OT - What are you doing right now?

fishlessman

johnnyp said:

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Actually working.  Let the jokes commence.

put on some coffee and sharpen some pencils and call it a day

Isn't that basically what you do every day?

4 cups and black ticondaroga number 2's at the ready    shops just creeping over 40 degrees this morning.  wearing a teeshirt and hearing all the bitching about that

Indeed.  I love this time of year because it's always a great opportunity to hear from the idiots who are convinced global warming can't possibly be real if it's this cold outside. 

im not hearing anything about global warming on the shop floor....its more like.... you cheap f/n bastard

Well, they've got a point there ... don't they? 

half the crew here would go icefishing or sledding if i closed the doors today.  christ, its not much colder inside here than my house is today   bunch of wimps

What kind of shop do you run @fishlessman ?

heavy metal fab and machining. mostly high pressure system or vacuum oriented.  this cold caught me off guard, theres no way to get all the tonnage of steel in here warm, its going to take a few days. opening the big bay 16 foot door is a real treat

JRWhitee

Packing for our trip to the Outback bowl in Tampa on New Years day with @northGAcock and our wives. Go Cocks!

DoubleEgger

JRWhitee said:

Packing for our trip to the Outback bowl in Tampa on New Years day with @northGAcock and our wives. Go Cocks!

Going to Berns? 

SamIAm2

DoubleEgger said:

JRWhitee said:

Packing for our trip to the Outback bowl in Tampa on New Years day with @northGAcock and our wives. Go Cocks!

Going to Berns? 

Berns is a MUST DO!

JRWhitee

DoubleEgger said:

JRWhitee said:

Packing for our trip to the Outback bowl in Tampa on New Years day with @northGAcock and our wives. Go Cocks!

Going to Berns? 

Been there done that, Columbia House this trip.

nolaegghead

Jazz the Bengal cat just brought us a gift of a live squirrel into the house.  Quite a chase ensued.  We opened the front door and he eventually saw the light and left.

lousubcap

@nolaegghead - better to be lucky than good any day.  One of our cats had caught a chipmunk.  Always check the cat's mouth before letting into the house-not this time.  SWMBO opens the door, in comes cat and chipmunk, cat drops the chipmunk who takes off for the basement.  Plenty of hiding places.  Got a trap-chipmunks like peanut butter.  A day later, chipmunk free-released.  
Door to the basement was shut until capture.  

nolaegghead

@lousubcap Good story.  We have a cat door, so no screening of their prey du jour.  In the summer it's mostly bugs, lizards and skinks, this time of year birds, mice and squirrels, but not very often, thankfully. 

Jazz is scouring the house for the squirrel, he thinks it's still in it.

theyolksonyou

When I was a teen still living at home our cat brought a mouse home.  Let her in, drops the mouse.  Mouse runs into the front of a VCR front load that was beside the tv. Had to put the VCR outside with the door propped open for the mouse to vacate.  

fishlessman

nolaegghead said:

@lousubcap Good story.  We have a cat door, so no screening of their prey du jour.  In the summer it's mostly bugs, lizards and skinks, this time of year birds, mice and squirrels, but not very often, thankfully. 

Jazz is scouring the house for the squirrel, he thinks it's still in it.

bats are the most fun i still dont know whats getting in my house, gallon bag of deer tails was dragged under the sink a few weeks back, neverseen a squirrel drag something

Woodchunk

Doing repair work on this, grandson coming to do a little deer hunting

Focker

Nephew's 7th Birthday blueberry waffle breakfast plate.

SGH

Working hard.  

Ozzie_Isaac

Dog brought a dead squirel in.  My wife thought it was a toy so she grabbed the tail for some tug of war.  Dog let squirel go which cased it to sling back at the wife.  Screams could have woke the dead once she realized it was not a toy.  Hilarity ensued.

theyolksonyou

WeberWho

Gift cards didn't last very long from Christmas 

Ozzie_Isaac

Just had 5 firefighters/EMTs walk into my living room.  Very nice, but they had the wrong house.  Lets just say if a murderer ever walks in I'm dead.  It took my brain to long to process what was going on.

DoubleEgger

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just had 5 firefighters/EMTs walk into my living room.  Very nice, but they had the wrong house.  Lets just say if a murderer ever walks in I'm dead.  It took my brain to long to process what was going on.

They didn’t knock, they just barged in? 

Ozzie_Isaac

DoubleEgger said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just had 5 firefighters/EMTs walk into my living room.  Very nice, but they had the wrong house.  Lets just say if a murderer ever walks in I'm dead.  It took my brain to long to process what was going on.

They didn’t knock, they just barged in? 

Yup, came rushing in.  No knock.  Honestly, don't care about that.  I've needed their help before, and they are just trying to help.

Guess I should start locking my door.  My son never even looked up from his video game, but my dogs went complete ape $hit.

DoubleEgger

Ozzie_Isaac said:

DoubleEgger said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just had 5 firefighters/EMTs walk into my living room.  Very nice, but they had the wrong house.  Lets just say if a murderer ever walks in I'm dead.  It took my brain to long to process what was going on.

They didn’t knock, they just barged in? 

Yup, came rushing in.  No knock.  Honestly, don't care about that.  I've needed their help before, and they are just trying to help.

Guess I should start locking my door.  My son never even looked up from his video game, but my dogs went complete ape $hit.

That’s how folks get shot... Jesus. The Chief better be on my doorstep apologizing or I’d be calling Channel 2  News. 

theyolksonyou

theyolksonyou said:

And then she stole my bookmark right out of my book. BÎtch.  

WeberWho

theyolksonyou said:

theyolksonyou said:

And then she stole my bookmark right out of my book. BÎtch.  

That's what you get for reading! 

Botch

JohnInCarolina said:

Actually working.  Let the jokes commence.

Was hoping to catch up on some miscellaneous reading this week (very few people working, nice & quiet) but instead I got a deadline to review a Naval Surface Warfare Center Fragmentation Report, which calculated if a certain bomb went off in a building, how many fragments (steel, concrete, etc) could travel 1,000+/-x feet to another building with 18-gage corrugated steel roof, how many fragments would penetrate over 600 sq ft and how many of them would have sufficient kinetic energy to kill the 95%ile human inside upon penetration (of the roof).  There were >20 pages of ugly equations to "support" this analysis, but it was sprinkled with the phrase "barring a 'rogue' fragment"...  
 
I could've been a greeter at Walmart.    

Ozzie_Isaac

DoubleEgger said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

DoubleEgger said:

Ozzie_Isaac said:

Just had 5 firefighters/EMTs walk into my living room.  Very nice, but they had the wrong house.  Lets just say if a murderer ever walks in I'm dead.  It took my brain to long to process what was going on.

They didn’t knock, they just barged in? 

Yup, came rushing in.  No knock.  Honestly, don't care about that.  I've needed their help before, and they are just trying to help.

Guess I should start locking my door.  My son never even looked up from his video game, but my dogs went complete ape $hit.

That’s how folks get shot... Jesus. The Chief better be on my doorstep apologizing or I’d be calling Channel 2  News. 

I see your point, but with medical bags, fire dept shirts and gear it was clear who they were.  My guess is police officers secured the correct house and EMTs pulled up and went to wrong house assuming it was secure.

At the end of the day, no harm to me, just an interesting story.  They took my neighbor out on a stretcher, so they have bigger concerns.

DMW

JohnInCarolina said:

Actually working.  Let the jokes commence.

I kinda did as well today. I had a 35 minute call with a prospective client (just sign the dang PO already) to review a design. Yep, all good. (just sign the dang PO already...) 

theyolksonyou

WeberWho said:

theyolksonyou said:

theyolksonyou said:

And then she stole my bookmark right out of my book. BÎtch.  

That's what you get for reading! 

If I didn't read, I'd go nuts.  TV bores me for the most part.  It's mostly background noise.  

I read fiction crap so I'm not advancing my brain, just entertaining myself. 

Ozzie_Isaac

theyolksonyou said:

WeberWho said:

theyolksonyou said:

theyolksonyou said:

And then she stole my bookmark right out of my book. BÎtch.  

That's what you get for reading! 

If I didn't read, I'd go nuts.  TV bores me for the most part.  It's mostly background noise.  

I read fiction crap so I'm not advancing my brain, just entertaining myself. 

I'm to lazy to read, but I use Audible all the time.

JohnInCarolina

Botch said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Actually working.  Let the jokes commence.

Was hoping to catch up on some miscellaneous reading this week (very few people working, nice & quiet) but instead I got a deadline to review a Naval Surface Warfare Center Fragmentation Report, which calculated if a certain bomb went off in a building, how many fragments (steel, concrete, etc) could travel 1,000+/-x feet to another building with 18-gage corrugated steel roof, how many fragments would penetrate over 600 sq ft and how many of them would have sufficient kinetic energy to kill the 95%ile human inside upon penetration (of the roof).  There were >20 pages of ugly equations to "support" this analysis, but it was sprinkled with the phrase "barring a 'rogue' fragment"...  
 
I could've been a greeter at Walmart.    

Ha!  I probably know some of the people behind that report.  

theyolksonyou

Ozzie_Isaac said:

theyolksonyou said:

WeberWho said:

theyolksonyou said:

theyolksonyou said:

And then she stole my bookmark right out of my book. BÎtch.  

That's what you get for reading! 

If I didn't read, I'd go nuts.  TV bores me for the most part.  It's mostly background noise.  

I read fiction crap so I'm not advancing my brain, just entertaining myself. 

I'm to lazy to read, but I use Audible all the time.

I'm too easily distracted to liste


squirrel!!!!!

bucky925

I recieved the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy for Christmas.  The full trilogy .  I have read them before but it was years back.  I started it again today having a 3 hour test at the hospital.  Not a bad test just sitting and waiting on the next hour so I can be x-rayed...lol  If you are slightly "off"  and you haven't read it, they are a fun light read.