fivepointslow
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Instead of brewing im recruiting....
...and SWMBO washed my back.
Spent 6 hours rototilling about 450 square feet of my yard to make a new garden. The grass roots were incredibly thick and did not cut easily. I did not finish the job as there is about 2 hours of work left to do in the morning. But the sauna was ready and so I stopped.
Went to sauna and I was already feeling like I had my ass kicked about 15 times by that rototiller. Then I bit into a cheese sausage that was cooking over the wood stove and it shot hot cheese onto the area between my nostrils and I got a huge blister there. Then I tried to take the sausage pan down with the fire poker and it fell off, then I ended up burning my hands in two places. I also got my mouth burned from eating that hot sausage.
In between rounds in the sauna, I went to the shower and when I was washing my ass I felt a hard bump there so I scraped it off. It hurt pretty bad and guess what I found? A tick had buried itself into my ass. I put it on top of my washing machine because I thought it was dead, but after a while it started moving. So I crushed it with my stone shot glass. And then I drank some more shots of salmiakki vodka and more beer and SWMBO washed my back.
I am guessing that I will be paralysed in the morning - permaflat. But I still have rototilling to do before my brew friend arrives sometime during the day.
I hope you are entertained.
That is when I realized this was fantasy...I was entertained.
Dang man, that was a bad day! I had to drive a 24 1/2' moving truck all day for my older son up narrow streets with parked cars on one side. Narrowest friggin' driveway I ever tried to stick a moving truck in. Like trying to stick it up a nat's a**. Just got back about 10 minutes ago. Gotta fire up the pit next...damn, this cold beer is needed...even with my pain killer this morning (no, not priest), I'm still aching. I hate those narrow streets up around 130th. I had to have my sons get me up in the truck, since my current range of motion in my legs is ****e...Spent 6 hours rototilling about 450 square feet of my yard to make a new garden. The grass roots were incredibly thick and did not cut easily. I did not finish the job as there is about 2 hours of work left to do in the morning. But the sauna was ready and so I stopped.
Went to sauna and I was already feeling like I had my ass kicked about 15 times by that rototiller. Then I bit into a cheese sausage that was cooking over the wood stove and it shot hot cheese onto the area between my nostrils and I got a huge blister there. Then I tried to take the sausage pan down with the fire poker and it fell off, then I ended up burning my hands in two places. I also got my mouth burned from eating that hot sausage.
In between rounds in the sauna, I went to the shower and when I was washing my ass I felt a hard bump there so I scraped it off. It hurt pretty bad and guess what I found? A tick had buried itself into my ass. I put it on top of my washing machine because I thought it was dead, but after a while it started moving. So I crushed it with my stone shot glass. And then I drank some more shots of salmiakki vodka and more beer and SWMBO washed my back.
I am guessing that I will be paralysed in the morning - permaflat. But I still have rototilling to do before my brew friend arrives sometime during the day.
I hope you are entertained.
Working on kegerator. Then I'll have to rearrange and sweep the basement for a better spot. Going through tools.
Talk about a day.
Building my new eherms control panel. Sold all my propane gear when I sold my house, now we are about to get a new one. What better way to spend a bit of the extra equity I got left over
Can't wait for the new place so I can get my kettles made.
I have noticed from photos here that a lot of you in the US seem to have very rusty old propane tanks. Is it so that you buy a tank and just get it refilled, keeping the same tank forever?
Here where I live, you buy the tank (and the gas) the first time and then when it's empty you take it and trade it in for a refilled tank (only paying the cost for the gas). The reason they do this is that the tanks have to have a valid inspection before they can be filled and it lasts for 5 years or something. The stores handle the cost of getting the tanks inspected and just pass on the cost with the gas when you do a trade-in. Composite tanks need to be inspected more frequently, so their trade-in cost is quite high compared to the normal steel tanks.
I've got 3 tanks - 2 x 11kg and 1 x 5kg (which is easy to throw in the car along with the burner if I want to go cook in a park or something). Trade-in refills for the 5kg tank is almost as expensive as for the 11kg tanks, just that it's a matter of convenience to have one.
I wish I were brewing this weekend but instead I'm going to take the LSAT on Monday, which is the test to get into law school. I've been a pilot in the military for almost 20 years and retirement is approaching so I need to find another career. I'm not really sure I want to be a lawyer but I figured what the heck, I'll take the test and see how I do. Wish me luck!
I have noticed from photos here that a lot of you in the US seem to have very rusty old propane tanks. Is it so that you buy a tank and just get it refilled, keeping the same tank forever?
Here where I live, you buy the tank (and the gas) the first time and then when it's empty you take it and trade it in for a refilled tank (only paying the cost for the gas). The reason they do this is that the tanks have to have a valid inspection before they can be filled and it lasts for 5 years or something. The stores handle the cost of getting the tanks inspected and just pass on the cost with the gas when you do a trade-in. Composite tanks need to be inspected more frequently, so their trade-in cost is quite high compared to the normal steel tanks.
I've got 3 tanks - 2 x 11kg and 1 x 5kg (which is easy to throw in the car along with the burner if I want to go cook in a park or something). Trade-in refills for the 5kg tank is almost as expensive as for the 11kg tanks, just that it's a matter of convenience to have one.
UHAUL out here fills Propane 7 days a week from like 8am to 8pm so its easy to do. And refilling a 5# tank is i think $18 or so...swapping tanks is like $30. Getting your tank recertified every 5 years is easy, i went and paid someone at FerrellGas like $15 and she pressure tested it and put a new sticker on it.
UHAUL out here fills Propane 7 days a week from like 8am to 8pm so its easy to do. And refilling a 5# tank is i think $18 or so...swapping tanks is like $30. Getting your tank recertified every 5 years is easy, i went and paid someone at FerrellGas like $15 and she pressure tested it and put a new sticker on it.
Or you swap your old tank. Walmart swaps them for $15...free propane.
OK, thanks for the explanation as well the others who gave them.
Normal sized grilling tanks here are 11kg (24 lbs) and trading an empty one for a full one costs 22 EUR (24.4 USD)
You do realize though that no swapping facility actually sells you a full tank? Your paying $15 for a 75% full tank. Check the fine print where you swap it, i am 100% certain they are selling you 15# of gas in the tank, no where in the US do they do full swaps...im not sure if its a legal reason, or more likely a safety one but its true. Im guessing having fully charged tanks potentially sitting in the sun for weeks baking presents some sort of hazard.
Only way to get a full 20# of gas is to take it to a refill.
Most people dont realize this, but its costing you a fortune in the long run. Dont believe me? When you go swap your tank next time look at the rim it will say TW 16lb or something which is the tare weight, or the weight of the cylinder itself without gas. If you had a full 20# of Propane it should weigh 36lbs...swapped ones will weigh 5# less.
I meant to say 20# for the tank, it holds ~5 gallons of actual propane But as i said above, the reason you should always refill is because swaps dont give you a full tank. Maybe its different in Canada, but i doubt it. Its one of those big scams that prey on people not reading the fine print.
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