What's everybody doing today?

[LadyLocust]

On the docket for today:
Do first real load of laundry in wringer washer
Make soap
Make ice cream
Plant: basil, cilantro, parsley and reseed a few pole beans
Work at cleaning/organizing summer kitchen
Iron the massive, huge, ginormous pile of shirts
And here I sit browsing the forum - HA!

 

[Meerkat]

Talking to daughter about the art kit we sent Great grand,wondering how to keep it away from Zane who tears up everything.Granddaughter has 4 kids Zane being the youngest,hs 3.Maybe alocking cabinet?.That kid gets loose with paints and the whole house will be painted.

 

[zannej]

@cbrianroll, I'm trying to catch up. I think Mom has a sewing machine like that. Very nice base! Furniture underneath is nice too.

I've been looking at some of the newer sewing machines. Brother seems to make some good ones. I'm torn between getting one with a dial or one with an LCD. My concern is that the LCD could break or go out (which happens a lot with stuff we own) so I'm leaning toward one with a dial that has about 37 different stitches and several foot options that come in a storage compartment. I think GX37 something looks good, but it's still pretty expensive. Trying to find the best time to buy when stuff goes on sale.

Yesterday I did a bunch of cleaning and got my brother to empty the trash. I tried to do it but the bag was stuck & my shoulder is still giving me fits.

Planning some accessories for the guest bathroom. Need to buy some stuff to fix up the shelves (to reinforce them). Will sand and paint them. On one I plan to add a dowel to act as a towel bar. Other piece I'm planning is a custom built recessed tp holder that will be set in the vanity. It's wider than would be needed for tp but I want it big enough to hold wet wipes & phones and stuff.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

My company is gone.
My youngest grand daughter is no longer a baby.
She's a toddler.
She's walking, running, chasing the dogs.
Been cleaning stuff out.
Got the knitting machine back together.
Got a nut stuck into a nut driver.
Need ideas on how to get it unstuck?

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Watching it rain?

 

[Neb]

My company is gone.
My youngest grand daughter is no longer a baby.
She's a toddler.
She's walking, running, chasing the dogs.
Been cleaning stuff out.
Got the knitting machine back together.
Got a nut stuck into a nut driver.
Need ideas on how to get it unstuck?

Thread a bolt into it...

Use the bolt to pull out the nut. You may have bang it few times.

Ben

 

[Peanut]

Yesterday I went to the big electronics store in the big town. They didn’t have several things I needed for adding another hard drive to my desktop. Then the “geek squad” guys couldn’t even answer all my questions. (sort of feels good knowing I can still stump the kid at the computer shop).

Got some time… The geek squad’s real computer guru doesn’t return to work until Tuesday. He’s the guy who can answer my questions. I’m making major changes to both my desktop and my laptop… several different ways to go about things, put a new engine in the old pc or build a new system or a combination of both etc. I need to talk to someone who knows both old and current hardware.

Last night I downloaded several linux operating systems (3), ran all the checksums. Downloaded a neat little program for burning ISO’s on thumb drives (balena etcher).

Today I’ve been sorting thumb drives, consolidating backup data so I can free up several small thumb drives for burning ISO’s. I've also been reading installation procedures, weighing the options...

I’ll get the rest of the disks and thumb drives burned tonight. No plans but pc work and watching tv.

 

[Neb]

Yesterday I went to the big electronics store in the big town. They didn’t have several things I needed for adding another hard drive to my desktop. Then the “geek squad” guys couldn’t even answer all my questions. (sort of feels good knowing I can still stump the kid at the computer shop).

Got some time… The geek squad’s real computer guru doesn’t return to work until Tuesday. He’s the guy who can answer my questions. I’m making major changes to both my desktop and my laptop… several different ways to go about things, put a new engine in the old pc or build a new system or a combination of both etc. I need to talk to someone who knows both old and current hardware.

Last night I downloaded several linux operating systems (3), ran all the checksums. Downloaded a neat little program for burning ISO’s on thumb drives (balena etcher).

Today I’ve been sorting thumb drives, consolidating backup data so I can free up several small thumb drives for burning ISO’s. I've also been reading installation procedures, weighing the options...

I’ll get the rest of the disks and thumb drives burned tonight. No plans but pc work and watching tv.

Ben

 

[phideaux]

Yesterday I went to the big electronics store in the big town. They didn’t have several things I needed for adding another hard drive to my desktop. Then the “geek squad” guys couldn’t even answer all my questions. (sort of feels good knowing I can still stump the kid at the computer shop).

Got some time… The geek squad’s real computer guru doesn’t return to work until Tuesday. He’s the guy who can answer my questions. I’m making major changes to both my desktop and my laptop… several different ways to go about things, put a new engine in the old pc or build a new system or a combination of both etc. I need to talk to someone who knows both old and current hardware.

Last night I downloaded several linux operating systems (3), ran all the checksums. Downloaded a neat little program for burning ISO’s on thumb drives (balena etcher).

Today I’ve been sorting thumb drives, consolidating backup data so I can free up several small thumb drives for burning ISO’s. I've also been reading installation procedures, weighing the options...

I’ll get the rest of the disks and thumb drives burned tonight. No plans but pc work and watching tv.

@Haertig

Jim

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Thread a bolt into it...

Use the bolt to pull out the nut. You may have bang it few times.

Ben

Can't do that, the old bolt broke off inside.

 

[Peanut]

@Haertig

Jim

I bought my desktop and laptop from this same store... and I've dealt with this same guru before... it'll be simpler to to talk to this same guy again. He knows exactly what hardware I have, and can go through all the options in a couple minutes... pull up hardware part numbers I need to order etc... very hard to do messaging back and forth, that could take hours and be easy to make mistakes.

 

[hashbrown]

Living close to and working in a tourist town usually the last thing you want to do is go to town on the weekend. I had a ton of work to do today but we really needed to have some fun today for a change. There were hydrofoil races along with pwc races on the river today. We watched them for awhile and had a couple of drinks a nice lunch and Alexandra and Jake rode the zipline. Sometimes when you have the most work to do is the best time to recharge a bit.

 

[Neb]

We watched Little Mermaid movies last night while the eldest granddaughter assembled a Lego kit.

I was summoned soon after I woke up to extract a splinter from under a finger nail. Then we sat down for a game of Scrabble with modified rules to make it more fun. Still have to figure out how to end the game earlier before the girls loose interest.

After the girls departed I helped my buddy with his Comero engine replacement.

He was trying figure out the specs on an adapter to go from 3/8 npt to barbed when I found one in my collection of pipe fittings. He will need two but at least he knows what he needs to order.

Then I finished up the plenum I need for the air conditioner return duct.

I still have to fabricate a connector to mate with other duct work that will be a rectangular section.

Tomorrow I will make some measurements then visit Lowes to get fence panels and 4x4 to be delivered for second LLC. I told the tennant I would replace the fence when she moved in. Gotta keep promises. The 4x4 will be dear but the fence panels are made of lesser grade lumber so the price should be reasonable.

Behave

Ben

 

[Grimm]

Today is a quiet movie day. We are watching Jim Henson movies. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Follow that Bird etc. Juju is in fits of giggles.

I have 99% of the kindergarten curriculum now. I am following a Charlotte Mason curriculum. All the books are found online for free BUT I am a bibliophile and have been buying antique copies online. Being a bibliophile I have been buying book repair and cleaning supplies too. You never know when you will need to repair a book because you just can't find them anymore! (I should have taken some classes in Library Sciences)

 

[Bacpacker]

Planted more garden, then had to run wife to ER. Still here. No telling. How much longer. They are crowded today

 

[Neb]

Today is a quiet movie day. We are watching Jim Henson movies. Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Follow that Bird etc. Juju is in fits of giggles.

I have 99% of the kindergarten curriculum now. I am following a Charlotte Mason curriculum. All the books are found online for free BUT I am a bibliophile and have been buying antique copies online. Being a bibliophile I have been buying book repair and cleaning supplies too. You never know when you will need to repair a book because you just can't find them anymore! (I should have taken some classes in Library Sciences)

The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth are a part of our family. The Princess makes references to Skexies and that ild wise woman when she sees images of Maxine Waters. My son has ensured the granddaughters know the words to "What kind of magic spell to use".

The Princess has a masters in library and information science, work in one of the largest library systems but can't help with book binding. I have a collection of

150+ year old bibles that I plan to restore some day. The one I did do some basic repair to

Includes a page that is a marriage certificate. I had the minister cross out "eighteen" and change it to read "nineteen" hundred...

Ben

 

[Meerkat]

Living close to and working in a tourist town usually the last thing you want to do is go to town on the weekend. I had a ton of work to do today but we really needed to have some fun today for a change. There were hydrofoil races along with pwc races on the river today. We watched them for awhile and had a couple of drinks a nice lunch and Alexandra and Jake rode the zipline. Sometimes when you have the most work to do is the best time to recharge a bit.

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Looks like yall had a nice family outing. Nice looking family HashB.

 

[Meerkat]

Planted more garden, then had to run wife to ER. Still here. No telling. How much longer. They are crowded today

Oh my I hope she is ok and nothing serious.

 

[Neb]

Can't do that, the old bolt broke off inside.

Nothing simple huh?

Use pb blaster or wd-40 to help loosen up the nut.
Put the nut driver in the freezer for an hour or so.
Get very hot water running from the tap and quickly take the nut driver from the freezer and run the hot water over the shaft of the nut driver.
Frequently tap the driver to see if the nut will fall out.

Repeat if required.

Otherwise...

Do you have welder?
Do you have a drill and easy outs?

Ben

 

[LadyLocust]

Yesterday I went to the big electronics store in the big town. They didn’t have several things I needed for adding another hard drive to my desktop. Then the “geek squad” guys couldn’t even answer all my questions. (sort of feels good knowing I can still stump the kid at the computer shop).

Got some time… The geek squad’s real computer guru doesn’t return to work until Tuesday. He’s the guy who can answer my questions. I’m making major changes to both my desktop and my laptop… several different ways to go about things, put a new engine in the old pc or build a new system or a combination of both etc. I need to talk to someone who knows both old and current hardware.

Last night I downloaded several linux operating systems (3), ran all the checksums. Downloaded a neat little program for burning ISO’s on thumb drives (balena etcher).

Today I’ve been sorting thumb drives, consolidating backup data so I can free up several small thumb drives for burning ISO’s. I've also been reading installation procedures, weighing the options...

I’ll get the rest of the disks and thumb drives burned tonight. No plans but pc work and watching tv.

Thinking about any of this hurts me deep down in my skull!!!!

 

[MoBookworm1957]

Nothing simple huh?

Use pb blaster or wd-40 to help loosen up the nut.
Put the nut driver in the freezer for an hour or so.
Get very hot water running from the tap and quickly take the nut driver from the freezer and run the hot water over the shaft of the nut driver.
Frequently tap the driver to see if the nut will fall out.

Repeat if required.

Otherwise...

Do you have welder?
Do you have a drill and easy outs?

Ben

No Ben,
I don't have any of those things.
But thank you for the information.
I finally got it out with an ice pick.

 

[LadyLocust]

Can't do that, the old bolt broke off inside.

See if there's a machine shop close to you - they can do it in about 30 secs.

 

[LadyLocust]

No Ben,
I don't have any of those things.
But thank you for the information.
I finally got it out with an ice pick.

Oops - good job - I was too late.

 

[MoBookworm1957]

See if there's a machine shop close to you - they can do it in about 30 secs.

Got it out with ice pick, but thanks.

 

[LadyLocust]

Living close to and working in a tourist town usually the last thing you want to do is go to town on the weekend. I had a ton of work to do today but we really needed to have some fun today for a change. There were hydrofoil races along with pwc races on the river today. We watched them for awhile and had a couple of drinks a nice lunch and Alexandra and Jake rode the zipline. Sometimes when you have the most work to do is the best time to recharge a bit.

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That's a great pix of you two Hash! Glad you got some R&R. I just read Hubby your post - we've been going nonstop also.

 

[LadyLocust]

Planted more garden, then had to run wife to ER. Still here. No telling. How much longer. They are crowded today

Whoa! What's up? You 2 okay?

 

[Meerkat]

@Bacpacker yall still at ER? Keep us updated when you can.

 

[Bacpacker]

We just got home. I updated over on the Prayer request thread. I was expecting to spend the night. Thanks for the prayers

 

[Meerkat]

We just got home. I updated over on the Prayer request thread. I was expecting to spend the night. Thanks for the prayers

I know I just seen that. Glad she is going to be ok.

 

[Bacpacker]

Me too Meer