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Happy Easter, Bunnies.
Happy Passover, Passers.
No clue on the Muslim one.

Hope to see your lazy ass in June or July. Dates are beginning to fill rather quickly as Wisconsin Summers usually do.

Take to steppin' on some dates. Chop, chop.

I'll be in Sconnie 7/20 to 7/29 bouncing back and forth from Waupun (my brothers house) and De Pere (my folks' house). Taking the kids with me and my sister-in-law's mother, a 90+ yr old half blind and 100% kick you in the ass if you don't behave Polack.

My kids haven't seen my side of the family in a long time. Plans are to hang out at my brother's house for a couple days. Hit the EAA Air Show in Oshkosh for a day (I'm so totally looking forward to this one, I love air shows and this is the biggest one on the planet). Take the kids to my brother's shooting range (kids have never shot a gun before). Maybe go do a nature hike in the Horicon Marsh.

Then head up to De Pere to visit the folks for a couple of days and visit Lambeau and Title Town, eat a butter burger at Krolls and some real cheese curds. Since 8Tracks's house is nearby maybe swing by and egg his house and $hit in his yard just for fun while we are in the neighborhood.

Three O NINE!

Will be good to see you.

Kroll's is good. There are two places better. On of them also offers frozen custard.

Was sick. Got better, back to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbR1J_4ICg

Congrats for being better rather than in prison or dead. Or dead in prison. They'd all be bad.

And so here we are at a tree one NINE!

One of my favorite ditty's from Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSb5QjgjAc

Just my opinion... Obscured by Clouds is one or their more underrated albums. It's a good listen.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=16V-wNwlTw0&list=OLAK5uy_knxL9CiUVnJyT_VVIxZkSWegI3G5_qaWU

There are 2 other co-workers at Wally World that bought e-bikes. I've seen probably a dozen of e-bike riders in town now that spring has sprung.

I might have to put together a e-bike cycle club. Get some colors and stuff. I'm thinking a lightning bolt thingy as our symbol. But we'll need some B!tches too with tramp stamps so we can pretend we are tough and $hit.

With that said, no bitches are allowed in my club if they showed Drafter their boobs. That might put a damper on things so we might have to massage our club rules a bit if you know what I mean. But I digress, did Drafter see the full boob or just the nipple... where do you draw the line?

I live in Gardner, MA. A town that probably ranks in the top 50 of hicksville in MA with a large population of old folks. I work at Wally World so I see most of the townies and the surrounding townies come and go.

Do the math and guestimate the number of boobs that I'd be interested in seeing. You can't include the display pictures in the bra section of the store or the mannequins at the bridal shop in the center of town, they wont return my phone calls.

Ok, so...that doesn't matter.

My dad can beat up your dad

I will admit that I had a crush on my daughters' dance teacher. She is hot but my daughter doesn't do dance lessons anymore. (sigh)

Would it be creepy if I enrolled myself for some dance lessons with her?

$hit... I shouldn't be posting this. I'm taking my laptop to the computer dude tomorrow so he can erase all this stuff

Tree Two NINE!

Sadly for me, she's married and has three kids... not that I'm counting or anything. She's a successful local business owner with her dance studio and stuff so she's got smarts too.

I live in a small town so everyone knows everyone or knows someone who knows someone who knows you or someone else... Kinda like the Six Degrees of Separation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
(I didn't read this thing, just heard of it. I'll leave it up to the quantum covid experts to boil it down for me)

So by that logic, I might be related to her or she might be related to MACS... either way it's a no go.

Good Monday Morning! It's 65° and rainy this morning on the way to 68° today.

Gonna be 62/97 today so three cups of get up and go. Got out and went 5.2 miles, enjoyed a PLPC on the patio and now headed to the gym.

Clear skies and 50°

30 minutes on the phone and Team Viewer with my mom trying to set up her wireless printer to her new laptop.

Me: OK your laptop is connected to your printer and should be printing a test page. Is it printing?
Her: Nope it's not doing anything.
Me: Do you have paper in it and is it turned on?
Her: Let me check... Ok added some paper.
Me: Your print queue says it printed.
Her: Nope nothing.
Me: {uninstall and reinstall the print drivers}. OK your laptop doesn't see your printer on the network anymore. Lets start again (stumbling through and trying to get her printer on the WiFi again, but it has no IP address so reboot the printer and pound a nail into my temple). The WiFi icon on the printer LCD screen should be on.
Her: What's the WiFi icon all I see is a phone looking thing, a tear drop, a microphone thing...
Me: (interrupting) Yes, the microphone thing. Whew, that's tells us that it's connected to your WiFi. The tear drop is your ink level but lets continue. Touch the microphone thing, what's it say? It should show you the IP address of the printer, can you read that to me? (That path led to nowhere and I'm feeling like a salmon trying to swim upstream at this point)

On and on and on.... for 20 minutes only to realize that we've been printing test pages to my dad's printer in his ham shack in the basement.

Lessons learned: My mom's printer and my dad's printer in his ham shack are the same make, model and default name.

I'd like to change the names of the printers so we can distinguish them from one another but then I'll be going through the same discussion when my Dad tries to print from his computer. I'll crack that nut when I visit and on site in a few months.

Agreed.

Three 3 NINE!

Yeah the default printer was set to my dad's printer in the ham shack. Windows locked onto that one as the default one since hers was not online at the time. After some time it was evident that her printer was not on-line. We did the reboot of the printer so it could get an IP address from the router. Once we got that corrected it worked as expected. It would normally be a 5 min thing if you're on site and could see the printer settings on the printer menu but trying to do it over the phone and trying to figure out what she is seeing on her end... ugh... torture.

Now I know how to converse with her for future printer issues. The WiFi icon on the LCD printer menu is know known as the "microphone thing."

On another unrelated note: Lasagna is assembled and in the oven. T-minus 60 minutes until chow time.

Fun Times at the shpo. Got my arse shocked/shaken buy a new Denali. It has a back up camera, with green, yellow and red lines, to assure you don't back up too far. I'm watching as I'm backing, I'm about six feet way and the seat makes a shake/shocking kind of feeling. Didn't think I was that close to the building. Turns out I wasn't that close. Holy Nanny State Protection, Batman! Was still five feet away.

The weirder one was driving out to a mansion type house (like one that would have 2+ Hockeydad bathrooms) to pick up a woman's cell phone. Pick up her cell phone? Okay.

So I do that, this moderately attractive 30 year old brunette in yoga pants answers the door hands me her phone and passcode for it. Bring the phone back to the shpo. I get sent to the local dealership to get the keys for her 2022 Lincoln Expedition programmed.

Turns out, up until today, she was using her cell phone to start the vehicle. Now she thinks it is a good idea for her keys to work. What a concept.

Side note. In talking with the Ford mechanic, he shared how Ford mechanics hate working on Lincoln products. Especially electrical issues. In the wiring harness on the Nav, if all the wiring was to be pulled out and placed in a straight line, it would extend to the length of three football fields.

Imagine the labor cost of those repairs.

My seat doesn't shake, but my camera has the lines and the forward and rear parking sensors. I can turn them off with the touch of a button.

Yeah... they're off.

I make a mean lasagna, but that sounds Uh Mazing.

Thanks! She is an excellent cook, and I've got the gut to prove it.