What did you do today?

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My lawn mower broke.... and unlike your precision milled carpet roller, I fixed it like a redneck
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They wanted 80 dollars for the pull assembly...pffft

Now it is an electric start

Have you watched the YouTube channel Project Farm? The guy does test with everything from epoxies and breaking strength to how long different drill bits last to do all kinds of weird things with lawn mowers. He even heated up bacon grease and filled the crankcase full to see what would happen. They do actually run on bacon grease.
That's the only way he starts a lawn mower. Neat idea. My super precision roller was actually, pretty low tech. Looks high tech because it's shiny.
Spray paint your drill with chrome paint and make it precision.

 

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Randy, I might need help building an ark.

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I don't have enough aluminum.

 

[Mark Brown]

Have you watched the YouTube channel Project Farm? The guy does test with everything from epoxies and breaking strength to how long different drill bits last to do all kinds of weird things with lawn mowers. He even heated up bacon grease and filled the crankcase full to see what would happen. They do actually run on bacon grease.
That's the only way he starts a lawn mower. Neat idea. My super precision roller was actually, pretty low tech. Looks high tech because it's shiny.
Spray paint your drill with chrome paint and make it precision.

Cant say I have watched anything much on youtube. I just though, rope... spinny thing, broken. Drill=Spinny thing, WIN!

 

[Tom Picciani]

Is buy a new lawn tractor too, but sticker shock is still in effect with the cost of eye surgery. Next year I might be able to sell my 10 year old Cub cadet to my neighbor and buy something that mulches better. This one has a kit I installed but the deck doesn’t have the height underneath. And I want one with an easy to remove deck for maintenance!

 

[zannej]

If you read what I wrote before I corrected it...... I swear this flooring forum hates me.
I use my microphone instead of typing on YouTube and other places but my words never get tweaked and twisted as bad as they do here for some reason. It seems that it types correctly when I talk, but after I post my comment, the words get tweaked and twisted. It doesn't seem to happen anywhere else.

Voice command can be hit or miss. I remember trying it out on my phone to see if my phone could translate my words to text. I tried it out with a scene from Shakespeare's Julius Ceasar. It thought I was saying pizza something instead of piece of earth. I wish I could find that transcription again bc it was hilariously bad.
I still remember when I was playing EverQuest and they had a voice command headset. We had a bad pull (too many enemies came after us) and my group was asking me why I sat down in the middle of combat. I said "My voice command thought I said 'sit'!"

I started porting my stereo from my Hyundai to my Honda. The most important part of any car is the Audio equipment which at no time shall be equal to less than three times the value of the car it is installed in.
This is going to take some time so for now, I just want to get the head unit and amps running then I will simply plop my sub box over and build a temporary sound bar for the 8 speakers I run that are not subs. The idea of the car is that I want to make the backseats/hatch into a custom fiberglass speaker/sub/amp install but I do not know if I have the ability to pull that off so for the time being I will just settle for sound. I figure it takes me the rest of the summer to complete and lord knows there will be a lot of profanity... but if I ever get it done, it will be something.
The nice part is I built the stereo a few years ago so I already have all the expensive bits... other than some MDF which isn't getting cheaper by the day and a custom pearl paint job... but if that does not pan out rustoleum is cheap

Nothing like installing 600W of drivers into a 92 Honda Civic, but I need something louder than the exhaust

I don't even listen to the radio in my vehicle. I don't play music in it often either. We mostly sing on car trips. I remember when I was talking to the parts guy at the Honda place about getting a replacement part for my CRV (bc someone had cut a factory trim piece to put in a subwoofer and then kept the subwoofer when car was repo'd and there was a big hole). I commented that it was a waste to have that fancy expensive sound system but they couldn't spring for some decent LED headlights. It's a great vehicle, but the default headlights are garbage.

Cant say I have watched anything much on youtube. I just though, rope... spinny thing, broken. Drill=Spinny thing, WIN!

Youtube has a LOT of very useful stuff. It has a lot of absolute drivel as well, but I've found some very useful things on there.

Still got a cold and feeling bleh. Sucked it up and took some generic Nyquil last night to keep my breathing clear enough that I could sleep. The part that is supposed to make me sleepy doesn't work so I had to listen to some soothing music and drank some milk for the tryptophan to help me sleep. I haven't been coughing a lot but the mucus is building up and it sucks. I probably need to hit the store again to get some stuff I forgot last time.

Head is too foggy to do anything majorly productive today so I might as well just grab some stuff from the store and then read the manual for the new cooktop mom got so I can start using it.

 

[Floorist]

Is buy a new lawn tractor too, but sticker shock is still in effect with the cost of eye surgery. Next year I might be able to sell my 10 year old Cub cadet to my neighbor and buy something that mulches better. This one has a kit I installed but the deck doesn’t have the height underneath. And I want one with an easy to remove deck for maintenance!

My 32 year old mower bit the dust.

 

[DarisMulkin]

That is because you have it in a dirt area and not in the grass. It's supposed to bite the grass. DUH Even I'm smart enough to know that.

 

[C.J.]

Speaking of YouTube, I saw these miter saw wings on there and thought I definitely need to make some of those for myself.

 

[zannej]

Made a run to the store while double masked. Got my stuff and got out. Just sneezed so hard I got brain freeze. LOL.

 

[Floorist]

10 years ago today, the worst tornado in the history of the U.S. hit Joplin, Mo. 161 died. Over 1,000 injured. On the ground for 38 minutes it caused $3 billion in damages. We went down to help and could not tell where we were, all landmarks were gone.

 

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10 years ago today, the worst tornado in the history of the U.S. hit Joplin, Mo. 161 died. Over 1,000 injured. On the ground for 38 minutes it caused $3 billion in damages. We went down to help and could not tell where we were, all landmarks were gone.

Makes me happy with it just getting windy here and never having stuff like that happen. During storms it can get pretty windy directly on the coast which is 5 mi away, and a lot windier 20 or 30 miles offshore. I doubt if in town, we've had a 50 mph gust in the last 20 years. 30 or 35 definitely, but something above that isn't common.

 

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An interesting predicament. The guy filming is real helpful...... not.

 

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aah, the good old days.

I'm betting Greta would have a cow.

 

[Mark Brown]

So... im gonna just say that was better than my plan.
I got about 120 quarts up top of my driveway o gotta get a drum for so I can cart it off to the recyclers.
Wish i could just dig a hole

That's most of it...

 

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I may have 15. I love those five quart jugs.

 

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It's less than 3 mi to an in-town refuse disposal place. They take used motor oil there so it's easy to dispose of.

 

[zannej]

I don't think we have any areas to dump oil. People often just dump it on the ground here. They aren't supposed to, but there is no one who enforces environmental stuff in the area.

I'm still sick. Breathing is better but post-nasal drip has wrecked my digestive system. Spent most of yesterday in bed sleeping. I got my brother to empty the trash can but he was too lazy to put a new bag in. I filled up the new bag while cleaning up overflowed trash in the kitchen. I'm slowly putting a dent in the mess there. My brother was supposed to do it-- he promised Mom he would-- but he reneged so I'm stuck doing it because it needs to be done. I did as much cleaning as I could yesterday but got light-headed and had to sit down. I hadn't eaten anything as I've been mildly nauseous and no appetite. Lost about 6lbs (mom got a bathroom scale) in a day just from being sick. Probably all water weight. My stomach hates me right now so I'm taking it easy and waiting for the Pepto to kick in.

I can't find my Naproxyn-- no idea what happened to it- but I'm due for a refill soon.

I just saw my brother walk through the hallway. I'm going to see if I can get him to make me some soup.