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danmdevries Offline
#251 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 10:31 AM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
70 heading to 76. SpaceX launch at 716 pm.

Just made pizza dough for a deep dish pizza for dinner. Kinda a Giordanos copy without the second crust. I may reverse the cheese and toppings this time which would be more like Gino’s or Lou Malnati’s with a Giordano’s crust.



That sounds good.
danmdevries Offline
#252 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 2:08 PM EST
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First half of the jerky is done. Cigar 3 while half 2 finishes.

Watching Life of Brian
RobertHively Offline
#253 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 3:14 PM EST
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Got all of the riding/push mowing done. Took around 3 hours, and that's with my wife helping me, and without weedeating.

I was on the LT50 and she was on that old 2003 Cub Cadet 1515. Together that's 88 inches worth of mowing deck and it still took that long...

Over the winter I forgot how big this yard is....

Over and out.
HockeyDad Offline
#254 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 3:21 PM EST
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Errand running day.

Groceries.
Dicks Sporting Goods for golf balls.
Petsmart.
Now sitting in the parking lot at Ulta Beauty. I’m not going in there. 2Pac on the stereo.

Last stop is Total Wine.
Palama Offline
#255 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 3:36 PM EST
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From the previous 500:

Palama wrote:
Got an overabundance of avocados so gonna have one for breakfast.

Iffin’ I eat ‘em solo, like mine with ketchup.



PapaWhiskey wrote:
hmm... ketchup doesn't sound good to me. I like a little shoyu and wasabi with my solo avocado. It reminds of a tofu I used to like from a place in Japan I don't remember the name of. It was like a dumpling sized tofu with a wasabi center. Soo good.




Finally remembered to try eating an avocado with shoyu and wasabi. Not bad. Might alternate between ketchup and the shoyu / wasabi. Thanks PW. ThumpUp
MACS Offline
#256 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 6:08 PM EST
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Went to the shpo. Had a double Maker's cask strength to go along with an LFD andalusian bull. Also took home a Fuente SG and had an old fashioned to follow the maker's.

Then another old fashioned when I got home with an Undercrown SG (thanks, whistle).

Now... lotsa water and some tv.
danmdevries Offline
#257 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 6:16 PM EST
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I need a haircut.

I'll do that.
danmdevries Offline
#258 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 6:47 PM EST
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Haircut done. Thinking of shaving my beard off. Haven't been clean shaved since 20-21 when I was forced to be.
MACS Offline
#259 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 6:52 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Haircut done. Thinking of shaving my beard off. Haven't been clean shaved since 20-21 when I was forced to be.


I can grow a mean beard. It's all white. However, it's all itchy and scratchy and it just doesn't look good. I grew it out once for a month or two... wife didn't like it. Made me look old and she's older than me.
danmdevries Offline
#260 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 7:13 PM EST
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That's where I've been. I'm at the length where it's not itchy anymore, but not so long I need to care for it (I cut my hair with no guard on the clippers cause I don’t want to deal with upkeep)

But I don't know if using the clipper on my beard and scissor trimming every two weeks or so is more maintenance than running a razor over my face in the shower every day. Been a question I've not answered in 25 years of having facial hair. Clippers n scissors are cheaper tho
izonfire Offline
#261 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 11:16 PM EST
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Finally found myself in a good spot to relax, have a cigar, sip some whiskey, and love the sh.it outta this moment.

And toasting all yous fellas.

A member here kicked me in the britches a few weeks back, and we bullsh.itted for over an hour.

Hope to get back to posting here on the regular…

CHEERS! 🍻
Sunoverbeach Offline
#262 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 11:18 PM EST
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Grows decent in the goatee area but very patchy up the sides of my face. Regardless I prefer it. Wife doesn't. Luckily for her I've got respirator fit testing in less than a month, so I'll be baby faced for her again
Stogie1020 Offline
#263 Posted: Sun, Apr 7 2024, 11:29 PM EST
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Izon! Thought the snakes and scorpions got you. Glad to see you stop by.

Glad you are having moments worth pausing for to enjoy.
danmdevries Offline
#264 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 3:14 AM EST
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Fuquing A man. Got called out at 0250. Start driving half dressed didn't even put shoes on just my slip on slippers call back on the page they gave me a room number. Call my trainer he confirms en route, blew a red light to get out onto the main road, get up to 70, trainer calls me says doc canceled it. Dammit. Turn around go home. How the hell I'm sposeda go back to sleep

Welcome back to Monday fellas
MACS Offline
#265 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 5:01 AM EST
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Mornin' dudes... HEY Izon!

I shave about twice a week, nowadays.

danmdevries Offline
#266 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 5:43 AM EST
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Got another page out 45 minutes later. Same thing. At least 2nd one was canceled before I left the driveway.

If I was with a different preceptor I'd go in, hit the clock for both of those pages and go back home. It's a 2 hour minimum for a call in. Could've gotten paid 4 hours instead of just being awakened 4 hours early and doing nothing. Or I'd clock in/out for the first page, go upstairs to the outpatient area, lay down in one of their cots so I don't have to drive back home then could've clocked in/out for 2nd page without even driving back n forth.
MACS Offline
#267 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 6:03 AM EST
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^Next time...
Ram27 Offline
#268 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 6:43 AM EST
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Welcome to Eclipse Monday gang. Herfing
8trackdisco Offline
#269 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 6:46 AM EST
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44 now, maybe a windy 60 later.


Off to the shpo.

26 NEIN.
deadeyedick Offline
#270 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 7:04 AM EST
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Morning youse guys.

How about a progress report izon? Gots a roof over your head yet?
Sunoverbeach Offline
#271 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 8:21 AM EST
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Morning peeps. Back to the grindstone. No staring at the sun
Gene363 Offline
#272 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 9:09 AM EST
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Good Monday Morning to All! It's a clear and brisk 60° on the way to 80° today.

Happy Eclipse Day Ram!
RayR Offline
#273 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 9:17 AM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
Welcome to Eclipse Monday gang. Herfing


I'm in the path of totality. It's gonna get really dark for a few minutes. Scared
MACS Offline
#274 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 10:30 AM EST
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I think it's happening around 3:30pm on the east coast.
Stogie1020 Offline
#275 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 11:43 AM EST
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My younger kid's pre-school is locking all the kids in the main social hall during the eclipse so they don't accidentally stare at the sun...

I reminded them that the kids go outside every other day and don't stare at the sun, but there was no convincing them...
Palama Offline
#276 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 12:56 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
My younger kid's pre-school is locking all the kids in the main social hall during the eclipse so they don't accidentally stare at the sun...

I reminded them that the kids go outside every other day and don't stare at the sun, but there was no convincing them...


In this day and age of litigation, better to be safe than sorry. Besides, the next one is in 2044 so all those kids will be (…or should be…) alive and will appreciate / understand it better when they’re adults.
Stogie1020 Offline
#277 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 1:39 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
In this day and age of litigation, better to be safe than sorry. Besides, the next one is in 2044 so all those kids will be (…or should be…) alive and will appreciate / understand it better when they’re adults.

You are right, but it seems very silly...

OTOH, I went to the courtyard of my office building to look through my $0.08 glasses and noticed a handful of adults looking at the eclipse with their bare eyes. I mean, they had their hand up to shade it a bit. FFS.

I shared the glasses.
Gene363 Offline
#278 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 2:15 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
You are right, but it seems very silly...

OTOH, I went to the courtyard of my office building to look through my $0.08 glasses and noticed a handful of adults looking at the eclipse with their bare eyes. I mean, they had their hand up to shade it a bit. FFS.

I shared the glasses.


And they vote. Brick wall
RayR Offline
#279 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 2:56 PM EST
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Bummer MANNN! Too much cloud cover here.Sad
Only got to see it briefly between the clouds when the moon started turning the lights back on.🌒
MACS Offline
#280 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 2:59 PM EST
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Meh... it's an eclipse. Got a little darker for a bit... *shrug*
Gene363 Offline
#281 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 3:10 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Meh... it's an eclipse. Got a little darker for a bit... *shrug*


About the same here, shadows reflected the present shape.
Palama Offline
#282 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 3:22 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Meh... it's an eclipse. Got a little darker for a bit... *shrug*


Apparently when you experience a total eclipse, there are things that you only get to see in-person that you can’t pick up via a camera lens. Something about the wavelength of certain colors. I’mma sure it’s a super cool moment but I didn’t buy the winning PowerBall ticket so will hafta settle for the network coverage(s).
rfenst Offline
#283 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 3:34 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
My younger kid's pre-school is locking all the kids in the main social hall during the eclipse so they don't accidentally stare at the sun...


They did the right thing IMO.
No risk of a child that age getting injured.
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#284 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 4:13 PM EST
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A handful of folks and I went on the roof of the building at watched it for a few minutes. I bought a 12 pack of glasses so anyone that wanted to look and didn't have glasses could take a set. I think in my area of MA they said it was 93% covered. I thought it would be darker but it wasn't much different than a typical cloudy day. Not very exciting but hey, that level of blockage by the moon only happens once in a in lifetime my area.

You'd get 100% blockage if you were at the beach and some large person walked between you and the Sun.
RobertHively Offline
#285 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 4:37 PM EST
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BuckyB93 wrote:
they said it was 93% covered. I thought it would darker.


Same % for my area too. I guess that last 7% really makes a difference.

I remember the 2017 eclipse being darker than this one. Idk if it was or I just remember it that way.
rfenst Offline
#286 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 5:10 PM EST
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RobertHively wrote:
Same % for my area too. I guess that last 7% really makes a difference.

I remember the 2017 eclipse being darker than this one. Idk if it was or I just remember it that way.


You knew it would have to be 98.2%, didn't you?
danmdevries Offline
#287 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 5:29 PM EST
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The colors of everything in the light during the eclipse are so bizarre, like outdoors is lit by artificial lights.

I did get to go outside briefly and see it.

Wife said she sat on the deck with my welding helmet on to watch it.
HockeyDad Offline
#288 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 5:41 PM EST
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I caught a few minutes. Mostly just worked right through it and almost forgot.

A friend drove from Florida to Illinois to see it.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#289 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 6:06 PM EST
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I saw the beginning and glanced through the windows periodically after.
8trackdisco Offline
#290 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 6:12 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
The colors of everything in the light during the eclipse are so bizarre, like outdoors is lit by artificial lights.


The colors is what struck me. Saw shades of blue and grays that I haven’t seen before. Was in DePere (south of and adjacent to GB) when the 85% hit. Was happily stuck in traffic. There were these five seagulls above the Fox River who stopped traveling in the direction they were heading and were treading air for a minute or two. Wonder how other animals reacted to this.
Gene363 Offline
#291 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 7:38 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Apparently when you experience a total eclipse, there are things that you only get to see in-person that you can’t pick up via a camera lens. Something about the wavelength of certain colors. I’mma sure it’s a super cool moment but I didn’t buy the winning PowerBall ticket so will hafta settle for the network coverage(s).


We witnessed the last one here in South Carolina. We drove out into the country away from city lights. it was pretty cool, a bit strange, but basically a huge shadow passing over us. The view of the sun's corona was interesting.

One thing for sure, we had zero inclination to travel westward to see it again.
MidnightToker( • )( • ) Offline
#292 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 7:45 PM EST
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Evening all. 95% totality was way overhyped. Not interesting at all. I saw a full one with glasses once, but I was in elementary school so I don't remember it
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#293 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 8:43 PM EST
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I was supposed to be cutting grass. Opened the shop to get the mower and decided it would better to get the bike out. Oh well grass can wait
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#294 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 8:46 PM EST
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I saw rain, rain and more rain.
Palama Offline
#295 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 9:18 PM EST
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36-30 Connecticut at the half.

I don’t follow basketball too much so didn’t know Zach Edey is half Chinese. At 7’ 4”, shades of Yao Ming (…sort by…).
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#296 Posted: Mon, Apr 8 2024, 9:45 PM EST
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Was looking like a tight game for a bit. Not so much currently
Palama Offline
#297 Posted: Tue, Apr 9 2024, 1:04 AM EST
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Took one for the team after dinner.

We need more room in our freezer so took a larger serving of Ben ‘n Jerry’s Coffee Toffee Bar Crunch ice cream. Didn’t want to finish it all tonight, saving the last bit for tomorrow.
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#298 Posted: Tue, Apr 9 2024, 3:04 AM EST
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Morning, distinguished gentleman.
MACS Offline
#299 Posted: Tue, Apr 9 2024, 5:46 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Morning, distinguished gentleman.

*Looks around*

Is he talking to us??

Mornin' dudes... up at the crack of 'holy shit it's early' again. Coffee in da cup, preppin' for the morning stroll.
8trackdisco Offline
#300 Posted: Tue, Apr 9 2024, 5:50 AM EST
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Springtime allergies are screwing with me.
Stomach, throat and head all are less than pleased with me.
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