What I did today -instead- of Rocketry.

[Cape Byron]

Rumbled with the dog. She's 11 years old, Border Collie/Kelpie and plays hard for an old girl. She grabbed my jeans leg and dragged me down a grassy bank and over a few rocks. Long story short, I lay in bed last night full of Codeine trying to get the pain in my back to settle.

Match results:

Geriatric dog - 1 Skippy - 0

 

[neil_w]

Rumbled with the dog. She's 11 years old, Border Collie/Kelpie and plays hard for an old girl. She grabbed my jeans leg and dragged me down a grassy bank and over a few rocks. Long story short, I lay in bed last night full of Codeine trying to get the pain in my back to settle.

Match results:

Geriatric dog - 1 Skippy - 0

Man, in Australia *everything* is trying to kill you, even your pets.

 

[Mugs914]

This was last week, but I went out to a boat we're working on and there was something missing in the engine room.

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That's the oil pan for a 1500-HP V12 Caterpillar engine. The gearbox (single reduction ratio with forward, neutral, and reverse) is in the background, and the propeller shaft is out of view on the other side of that. I assume the rest of the engine is out at the shop for overhaul. I haven't seen Caterpillars done like that, but there's a first time for everything. On a different boat years ago, there was an oil pan with a top end floating above it and empty space in between except for 4 spindly little rods holding up the top end. The 16 or so cylinders were all taken out for maintenance.

In case you were wondering, an oil change will set you back 162 gallons for the engine pictured.

What sort of boat is that?

 

[boatgeek]

What sort of boat is that?

It’s a trawler/crabber/tender. It catches pollock and king crab in the Bering Sea in the fall and winter and takes salmon from the boats that catch it to the processing plants in the summer.

 

[Charles_McG]

I decided I wanted to see what a consumer grade bent-tube densiometer could do enough to shell out the bucks.

One Anton Paar EasyDens on the way

 

[jqavins]

Specs look decent, to someone with a very little experience home brewing. I guess they look OK to a pro, or you wouldn't bother. Actually, the mere fact that is has published detailed specs at all is a little impressive for a consumer product.

 

[Charles_McG]

The specs do look reasonable. And Paar has a long reputation in the instrument trade.

The TTB relaxed labeling requirements for distilled spirits this year - +/- 0.3% (0.6 proof). That's twice what it was. I want to see how the easydens does on spirits. The professional version does another decimal point in the spec. but is 2 decimals more expensive.

 

[Hobie1dog]

stuck in the bed again with very little energy to get up and eat. I'm so tired of being tired, lol

 

[kuririn]

Made furikake and panko crusted mahi mahi for dinner.
Then ate some cake:

Burp.

 

[Lugnut56]

(1) Picked up dog from vet---went in for tooth cleaning--left with bill for removal of several teeth (over $500)--but she is cute (she's looking at me right now with goo-goo eyes)
(2) Several communications with HR dept over CDL annual exam bill from 5 months ago--location that performed the exam says bill was paid, but HR dept says bill was not paid.
(3) Working with Amazon to find out why my "Super Big Bertha" was lost on my recent order.
(4) Reminded myself that even with all his BS going on, I'm still not doing bad--got clean drinking and hot water close by, food is readily available and I have a warm bed to sleep in tonight.

 

[Funkworks]

And all the conditions are right for me to bike to work everyday so that’s why I do.

One type of accident that can happen is when a car turns right into a driveway without his signal light. The cyclist then slams into the passenger-side fender, flies over the hood, and lands on his face.

Years ago, that happened to a guy I know. Titanium allowed him to smile again only a few weeks later.

So last week, when a car next to me slowed down while a driveway was coming up, I thought “No signal light? Let’s slow down anyway, the world is full of idiots”.

He cut me off, I slammed the brakes, dropped the bike, stayed on my feet, walked up to him, and asked him if he was alright.

 

[PatD]

And all the conditions are right for me to bike to work everyday so that’s why I do.

One type of accident that can happen is when a car turns right into a driveway without his signal light. The cyclist then slams into the passenger-side fender, flies over the hood, and lands on his face.

Years ago, that happened to a guy I know. Titanium allowed him to smile again only a few weeks later.

So last week, when a car next to me slowed down while a driveway was coming up, I thought “No signal light? Let’s slow down anyway, the world is full of idiots”.

He cut me off, I slammed the brakes, dropped the bike, stayed on my feet, walked up to him, and asked him if he was alright.

Gotta watch out for left turners in front of you too. Riding a mid sized motorcycle had a guy going the other way turn left in front of me. Might have missed him but he stopped so he wouldn't drag his car going into a restaurant parking lot. Tried to dump it but didn't have time. Landed on my head on the other side and the bike landed next to me. Last time I rode a bike without a brain bucket.

 

[ewomack]

Read parts of Book 1 of Epictetus' Discourses, the famous Stoic lecture manual. Watched 2 episodes of "Classic Time Team" with Tony Robinson. Kept up with French lessons on Duolingo. Picked up dinner curbside from a fabulous local restaurant (they had vanilla matcha shakes today, which make life worth living) and slept far more than usual. Apparently a wave of fatigue has spread over the land. I can't imagine why.

 

[neil_w]

Helped my Dad assemble a workbench for his new house.

 

[heada]

Yesterday I used the leaf blower and vaccum attachment to bag up 5x 55gal bags of shreaded leaves. Took about 3 hours to do and I'm sore today. I got up this morning and the rest of the leaves had dropped from the tree. Can't tell I did anything yesterday. Only good news is I can't really do anything with these for a few days since it rained today.

 

[boatgeek]

Finished gluing up the second canoe paddle I’ve been working on this summer/fall. I’ll give that a couple of days to set up and then start sanding and planing. Material removal either one dust particle or a 0.005” shaving at a stroke.

 

[mbeels]

Material removal either one dust particle or a 0.005” shaving at a stroke.

That sounds like that'll take a while, I hope you're not carving it out of a solid block of wood?

 

[Hobie1dog]

Went to visit a guy with my best friend who drove 7 hours to come down to see me, and we spent about 3 hours hanging out at the guys house who restores/repairs reel-to-reel tape machines for a living. He had over 80 of them, we had great conversations. Tomorrow going to take my friend to another guys house who has a 250 K dollar stereo system.

 

[boatgeek]

That sounds like that'll take a while, I hope you're not carving it out of a solid block of wood?

I was a little overdramatic. I started with a glued up maple shaft that was about 1.5" x 1.25" and a couple of 1" thick spruce boards. I took the shaft down to 1x1 with the plane, and glued everything up, including a couple of veneer strips to dress up the joint between the maple and the spruce. I cut the blank out to shape with a power saw, and I'll do a lot of the sanding on the T handle (which is what I finished gluing yesterday) with a power sander. All of the work tapering the blade and rounding the shaft will be by hand plane or spokeshave though.

 

[Hobie1dog]

my best friend and I went down to Greenville North Carolina and listened to the $300,000 stereo system that a friend of mine has. His speakers sold for $79,000 and sounded like they were worth every penny.

 

[jqavins]

One has to be, as you are, a real hi-fi nut for the speakers to be worth that. For most of use there is simply no such thing as a set of speakers worth $79,000. Even if we can hear the difference between them and the $790 ones, no three speakers are worth three cars. (OK, it may well be more than two speakers, but it sounded batter that way.)

To each his/er own.

 

[Bamraam]

Installed lighting on my F350. Headlights, brake lights, backup and turn signals.

 

[Hobie1dog]

watched my friend load up all the stuff I gave him to take back home with him to Ky this morning. spent another 8 hours in bed on a heating pad trying to kill some of the back pain that is beginning to control my life.

 

[KC3KNM]

We got our shrink fit machine setup. The rigidity of the shrink fit holders is awesome, and run-out is a non issue.

 

[JamesS]

Finally getting around to bottling the wine (30 gal) and hard cider (15 gal) I made this past summer. I think home brewers/winemakers spend 75% of their time cleaning and sanitizing, either that or I'm doing it wrong?

 

[Cape Byron]

Fencing. Yesterday was... fencing. Tomorrow will not be fencing.

 

[Hobie1dog]

my son and wife installed some Mirage nanostat speakers on top of my projection screen for front presence speakers and ran the wires over to the receiver, so now I have 9 channels of audio after many years. We went out to eat steak for our 42nd Anniversary.

 

[jqavins]

We went out to eat steak for our 42nd Anniversary.

I'm glad you were up to that. It seems like it took some good star alignment. Happy anniversary, one needs things to celebrate.

 

[teepot]

Went to the grocery store. Toilet paper isle was empty. Here we go again. Rumer has it the Governor is going to shut Nevada down again.

 

[Wayco]

Yesterday, I picked up some groceries for my 94 year old mother, then delivered them to her. After that I set up job files for Sharon, my boss and loving wife....