I like this time at night on HBT

[sfgoat]

Still at work right now. Waiting for some data to finish processing. Can't wait to get home for a beer and bed.

 

[passedpawn]

Long day of work today. Super long week of work. My bro and I are busting our butts trying to get everything done that comes our way. It has been a very slow spring until the last few weeks. It is relieving to finally get some invoices out there.

I had my first arc flash experience today. I pinched a wire on only a 15A breaker against the panel and it arced bad. I hit the floor. Half my right hand was black (no burns) and my right eye caught a hell of a flash. The eye still doesn't feel quite right. If the guy that terminated that panel was there, I would have punched him right in the mouth. I recovered after a few minutes and proceeded to clean the panel up. I just cannot believe the mess some people make of electrical panels. I actually tried to kill the panel (I will trust my intuition next time) before I started working on it but it was not convenient.

What the hell, I'll throw in a song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IhwpNTUGkAU

I liked that song.

Hopefully your invoices turn into checks quickly. I play the same game.

Just put a brisket on the smoker.

 

[lschiavo]

I liked that song.

Hopefully your invoices turn into checks quickly. I play the same game.

Just put a brisket on the smoker.

I really like Seven Mary Three. I only have two of their eight albums. I can vouch for American Standard and RockCrown.

I have been offering a small discount on invoices paid within 10 days. It usually works and really helps cash flow when we actually have work

My smoker is rusty and neglected. I do have a pork butt in the freezer from last years half. I only smoked a brisket once and it was OK. I will try again but it is a bit of an investment and you have to get some folks together. Best thing I ever smoked so far was a venison neck roast.

 

[Chadwick]

I performed once with Seven Mary Three. All of the guys were pretty open and warm. The singer is a recluse though. He just prefers to not be around people. I get that. The guy that was our vocalist was the same way sometimes. He had nights he would be Mr. Personality. Other nights he would only come out once the lights came on and then quickly retreat without wanting to see/talk to anyone. Was he some kind of butt hole because he was like that? No. I understand it. Sometimes you just want to get it over with. You can't feel like a rock star all of the time when you are only another guy.

Seven Mary Three is cool. And so is everyone in that band. They are really just everyday people like the rest of us.

Chadwick - Retired rock star turned super dad and educator

 

[lschiavo]

I performed once with Seven Mary Three. All of the guys were pretty open and warm. The singer is a recluse though. He just prefers to not be around people. I get that. The guy that was our vocalist was the same way sometimes. He had nights he would be Mr. Personality. Other nights he would only come out once the lights came on and then quickly retreat without wanting to see/talk to anyone. Was he some kind of butt hole because he was like that? No. I understand it. Sometimes you just want to get it over with. You can't feel like a rock star all of the time when you are only another guy.

Seven Mary Three is cool. And so is everyone in that band. They are really just everyday people like the rest of us.

Chadwick - Retired rock star turned super dad and educator

I have envy. Performing with 7M3 is pretty awesome. You must be a good musician.

Me and my buds did the band thing for many years. The only good vocalist we had was just like you describe. I have often thought that it takes that kind of personality to get a deep song (lyrically anyways).

I like your take on fame. I have always felt the same way. I respect talent but know that talented people are still just people.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

I should be tired, but my body hasn't adjusted yet, as I spent the last week in Taiwan. So it's #homebrew Belgian Patersbier, sharpening my knives, and now a Padron for me...

 

[bob1852]

In all my trips to Hong Kong, the jet lag was always worse coming back. I'd stay up nearly 24 hours straight before the flight there and would sleep most of the way over (the way they coddle you on Cathay Pacific certainly helped). Coming back always sucked for a few days.

But, I've no real excuse for being awake right now. Think I'll have another beer and call it a night.

 

[betarhoalphadelta]

In all my trips to Hong Kong, the jet lag was always worse coming back. I'd stay up nearly 24 hours straight before the flight there and would sleep most of the way over (the way they coddle you on Cathay Pacific certainly helped). Coming back always sucked for a few days.

But, I've no real excuse for being awake right now. Think I'll have another beer and call it a night.

I made the mistake of sleeping a few hours on the way back. Flight left at midnight Taiwan time, and landed the same day at 9 PM California time. If I'd stayed awake and powered through I'd be fine. Just crash hard when I arrive. But instead I found myself unable to sleep once I landed.

I'm going to be going to Asia a lot more often now, so I need to figure out my routine to handle it...

 

[CGVT]

Glad you're OK, Ischaivo.

A tune for a Sunday morning

http://youtu.be/3JWiPFT0v2c

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Sounds like a close call lschiavo. Glad you made it. I've had a couple near accidents doing my own wiring here at home. I knicked the insulation running a 20 amp breaker line as I pulled it into the box. Luckily, I had the main breaker off and wasn't touching the box when I flipped the main. It flashed, made a hell of a bang and scared the crap out of me. Took me a few minutes to muster up the courage to investigate and fix it. One other time, I was doing some work in the box and touched the side of one of my fingers to the main wire coming in the house (whoever installed it over stripped it). Didn't even know for a few seconds. I noticed my finger tingling slightly, looked up and about shat myself. I'm still not sure why I didn't get fried. Dangerous work. I have a lot of respect for electricians.

As for those of you that are traveling, I feel your pain. It's much easier to adjust going west than it is coming back east.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Yikes Ischiavo. I once got knocked off a latter and had a ceiling fan fall onto my 3 yo son while installing a fan. I wrongly thought id turned off all the power. Now I only play with 12v dc power in my camper van and even that scares me.

 

[LabRatBrewer]

I should be working, but the garden had peppers that needed picked, and tomatoes, and onions, and cilantro....so now the "pilot brewery" is also a water bath cannery.

 

[ChefRex]

I should be working, but the garden had peppers that needed picked, and tomatoes, and onions, and cilantro....so now the "pilot brewery" is also a water bath cannery.

Jealous, I have lots of flower but far from harvesting any

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Are these our yeasty friends or do I need to learn to focus a microscope? (Cell phone pic through one lens of binocular scope). Yeast in glycerol solution.

 

[Chadwick]

The north west side of square 7-4 looks like something to keep an eye on.

 

[bob1852]

I made the mistake of sleeping a few hours on the way back. Flight left at midnight Taiwan time, and landed the same day at 9 PM California time. If I'd stayed awake and powered through I'd be fine. Just crash hard when I arrive. But instead I found myself unable to sleep once I landed.

I'm going to be going to Asia a lot more often now, so I need to figure out my routine to handle it...

I always found I needed to build in a free day on the back end. Getting home before or about the same time you left after a ~13 hour flight never made work very fun the next day.

Are these our yeasty friends or do I need to learn to focus a microscope? (Cell phone pic through one lens of binocular scope). Yeast in glycerol solution.

Very cool!

 

[DrunkleJon]

In all my trips to Hong Kong, the jet lag was always worse coming back. I'd stay up nearly 24 hours straight before the flight there and would sleep most of the way over (the way they coddle you on Cathay Pacific certainly helped). Coming back always sucked for a few days.

But, I've no real excuse for being awake right now. Think I'll have another beer and call it a night.

I have read that food works better than sleep when it comes to defeating jet lag. Supposedly if you do a fast before travelling for about 10 hours then eat a meal at the time that you would be waking up at your destination it helps reset your internal clock better than the whole napping thing. Hydration (water, not beer. Sorry) is said to help as well.

 

[Dan]

Hey everybody,

Sounds like interesting days around here. First off, Ischiavo I'm glad you're ok, and secondly I have a new respect for both you and Stauffbier!

I've been putting off laying down a floating floor in one of the bedrooms here. It's pretty simple work really but I just kept procrastinating. Yesterday afternoon after much griping from my wife and to keep peace I installed the flooring. Just a small bedroom, no fancy cuts aside from the closet's. Took me around 6-7 hours from removing the furniture, cutting and laying the floor, clean-up and furniture back in. Man was I beat! My lower back hurt from bending over, my body, eyes, nose, and throat were itchy from the fine wood(?) dust. Stauff, or Ischiavo, probably would have single handedly completed the job before their first morning coffee break.. not me. Took the better part of the afternoon and early evening and I"m actually bragging about that. haha

My sympathy to those of you who have to fly long hours and cross multiple time zones. I've flown way to much over the years and have come to despise stepping onto a plane. My best advice is get an aisle seat, drink water only, eat, try to sleep when they turn out the lights, when restless spend a lot of time in the galley talking to the flight attendants.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

This song reminds me of traveling. I've listened to it many times in flight.

 

[HefeHood]

^^^^^^Awesome Band, Great Song. Would have loved to see a show. ^^^^^^^

 

[Chadwick]

I got my baby back. I learned to play guitar on this old thing. Sold it 20 years ago and have been sick over it for 20 years. I was given an opportunity to buy it back and I did. Just got it back today from the guitar doctor where it received it's 4th refret job. This is a 1975 Les Paul Deluxe. The rear cavity was already routed out for a humbucker when I bought is back when I was 16 years old. The pickup that was in the bridge position was replaced for a Raw Vintage model 5760 as part of the work I had done to it. The neck is perfect and as fast as lightning on a gold plated rooftop. This is the guitar I used when I first started earning money as a musician. I sold it to a good friend when I was 21 who promised me he would offer to sell it back to me first if he ever decided to part with it. I never thought the day would ever come. But it did. And here it is.

I'm giddy as a kid in a candy shop. Just look at it!

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Congrats Chadwick, I just graded 42 legal writing memos and my eyes are shot. Nonetheless, I can see that is a cool guitar!

 

[Dan]

Congrats from me as well Chadwick. Happy to hear you have your old friend back, she's a beauty.

 

[BBL_Brewer]

There's nothing like a good instrument. I'm surprised you parted with it to begin with. Must have had a good reason. If I had the slightest idea what to do with that thing, I might be jealous.

 

[bberg]

Congrats dude! Wish i knew how to play an instrument. Must feel good!!

 

[Dan]

It is said clichés should be avoided in writing. I hope writing on a forum doesn't count.

There's nothing certain except death and taxes. If talking clichés, that old one should be: There's nothing certain except death, taxes, and insurance payments.

Sure you can skip out on taxes but will eventually pay the price, you can skip out on insurance and if all goes well and life is good you never need it.. But who wouldn't take out "insurance" to ensure life's potential disasters do not overwhelm us financially. I'm not sure if insurance qualifies as a catch 22 or not, but sure seems close to it.

I just got off the phone with my auto and home insurance company. Man, what a lot of money spent each month and over a lifetime astronomical. But I'm not going to stop paying. I have used the auto policy once and home owner's once... neither of the amounts the insurance company paid add up to a (EDIT) 1/6th strike out tenth of what I've paid them over the years. But who the heck is going to chance not having coverage? So, like death and taxes, insurance seems to fall into the same category. I'm only giving one of these to keep from giving one of

 

[passedpawn]

Yea, I hate paying for insurance too.

 

[CGVT]

I really didn't mind too much when it seemed to be reasonable, but since Ivan and Katrina they have instituted a new coverage in Alabama. Wind coverage. It is mandatory in certain areas if you want to finance your home and is prohibitively expensive. To make it affordable I have to have a 5% of the replacement cost of my home for a deductible. On my home that is over 13K. 13 freaking thousand dollar deductible. If I had to
replace my roof because of wind damage, my deductible would be enough to pay for it. I wouldn't even bother to file a claim.
My house would have to suffer very very substantial damage to make it past my deductible.

Wind coverage in Alabama is a license to steal.

Bastards

 

[BBL_Brewer]

I always dread the fall. My vehicle insurance is in Sept., my homeowners in Oct. (that one hurts), and my property taxes in Nov. Throw in Christmas and I might as well forget about having money for a while. Oh well, who needs money when you've got plenty of grain and hops

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Oh yeah, I forgot all about what I was going to say. I had to defrost my beer frige. I thought my beer was getting a tad warmer than it usually is and wasn't carbonating as well either. So I checked the little duct where cold air comes in from the freezer side (side by side frige) and it was full of ice. Opened the freezer and holy buckets. There was a mountain of ice in there. No air has been making it's way through there for quite some time. I'm not even sure how the frige side stayed as cold as it did. I'm glad I discovered it when I did because the ice was just about to consume the circulation fan. I chiseled 3 buckets worth of ice out of there and then had to thaw the hard to reach places with a little electric heater. I'll be checking that periodically from now on.

My stout is mellowing out ok. Still has a bit of that weird flavor, but after the first few sips it kind of disappears. Looking forward to an all cascade pale ale with orange zest that I'll be brewing in about a week. I planned this brew up last summer but never got around to it.