OT - What are you doing right now?

GrateEggspectations · October 2023

@Canugghead I get it. The struggle is real. We keep an upright freezer that is perpetually full. Had to shuffle like a magician just to get these tamaters in.

johnmitchell · October 2023

2 hours in on some baby backs. Applewood for smoke. It’s a beautiful day in NC.

GrateEggspectations · October 2023

@johnmitchell

These are the days that make the journey so much fun. About to start up the Egg myself. Be sure to post your results.

WeberWho · October 2023

RIP Tim Wakefield. Class act through and through.

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lousubcap · October 2023

Da-n. 57 years old. A cornerstone of the Red Sox on and off the field.

Ybabpmuts · October 2023

57 years young. If I'm not mistaken Curt Schilling recently, within the last day or two made a public comment about TW having cancer. Apparently the family was caught off guard by his very public announcement. **** all around.

Canugghead · October 2023

GrateEggspectations said:

@Canugghead I get it. The struggle is real. We keep an upright freezer that is perpetually full. Had to shuffle like a magician just to get these tamaters in.

Bigger challenge is remembering or finding them.

lousubcap · October 2023

I am old but have never seen a TV audience mover like Taylor Swift. Her marketing prowess is a true dream come true to Roger Goodell and the No Fun League. She brings a long sought after market with the burgeoning spend $$. Kelce deserves some serious return here.

Battleborn · October 2023

lousubcap said:

I am old but have never seen a TV audience mover like Taylor Swift. Her marketing prowess is a true dream come true to Roger Goodell and the No Fun League. She brings a long sought after market with the burgeoning spend $$. Kelce deserves some serious return here.

Kelce got some serious return. His jersey sales were up like 400%. The podcast he does with his brother had like 1 mil more downloads this week.

Ybabpmuts · October 2023

It won't last. She'll be singing a song about how she broke up with him and he wanted his sweater back three days later, by early next month. It's what she does.

fishlessman · October 2023

8 miles across the lake at 25 mph for the sunrise

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10 minutes later the dingly islands appeared, nice that the gps was working in that fog

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first fish, hoping an eagle found him

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fishlessman · October 2023

Gulfcoastguy said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Smearing yogurt into some kind of rubber puzzle mat to make an “enrichment” treat for the pup. What in God’s name has happened to my life? Lol

Wait until you buy an expensive chew toy and find out that he likes to chew on pine cones.

empty disposable water bottles here, dogs love them to chew on. take the cap and plastic ring off beforehand.

hoosier_egger · October 2023

Perhaps the largest excel spreadsheet that I’ve been in. 286k lines 🤓

Gulfcoastguy · October 2023

fishlessman said:

Gulfcoastguy said:

JohnInCarolina said:

Smearing yogurt into some kind of rubber puzzle mat to make an “enrichment” treat for the pup. What in God’s name has happened to my life? Lol

Wait until you buy an expensive chew toy and find out that he likes to chew on pine cones.

empty disposable water bottles here, dogs love them to chew on. take the cap and plastic ring off beforehand.

Previous dog learned how to loosen the cap on a beer bottle. He would then lap at the puddle on the floor. I just bought a new dog door for the back slider. You can replace the flap once then you have to replace the whole thing. $299 with tax, number 3 since 2003.

Legume · October 2023

Covid and flu shots today. Took some doing to find them as the supply chain seems to be temporarily f'd, but we found them just had a little drive to get there.

WeberWho · October 2023

Almost makes me want to go back to high school again.

I thought I was lucky when I was in high school that we could take college credit courses over at the community college. These kids nowadays will know how to fly a damn plane by the time they graduate.

Corv · October 2023

One of our local high schools is building a kit airplane, a Van's RV-12iS. The students learn the basics on a simple practice kit, and then work on the plane the rest of the semester. Last school year, they built the vertical tail, rudder and the anti-servo tabs. They also finished the frame of the stabilator and started today prepping it for its skins. When the plane is done, a few years from now, it'll get sold to buy the next project.

But they don't have a nifty simulator!

kl8ton · October 2023

Buckle up buttercup. (Me... I'm buttercup).
87° the high tomorrow and 51° the high on Saturday while I am working outside with a sold out campground.

Gulfcoastguy · October 2023

Saying very bad things about AT&T Uverse. No signal, no way to check if it’s a general outage, no way to schedule a service call without knowing a user ID. I have paid by direct withdrawal for over ten years so I never use a user ID.

alaskanassasin · October 2023

kl8ton said:

Buckle up buttercup. (Me... I'm buttercup).
87° the high tomorrow and 51° the high on Saturday while I am working outside with a sold out campground.

We are cutting beans like hell, it’s been weird walking back to the truck in the evening wearing a t shirt

alaskanassasin · October 2023

Corv said:

One of our local high schools is building a kit airplane, a Van's RV-12iS. The students learn the basics on a simple practice kit, and then work on the plane the rest of the semester. Last school year, they built the vertical tail, rudder and the anti-servo tabs. They also finished the frame of the stabilator and started today prepping it for its skins. When the plane is done, a few years from now, it'll get sold to buy the next project.
But they don't have a nifty simulator!

That is a really cool project, do the students get to see the maiden voyage? How many years until completion?

alaskanassasin · October 2023

In high school wood shop we worked on a drift boat.

I signed up for metal shop thinking I was going to make a hunting knife from a leaf spring or something… but the first day our teacher informed us that, though metal shop classes had been making knives, beautiful knives, moose handles, hardened, masterpieces (in some cases) using the shop forge, for years, administration didn’t think it was appropriate anymore.

Ybabpmuts · October 2023

In my highly school metal class I made a stainless steel sleeve for a bic lighter. Hardly much better than a knife except that I could use it to smoke weed with but it was also good for burning the hair off of bloated rodents, as long as there were no open wounds and their sphincters were still tight, otherwise they could explode and spin out of control. I gave up the lighter after looking at way too many rodent sphincters and trying to judge if it was tight enough or not. After a while, they all run together ...

alaskanassasin · October 2023

Ybabpmuts said:

In my highly school metal class I made a stainless steel sleeve for a bic lighter. Hardly much better than a knife except that I could use it to smoke weed with but it was also good for burning the hair off of bloated rodents, as long as there were no open wounds and their sphincters were still tight, otherwise they could explode and spin out of control. I gave up the lighter after looking at way too many rodent sphincters and trying to judge if it was tight enough or not. After a while, they all run together ...

We would stick dead mice in the forge for the next class. The ceilings in the shop were probably 20’ tall and we would throw welding into the tiles when the teacher would turn his back. Someone left the gas on over night and we had to evacuate, I would like to think that was a accident

Ybabpmuts · October 2023

Jesus, I farted too close to the forge once and thought I was a crazy rebel. You my friend are crazy.

CPFC1905 · October 2023

ColtsFan said:

Perhaps the largest excel spreadsheet that I’ve been in. 286k lines 🤓

CTRL + P go on, you know you wan to. Better if it comes out on green/white perforated paper.

Corv · October 2023

alaskanassasin said:

Corv said:

One of our local high schools is building a kit airplane, a Van's RV-12iS. The students learn the basics on a simple practice kit, and then work on the plane the rest of the semester. Last school year, they built the vertical tail, rudder and the anti-servo tabs. They also finished the frame of the stabilator and started today prepping it for its skins. When the plane is done, a few years from now, it'll get sold to buy the next project.
But they don't have a nifty simulator!

That is a really cool project, do the students get to see the maiden voyage? How many years until completion?

The ones attending them will. The graduating seniors generally move on without keeping in touch.

Building even an easy kit airplane is a very large task. It takes steady attention and considerable care. Doing it right is the highest priority. Working quickly is not on the list. The plans are detailed but not simple, and the students need to be certain that they are doing it correctly. For many of them, it's a new thing to learn, this attention to detail.

One thing that's working nicely is that for each major task, a selected student is assigned to be the project lead. Those students are usually experiencing their first effort at management. Some rise to it but not all.