15 months is a little young to truly grasp Easter egg hunts. Fun time picking up shells at the beach though.
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15 months is a little young to truly grasp Easter egg hunts. Fun time picking up shells at the beach though.
Yeah, I'm just equivocal about it...it was installed knowing full well that water can appear in basements...There's quite a bit of salt in the carpet since it was the water softener discharging that precipitated the incident.
It just has a modest but sizeable stain right now, I think I can work on it. Not much else to do in April.
Airstreams are wonderful. That’s the eventual RV dream for me (I’m late responding to this because I’m out in my RV right now).
How many people are you planning to sleep regularly in this trailer? A Bambi is gonna be quite tight for any more than 2.
Also wondering what you’re planning to pull with.
I love talking RVs...excited to see where this might go for you!
Tow ratings are notoriously squirrelly to figure out but it sounds like your numbers are good.
Good rule of thumb is to keep it at half or a little more of your tow rating. Then adding gear won’t cause trouble.
You also need to think about vehicle payload, especially if you’re looking to buy a small trailer and store a lot of stuff in your tow vehicle. That number is also an important part of the equation.
At Olde Mecklenburg Brewery in Charlotte. It's so good.
Big eating day. Ribs, Mac n cheese, baked beans, deviled eggs, dirt pudding’. Yeesh. Glad I did my push-ups and went for a walk.
Brisket (from sous vide), scalloped potatoes, asparagus, Easter basket
Pretty good end in the women's natty. Good D by Stanford on the final possession to push the Arizona guard to take a bad shot.
I tried to watch the women's championship game. The winning team had 18 turnovers. I tried.
I find all soccer boring but I will make myself watch World Cup Finals, both the women and the men.
My cousin sent our grandmother a batch of romance novels so steamy that she didn’t want my mother to put them in her assisted living facility library after she was done with them lest they be traced back to her.
What’d y’all talk about at your Easter dinner?
Tonight's musical interlude:
https://youtu.be/ZNaqBBjrIZw
Ford sells performance tunes for their vehicles. This changes my view of them completely.
maybe I'll find one that will mow my lawn while I sip beer on the deck...I know they have those automatic thingies, but it would get devoured by my "lawn." OTOH, I do like breaking a major sweat doing the lawn, then admiring my awesome work.
Hey, will chocolate bunnies be on sale today? Our store had about 1000 of those Lindt ones, I'll give it a shot.
+45 hp and +60 ft-lbs
https://performanceparts.ford.com/part/M-9603-REB
Let raking the "grass" commence!
Today’s score ... so far:
Carpenter Bees- 0
TruBlu - 6
4 - with fly swatter (smacked in mid flight).
1 - with the palm of my hand (also in mid flight) followed by a stomp.
1 - with wasp & hornet spray as it was hiding in its new hole in my awning.
our deer flies get bad in July and literally bug me on my walks, and I used to have a cool item, plastic thing that looked like a squash racket, had a few batteries, when the bugs hit the mesh, zapperoo!
I don't know about these carpenter guys, but I do know my wife and I have an annual invasion of wasps trying to get a foot hold on our deck, and we keep a spray bottle with a soapy solution in it, has good range, couple squirts of that and off they go.
p.s. soap spray is PERFECT for the nest in the awning application, that's precisely where our wasps try to invade, set up shop.
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"I got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow $#it."
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"This shirt is dry clean only. Which means...it's dirty. "
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it. "
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"2-in-1 is a stupid term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That is why 2 was created. "
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming."
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring."
Mitch Hedberg one-liners:
"If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and they fell, that would be completely
unacceptable."
Giving this a shot:
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Virulently anti-pun.
I probably have made a joke in my lifetime that would qualify as a pun, but I don't remember doing it.
Baylor playing angry. I hate them, but I like the anger.
Please don’t say you’re a Grindr.
I have had a pretty decent sports and professional career and the best thing I have ever had anyone say about me was at a party when a dude came up and said: "For a white boy, you can dance". As far as you know I have that as a tramp stamp in Comic Sans across my lower back.
Bundaberg - you mentioned tight hamstrings. Saw this recently:
https://youtu.be/u1sfPfsESDQ
The LTE is definitely the wilde beest of threads.
*I tried. I failed. I'll move on.
My husband sometimes introduces himself as my first husband.
Sometimes this thread goes weird.
“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
— Hunter S. Thompson
gnu makes me think of the GNU project.
Richard Stallman, a founder (who has been in the news lately for less good things) looks like a GNU.
That's all I've got.
A reenactment of the scene in the bundaberg house when my toddler managed to open a door for the first time.
https://youtu.be/hdOcrUtE-UQ
If anyone on here lives in the Raleigh area and wants to grab a beer tonight PM me. My dinner plans with a Neonatologist fell through.
Jammed my pinky finger. #$&*%(!!!
Real thing one can buy. Pushes your knees up to fully verticalize your colon. I think...
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Missed the beer turning 40. We should get there in a month or two.
Choose your nightmare scenario. Which is worse:
1. Middle of the night and something lands on your face. Probably wasp or spider.
2. Sitting on the toilet and you look down and see something wriggly in the water.
Then explain why more people are scared of getting vaccine than driving a car?
I'm an arachnaphobe in the extreme. I once volunteered to be in a study of people with phobias. They showed you pictures and had you do math problems while they took an MRI scan of your brain. I qualified but I told them that I would not be willing to do the study if they were going to show me pictures of spiders. They did not. I'm moderately claustrophobic too, so, having a brain MRI is difficult for me. They told me 2 hours, it took 2 hours and 15 minutes. I made it fine for 2 hours, somehow my mental preparation got me to the 2 hour mark but that last 15 minutes was agonizing. Given how many MRIs my son has had to endure, I'm glad I know what it's like. They give him goggles so he can watch a movie. (He needed sedation until he was 10.)
Please do not take this as a cue to post pictures of spiders. I will absent myself from the thread for a couple of months, at least, if someone posts a picture of a spider.
It's happened here before, very early on.
The proper response to this is YES!
Niece Barbara woke up to a tarantula crawling across her face. I'm surprised she didn't shoot holes in the wall. She has also shared pictures of a snake climbing the wall outside the house. I do want to visit the ranch but will only do so in daylight. :D
Phobias are a mild form of mental illness. They are irrational fears and although the rational part of my brain understands that a picture is not going to hurt me, it does not matter, my brain cannot function rationally in that situation.
I am afraid of heights too.
Stairway to Heaven - Lep Zepplin
Didn't bother to find the video this evening. Just phoning it in.
The jets are loud tonight. Military training and large cargo planes. The cargo planes are notable as they move quite slowly.
I always confuse Dolph Lundgren with Led Zeppelin. Odd.
When I lived in Atlanta, there was a band called Dread Zeppelin. It was a reggae band that played Zeppelin covers, with an Elvis impersonator fronting the band. It was . . . unique.
(ETA — looking it up, they are from California and are still active. I thought it was a local thing up until just now).
Please do not be offended, but there is no such thing as a "great" spider story. ;) Horrible? Awful? Terrifying? Sure. But this phobic person really doesn't want to hear any of them. My imagination is much too vivid to endure spider stories. I don't even recount my own encounters with the dark side.
I will admit to not being keen on spiders...I recall working on a lake for many years, and the wolf or dock spiders were just humongous...
I have been up a few mountains where I had to physically stop and calm myself down because my body/mind had such an intense “DAnger, what are you doing, you idiot?!?!” Reaction.
Up top half dome in Yosemite, for example, I physically could not get closer than 10 yards to the lip...
...and then these two French rock climbers popped over the lip like it was nothing and hiked down. Followed them most of the way. Made me feel like my accomplishment was PeeWee league. 🤣
I was like this on the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland.
Of course, being on the edge of a 700-ish foot cliff with unpredictable wind gusts...yeah, I had a right to have sweaty palms/rapid pulse/etc.
I took this photo - I think it's as close as I got. Whew. Even looking at the photo give me butterflies.
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I'm enjoying the pre-sweetened, non-sugar sweet tea.
I met Devildeac for a beer exchange in Raleigh. What a nice guy.
This was from Handa Island in Scotland. Delightful view!
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-jk
Hmmm, I may have to dig out the slide shows...
As long as we are doing slide shows.
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Same rock - 4 years and 2 weeks apart. Mission Trips with a view.
Is anyone on here either CEO or manager of a company who might be willing to talk to me about a work conundrum? I have written up a job proposal at work and they are creating a position for me that fills a need but that is going to inspire some petty jealousies at work and I would love an outsider's input on how I should approach this.
Kind of bummed I can't find my pictures from on top of Half Dome. Just this one of my boots after the hike. I have them from on top, I swear...!
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This was the same trip I was "charged" by a bear. How I started the hike at 4 AM, actually.
Anyone have experience selecting and installing camshafts?
Interesting. Didn't know that existed but if they're building self-driving cars, not surprising.
You've never been in traffic and thought, "What if I hit the gas instead of the brake on accident?" I've also had the occasional, "What if jerked the wheel an inch and sent the car into the ditch?"
I actually think of these somewhat akin to what I experience at great heights. Hyper-active thoughts about all the things that could go wrong from said heights, even if they're pretty unlikely or irrational.
I'm pretty good with bugs, snakes, rats, etc though unless they come at me in the middle of the night.
There are always a few it seems. I tend to think the bulk of job-related stress is interpersonal and not necessarily connected to the difficulty of the actual job. Take that with a grain of salt because I've worked in offices most of my life and not at an operating table or sick child's bedside.
I made a statement in that thread that I fact-checked myself on. Listen to the Revisionist History podcast about the brake vs. accelerator issue. Years ago there was a famous case settled by a vehicle manufacturer where they paid millions in damages, in what was perceived to be the accelerator getting stuck because of the floor mats. And it turns out there is compelling evidence that in either all or almost all of those cases the accelerator may have been stuck, but that the operator never pressed the break. And when you think about brakes, they are over powered in comparison to the accelerator. The brakes always win. There is a reason there is a brake pedal on the passenger side in a driver's ed car. The brakes will always win. This gets into how people respond in a crisis and that is something I ignored in my own post on that thread and I had to backpedal.