What Are You Doing Right Now? (non OT version)

JohnInCarolina

Hmmm.  One of these things is not like the other.  One of these things just isn't the same.

Kayak

You mean I wasted five minutes studying the one for what was bad about it?

Nonsense. I'm going to keep looking.

PigBeanUs

I spent three minutes looking intently at that photo. 

Twice. 

Twenty minutes apart. 

Going to try a third time, but I ain’t as old as I used to be.  

shtgunal3

Sitting in a deer stand.………… watching squirrels.

ColtsFan

Botch said:

ColtsFan said:

Swiss Steak, mashed potatoes and butternut squash with the sour cream sauce @nolaegghead has posted several times. I dig it

Oh Man, I haven't had Swiss Steak since I left home, Mom made it all the time; that looks delicious!!    

Thanks @Botch I hadn't made it in years. Found that recipe in the recipe box while looking for donut recipes

SonVolt

Just a wee tad bigger than the Ooni Koda. 17x13" roasting pan for scale. Definitely glad I went this direction.

JohnInCarolina

@SonVolt - awesome!  Can't wait to see the pies that come off that bad boy.

rifrench

shtgunal3 said:

Sitting in a deer stand.………… watching squirrels.

I used to hunt from a stand but got tired of hanging out in the breeze.  As for the squirrels, if they aren't playing in my yard I don't bother to pick up the rifle because the deer aren't going to cooperate either.  Since I hunt on my own property it's not like I lost an opportunity.  Understand completely if travel, money or time is involved in the hunt.  I am retired and pot hunt only. 

kl8ton

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

I was a Volkswagen guy for the first decade of my driving.  With 6 kids, VW is not an option. It's a love hate relationship. To replace an alternator on one,  I had to loosen the motor mounts to jack up the engine so the alternator would have proper clearance for removal.  The alternator cost was 10x that of a previous Ford alternator I had replaced.  

WeberWho

kl8ton said:

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

I was a Volkswagen guy for the first decade of my driving.  With 6 kids, VW is not an option. It's a love hate relationship. To replace an alternator on one,  I had to loosen the motor mounts to jack up the engine so the alternator would have proper clearance for removal.  The alternator cost was 10x that of a previous Ford alternator I had replaced.  

Ouch. That's not fun. The Chevy Lumina was the same way with spark plugs. The best way to get to the rear spark plugs was to take a strap to the motor and remove the rear motor mounts. It sounds like VW and Chevy hired the same guys who've never picked up a wrench in their life. 

Sheldon_Nigel

WeberWho said:

kl8ton said:

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

I was a Volkswagen guy for the first decade of my driving.  With 6 kids, VW is not an option. It's a love hate relationship. To replace an alternator on one,  I had to loosen the motor mounts to jack up the engine so the alternator would have proper clearance for removal.  The alternator cost was 10x that of a previous Ford alternator I had replaced.  

Ouch. That's not fun. The Chevy Lumina was the same way with spark plugs. The best way to get to the rear spark plugs was to take a strap to the motor and remove the rear motor mounts. It sounds like VW and Chevy hired the same guys who've never picked up a wrench in their life. 

The guys brother designed the firewall in 10th generation F150s.  The #4 spark plug is almost impossible to get out without lifting the body.  Couple that with a coolant fitting right above it that is prone to leaks during heating cycles and you have a headache.  I wonder how many early 2000 F150s have an original plug in the #4 cylinder?

frazzdaddy

Sheldon_Nigel said:

WeberWho said:

kl8ton said:

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

WeberWho said:

Kayak said:

WeberWho said:

"Who in their right mind owns a Volkswagon? I have a whole new hate for Volkswagon after spends two evenings replacing disc/pads on my mom's Passat. I should have known better when the plastic lug nut covers were torx..."

I'm pretty sure this is why God invented service stations. You don't even need to go to VW dealers. Life's too short anymore to spend it doing things you don't want to, and re-inventing the wheel every time. Let a workin' man earn a living!

I have no problem getting my hands dirty. I actually enjoy it at times. Plus if it can save my parents $600 I'm all game. It's usually a 3-4 hour job. Except VW uses some not very common tools.  

I was a Volkswagen guy for the first decade of my driving.  With 6 kids, VW is not an option. It's a love hate relationship. To replace an alternator on one,  I had to loosen the motor mounts to jack up the engine so the alternator would have proper clearance for removal.  The alternator cost was 10x that of a previous Ford alternator I had replaced.  

Ouch. That's not fun. The Chevy Lumina was the same way with spark plugs. The best way to get to the rear spark plugs was to take a strap to the motor and remove the rear motor mounts. It sounds like VW and Chevy hired the same guys who've never picked up a wrench in their life. 

The guys brother designed the firewall in 10th generation F150s.  The #4 spark plug is almost impossible to get out without lifting the body.  Couple that with a coolant fitting right above it that is prone to leaks during heating cycles and you have a headache.  I wonder how many early 2000 F150s have an original plug in the #4 cylinder?

It breaks off anyway, I have the special extractor tool. 

YukonRon

Did a couple of philly cheese steaks today, (apologies to Mark @Sea2Ski) from some pecan smoked prime rib. Turned out way better than I thought it would.

YukonRon

Trying to get ready for the for the gradual phase in for retirement has been a lot of work, and it has not been easy for me. With the resurgence of the pandemic, and its impact on work, plus dealing with a small bit of personal health issues, has kicked my butt, pretty hard the last few months.

Hopefully, I will get back to posting on the forum pretty regularly, and, hopefully, making fewer folks angry in the process.  

Peace,y'all.

Botch

kl8ton said:
I was a Volkswagen guy for the first decade of my driving.  With 6 kids, VW is not an option. It's a love hate relationship. To replace an alternator on one,  I had to loosen the motor mounts to jack up the engine so the alternator would have proper clearance for removal.  The alternator cost was 10x that of a previous Ford alternator I had replaced.  

I bought a '77 VW bus my first year in Albuquerque, and it was a dream to work on.  I did have to pay $850 to have a new clutch put into it, but otherwise was trouble-free.  Sold it 5 years later for what I paid for it, $2,000 (I was PCSing to Grand Forks and wanted a real heater).  I miss that thing.  

ColtsFan

JohnInCarolina said:

nolaegghead said:

Sheldon_Nigel said:

JohnInCarolina said:

lousubcap said:

@JohnInCarolina that 14 hour tine zone deal is quite a challenge.  Hopefully your participation and presentations are slotted around that deal.  Enjoy!

I just gave the opening remarks Frank.  It's just after 9am there.  

My semi-plenary talk later on today will start at 9:20pm locally here.  Safe to say that's the latest I've ever given a technical talk, anywhere. 

Mind DM the zoom login and passwords?  Would be fun to watch.  Then we can discuss on Friday.

I think everyone is a bit more cautious about who they let into their calls after all the recent Zoom sex-bombing and that insider job by Jeffery Toobin..... 

I'm kind of disappointed that "Toobin It" hasn't become a thing in the parlance of our time just yet.  

I audited a clients site recently that was complaining about some WiFi performance. I discovered that there was quite a bit of streaming traffic to "camjackers"dotcom from her husbands laptop.

True story

SciAggie

@SonVolt Very nice. I'm anxious to see what kind of food you crank out of that oven.

Sheldon_Nigel

SciAggie said:

@SonVolt Very nice. I'm anxious to see what kind of food you crank out of that oven.

If I said he could crank out "cooked" food ... Would that be sarcastic 😝

SonVolt

Just ordered a 50lb sack of this. Apparently, from what I've gathered over at the pizza forums it's essential for true NY style pizza, with a higher protein % than King Arthur bread flour. 



...and a case of this. I've spotted 7/11 tomatoes in numerous pizza joints around the US, but never in a grocery store. Today I lucked up and found a local restaurant supply cash 'n carry that stocks them by the case. 

nolaegghead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2xgiHVjT7o

YukonRon

YukonRon said:

Trying to get ready for the for the gradual phase in for retirement has been a lot of work, and it has not been easy for me. With the resurgence of the pandemic, and its impact on work, plus dealing with a small bit of personal health issues, has kicked my butt, pretty hard the last few months.

Hopefully, I will get back to posting on the forum pretty regularly, and, hopefully, making fewer folks angry in the process.  

Peace, y'all.

This got flagged. Can't please everyone all the time. Ok, no more trying.

Sheldon_Nigel

YukonRon said:

YukonRon said:

Trying to get ready for the for the gradual phase in for retirement has been a lot of work, and it has not been easy for me. With the resurgence of the pandemic, and its impact on work, plus dealing with a small bit of personal health issues, has kicked my butt, pretty hard the last few months.

Hopefully, I will get back to posting on the forum pretty regularly, and, hopefully, making fewer folks angry in the process.  

Peace, y'all.

This got flagged. Can't please everyone all the time. Ok, no more trying.

No worries Mr. Ron.  Every post I make gets flagged, and @The_Buffalo has let me stay.  In less than 150 posts I have managed 80 flags.

ColtsFan

YukonRon said:

YukonRon said:

Trying to get ready for the for the gradual phase in for retirement has been a lot of work, and it has not been easy for me. With the resurgence of the pandemic, and its impact on work, plus dealing with a small bit of personal health issues, has kicked my butt, pretty hard the last few months.

Hopefully, I will get back to posting on the forum pretty regularly, and, hopefully, making fewer folks angry in the process.  

Peace, y'all.

This got flagged. Can't please everyone all the time. Ok, no more trying.

It's because JIC is a DIC

Good to hear from you, Ron. We look forward to you hanging out with us more

frazzdaddy

YukonRon said:

YukonRon said:

Trying to get ready for the for the gradual phase in for retirement has been a lot of work, and it has not been easy for me. With the resurgence of the pandemic, and its impact on work, plus dealing with a small bit of personal health issues, has kicked my butt, pretty hard the last few months.

Hopefully, I will get back to posting on the forum pretty regularly, and, hopefully, making fewer folks angry in the process.  

Peace, y'all.

This got flagged. Can't please everyone all the time. Ok, no more trying.

Your wit and humor are missed sir, not to mention your awesome cooks.
Someone once said, there is no such thing as bad press. Damn the flags, full speed ahead.

SciAggie

frazzdaddy said:

YukonRon said:

YukonRon said:

Trying to get ready for the for the gradual phase in for retirement has been a lot of work, and it has not been easy for me. With the resurgence of the pandemic, and its impact on work, plus dealing with a small bit of personal health issues, has kicked my butt, pretty hard the last few months.

Hopefully, I will get back to posting on the forum pretty regularly, and, hopefully, making fewer folks angry in the process.  

Peace, y'all.

This got flagged. Can't please everyone all the time. Ok, no more trying.

Your wit and humor are missed sir, not to mention your awesome cooks.
Someone once said, there is no such thing as bad press. Damn the flags, full speed ahead.

The inventor of the bourbon slushie should always be welcome here. "Bourbon slushies. Sure you can cook on the BGE without them, but why would you?"

Gulfcoastguy

Finally started to put my Large back together after the hurricane. After taking the bands completely off I figured out that one hinge spring has been stretched too much. About to go waste my time seeing if ACE has one in stock. Also decided that I will have to talk to Ron soon, all these years and BGE is still using those cr@ppy gaskets. 

Gulfcoastguy

Well I am surprised , they had the springs for $7.74 for a pair.

ColtsFan

Attempting to make the brown gravy from “the last time” according to my wife. I really need to start writing things down. No clue what I put it this magic gravy last time. We talked about this briefly on a Friday night not long ago. 

Just gonna wing it again. 

nolaegghead

Just pulled some bread out of the oven.  Going to surprise my neighbor who's going camping tonight (red girl).  

SonVolt

nolaegghead said:

Just pulled some bread out of the oven.  Going to surprise my neighbor who's going camping tonight (red girl).  

I haven't quite figured out the brotform yet.