wacky1980

the worst part is co-workers this morning. "OHMYGODWHATDIDYOUDO!?!?!?!" it's already old.

i've had a beard for probably 6 or 7 years straight, and i took the clippers to it last night for a halloween costume. got rid of everything except the magnum mustache. cut all my hair off too. had to leave it a little longer on top for the character, but that will get cut off after the weekend because it's a style i'd never have irl. i feel so naked. might take a couple weeks before things feel back to normal. probably gonna keep the stache though. it's a tougher look than zeni could ever imagine.

i had to cut my hair all off and shave the beard, but i'm gonna kill this tonight.

i always thought as a kid, that i'd have loved to be a paperboy. but we lived out in the sticks, and i couldn't convince my parents to let me ride my bicycle several miles into town that early. this adult version, with loading up the car at 4am and all the stop-and-go driving...nah, not for me.

wife was a ... munitions clerk? ... or something like that, for the army back in the day. she managed inventory on a base over at the state capital. i think she'd say that was probably one of her favorite jobs, because she got to handle all the heavy artillery on the reg. that, or working at the pet store. i'm not sure if the band gig was my favorite job ever because i worked my ass off for 12-16 hours every day we worked, but it was definitely the most fun. it involved free booze most of the time, and the after-parties were always good for a couple thrills... back when pictures were film-only, thank the gods.

yep. that's the one.

i quit running sound and light for a band in 2010 after doing it for about 8 years. that was my sole living for much of that time, and i was pretty damn good at it. but then kids and responsibilities came along, and i got to the point where i didn't want to be gone that much, so i hung it up and got a "real" job at the bank. i kept in good contact with a few of the band members, and have occasionally gone to see them play when it fits my adulting schedules. earlier tonight i got a text from one of the old guys, saying they're doing a one-off themed gig only an hour away next month. they're bringing back some more old guys to sit in. and they want me to run the light show. shit. i haven't sat behind a respectable console for years. i don't even think i could stumble my way around a basic dmx operator anymore. this is gonna be a beautiful mess... and now i'm all nostalgic and shit. at one point i was uploading videos to youtube of some of my more favorite songs, but i think it was on a different account that's not around anymore. i gotta see if i can dig some of that shit out...maybe i still have it on an old hard drive somewhere. do you have an old line of work that you'd want to try out again, even if it was just for one day? could you still do it?

drop a pat of butter on a fresh, warm slice of that shit and let it melt in. holy balls, now we're talking.

hey @Rogue߷Alphonse can you disable one particular smiley in this thread?

for eating? i'm gonna go with the rotten banana loaf.

i'll be removing the beard for halloween. haven't been beard-less since shortly after the wedding in 2011. i'm skeerd.

then there's the folks who will see that sign, and take very careful aim...for the sign.

pumpernickel. but only because its literal translation from german is "farting devil" and that's pretty much me at any given time.

i could probably whup all of the dead ones. well, most of them at least, if it was one at a time and i got a couple days' recovery in between. yeah, i'm feeling pretty confident about that estimate.

fuggs looked at my profile a couple weeks ago. i don't even wanna know why. gggggggggggggggggggggggggggross.

legal teen hottie? better cover that exit. zeni's on the hunt...

finally turned 21, eh? first round is on me. hbd bud.

i can drink to that. good luck with the project!

yikes...so where was the pressure regulator? and the water lines were buried under the floors? and you can't get to them without going thru the floor?

lol, i'd arrive all over that dish.

bacon is great, don't get me wrong. but i feel like uncured pork belly, roasted with a little sweet and savory, is what the gods would eat if they were real.

do people ever get fresh side pork these days? or is it always about the bacon? such a shame.

it's up to you if you want to start hunting it down. if you're not comfortable doing a little poking around, and if you've already got plumbers scheduled and you don't mind waiting it out, just let them dive in when they arrive. but i definitely want to know what's the culprit when they get it straightened out.

it seems odd that you killed the hot water and the leak went away, yet the meter kept running. it can only mean a couple things: 1) there's another leak somewhere in the cold side, 2) something else on the cold side is using water that hasn't been accounted for, or 3) the leak didn't stop when you turned off the hot water. can you rule any of those things out on your own?

is there anything else in the house that uses water, like outdoor sprinkler systems or water-powered sump pump? something that may have accounted for the ticking meter that wasn't a leak? anything, like a fridge / ice maker that uses water, geothermal, ... heated floors ... anything?