Top o' da mornin' Rambo...

Dudes...

Good Saturday Morning! It's already 81° on the way to 88° today.

Afternoon gents

Rain again. No work on patio but went through and sorted scrap. Disassembled electric motors n stuff. Got a bucket of brass, a bin of copper, piles of steel and aluminum. I'll bring it in next week.

Wife bought an ikea metal nightstand for the boy a while ago and the screws keep working their way loose on it so I stripped the powdercoat and welded it together. Had to get a part for my paint gun and get it painted.

Took an old engine to father in law. Was gonna scrap it but he wants to mate it with a pump head.

Ordered two-tier planters to replace the garden I tore out. They didn't match the picture or description. Amazon seller wanted me to pay $120 return shipping. Escalated claim with Amazon, sent screenshots of the listing and pictures and measurements of what they sent me. Amazon refunded me everything and said I don't have to return the stuff. Next day the seller emails me that they're mailing me prepaid return shipping labels.

Smoking a pcr and drinking a beer or three watching paint dry.

Wife was going to church and her car threw a code. Battery icon and a message "Stop car, leave running".

Took it to autozone to test the charging system... good news: just a bad battery.

Bad news... the battery is expensive and requires the dealer to do a computer system reset. Lovely.

I usually wouldn't go to them, but they're open on Saturday and Autohaus Frankfurt is not.

They're the same as the dealer as far as technician certifications and usually much less in price. I think for this it'd probably be similar, maybe a little less on the reprogram.

Picture perfect day today weather wise. High 80's, sunny, slight breeze and low humidity.

Tooled around town a bit on the bike. Buzzed buy a couple yard sales for curiosity sake but I don't need anymore junk.

Stopped at the grocery store as I needed to restock the freezer with meat. Needed some taters and onions too.

Damn... meat prices are expensive. $4/lb for chicken breast, $8/lb for steak tips (was looking for some NY strip steaks but opted for tips instead), $4/lb for pork loin, $4/lb for a pot roast, $5/lb for bacon, $5/lb for Kielbasa (WTF?).

I don't usually look at prices. I just pick out and buy what I want and/or need - it's not like you can barter with them on the price. I was curious this time and actually looked at prices. Even frozen veggies are up about 40% from the last time I cared to look. A 1 lb bag of frozen peas or beans or corn or broccoli used to be like 99 cents, now $1.39.

$100+ later and the freezer is restocked. Had to take out a hunk of corned beef to make room. Polly toss it in the crock pot tomorrow or Monday just to cook it for lunches and stuff.

That would be wrong... jumping a damsel in distress...

With that said, does she have nice boobs?

Sell Conan.

So many times I've had things that I found had huge value only to sit on them and the buyers got their fill and the sellers still had more.

Yah, I'mma leaning towards doing that.

And while I was semi-joking about upgrading my stereo equipment, I'll probably put some of the money into our granddaughters' education funds. Much better ROI.

How much does a Conan go for on the open market?

Good point. Could be a bidding war

Hell, nowadays your car might be worth twice as much if the gas tank is full...

Depends on what we can get on after market parts.

"I'll make a shoehorn outta your shin
I'll make a lampshade of durable skin
And, oh, don't you know that I'm always feeling able
When I'm sitting home and I'm carving out your navel?
I'm just a sitting here carving out your navel

When will I realize that this skin I'm in? Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the kill be too much meat for me to hide on?

Hey, I could really use a couple of hands
To complete one hell of a plant stand
Oh, and don't you know that I'm caught here in the middle
Making rib cages into coffee tables?
I'm just making em into coffee tables

And when will I realize that this skin I'm in? Hey, it isn't mine
And when will the thrill be too much meat for me to find anymore?

Oh, because you know I can't hide but oh how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in
Although I know I can't hide but, oh, how hard I try
But this is just the shape I'm in, oh yeah, oh yeah"

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2fo0a6

In 1995, Blind Melon released the song “Skinned”. The song’s lyrics focus on a real life murderer from the United States called Ed Gein. Ed was a super weird character. Unlike the average serial killer who is just satisfied with murdering people, Ed wasn’t. He took things a step further.

For example, in addition to his fascination with killing, he was also in the business of digging up dead bodies from graves. He also often skinned dead bodies and harvested their organs.

According to reports, having removed the skins of corpses, he would proceed to wear them or use them to make a number of items for his personal use.

Read more at: https://www.songmeaningsandfacts.com/skinned-by-blind-melon/

See... us Cheeseheads have a history of creepy serial killers and nothing goes to waste.

Learned something new tonight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit

Sunday greetings all.

Good Sunday Morning! It's an overcast 71° on the way to 88° and more rain today.

Gonna knock the grass down again. I like the look of the green grass, but enjoy the upkeep of the brown

Premier League ended moments ago. Hockeydad wins. Twatenham goes Champions League, Arsenal subjugated to Thursday nights in Eastern Points of interest like Bulgaria, Slovenia, and Belarus.

On an up note, Leeds remains in the league with the defensive dinosaurs of Burnley go down.

Cloudy, breezy 60.

Got a Fitbit to see how unfit I am.

On my morning 5 miler I walked past a house the got toilet-papered to the hilt last night. Gonna be a thorny mess to clean that since the whole front is a cactus garden of saguaro, yucca and prickly pear.

Kids now days.

Ya, looks nice and uniform. Can't even see the joint lines between the pavers.

I got to the halfway mark and called it for today. On the last course I had to lay on my side to level out the sand, my back wouldn't hold me up kneeling.

Gotta quit before I'm totally shot so I can do it again tomorrow. And the next day. And on and on. If it weren't for the damn rain I might've been wrapping it up at this point.

Showered and beer'd. I'd mow but the yard is still too wet from rain.

I have built a patio out of three different sized slabs, just like yours. Hard work and you have to know what you are doing..
Sure looks like you are doing a decent job.

Yeeeaaahhhh... Concrete is fine, thanks.

To get it done I got quotes around 20k for pavers 10k for concrete.

I was able to borrow a skidloader vs renting, had to pay for one dump truck load of stone and one semi truck with the pavers and sand. I'll be all done well under $5k. And that's including replacing the garden too.

Pros/cons - concrete cracks. Patching a cracked segment will never match the rest. Concrete is cheaper and a lot less work. In my area the ground moves a lot, so concrete would be cracked and uneven in a couple years. The pavers can move with the ground but they are on a compacted 8-10" deep base of stone so they can support as much as concrete. They both require cleaning and regular maintenance.

Really the biggest difference is labor.