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Stauffbier
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I guess I did not know that. Interesting!It's a classic modernization of a book by Homer
Mine too!
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Good morning! HBT!
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Jeez you guys are up early! Or going to bed late.
Good Morning HBT.
Chorizo and eggs with partially homemade tortillas for breakfast. Hope to complete taxes today. Anyone else got the taxes done? Refund or pay? I'm expecting a refund.
Good Morning HBT.
Chorizo and eggs with partially homemade tortillas for breakfast. Hope to complete taxes today. Anyone else got the taxes done? Refund or pay? I'm expecting a refund.
Morning HBT!
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Varmintman
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After reading many of the posts about work I just had to say how happy I am now that I am out of that rat race. I think on average I worked 16 hours a day 6 days a week for years not knowing where the next job was or if i was going to draw a check or not while stroking one for the guys working for me. Add to that the employees stealing you blind at times or screwing up a bid on a job and losing your tail on it but finishing it the right way anyway. Dealing with engineers and home owners over silly crap that really did not matter. Driving a zillion miles a year and living in crap motels for months on end.
I kind of miss it now
I kind of miss it now
Well yea, sure, we'd all like to not work. Turns out my 3 college kids, spoiled wife, and mortgage lender are addicted to money.
After reading many of the posts about work I just had to say how happy I am now that I am out of that rat race. I think on average I worked 16 hours a day 6 days a week for years not knowing where the next job was or if i was going to draw a check or not while stroking one for the guys working for me. Add to that the employees stealing you blind at times or screwing up a bid on a job and losing your tail on it but finishing it the right way anyway. Dealing with engineers and home owners over silly crap that really did not matter. Driving a zillion miles a year and living in crap motels for months on end.
I kind of miss it now
Say hello to my little friend.....hops are breaking ground here
How I wish I saw that! A foot of of snow needs to melt first.
Supposed to warm up a bit this week,I've had enough winter.
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After reading many of the posts about work I just had to say how happy I am now that I am out of that rat race. I think on average I worked 16 hours a day 6 days a week for years not knowing where the next job was or if i was going to draw a check or not while stroking one for the guys working for me. Add to that the employees stealing you blind at times or screwing up a bid on a job and losing your tail on it but finishing it the right way anyway. Dealing with engineers and home owners over silly crap that really did not matter. Driving a zillion miles a year and living in crap motels for months on end.
I kind of miss it now
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Oops! Phone mistake. Ill try again
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Went to the Aisan market yesterday. I thought I'd try some cooked salted duck eggs.... Yeah, no. Got one out of the package and pealed. Then I smelled it and threw in the trash. My body was very firm that if I ate that, it was going to come right back out.
Refund. That would be nice. I haven't seen one of those in about 100 years. ZOMG, this year I'm gonna get fined, I'm sure.
I have this crazy love of The Association, Spanky and Our Gang, Fifth Dimension, Mamas and the Papas, etc. Not sure why, but that kind of happy carefree music puts me a a good place.
LeadGolem's head will explode. Sorry about that. Happy Sunday everyone.
LeadGolem's head will explode. Sorry about that. Happy Sunday everyone.
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Varmintman
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Oh heck I understand that I really do. I feel rather blessed to be in a point in my life where for the most part I do not have to worry about those things:rockin:
But the things I do worry about now in a kind of the same way are every bit as bad or perhaps a better way of saying it is bugging me. I worked hours on end every day of my life and now I am supposed to do what grow a garden or something? Let me tell you my whole life I spent trying to find time to do all the work and now I am trying to find work to fill all the time.
Sigh I know it is a stress of a different sort but in at least my life I think I would rather be working again. And to that end begins the current argument with my wife:fro: We are building a new shop and she wants to hire it done while I say BS I will build it. It will give me a couple of months of pleasure and keep me out of her hair during the days.
Which reminds me brother nothing is worse than being stuck in a house with your wife when you want to be out doing something. I am lucky my wife kind of understands that and does not begrudge me to much shop time. But dang man I want to go and do stuff. I want to build or brew or just rock out looking at the jeep I am building.
I digress and understand I need to get in touch with my inner gardener and realize that folks like me do not build race cars or stuff anymore but plant rows of peas and corn. I know my head says I am still young but my body well it may say a different thing hehe.
On a lighter note I put lipstick on the dog tonight and am thinking about shaving my head and beard for the summer. I am in trouble for the lipstick deal so I figure get the shaving bit while I am in trouble
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Sorry about the long post. I am not sorry about putting lipstick on the dog though and if I might have been a little bit faster I would have got the blue eyeliner on as well.
Sucks to be a dog around me now that I got all this time to kill now
Sucks to be a dog around me now that I got all this time to kill now
Dan,
Please don't take this the wrong way, but your phone posts add some amazing randomness (and entertainment) to thread.
Please don't take this the wrong way, but your phone posts add some amazing randomness (and entertainment) to thread.
May I ask what breed of dog ? As if it makes a difference.
So the boy is back at school and now I'm getting his beer texts. Stuff like, "Sitting at X Pizza and introduced my friends to Bourbon County Stout on tap. This is a really good beer!" I like hearing from him of course, but maybe I need to chat that this is coming close to bragging when his dad does not have it on tap anywhere close.
On a lighter note I put lipstick on the dog tonight and am thinking about shaving my head and beard for the summer. I am in trouble for the lipstick deal so I figure get the shaving bit while I am in trouble
And we are supposed to believe you without pictures?
Varmintman
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It was my buddies ****zu dog. The dog is white and I figured with blue eyeliner it would have been red white and blue. Sigh my wife was not in favor of that very much
CavemanDom
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To varmint and pawn, all I can say, is that with my financial obligations (sick wife, sick mom, and 2 mortgages) I would love to spend a few weeks doing 16 hour days 6 days per week. Last time I voluntarily took time off, was coming off of a job that ended with a 27 hour push to finish. After the OT check on that one, I started hoping to do that at least once a month.
Unfortunately, work for me is slim in the winter, and the only thing I could reliably do for 16 hours is watch my airlocks.
But I am still blessed in my own way. My wife loves me and appreciates what I do for her. My mom typically appreciates my efforts, and in doing so has extended me an interest free line of credit in exchange for everything I do for her. No kids yet, but perhaps someday soon I can get that started. That way retirement can happen the day "it" graduates college, and I can get started on the toy train layout I want to put in "its" bedroom.
And, another blessing, I have HBT.
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Unfortunately, work for me is slim in the winter, and the only thing I could reliably do for 16 hours is watch my airlocks.
But I am still blessed in my own way. My wife loves me and appreciates what I do for her. My mom typically appreciates my efforts, and in doing so has extended me an interest free line of credit in exchange for everything I do for her. No kids yet, but perhaps someday soon I can get that started. That way retirement can happen the day "it" graduates college, and I can get started on the toy train layout I want to put in "its" bedroom.
And, another blessing, I have HBT.
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Arghhh! I received an email from the AHA saying I missed my deadline to pay, but that the deadline had been extended to today. I found that the emails from the AHA are suddenly going to my "Promotions" box on gmail. They never have before. I tried to log in to pay today, in a panic, and it says the number of paid entries has been met and the registration is shut down. This is very frustrating. This was to be my first competition, and now I will be banned from competition next year as well. And I look like a deadbeat. (Although Banned from Competition does have a certain cachet...Bad Boy Brewer Banned for Two Years...maybe the women will swoon).
[Edit]: To their extreme credit, I sent the AHA an email (they are closed today for the holiday) and someone emailed back and they are looking into it. It may still be too late, but my hat's off to them. Also, I fully realize I should have checked my "promotions" and "spam" so my hands are not clean.
[Edit]: They report back that they have a glitch in the payment system, it should still be accepted. Again, I am amazed that they are following up and working to fix the issues on a day the BA is closed.
[Edit]: To their extreme credit, I sent the AHA an email (they are closed today for the holiday) and someone emailed back and they are looking into it. It may still be too late, but my hat's off to them. Also, I fully realize I should have checked my "promotions" and "spam" so my hands are not clean.
[Edit]: They report back that they have a glitch in the payment system, it should still be accepted. Again, I am amazed that they are following up and working to fix the issues on a day the BA is closed.
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Very happy everything worked out for you LRB! I think you were being a little hard on yourself, I suppose thats just your humbleness showing itself and its admirable in my book. Cheers and congrats my friend
Im at my daughter's place this weekend. Making some good memories for sure but the primary reason for the trip was to swap vehicles. When she went to college up here I let her use my late model chevy because its very reliable but it was also a temporary deal. Ive been driving my old 1997 jeep grand cherokee. Nearly 240,000, maybe more miles on the old girl. This weekend my daughter and I detailed the jeep. Amazing how well that old jeep cleans up. She has some electrical qwerks. Drivers side window doesnt work in the cold, every once in a while the the brake lights get stuck on and if you dont catch it will drain the battery overnight.
I explained all the little qwerks to my daughter. We parked it in her garage yesterday morning after the final detailing. Today the battery was dead! Wasnt the brake lights that caused it this time. One of us accidentally turned the dome lights while cleaning and didnt notice in the daylight
I bought a portable jump start pack today, 400 amps, hope its big enough cause im sure my daughter will need it some morning. I have some good heavy duty jumpers that are kept in the jeep as well.
Tomorrow I need to renew the AAA roadside assistance, it expired 4 days ago. Insurance covers those things but AAA is faster and their towing limits per year is higher
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Im at my daughter's place this weekend. Making some good memories for sure but the primary reason for the trip was to swap vehicles. When she went to college up here I let her use my late model chevy because its very reliable but it was also a temporary deal. Ive been driving my old 1997 jeep grand cherokee. Nearly 240,000, maybe more miles on the old girl. This weekend my daughter and I detailed the jeep. Amazing how well that old jeep cleans up. She has some electrical qwerks. Drivers side window doesnt work in the cold, every once in a while the the brake lights get stuck on and if you dont catch it will drain the battery overnight.
I explained all the little qwerks to my daughter. We parked it in her garage yesterday morning after the final detailing. Today the battery was dead! Wasnt the brake lights that caused it this time. One of us accidentally turned the dome lights while cleaning and didnt notice in the daylight
I bought a portable jump start pack today, 400 amps, hope its big enough cause im sure my daughter will need it some morning. I have some good heavy duty jumpers that are kept in the jeep as well.
Tomorrow I need to renew the AAA roadside assistance, it expired 4 days ago. Insurance covers those things but AAA is faster and their towing limits per year is higher
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Cheers HBT-ians!
I've posted something similar to this one before. It's a YouTube video from the Christmas of 1987 aboard the USS Midway. This one is a little bleached out, too much lighting I suppose. But overall it's okay. I was there!
I'm retired from the US Navy now, and will say there is nothing like the camaraderie and teamwork goodness I've ever had the pleasure, or privilege is a better word, then when I was serving my country with a whole bunch of great people.. I will never regret my career in the Navy. There are other things I do wish I did differently - The United States Navy is not one of them.
God bless the USA!
I've posted something similar to this one before. It's a YouTube video from the Christmas of 1987 aboard the USS Midway. This one is a little bleached out, too much lighting I suppose. But overall it's okay. I was there!
I'm retired from the US Navy now, and will say there is nothing like the camaraderie and teamwork goodness I've ever had the pleasure, or privilege is a better word, then when I was serving my country with a whole bunch of great people.. I will never regret my career in the Navy. There are other things I do wish I did differently - The United States Navy is not one of them.
God bless the USA!
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Stauffbier
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Lots of respect for you Dan!
I have a buddy that served on the Nimitz..
I have a buddy that served on the Nimitz..
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Mike, i can only speak for my experience in the Navy. But I'm quite certain no matter the military chosen, there are many commonalities. Sense of pride, camaraderie, job satisfaction. It's better than being on a big sports team.. actually I wouldn't have any idea about that.
But it is being part of a great team. Everybody gets trained well, you live real close to each other, your "teammates" become family. Each day you work and live together for a common goal. Times aren't always the best but you get through them together.
EDIT: Cheers to my brothers and sisters who serve, who have served and to your family's
But it is being part of a great team. Everybody gets trained well, you live real close to each other, your "teammates" become family. Each day you work and live together for a common goal. Times aren't always the best but you get through them together.
EDIT: Cheers to my brothers and sisters who serve, who have served and to your family's
