What are you doing today?

[BrianF]

Time to relax. Went to town this am to help my wife with the final haul over to the trade show. Came home, worked on the sleds and did a few power runs on the grass to start the fine tuning of the carbs. Cut up the last of the pallets for burning.

My 9 year old came home on the bus and my 10 year old went to help mom at the show. I ripped my saw apart for a cleaning, grease the clutch bearing and made a few passes on the chain. She is ready to rock and roll now.

My girl then made chicken noodle soup and grilled cheese for supper. Good kid she is.

Now we are watching Teen Titans.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Back in the cube for first time since Tuesday.

 

[TollKeeper]

Sitting at my desk fuming because my boss asked me something about one of our new hires. I was out of the office for a short time last week, and he (himself) dealt with this new hire directly, about this situation, last week. Then had the audacity to say that I need to keep better notes about what he did. I wasnt even in the fucking office you moron.

GRR!

 

[Matt]

Same as last week...laying more floor in the bar tonight. The women's toilet tank broke over the weekend so I'll be doing the floor in there as well.

 

[BrianF]

Matt, due to my incompetance I misread your post. Thought you said you were laying on the floor in the bar. Christ that would have been a good day that day.

I booked the day off and took my wife to the city for medical.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

In the cube farm.

 

[Sparky]

Work.

After work planning on rotating the tires on the Civic and look for leaks as the TPMS light came on for the front right being down to 25 (others at 30).

Hopefully will over closet layout with the wife so we can get the stuff needed at the hardware store later this week.

 

[Matt]

Same as yesterday but now adding the men's bathroom for new floor. Hopefully should be done by the end of the week.

 

[Blckshdw]

Busy day so far today with a few meetings. Got pulled into one with senior management, and an outside consultant where they were using one of my system reports to try and identify some trends. Got some feedback for some changes and updates so they can implement some process changes. Nice break in the day to help time fly by. Couple of new employees started this week, so they were brought by my office for introductions, don't think I'll be working with them much though.

It's supposed to rain this evening, but I'm hoping it holds off for a while after I get home. Tomorrow is yard waste day, and I was planning to trim a ton of fronds off a big palm tree in the back yard. Would be nice to cut those down, and drag them out to the curb while everything is dry.

 

[Eric04]

My daughter decided she'd rather have her car on campus so we ran the Saturn up to her. While parking it I noticed a Trailblazer with Ontario plates. She has a roomie from Canada so I asked if it was hers. It is. I told my daughter she has a quality roommate.

 

[northcreek]

Still in "Ash tree hell" 3 more down today. My natural body odor now is "two stroke"....

 

[Matt]

Taking the day off work and playing golf at Firestone Country Club.

 

[Mooseman]

Picking up the BIL and his GF at the airport, coming in from Vegas. We live close to the airport so they usually park here and I play Uber. Then, finish winterizing the RV and park it in its final resting place for the winter. Prep for a night shift before visiting my mom in the hospital (good news there, she finally started physio).

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

last day in the cubical til Tuesday

 

[djthumper]

At the job, shopping for front brake parts for the Silverado.

 

[Matt]

I'm actually at work today...

 

[TollKeeper]

Rinse and Repeat...

 

[BrianF]

Helping my wife do inventory at her store today. Picked up some lumber prior so we can work on a box stall in the little barn this weekend. Fuelled up the diesel as I got to haul hay this weekend.

Oh and working some OT in the evenings this weekend.

 

[Blckshdw]

Got up this morning and decided to finally tackle the garage since the mornings have been much less humid than the summer. The other half had turned into a dumping ground for any and everything... It got to the point I'd have to shuffle things around to get to the shelving units along the wall, and then shuffle them back so I could get to the washer and dryer, or my tool chest.





Tweaked my back in the process, cuz of course, why wouldn't I... Got the bins full of metal and old truck parts in the front corner on my hand truck. Wheeled them through the yard around back. Hit a patch of sandy soil, one of the small front wheels dug in, so had to lift it a bit, and my back didn't like it. Popped some Aleve and pushed on. Got most of the stuff out, so I could sweep out the sand, grit and stuff that got tracked/blown in.

At some point I may move the stuff on the right side of the garage, into the shed. Couple bags of quickcrete, extra floor tiles, a wooden pallet, and the Denali running boards don't REALLY need to be there. But since I can still open my doors getting in and out of the EXT, they aren't exactly in the way either.





When all was said and done, there's a lot more room to work with (until I start collecting more stuff) and there's almost enough room for a 2nd vehicle. Would probably have to keep the trash and recycle bins outside, then the ladder and canopy could go in that spot.




Pain meds have kicked in, so that's a good thing. It's about time for lunch. I have a couple of boneless sirloin steaks I took out, think I'll make some cheese steak sandwiches, and camp on the couch for the rest of the day.

 

[Redbeard]

nobody around here, right?

 

[BrianF]

57,000 pounds hauled in. 19 more to go. We are down a few horses so we did not need much hay this year. Don't mind my piss poor stack job.... I worked the snot out of my truck and she asked for more. The second one is it all loaded up in kg. If I wanted a panty I would have got a Duramax or Powerstroke.

 

[BrianF]

All my hay for the winter and upcoming year is in the yard now. Took the kids 0 minutes before running and jumping on the bales.

 

[Blckshdw]

Had a few of the fellas stop by for a visit to hang out and catch up. Ended up going out for lunch, watch a little bit of the games, but mostly give each other a hard time and have some good laughs. Nice break from the typical weekend, and I haven't had them over for a visit since I moved in, really.

 

[Mounce]

Unpacked my tool box on the truck from the recent trip so I could move all my tools from my mobile box back into my roller in the garage. Added a 17 piece set of HF Quinn screwdrivers I picked up yesterday to the roller, I'm quite a fan of them after having the 2 piece set for a while. Cleaned off the work bench and laid out all of the shift kit goodies on a clean work area and organized them and went through everything.

 

[littleblazer]

Did the trim at my buddies house. Drank a lot last night. Have enough OT to take the week off... and I'm doing that because of midterms.

 

[Matt]

As I'm a lazy government worker, I get today off, so I'm going to play golf this morning. Then it's back to the bar to button up the floor.

 

[Sparky]

Dreaming of having time and money to work on the various projects at the house. Instead I'm at work making some of the money I hope to use towards these projects eventually.

 

[Blckshdw]

Today is truly a Monday. Got sucked into a 9am meeting, where I was to provide outside perspective when possible (it really wasn't). I thought it was only for an hour, but turned out to be a 3 hour meeting. Didn't budget time like that on a Monday, which are my busiest days. So the rest of the day will be spent playing catch up

CEO announced last week, that she's leaving us next month. There's another short meeting planned for this afternoon, where the board president will come in and let us know what the plans are for a replacement. That's fine and all, but they scheduled it 15 minutes before I duck out of here for the day, and I KNOW this is about to be some long winded BS.

Dreaming of having time and money to work on the various projects at the house. Instead I'm at work making some of the money I hope to use towards these projects eventually.

Preach!!!

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Another regular job holiday since the gov't hands out so many of them, but in the personal office putting in more hrs that the regular job is daily cause thats how you make ends meet on a gov't salary.

 

[Eric04]

Work. After I had to hit a couple small chores on the outside of the house. Gave the wife's Equinox an oil change. I was going to do a trans drain/fill on it too but the chores ran longer than I planned.

 

[m.mcmillen]

Shocks on a coach bus.

 

[TollKeeper]

Shocks on a coach bus. View attachment 91266View attachment 91267

Buds on a Coach? Man I hate buds, much prefer hubcentric.

(for those that dont know, buds/hubcentric is a style of lug nut)

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

In the cube village fixing problems as usual

 

[m.mcmillen]

Buds on a Coach? Man I hate buds, much prefer hubcentric.

(for those that dont know, buds/hubcentric is a style of lug nut)

Left hand threads on the left side too!

 

[TollKeeper]

Left hand threads on the left side too!

Truth. I had forgotten to tell that to one of new shop helpers. And he just kept letting the impact hammer away on that thing. Finally the shop boss came over to ask him what the hell he was doing. It was funny for us.

 

[HARDTRAILZ]

Relaxing on the couch watching the kids put on a dance show. The smiles and laughs can't be beat.

 

[Blckshdw]

More yard work when I got home. Dragged all those palm fronds I cut down last week, out to the curb. Got the sawzall and hedge trimmers, and tackled a cluster of trees and bushes at the front of the house that were starting to crowd the view of one of my cameras. Can't have that!! There was some kinda fluffy, cotton like, fungus growing on some of the leaves and branches, that got ALL over me cuz of the branches shaking. That was nice

Got cleaned up, finished off some leftover pizza, now I'm on the couch watching some TV while I wait for laundry to get done.

 

[Redbeard]

Truth. I had forgotten to tell that to one of new shop helpers. And he just kept letting the impact hammer away on that thing. Finally the shop boss came over to ask him what the hell he was doing. It was funny for us.

This reminds me of a neighbor who was working on his motorhome a few years back. The right side of the motor home faced my house and he had the tires off. Most of the afternoon he was on the left side of the motor fighting the tires. Is was laughing to myself because I figured he didn't know they were left hand threads...so I kindly walked over to his place with my trusty 3/4" rachet with about a 3' handle and asked what his problem was. He said he couldn't get the lugs nuts off. So I kindly offered my service. He proceeds to tell me of how long he has been fighting these lug nuts. So with a little bit of push the lugs all came lose. Neighbor had the astonished look on his face. He had not noticed the direction I had been pulling and that it was the opposite direction of his fighting it all afternoon. After the tire came off I showed the neighbor the stamped "L" on the studs and that it stood for left handed threads. He was so grateful for the lesson. I still get a giggle out of thinking about it.

 

[Matt]

At the office and hopefully buttoning up the bathroom at the bar tonight. Still lots to do to open at the end of next week.

 

[Sparky]

Making the moolah. Decided I need to focus on saving for a new(er) truck in the next year or two and not "fun" projects for now.