What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Jmustang1968]

People drink wine and beer all the time at home yet still take trips to breweries and vineyards.

I go to the Duck Rabbit brewery at least twice a year, because it's a fifteen minute drive. As much as I like Laphroig, I'm not taking a trip to Scotland to visit where it is made. Especially for a bachelor party.

I don't get it. It's like comic con where you usually pay to stand five hours in a line to see some dude for three seconds. But with the C Cup you stand in line forever to get stoned and sit on your ass for five hours.

Not knocking it, as some people are really into pot, but it does nothing for me. And standing in a line with some pals and joking around would be fun as I love conversation and goofing around, but as soon as they get stoned...Boring.

Plus at a lot of vineyards you get to ride horses and pick grapes. That rules.

Yeah but it sounds like another case of 'I dont like it so it sucks" while you would enjoy doing something similar. Would it be weird or not worthwhile for a wine aficianado to travel to California to visit a vineyard? Just appeals to those who enjoy or partake.

I personally find those who are stoned to be more tolerable or enjoyable to be around than those who are drunk.

[Luke]

Yeah but it sounds like another case of 'I dont like it so it sucks" while you would enjoy doing something similar.

How rude.

I don't have any cases of "I don't like it so it sucks". It's another case of asking someone "why?" and getting the answer "because".

And riding on horses while picking grapes is not similar to standing in line for four hours for the chance to buy "Cush Cush Purple Nurple".

This is not a case of being a negative Nancy, it's me stating that I'd rather not spend four figures to go and watch people get stoned.

Stoned people are less tolerable because they know when you are making fun of them. You can draw cock an balls on a drunks face and they are no more the wiser. Both drunks and stoners have some type of magnetic draw to knocking stuff over though.

[mjmjr25]

My wife wanted a shelf for displaying our random knick knacks a few years ago - I told her at the time we should go across the entire wall (28') - she said no - she wanted to keep the dining room separate from the living room (currently divided by a wooden beam on the ceiling...and that's it). So, I built the shelf and put it up - looks like this:

Well, about a month after I put that up she said, "I should have had you do the whole wall." and she has been asking me to build a shelf to tie into the existing for the past couple summers and i've protested - because I know i'll never match the stain (it was a custom stain and I have no idea what we used - it was a combination of 4 stains we had at the time). Anyways, I broke down after work yesterday and built the shelf:

This is a super easy project and anyone can do it with minimal tools in minimal time with minimal skills. It took 40 minutes start to finish including the mid-braces and shaker pegs. Mid braces are cut from the scrap pine and the shaker pegs I buy pre-done at local hardware shop. Total cost is under $35 - 12' long shelf, 6" wide. Now the impossible part - closely matching the stain.

About my property, Luke. It's 5 acres, i'd say 2 acres is heavily wooded (no real maintenance, remove fell trees and keep walk paths cleared). 1.5 acres is moderately wooded and this takes a lot of the time - we have little getaways cut into the property sort of all over on all sides; you can't really see them unless you get on a path, follow it, and then you're just sort of in a little getaway in the woods, but it's cleared and maintained. The other 1.5 acres our house sits in the middle of and it is a bit of everything, hilly, sloped, jagged, marshy, garden, playground, etc and the worst part (to mow) is the mound septic - it is absolutely massive and quite steep. Over 100' long and rising 15' above the back tree line - it looks like quite a natural hill, but it's a pain to mow - it takes nearly and hour itself just to mow and if I don't get at it every few days - it just makes it that much worse. Extremely fertile ground that grows wildflowers and weeds like nobody's business.

I've taken 20 pics to try and capture it - but i'm not sure how well I did:

http://imgur.com/a/1i37L

[Luke]

About my property, Luke. It's 5 acres...extremely fertile ground that grows wildflowers and weeds like nobody's business.

That 1.5 acres does sound like a chore. Even at four hours for you that sounds on par. It's been nick lachey hot over here lately, and I have to prep for my lawn mowing. Even under .5 acres I pick up some Gatorade, put on some shorts, take off my shirt and try to get it all done in an hour (plus edging and blowing).

I do use a blower when done, but I usually prefer using a push broom. Seems to be much more efficient.

[KalessinDB]

Got my CPS2 board back today with the reinforcement PCB for the long pins and the auto-reset firmware applied

A couple games were acting up and auto-resetting, but I only played with them for about 5 minutes, so I don't know if I need to reformat my microsd or if I missed a patch file or what, hopefully this weekend I can look at them better. I have confidence in the guys who made it, they'll get it worked out

This quote:

It's been nick lachey hot over here lately

[noiseredux]

Nice pics mike. Nice pics.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Between stuff I've seen on facebook and other sites tonight... man I'm worried about what the next generation of kids are going to be like.

Even if my generation is generally pretty shit. I also really shouldn't correct people on raising children when I don't have my own, but damn some of these people are setting up their kids to not function in society.

[Luke]

FYI:

It's not a criminal attempt to escape where the arrest was unlawful

Defendant's attempt to flee from police officers after being detained for the purpose of issuing a trespass warning did not constitute an attempt to escape, where discovery of controlled substance on defendant's person which led to his arrest was unlawful.

Gestewitz v. State, 34 So.3d 832 (Fla.App. 4 Dist., 2010)



Although, with the recent events going on, I plan on being compliant.

[SirGawain]

Between stuff I've seen on facebook and other sites tonight... man I'm worried about what the next generation of kids are going to be like.

Even if my generation is generally pretty shit. I also really shouldn't correct people on raising children when I don't have my own, but damn some of these people are setting up their kids to not function in society.

I feel you on that. The problem is that everyone has a different idea of what raising a kid is about. It has only gotten worse with the helicopter parents

[Czernobog]

Smile:

Finished with summer classes. Get a month to not worry about studying.
Pretty confident I aced my final, which was comprised almost entirely of questions taken directly from CPA exams.

Ticked: Nothing at the moment! Have some leisure time to play some games I've been meaning to get through.