The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Thank you. Ah yes, I’ll be back to less indulgent nourishment myself , now that the last of the pumpkin pie is gone!

 

[Dland]

May have an opportunity to buy a very used Cat TH-63 for relatively low $. I think it would be handy around the yard, my gal thinks I'm nuts. We are probably both right. Still pondering this one.

Thought someone should post something before PTN writes, "what's up (rhymes with witches)", which I find distasteful, even for this sordid thread.

 

[day_trippr]

I would love one of these, if only to make painting the house easier...

Cheers! (That'd be bitchin' )

 

[Dland]

If only it looked that nice, enclosed cab option would be nice too, but alas. This one is pretty rough, probably should replace hydraulic lines and tires for safest operation, plus it needs some other stuff like dashboard and mirrors. And we are into $ 5 didgets w just initial expenditure..

And of course since in live in our lovely state, would need to update my hydraulic operators license w a lift endorsement if I want to use off property without major liability exposure...

But yeah, talked to the owner today, gonna check it out this weekend.

 

[balrog]

make painting the house easier...

That's pretty impressive dexterity on the hydraulic controls if yer talking about duct taping paint brushes to the forks to paint the house...

 

[paulthenurse]

S'up, rhymes with witches?

If you buy that machine can we come over and play with it? Nothing serious, don't want to do any actual work, more like just peeling donuts on Alan Dershowitz's lawn.

Made a bit-o-prog on da barn since we last chatted. Next up, floor & door. Got the cast iron wheels for the sliding door hardware

yesterday. Could use that schweet machining to level the dirt inside and move the 8 yards of crushed stone for the base floor that is coming.

 

[day_trippr]

Very nice
When is First Fire happening?

 

[paulthenurse]

I've already fired up the propane forge out there and will be using it again to make the hardware for the sliding barn doors. (I wimped out and bought the vtrack wheels online).

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

What batch size of pseudoephedrine does that thing make?

 

[day_trippr]

^hah^
Looks like plenty of room for brewing next Masstoberfest!

 

[paulthenurse]

Maybe I should retire and channel my inner Walter White.

 

[Dland]

And me,...maybe Marvin Hemyer?

 

[paulthenurse]

And me,...maybe Marvin Hemyer?

Every town needs its own guy who's gonna inspire Steven King's next upchuck. They keep things interesting.

 

[paulthenurse]

Confucius says " A journey of a thousand blind squirrels begins with a nut."

 

[balrog]

Very Nice!

Time to start selling advert space.

 

[Dland]

Confucius says " A journey of a thousand blind squirrels begins with a nut."

And a critter is bound to do what they're inclined to do...

 

[paulthenurse]

And Dland for the win. Just drop the mike and walk away.

 

[day_trippr]

So "the weather outside is frightful" and tbh I am surprised our electric service has not dropped yet. Maybe the cement storm we had a few weeks ago and the ice storm we had this week broke the stuff that would have come down today. Fingers crossed.

Ironically my freakin' UPS picked today to do a totally out-of-nowhere power shutdown on its own (wth?!) but it did come back on with a power button press. Weird. Hopefully not an omen. I could do without drama...

Cheers! (and stay warm out there! )

 

[day_trippr]

Aaaand just like that, the entire Hudson Light and Power system (of which Stow is half of) has to come down at 3 AM to get this hunk of tree off the incoming high line that runs the entire system. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeyit!

 

[balrog]

Throw a rock at it, maybe two. That'll bring it down.

 

[Melana]

I went to the rink to watch my teenager do amazing things on the ice and the rink felt warm.

 

[day_trippr]

I confess it took me a minute to get ^that^ as the "wind" part here has caught more attention than the "cold" part...so far.
Tomorrow after a ridiculous overnight low that cold will have sunk in a bit, but then the temps will turn downright balmy Sunday. Totally New England

 

[paulthenurse]

Aaaand just like that, the entire Hudson Light and Power system (of which Stow is half of) has to come down at 3 AM to get this hunk of tree off the incoming high line that runs the entire system. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeyit!

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I hate it when that happens.

 

[balrog]

Only made it down to -6 and the wind died down overnight. We don't allow too much nonsense here in Wilberville; the town council would never vote for such a thing.

 

[day_trippr]

It got down to -10 here, currently -6. Wind is substantially reduced from yesterday's craziness. Pond was flash-frozen.
Power shutdown apparently was uneventful and brief...

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I’ll send my balmy 18F to you. At least I can stop dripping the faucets.

 

[balrog]

When the temp dropped to single digits heading to -9, I had to take the precedented step of moving kegs out of the basement hatchway. I'm sure I should insulate that space but it works great most of the winter, and someone takes over my chest freezer to use it as (gasp) a chest freezer for "the holidays". The hardest part about the weather was deciding it was just too cold to want to go to the garage and brew. I need a patented Blast-Furnace-Heated-Shed-And-Timber-Frame-Emporium I guess.

 

[paulthenurse]

Everybody should have one.

 

[day_trippr]

Hope everyone had a chance to get outside today. Freakishly wonderful weather any time, never mind mid February

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

Yeeeees

 

[balrog]

Time to test the snowblower for the April snow.

 

[homebeerbrewer]

I'm gonna keep my snowblower gassed up and ready until after the June Blizzard.

 

[day_trippr]

Ugh. Bags of wet cement are falling from the sky and sticking to everything out here in the boonies.
No bueno. I see power outages in our future

 

[balrog]

Ugh. Bags of wet cement are falling from the sky and sticking to everything out here in the boonies.
No bueno. I see power outages in our future

Dusting and freezing rain here, how'd the bags of wet cement treat you?

 

[day_trippr]

Ugh. Everything was coated in 2-3 inches of frozen slushy stuff. Durango is solidly encased, I'd have to destroy it to get inside so didn't even try. Flogged the snowblower to chisel out the driveway and walkways and mailbox, then did my adjacent neighbors' driveway ends and mailboxes (score some points with their wives

Never lost power so that's a plus. Gonna make myself a hot buttered rum and chill the rest of the day

 

[balrog]

Yer basic post-physical-therapy, pre-snowpocolypse-snowgasm Mexican Lager beer.

Yes, I've tested the snowblower.

Hope all you and yours are ready for Monday/Tuesday and hope it's another weatherman oversell and undersnow. And I doubt "undersnow" will become a big internet image search term. And if it does, then I'm really getting too old.

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

Looks like its tracking north ...

 

[balrog]

Should be 4-6 out in the hinterlands of eastern mass according to NOAA

Boston/Norton, MA Weather Forecast Office Winter Weather Forecasts

 

[day_trippr]

Hmm, I'm a few miles inside the eastern edge of the 6-8" band.
If the overnight temperatures drop into the 20s it shouldn't be too bad a cleanup.
[edit] Channel 5 forecast says snow changing to something wet. Ugh...

 

[Dland]

The weather is here, wish you were weird...as they say.