How are you/have you spent today 2/22?

[DisneyBishops]

Went to Clearwater this weekend for dd college softball tournament. They did terrible on friday, better on sat. and today they finished second in the tournament.

So the day turned out ok afterall.

Drove home had dinner and sat back and am now drinking a few cold ones and watching nascar.

Jim are you buying your dd a new car?

 

[ftwildernessguy]

Jim are you buying your dd a new car?

Not a chance. She's working - she's buying her own. I'm just offering unsolicited advice.

 

[LONE-STAR]

Played wii and rode around on the cart with tx tink and she did laundry.

 

[Born 2 Fish]

sanded.

 

[2goofycampers]

Well, I wasted my evening watching The Academy Awards. Hugh Jackman was good, but he was hardly ever on. The rest of the show stunk.

 

[PolynesianPixie]

I took 5 kids to church...on the way I got lost in Annapolis.


Hung out with my cranky sister, who I love dearly Did her laundry, fixed her lunch and made her rest.

Then I drove home.....on the way I got lost in D.C.


I'm sensing an unfortunate pattern here.

 

[des1954]

I took 5 kids to church...on the way I got lost in Annapolis.


Hung out with my cranky sister, who I love dearly Did her laundry, fixed her lunch and made her rest.

Then I drove home.....on the way I got lost in D.C.


I'm sensing an unfortunate pattern here.

The last time I was in D.C., I got turned around going from Columbia, M.D. to Dulles Airport & missed the exit for I495 to the west side, eventually saw the Capitol on the left (shouldn't have seen the Capitol at all), and ended up looking at a sign stating we were heading south towards some city in Virginia. I got off the by-pass at the next exit, went into two gas stations where no one spoke english, pulled into a Mc Donalds, ran inside & virtually screamed: "DOES ANYONE HERE SPEAK ENGLISH?", found out if I kept on I495, it would turn north and take me into the exit for Dulles. This was long before GPS systems. By the time the people mover got us to the right terminal & we got checked in, they were just about ready to close the door & take off. This was pre 9/11 days, so we'd never be able to cut it that close in today's world.

 

[disney4dan]

Slept late due to the flu, then went and shared the virus with Dad while helping to put in a window on the log home. Not a lot of progress, but the flu has slowed us all down this past month. That, and we were supposed to get 6 to 8 inches of snow (got a dusting instead).

Played cards and had a pot-luck supper with the neighbors in the late afternoon. They were also bored and waiting for the snow.

 

[ntsammy5]

I was doing stuff for work, installed a DSL line at church, ate a turkey dinner, had some beer,

 

[des1954]

I was doing stuff for work, installed a DSL line at church, ate a turkey dinner, had some beer,

What was the end result of the DSL? Verizon's fault - as usual??

 

[ntsammy5]

What was the end result of the DSL? Verizon's fault - as usual??

There were lot's of issues with it - mostly Verizon, but one of our internal lines was shorted too.

 

[des1954]

There were lot's of issues with it - mostly Verizon, but one of our internal lines was shorted too.

Wasn't the short covered by IWM??? I have DSL at church, only because it was cheaper & easier than R.R. The commercial DSL is pretty worthy once you get it running. I had DSL at home, and even though I get a discount due to retirement, it sucked, so went back to RR.

"Don't pass me by...Don't make me cry!" Beatles - White Album

Lovin' the iPod. I had to literally pry it out of Pastor's hands. He was watching Nights in Rodanthe and getting nothing done!

 

[LarryJ]

That sounds tedious, Larry. Although, you will probably do a much better job than if you hired it out. How's the leg??

Not only tedious, but extremely time consuming. I use a hand awl and nylon upholstery thread and the awl works something line a sewing machine where you start it and pull like 4 ft. of one end of the thread thru the first hole (this then become the thread like on a bobbin in a machine) and then using a hand awl with a sewing machine type needle on it with the rest of the spool of thread on it you manually do each stitch by pushing the needle thru the thread and then pulling a loop in the thread from the needle put the long piece thru the loop and then pull the needle back out and tighten the stitch. It works just like a machine lock stitch, but is extremely slow. I also had to make my own edge binding from duck cloth and I have to do like three runners with a total binding length of around 75' and at around 6 stiches per inch that some 5,400 stiches However, I get exactly what I want and time is something I have plenty of.

The leg, actually the knee is fine. Every so often it stiffens up during the night, but once loosened up it fine.

Larry

 

[des1954]

Not only tedious, but extremely time consuming. I use a hand awl and nylon upholstery thread and the awl works something line a sewing machine where you start it and pull like 4 ft. of one end of the thread thru the first hole (this then become the thread like on a bobbin in a machine) and then using a hand awl with a sewing machine type needle on it with the rest of the spool of thread on it you manually do each stitch by pushing the needle thru the thread and then pulling a loop in the thread from the needle put the long piece thru the loop and then pull the needle back out and tighten the stitch. It works just like a machine lock stitch, but is extremely slow. I also had to make my own edge binding from duck cloth and I have to do like three runners with a total binding length of around 75' and at around 6 stiches per inch that some 5,400 stiches However, I get exactly what I want and time is something I have plenty of.

The leg, actually the knee is fine. Every so often it stiffens up during the night, but once loosened up it fine.

Larry

Yee-Gawds, Larry!!! That is tedious!!! I got tired just from reading what you're doing! Good thing you're retired!

BTW - Once I've loosened up, I'm fine, too!!!

Glad to see you back on the board.

 

[LarryJ]

Yee-Gawds, Larry!!! That is tedious!!! I got tired just from reading what you're doing! Good thing you're retired!

BTW - Once I've loosened up, I'm fine, too!!!

Glad to see you back on the board.

I finished the first runner today (3 days starting at around 5 to 6 AM and quitting at 6 PM ... but that's not continuous since I need, coffee, potty, and just down time breaks, but I probably do put in a good 6 to 7 hours of actual working) and am very pleased with how it came out. It does really keeps the fingers well exercised. I just enjoy making custom stuff like this and have made every thing from cell phone holder, to printer/scanner storage bags, to socket/wrench pouches, to tele steps ladder storage bags, to scanner/radio covers, to you name it and I just might have stitched one together.

I hear you on the joints, etc., but at this point that is just part of getting on in years and I'm looking at getting my first SS check in the next year.

Larry

 

[Born 2 Fish]

So far I have spent this day try'n to find some Fiends.
Where the heck is everyone ?!?!?!?!

Am I the only one left without a life !!!

 

[BigDaddyRog]

Nope...I also enjoy not having a life!!!

 

[Just Beachy]

Wow.... I didn't notice anyone saying they got to ruin a few people's weekends!!! Nor did anyone mention they might have saved someone's life!!
I did and they both felt good!!!

My dh hopefully helped save a life on Friday afternoon while on his way home from work. It was a rural road, no traffic except for dh and the car coming at him in his lane! The car ended up drifting back in its own lane, going through a field and smashing into a parked 18 wheeler. Dh called for help and in the meantime, did what he could to help this poor man. The man was badly bleeding, unconscious, etc. Dh stayed with him, held him and talked to him, and tried to control the bleeding until the emergency squads arrived and he had to get out of the way so they could extricate the man from the vehicle.

We have no idea what happened to this man. Dh had looked at the vehicle registration to get the man's name, but no hospital has him as a patient and, thankfully, we haven't seen an obituary either. I'm praying he made it and is okay....

 

[ftwildernessguy]

My dh hopefully helped save a life on Friday afternoon while on his way home from work. It was a rural road, no traffic except for dh and the car coming at him in his lane! The car ended up drifting back in its own lane, going through a field and smashing into a parked 18 wheeler. Dh called for help and in the meantime, did what he could to help this poor man. The man was badly bleeding, unconscious, etc. Dh stayed with him, held him and talked to him, and tried to control the bleeding until the emergency squads arrived and he had to get out of the way so they could extricate the man from the vehicle.

We have no idea what happened to this man. Dh had looked at the vehicle registration to get the man's name, but no hospital has him as a patient and, thankfully, we haven't seen an obituary either. I'm praying he made it and is okay....

Sometimes, you're just in the right place at the right time. Maybe the car wasn't his - that would explain why the owner's name isn't showing up anyplace.

 

[Just Beachy]

Sometimes, you're just in the right place at the right time. Maybe the car wasn't his - that would explain why the owner's name isn't showing up anyplace.

I asked one of our EMT's today if he could find out for me. He had heard about that accident. He said he will try to find out, but the last he heard, the man was alive!!! This is the 5th time my dh has been in the right place at the right time for someone else. He's starting feel a little creeped out by it.....