CJ
New Reader
2/8/18 8:57 a.m.
In reply to SaltyDog :
When I was in college weeks and weeks ago, I spent a summer painting in a pulp mill.
Since we were painting all the structural steel, we ended up in some odd places. I could not believe the number of tools I found laying on top of equipment and on the structure. When I tried to return a couple of these to one of the millwrights, he told me to keep them. Told me that, when they lost something, they told management and management replaced it.
No motivation to keep track of anything.
In reply to CJ :
Sounds like a treasure hunt!
And good motivation to stay in school!
I would have loved to have been able to walk through those rack houses. I've been up close to them from the outside, but never went in. They are huge, all brick, just amazing structures.
All I could think about was what the mason's must have thought, every day coming to work and building those things, one brick at a time. (besides being happy to have some job security)
In reply to CJ :
Master key. If you lose the key that opens all 5,000 doors it's a bit pricey to recore the system.
Ransom
PowerDork
2/9/18 7:54 p.m.
I don't have something in my right eye, which is now comfortable. For the first time in two and a half weeks.
It took the eye doc three seconds to locate the stray eyelash that my wife and I both spent some time trying rather hard to find. I was bracing myself for "dry eye syndrome" or summat and a lifetime of eye drops and discomfort.
It may sound dumb, but I'm just so relieved to not have something in my eye, that I just don't care.
My wife picked me up a new cell phone today, it's amazing to have a working speaker again.
In reply to Ransom :
Dude, I've been there. A bit of eye junk got into my eyelid area up above the opening and it was horrible. I even spent some time trying to fish it out myself. The relief that comes from something like that coming out is indescribable.
Got to go out pheasant hunting this morning.
19*F, breezy, good cold weather gear, felt great to get outside. Felt good to be the best shot of the group, too. Not that we keep score or anything.
Got free tickets to see kid rock tonight
Dusterbd13 said:
Got free tickets to see kid rock tonight
Does that not belong in the rant thread?
In reply to dculberson :
Hell no! Fantastic show.
People watching was pretty fun too. Vwry broad cross section of the populace to watch.
Duke
MegaDork
2/13/18 4:26 p.m.
Check engine light and VSA warning on the TSX put themselves out long enough for me to run it through the inspection lane this morning. That gives me 2 years to fix the problem!
Got to drive all the way home home last night without the need for headlights.
1.) Got out of work on time
2.) No need to stop at the (Pick any one or combination of the following: Grocery store, Hardware store, Gas Station, other)
3.) Still light at 5:00pm
My wife loved getting a 9mm pistol for our anniversary, it's so much better then flowers and chocolate in my opinion.
Helping a friend last night with an engine that’s been sitting for a few years. Did a leak down test and cylinder 4 failed. Air was blowing out the intake. We removed the intake, removed the mouse turds from the intake valve, and it passed with flying colors!
Rode my project motorcycle for the first time today! Just a quick rip a half a block up the street and back, but it moved under it's own power and didn't murder me in a violent fashion (yet). It even idled when I got it back into the driveway! I was worried it was going to be entirely too loud and I was going to have to gut and modernize the silencer, but it's substantially less deafening when it's pointed away from the open garage and into open air.
93EXCivic said:
It is Friday!
It's Friday, and on top of that I just found out / realized that Monday is a company holiday so it's a 3 day weekend for me!
I decided I wanted to add another car to my 1/18th scale model collection in my office at work. The first one I bought when I was about 13 years old was a Ferrari 250 GTO. I was 95% sure it had been lost/tossed during a move. I was actually looking for replacements on Amazon. I decided to look one more time in the storage room and I found it! A little touch up paint, some paint polish and a good coat of wax and it looks as good as new. Should have taken a picture before I brought it in to work, but I'm pretty happy. (As a bonus, I also found a Shelby Cobra and a Z-28 I thought I had also lost)
Going to a soup and chili party tomorrow. Grabbed a Nawlins Creole Gumbo recipe off the interweb. I don't cook much, so this was going outside the box for me. found everything except the gumbo file powder at the local grocer, but was advised that it's not strictly necessary. Made my first roux. Made my first Gumbo. Just finished simmering and cooled down enough to have a sample. Dang, it came out pretty good! Now I'm afraid wife's going to make me cook more often.
Made reound trip to Florida for my first "fly" and drive. Awesome experience.
You got the recipe on hand? I'd love to try and make gumbo.
In reply to iceracer :
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/the-stopgap-gmt400-a-drivabeater-thread/136993/page1/
Was pretty much real time
CJ
New Reader
2/17/18 12:33 p.m.
KyAllroad (Jeremy) said:
In reply to CJ :
Master key. If you lose the key that opens all 5,000 doors it's a bit pricey to recore the system.
The mill had a guard at a gate. Not sure that I remember seeing a lock on anything. Likely a good thing, given who they were dealing with.