OT - What are you doing right now?

Kayak said:

Battleborn said:

Kayak said:

Battleborn said:

Sitting at the hospital. The boss is having her thyroid and parathyroid removed. 

Wish her well. Hashimoto's or the C word? Fun times ahead.

Haven’t heard the word Hashimoto’s. So far the biopsies that they have been able to do are benign and not cancerous. They were not able to get biopsies of all the lumps, however, her ENT surgeon has said that he does not believe any of them to be cancer. So good news. Just awaiting everything to be done. 

That's good news! Hashimoto's is one of those auto-immune diseases where your body attacks the thyroid. Treatment is usually synthetic hormones which also finish off the thyroid while taking it's place. Seems like in either case, she'll be 'back on the dragon' while figuring out the new normal.

So far it is nothing more than some abnormality. Through all the tests and biopsies nothing has been said about it being more. Hopefully we will be able to get into an Endocrinologist soon and get everything else figured out. Just taking it step by step right now. 

bubbajack said:

Looks like some serious weather is on the way to the south. Some may already be experiencing it. Batton down the hatches. Not much can be done about baseball sized hail though. Good luck and let us know what is going on and where.

We would park our cars in a parking garage when we knew we'd get really bad, apocalyptic weather.   This was before my big shop where I have enough covered space.

nolaegghead said:

I stopped by my big shop yesterday on the way to the store.  Opened the door and was hit by a very strong smell of gasoline.

I started checking all the vehicles, gas tanks....anything that held gasoline that could have leaked. 

Found the problem finally.

My boat was out a few weeks ago and my buddy filled it up all the way when it was cold.  No head space.

The temp is maybe 15F warmer.  Gas expanded and pushed out the cap onto the deck.

I mopped up the gas and used a turkey baster to remove a quart from the tank to give me enough head space where this won't happen if it warms up even more.  Turned on a shop fan directed to the boat to make sure everything dried up. 

That could have ended badly....a 25 gallon fire averted.

hope you have good coverage there, take lots of pics

@nolaegghead - that is definitely "better to be lucky than good" right there.  It woulda been a lot more than a 25 gallon gas fire in no time.  

bubbajack said:

Looks like some serious weather is on the way to the south. Some may already be experiencing it. Batton down the hatches. Not much can be done about baseball sized hail though. Good luck and let us know what is going on and where.

Yea, watches and warnings already going off here. SWMBO got sent home at 1pm. I hope everyone stays safe this afternoon and tonight.

fishlessman said:

stimulus direct deposited today, they should make this a weekly thing

You're welcome

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

I stopped by my big shop yesterday on the way to the store.  Opened the door and was hit by a very strong smell of gasoline.

I started checking all the vehicles, gas tanks....anything that held gasoline that could have leaked. 

Found the problem finally.

My boat was out a few weeks ago and my buddy filled it up all the way when it was cold.  No head space.

The temp is maybe 15F warmer.  Gas expanded and pushed out the cap onto the deck.

I mopped up the gas and used a turkey baster to remove a quart from the tank to give me enough head space where this won't happen if it warms up even more.  Turned on a shop fan directed to the boat to make sure everything dried up. 

That could have ended badly....a 25 gallon fire averted.

hope you have good coverage there, take lots of pics

I don't have any insurance on the shop other than full coverage on the Porsche parked in it.  I need to look into it.

nolaegghead said:

fishlessman said:

nolaegghead said:

I stopped by my big shop yesterday on the way to the store.  Opened the door and was hit by a very strong smell of gasoline.

I started checking all the vehicles, gas tanks....anything that held gasoline that could have leaked. 

Found the problem finally.

My boat was out a few weeks ago and my buddy filled it up all the way when it was cold.  No head space.

The temp is maybe 15F warmer.  Gas expanded and pushed out the cap onto the deck.

I mopped up the gas and used a turkey baster to remove a quart from the tank to give me enough head space where this won't happen if it warms up even more.  Turned on a shop fan directed to the boat to make sure everything dried up. 

That could have ended badly....a 25 gallon fire averted.

hope you have good coverage there, take lots of pics

I don't have any insurance on the shop other than full coverage on the Porsche parked in it.  I need to look into it.

Wow. Better get on that. I’ve seen the toys you keep in there, and a loss would not be pretty. 

dont know the specifics but that package that passed thursday has something about unemployment credits, something like 10k for single, 20 for married and im sure theres other things no one knows about yet or how to address.

In regards to weather, it drizzled for about 15 minutes here. (Lafayette, LA)

Been a minute since I’ve posted a cook, debrined the packaged corn beef and running the egg around 275 with some hickory chunks. Gonna pull and steam to finish it out, final pics to come. 

nolaegghead said:

ColbyLang said:

In regards to weather, it drizzled for about 15 minutes here. (Lafayette, LA)

They closed all the schools at 11-11:30 CST.

weather man must be getting kick backs from the babysitters that all are making bank today.

radar appears much worse elsewhere to my NE.

Looks like we're going to get hammered for an hour or so around 7PM.  Messages from Entergy and the city on expected power outages. 

My generator took a direct hit from my neighbor's tree (a big branch) this morning (high winds).  Fortunately the roof I built over it took all the damage.

Thank God you put a roof over it. Weather N and S of us, Lafayette getting a little rain. I want a whole home natural gas generator bad. Saving up my acorns for it as of Hurricane Delta. 

Phone shopping 

nolaegghead said:

I stopped by my big shop yesterday on the way to the store.  Opened the door and was hit by a very strong smell of gasoline.

I started checking all the vehicles, gas tanks....anything that held gasoline that could have leaked. 

Found the problem finally.

My boat was out a few weeks ago and my buddy filled it up all the way when it was cold.  No head space.

The temp is maybe 15F warmer.  Gas expanded and pushed out the cap onto the deck.

I mopped up the gas and used a turkey baster to remove a quart from the tank to give me enough head space where this won't happen if it warms up even more.  Turned on a shop fan directed to the boat to make sure everything dried up. 

That could have ended badly....a 25 gallon fire averted.

Reminds me somewhat of the time I put the gas nozzle into a rod holder opening that is way to close to the fuel opening. Only about 3 gallons in the bilge. But boy was I sweating it because my bilge pump is hot wired all the time.  Went thru a case of paper towels rolls followed by a massive fresh water flush. Whew.