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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    fresh kettle TEA :)

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,064

    Where the hell did this week go?... It was Monday twenty minutes ago... This was an odd feeling week... Time felt oddly disjointed, maybe because I've had a lot of work building up over the holidays or its because the kids are back in school and it feel like the holidays are over... It was just a weird week.

    Funny story... Well, not ha-ha funny, but it's a story... The other day I was preparing my yard tractor for winter storage and when I went to move it, the battery was dead... The tractor generally lives outdoors under a tarp, but for the winter it gets parked way in the back of the property near the woods where there are less deeper snow drifts.  Anyway, I put the battery on a trickle-charger, usually all it needs is about ten to twenty minutes to build up enough charge if the temps have been real low... But even after an hour it was still not turning over, so I decided to leave it longer... Come dark I decided I should either cover up the charger (it was outside on an extension cord) or unplug it until the next morning, in case it rains... So I think about it for a moment and go "eh, I'll just try and start it and see if it has any juice..." So I get on it and just as I'm about to turn the key, I'm thinking "I probably should get a new battery, but if it turns over, I just get one in the spring"... So I turn the key and KABOOM!!   Theres a flash of white light, the hood goes flying up, there are pieces of crap flying all over and little drops of some liquid splattering here and there... So I'm thinking many things in that first second... Mostly, "WHAT THE F_ _ _ _ _G HELL?!!?", but also, did the cylinder head just explode, is that even possible with this design? Did the squirrels finally pay the possums to blow me up? But as I jumped off the tractor I noticed a corner of the battery laying on the ground... Apparently, the battery exploded.

    When I was in high school, my shop teacher warned us about the hazards of hydrogen gas and battery safety... For decades, I've never charged a battery without doing it safely and even when I jumpstart a car, I close my eyes when I clip on the positive clip, just in case the battery pops, I don't want acid in my eyes... So the one time I nonchalantly turn the key without any thought of that, the damn thing blows up...  So now I had to clean up the acid which was all over everything... Apparently it mostly missed me and was confined to the engine compartment... I'm experienced in cleaning up chemical spills and toxic crap, so it wasn't so bad as I actually had stuff on hand... Not something I wanted to be doing at night though... The funny thing is I'm running in and out of the house grabbing stuff from the basement and filling up buckets of water etc... And after I'm all done, I realize nobody came out to question what happened... So I go to the living room and everyone is like... "Oh, we figured you were just doing something..."  Mind you this sounded like a shotgun blast or M-80 going off...   I'm standing there thinking apparently I've numbed everyone in this house with my shenanigans to the point where explosions don't even alarm them.    Aside from a slight tiny acid burn on my upper lip, which was probably more from my lip being chapped, I'm just fine... So I've now concluded I will have to buy a new battery after all.   

    Oh well... Between that a couple of other things and my friend's dad passing away the day before that, it has been a weird week.

     

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    morning. Back to endless summer hot under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever as well :)

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    can i ever have enough tech corridors?  ns sale still goin.  mebbe i should get one more

    eternal sunshine of the spotless corridor....

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited January 2016
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    feelin for yoo, leavin your nifty place.  mebbe you can go back when find some work

     

    We'll see.  If I can haul in a full-time position I might try for a cheap apartment, get a futon, flat-screen TV, and pretend to settle down (lol). I think I'm getting too old for all the jumping around I've had to do the past 5 years... indecision

    And thanks for the sympathy! laugh

    *hugs* wish i was there or you here...

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited January 2016

    ...

    LeatherGryphon said:

    Yea, I got a computer fix-it job!  That's another $50 or so to help me through this month.  Computer fix-it jobs are becoming scarce.  I don't advertise anymore and I turn down jobs involving tablets and smart-phones and Windows 10.  I feel like a radio repairman in 1970.

    Set up my lab to do this fix-it job and turned on the music channel of my TV.  Now listening to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Golden Cockerel"  Hadn't heard it in a long time.  Damn, some of his stuff is just so scenic. smiley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgFIQa98Znc 

    Another beautiful mind-scene is his "Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MAI2j3MpfI  Whenever I hear this piece I remember the painting by Thomas Cole "Voyage Of Life - Youth" (see image below)

    Another rarely heard mind-scape created by Rimsky-Korsakov is "Sadko" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zWKe-Jwucw  Don't know what to call it, but it really sets a mood.

     

    on tough days I can imagine myself old in a mister robot shop building spare parts from scrap and trying to recall where my teeth are laugh with la callas on the radio of course ;)

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    waaz up?  smiley

    sitting under led lightbulbs, like sitting under a supernova.

    tea totalled all day, coffee pot is lonely

     ohh myy recliner with heat control  ... lil piece of heaven. would take my new compy money. wonder if it would fit thru my 29" door.
    http://www.wayfair.com/Temptation-Massaging-Microfiber-Recliner-with-Heat-Control-AM-H9560-645-GG-FFC3648.html

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,606
    edited January 2016
    McGyver said:

    ... So I've now concluded I will have to buy a new battery after all.   

    Oh, be adventurous and creative, see if you can put the battery parts back together again.  The real McGyver would as long as he had some band-aids or underwear elastic and his Swiss army knife. devil

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    Richard Haseltine said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...agh, character cross dressing complaint. 

    Was hoping to use Wanted DOA on the G2F of my KK character but even with the Michael 4 clone for G2M, I cannot transfer the fits cross gender as the clone only works with G2M. This is where the gender split killed Genesis' versatility. Hate it when you spend a lot of time designing a character and then can't give them the clothing they need. Feel like I'm back in the Gen3/Gen4 days again.

    There is really no decent western wear for females. All of it, (including the Sharon Stone looking outfit) still bares the belly and too much cleavage.  No self respecting cowgirl would dress like that.

    AuroFit to G2M, save as asset, AutoFit that to G2F. Or try using the Cross Figure Resource Kit on the G2M fitted version.

    ...don't have the Cross Figure Resoruce Kit. Thought that was more for UVs, morphs, & such.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    haz to put christmas stuff away.  hoover. take out trash.  change dead lightbulbs.  purge laundry pile.

    need a nap.  close my eyes, chores will disappear 

    Those littlw domestic tasks add up quick!  It's like being eaten by ants, one bite is nothing but 1000 later you really feel it. surprise

    All packe except the lappy.. rental office opens in an hour and fifteen minutes.  Will download content until the very last minute! cheeky

    ..that was how I felt at the end of September.

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    waaz up?  smiley

    sitting under led lightbulbs, like sitting under a supernova.

    tea totalled all day, coffee pot is lonely

     ohh myy recliner with heat control  ... lil piece of heaven. would take my new compy money. wonder if it would fit thru my 29" door.
    http://www.wayfair.com/Temptation-Massaging-Microfiber-Recliner-with-Heat-Control-AM-H9560-645-GG-FFC3648.html

     

    Sunday quiet and warm in the sun lazy, don' need to worry 'bout anything much for a couple of days nao :)

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    those the best kind of Sundays 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    oh the insanity  powerball jackpot went up

    Powerball
    Next Drawing: 01/09/2016
    Next Jackpot: 900 Million

    http://nylottery.ny.gov/wps/portal/Home/Lottery/Home/Jackpot+Games/POWERBALL

    they haven't drawn the numbers yet. 

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150

    ...if no one wins tonight it will be at least 1$ Billion next Wednesday.  If one takes the 26 year annuity plan instead of the lump sum, that would average out to 38,461,538$ a year for before taxes.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,240

    @McGyver: Sorry you had such a tough week.  Glad you weren't hospitalized from that exploding battery, though!  Sounds scary.  surprise

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    ...

    MistyMist said:

    those the best kind of Sundays 

    no complaints.  Have to get back into work mode, next chance for a break is winter eeeow seems a long way off right now. Too long until winter complaint devil

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    McGyver said:

    Where the hell did this week go?... It was Monday twenty minutes ago... This was an odd feeling week... Time felt oddly disjointed, maybe because I've had a lot of work building up over the holidays or its because the kids are back in school and it feel like the holidays are over... It was just a weird week.

    Funny story... Well, not ha-ha funny, but it's a story... The other day I was preparing my yard tractor for winter storage and when I went to move it, the battery was dead... The tractor generally lives outdoors under a tarp, but for the winter it gets parked way in the back of the property near the woods where there are less deeper snow drifts.  Anyway, I put the battery on a trickle-charger, usually all it needs is about ten to twenty minutes to build up enough charge if the temps have been real low... But even after an hour it was still not turning over, so I decided to leave it longer... Come dark I decided I should either cover up the charger (it was outside on an extension cord) or unplug it until the next morning, in case it rains... So I think about it for a moment and go "eh, I'll just try and start it and see if it has any juice..." So I get on it and just as I'm about to turn the key, I'm thinking "I probably should get a new battery, but if it turns over, I just get one in the spring"... So I turn the key and KABOOM!!   Theres a flash of white light, the hood goes flying up, there are pieces of crap flying all over and little drops of some liquid splattering here and there... So I'm thinking many things in that first second... Mostly, "WHAT THE F_ _ _ _ _G HELL?!!?", but also, did the cylinder head just explode, is that even possible with this design? Did the squirrels finally pay the possums to blow me up? But as I jumped off the tractor I noticed a corner of the battery laying on the ground... Apparently, the battery exploded.

    When I was in high school, my shop teacher warned us about the hazards of hydrogen gas and battery safety... For decades, I've never charged a battery without doing it safely and even when I jumpstart a car, I close my eyes when I clip on the positive clip, just in case the battery pops, I don't want acid in my eyes... So the one time I nonchalantly turn the key without any thought of that, the damn thing blows up...  So now I had to clean up the acid which was all over everything... Apparently it mostly missed me and was confined to the engine compartment... I'm experienced in cleaning up chemical spills and toxic crap, so it wasn't so bad as I actually had stuff on hand... Not something I wanted to be doing at night though... The funny thing is I'm running in and out of the house grabbing stuff from the basement and filling up buckets of water etc... And after I'm all done, I realize nobody came out to question what happened... So I go to the living room and everyone is like... "Oh, we figured you were just doing something..."  Mind you this sounded like a shotgun blast or M-80 going off...   I'm standing there thinking apparently I've numbed everyone in this house with my shenanigans to the point where explosions don't even alarm them.    Aside from a slight tiny acid burn on my upper lip, which was probably more from my lip being chapped, I'm just fine... So I've now concluded I will have to buy a new battery after all.   

    Oh well... Between that a couple of other things and my friend's dad passing away the day before that, it has been a weird week.

     

    ..yikes, glad you are OK. May need to have the tractor's engine checked out for shrapnel and acid damage.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,442

    I think today is Sunday.  There is a mouse in the house but too sleepy to figure out what to do about it.  The house is in a panic but not me as I am too tired.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I think today is Sunday.  There is a mouse in the house but too sleepy to figure out what to do about it.  The house is in a panic but not me as I am too tired.

    Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,606
    edited January 2016
    LeatherGryphon said:

    OK, I've got my ticket.  I'll let you know if I win.

    I didn't win.  Obviously some of you were being selfish and not concentrating on me winning. angry

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,606

    OK, where's the morph for this?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35275955

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:

    morning. Back to endless summer hot under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever as well :)

    Good morning!  Wish I couldemail you some nice iced tea! cool

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    haz to put christmas stuff away.  hoover. take out trash.  change dead lightbulbs.  purge laundry pile.

    need a nap.  close my eyes, chores will disappear 

    Those littlw domestic tasks add up quick!  It's like being eaten by ants, one bite is nothing but 1000 later you really feel it. surprise

    All packe except the lappy.. rental office opens in an hour and fifteen minutes.  Will download content until the very last minute! cheeky

    ..that was how I felt at the end of September.

    I feel your pain. sad

    I'm all moved now, laptop plugged in, tethered to my phone for Internet acess.  It's not super-fast, so no watching videos or anything, but for email/posting/chat it's plenty fast.

    Next up: sell the Win 8.1 tablet... sent out 2 more resume'stoday.. indecision

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,190
    edited January 2016
    LeatherGryphon said:

    OK, where's the morph for this?

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35275955

    RawArt's working on it. smiley

    Post edited by TJohn on
  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    ps1borg said:
    TroutFace said:
    MistyMist said:

    feelin for yoo, leavin your nifty place.  mebbe you can go back when find some work

     

    We'll see.  If I can haul in a full-time position I might try for a cheap apartment, get a futon, flat-screen TV, and pretend to settle down (lol). I think I'm getting too old for all the jumping around I've had to do the past 5 years... indecision

    And thanks for the sympathy! laugh

    *hugs* wish i was there or you here...

    Believe you me, thr moralsupport counts for a lot! laugh This is not a position I'm used to being in, so I get depressed and discouraged easy and often.. le sigh.

    Defini tely speciality change time, just need to find a job to tide me over and I'm off the either learn C#/.NET/SQL, or back into graphics programming/Android app dsevelopment..

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    DanaTA said:

    @McGyver: Sorry you had such a tough week.  Glad you weren't hospitalized from that exploding battery, though!  Sounds scary.  surprise

    Dana

    +1.  Exploding batteries are no joke.. surprise

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    kyoto kid said:

    ...if no one wins tonight it will be at least 1$ Billion next Wednesday.  If one takes the 26 year annuity plan instead of the lump sum, that would average out to 38,461,538$ a year for before taxes.

    I think I could probably live on that.  Start my own game company, give to charity, buy a nice house in thewoods, buy an RV and hire a driver and tour the USA, that kind of thing.

     

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Hppy Sunday! Bright and cold today, brr, 33F when I woke up.

    Texans self-destructed, Hoyer played horribly, really poor Texans play-calling.. maybe next year

    Should be some good football today, with any luck.  Can't wait for the late game.. on the frozen tundra.  Brrrrr!

    Enwconced for now, ready to pound the streets.  Not sure how things will go, but I'll put faith in the forces of Chaos to eventually get things going.

    Need... more.. coffee.. indecision

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,606
    edited January 2016
    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:

    @McGyver: Sorry you had such a tough week.  Glad you weren't hospitalized from that exploding battery, though!  Sounds scary.  surprise

    Dana

    +1.  Exploding batteries are no joke.. surprise

    Yeah, y'ever see one of those Start Trek phaser batteries on overload explode!  Kirk thought it was no joke.  Squeezin' that much power in tiny little boxes is a recipe for disaster.  And we want to run electric cars on them?!   I'm just waiting for the first headline that says "Lithium battery in Prius burns down garage".

    All cars should be pedal cars! cheeky

     

     

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TroutFace said:
    DanaTA said:

    @McGyver: Sorry you had such a tough week.  Glad you weren't hospitalized from that exploding battery, though!  Sounds scary.  surprise

    Dana

    +1.  Exploding batteries are no joke.. surprise

    Yeah, y'ever see one of those Start Trek phaser batteries on overload explode!  Kirk thought it was no joke.  Squeezin' that much power in tiny little boxes is a recipe for disaster.  And we want to run electric cars on them?!   I'm just waiting for the first headline that says "Lithium battery in Prius burns down garage".

    All cars should be pedal cars! cheeky

     

    One word - SOLAR. cheeky

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