What did you do today?

[MikeAntonetti]

Sounds like a dam good kid, smart, down to earth.

welding and electric are my regrets not learning.

Chris I assumed it was a PCD blade, might cost 1k $ to sharpen that many carbide.

Bought some more Milwaukee boots from Keen, the 20% off email got me an impulse buy. I’ll have 5 sets when my 20% off Zoro back order comes in.

Finished up an 1800 ft Dustless tile removal with Mapegard under using the ride on scraper, way easier than a chipping hammer.

 

[zannej]

Exactly right about the dictators and the slaughter of US natives. The Guatemalans were devastated. There was a movie many years back about the plight of a pair of young Guatemalans who came to the US through Mexico and pretended to be Mexican. Their paperwork didn't come back as legit and they were deported to Mexico. I think they ended up being killed. It was based on a true story and the whole point of the movie was to paint USINS as evil. My father watched that and told me that if they had just told the truth about being Mayans from Guatemala they would have been granted asylum.

There is a family lore tale about one of my Scott-Irish ancestors (a 16yr old boy) dressing as a girl to get evacuated off of a boat that was sinking. They were taking the girls and women off first. If he hadn't done it, he would have sunk with the ship. Not sure if there's any truth to it though.

Have to go check up on my friend. Last week his stove stopped working. This week his TV stopped working, X-Box stopped working, discovered his external hard drive (for backups) wasn't working, and the bumper fell off his car (I assume it's the back bumper but he didn't say which one). Also, he can't see his daughter because one of her classmates got Covid and she's being quarantined.

 

[Incognito]

Words are insufficient to describe the fun we have.

 

[Mark Brown]

Oh man, and here I thought only I got all the fun.

Glad to see you took such an effort not to brake the computers.....ugh
School you say?

 

[Incognito]

Oh man, and here I thought only I got all the fun.

Glad to see you took such an effort not to brake the computers.....ugh
School you say?

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I found that box at a different school where they disconnected and boxed up the computers and moved them to storage bins. In this library they did not want to disconnect them so we had to shift them back and forth. One of the kids blew us off this AM so I had to pitch in and help move those 14' (6+8) onto the finished side. I think I hurt my back.

 

[Floorist]

Exactly right about the dictators and the slaughter of US natives. The Guatemalans were devastated. There was a movie many years back about the plight of a pair of young Guatemalans who came to the US through Mexico and pretended to be Mexican. Their paperwork didn't come back as legit and they were deported to Mexico. I think they ended up being killed. It was based on a true story and the whole point of the movie was to paint USINS as evil. My father watched that and told me that if they had just told the truth about being Mayans from Guatemala they would have been granted asylum.

There is a family lore tale about one of my Scott-Irish ancestors (a 16yr old boy) dressing as a girl to get evacuated off of a boat that was sinking. They were taking the girls and women off first. If he hadn't done it, he would have sunk with the ship. Not sure if there's any truth to it though.

Have to go check up on my friend. Last week his stove stopped working. This week his TV stopped working, X-Box stopped working, discovered his external hard drive (for backups) wasn't working, and the bumper fell off his car (I assume it's the back bumper but he didn't say which one). Also, he can't see his daughter because one of her classmates got Covid and she's being quarantined.

Guatemalans (Mayans) and Mexicans (Aztecs) hate each other. I have had friends from both countries.

 

[highup]

I guess it was our turn to become the crazy place in the world.
Some deranged idiot shot and killed one man at the Mill casino RV resort, then stole his pickup truck and ran over to people, then proceeded to a nearby cannabis shop and shot through the Windows and killed a young lady who worked there.
https://kobi5.com/news/triple-homicide-suspect-sought-by-coos-county-police-152524/This is our local DA describing what they know. This happened early today and the man has not been apprehended yet. He crashed the stolen truck I'm estimating 80 miles away from here and ran off into the woods.
Hopefully he will nourish the woods so that they can grow stronger than he ever was.
Pretty sad day for a small community.
https://fb.watch/6dg9RWYwDA/

 

[MikeAntonetti]

Reality is, I’ve realized it can happen to me( the shot part, not the crazy) I go lots of places, dam fast bullets. Sad,

 

[Floorist]

I guess it was our turn to become the crazy place in the world.
Some deranged idiot shot and killed one man at the Mill casino RV resort, then stole his pickup truck and ran over to people, then proceeded to a nearby cannabis shop and shot through the Windows and killed a young lady who worked there.
https://kobi5.com/news/triple-homicide-suspect-sought-by-coos-county-police-152524/This is our local DA describing what they know. This happened early today and the man has not been apprehended yet. He crashed the stolen truck I'm estimating 80 miles away from here and ran off into the woods.
Hopefully he will nourish the woods so that they can grow stronger than he ever was.
Pretty sad day for a small community.
https://fb.watch/6dg9RWYwDA/

Hopefully he will run into the wrong local and come out in a body bag.

 

[zannej]

On the immigration thing: There is a quota on how many people from specific countries can be allowed entry or allowed to naturalize during specific time periods. Some countries are allowed to bring in more than others. Not sure who sets the parameters. Asylum is a different beast though. They can expedite asylum cases if the immigrants are in imminent danger.

My arm and shoulder have been acting up and it's been too hot to spend more than a couple minutes outside. I picked up mail and then cooked for Mom. Found some Hungry Man turkey meals she likes. Mewlatto doesn't like the hot weather either but he is curled up on me. I don't have my camera on me but I just looked out the window and see a cloud that looks like pink cotton candy.

I was feeling nostalgic and looking at google maps of places I previously lived. Discovered there's a shop on Guam called "Coffee ****". LOL. Got more details of my old house in Virginia. Not so much detail on my old house in California though. Couldn't view my old house on Guam because it was on military housing so they won't allow it. My apartment building in Singapore was torn down years ago. I'm trying to think of other places we lived so I can look them up. My mom found that her high school was torn down.

 

[Floorist]

I met a young man several years ago named "David" who was an illegal from Guatemala. He was Mayan and on the hit list. He got caught, was deported and we think executed. No one here ever heard from him again.

 

[highup]

Hopefully he will run into the wrong local and come out in a body bag.

After he crashed the truck and lit it on fire he ran into the woods. He's still on the loose.
Or he ran in to the woods and came back out, flagged on a car, and hijacked it. Hopefully he ran into the trees a little ways and put bullet in his head.
Nothing he did is related to anything else that he did. That's the strangest part.

 

[highup]

On the immigration thing: There is a quota on how many people from specific countries can be allowed entry or allowed to naturalize during specific time periods. Some countries are allowed to bring in more than others. Not sure who sets the parameters. Asylum is a different beast though. They can expedite asylum cases if the immigrants are in imminent danger.

My arm and shoulder have been acting up and it's been too hot to spend more than a couple minutes outside. I picked up mail and then cooked for Mom. Found some Hungry Man turkey meals she likes. Mewlatto doesn't like the hot weather either but he is curled up on me. I don't have my camera on me but I just looked out the window and see a cloud that looks like pink cotton candy.

I was feeling nostalgic and looking at google maps of places I previously lived. Discovered there's a shop on Guam called "Coffee ****". LOL. Got more details of my old house in Virginia. Not so much detail on my old house in California though. Couldn't view my old house on Guam because it was on military housing so they won't allow it. My apartment building in Singapore was torn down years ago. I'm trying to think of other places we lived so I can look them up. My mom found that her high school was torn down.

I've lived in four places. The farthest one is 7 miles away.

 

[Floorist]

After he crashed the truck and lit it on fire he ran into the woods. He's still on the loose.
Or he ran in to the woods and came back out, flagged on a car, and hijacked it. Hopefully he ran into the trees a little ways and put bullet in his head.
Nothing he did is related to anything else that he did. That's the strangest part.

Sounds like he is high on something.

 

[highup]

They've gotten some more information but they still haven't caught him.
In the order of things that he did the first thing that police were called on is that he ran over two people in the parking lot of the casino. This was near the casinos RV Park. They searched the park and discovered a deceased man in a trailer there.
Now they know the man's name and found out that the deceased man in the trailer was his father. Someone mentioned that he may have came into town to visit his son for Father's Day. That's just a rumor.
So he kills his dad then he runs over to people and kills one of them and then he drives three quarters of a mile away and shoots a young lady at a marijuana dispensary. Her son now has no mother. There doesn't seem to be a connection between him and the lady he shot.
For random acts like this I'm sure the guys got to be on drugs or some other mental issues or both. We're like every other small town that says this kind of stuff never happens here.
The marijuana shop owner has set up a $10,000 reward for information that leads to apprehension of this guy. Personally I hope they pay the $10,000 to the person that finds his body.

 

[Floorist]

If a local shoots him they should get $10,000 and a medal.

 

[MikeAntonetti]

My wife’s friend gave a ride to some lady that murdered another person, I think she highjacked a car and ran the lady over. Walked up to her house and asked if she can take her to wildwood about 20 miles away, her being some kind of church person? (Supposed to help people) obliged. Police, helicopters all over my wife called her friend she told her situation and my wife suggested she call police.

 

[highup]

Hopefully the guy just does himself in rather than getting a fight with the police. Hate to see anybody else get hurt.

 

[Floorist]

Several times a year, our sheriff will thank the public for their help.

 

[zannej]

Highup, I've traveled all over. Born in California, moved to Georgia, then Texas, then Virginia, then back to California, then to Louisiana, then to Singapore, then to Guam, and back to Louisiana. Every few years we go visit my sister in New Mexico. As a kid I used to spend a few weeks in the summer with my uncle in Mississippi. I went to at least 10 different schools. I actually got held back a year because I missed too much school while traveling & the teacher didn't tell me or my parents that I needed to complete up to a certain point in a workbook to move to the next grade. I could have easily done it, but I suspect the teacher disliked me. Probably because I was stubborn and liked to do things my own way and I was not afraid to tell someone if I thought something was wrong, unfair, or stupid.

Shoulder and arm are being particularly hateful today. I went to stretch and got a sharp pain running from my shoulder down to my elbow. Still helped mom move stuff around and do more sorting in her room. She's slowly getting stuff off of her bed so she has more room. If she keeps it up I'll actually be able to change her bedsheets. They desperately need to be changed and I know mice have been crawling on her bed. Once we get all the crap off her bed I can put up the rail she wanted on it to keep stuff from falling off the side (since she still intends to pile stuff on it).

Left my door open for the first time in days. Cats zerged in to pile on top of me. I got up and fed them so I could have some peace (they were in the way of me using my computer). One of the cats was trying to jump from a chair to a box directly in front of me, but I didn't see him in time. Bumped in to him so he fell and his back foot caught my leg with claws. I don't think he realized he scratched me. Two bleeding marks down my leg now. Too bad I didn't have the blood sugar meter out to check my sugar levels. LOL. I get scratches all the time but I have a needle phobia and can't stand to prick my finger to check my sugar. I also don't have my own meter or lance as I'm only pre-diabetic.

I was watching some How To videos trying to figure out how to make a custom tailor's dummy with arms and legs. Saw a bunch using plaster, some with duct tape or masking tape. Saw new forms of expanding foam that look pretty cool. There's stuff that can replace seat cushions and arm rests in vehicles. Make pillows or make soft props... Then I came across something where a guy showed how to shrink a mold or expand a mold using mineral spirits. He's got a dry sense of humor. You might like this one:


Mixing mineral spirits with one of the liquid parts (I think the catalyst) before combining will make a mold that can shrink as it dries over a period of days. Soaking the regular mold in mineral spirits will make it expand.

I've also been looking at images of desks for ideas on how to do the base of the sewing desk.