OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

Gulfcoastguy · August 21

Hopefully you don’t have any of the awful watermelon flavored Peeps.

fishlessman · August 21

august is a bit early for easter peeps, were the xmas ornaments already out and taken down yet

fishlessman · August 21

just went food shopping for the weekend. hurricane shoppers filled the store, lines 6 to ten carriages deep. we are supposed to get gusts up to 10 mph this weekend.......ill be in the boat 6 or so miles out so if i dont make it back you-all will know why. crazy people

SGH · August 21

BeanHead said:

As a Peep fan, I need to ask… have the Dr. Pepper flavored Peeps made it to you yet?!? If not DM me your mailing address and I will send you some when they reappear next spring.

They have. But can only find them around Easter.

ColbyLang · August 21

fishlessman said:

just went food shopping for the weekend. hurricane shoppers filled the store, lines 6 to ten carriages deep. we are supposed to get gusts up to 10 mph this weekend.......ill be in the boat 6 or so miles out so if i dont make it back you-all will know why. crazy people

Gusts up to 10mph lol. Tight lines brother

Hook_emHornsfan_74 · August 21

ColbyLang said:

fishlessman said:

just went food shopping for the weekend. hurricane shoppers filled the store, lines 6 to ten carriages deep. we are supposed to get gusts up to 10 mph this weekend.......ill be in the boat 6 or so miles out so if i dont make it back you-all will know why. crazy people

Gusts up to 10mph lol. Tight lines brother

Hang tough there. I think we are dealing with those "10 mph" wind gusts out here in west Texas right now. lol

WeberWho · August 21

SGH said:

My pictures didn’t post above 🤦‍♂️

Welcome to the cool club!

lousubcap · August 22

Peeps 🐥 have gotta season for quite a while, like air drying timber. FWIW-

CPFC1905 · August 22

Foghorn said:

Looking forward to restarting the weekly futbol diatribe from @CPFC1905. I haven't had a lot of time to actually watch the games over the past year or so, so I think I'm looking forward to tomorrow's weekend preview even more than the games themselves at this point.

Be honest, you thought I had forgotten / hoped I had given up. But no, we’re back back back.

Brief resume. Palace won the FA Cup against Man City in May, Palace won the Community Shield against Liverpool two weeks ago and then drew (goal disallowed so should have won) against Chelsea last week, who are the best team in the World according to a chap who splits his time between Pennsylvania Avenue and Mar-e-Largo. Elsewhere some stuff has happened and £2.7bn has been spent on player transfers, apparently.

Tonight

West Ham v Chelsea, quick trip across town on the District Line for the Chels’ Not looking especially solid for the Hammers, the Blues will kick on. 0-2

Saturday

Man City v Spurs, new season but will either of these be able to forget last year’s hapless misfires? Both won last week, but certainly for Spursy Spurs that means nothing. 0-0 feels impossible so I’ll rule that out, otherwise all bets are on. 2-1.

Bournemouth v Wolves, many suggesting the Old Gold will struggle this year so a 1-0 home win to be lost in the mists of time.

Brentford v Villa, feels a big season for Villa after two strong showings under their belt. Can they break in to the big 4, or 5, or 6? The Bees failed last week but are always good at home. 1-1

Burnley v Sunderland, you’d think relegation six pointer but the Mackems (Sunderland) smashed three past West Ham last week. This will be tight. 1-1

Arsenal v Leeds, the Gunners have taken our beloved Eze and I just hope they treat him nicely. £68m has softened the blow. Dirty Leeds squeaked a lat 1-0 last time out, different gravy this. 3-0

Sunday

Palace v Forest, OK - lots to unpack here. We got bumped down a Euro competition for weird reasons (mainly Brexit) and because the owner of Forest moaned about us - he whose own clubs have been repeatedly fined for financial naughtiness. Enough of that. We played in Europe last night (and won) and that normally means only one thing, a defeat in the following match - that’s what all the data says. 1-2

Everton v Brighton, unimpeded by Europe or in fact anything to celebrate the filthy fetid Seagulls will undoubtedly sail to the PL title on a wave of media bias and self-infatuation. The Toffees have a new home, which can be tricky but they will be more than keen to get off to a flyer. 1-1

Fulham v Man Utd, it just can’t be worse for Utd this time, can it? The Cottagers will be no push over and this could go either way, may be that Utd spring to life with their new signings and full pre-season under Amorim? But 1-1

Monday

Newcastle v Liverpool, game of the week I reckon. Strong test for both sides with an undercurrent linked to a protracted player transfer saga. The Reds should just about have enough, but only just. 0-1

There you go, great to be back right?

CPFC1905 · August 22

Felicitations Egg-friends, after a summer sojourn I am back to irk you with my use of the letter 'u' and temperatures in Celsius.

Short recap; been in France and enjoyed a milestone wedding anniversary - stayed here:

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Cheeky tile shot just for you there @JohnInCarolina

Outlook;

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Ate this;

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Galician picanha from old milker, from just over the Pyrenees. Chef used a huge asado and Josper set-up (Chateau Capitoul near Narbonne)

And this kind of stuff, too - in the classy restaurant, it was epic;

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Then hosted all our family at a gite for a party, my contribution;

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4 kgs (9lbs) of cote de boeuf on the in-house gasser. No money shot as too busy with the champagne and speeches.

GrateEggspectations · August 22

Congrats @CPFC1905. Now that is celebrating in style. 😎

Foghorn · August 22

CPFC1905 said:

Foghorn said:

Looking forward to restarting the weekly futbol diatribe from @CPFC1905. I haven't had a lot of time to actually watch the games over the past year or so, so I think I'm looking forward to tomorrow's weekend preview even more than the games themselves at this point.

Be honest, you thought I had forgotten / hoped I had given up. But no, we’re back back back.

Brief resume. Palace won the FA Cup against Man City in May, Palace won the Community Shield against Liverpool two weeks ago and then drew (goal disallowed so should have won) against Chelsea last week, who are the best team in the World according to a chap who splits his time between Pennsylvania Avenue and Mar-e-Largo. Elsewhere some stuff has happened and £2.7bn has been spent on player transfers, apparently.

Tonight

West Ham v Chelsea, quick trip across town on the District Line for the Chels’ Not looking especially solid for the Hammers, the Blues will kick on. 0-2

Saturday

Man City v Spurs, new season but will either of these be able to forget last year’s hapless misfires? Both won last week, but certainly for Spursy Spurs that means nothing. 0-0 feels impossible so I’ll rule that out, otherwise all bets are on. 2-1.

Bournemouth v Wolves, many suggesting the Old Gold will struggle this year so a 1-0 home win to be lost in the mists of time.

Brentford v Villa, feels a big season for Villa after two strong showings under their belt. Can they break in to the big 4, or 5, or 6? The Bees failed last week but are always good at home. 1-1

Burnley v Sunderland, you’d think relegation six pointer but the Mackems (Sunderland) smashed three past West Ham last week. This will be tight. 1-1

Arsenal v Leeds, the Gunners have taken our beloved Eze and I just hope they treat him nicely. £68m has softened the blow. Dirty Leeds squeaked a lat 1-0 last time out, different gravy this. 3-0

Sunday

Palace v Forest, OK - lots to unpack here. We got bumped down a Euro competition for weird reasons (mainly Brexit) and because the owner of Forest moaned about us - he whose own clubs have been repeatedly fined for financial naughtiness. Enough of that. We played in Europe last night (and won) and that normally means only one thing, a defeat in the following match - that’s what all the data says. 1-2

Everton v Brighton, unimpeded by Europe or in fact anything to celebrate the filthy fetid Seagulls will undoubtedly sail to the PL title on a wave of media bias and self-infatuation. The Toffees have a new home, which can be tricky but they will be more than keen to get off to a flyer. 1-1

Fulham v Man Utd, it just can’t be worse for Utd this time, can it? The Cottagers will be no push over and this could go either way, may be that Utd spring to life with their new signings and full pre-season under Amorim? But 1-1

Monday

Newcastle v Liverpool, game of the week I reckon. Strong test for both sides with an undercurrent linked to a protracted player transfer saga. The Reds should just about have enough, but only just. 0-1

There you go, great to be back right?

My heart is warmed. Thank you.

Although I have to say that your prediction re: Man U seems way off base. I saw them play in Chicago a few weeks ago for goodness sake - and we all know how important those preseason games on our side of the pond are. They mean everything!

I think the Red Devils will do enough to win and give their army hope with 2 nicely scored goals while simultaneously playing enough sloppy defense and giving up a goal to let doubters/realists like you see the truth about how fragile they are: Fulham 1, Man U 2

Canugghead · August 22

So refreshing to not see the sticky Happy Holidays at the top of page, thanks @HannahGreeneEgg.

DoubleEgger · August 22

Canugghead said:

So refreshing to not see the sticky Happy Holidays at the top of page, thanks @HannahGreeneEgg.

It would have been relevant again in the near future.

kl8ton · August 22

DoubleEgger said:

Canugghead said:

So refreshing to not see the sticky Happy Holidays at the top of page, thanks @HannahGreeneEgg.

It would have been relevant again in the near future.

Yep! I decided yesterday to just keep my stocking hat and gloves in the center console....no use putting them away now!

Gulfcoastguy · August 22

kl8ton said:

DoubleEgger said:

Canugghead said:

So refreshing to not see the sticky Happy Holidays at the top of page, thanks @HannahGreeneEgg.

It would have been relevant again in the near future.

Yep! I decided yesterday to just keep my stocking hat and gloves in the center console....no use putting them away now!

My wool stocking hat is still in my car since last year.

lousubcap · August 22

@CPFC1905 - That is the way to celebrate a milestone. Congratulations.
You get a pass on the $$$ shot this time.

Battleborn · August 22

My buddy and I secured our tickets for VGK opening night and the Mitch Marner debut. Pretty excited for this one.

fishlessman · August 22

Made two sets of divining/dowsing rods today. One set for me and one for a neighbor. Found my well, underground electric for the garage, underground internet cable, electric and underground propane for the neighbor next door. Have not found water yet, it's thirty inches deep.....I guess I don't have the touch

GrateEggspectations · August 22

fishlessman said:

Made two sets of divining/dowsing rods today. One set for me and one for a neighbor. Found my well, underground electric for the garage, underground internet cable, electric and underground propane for the neighbor next door. Have not found water yet, it's thirty inches deep.....I guess I don't have the touch

If it doesn’t work out, I see kabobs in your future.

fishlessman · August 22

GrateEggspectations said:

fishlessman said:

Made two sets of divining/dowsing rods today. One set for me and one for a neighbor. Found my well, underground electric for the garage, underground internet cable, electric and underground propane for the neighbor next door. Have not found water yet, it's thirty inches deep.....I guess I don't have the touch

If it doesn’t work out, I see kabobs in your future.

I've sold a lot of these to city water departments. The neighbor does point style wells so will see what he gets. Currently he uses a wood stick he picks off the ground. Works for me to find wire and pipes, most is underground here in my yard

Botch · August 23

I'm pretty sure I purchased my Brother color laser printer when I upgraded my iMac, in 2015. It finally beeped at me to refill the toner after ten years! Wrote down the model number, headed to Office-R-Us, and couldn't find a 4-cartridge set to replace all of them, and each color (black, cyan, periwinkle and taupe?) was around $100 apiece (!!

)
I bought just a black cartridge, as I mostly print only in black. Replaced it this morning, then removed the three color cartridges and shook them side-to-side, then slid the little green button like they do on ewetube videos (the written instructions with the cartridge were crap). Powered back up, rebooted the router (my printer constantly falls off Wifi, and doesn't have an Ethernet socket), and she printed fine; hope that lasts me another ten years or so.
I did some further digging on the 'net afterwards and, first, found some reasonably-priced, four-cartridge sets for around $27, but they weren't OEM (there are also kits to refill your existing cartridges, I know better than to go that route). I also learned that, for my printer, there are two different "sizes" of cartridge; they're both identical in dimension but one is a "home" cartridge, and the other "office", the only difference is the amount of toner in each. My local "Office-R-Us" only had the "office" size (that I could find) so I guess I'm okay paying $100 for that single cart.

shtgunal3 · August 23

Sitting through a lightning delay at the first high school football game of the season.

kl8ton · August 23

Botch said:

I'm pretty sure I purchased my Brother color laser printer when I upgraded my iMac, in 2015. It finally beeped at me to refill the toner after ten years! Wrote down the model number, headed to Office-R-Us, and couldn't find a 4-cartridge set to replace all of them, and each color (black, cyan, periwinkle and taupe?) was around $100 apiece (!! )
I bought just a black cartridge, as I mostly print only in black. Replaced it this morning, then removed the three color cartridges and shook them side-to-side, then slid the little green button like they do on ewetube videos (the written instructions with the cartridge were crap). Powered back up, rebooted the router (my printer constantly falls off Wifi, and doesn't have an Ethernet socket), and she printed fine; hope that lasts me another ten years or so.
I did some further digging on the 'net afterwards and, first, found some reasonably-priced, four-cartridge sets for around $27, but they weren't OEM (there are also kits to refill your existing cartridges, I know better than to go that route). I also learned that, for my printer, there are two different "sizes" of cartridge; they're both identical in dimension but one is a "home" cartridge, and the other "office", the only difference is the amount of toner in each. My local "Office-R-Us" only had the "office" size (that I could find) so I guess I'm okay paying $100 for that single cart.

Did you shop printers? Seems like nowadays you can get a printer with cartridges for just a little bit more than the cartridges themselves. Our office printer is an HP and all four cartridges are about a grand all together. I buy OEM and the extra capacity. I won't buy off brand. My first career in IT soured me on those. Maybe they've come a long way .....I don't know. Now I think I need to go printer shopping.

GrateEggspectations · August 23

I have little experience with printer cartridges, but this discussion reminds me of one of my earliest office jobs, ant which time an administrative assistant changed a toner cartridges and ended up absolutely dousing herself. Somehow exploded all over her torso and face. Poor young woman. 😂

Botch · August 23

kl8ton said:
Did you shop printers? Seems like nowadays you can get a printer with cartridges for just a little bit more than the cartridges themselves.

I did not. I remember reading somewhere, 10 years ago, that new inkjet printers were sold with inkwells that were nearly empty, so that you had to buy new ink (the profit center, ie cheap razors, soak 'em with the blades principle). I didn't read that about laser printers, ten years ago. And the fact that I got ten years of black printing out of my original purchase, seems to confirm that. I was kinda shocked at the $100 price tag for the new, single color toner, but if it lasts me another ten years I'll have no complaints.

Botch · August 23

GrateEggspectations said:

I have little experience with printer cartridges, but this discussion reminds me of one of my earliest office jobs, ant which time an administrative assistant changed a toner cartridges and ended up absolutely dousing herself. Somehow exploded all over her torso and face. Poor young woman. 😂

I certainly hope, being the gentleman you are, you offered to help clean her up!

kl8ton · August 23

Packing. 200 mile bike trip Sunday and Monday. Can't pack too much as I'll be sitting on a bike. We have a support vehicle driving our stuff up to a hotel for the overnight.

lousubcap · August 23

@kl8ton - Enjoy the ride. Hope there is good weather for the journey. Above all, have fun!

ColbyLang · August 23

Trying to make an 8 year old’s day. She’s obsessed with a LaBuBu doll. Lots of kids at school have them. These things are harder to find than pichana at the moment. Bout to buy a knockoff on Temu lol.

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