The Bar 2014 Edition

[ygmir]

*wanders in, makes CCC*
*grabs chair to watch GH bobbiejuggle*

wow, smokey this morning!! big fire south of here, and I hear one was withing a half mile of me over the weekend,while I was gone!! It'd figure, my firetruck all ready and I"d be gone..........

Thanks to Piney for hosting a super fun weekend air races/decom party. Great to see 420, Sadie and all the usual suspects!

[Joeln]

Taking a break from unpacking, and going to Renaissance Faire in Sebastopol today. There will be a prize for the first Burner who recognizes me. (This will be difficult, as I will be wearing clothes.)

I had no trouble recognizing you clothed out at Embrace!

You did indeed!
And nobody recognized me at the Ren Fair today, so PM me your snail mail address and I will send you the Caravansary pendant that was the prize.

Thanks Elliot!
PM outbound...

[graidawg]

ok i seem to be stuck on west coast time. my plan was to stay up all night (which i did) then go to my mums this morning (which i didn't due to falling asleep) then come back tonight tired and slightly drunk - fall asleep at a reasonable time for gmt (say midnight) then be back to a reasonable schedule. i'ts not working by now i am usually back to gmt and sleeping normally. ok so having rum that is so vile i would rather be sober isnt helping me get drunk and fall asleep. I think the only reasonable solution is for me to go back to the west coast or at least the east coast for a while (say 30 or 40 years) and try again.
of course this will require me selling a kidney - anyone know of anyone that needs one thats barely broken in?

[ygmir]

ok i seem to be stuck on west coast time. my plan was to stay up all night (which i did) then go to my mums this morning (which i didn't due to falling asleep) then come back tonight tired and slightly drunk - fall asleep at a reasonable time for gmt (say midnight) then be back to a reasonable schedule. i'ts not working by now i am usually back to gmt and sleeping normally. ok so having rum that is so vile i would rather be sober isnt helping me get drunk and fall asleep. I think the only reasonable solution is for me to go back to the west coast or at least the east coast for a while (say 30 or 40 years) and try again.
of course this will require me selling a kidney - anyone know of anyone that needs one thats barely broken in?

GD: if you're going to sell a kidney, and describe it, I'd not suggest "barely broken in"......more like "battle tested and strong, able to withstand the worst".


just sayin.........

[Joeln]

GD: if you're going to sell a kidney, and describe it, I'd not suggest "barely broken in"......more like "battle tested and strong, able to withstand the worst".


just sayin.........

Nice Ygmir

[trilobyte]

I wish I could get my body clock stuck on west coast time. My circadian clock either seems to be floating adrift or perfectly tuned for some other planet, because it's constantly on the move. Up later than I want or up all night happens at the most unexpected times, and of course Murphy's Law seems to demand that when I actually want to be up late or up all night that's the exact opposite of what my body clock wants me to do at the time. At least lately it does....

I had a fairly decent weekend, and hope everyone else did too. Deplayafication continues, met with a tattoo artist about getting more ink this fall, waded through more pictures, scrubbed through more video (finding the clip I shot of the anvil, and getting a rough cut of my alien siege machine video), and did a bit of reading. Now for what promises to be a busy week of tech projects and other nonsense... happy Monday!

[robbidobbs]

Attitude. Yep. That's my reminder word today.

[goathead]

hmmmmmm it seems everyone is sleeping.

[graidawg]

nah GH i am actually awake after a concerted effort to try and get back to GMT. i woke up later than usual but ealrier than i have been - also i may have found some work roadying for a brazilian band just waiting to find out the details. In a way the insane drive cross country with MDF is kind of training for this.
so yay. funding for next year starts now.

[Sunbeam56]

Coffee please.
Have you noticed the lost is primarily phones and cameras?
Has the sock monster mutated?

[goathead]

sock monster?

[ygmir]

*wanders in, makes CCC*
Hey GH!! gettin smokey there? sure is here! Fires breaking out all over the place!
Hi Sunbeam!
well, we start another historic rebuild of a cemetery plot tomorrow, and hoping for cooler weather. Have to rebuild a 150 year old stone wall, 1K lb. stones. The old materials finally gave out, wrought iron corner stays split the granite by rust expansion, and the dirt pressure finally overcame the weight and the wall failed. Should be interesting. I have some concern we may hit caskets/graves at the lower end. I guess I should warn my helpers? or see what they find? hehehehe

[unjonharley]

Ygmir, you have all the fun...

[goathead]

yeah smokey here also, fire in Limbo range.

Dam that sounds like an interesting project.

[lucky420]

*wanders in, makes CCC*
Hey GH!! gettin smokey there? sure is here! Fires breaking out all over the place!
Hi Sunbeam!
well, we start another historic rebuild of a cemetery plot tomorrow, and hoping for cooler weather. Have to rebuild a 150 year old stone wall, 1K lb. stones. The old materials finally gave out, wrought iron corner stays split the granite by rust expansion, and the dirt pressure finally overcame the weight and the wall failed. Should be interesting. I have some concern we may hit caskets/graves at the lower end. I guess I should warn my helpers? or see what they find? hehehehe

Please don't smash any body parts

[littleflower]

what lucky said!

[VultureChow]

[Joeln]

Safety Crocs!!

[trilobyte]

mmm steel toe sandals....

Good luck with the rebuild, Yggy, and take it just a smidge easy (you don't want to have to go to the doc again). When I was a kid I spent part of a summer rebuilding a couple miles of a 150 year old stone wall with my uncle, but all those stones were under 100lbs. Anyhow... I say don't warn the helpers, think of it as finding a prize at the bottom of the cereal box

[graidawg]

*wanders in, makes CCC*
Hey GH!! gettin smokey there? sure is here! Fires breaking out all over the place!
Hi Sunbeam!
well, we start another historic rebuild of a cemetery plot tomorrow, and hoping for cooler weather. Have to rebuild a 150 year old stone wall, 1K lb. stones. The old materials finally gave out, wrought iron corner stays split the granite by rust expansion, and the dirt pressure finally overcame the weight and the wall failed. Should be interesting. I have some concern we may hit caskets/graves at the lower end. I guess I should warn my helpers? or see what they find? hehehehe

Please don't smash any body parts

yours mainly - don't worry to much about the dead peoples

[ygmir]

glee!!!

[goathead]

and if you do post pictures.

[Sunbeam56]

Goathead - research it! I have learned on this informative website that there is a monster in the drier, maybe the washer, that eats only one of each matched pair of socks. Then the monster matures into coat hangars, or maybe poops coat hangars, im confused on that detail. And thats why you never have matching socks and always have extra hangars
Of course, i suspect that some alcohol may have influenced the research on the subject...

Yggie - what an interesting project! Slave cemeteries in South Texas were rarely recorded, so road crews are often finding them. Several years back, in Robstown (outside Corps Christi) crewmen cut into the grave of a woman. Even skeletalized, she was remarkably beautiful. Nice blue dress, perfume bottle still had nice smelling oil. She has been loved, cared for, but ultimately her name forgotten...

What are you going to use to re-mortar the stones?

[ygmir]

Goathead - research it! I have learned on this informative website that there is a monster in the drier, maybe the washer, that eats only one of each matched pair of socks. Then the monster matures into coat hangars, or maybe poops coat hangars, im confused on that detail. And thats why you never have matching socks and always have extra hangars
Of course, i suspect that some alcohol may have influenced the research on the subject...

Yggie - what an interesting project! Slave cemeteries in South Texas were rarely recorded, so road crews are often finding them. Several years back, in Robstown (outside Corps Christi) crewmen cut into the grave of a woman. Even skeletalized, she was remarkably beautiful. Nice blue dress, perfume bottle still had nice smelling oil. She has been loved, cared for, but ultimately her name forgotten...

wow, interesting. I'd not thought of that.

What are you going to use to re-mortar the stones?
err......mortar?

[Sunbeam56]

Stickum...

[ygmir]

Stickum...

hehehehehe.......ad infinitum.......

[unjonharley]

Stickum...

hehehehehe.......ad infinitum.......

When the truck (sitting in the middle of the road) suddenly sank into a forgotten grave.. (not easy) We got the truck out with no one noticing.. Back filled the old grave.. Then we contacted the county.. A surveyor lined the grave up with old records.. We placed a nice small stone marker.. The person had been in the ground for over a hundred years.. There were some hardwood head boards in this cemetery.. This was in the 1950s.. This same cemetery where the high school kids kept taking one of the headstone and putting it in the towns phone booth.. Each time we picked up the stone at the police station and replaced it... This had gone on for almost two years.. The cop naded them.. The judge made them landscape the cemetery

[goathead]

Goathead - research it! I have learned on this informative website that there is a monster in the drier, maybe the washer, that eats only one of each matched pair of socks. Then the monster matures into coat hangars, or maybe poops coat hangars, im confused on that detail. And thats why you never have matching socks and always have extra hangars
Of course, i suspect that some alcohol may have influenced the research on the subject...

In that case drop down to the "Ask Eric" thread, or as he would probably tell me, Google is your friend.

[^Rhino!]

Yggie - what an interesting project! Slave cemeteries in South Texas were rarely recorded, so road crews are often finding them. Several years back, in Robstown (outside Corps Christi) crewmen cut into the grave of a woman. Even skeletalized, she was remarkably beautiful. Nice blue dress, perfume bottle still had nice smelling oil. She has been loved, cared for, but ultimately her name forgotten...

What are you going to use to re-mortar the stones?

sunbeam, did you ever hear about the road crew in South Carolina that came across a lost company of Civil War soldiers. They were forgotten, and they were black. They had been killed by Confederates during Sherman's march through S.C., evidently a lost foraging party. Brave men from the Army of Tennessee, for whom 'nothing but victory' was the order of the day.

When it came time for their remains to be reinterred respectfully, none other than General Colin Powell showed up at the ceremony. A moving experience in rediscovering history.

[Sunbeam56]

Very kewl. Not all Civil War soldiers were lucky enough to be buried. I think it was the Second Battle of Bull Run that a fire broke out and went through the heavily forested battle site. The tinder for the fire was rotted uniforms of soldiers that had died in the First Battle of Bull Run.

My ex was a hostorian. I picked up a lot of trivia in self defense.

A toast to our beloved dead! (Blanton's, of course)