OT - What are you doing right now?

WeberWho

I was put on short notice that my wife had to make a road trip with her Grandma up to North Dakota this evening to visit a relative. I ordered rear brakes earlier in the week for my wife's vehicle and they came in Friday afternoon. (I had the day off of work when the brakes showed up.) My wife asked if it would be okay if she went to go visit one of her nieces as she was invited to her school carnival. So instead of changing brakes at a normal time to make sure everything goes well, I start sometime past 9pm. Not a big deal when it goes well. Not so much fun when it doesn't. I completely forgot how much of a pain it was the last time working on her rear brakes. (I ended up having to replace one of the calipers the last time as the boot tore when being compressed) I had to fight the piston once again this time. It's one of those pistons where you have to turn it clockwise as you compress it. After about an hour I was able to finish the right rear brake. It was too late and I was too lazy to take the driver's side rear tire off without my pneumatic impact wrench. Plus I had to take a hammer and whale on the rotor between lugs on the passenger side to get it to come off. I wouldn't be able to do that given the time. So I called it a night. 

I wasn't able to do too much this morning as I didn't want to wake up the neighbors. The drivers side rotor was also bonded together. So I held off until about 9am with the hammer. This side was quick and easy. I also ended up doing a few other preventative things on her car for her road trip. I lost track of time. We had obligations to go to the Twins Triple A baseball game this afternoon. I ask my wife when we are supposed to leave for the game as we were meeting a few other people to tailgate. (I was in charge of food.) My wife goes, "We are supposed to leave in 10 minutes." You can't even make this up...

I'm full of dirt and grease from working on her vehicle. I jump in the shower and change as quick as I could. After throwing on whatever I could find, I run into the kitchen and literally start chucking things from the refrigerator into a bag. I'm not very organized in my everyday life but 100 times out of a 100 I'll have a list written down for every little thing I need for tailgating/competitions. This time I didn't have time to think. I threw everything in the cooler and tossed my 17" Blackstone in back of the truck and off we went. (I did stop at the Sam's Club on the way as I figured I'd grab a pack of their prime rib sliders and turn them into smash burgers. My wife had everything else. I bet I was in and out of Sam's Club in under 5 minutes. 

We arrived about an hour before the game started. Not ideal but we made it work. Their was a rainout the night before so the St. Paul Saints had a double header today. The first game ended up pushing the second game back. That definitely helped me out with cooking. The meal itself was pretty boring. Burgers, dogs, and bacon on the 17" Blackstone. It ended up feeding 7 adults and kids. Unfortunately I was too caught up for any, "action pictures" of the cook. Just a cleaned up Blackstone. 



A picture of a prime rib smash burger out together. That's the best I could do for any real pictures. 



The game itself:



I'll call it a win given the circumstances...

johnmitchell

Congratulations @shtgunal3.A proud day for sure👏👏

johnmitchell

Congratulations @lkapigian. Fantastic and well deserved 👍👏

JohnInCarolina

At the airport.  Headed up to Philly for a couple of days.   Three of us (from three different universities) are meeting there to do some research together.  It will be mostly work but we did book dinner at this place for Monday night:

https://www.amadarestaurant.com/

Shall report back on the meal.  

lousubcap

JohnInCarolina said:

At the airport.  Headed up to Philly for a couple of days.   Three of us (from three different universities) are meeting there to do some research together.  It will be mostly work but we did book dinner at this place for Monday night:

https://www.amadarestaurant.com/

Shall report back on the meal.  

Safe travels.  Menu looks great-tapas for the win.
Where will you be researching?

lousubcap

@WeberWho - I am tired after reading your post above.  Way to make it happen.  

JohnInCarolina

lousubcap said:

JohnInCarolina said:

At the airport.  Headed up to Philly for a couple of days.   Three of us (from three different universities) are meeting there to do some research together.  It will be mostly work but we did book dinner at this place for Monday night:

https://www.amadarestaurant.com/

Shall report back on the meal.  

Safe travels.  Menu looks great-tapas for the win.
Where will you be researching?

We’re going to try to find a spot at Penn to work, although their graduation ceremonies might make that a challenge.  We’re writing a big proposal to NSF on fracture theory and mathematics.

Ragingirishman2

shtgunal3 said:

Just left my son’s graduation.

Congratulations!

lkapigian

Ragingirishman2 said:

shtgunal3 said:

Just left my son’s graduation.

Congratulations!

Congratulations @shtgunal3

ColtsFan

Taking a stand against Indiana’s humidity. 

johnmitchell

John that should take care of the mozzies and the flies as well as the humidity 😂

JohnInCarolina

Connecting through the Detroit airport (odd way to get to Philly, I know).  

I actually like this airport.  It’s very clean and easy to navigate, rarely seems crowded.  

lousubcap

What you high fliers do for the miles.  You could likely drive it in the same amount of time.  

ColbyLang

Thankful the 5 bottles I bootlegged from Kentucky made it home safe thru the airports and in my luggage 

lousubcap

Lots of bubble wrap and a hard side suitcase.  

Elijah

All of the dirty shirts wrapped and tucked if it's a week trip. Even made it international 

Canugghead

No pesky condensation dripping from the lid

ColbyLang

lousubcap said:

Lots of bubble wrap and a hard side suitcase.  

Frank. Used Amazon wine bottle air sleeves. $15 for 15 sleeves and a hand pump. Well worth it 

Botch

Early in my career I was returning from a TDY, and had one last can of beer in the hotel fridge, so I tossed it into my suitcase, a soft-sided one with a vinyl-like plastic on the outside and glued-on fabric on the inside.  
At luggage claim I noticed a two-inch cut into the side of my suitcase; sigh.  Got home and, sure enough, whatever pierced my suitcase also bullseyed that single can of beer, and my clothes/suitcase inside were soaked/smelled like a frat-house on a Sunday morning.  Washed the laundry but never really got the smell out of my suitcase, although that set was on its last legs anyway.  
I'm on my fourth set of luggage, but because I don't fly anymore I don't anticipate having to buy any more.  The first 24 years or so of my career I was flying somewhere between one and four times a month; don't really miss that so much anymore (the flying part), with the TSA, extra cost for exit row seats, and uncivilized people on-board issues.  

Battleborn

One thing about getting AirBnB/Vacasa etc, is you never know what you are going to get. Luckily, this place has an awesome view. The listing said it had a BBQ and being California, I expected it to propane. This little thing will have to do the trick tonight. 

Also, it is hard to plan on buying meat at some of these resort towns. These guys will work for a vacation meal. 

Canugghead

@Battleborn that brush looks pretty worn out, be careful!

dbCooper

Drive wheels (rears) were bald.  Area big box store wanted $28/each, Amazon had set of all four at $50.  Genuine Honda made in USA.

Battleborn

Boss lady and I just went and had some lunch at a brewery. It was solid. 

DoubleEgger

You know you’ve have mowed a lot when you wear out the tires on a pushmower. 

dbCooper

DoubleEgger said:

You know you’ve have mowed a lot when you wear out the tires on a pushmower. 

First time I've wore out a set.  Internet chit chat indicates Honda has reputation for poor tread life.  To be fair though, it is over 10 years old.  Also was good to clean and lube the drive gearing.  Definitely needed it.

Botch

DoubleEgger said:

You know you’ve have mowed a lot when you wear out the tires on a pushmower. 

I had to replace the pneumatic tires on my snowblower two winters ago, although not exactly wear; they wouldn't hold air probably due to dryrot (they were thirty years old).  

WeberWho

DoubleEgger said:

You know you’ve have mowed a lot when you wear out the tires on a pushmower. 

My Dad and I just had this conversation a few weeks ago. He's going on 32 years on his Toro push mower and going on his 3rd set of wheels. The only issue is that he can't find any replacements being a 32 year old mower. So my Dad plans on having my brother in law 3D print new treads for his mower sometime this summer. 

JohnInCarolina

This was an excellent meal:

Ozzie_Isaac

Currently swollen like a tick.  Drank some ferment I have had for about a year.  Usually that will help my inflammation.  This is a new batch so will see how it does.  It was made with Fresno peppers.  The juice tasted great, sweet and savory, just missing the heat.

lkapigian

Las Fvcking Mac and Cheese Prep