My dog and my son seem to follow me around the house.
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I followed my lawn mower around and then my broadcast spreader for a few hours today.
Cherry pie for Pi Day today.
Season's over again.
Saw that.
I have it on good authority that the suds saw some idle banter on this thread about recent progress on post counts and actively upped their own posting to counter the last few days. Very good authority.
I thought it might just have been because it's the weekend but they keep track of things over here. They're sneaky and competitive. I once went on a 3 page posting spree about hummingbirds and they took notice and began posting non-stop about hummingbird beer. I was not amused.
Shouldn't all those be "Yum"? Or "Mmmmm"?
Bidding on an eBay auction for the first time in a few years.
1971 Texas license plates for the Trans Am. I have 1968 plates for the two Firebirds, 1970 plates for the Buick Skylark Custom convertible, so I need some plate for the Trans Am. I have a '70 Buick GS 455 convertible project sitting in Ohio, but am really hoping to find a reasonably priced(all relative) '69 Pontiac GTO Judge and a '72 Buick GS Stage 1 so that I have every year from '68-'72 covered.
Since it looks like I'm going to have to send them out to be redone, here are the choices for numbers:
GDM 330
GCS 820
DPM 963
DPM 966
BVD 217
BSP 708
GLD 445
DGY 210
GDY 828
BSP 644
MJG 814
RJH 607
The GLD 445 would be a no-brainer if it were 455. '71 was the first year for a 455 engine in a Trans Am. I do live in the 210 area code, but have a 351 phone number.
Hmmm, which to choose?
These were border line not having to be redone, so I bid the highest I would go for a set of plates needing to be redone. Some of the local tag/title locations are picky and others will let just about anything go through. It's a gamble. Having them redone is a couple hundred dollar expense.
I had no pie on Pi Day.
I haven't even looked at "the bracket".
I've also let the two people who run NCAA pools that I was still entering as of 2019 (I used to enter 5 or 6 but cut back a few years ago) that I'm out this year. I'll probably be back next year but I have no desire to even fill out a bracket. I doubt I will watch any of the games, may some of the the Final Four, maybe. Actually, no, scratch that, I will watch at least a part of a couple of games while running on the treadmill at the Y.
By the way, I have another whiskey to try.
The hubby is back in Maryland for a couple of weeks.
He told me not to drink all his liquor while he was gone. ;) Then he pointed out a new bottle of something. I forget what it is.
It's a whiskey, but not a scotch. It's called Bully Boy. It's a clear liquid! I'm very curious.
My perusal of the liquor cabinet (it's not a cabinet, we keep it out in the open) allowed the discovery of a bottle of The Kraken which is a black spiced rum. I haven't tried that yet either. I don't think I like rum but I don't know if I dislike it more or less than scotch, or rye.
Laphroaig - the taste of revenge. I've started using that line out in the world. We'll see if it catches on.
Did I ever tell the LTE how I tried to win a Darwin Award? One of Arrow's chemo courses was a drug that came in pill form. He took one pill a night for 5 straight nights every month for a year. He was in kindergarten/1st grade. To teach him how to swallow pills, we practiced with M&Ms. If he swallowed an M&M whole, he got to have 5 to eat. I started keeping the M&Ms in the same cabinet with the chemo. That never stopped. To be fair, the next youngest was 10 when I started doing this and nobody ever mixed up the drugs with candy, but, yeah, I still keep candy and medicine in the same place.
Who turned off the heat?
New job day 6. Let the barrage of Teams intros continue. Most folks been pretty cool so far. Have already identified two people that are going to irk me. There are always a few but I知 also prone to irk-ability.
Company did something I致e never seen though. Pay in advance. Already got my first paycheck and it covered all of March. Unusual, in my experience.
This Daylight Savings stuff has got to go.
Daylight saving time is literally perfect. We should keep it all year round. I irk others and I'm not prone to being irked.
If there isn't a change in times, there is no "savings".Quote:
We should keep it all year round.
Another year with another strange segue into Duke basketball off-season.
Currently 1 degree F.
Expecting a high of 10.
And it strikes me to figure out how to type that little degree symbol...
"You know they call corn on the cob, corn on the cob, but that's how it comes out of the ground, man. They should call that
corn, they should call every other version corn off the cob. It's not like if you cut off my arm you would call it Mitch. Then reattach it
and call me Mitch-all-together..." --Mitch Hedberg
I am currently running the "Coolest D1 Mascot" tournament on FB. It's been going on since October. We started with a whole host of play-in matches and mini-tourneys before we got to the "Big Dance". I started with all schools that play D1 basketball (~360 IIRC) and looked for ways to whittle it down to 128 official Big Dance entries. We are now 2/3rds of the way through the 2nd round.
I post one match-up a day and take Sundays off. (Sometimes I take off other days, for example, when my kid is having surgery.) We should be finished in May.
I have also run "Favorite Shakespeare Play" and "Worst Movie to Win the Best Picture Oscar" tourneys.
A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Greatest Show on Earth, respectively.
I ran a mini-tourney of "Best" David Hasselhoff Video as well (only 8 entries so it didn't take long) - here's the winner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJQVlVHsFF8
You were a MyCircler, weren't you?
https://youtu.be/o1jfofjPtEY
Yet, when we pull those carousels out now, they are great entertainment! I am in the very slow process of turning all of the slides my Dad took into digital copies. I have private family facebook pages set up where we share old photos. This way everyone gets copies. I found some from the early 70s in the back of a cabinet. Ones we forgot ever existed. The ones of the now departed are priceless. My cousins are appreciative. Except for sharing their 70s 'dos. They are not appreciative of that.
"Sure, it may be a little more difficult to sing and not quite as catchy, but won't we all *feel* better knowing our numbers are valid? Am I right?
Exactly.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk."
I don't like musicals and I am aware of Rent being "a thing", but other than there being a song about seconds, I think it's a song about seconds, I'm not really aware of the music from Rent, so, I'll assume this is absolutely hilarious because, truly, I have no idea. I have yet to finish watching Hamilton and I signed up for Disney+ just to watch it.
That said, I enjoyed both Spamalot and Wicked. I also saw the touring production of The Book of Mormon when it came through Boston because T-Bone wanted to see it (he was 12 at the time), my adult friends who were there with us were kind of appalled that I brought a 12 year old to see it. (I believe I have posted about that here before.)
I mean, tell me that's not funny.
No seriously. Somebody tell me that's not funny. I know my humor is an...ahem..acquired taste. Just want some confirmation.
I've never seen Rent.
The unofficial mascot of Delta State (not D1) is the Fighting Okra. How cool is that?
I can definitely see value in going thru very old family stuff...I know I like looking thru old albums from time to time...it just used to be (decades ago, pre internet) that everyone who visited felt compelled to bring a couple hundred slides of their visit to France of Pumpkin Junction or whatever, never found that interesting...
my afternoon is made! OCD Neighbor #2 has just imported the Mega Tree Service (five trucks, lots of guys) to take down some 75 foot pines which he (correctly) assumes he'd drop on his house if he did them himself.
Got my binocs, an ultra clear view, and a good book. This is so great.
I bought an Epson V600 scanner. It comes with inserts for slides and 35mm negatives. I have not tried to MacGyver an insert for 110 negatives, yet, but I do have some of those as well. Against my better judgement, I am including a sample. Christmas 1972. My mom made my red dress.Attachment 12716
Yes, it does photos as well. I have a smaller Epson that has done a great job on very old photos, too.
Agreed. When we were renting across the street from where we live now, a crew of five guys took down a hundred foot oak in about three hours. Amazing to watch.
After buying across the street, we had the same guys do a much simpler job in our yard, and I nearly had a heart attack.
Perspective is different for some reason.
I'm so grateful that digital imagery wasn't available when I was a kid. Your appearance is adorable, but every one of my childhood photos shows me dressed in funny clothes with a funny haircut. I can only imaging that these photos are the good photos. <Shudders>
My kid is going to rue the day I need to blackmail him with childhood photos. Between my wife, myself, and his grandparents, there have to be thousands. And he's only 2.5.
After literally making fun of project managers and consultants, it seems I might be in the process of becoming a consultant by accident. Oops.
I knew people would ask to see pictures from a 2 week trip to France - 1 week cycling and 1 week in Paris (including start of Tour de France) - so I narrowed down my ~ 20 rolls of film to maybe 80 pictures in an album they could look through. If they asked to see them all, they could see the other 2 albums of pictures. I actually had someone ask for a copy of one of the pictures. :D
I sang Seasons of Love in a small group for someone's wedding. Not sure I even knew the couple.
Given that Rent, as far as I knew, was about a group of people dealing with AIDS/HIV and some died, I thought it was an odd choice - even though it is about measuring things with love instead of time.
I took this one a few years ago. I love the way he dropped his chainsaw and hung on for dear life! He knew exactly what was coming.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztqw8681pic1aqw/tree.MOV?dl=0
-jk
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Am embarrassed to admit, but glancing at subject photo my first thought was, "Hey that's a juvenile sasquatch!"
Certainly not you, Aimo - the individual to your right.
Donning my readers, I discovered what appears to be a young lady facing away from the camera. My bad. Fooled by a blouse that buttoned up the back.* Sasquatch or not, am guessing her name isn't Jeff.
*not the first time for that, either
You all forget that aimo and I grew up together. I don't need a full description. I could tell it wasn't Drew. I didn't need more info.
First tornado warning of the season. Damage to some homes about 15 miles south of the office.
Welcome to Spring in Kansas.
Grew up in tornado alley, never saw a tornado.
Jeebus, 400 post add in 2 days.
That's dedication, homes.
I think it's the beer talking...
42, 42 and a half; whatever it takes
GEEZ!!! I guess I'll have to start checking the boards at 2am just to defend myself. I will NEVER post a personal pic again. I'll stick with birds.
Thank you, Bdevil! I should have clarified that the response was more directly aimed at Bdevil since she asked the question and I knew she was probably wondering which sibling that was next to me. I should know better than to leave something hanging that low on this thread.
Jeff would probably kill me if he knew I had posted that. And nothing beyond normal sibling rivalry. Please get past this.
And Sasquatch is my cousin, Kim. I don't know how in the world you saw it that way. do you have an eye appointment lined up soon?
So... You know how sometimes you step out of a room for a moment, come back in, and wonder what they heck is happening? I feel that way at the moment with LTE.
I'm just imagining the permanent rashes I would have. When I do expose myself to nickel for too long, it results in a rash that takes 2 weeks to clear up.
"I used to be a hot-tar roofer. Yeah, I remember that...day. " -- Mitch Hedberg
I think this went around a few pages ago, but it makes me think, "What was my worst job ever?" I don't really think I had a bad job. Most monotonous? As an early teen I used to shrink wrap books for a small Native American publishing company. It consisted of taking a dozen books out of a box, shrink wrapping them, then putting them back in the box. I think I made $3 a box. I especially liked the small books in the small boxes.
As a teenager, I helped my dad add un-coated fiberglass insulation in our crawl space. Itched for about a week. Had to trash the clothes I wore, as anytime I wore them, I would start itching all over again. This was before such safety features as masks. Fortunately, I'm still able to breath without artificial means.
I used to normalize pressure discs used in pressure switches for large trucks, i.e. PACCAR, Freightliner, Volvo(Mack), etc. Put 10 through the punch press to create a dimple in the disc. Put 10 through the pressure tester. Repeat.
What was nice was that it was 4 1/2 day work week and it was the summer in the Seattle area. I was out of there on Friday shortly after the cloud cover had "burned" off.
As I mentioned a few days ago, I worked a summer at Marble Slab Creamery and that was my worst job ever...turned me off of ice cream for a while, and I have a lingering (though fading) scar from a severe waffle iron burn (I was on cone duty that day...OUCH).
grad_devil's post that I've quoted here reminds me of my undergrad job at the Gothic Bookshop in the Bryan Center. I loved that job...I got to be around books and get paid for it, it taught me a lot about time management as a busy student, and I was able to have enough running around money to have my fun without always begging my parents for cash. Fond memories of those three years.
Our architectural committee dictates color and type of shingles that need to be used. I build a shed and found that out as part of the process.
With that said, I've noticed other sheds/gazebos/etc. in the neighborhood that have incorrect shingles.
Yes, it really is inexcusable. In conciliation, Kim - can use my tattoo design if desired.
I'd like to see it get some use. My daughter spent 3 (maybe 4) mins concocting it - and although I was warmed by its simple genius, the community reaction was to mock me for only having one arm.
I'd go with metal if it's standing seam...got mine 21 years ago, it looks like the day they installed it. Marvelous.
I'm not sure of the status of asphalt based shingles these days..they went thru a horrid period a decade or so ago when nearly all the major brands cheapened their recipe due to the price of oil, and it led to astronomical failures...had a friend with alleged 30 year architectural shingles, they failed in five years...this was very common, the manufacturers (sensing bankruptcy) denied almost all claims claiming that installation was wrong, etc, etc...there was a local handyman savant who had a column in our local rag, he wrote about this for years, it really was a mess...SO, you might want to make sure that whatever shingle you might choose is actually holding up well...
If you go with metal, do be advised that your roof dynamics will change, especially if you have snow...I am available for free consultations!
I second all of this.
But perhaps you should weigh budwom's advice over mine. I replaced (or reinstalled) a gutter 5 times before I installed snow breaks. One time I had to replace the fascia too. Seems simple now, but I was leery of poking holes in our roof as a solution to anything. That and a steep pitch and the wrong ladders.
I can identify with this! First, thru dumb luck, it turned out that my gutters are mounted kind of low, so when the (literally) tons of snow slide off, they shoot over the top of the gutters, don't tear off.
I finally got snow breaks this year (long boring story) but this is a new wave kind and entails zero holes in the roof...they are very low profile, but clamp onto the standing seams themselves, no holes anywhere...got good advice from a friend on those. Should have done it years ago.
Like BlueTeuf says, gutters can be a real issue, you might want to adjust them or get rid of them (I got rid of them on one side, then to prevent erosion (from rain, melting snow) I put down several inches of crushed stone...all depends on what look you want, where your doors are, etc.
I'd quiz him on the gutter guards...if you have major snow, it's apt to rip off the gutter guards if they are directly in the way of sliding snow...make sure the snow can whiz right over them...
My metal roof is going to outlast me by decades, I'm sure.
Interesting that you say this...we live on an old dairy farm and there is a large dairy barn (big roof area) across the street from our house. About 10 years ago, the roof on the barn needed replacing and we hired a local roofing company to do the job. We looked at some options (metal, asphalt, etc) and decided to go with 30-year, asphalt, patterned shingles ("Harvard slate", I believe, was the pattern choice and, no, "Duke slate" was not offered by the shingle company). But now, after only about 10 years, I notice that on certain sections of the roof, the shingles have already begun to disintegrate and will need to be replaced soon (or maybe the entire roof). Of course, I think the company that installed the roof is no longer in business, so no chance of collecting on any sort of warranty and it was an expensive job at the time, partly because there were already two layers of shingles on most of the barn roof and the local building code does not allow more than 2 layers of shingles on a roof, so the existing shingles had to be pulled off and then a new sub-surface layer of plywood had to be installed. Ugh.
Yea, roofing work is a tough, tough job. I do NOT envy anyone who does that for a living.
^ After the roofing woes that led me to put on a metal roof 20+ years ago, I find myself checking out roofs somewhat compulsively...what's interesting is driving thru towns here, looking at very old buildings, be they barns, old stores, and invariably the roof of choice many decades ago was definitely metal. This makes sense...shingles are somewhat illogical, if you live where there's snow, because if you get ice dams (another whole topic there) water seeps up under the shingles, and you have a problem...
https://www.roofsettlement.com/
The above is a link to a settlement on GAF shingles, also found references to defective CertainTeed shingles...it was a pervasive problem that cost a lot of homeowners a lot of money...
Lunch at 10:30 AM feels early.
Weird starting a new job remotely. Feels like I need to be visible and making a good impression...while I知 wearing sweatpants in my basement.
The biggest challenge is work dynamics and relationship building. Just in and out on the Teams. Interesting.
What's anyone's go to Chinese dish? Not like fine dining, but to go?
Seafood foo yung. Yup, even if it's that fake-crab pollock stuff.
My go to Indian dish (not that anybody asked, but hey, that's what the LTE is for, answering questions nobody asked) is lamb curry.
I like curry.
I loooooove good Indian food. A billion years ago, there was a great Indian Buffet in South Asheville called Mother India. We would sack out of afternoon classes and go for a late lunch knowing we would never be able to stay awake during p.m. classes after eating that much food.
Okay, I guess it was closer to 25-30 years ago.