put a thermometer in and was getting 55F. The lower two drawers were about 10 degrees colder and the freezer was fine. I watched a YouTube video that was close to the model of my fridge to get me going. Once I got into it, I could tell that the coil was frozen over badly. It took quite a while to get to that level of frozen. This is what was causing the veggies to freeze. After researching other YouTube videos, I determined that the likely root cause bad was bad thermistor on the defrost circuit for the fresh food section. Once I got everything apart (huge PITA), I noticed that the damper motor was corroded. At this point, I decided to skip troubleshooting, checking resistance etc. and just replace both parts. The thermistor comes integrated with the fan assembly and it plug and play. The damper assembly was plug and play as well. Replacement of the parts was a breeze. Obtaining said parts was an excursion mentioned earlier. Putting it all back together took about 1/4 of the time to disassemble. It was rocking 38F in the fresh food section this morning so I’m headed to the g-store in a few minutes to restock. 

I was really surprised that the refrigerator didn’t have a temp alarm. It’s pretty gross to think that I was eating food that was not being held at safe temps for some time. I’ll be buying permanent thermometers for the fridge and freezer sections since are on different coils. 

Fortunately I have two other refrigerators so I was not without while I got the main fridge running again. 

JohnInCarolina

Watching Gonzaga take Kansas to the woodshed.

lkapigian

My oldest boys wedding ( my three sons )

lousubcap

@lkapigian - congrats across the board.  No doubt a great event and being the groom side-someone else's nickel.  Clearly you didn't get the brown shoe memo 

lkapigian

lousubcap said:

@lkapigian - congrats across the board.  No doubt a great event and being the groom side-someone else's nickel.  Clearly you didn't get the brown shoe memo 

Lol ..they are lucky I wasn’t in shorts and flip flops 

shtgunal3

Good times @lkapigian

Battleborn

My wife somehow broke the facing off a kitchen cabinet drawer. For some reason I should not be slightly annoyed and she is mad at me. Weird how that works. 

WeberWho

Battleborn said:

My wife somehow broke the facing off a kitchen cabinet drawer. For some reason I should not be slightly annoyed and she is mad at me. Weird how that works. 

You could be a smart a$$ and remove another drawer and slide it into the one she broke and tell her you fixed it. Your wife might not find it funny but I would!

Gulfcoastguy

Battleborn said:

My wife somehow broke the facing off a kitchen cabinet drawer. For some reason I should not be slightly annoyed and she is mad at me. Weird how that works. 

I am having to get a rental house ready for sale. The tenants had been in there 6 years(still have some cr@p in the house) . They yanked two drawers in different cabinets, laundry and upstairs bathroom, into pieces and yanked the handle off of a perfectly functioning fridge. Also have to repair 2 toilets, one just an inside kit but the second one is in a leak from the copper portion of the water supply. They just cut the electrical wire leading to the dryer(theirs) and left with the plug. Then there is the penis and testes drawn with pink marker on the upstairs wall. Everything will have to be repainted. At least no roach infestation. Oh late on rent with an empty bottle of Maker's Mark on the counter.

Ozzie_Isaac

@ikapigian congrats on the wedding!

GrateEggspectations

@lkapigian

Congrats, Larry. Handsome looking bunch, right there!

JohnInCarolina

Broke a corner off our coffee maker carafe, rendering it useless.  Went on to Amazon to find a replacement, ordered it.  Friends it is set to show up on my doorstep tomorrow between 4 and 8 AM.  Crazy.  

lousubcap

@Gulfcoastguy - hopefully a healthy deposit that they have sacrificed.  That type behaviour (nod) seems to becoming more prevalent.  Not a good trend.  

Battleborn

Gulfcoastguy said:

Battleborn said:

My wife somehow broke the facing off a kitchen cabinet drawer. For some reason I should not be slightly annoyed and she is mad at me. Weird how that works. 

I am having to get a rental house ready for sale. The tenants had been in there 6 years(still have some cr@p in the house) . They yanked two drawers in different cabinets, laundry and upstairs bathroom, into pieces and yanked the handle off of a perfectly functioning fridge. Also have to repair 2 toilets, one just an inside kit but the second one is in a leak from the copper portion of the water supply. They just cut the electrical wire leading to the dryer(theirs) and left with the plug. Then there is the penis and testes drawn with pink marker on the upstairs wall. Everything will have to be repainted. At least no roach infestation. Oh late on rent with an empty bottle of Maker's Mark on the counter.

That sucks, I can’t believe the state of disrepair people leave places in when they move out or get evicted. 

I will have find our materials list from when we moved in and order another drawer, if I can. Or I could just break into one of the builds that haven’t been occupied yet and take one. Joking. 

Canugghead

@DoubleEgger Thank you for the detailed writeup (no way I would settle for the TL/DR version, lol), much appreciated. I use Thermoworks fridge/freezer thermometer with alarm to monitor the freezers; the main fridge displays freezer and fridge temps but we usually don't pay attention, need to correct that.

Sounds like you have a sophisticated fridge, our main fridge frosted up few times over the years, typically during hot humid weather with frequent opening/closing of doors. Emptying+defrosting took care of it each time, touch wood.

Canugghead

@lkapigian Congrats!

Ozzie_Isaac

Thankful my kids trust me enough to call when they need help.  Showed up to this goat roping to pull some of her friends out who got stuck at a bonfire.  Was complete chaos because a few kids in a Camaro and another sedan blocked the trail so people started trying to drive around and that was when the problems started.

johnmitchell

@lkapigian. Congratulations sir. What a great looking family.

lousubcap

@Ozzie_Isaac Good for you and your kids but what a way to wrap up the day given everything else you had going on.