The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[TheDudeLebowski]

My brother camps out on the dunes to surf fish but it's all closed this year for the pipers. The whole coast is hot right now for stripers

 

[day_trippr]

Got packed up and beat feet this morning ending our week on the Cape just in time to avoid major incoming rain (and an angry looking storm at that). Best Family Week ever!

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

You may get home in time for the fifth wave of rain.

Edit: although it appears to be over, over here. For now.

 

[day_trippr]

Yup, the back edge of a big yellow and orange cell was still raining hard on our driveway when we pulled it. Quickly put the prop-up pole inside the boat cover to make it into a Sunbrella Teepee to keep the rain from pooling then went inside to wait it out. An hour later the sky was blue and the cover was already drying out...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

And now that Sumner Tunnel's closed....

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

How did closing down a tunnel improve the time!!?!

 

[day_trippr]

Bunch of choppers flying around here the last hour caught my attention, checked the news feed and apparently a Cessna with 3 people on board went down in the woods about a quarter mile from us, beyond the southwest end of the main runway at Minuteman airport. Don't know if they were landing, taking off, or what, but all three of them got airlifted to hospitals, status not given yet. Woof...

[edit] All three are in UMass Worcester hospital, all expected to survive. Still not clear if this was a botched take-off or landing, but I suspect "failure to fly", so a take-off issue...

[edit] Nailed it...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/07...s-after-plane-crashes-between-two-homes-stow/

 

[balrog]

Better cover up yer Duck Pond SAM battery!

 

[paulthenurse]

Hey guy, long time. I've been remiss in checking in here, I've been juggling like crazy after the practice I worked for closed abruptly. Abruptly as in, "The affiliation partnership agreement fell through, we're closing at the end of the day."
Got a new gig immediately but trying to recreate all of my people's records has been a time consuming challenge (which explains being up at 4:30)

Things should be back to 'normal' soon, so I can have a life again. So to that end, who wants a beer?

 

[balrog]

Glad you found something so quickly!

 

[day_trippr]

Here we go again....

 

[balrog]

It’s pretty nasty, this one. Lotta wind (65mph gusts). First strike passed me and second one looks to be teeing up just south of me.

 

[day_trippr]

WCVB was voicing "overnight power outages" for the Greater Woostah Area.
It's raining steadily here now but I'm hoping we're north of the orange stuff...

 

[Dland]

Please can I have a storm here tonight. I feel left out and dry (except for the beer). Some really old guys around here (who are no doubt dead by now)(due to age), told stories about how the really good rain and lightning storms happened a lot less frequently since they dug that Cape Cod Canal.

Makes sense from an induction standpoint, seems to me anyway. ;]

https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/standard/KBOX_loop.gif

 

[day_trippr]

We've been enjoying yet another afternoon/evening of weather rock and roll. Had some biblical level rain for almost an hour from 5 to 6 from that band in your gif. It's chilled out here since then - literally dropped from 90° down to 70°F now. I suspect it's gonna miss you to the north...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Weather woes abound… could use a little more rain here, but at least we’ve been getting enough to revive the green stuff that gets mowed. My hops are doing okay so far as well. I’m back to attending the convention in Marlborough and will plan to get away a little to check out a couple breweries or revisit some I’ve been to in the past. Anyone have an opinion about flying dreams? Is Tackle box the same people that had strange brew?

 

[day_trippr]

The Tackle Box is indeed in the last location that Strange Brew occupied, but the guy that got the pub up and running is not Brian. Not sure what Brian's been doing since he closed down the store, haven't been over there in a couple of years now.

As for Flying Dreams I need to check that place out. They have an eclectic looking beer list...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Thanks for the info about tackle box, that wasn’t exactly clear on their website. I’m stopping in RI on the way up to visit a friend and contemplating a stop @ the Jack’s Abbey beer hall. Sure I could just pick some up at a packy but it’s not the same!

 

[balrog]

Thanks for the info about tackle box, that wasn’t exactly clear on their website. I’m stopping in RI on the way up to visit a friend and contemplating a stop @ the Jack’s Abbey beer hall. Sure I could just pick some up at a packy but it’s not the same!

They also often have things you cannot find at the packy.

 

[day_trippr]

The Tackle Box story certainly had a sad start. Brian had decided he needed to become a brew pub because the retail store revenue was plummeting along with the home brewing population. But the town of Marlboro was against the idea and dragged Brian for a good two years, stalling on issuing permits and putting up all kinds of requirements that cost a lot of time and money to implement, before he was able to finally open his brewery space. He had a couple of beers on tap to start and eventually iirc he had 6 or so taps running.

Along the way Brian had decided to lease out the space that became The Tackle Box to another brewer (that would be Adam) which made for a curious paradigm. Adam put a lot of time and $$ into his space going through the same hoops as Brian had to get permits, etc. But at some point I believe Brian had to close down as the financials were not working, which put Adam in a pickle as the building he was in was about to lose its tenant. I suspect lawyers got involved the rest of the way...

Cheers!

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

I did have some beers at Strange brew, as long as the beer is good I’m good to go. It is just a horrible the hoops some places make brewers go through. There’s one township near me that has become notorious adding on to what the state and feds require. One of our HBC members has been working on opening for 3 years now. He’s likely made some mistakes along the way, but now the town wants him to pave a dead end St! Dude finally got a lawyer.

 

[day_trippr]

The bitch of it was the State won't even start doing their part until the Feds have given their approval, and the Feds won't approve anything until the Town has its say. And it sure seemed to me that Marlboro was determined to slow-walk everything in the hope it would go away...

Cheers!

 

[paulthenurse]

The last few days almost make up for the previous couple of sweat filled week.


Almost done for the week, I need a beer. Think I may try to do the first brew in the barn this weekend. Hope I remember how.

 

[day_trippr]

They have been glorious, actually. We've been trying to spend as much time outside as possible to enjoy it. Took a nice drive up to our place in Franconia NH yesterday, came back this morning and met up with our oldest, his family, his in-laws, and a SIL and her husband, at Davio's steakhouse down town for a swell lunch and a walk around the Public Garden.

Friday afternoon they are all heading up to the NH house for the weekend, hence our "get the place ready" trip yesterday. At some point Friday it's gonna rain like heck but the rest of the weekend looks great...

Cheers!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Thanks for the info about tackle box, that wasn’t exactly clear on their website. I’m stopping in RI on the way up to visit a friend and contemplating a stop @ the Jack’s Abbey beer hall. Sure I could just pick some up at a packy but it’s not the same!

I pinged a buddy that lives in the same town as Jack Abbey. They just re did their taproom. It was good before and he said they did a good job on the remodel. They use to have a separate "Funk" area beers called Springdale and taproom. They stopped that offshoot sadly. There's also Exhibit A just down the street.

 

[day_trippr]

eeep!

 

[day_trippr]

No twisters but it has been raining elephants and rhinos here all day. Am visiting ortho surgeon at MGH and we had to wade most of the way into Boston...

 

[balrog]

had to wade most of the way into Boston..

I thought that was typical.

 

[Dland]

You inlanders seem to get all the best storms, and certainly lots more rain. I suppose if we get clocked by a Cat 1 to 3 storm, or one of those winter maritime blizzards we sometimes get, it might make up for the difference, but alas, they are far and few between.

 

[balrog]

You inlanders seem to get all the best storms, and certainly lots more rain. I suppose if we get clocked by a Cat 1 to 3 storm, or one of those winter maritime blizzards we sometimes get, it might make up for the difference, but alas, they are far and few between.

Looks like rain out there now...