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well this took long enough. after the remaining structure became too unstable, the demo had to be put on hold until i could get some heavy equipment in to pull it down. so we sat still for 2 weeks until this morning. here's the "before"... i put a video on the bar's fb page of the knockdown, but i can't link to it right now on this computer. so here's a pic of the "after"... should have the lot cleaned up next week. then the construction part begins!

i like tomatoes. add a bunch of salt ... and sugar ... then mash them up real good and boil their asses for a little while. perfect. i mean ketchup, i like ketchup.

we're all bitchin' about the little sound file. meanwhile, discolemonade is live at the acropolis with the big piano man. fuck yeah.

it's everywhere. IT'S EVERYWHERE!!

i think it's actually two audio files: one which obv states "laurel" in a lower register, and another that says whatever it says in a higher register. someone on tweeter analyzed the audio file and found markers that indicate two distinct voices. personally, i first heard something (not yanny but a word said in a shitty, fake nasally voice), but after tweaking the eq a bit, i can clearly hear laurel. this was done on purpose by someone to fuck with our minds.

i think i hit legend at around 18k. that was my last rank too, because i topped out at around 20k.

damnit naraku. i thought exactly this when i read the thread title.

i think i have my first age spot. fuck, i didn't think i was that old. it's kinda hard to tell because i'm already about 90% freckles, but i'm pretty sure this is more than just a freckle. maybe it's just a melanoma. i honestly might feel better about it being that.

i watched this twice yesterday. once because everyone was losing their Fing minds about it, and a second time because i didn't really see anything that made me go "oooh" the first time i watched it. i saw a bit more the second time, but meh. i mean, so many layers, amirite? i get it though. the whole commentary on the infatuation with pop culture / media / trendiness set against a backdrop of violence, murder, chaos. the blatant disregard for human life but the careful handling of firearms. etc etc. it makes a point. i'm just not sure that it deserves to be called "genius" or that it's this revolutionary piece of art. it feels like all the subtle references and easter eggs are almost too forced. one thing i did notice that doesn't seem to be getting any attention though. i think the handgun in the opening was cgi or some other trickery. it wasn't in his waistband before he turned to the camera, and yet he whipped it out like nothing. makes me wonder if the squib / exit wound was also cgi. and if that is indeed the case, is that yet another subtle comment on how the violence is "manufactured" or some shit? or perhaps it's part of the jim crow reference. or maybe it's just nothing, and glover just didn't want to actually act the scene out with a real gun. meh. i guess as long as the video gets people talking and thinking and feeling things, then purpose served.

become a scrapper. put a thing on the facebook offering to haul away old appliances and other scrap metal objects. then find a regional scrapyard (not THE scrapyard, A scrapyard) and unload the shit for cash.

oooh so risky. betting that this year's north atlantic hurricane season will be less active than last year's, their 5th most active season on record. i love it when you get wild like that.

goddamn right! boil order was lifted overnight.

we picked up cases of the dogfish head today (60, 90, 120 minute ipas) at the bar. going home to a cold 4-pack of the 120 in about half an hour. no, i won't be drinking all 4 of them (not tonight, anyways). i figure the wife will have a sip and her face will pucker up, and i'll be left to the rest of it. so i'll put two in my cellar and keep 2 in the fridge. maybe i'll let the bro-in-law have one of them too. but at $10 per 12oz bottle, it's not something i'll be taking to the community bbq to share with the domestic drinkers. i've actually never tried this beer before, but at 18% abv and OVER 9000 ibu, i'm pretty excited. might report back after drinking it, if i can still see straight.

yeah, i'm excited about doing that. that old water heater may not survive any more stresses. i had to empty it and shop-vac the lime out of it a year ago, and replace both elements because one died and the other was leaking. i'd like to not be buying a new one anytime soon. ~~~ so this morning, there's another leak being fixed, right across the street from my day job. it's probably been leaking since monday night as well, but it's a much smaller leak by the look of it, so it didn't bubble up to the surface until overnight. water pressure is low, but still running. looks like the boil order will probably reach into the weekend now, assuming no more breaks elsewhere. lovely.

i got my new javy jersey in the mail yesterday. he better not start sucking now.

that's the thing though. i have to boil the water to use it for anything besides the shower and the shitter. if there's no water at all, i just hop in the truck and visit a friend 3 miles away on the rural water system. no boiling or being careful with poisonous deathwater. or just get tired of the bullshit and use the boil order water without taking precautions. i'm pretty sure i survived an entire childhood on the farm, drinking whatever water i found in nature, almost always downstream from some livestock. still not dead, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

bait money. betta watch yo back.

not having running water at all does make life kinda shitty. otoh, if we close the bar for a couple days due to no running water, i'm relieved of one big part of the whole headache. so it's kinda a toss-up for me. an aside. the same fiber installers supposedly hit a gas line this afternoon. still waiting on confirmation on this one. i don't know if they're to blame for being reckless, or if whoever JULIEd the utilities did a shitty job. but someone's ass is about to get taught after all this bs.

it doesn't count as "lost" when you stole it, even if you stole it from the lost and found.

boiling is the preferred method, but you're correct. you can also use regular bleach to sanitize water that's already been filtered (if need be). i have brewery sanitizers that would work too, but they're kinda expensive in comparison. however, it's hard to fill a basin with water when the taps don't produce.

this is the question we've been presented with for the last 24 hours. after the city-contracted fiber installers punctured a water line right behind our house yesterday, a series of events has made the entire city's water situation about as bad as possible. first was the flooding of the backyards, which went on for about two hours yesterday afternoon while the city was attempting to get the water shut off to that section of the system. they couldn't find the shutoff for that particular line (?!) so they had to take down the entire city system. they dug out the line, cut out the bad section and spliced it, and turned the water back on. no leaks, yay! so starting at about 7pm, we slowly regained water pressure again. under a boil order, of course, but at least we could flush toilets. good enough, right? until word came in around 9pm that when the city re-pressurized the system, another line suffered a blowout. a much larger line. in the middle of an intersection on main st. uh-oh. i started filtering and boiling water, because i had a feeling we'd be losing water again soon enough. it took until about 4am for them to shut down the entire city again, but in the meantime i got 8 gallons of water filtered, boiled, and put into containers. finally got a bit of use out of some of that old SHTF gear lol. water was turned back on again about 10am. once again, under a boil order. so far, there's been no word of any other leaks, but smaller leaks will take time to find because they won't blast up through the ground like the big one last night did. in the meantime, the water coming out of the taps is a murky grey color, almost black at times. yum. and we also have the bar to worry about. when this happens (and it happens more often than i think it should) we have a "water crisis" mode we activate. we have to shut down the ice machine and use bagged ice (either from us filling bags previously or by going to the gas station and buying it). we switch all serving cups to single-use plastic. restrooms get sanitized water dispensers for hand-washing, and hand sanitizer for that extra little kick. wash sinks get either boiled and bleach-then-chlorine sanitized tubs. etc etc. it's a nuisance, but we can stay open. when water is off completely, things become a bit more complicated. when you can't flush your toilets, there's not really any way you can justify keeping the doors open. i'm tempted to grab several 5-gallon jugs and go fill them at a local public spring, and keep them on hand to occasionally fill toilets for a good flush if we get to that point again today. but that's not exactly up to code, so i don't know if i'd even attempt it if we went down again. might just close up shop until shit's working again. tl;dr been without potable water for 24 hours. been without water, at all, for half of that time. the answer to which is worse? neither. they both suck ass.

shitty cameraphone shot freehand through an un-calibrated scope. also, drunk. this thing is capable of displaying the rings of saturn. it will do a lot better, after i spend some time on it and get some better eyepieces.

i did the porch chilling thing myself last night. broke out the brand new telescope and fiddled with it a bit, checked out the moon through the clouds. without having done any actual work dialing it in and getting it collimated, it still did ok with pictures from my phone taken freehand thru the eyepiece. i got drunk af too so that was nice.

that's because dudes don't like to vocalize that kinda shit. we usually just kinda wander off quietly.

lol, "nagina" sounds like something fuggs probably hears from teh dudes pretty regular. "nagina for me thanks."