Random Thoughts

[KD8TUT]

Okay, self-esteem has never been my strong suit but even I have limits as to what I'll take.

So do you have a problem with Astroglide or Tin Foil Parades?

Somehow neither should effect your self esteem.

[NQ6U]

My statement was in reference to Real Life. My tinfoil asshat works perfectly.

[KD8TUT]

My statement was in reference to Real Life. My tinfoil asshat works perfectly.

Nice.

I'm having a bad day- let me illustrate:

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[WØTKX]

http://www.icarly.com/assets/1/image/2010/11/24/50135_1956359867.jpg

[KD8TUT]

As a note: I had not been feeling particularly good the last few days. Today is not half bad.

[WZ7U]

You too? Interesting.........

[WØTKX]

https://wesharman.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/4525f-bkliban001.jpg

[N8XE]

Drinking Crown Royal on my Birthday while working from home... am I going to hell?

[KG4CGC]

Drinking Crown Royal on my Birthday while working from home... am I going to hell?

Well sir, that's certainly how you get your tickets!

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/001/ticket-to-hell_zpsddxfsm8k.jpg

[K4PIH]

Does a bear shit in the woods? ....... the world may never know..... :rofl:


Not if he can find a gas station!

[NQ6U]

I was listening to the marine VHF calling channel earlier and heard a call from the “Research vessel Sally Ride.”

A ship named in honor of a woman astronaut—how cool is that?


All you wanna do is ride around, Sally
(Ride, Sally Ride…)

[WZ7U]

I keep meaning to program those freqs in my scanner due to the proximity of the Columbia River and Astoria (with the Columbia River Bar & all that entails) only 35 road miles west.

Now if I could only remember where I left it last........

[NQ6U]

I keep meaning to program those freqs in my scanner due to the proximity of the Columbia River and Astoria (with the Columbia River Bar & all that entails) only 35 road miles west.

Now if I could only remember where I left it last........

You'd need a good antenna. Most ships/boats keep the power turned down to 5W or less unless they're out on the open ocean.

[WZ7U]

QRP, eh? Huh. Figures.

Well, have one of those R.S. scanner "base" antennas around here somewhere. Slightly better than a rubber duck or a coat hanger, but not much I bet. Just gotta locate all the pieces.

I'm guessing there would be the occasional river pilot traffic while en route from the Port of Astoria to points east as well as Port chatter all up & down the river at the various ports. Not to mention all the fisher dudes out there. Lots of river traffic on the water.

Most of the personal stuff would be all on cell phones, but maybe it would add to the occasional squelch breaks above and beyond what I get with the sheriffs office and the fire departments in our fair county.

[NQ6U]

It takes a lot less time to take down your antenna farm that it does to put it up. Easier, too, since gravity works in your favor, but not as much fun. There is now no externally visible evidence that a ham radio op lives here.

[KG4NEL]

I was listening to the marine VHF calling channel earlier and heard a call from the “Research vessel Sally Ride.”

A ship named in honor of a woman astronaut—how cool is that?

All you wanna do is ride around, Sally
(Ride, Sally Ride…)


Is that the one out of Scripps?

The new one at Woods Hole is the Neil Armstrong.

[NQ6U]

Is that the one out of Scripps?

Yep, it sure is. Just arrived, I must have heard it on it's way into the bay although I didn't realize it at the time.


The new one at Woods Hole is the Neil Armstrong.

That's cool too!

[WZ7U]

Yes, yes it is!

[KG4NEL]

I saw it when I was walking around waiting for my ferry. Big boat.

[KD8TUT]

I need to cut the lawn- hopefully for the last time.

Hate cutting the lawn.

[KK4AMI]

I was hoping August would bring brown grass and slow growth, nup! It has been raining here so much that Sept is like spring. I'm trying to cut it just once a week, but it could still be done twice a week.

[PA5COR]

Cutting grass tomorrow, saw 21C today with sun, tomorrow 18 C and in the afternoon at last some rain, have to cut it before it rains.... these warm temperature it sprouts like an idiot....
Total rainfall for Septeember 14 mm per square meter, 14 liters per square meter....August was dry as well.

[WA6RO]

FYI: desert winds here near LA the past three days (41c hot hot hot dry dry dry) excellent weather for breathing in place, no movement not even walking only swimming in cool water is good . . .

[NQ6U]

FYI: desert winds here near LA the past three days (41c hot hot hot dry dry dry) excellent weather for breathing in place, no movement not even walking only swimming in cool water is good . . .

Same deal here in San Diego. Don't you just love Santa Ana season?

[WA6RO]

yep - love it - hi hi - plus, it's just the beginning - makes us nautical types appear as geniuses - of course, we arrggh !!!

[VE7DCW]

yep - love it - hi hi - plus, it's just the beginning - makes us nautical types appear as geniuses - of course, we arrggh !!!

We aaaarrgh?........like pirates? Carl is ......I'm positive of it!

[KG4CGC]

Same deal here in San Diego. Don't you just love Santa Ana season?

Yeah and the Mexicans always trying to get his leg back before being chased off.

[KD8TUT]

I have to go walk a mile.

[NQ6U]

I have to go walk a mile.

Will there be a Camel at the end?

[KD8TUT]

Will there be a Camel at the end?

Only if I grow humps from drinking water :)

[WØTKX]

https://media.giphy.com/media/12UWMsiE9gTuCI/giphy.gif

[KG4CGC]

Only if I grow humps from drinking water :)

That's called an ass. In other words, butt cheeks.

[KG4NEL]

I'm suppressing a Fergie reference.

[WZ7U]

I discovered the nuances of rolled roofing today. Please, kill me now.

Never again. Ruined a whole work outfit with that stupid adhesive (glorified oil distillery skudge) including my comfy shoes.

Rule # 427; never let the yl talk you into something you know is out of your element.

[W3WN]

Will there be a Camel at the end?
No, he's wearing another man's shoes. Just wait till that guy finds out that his shoes are now over a mile away...

[WØTKX]

https://i2.wp.com/www.grudge-match.com/Images/JoeCamelWins.jpg

[KD8TUT]

https://i2.wp.com/www.grudge-match.com/Images/JoeCamelWins.jpg

That used to be me. Though I'm a non smoker now.

[WZ7U]

Me too, thank God. Its better being a leader than a follower, especially when it comes to stupid "look cool" activities. Getting to this point wasn't pleasant though.

[WØTKX]

I quit smoking cigs in the early 80's. Never smoked that much, if I hit 10 a day, that was a lot.

Did smoke unfiltered cigs the most tho. Especially English ovals.

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/311492653590-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

[KG4CGC]

Those were nice.

[KG4NEL]

Never smoked.


























































Tobacco.

[NQ6U]

First sunset at the new QTH:

http://i.imgur.com/UnZkSqg.jpg

[KD8TUT]

First sunset at the new QTH:



Oh man Carl- That's great...

So happy for you! May you sail many miles and make many contacts!!

Wow!

[KG4CGC]

To everyone whose team won tonight, Congratulations.

[XE1/N5AL]

First sunset at the new QTH:
Cool! I hope the basement doesn't leak. What are you using for an antenna?

[KG4CGC]

First sunset at the new QTH:



That.
Is.
Awesome.
:clap:

[KG4CGC]

I discovered the nuances of rolled roofing today. Please, kill me now.

Never again. Ruined a whole work outfit with that stupid adhesive (glorified oil distillery skudge) including my comfy shoes.

Rule # 427; never let the yl talk you into something you know is out of your element.

I am reminded of an episode inside the Montgomery Ward's. I was 13 and we were in there one evening oh, sometime around November.
In the hardware section they had a display for expanding construction foam. The foam was sprayed on to a piece of cardboard and was about the size of a basketball. I was that caramel looking stuff but it looked like caramel puke. I looked at it for a second and reached out with my index finger to touch it. Juuust before I came within a half inch of it, it jumped on my finger and was up half of a sleeve of my coat.

I was just standing there looking at it as if I was dazed or something. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how if got on me so fast! What I haven't told you yet will be totally shocking.
When we got there there was no one around it. OK, are you following me? The guy at that section, dressed in his 1974 satin shirt in 1977 showed up 30 seconds later. Apparently, 30 seconds before we got there, he just sprayed the foam there! SHOCKING? SHOCKING? SHOCKING!

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/001/Z-One-Does-Not-Sim_BACON_zpskk8nkitw.jpg

[NQ6U]

Cool! I hope the basement doesn't leak.

When the inspector and I lifted the floor hatch over the bilge during the prepurchase survey, he laughed. "Good thing you have that little vacuum cleaner" he said "because you're gonna need it to clean the dust out of the bilges."

There is a small accumulation of water in the very bottom of the keel well. The boat has a manual pump that I use about once a week but I recently bought an automatic unit to put down there. That's near the top of the to-do list.


What are you using for an antenna?

Nothing as yet. Ham radio has to take a back seat to boat stuff for a while.

[NQ6U]

That.
Is.
Awesome.
:clap:

iPhone 4 with the HDR function turned on. HDR is cool—the shots I took without it didn't work at all.

[KG4CGC]

iPhone 4 with the HDR function turned on. HDR is cool—the shots I took without it didn't work at all.

Yes sir. Yes sir. That's awesome too.

[WZ7U]

Nice turn of events Carl. Enjoy!!

Beautiful sunset BTW

[KD8TUT]

I'm completely naked.

[WZ7U]

That's pretty damned random

[KD8TUT]

That's pretty damned random

Yea well... it's me ;)

[KG4NEL]

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT14/refresh/AL1416_PROB34_F120+gif/204647.gif

PREPARE YOURSELVES

I'm supposedly going to be in Virginia this weekend running a half marathon. The office being out of power on Monday would be pretty sweet.

[WZ7U]

Poor bastards.....

[KG4NEL]

The world's shit-catching magnet is permanently stuck under Haiti, it appears.

I can think of many other places for it to go...

[NQ6U]

The drain in my galley sink was running very slow so I got out a plunger and had at it. It took a while, but I finally got it unclogged. I also got a wad of marine plant life in the sink. That's not something I've encountered before in my plumbing adventures.

[WZ7U]

At least it didn't have tentacles and an appetite!

[KK4AMI]

The drain in my galley sink was running very slow so I got out a plunger and had at it. It took a while, but I finally got it unclogged. I also got a wad of marine plant life in the sink. That's not something I've encountered before in my plumbing adventures.

Are you sure that wasn't the salad dispenser? You know you maybe the luckiest bast'd in San Diego? I saw a news report that you guys are getting a lot of little quakes that might be leading to the big one. Being on the boat during a quake should be safe.

[KG4CGC]

At least it didn't have tentacles and an appetite!

The Kracken!

[KG4CGC]

Are you sure that wasn't the salad dispenser? You know you maybe the luckiest bast'd in San Diego? I saw a news report that you guys are getting a lot of little quakes that might be leading to the big one. Being on the boat during a quake should be safe.

If you're a few miles away from the shore, yes and assuming it isn't accompanied by a tsunami.

[XE1/N5AL]

At least it didn't have tentacles and an appetite!

Just a suggestion: Whenever the Seaview faced imminent cephalopod peril, Admiral Nelson simply rigged-up his nuclear reactors to send an electrical charge through the ship's hull. Problem solved!

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[NQ6U]

Good tip. I'll fire up the reactor (a two-lung 14 hp Yanmar diesel) and wire the alternator to the hull.

Oh, wait—it's a fiberglass boat. Never mind…

[W3WN]

At least it didn't have tentacles and an appetite!

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/ Panel #1

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[W3WN]

Just a suggestion: Whenever the Seaview faced imminent cephalopod peril, Admiral Nelson simply rigged-up his nuclear reactors to send an electrical charge through the ship's hull. Problem solved!

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I always wondered, were Admiral Nelson and Major Nelson related?

[NQ6U]

I can see Mexico from my front porch (aka foredeck).

[XE1/N5AL]

I can see Mexico from my front porch (aka foredeck).
Same here.

[WZ7U]

I can on Google Earth

[kb2vxa]

Spy satellites, an image database and software so obsolete and useless the CIA sold it to Goo Goo Smurf to defray the cost of the really good stuff that can read the newspaper over your shoulder.

[KD8TUT]

Same comment- different day.. I've got to cut the lawn....

[WØTKX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq2eM8o3HY0

[KD8TUT]

I cut the lawn.

[kb2vxa]

I cut the cheese.

[WZ7U]

Didn't get any on ya?

[KG4CGC]

Didn't get any on ya?

Usually buries himself from the hips down.

[WZ7U]

They make 'panties' for that, ya know.

[KD8TUT]

Because real men:

http://www.manties.net/

[WZ7U]

I'm not even going to click that one......

why not? depends

[kb2vxa]

Oh shit.

[KG4NEL]

drunkz

[NQ6U]

Just got my statement from the marina. I've used .4 KWH of electricity since October 1. That's seven cents worth. Separately, I used $3.40 worth of propane for my galley stove.

This boat thing really is a cheap way to live.

[KK4AMI]

I'm looking at 20 tons of river rock dumped at the end of my driveway. I think that comes to about 200 wheelbarrows full that I have to shovel and move. At a rate of 20 wheelbarrows full a day, I should have my driveway back in 10 days, right? What have I done?

[WØTKX]

Created an exercise plan. I guess. ;)

[XE1/N5AL]

I'm looking at 20 tons of river rock dumped at the end of my driveway. I think that comes to about 200 wheelbarrows full that I have to shovel and move. At a rate of 20 wheelbarrows full a day, I should have my driveway back in 10 days, right? What have I done?

Are you building a river?

[KG4NEL]

I have a 40hp Kubota with a front-end loader in Graham. I should be able to drive it to you in about ten days.

[KK4AMI]

I do need the exercise plan, there is no doubt. I am not building a river, but close. Living here on what I call "The Back Ass Banks" of Albemarle Sound brings a lot of water. I'm trying to channel a lot of water out of my crawl space.

Thanks for the offer of the machine assist, but I have so many nooks and cranny's to stuff rocks that I might as well get the exercise. I may hire a few backs to help. Living in the land of retirees there are a lot of landscape and lawn services here.

[K7SGJ]

When you finish, I have 120 tons of asphalt you can work on. Actually, it is from a canceled job, and I would love to get rid of it. You bring the truck, and I'll load it.

[KK4AMI]

120 tons? A truck?

[KG4CGC]

120 tons? A truck?

Yeah and it's all one piece.

[WZ7U]

By now it is :D

[NQ6U]

120 tons? A truck?

A number of trucks. The most a truck can legally weigh is 40 tons, and that's including the weight of the truck itself. Figure a maximum payload of maybe 22 tons or so.

[KG4CGC]

A number of trucks. The most a truck can legally weigh is 40 tons, and that's including the weight of the truck itself. Figure a maximum payload of maybe 22 tons or so.

It'll need to be airlifted.

[WZ7U]

I've seen dump trucks in WV with, I shit you not, 4 & 5 tag axles as well as the standard tandem on the rear. That should make its GVW at around 88,500 for 5 tags.....that's a lot for a class 8 dump truck. Am I doing the math right? 34k for the tandems, 12k for the steer, 42500 for 5 tags. I dunno, been a rough day and I reserve the right (and privilege) to be wrong (yet again, today).

[KG4CGC]

Look, if they have a helicopter that will fly Chris Christie, I'm sure they have something that will airlift 120 tons, with ease.

[NQ6U]

I guess I don't need to worry about working on my tan for a while. I dropped off my ballot today and without even asking, the poll worker handed me this:

http://i.imgur.com/ahiuFyz.png

[KD8TUT]

Something different....

So I'm re-watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

I'm also coming to the conclusion that these movies pretty much suck.

[NQ6U]

Something different....

So I'm re-watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

I'm also coming to the conclusion that these movies pretty much suck.

Not as badly as their follow-up, the trilogy of movies based on The Hobbit. Six hours for a single, smallish book? Smacks of greed to me.

[KD8TUT]

Not as badly as their follow-up, the trilogy of movies based on The Hobbit. Six hours for a single, smallish book? Smacks of greed to me.

I did not see those... never interested me. The only reason I even saw the original three was that I had read the books in high school.

[NQ6U]

I did not see those... never interested me. The only reason I even saw the original three was that I had read the books in high school.

You bettah off. “Tedious” is the word I'd use to describe them.

[W3WN]

Not as badly as their follow-up, the trilogy of movies based on The Hobbit. Six hours for a single, smallish book? Smacks of greed to me.
The filmmakers even admitted that they stretched the single novel out, just to pad three films.

I remember trying to read the series of books in college. Never got more than a few pages in, bored me to sleep. Never was all that interested in the movies, although the Boss and LMFD love them. (No offense intended to JRRT fans out there, it's just not my cup of tea)

[KD8TUT]

So I'm on the board of directors of a national non-profit. And I'm sitting in a board meeting.

I want to claw the eyes out of these people. They aren't bad people... but grrrr.... this meeting has gone on 2.5 hours and will not be complete for hours more.

Grrrr... Grrr.....

[XE1/N5AL]

Years ago, I used to be on the board of directors of a Mexican government funded children's shelter that was operated by the Catholic Church. It was an unusual situation as I am neither Mexican nor Catholic. The nuns there often tried to convince me to convert religions. Fortunately, our meetings were reasonably short and painless.

[KG4CGC]

http://districtspeed.com/f-250-3208-caterpillar-diesel/?source=gmg

[KD8TUT]

Years ago, I used to be on the board of directors of a Mexican government funded children's shelter that was operated by the Catholic Church. It was an unusual situation as I am neither Mexican nor Catholic. The nuns there often tried to convince me to convert religions. Fortunately, our meetings were reasonably short and painless.

Was a 4 hour fun-fest.

Have to do it again today as well. Blech

[NQ6U]

Was a 4 hour fun-fest.

Have to do it again today as well. Blech

But, hey, at least the Cubbies won the Series, right?

[KG4CGC]

But, hey, at least the Cubbies won the Series, right?

Don't forget the Cubes.

[NQ6U]

Don't forget the Cubes.

Chicago3

[WZ7U]

The Cubes......another galactic anomaly indicative of the coming utter upheaval. :-)

[kb2vxa]

I'm a Yankees fan, but I got a toddlin' town Cubes jacket for free. Nothing beats a warm jacket for free. At least now I don't have to pretend I'm pledging allegiance to an invisible flag.

[WZ7U]

Extra hour of sleep tonight! <sarcasm on> Just when I needed it most <sarcasm mode deactivated>

[NQ6U]

I'm a Yankees fan, but I got a toddlin' town Cubes jacket for free.

Let me guess: you stole it off of some passed-out-drunk Chicago fan?

[kb2vxa]

"Extra hour of sleep tonight!"
Not an extra hour, you got the hour that was stolen from you and was in a government vault all summer back and to make matters worse they kept the interest it accrued! Yep, they found a way to tax time, they're still working on air tax.

"Let me guess: you stole it off of some passed-out-drunk Chicago fan?"
No, back in Lizardbreath the manager would open a room when a tenant skipped and left clothes and other goodies behind to be cleaned out, then get drunk and pass out for the rest of the day. So you see, it wasn't a passed out drunk fan, it was a passed out drunk manager. Since I left Stinktown 17 years ago it's an older jacket with the old patch, this is as close as I could find on the Intertubes. Mine has CUBS in white across its head.

I'm a Yankees fan, but if you think I'll spend $120 for a jacket you must be mad!

[KD8TUT]

My back hurts and I just want to go to sleep.

[KB3LAZ]

My thought process in a nutshell. GTX, Jubilee Orpington, Feo, fuerte Y formal, Ohira renge shiro suita, the pretty colors, Tanichthys albonubes, Ruka and Riza, The Gunslinger, "excuse me mister officer", Masakage Koishi Bunka, 75A4, walnut, Kujou Sakarako, Bones, Angel, "yes we multiply", slurry, Dovo, the smell of paper, Alcoy, salmon, Triumph, foliage, khaki, Sheffield, revelations, youtube, haversack, Sunday, Impala....this is the song that never ends.

So many useless thoughts flow through my head.

[W3WN]

So I'm on the board of directors of a national non-profit. And I'm sitting in a board meeting.

I want to claw the eyes out of these people. They aren't bad people... but grrrr.... this meeting has gone on 2.5 hours and will not be complete for hours more.

Grrrr... Grrr.....Which non-profit, out of idle curiosity?

[KD8TUT]

Which non-profit, out of idle curiosity?

Probably not a good idea to ID myself since I just cried about a board meeting.

[NQ6U]

I wish the recent World Series was going on right now instead. I seriously need an engaging diversion to take my mind off The Horror.

[kb2vxa]

The real horror comes in January.

Springtime for Hitler and Germany,
Winter for US and..........

OOPS, wrong thread.

[WZ7U]

poop



random enough?

[KG4CGC]

Took some cornbread and crumbled it up in a bowl. Poured olive oil over it and sliced a piece of brie on it. Nuked it about 2 minutes.

[KG4CGC]

Got a problem with that?

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[NQ6U]

Took some cornbread and crumbled it up in a bowl. Poured olive oil over it and sliced a piece of brie on it. Nuked it about 2 minutes.

Interesting combo. How was it?

[KG4CGC]

Interesting combo. How was it?

Lish. Simply lish.

[NQ6U]

I would say I'll keep it in mind but I don't have a microwave on the boat.

[KG4CGC]

I would say I'll keep it in mind but I don't have a microwave on the boat.

Add some Greek olives. SPANAKOPITA!

[KD8TUT]

Add some Greek olives. SPANAKOPITA!

Get some Gonella style bread, slice it an inch thick, and brush each side with virgin olive oil and sprinkle some garlic powder and salt (lightly) on each side. Pan fry each side until golden. Cover top with mozzarella cheese and a teaspoon of crappy bottled red gravy.

Cover pan for a minute until cheese is melted.

Eat- and send thank you note :)

[kb2vxa]

It's Saturday, brain still asleep.

[KG4CGC]

Get some Gonella style bread, slice it an inch thick, and brush each side with virgin olive oil and sprinkle some garlic powder and salt (lightly) on each side. Pan fry each side until golden. Cover top with mozzarella cheese and a teaspoon of crappy bottled red gravy.

Cover pan for a minute until cheese is melted.

Eat- and send thank you note :)

I have this thing about garlic: only use fresh garlic from the USA. Peel it, slice or dice. I often just use it cracked open.
Here's a quick and easy midnight snack on a soft tortilla with maters and ovaries.
Bad phone pic.


http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Aliens%20Guy/Z-Pizza-5_zpsiqlfsvno.jpg

[K7SGJ]

I have the TV on, and I'm watching different news channels. Many have been focusing on the anti Trump protests/riots, especially the ones turning violent. The ones where windows are being broken, business looted, and other property being destroyed. As usual, I'm sue it is a small segment of the protesters, many who probably don't even know what the cause is, that are causing the problems. The same fuckers that will use any excuse to carry on, and be the catalysts of all the violence. But still............. And then I see other protests comprised of huge numbers of people with signs, chanting, marching, shutting down public roadways; for the most part, peaceful civil disobedience.

The one thought that keeps coming back to me over and over is, "I wonder how many of these people actually voted?

[W7XF]

The general consensus of things going on of late:

BUSHTIT

[KG4CGC]

So how long are the Trump supporters going to keep rioting while the peaceful anti-Trump protesters try to march?

[KG4CGC]

Hipster Nativity Scene.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/sweet_jesus_theres_a_hipster_nativity_scene_you_ca n_buy

[KD8TUT]

Just as an aside... the wife picked me up some sugar free Faygo root beer.... boy is this stuff good!

Not a fan of soft drinks or sugar really- but a total sucker for root beer!

[KG4CGC]

Just as an aside... the wife picked me up some sugar free Faygo root beer.... boy is this stuff good!

Not a fan of soft drinks or sugar really- but a total sucker for root beer!

Ever drink alcohol? Specifically, alcoholic root beer available in the beer aisle.

[kb2vxa]

I'm glad somebody came up with that Hipster Nativity Scene to piss off Bible thumpers and Televangelists who will be screaming bloody murder until Judgement Day sends them to their just rewards in the flaming depths of HELL. Jesus may hate fags, (I don't) but how do you think He feels about those exploiting him to get rich? Heh heh heh.

"Ever drink alcohol? Specifically, alcoholic root beer available in the beer aisle."
It started with Manischewitz adding grain alcohol to fruit juice and calling it wine, then there came bum wine much cheaper. Add it to apple juice like Boone's Farm (nother bum wine), put the same shit in a different bottle, sell it in a better neighborhood for 3 times the price and you've got Angry Orchard as far from good hard cider as Earth is from Mars. That having been said, if I want to get drunk on root beer and I don't, I can put a couple of shots of Ever Clear in a frosted mug of Stewart's.

Note to bartender: Save the empties from your expensive high class drinks, after hours mix up some of my concoctions and put the bottles back on the shelves behind the bar. The Alpha Hotel will turn more profit and will reward you for your idea if you don't tell anybody where it came from. Should you or a member of your AHB team be killed or captured KB2VXA will disavow any knowledge of your existence. Good luck Charles, this post will self destruct... maybe.

[KD8TUT]

Ever drink alcohol? Specifically, alcoholic root beer available in the beer aisle.

Yea I'm into craft beer...whisky... wine.

But have to be careful since I'm diabetic.

[KG4CGC]

I'm glad somebody came up with that Hipster Nativity Scene to piss off Bible thumpers and Televangelists who will be screaming bloody murder until Judgement Day sends them to their just rewards in the flaming depths of HELL. Jesus may hate fags, (I don't) but how do you think He feels about those exploiting him to get rich? Heh heh heh.

"Ever drink alcohol? Specifically, alcoholic root beer available in the beer aisle."
It started with Manischewitz adding grain alcohol to fruit juice and calling it wine, then there came bum wine much cheaper. Add it to apple juice like Boone's Farm (nother bum wine), put the same shit in a different bottle, sell it in a better neighborhood for 3 times the price and you've got Angry Orchard as far from good hard cider as Earth is from Mars. That having been said, if I want to get drunk on root beer and I don't, I can put a couple of shots of Ever Clear in a frosted mug of Stewart's.

Note to bartender: Save the empties from your expensive high class drinks, after hours mix up some of my concoctions and put the bottles back on the shelves behind the bar. The Alpha Hotel will turn more profit and will reward you for your idea if you don't tell anybody where it came from. Should you or a member of your AHB team be killed or captured KB2VXA will disavow any knowledge of your existence. Good luck Charles, this post will self destruct... maybe.

No. No to all of that. Just no.

For you though, they sell pruno in plastic bags at the commissary.

[KG4CGC]

Yea I'm into craft beer...whisky... wine.

But have to be careful since I'm diabetic.

Just asked about root beer beer (or whatever it is) since you brought up root beer.

I'm not a huge drinker anymore due to a genetic condition that flips a switch at about some time after age 50 and makes you feel like you're pushing 68. The one thing I want to try right now is stouted whiskey. That's where the cask age stout beer in used whiskey barrels then use those same barrels afterwards to age another batch of whiskey.
I've had the beer aged in used whiskey barrels and didn't care for it but I bet the whiskey that comes out of those barrels is absolutely divine.

[WZ7U]

I'm not a huge drinker anymore due to a genetic condition that flips a switch at about some time after age 50 and makes you feel like you're pushing 68.

So that's what that is. Dayum

I'm there, for a while now.

[KD8TUT]

Damn I need to pee.

[NQ6U]

[...] a genetic condition that flips a switch at about some time after age 50 and makes you feel like you're pushing 68.

I'm offended. There are those of us who really are pushing 68. Right, Eddie?

[WZ7U]

Mike, You have to take the c clamp off first.....

[KD8TUT]

Mike, You have to take the c clamp off first.....

First I need an air ratchet for the Prince Albert.

[NQ6U]

Obama better hurry up. He only has another month to take all our guns.

[WZ7U]

Coffee, meet sinuses

[K7SGJ]

I'm offended. There are those of us who really are pushing 68. Right, Eddie?

I've pushed it so far, I've got callouses on my hands. I know, I know, I'm realty callous......

[W7XF]

Damn I need to pee.

Bushtit

[KD8TUT]

Bushtit

Yes... my tits are hairy :)

[KG4CGC]

Yes... my tits are hairy :)

Nipples too?

[KG4CGC]

Male Areola
Male Areola
Male Areola

[KG4CGC]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Z-Pepperoni-640x960_zps2tynmvmj.jpg

[KD8TUT]

Nipples too?

Naw..I'm Italian not German.

[KD8TUT]

I need to get to the eye doctor... I semi-smoked a power supply today- because when I repaired it I could not see two screws which messed up the case ground.

Damned insurance won't let me get new glasses until January. Want to strangle someone.

[NA4BH]

Want to strangle someone.

I nominate Carl.

[WZ7U]

Pick me! Pick me!

[NQ6U]

I nominate Carl.

Bob doesn't love me any more even though he promised he would if I let him use his tongue. Sniff.

[KD8TUT]

I nominate Carl.

Right now I can't see well enough to find anyone's neck.

[KD8TUT]

Bob doesn't love me any more even though he promised he would if I let him use his tongue. Sniff.

I'll just let that hang in the air like pheromones in a leather club.

[K7SGJ]

Bob doesn't love me any more even though he promised he would if I let him use his tongue. Sniff.

You knew Bob is fickle. Would you expect anything less?

[NQ6U]

You knew Bob is fickle. Would you expect anything less?

You're right, you insensitive clod.

[K7SGJ]

You're right, you insensitive clod.

And I wear the title proudly.

[WZ7U]

[duplicity redacted]

[WZ7U]

Right now I can't see well enough to find anyone's neck.

Try braille. I know people drive by it.

[KD8TUT]

Try braille. I know people drive by it.

Do your age spots spell "neck"?

[KD8TUT]

I woke up.

Interesting.

[K7SGJ]

I woke up.

Interesting.


Well, it's about time!

[NQ6U]

I know naught of this "consciousness" thing of which you speak.

[KD8TUT]

Well, it's about time!

Yea..not far off the mark. Was on a radio bender yesterday and had a great time.

Couldn't get into it today.

[W5BRM]

I know naught of this "consciousness" thing of which you speak.

It's that annoying period between naps.

[KD8TUT]

Note: Anyone into both sci-fi and spirituality stuff will love the new netflix series: "The AO"

Wow.

[NQ6U]

Nothing brightens up your day like finding an unexpected $500 check in the mail, especially when, earlier the same day, you've were wondering if you should buy that cheap loaf of a brand of bread you don't like very much or splurge the extra buck for the one you prefer.

[NA4BH]

The funnest thing in the world is to have a mouthful of peanuts and sneeze.

[KG4CGC]

The funnest thing in the world is to have a mouthful of peanuts and sneeze.

Then the dog is running around in little circles finding and eating them and wagging his tail. The doggy looks up at you, waiting on more sneeze nuts.

[NQ6U]

I kept saying that replacing the mental hospitals with the Internet was a bad idea from the very beginning. But did anyone listen? Noooo. Now look where we are.

[NQ6U]

Ming Emperor: "We're gonna build a great wall and the Mongols are gonna pay for it."

[NQ6U]

Good quote: “Steve Bannon always looks like he just woke up after a three-day bender, in the back seat of a cab in a city he doesn’t recognize.”

[KG4NEL]

Only way to live...

[NQ6U]

"Trump shouldn't be allowed to choose a justice in the last year of his presidency." --Guy Endore-Kaiser (https://twitter.com/GuyEndoreKaiser), on Twitter

[KD8TUT]

I have some very nice dark roast, iced, with cream and mocha this morning.

I'll be awake until Thursday.

[KG4CGC]

Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.

[NA4BH]

Got two magazines in the mail today, QST and Hemmings Motor News. Guess what one opened read first.

[NQ6U]

I haven't seen an interesting issue of QST in at least six months so I'm guessing...QST.

[NA4BH]

Interesting issue of QST? Try 6 years.

[K7SGJ]

Do you still get the Lube Digest?

[NQ6U]

Do you still get the Lube Digest?

He let the subscription lapse so he could get "Minnesota Illustrated" instead.

[WZ7U]

I was told by a friend that a gift subscription to QST was given to me. I wish he would've saved his money. It took years for the 'please come back' mailings to cease; now after a year I gotta go through all that waste again. Am I sounding ungrateful? I don't mean to be, I really don't. Oh well, it will be neat to see if it's changed in 15 years (probably not). Truth be told, something new to read would be nice. Anyway, thanks Brian!

[K7SGJ]

Too bad they don't just forget about technology of the day, and start sending out the old ones, starting with Volume 1 Issue 1.

That was when the rag was interesting.

[KD8TUT]

He let the subscription lapse so he could get "Minnesota Illustrated" instead.

How could you let that slip away?

[NA4BH]

Do you still get the Lube Digest?

No, not any more. It's so condensed that it goes right through me.

[K7SGJ]

No, not any more. It's so condensed that it goes right through me.

Like a bullet train?

[NA4BH]

Like a bullet train?

Faster

[KG4CGC]

Like hot lava?

[KG4CGC]

http://www.kivitv.com/news/meridian-mans-pet-squirrel-goes-nuts-on-burglar

[NA4BH]

Like hot lava?

It was like having fuzzy handcuffs on.

[K7SGJ]

It was like having fuzzy handcuffs on.


TML

Too Much Lube

[kf0rt]

Too bad they don't just forget about technology of the day, and start sending out the old ones, starting with Volume 1 Issue 1.

That was when the rag was interesting.

Honestly, that should be an option.

[NQ6U]

Power is finally back on, 32 hours after it went out. Nice to be back in the 21st Century again.

[KD8TUT]

Power is finally back on, 32 hours after it went out. Nice to be back in the 21st Century again.

Wow....

[KG4CGC]

Power is finally back on, 32 hours after it went out. Nice to be back in the 21st Century again.
Did'ja hear a lot of generators running in the marina?

[NQ6U]

Did'ja hear a lot of generators running in the marina?

Not a lot of them, no. Some of the large yachts had theirs going but there are not many of those at this marina. Most of the boats here are between 30 and 40 feet (and unoccupied) with only a few really large boats. There's one 60+ foot powerboat down at the end of my dock and a very large fiberglass hulled staysail schooner a couple of rows to the north. I've walked over and looked at that thing, it's truly rugged and massive but I can't figure out for what purpose it was built. I think it might have been a blue water ocean racer—there's a class of offshore schooner racing—because there are almost no portlights.

Just FYI, at 30'-1" LOA, my boat is the smallest one they would allow for a live-aboard.

[KG4CGC]

Not a lot of them, no. Some of the large yachts had theirs going but there are not many of those at this marina. Most of the boats here are between 30 and 40 feet (and unoccupied) with only a few really large boats. There's one 60+ foot powerboat down at the end of my dock and a very large fiberglass hulled staysail schooner a couple of rows to the north. I've walked over and looked at that thing, it's truly rugged and massive but I can't figure out for what purpose it was built. I think it might have been a blue water ocean racer—there's a class of offshore schooner racing—because there are almost no portlights.

Just FYI, at 30'-1" LOA, my boat is the smallest one they would allow for a live-aboard.

LOA: "Life On Acid."

[K7SGJ]

Not a lot of them, no. Some of the large yachts had theirs going but there are not many of those at this marina. Most of the boats here are between 30 and 40 feet (and unoccupied) with only a few really large boats. There's one 60+ foot powerboat down at the end of my dock and a very large fiberglass hulled staysail schooner a couple of rows to the north. I've walked over and looked at that thing, it's truly rugged and massive but I can't figure out for what purpose it was built. I think it might have been a blue water ocean racer—there's a class of offshore schooner racing—because there are almost no portlights.

Just FYI, at 30'-1" LOA, my boat is the smallest one they would allow for a live-aboard.

I'm guessing that is what they call a pothole in the water?

[NQ6U]

LOA: "Life On Acid."

LOA: Length Overall.

I did some intensive investigation of that big schooner (i.e., I asked the dockmaster). Turns out that it was a racer. It competed in the Whitbread Round the World Race (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Ocean_Race).

[NA4BH]

Must've hit a portlight and bent a rim causing retirement. It's hard to change tires on those things.

[KG4CGC]

Must've hit a portlight and bent a rim causing retirement. It's hard to change tires on those things.

But you do fixery. Right? Right up your alley.

[WZ7U]

.

[NQ6U]

Must've hit a portlight and bent a rim causing retirement. It's hard to change tires on those things.

This is what the thing looks like. Never saw another like it:

http://i.imgur.com/Y6Cr3y8.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/lseLvL7.jpg

These winches alone are worth more than my entire boat:

http://i.imgur.com/WnJKP0p.jpg

[NQ6U]

The thing is for sale, BTW. $200K would take it.

[NA4BH]

They have a deck full of butt plugs.

[KG4CGC]

They have a deck full of butt plugs.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c79/bebop5/Aliens%20Guy/Z-Oh_My_zpsyjznchc5.jpg

[NQ6U]

They have a deck full of butt plugs.

That's what a butt plug looks like? I wouldn't know—unlike some others here.

[NQ6U]

Looks like the DickDockmaster got it wrong—Stella Serena was built as a pleasure craft, not as a racer. Here's the sale listing (http://www.boats.com/sailing-boats/1980-madlener-staysail-schooner-6080626/).

http://www.boatersresources.com/img.php?t=1&id=4774924

[NA4BH]

Pleasure craft? Deck full of plugs? Does that boat slide into its slip really easy?

[KG4CGC]

The domain is available.

http://www.rnkws.com/www.bobslubes.com

[KD8TUT]

The spring shack cleaning....

15232

[K7SGJ]

The spring shack cleaning....

15232

Is that a before or after photo?

[AA1OH]

"What evil lurks in the White House? The Rat knows" I know-ADEE do! Jack Stephan

[KD8TUT]

Is that a before or after photo?

Definitely after....

[ad4mg]

Is that a before or after photo?

:lol: Damn!

[WZ7U]

Cleans up nicer than a diamond in a goats ass for sure!

[AA1OH]

Cleans up nicer than a diamond in a goats ass for sure!
Er-how many diamonds have you found this way and how long did you have to look?

[K7SGJ]

Speaking of diamonds, I sent a letter to Halle Berry asking her to come live with us. I anxiously await her reply. I am assuming it has been lost in the mail system for 6 years. Hey, the Post Office is always finding stuff lost in the system. Maybe I should hand deliver the next one. Damn, she is a real cutie.

[WZ7U]

Er-how many diamonds have you found this way and how long did you have to look?

Several, and it only takes a glance.

[n2ize]

The spring shack cleaning....

15232
Where are the radios ? Everyone knows that a radio weighs at least 500 lbs and resembles a refrigerator.

[WZ7U]

Can't you see the CB right in the middle under the screen with the waterfall? :lol:

[KG4CGC]

Can't you see the CB right in the middle under the screen with the waterfall? :lol:

Uniden?

[NQ6U]

From the maintenance manual for my jib furler:


1. Remove bearing assembly from the headstay.

2. Hold the bearing over a box so that when the balls fall out, which they inevitably will, they won't roll into oblivion.

I like that type of straightforward style in a manual.

[K7SGJ]

From the maintenance manual for my jib furler:

1. Remove bearing assembly from the headstay.

2. Hold the bearing over a box so that when the balls fall out, which they inevitably will, they won't roll into oblivion.

I like that type of straightforward style in a manual.

And obviously written by service personnel, and not a design engineer.

[NQ6U]

And obviously written by service personnel, and not a design engineer.

Absolutely!

[WZ7U]

Refreshing indeed Carl. I wish more things came from that perspective.

[NA4BH]

From the maintenance manual for my jib furler:


1. Remove bearing assembly from the headstay.

2. Hold the bearing over a box so that when the balls fall out, which they inevitably will, they won't roll into oblivion.

I like that type of straightforward style in a manual.

Did you buy that from Adam and Eve.com? Does it need batteries? What size? Can you use it with fuzzy handcuffs? Does dry arid weather cause the bearings to fall out quicker? Will a standard cardboard box work or does it need a more specialized receiver? Looking for this years Christmas presents. Never too early to buy for the ones you love.

[KD8TUT]

Did you buy that from Adam and Eve.com? Does it need batteries? What size? Can you use it with fuzzy handcuffs? Does dry arid weather cause the bearings to fall out quicker? Will a standard cardboard box work or does it need a more specialized receiver? Looking for this years Christmas presents. Never too early to buy for the ones you love.

I really need to schedule that colonoscopy...

[WØTKX]

Put this in yer pipe and smoke it. :mrgreen:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhlI4jhVSPI

[NQ6U]

Horton Hears a Who Gives a Fuck

[KG4CGC]

groupie action

[KD8TUT]

I'm just here for the hugz.

[KG4CGC]

http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maxxevxMSP1r83ei3o1_500.jpg

[NA4BH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJDni6Bopzo

For Eddie

[KG4CGC]

All my neighbors use the same gardener... One had clovers in their lawn, now all of them have the same clovers because they all use the same gardener.
Someone needs to practice safe gardening.

[WZ7U]

:rotflol:

[WØTKX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqkIqa8vBr0

[WØTKX]

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/the_vault/2017/01/18/NicknamesMap.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg

[NQ6U]

“I used to think I could control ducks with my mind but it turns out ducks and I just have very similar ideas about what stuff ducks should do.”

—Jacy Catlin‏

[NQ6U]

“I cannot emphasize enough that although we can take a lot of lessons from the Fyre Festival about conspicuous consumption, social media marketing, parallel economies, the fundamental scam artistry of the ‘young entrepreneur’ luxury economy etc., the real lesson we should take away is how easy it is to lure bunch of rich people onto an isolated island with no hope of escape.”

[KD8TUT]

“I cannot emphasize enough that although we can take a lot of lessons from the Fyre Festival about conspicuous consumption, social media marketing, parallel economies, the fundamental scam artistry of the ‘young entrepreneur’ luxury economy etc., the real lesson we should take away is how easy it is to lure bunch of rich people onto an isolated island with no hope of escape.”

That was such an amazing happening. Been reading about it. This was supposed to be that generations "Woodstock" or something.

Turns out Ozzfest is better organized.

[WZ7U]

If it says
Libbeys
Libbeys
Libbeys
on the
label
label
label
you will
like it
like it
like it
on your
table
table
table
if it says
Libbeys
Libbeys
Libbeys
on the
label
label
label :clap:

[KD8TUT]

Good night my dear friends.

Hope everyone sleeps well.