What did you do today?

Flatiowa said:
Do you use straight 2/1 syrup or do you lace with honey? I’m having a hard time getting mine to take this year.
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2/1 syrup with honey b healthy that helps attract.

I ran a blind study. Put a feeder with honey b healthy by my hives. And a feeder without by dad's. Mine was empty for 2 days before they touched his a few hundred yards away.
 
Had a logistics team meeting for Operation Christmas Child this morning. Watched GT trounce Duke this afternoon. Took the airplane up for some landing practice this evening (I sucked), then came home to eat pizza, drink a beer, and watch a little more CFB.

Life is good.
 
Did some pro bono fabrication work for a friend who was almost killed in a motorcycle crash a couple weeks ago (someone pulled out in front of his Goldwing on a divided highway.) He just got released from the ICU today and is headed to a different ward in the hospital to continue recovery, but he had a few time-sensitive customer jobs lined up at his welding shop so I stepped in to help.

As soon as he heals well enough to withstand an open-hand slap to the side of his ****ing head, I'm going to unload on him for not wearing a full-face helmet.
 
kaiser said:
Nice!! who did you use? I'm planning mine in the coming months.
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ATP Jets. They had good availability, I signed up for the course on the 2nd and I started it on the 8th. If I'd wanted to, I could have started on the 3rd!

I can't speak to the Orlando or Las Vegas locations... Or technically, I suppose, the Dallas location since I did the "remote classroom" option for the ground portion. However, the instructor was in Dallas and I did the sims in Dallas as well. Lots of American (Airlines) folks - Ground instructor was retired American, a couple of sim instructors were current American FOs, and one guy who was retired from both the airlines and the FAA. So, all of them really knew their stuff and had lots of good stories to tell that related the material to the real world. I felt like I got a lot of value out of the course even though I was already familiar with most of the accidents that were talked about. Lots of extra inside knowledge as well.

I've heard others describe ATP-CTP as "sitting and watching a bunch of YouTube videos about plane crashes" and while they did have some videos that were pulled from YouTube as well as lots of documentary and NatGeo stuff, it was put together well. I can see how the material could be poorly taught by a read-the-PowerPoint type of presenter, but that was not my experience at all.

Maybe I need to do a full write-up.
 
Replaced a window regulator to call my wife's bluff. She says she doesn't want to ride in my beautiful "classic" car because it messes up her hair. I think she's ashamed to be seen in it. :rofl:

I drove it once with the top up; it was awful.
 

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Today I enjoyed a few cold ones with my son who’s stationed in Sigonella, Sicily. Catania is the nearby town with a pretty good selection of bars and cafes.

Next week I get back to the PNW and back to work on my RV-8.
 

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Hung out with peoples…


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Found the reason for my transponder fail message. Loose connection on the receive wire.
 
Finally, finally got the mini-split installs done. Just in time for the season where I don't really need it, but a beautiful 70 degree day here, so easy to test both heat and cool modes.
 
Albany Tom said:
Finally, finally got the mini-split installs done. Just in time for the season where I don't really need it, but a beautiful 70 degree day here, so easy to test both heat and cool modes.
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I put one in my garage back in June. It did a great job all summer; it's not running now but will again before long. Which reminds me, I really need to fix or replace my garage door weather seal strips. The big unknown for me was how it would impact the electric bill - it hasn't been too bad, and well worth the expense to have the garage usable for things other than parking cars.
 
Found these pieces in my driveway this morning.

Mystery of the United Airlines windshield strike solved.??
 

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Today I messed with this dumb golf cart project that's been on the back burner. Several years ago I lifted it and stretched the wheelbase, installed Suzuki ATV front suspension, and built a dump box and front cargo basket. It was really useful around the farm, but I always hated the 2-stroke gas engine in it. I picked up a 482cc 2-cylinder Kubota diesel from a semi truck APU and got a Yamaha axle with a built in forward/reverse gearbox (Original axle just had the secondary clutch right on the pinion shaft, and the engine would start backwards to make the cart go in reverse.) I extended one of the axle shafts and tubes, got the engine kinda positioned where I needed it, built a jackshaft to trade torque for RPM, built half the engine mount and then got sidetracked with a bunch of other stuff. That was in April.

Got the engine mounted to the swingarm today and swung the new drivetrain into the chassis. I had to cut off the rear frame due to the additional height of the little diesel, so the next task is to back-half the frame with greater rail spacing, get it sitting on its springs and get the dump box mounted again.

I should have just bought a Polaris Ranger. :rofl:
 

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Picked up one of these today and tried it out…

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Precision Adjust™ Knife Sharpener

Fixed Angle. Full Control. The Work Sharp® Precision Adjust™ guided sharpener makes it easy and affordable to get surprisingly sharp edges every time. Eliminate the struggle with dull knives.
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I’ve always had sharp knives, and in the last ten years I’ve figured out how to get a consistently shaving sharp edge. (I’ve usually got Woodworker’s Pattern Baldness on my left arm.) I’ve turned my wife into a knife snob in the kitchen, and spend a fair amount of time sharpening knives when I visit family. Last week at my daughter’s, I sharpened half a dozen kitchen knives that hadn’t been sharpened for at least a year.

My wife has commented that I need to teach her to sharpen in case something happens to me. I figure it needs to be pretty simple and foolproof, and this seems to fit the bill. Just a few minutes with three different grits (two diamond and one honing stone) gave a passable edge. A little stropping, and my arm’s a little less hairy.

Not quite as sharp as I normally go, but I can teach my wife to use it, and I think I know what the kids are getting for Christmas.
 
MauleSkinner said:
Picked up one of these today and tried it out…

worksharptools.com

Precision Adjust™ Knife Sharpener

Fixed Angle. Full Control. The Work Sharp® Precision Adjust™ guided sharpener makes it easy and affordable to get surprisingly sharp edges every time. Eliminate the struggle with dull knives.
worksharptools.com worksharptools.com

I’ve always had sharp knives, and in the last ten years I’ve figured out how to get a consistently shaving sharp edge. (I’ve usually got Woodworker’s Pattern Baldness on my left arm.) I’ve turned my wife into a knife snob in the kitchen, and spend a fair amount of time sharpening knives when I visit family. Last week at my daughter’s, I sharpened half a dozen kitchen knives that hadn’t been sharpened for at least a year.

My wife has commented that I need to teach her to sharpen in case something happens to me. I figure it needs to be pretty simple and foolproof, and this seems to fit the bill. Just a few minutes with three different grits (two diamond and one honing stone) gave a passable edge. A little stropping, and my arm’s a little less hairy.

Not quite as sharp as I normally go, but I can teach my wife to use it, and I think I know what the kids are getting for Christmas.
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Do you teach classes?
 
I lost half the feeling in my left thumb thanks to a dull knife. I've got havalon's for field dressing. But an old lansky system I use for kitchen knives. I too suffer from patchy baldness on my left arm.
 
I’ve got a set of three double sided whetstone’s I use regularly (the courser grit sides are getting as bowed as an old pack mule) but the best edge making sharpening stone I have is 120+ year old scythe stone. About 12” long, 1 1/2” wide in the center, and tapered and rounded to both ends with flat sides… with an inked on advertisement for an undertaker’s business on it.. (I’m guessing humor was different when it was made… a scythe sharpener advertising an undertaker during a time when yellow fever and dyptheria were at pandemic levels and being depicted commonly with images of the grim reaper in newspapers probably wouldn’t pass approval from a corporate “image department” today).
 
MauleSkinner said:
Picked up one of these today and tried it out…

worksharptools.com

Precision Adjust™ Knife Sharpener

Fixed Angle. Full Control. The Work Sharp® Precision Adjust™ guided sharpener makes it easy and affordable to get surprisingly sharp edges every time. Eliminate the struggle with dull knives.
worksharptools.com worksharptools.com
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I'm a sharp blade snob too, and for a few years sharpened knives of friends and family when I visited. It was clear most of them had no clue and didn't care, so I bought a few simple gadgets as presents and gave up.

How does that work for straight blades and straight blade sections? It looks like it's designed to only swing an arc.
I have a few whetstones and a few different gadgets. Best thing to keep a sharp blade sharp is a steel.
 
Yesterday, while I watched the Seattle Mariners blow a trip to the World Series, I made oatmeal chocolate chip pecan cookies. Yumm!
I must confess, this year I got way too invested in the Mariners. Their run invoked memories of my father and sitting with him in the Kingdome with 5000 others.
 
Domenick said:
Yesterday, while I watched the Seattle Mariners blow a trip to the World Series, I made oatmeal chocolate chip pecan cookies. Yumm!
I must confess, this year I got way too invested in the Mariners. Their run invoked memories of my father and sitting with him in the Kingdome with 5000 others.
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If it makes you feel better the team that caused the heartache (and is just about ten days away from feeling the same) is no stranger to many decades of disappointment.

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"saved" $800 at Bestbuy.

Walk in to buy some stuff, nobody helped me, after waiting 15 minutes I walked out without buying anything. If companies don't want brick-and-mortar stores to succeed, then follow bestbuy's lead.
 
Domenick said:
Yesterday, while I watched the Seattle Mariners blow a trip to the World Series, I made oatmeal chocolate chip pecan cookies. Yumm!
I must confess, this year I got way too invested in the Mariners. Their run invoked memories of my father and sitting with him in the Kingdome with 5000 others.
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ug, rooting for LA or some "foreign" team. ;-)

at least it's not the yankees...heh heh heh
 
Bob Noel said:
"saved" $800 at Bestbuy.

Walk in to buy some stuff, nobody helped me, after waiting 15 minutes I walked out without buying anything. If companies don't want brick-and-mortar stores to succeed, then follow bestbuy's lead.
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I gave up on BB ten years ago. Hopeless customer service.

Went in to buy a computer. Saw the one I wanted, tracked down a sales critter. The price showed higher than advertised. "Oh, that's our online price in the ad." I had to go to a computer in the store, place the order online in the store, then wait (and wait and wait) for the order to work its way through their system, then wait while the critter pulled the same flippin' box off the pile, and then took it to the pickup area where I waited (and waited and waited) and finally got my purchase.

What should have taken ten minutes took about an hour and a half. I emailed their customer service about the hassle, and in essence they said "that's how we do it."

I haven't been back since.
 
on the other hand, a couple of weeks ago I was at lowes. One cabinet on the shelf had a price (on the shelf) that was $20 less than the price of the exact same product on a different shelf. I took a picture of the shelf tag with the lower price and at checkout lowes honored the lower price.
 
Domenick said:
I'm a sharp blade snob too, and for a few years sharpened knives of friends and family when I visited. It was clear most of them had no clue and didn't care, so I bought a few simple gadgets as presents and gave up.
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I’ll probably still do the sharpening, but I won’t have to travel with the equipment. ;)

Domenick said:
How does that work for straight blades and straight blade sections? It looks like it's designed to only swing an arc.
I have a few whetstones and a few different gadgets. Best thing to keep a sharp blade sharp is a steel.
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It still works fairly well. There ends up being a slight difference in bevel angle between the center and the ends, but not enough to make a difference in practice.

Obviously the worse the edge gets, the more metal you have to grind away with coarser grits to get back to a sharp edge. My pocket knife I keep on top of enough that I only use a strop, but I’m not in the kitchen regularly enough to be able to start with a steel or strop on those knives.

When I got married, my in-laws gave us a Cutco set with a goofy edge that you need to send back to the factory for sharpening. In reality, they probably stay usably sharp longer because most of the cutting edge doesn’t come in contact with plates/platters/cutting boards that increase wear. But they’re designed for people who don’t sharpen, so I hate them. Fortunately my wife is enough of a convert that she initiated purchase of a couple of good chef knives.;) And she doesn’t complain when I pull out my pocket knife in the kitchen. :D
 
Well I'm sure I'll take some flack for wanting a nice cocktail cherry at the end of my bourbon or Manhattan and if you've ever had the Luxor brand of cherries ($20 a jar!)you know that they are just a whole lot better than any of the bright dyed red maraschino cherries that we all remember as kids. I make up a triple batch and that makes 8 1/2 pints at about $5 a jar. I make extras to pass out to my shooting buddies. Also good on ice-cream.

▢ ½ cup turbinado sugar
▢ ½ cup tart cherry juice
▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
▢ 1 teaspoon almond extract
▢ 1 cinnamon stick
▢ ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
▢ 1 pinch kosher salt
▢ 1 cup Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur

Just mix them all together and sauté on the stovetop for about 15 minutes to thicken. I put the cherries in the jar then pour it on the top.

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Pugs said:
Well I'm sure I'll take some flack for wanting a nice cocktail cherry at the end of my bourbon or Manhattan and if you've ever had the Luxor brand of cherries ($20 a jar!)you know that they are just a whole lot better than any of the bright dyed red maraschino cherries that we all remember as kids. I make up a triple batch and that makes 8 1/2 pints at about $5 a jar. I make extras to pass out to my shooting buddies. Also good on ice-cream.

▢ ½ cup turbinado sugar
▢ ½ cup tart cherry juice
▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
▢ 1 teaspoon almond extract
▢ 1 cinnamon stick
▢ ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
▢ 1 pinch kosher salt
▢ 1 cup Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur

Just mix them all together and sauté on the stovetop for about 15 minutes to thicken. I put the cherries in the jar then pour it on the top.

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I’d like to try that. Your recipe contains everything but the cherries. Which ones do you use?
 
Talked to a Nascar legend on the phone.
 
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