What Are You Buying Right Now? (non-OT version)

nolaegghead

Those batteries have a good long life provided you keep them filled up and only use distilled water despite what anyone tells you.

nolaegghead

PS - keep it away from drunks, don't ask how I know.

nolaegghead

Amazon warehouse deals, cheap.

nolaegghead

SWMBO - "keep one in the truck, one in the shop...it's crazy out there".  

nolaegghead

Went to harbor freight to buy a workstation with the 20%off coupon  and ended up walking out with it plus two open box deals that were 40% and 45% off, unusual.  Can't pass up that kinda deal!

Battleborn

nolaegghead said:

SWMBO - "keep one in the truck, one in the shop...it's crazy out there".  

Bought two more yesterday. Great minds or something like that. 

Langner91

Saving all my pennies for Prime Day!

kl8ton

Langner91 said:

Saving all my pennies for Prime Day!

Are you eyeing anything in particular? 

PigBeanUs

We were lucky enough to score a last-minute reservation to Le Bernadin for dinner in New York last night. New York has just reopened fully, and the energy in the city was fantastic. 

Single best dinner we have ever had. We had the tasting menu with wines. 

A bit of a splurge, but after the year we have (all) had, what the heck. 

There were a couple of instagram thots taking pictures of Every. Single. Thing. on their plates, including having the waiter pose with things, so I didn’t take more than a couple photos, none of which do justice to the experience. 

It was worth every penny. Highly recommended. 

First course was a carpaccio of tuna over a thin slice of baguette and fois gras. 

I put the camera away after that until dessert about three hours later. Between the amuse bouche and the last dessert course, maybe 11 dishes? I think nine officially a part of the tasting menu. 

Last dessert course of three. Just crazy. 

Anyway. 

Luckily it came with a 15 or 30yr payment plan. 

lousubcap

@PigBeanUs that experience is on the top end of the bucket list.  So much for self-debating.  Thanks for confirmation of all I have read about the evening. Now to get it done.  
Edit:  great score on the last minute reservation.  Better to be lucky than good!  I will make the trip with a reservation in hand and the bank loan ready as well. BTW- Nomad bar and Gramercy Tavern are my "go-to" places.

PigBeanUs

lousubcap said:

@PigBeanUs that experience is on the top end of the bucket list.  So much for self-debating.  Thanks for confirmation of all I have read about the evening. Now to get it done.  
Edit:  great score on the last minute reservation.  Better to be lucky than good!  I will make the trip with a reservation in hand and the bank loan ready as well. BTW- Nomad bar and Gramercy Tavern are my "go-to" places.

My wife had said that she always wanted to go to a Michelin-starred restaurant. So I said “how about three stars?”

I called and told them I was having problems navigating the reservation site on my phone (not entirely untrue), and the hostess laughed and said to come along and they could accommodate two more. 

They had just reopened fully fairly recently and were excited about having people back. 

Each course had a fantastic wine paired with it. I came back to the table when they were serving the dover sole. The sommelier had already poured the wine and the waiter was saying how well the “cru” paired with the sauce. I asked “which cru???”

he still had a mask on and said “I’m sorry. Not ‘cru’... it’s Krug”

so. Yeah. Pretty good pairings. 

Was supposed to be a once in a lifetime thing. My wife wants to make it annual. Zoinks. 

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 

Langner91

kl8ton said:

Langner91 said:

Saving all my pennies for Prime Day!

Are you eyeing anything in particular? 

I have several "sprits" related items on watch.  Martini glasses, etc.  I just enjoy the thrill of the chase.  My UPS guy hates me.

Acn

Getting very close to booking flight and lodging for a trip to Barcelona.

SkinnyV

Been gone for a while folks… lurked here and there but nothing like the old days. 

Had to find a receipt for possible Large warranty fixes , First egg Mini purchased 2012 thanks to @Mickey and his posts. Time flies … 

Finally upgraded my handler to a table. Props to JJ George I should have pulled the trigger long ago. 

Happy Fathers Day

Eoin

SkinnyV said:

Been gone for a while folks… lurked here and there but nothing like the old days. 

Had to find a receipt for possible Large warranty fixes , First egg Mini purchased 2012 thanks to @Mickey and his posts. Time flies … 

Finally upgraded my handler to a table. Props to JJ George I should have pulled the trigger long ago. 

Happy Fathers Day

It's nothing like the old days because @JohnInCarolina has ruined the forum.

lousubcap

Glad you are back.  Nice table.  

TTC

Bike Rentals, Lift Tickets, and Lessons for next week - Downhill mountain biking at Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado. Kind of spending that makes me smile. 

alaskanassasin

TTC said:

Bike Rentals, Lift Tickets, and Lessons for next week - Downhill mountain biking at Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado. Kind of spending that makes me smile. 

I’ll save you the lesson. Use the brake on the right. 

ColbyLang

New food processor 

fishlessman

alaskanassasin said:

TTC said:

Bike Rentals, Lift Tickets, and Lessons for next week - Downhill mountain biking at Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado. Kind of spending that makes me smile. 

I’ll save you the lesson. Use the brake on the right. 

theres a memory i did not need to replay, im glad the kid passed out

alaskanassasin

fishlessman said:

alaskanassasin said:

TTC said:

Bike Rentals, Lift Tickets, and Lessons for next week - Downhill mountain biking at Trestle Bike Park in Winter Park, Colorado. Kind of spending that makes me smile. 

I’ll save you the lesson. Use the brake on the right. 

theres a memory i did not need to replay, im glad the kid passed out

When I was 14 or so I went from a huffy to a GT. I grabbed both brakes and went flying. Luckily just some road rash. 

lousubcap

If you end up in a right-hand drive country and buy/rent a bicycle there, the brakes are switched as you signal with your right hand.  The correct move.  Just a bit of down in the weeds survival info.  

gmanrva

3 nights at Red Rocks w/ Widespread Panic this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday! Whoo Hooooo!

Botch

lousubcap said:

If you end up in a right-hand drive country and buy/rent a bicycle there, the brakes are switched as you signal with your right hand.  The correct move.  Just a bit of down in the weeds survival info.  

I've driven in England.  Had I ridden a bicycle, I wouldn't have lived 6 minutes.  

Langner91

Botch said:

lousubcap said:

If you end up in a right-hand drive country and buy/rent a bicycle there, the brakes are switched as you signal with your right hand.  The correct move.  Just a bit of down in the weeds survival info.  

I've driven in England.  Had I ridden a bicycle, I wouldn't have lived 6 minutes.  

Heck, I almost bit the dust as a pedestrian.  I nearly stepped off the curb in front of a bus in Sidney.  Fortunately, my co-worker grabbed me.  I was looking left and the bus was coming from the right, with the engine in the back, I never heard it.

Someone should really standardize that!

Eoin

Botch said:

lousubcap said:

If you end up in a right-hand drive country and buy/rent a bicycle there, the brakes are switched as you signal with your right hand.  The correct move.  Just a bit of down in the weeds survival info.  

I've driven in England.  Had I ridden a bicycle, I wouldn't have lived 6 minutes.  

I never realised thay you guys had bicycle brakes the wrong way round. Do you keep grabbing the clutch on your GS when you want to stop?

CPFC1905

Botch said:

lousubcap said:

If you end up in a right-hand drive country and buy/rent a bicycle there, the brakes are switched as you signal with your right hand.  The correct move.  Just a bit of down in the weeds survival info.  

I've driven in England.  Had I ridden a bicycle, I wouldn't have lived 6 minutes.  

Did you enjoy the roundabouts? 

PigBeanUs

CPFC1905 said:

Did you enjoy the roundabouts? 

I was nervous the first time I drove in Boston, anticipating it would be hell. 

Thankfully, there was an intersection every block, and a light or stop sign. Heck. It was easy! This was reinforced by a visit a couple years later to NYC. Gridlock. Never got over 20mph. Grids slowed everything down. 

So when my girlfriend and I went to London, and rented a car, I had no qualms. With all the intersections and stop lights, it wouldn’t ever get a chance to get out of hand. 

Nope. 

There were seventeen roundabouts before we were outside the city proper and headed out on the Vauxhall Bridge Road. We never stopped, and the speed never dropped below maybe 20-30mph (which was like 320-425 kmh).

Even the fact that I grew up in New England, and knew how to navigate a rotary (or roundabout, to the poncey types) was of no use, because at the very first one I realized I had to enter it and go left, counterclockwise. 

And then then there were sixteen more in quick succession. 

I still have a knot in my back shoulder muscle to this day. 

Langner91

PigBeanUs said:

CPFC1905 said:

Did you enjoy the roundabouts? 

Even the fact that I grew up in New England, and knew how to navigate a rotary (or roundabout, to the poncey types) was of no use, because at the very first one I realized I had to enter it and go left, counterclockwise. 

Exactly why they should be standardized.  The roundabouts over there go right, clockwise!

Eoin

Langner91 said:

PigBeanUs said:

CPFC1905 said:

Did you enjoy the roundabouts? 

Even the fact that I grew up in New England, and knew how to navigate a rotary (or roundabout, to the poncey types) was of no use, because at the very first one I realized I had to enter it and go left, counterclockwise. 

Exactly why they should be standardized.  The roundabouts over there go right, clockwise!

Please feel free to change over so you drive on the correct side of the road.