OT - What are you doing now? (2025)

Legume · July 26

Battleborn said:

I was off yesterday and decided to make a big a$$ pan of chicken enchiladas. I make mine more of casserole style and don’t roll individual tortillas. Well, the kids each decided that they had more important things to do so now I have a ton of left overs. Trying to decide if vac sealing them would be worth it.

Wife makes multiple pans of enchiladas at one time. Freezes in the pan overnight and then pops them out with a bendy spatula while frozen, vacuum seal that and you save a ton of space and don't tie up your pans.

bubbajack · July 26

Hanging at OKI.

johnmitchell · July 26

I spent Thursday afternoon doing some work at Hendricks Racing CNC motor shop
@DoubleEgger. My Gosh Mike you talk about money!!

DoubleEgger · July 26

johnmitchell said:

I spent Thursday afternoon doing some work at Hendricks Racing CNC motor shop
@DoubleEgger. My Gosh Mike you talk about money!!

That’s awesome John.

Yeah that guy (Tommy Bagwell) is rolling in it. He’s a good guy though. Big contributor to the lake and local charities. He sold his chicken rendering business to Tyson for $800M several years ago. That money was just icing on his cake. He’s got a 55 meter yacht at the coast as well.

WeberWho · July 26

I hit a couple bucket list concerts last night.

The Spin Doctor's opened the show. I'm probably the only one who has Spin Doctor's on their bucket list but they were my first CD as a kid.

I was also able to checkout Blues Traveler who I've also wanted to see for years but never took any real initiative to see them. Pretty fun being able to see them the same night as the Spin Doctors.

John Popper lead singer of Blues Traveler and Chris Barron lead singer of Spin Doctors went to high school together. They collaborated on a few songs together through the night.

A pretty fun couple concerts.

lousubcap · July 27

Alert: My pic sucks but I attended a soccer (too f'ing much of a challenge between the English and German spelling) international friendly here in fly over country: Aston Villa vs Eintracht Frankfort.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5017260/uploads/editor/70/4s65vle7ba6a.jpg

Ended 2-2. Sister kisser.
It was quite well played and very entertaining.
First time a full up international match here. Regrettably the international beers (especially German) did not come along.
There's always next year. Perhaps Crystal Palace and @CPFC1905 will make the trip.

Botch · July 27

Shaking my head.
This afternoon I had to stop at the local gas station for a couple things, and the bill came to $10.71. I gave her a ten, a dollar, and a penny.
She slowly placed the money into the register, and then stared at the display, a long time; I try to be patient with these kids.
Somewhere, in the distance, a dog barked.
Finally, she gave me my change. A five, two ones, two quarters and two dimes... wtff. I said, "No, I gave you a ten, and... " And she said, "Oh, wait, let me..." Her supervisor came over, she called up the Calculator on her iPhone, and she started plugging away. I told her she only owed me $0.30, which I finally got.
She apologized, and I stifled my urge to yell "Make America Great Again!" Got home, and threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Battleborn · July 27

lousubcap said:

Alert: My pic sucks but I attended a soccer (too f'ing much of a challenge between the English and German spelling) international friendly here in fly over country: Aston Villa vs Eintracht Frankfort.

Ended 2-2. Sister kisser.
It was quite well played and very entertaining.
First time a full up international match here. Regrettably the international beers (especially German) did not come along.
There's always next year. Perhaps Crystal Palace and @CPFC1905 will make the trip.

We have several international club matches in town that I could work and watch for free. I, however, refrain from those matches. The Mexican fans have a propensity to be pretty rowdy.

CPFC1905 · July 27

lousubcap said:

Alert: My pic sucks but I attended a soccer (too f'ing much of a challenge between the English and German spelling) international friendly here in fly over country: Aston Villa vs Eintracht Frankfort.

Ended 2-2. Sister kisser.
It was quite well played and very entertaining.
First time a full up international match here. Regrettably the international beers (especially German) did not come along.
There's always next year. Perhaps Crystal Palace and @CPFC1905 will make the trip.

This is tremendous news. Next up, rugby - then the holy grail of cricket.

CPFC1905 · July 27

Battleborn said:

We have several international club matches in town that I could work and watch for free. I, however, refrain from those matches. The Mexican fans have a propensity to be pretty rowdy.

Define rowdy? Boisterous bunch of lads enjoying the moment or chemical powered men old enough to know better?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385705/?ref_=tt_mlt_i_1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385002/

JohnInCarolina · July 27

Botch said:

Shaking my head.
This afternoon I had to stop at the local gas station for a couple things, and the bill came to $10.71. I gave her a ten, a dollar, and a penny.
She slowly placed the money into the register, and then stared at the display, a long time; I try to be patient with these kids.
Somewhere, in the distance, a dog barked.
Finally, she gave me my change. A five, two ones, two quarters and two dimes... wtff. I said, "No, I gave you a ten, and... " And she said, "Oh, wait, let me..." Her supervisor came over, she called up the Calculator on her iPhone, and she started plugging away. I told her she only owed me $0.30, which I finally got.
She apologized, and I stifled my urge to yell "Make America Great Again!" Got home, and threw up in my mouth a little bit.

I think you'll appreciate this story, @Botch

I took my research group (all graduate students in engineering and math) out to lunch at the local gourmet pizza place. We asked the waiter how many pies we should order.

Waiter: Well our pizza is very thin crust, each pizza has six slices on it. Most people eat four slices.
Me: OK, so there's nine of us, and nine times four divided by six is six.
Waiter: Nine times four divided by six is... six? I don't think that's how math works!
Students: < bust out laughing >

To this day, I'm quite sure the waiter believed the students were laughing at me.

Gulfcoastguy · July 27

If he could do math he wouldn’t be a waiter.

JohnInCarolina · July 27

Gulfcoastguy said:

If he could do math he wouldn’t be a waiter.

Given that this is third grade math, I’m not sure that necessarily follows. Plenty of waiters walking around who locked up once they got to long division.

JohnInCarolina · July 27

BeanHead · July 28

I’m taking the Ozzie train!

Battleborn · July 28

Took the offspring to see the Jurassic Park. If you haven’t seen it, don’t. It’s terrible.

keener75 · July 28

The new Happy Gilmore was better than I expected!
Still cheesy, but made me laugh.

lousubcap · July 28

I'm living the @BeanHead choice minus the drugs. Although I did have several dry months solely based on life-style. And would do it again except for the aging out deal. That deal will eventually get us all.
Above all, have fun. You owe it to yourself as no one can give it to you.

johnmitchell · July 28

Just bent over and grabbed my ankles. Electric bill is paid 😳

fishlessman · July 28

JohnInCarolina said:

fishlessman said:

hating time zones. finishing up a job while waiting for a procedure approval from sweden while dealing with a guy in washington state. whats the chance sweden is at home at 6 pm on a friday night......

I've been on Zoom calls with people in Europe, the East coast of the US, the West coast of the US, and Japan/Beijing, all at the same time. Several people are always super inconvenienced and it's hard to justify anything other than an hour for the meeting.

this explains it, friday was their last day before the swedish plant shut down for a month long summer holiday.......

Legume · July 28

johnmitchell said:

Just bent over and grabbed my ankles. Electric bill is paid 😳

Here you go John.

https://youtu.be/EeZjqEYxkZk

johnmitchell · July 28

Legume said:

johnmitchell said:

Just bent over and grabbed my ankles. Electric bill is paid 😳

Here you go John.

https://youtu.be/EeZjqEYxkZk

😂😂😂

SGH · July 28

I chargrilled a few snapper throats.

You know that I had to sneak a few oysters and some soft shell crabs on while the grill was hot.

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What is fish and oysters without a good steak?

Not to shabby fellows.

johnmitchell · July 28

Mouthwatering 😋😋 @SGH

dbCooper · July 28

@SGH - All looks fabulous!

lousubcap · July 29

He!! of a banquet-but no steak $$$ shot. @SGH must be spending too much time behind the wheel of his yacht. And that's a great way to enjoy the water. 🛥️

Gulfcoastguy · July 29

Kinda watching the first episode of Worst Cooks in America. A little confusing since one of the Chef/coaches Ann Burrel died weeks ago. It will probably be the last episode that I watch, nobody could actually be a cook that bad and dangerous. I keep expecting them to break out Cowboy Lump.

JohnInCarolina · July 29

Our turn in the barrel:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/07/28/politics/trump-duke-investigate-university-law-journal

I’m old enough to remember when this sort of thing was described using words like “extortion” and whatnot.

kl8ton · July 29

Ozzie_Isaac · July 29

Backpacking

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