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Legume

It's made of giant legos

Ozzie_Isaac

Giant Lego. (Lego is the plural of Lego)

Legume

Even in Canada?

Ozzie_Isaac

Legume said:

Even in Canada?

Canada probably used Mega Blocks.

JohnInCarolina

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:

In Vancouver

Why is that killer whale pixellated?  A very odd photograph...

Interesting that you asked why it was pixellated and not… jumping out of the concrete.

GrateEggspectations

Pixelated because it is naked. Obviously. 

Enjoy your time in Vancouver, @JohnInCarolina. Beautiful city. And some of the most expensive real estate in the world. 

billt01

GrateEggspectations said:

Pixelated because it is naked. Obviously. 

Enjoy your time in Vancouver, @JohnInCarolina. Beautiful city. And some of the most expensive real estate in the world. 

I knew the prices were inflated due to the administration running the market aground, but I didn't really have an idea until I just pulled the Zillow chart..

Craziness!!

fishlessman

fishlessman said:

pulled a 70's screen house off the platform, time to give it a new purpose. the old pressure treated stuff really held up, not like the newer crap.

wood sealers, thinking oil base. deck was pressure treated and it was already old when i bought the house 20 years ago. thoughts or recommendations. might do the dock as well. this is what i found, looks easier than the water base and says it penetrates deeper.

https://www.amazon.com/Ready-Seal-510-Exterior-5-Gallon/dp/B00EIVY5OO/ref=asc_df_B00EIVX96Y/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693507921551&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=18270111721382744028&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001895&hvtargid=pla-314956784772&mcid=af5339baafb63fcabe512c5dccde806b&gad_source=1&th=1

Ozzie_Isaac

Some days are worse than others.  Poor delivery guy had the printer roll out the back of the truck and off the lift.

ColbyLang

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Some days are worse than others.  Poor delivery guy had the printer roll out the back of the truck and off the lift.

Begs the question where was he once said product was on the drop gate?

2 slabs of BabyBacks on the Lg at the lake house, Rockwood for the win

Gulfcoastguy

Got my bill for house insurance. Auto insurance is do on the same month (August). 

fishlessman

Gulfcoastguy said:

Got my bill for house insurance. Auto insurance is do on the same month (August). 

House ins has gone crazy on the camp, 25 percent last year,  looks like 25 percent this year....insane.  mostly going to lawsuits against the town

Gulfcoastguy

It only went up 10% last September when the rates were adjusted but car insurance went up 30% in 2023.

fishlessman

Gulfcoastguy said:

It only went up 10% last September when the rates were adjusted but car insurance went up 30% in 2023.

For the rover I think maybe less than ten percent.....but the book value drops way more per year on those per year

fishlessman

And it will be more than fifty percent on the house with no appraisal in the last two years. The firemen and EMTs are voluntary and we don't have policemen or a station

Botch

Gum surgery.  whee.  

Gulfcoastguy

Botch said:

Gum surgery.  whee.  

I need a veeneer/crow on at least 3 front teeth. But Allstate will get most of my income in August just like last year.

TechsasJim

Botch said:

Gum surgery.  whee.  

I was the dislike Botch.  Not the kind of fun nor spend I’d enjoy.   

billt01

Botch said:

Gum surgery.  whee.  

currently in process of replacing #17...yanked it last week after testing its capabilities on a pistachio shell (shell-1, tooth-0). 

Bone graph inserted and the beginning of a 3 month process before the zirconium rod installation.

then titanium tooth, then crown..

CPFC1905

billt01 said:

Botch said:

Gum surgery.  whee.  

currently in process of replacing #17...yanked it last week after testing its capabilities on a pistachio shell (shell-1, tooth-0). 

Bone graph inserted and the beginning of a 3 month process before the zirconium rod installation.

then titanium tooth, then crown..

Interested to see how that post affects your rendering on the AI / Art thread.    
Do you predict your cell phone reception will improve or decline after the installation, likewise the safe proximity to operating microwave ovens? 

Oh - hope you feel OK, too.

Botch

Just gave a large, slightly-limp carrot to my next-door-neighbor's pot-bellied pig, who now weighs 385 lbs (not a sentence I expected to write in my lifetime).   
He seemed to be happy, wagged his tail; do pigs do that like dogs when they're happy?  
 
When the Lidocaine wore off last night (after my gum butchering), I had no pain/bleeding at all.  Slept very well last night, and no pain this morning (in fact I missed one of my 6-hr ibuprofin doses today).  Made a pan of my Mom's goulash (public-school cafeteria version, not the real Hungarian stuff), nice and soft, so I should be fed for the next four days.  

Campbell2N

Botch said:

Just gave a large, slightly-limp carrot to my next-door-neighbor's pot-bellied pig, who now weighs 385 lbs (not a sentence I expected to write in my lifetime).   
He seemed to be happy, wagged his tail; do pigs do that like dogs when they're happy?  
 
When the Lidocaine wore off last night (after my gum butchering), I had no pain/bleeding at all.  Slept very well last night, and no pain this morning (in fact I missed one of my 6-hr ibuprofin doses today).  Made a pan of my Mom's goulash (public-school cafeteria version, not the real Hungarian stuff), nice and soft, so I should be fed for the next four days.  

I’m happy to see your mouth is healing well! What did you do for the goulash? I’ve had a million variations as a Hungy. My grandma (from the old country) made the only one I’ve ever liked though 

Botch

Campbell2N said:

Botch said:

Just gave a large, slightly-limp carrot to my next-door-neighbor's pot-bellied pig, who now weighs 385 lbs (not a sentence I expected to write in my lifetime).   
He seemed to be happy, wagged his tail; do pigs do that like dogs when they're happy?  
 
When the Lidocaine wore off last night (after my gum butchering), I had no pain/bleeding at all.  Slept very well last night, and no pain this morning (in fact I missed one of my 6-hr ibuprofin doses today).  Made a pan of my Mom's goulash (public-school cafeteria version, not the real Hungarian stuff), nice and soft, so I should be fed for the next four days.  

I’m happy to see your mouth is healing well! What did you do for the goulash? I’ve had a million variations as a Hungy. My grandma (from the old country) made the only one I’ve ever liked though 

'Murican goulash is just a lb of ground beef, browned, some diced onion, 3-to-4 cups of tomato juice, 2 cups of macaroni (boiled/drained), 1 Tblspn chili powder, 1/2 tsp oregano, salt-n-pecker to taste, stirred together and baked at 350º for an hour (not "Hungarian" whatsoever).  For me its Comfort food, filling, easy, and.... soft.  

fishlessman

Botch said:

Campbell2N said:

Botch said:

Just gave a large, slightly-limp carrot to my next-door-neighbor's pot-bellied pig, who now weighs 385 lbs (not a sentence I expected to write in my lifetime).   
He seemed to be happy, wagged his tail; do pigs do that like dogs when they're happy?  
 
When the Lidocaine wore off last night (after my gum butchering), I had no pain/bleeding at all.  Slept very well last night, and no pain this morning (in fact I missed one of my 6-hr ibuprofin doses today).  Made a pan of my Mom's goulash (public-school cafeteria version, not the real Hungarian stuff), nice and soft, so I should be fed for the next four days.  

I’m happy to see your mouth is healing well! What did you do for the goulash? I’ve had a million variations as a Hungy. My grandma (from the old country) made the only one I’ve ever liked though 

'Murican goulash is just a lb of ground beef, browned, some diced onion, 3-to-4 cups of tomato juice, 2 cups of macaroni (boiled/drained), 1 Tblspn chili powder, 1/2 tsp oregano, salt-n-pecker to taste, stirred together and baked at 350º for an hour (not "Hungarian" whatsoever).  For me its Comfort food, filling, easy, and.... soft.  

Here it's American chopsoy. I like to add a hint of allspice

dbCooper

Mom mollycoddled us, her recipe was about the same but included diced tomatoes.

Legume

dbCooper said:

Mom mollycoddled us, her recipe was about the same but included diced tomatoes.

Same, cans of stewed tomatoes added which is why I hated it, I didn't eat tomatoes as a kid and mom didn't cook around us.

ColtsFan

We got robbed. Ours was just elbow maccaroni and canned tomatoes with a crap load of black pepper. 

Acn

fishlessman said:

Botch said:

Campbell2N said:

Botch said:

Just gave a large, slightly-limp carrot to my next-door-neighbor's pot-bellied pig, who now weighs 385 lbs (not a sentence I expected to write in my lifetime).   
He seemed to be happy, wagged his tail; do pigs do that like dogs when they're happy?  
 
When the Lidocaine wore off last night (after my gum butchering), I had no pain/bleeding at all.  Slept very well last night, and no pain this morning (in fact I missed one of my 6-hr ibuprofin doses today).  Made a pan of my Mom's goulash (public-school cafeteria version, not the real Hungarian stuff), nice and soft, so I should be fed for the next four days.  

I’m happy to see your mouth is healing well! What did you do for the goulash? I’ve had a million variations as a Hungy. My grandma (from the old country) made the only one I’ve ever liked though 

'Murican goulash is just a lb of ground beef, browned, some diced onion, 3-to-4 cups of tomato juice, 2 cups of macaroni (boiled/drained), 1 Tblspn chili powder, 1/2 tsp oregano, salt-n-pecker to taste, stirred together and baked at 350º for an hour (not "Hungarian" whatsoever).  For me its Comfort food, filling, easy, and.... soft.  

Here it's American chopsoy. I like to add a hint of allspice

I never had chop suey with tomato juice, it was always a can of Campbell tomato soup.  Much better texture.

Ybabpmuts

@billt01

Had a bumload of dental work done in the last two years, including 6 crowns (3 of which required root canals) and 2 implants. Since I have a bone disease, they couldn't tell me if the implants would even work, whether my bone would "grow" around the insert or not. The first one was a $5,000 experiment. The dentist packed the hole with "extra" cadaver bone, hoping that would help. We also waited longer than the few months to give the bone extra time to graph. I've had that implant in for about a year now and it seems to be holding up so far. When I had a core decompression of my right knee about 12 years ago (trying to save me from requiring a knee replacement), after coring it out with a drill, they packed it full of bone powder, hoping I would grow enough internal bone structure that I wouldn't require a knee replacement right away, as I was recovering from two very recent hip replacements at the time, so they were trying to buy me time between operations. What grew looked like a spider web of bone, and literally disintegrated as soon as the surgeon sent a needle into it. Obviously it wasn't a success and a few days later I was in for a full knee replacement, regardless of my recent hip replacements. In the long run it worked out, but it was really painful.

Hope your insert works out. 😬

Ybabpmuts

@billt01

Had a bumload of dental work done in the last two years, including 6 crowns (3 of which required root canals) and 2 implants. Since I have a bone disease, they couldn't tell me if the implants would even work, whether my bone would "grow" around the insert or not. The first one was a $5,000 experiment. The dentist packed the hole with "extra" cadaver bone, hoping that would help. We also waited longer than the few months to give the bone extra time to graph. I've had that implant in for about a year now and it seems to be holding up so far. When I had a core decompression of my right knee about 12 years ago (trying to save me from requiring a knee replacement), after coring it out with a drill, they packed it full of bone powder, hoping I would grow enough internal bone structure that I wouldn't require a knee replacement right away, as I was recovering from two very recent hip replacements at the time, so they were trying to buy me time between operations. What grew looked like a spider web of bone, and literally disintegrated as soon as the surgeon sent a needle into it. Obviously it wasn't a success and a few days later I was in for a full knee replacement, regardless of my recent hip replacements. In the long run it worked out, but it was really painful.

Hope your insert works out. 😬