OT - What are you doing right now?

Always learn something here!  Friday night...

Yep @lousubcap.  A real breakfast of champions.  

@GATraveller, that's the "Real Deal Holyfield" taco from Valentina's.  I settled for "just" a brisket taco.  My son and wife split the one in the picture.  It is indeed the real deal.

nolaegghead said:

Day three of living hell disaster recovery for a data warehouse that bought the farm. If there's a power shortage in the midwest, it's probably us.

Our dispatching system ( cloud based ) is "under attack " right now .....thank God I was able to export the next 10 days of work before it finally crashed ....many HVAC companies are less than thrilled right now  

my fax was down for a day

Foghorn said:

And Austin BBQ/taco aficionados will recognize this as the appropriate “morning after” follow up.  

You posted this at 10:30 this morning, and I have been thinking about it for the last five hours.

Damn you, @Foghorn.  Damn you to heLL!  

@Foghorn Congratulations on your son’s achievement 👏

Sun goes down and this shows up.

@bubbajack at least the above is not a geographically challenged sunset.  
See ya Friday for the last hurrah-
Just make sure there is a ceiling fan present. 

@nolaegghead
I remember trying to resurrect a 12 GB exchange DB overnight.  Good luck sir! 

JohnInCarolina said:

Foghorn said:

And Austin BBQ/taco aficionados will recognize this as the appropriate “morning after” follow up.  

You posted this at 10:30 this morning, and I have been thinking about it for the last five hours.

Damn you, @Foghorn.  Damn you to heLL!  

Glad I could be of service @JohnInCarolina.  

And thank you @johnmitchell.

GATraveller said:

Foghorn said:

@GATraveller, that's the "Real Deal Holyfield" taco from Valentina's.  I settled for "just" a brisket taco.  My son and wife split the one in the picture.  It is indeed the real deal.

I see they are moving into a new location. Is that better or worse for you. And by "better" I mean proximity not health.

Their new location in Buda will be closer to me, but I don't think I'll make the drive from San Antonio (over an hour) just to go there.  I only went there because I was in Austin.  

With that said, I could see it becoming a regular thing any time I drive in that direction - but that's only a few times a year.

WeberWho said:

I could have easily been burned this afternoon on Marketplace. I picked up a Big Steel Keg this afternoon from an older gentleman for $75. I did a quick look over and didn't notice anything serious when walking around it. I paid the gentleman as he was working from home and I didn't want to take too much time up from him. 

I didn't notice anything when loading it and off I went. I get home and I pull the vent shut. I notice some rust on the bottom edge. I stick my finger and it's mushy. Ohhh crap. I pull back the vent and I see this. 



I really don't think he knew about it prior as I didn't even see it when loading it in the bed of the truck. He mentioned to let him know if I had any issues with it at any point when I was strapping it down. 

I emailed him back and I asked if he'd be willing to buy it back from me and that I'd give him $20 for his time. He doesn't want any extra money and that he'd take it back no questions asked. He even offered for me just to keep it and he'd send the money. I told him I'd drop if off. I didn't want to keep the smoker and the money. 

So I'll be out 4 hours with the two trips but still feel really good about it. A little faith in humanity yet!!!

Faith, because of BOTH of you.  Thanks for posting that.  

Yes, @CPFC1905.  I was hoping for at least a page of detailed analysis of tomorrow's Champions League final.  Including a description of how Christian Pulisic could become the 2nd American to play on a championship team, behind Jovan Kirovski (WHO???) who helped Borussia Dortmund win in 1997 (note: He did not play in the final, but I guess he was on their roster and played in some of their games in the Champions League that year)... and how, if Chelsea had won the FA Cup, he would have been the 3rd American to do that - after Julian Sturgis in 1873 (WHAT???) and Kasey Keller in 1997.

Sturgis was apparently born in Boston and moved to the UK at 7 months of age.  Educated at Eton and Oxford he played football for the Wanderers Football Club before a career as barrister, novelist, and writer of opera librettos - including "Ivanhoe".

Oh yeah, and rather than sitting back and second-guessing your prediction in my usual chicken-$hit manner, I'll go out on a limb and predict Man City's sheikh will finally get his payoff at the expense of the Russian billionaire with a 2-1 win - although 1-0 seems just as likely as cup finals tend to be tight, tense affairs with relatively little free-flowing football.  On multiple levels, this is not the game for the fair weather fan as it is unlikely to draw them in any further.  When it's 0-0 at the half and there have been only 1 or 2 real shots at goal most will change channels when they have to watch the first commercial after 45 minutes.  If that doesn't do it, the "Halftime highlights" that show a couple of near misses will do many of the rest in.

(This isn't as long as your usual contribution nor nearly as humorous, but I'm more of an "inform and educate" type and not that funny - in writing at least.  Hopefully, whoever usually flags your weekly post will do me the same honor)

You're welcome.