D-League

[BBUK]

Went fishing this morning, report follows:

I hooked 6 and landed three so, anther push. Warrior-Cat 3---Large Mouth Bass 3. While I did not get one as big as last week (6lbs 9 ounces), I did get another lunker of 5lbs 11 ounces. Todays Haul:

I'm more than happy pulling those sized fish out of the OCEAN!!! 🤫

 

[BBUK]

What a day, what a day... Teeth not too bad though they did need a cleaning. The lady took care of that , quick, fast, and in a hurry.

Had a tooth missing. She asked me how long that molar had been missing, I stated about 35 or 40 years. Asked if I wanted a bridge at about $2500.00 after insurance (Just got dental insurance this year.) I stated, let me mull it over as I have done without it for a good while and eat pretty well.

I have crooked teeth BUT, they don't need any work so I'm good in that department. I am thankful...

Since we moved My Darling now has THREE gardening spots. (Our home and my daughters two houses.) She uses more gas than I do going to work between her trips to their houses, picking up and taking the BB to school three days a week and shopping.) Welll.... (Ala John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn when Ms. Goodnight finished the talking at the end...)

Anyway, it's back to work in the morning to the office.... (Not sure me and my "new" supervisor are going to get along... I will try and am holding off judgement for just a little bit. Will give it the old college try.) I was hoping this was my last work stop but who knows.... I will know better in another day or two. Need ONE WIGI..... that will be the decider...

Have a peaceful evening.... God Bless you D-Leaguer's....

Edit... I just read my work email to check and see if I had anything that was urgent needing to be addressed. I received an email from my supervisor that cemented some ignorance stupidity, I was concerned about. I guess I will start looking as this guy "ain't" going anywhere.... Just criminal who is put in charge of hard charging personnel. (Not me I am talking about...) Just criminal.....

 

[AustinTXCat]

shame

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Presently 71°F and clear. Today's high expected around 98°F. Got pelted by a thunderstorm yesterday.

Co-worker out today. Must run the show alone. Hope it's slow.

Happy Friday, y'all.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Heading inside, three cars in the parking lot.

May your days be joyous...

 

[warrior-cat]

MORNING LEGIONNAIRES!

68° this morning with light winds. High to be near 90° with sunny skies.

A lot on the plate today, walking the monster (shortly), working out and then a doctor's appointment at 0915. Wife gave me a list to buy at Sams and Lowes after appointment. Getting lunch for daughter before I come home and then will finish the day cutting the grass. German beers will be on ice to top it off when done.

Took out fishing gear and equipment out of the bed of my truck to prepare for the day last night after dinner when I realized I had left my favorite rod at the pond when I left at 10:30 yesterday morning. $100.00 rod and reel with some lures. Had to go back last night to check. Luckily the grass was high where I was parked earlier (no one could see them), and they were still there when I went back so, while there, I fished a little more and wound up catching a 6lb catfish. Put it back in for the next guy. Thank God and a Good Day.

Well, TGIF folks. Don't work too hard and God Bless.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

The last few weeks have been a test to me. Excruciating hip pain, only to find out the ball on my hip was obliterated due to hip injection. (This rarely ever happens). Nothing helped the pain with the exception of a fentanyl shot prior to surgery. Yesterday afternoon I had a full hip replacement, and now sitting at home basically pain free playing on computer. I can't say enough how great my Dr, his staff, and the staff at the hospital were. Just amazing how things change in a matter of hours.

I have one artificial hip and one artificial knee. I need another artificial hip and artificial knee plus two ankles.

We had Spectrum at $301/mo. Switched to fiberoptics company & for basically the same thing, it's $217 or $1K/yr less. Internet speed is up to 1G, so see if that helps Netflix/Prime buffering. Those weren't bad, but still annoying. Also gained recording/viewing to a 2nd TV. So I understand your internet/YT combined bill is $147. Me, I enjoy mowing. Good exercise.

See the above, lack of good joints, is why I don't mow. I love mowing too.

It is 53.4°F and sunny here. We are supposed to get to 81°F today with no chance of rain.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Working from home today.

Suddenly my house, recently full of the clamor of two adult kids, is silent.

My daughter and her boyfriend got a chance to take a trip to Europe - Paris -- associated with his job.
My wife is in New York City visiting her favorite aunt who lives in Manhattan.
My son took a break from his moving truck job to drive up to Boston to help a friend who us relocating from there back to DC.
My older daughter -- she lives in Kansas City with her husband and kids so she wouldn't be home anyway -- is wrapping up a cruise through the glaciers in Southeastern Alaska.

Everybody is doing something interesting but me.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

This might interest any of you fellows who ever worked with an acetylene torch.

My daughter was in the State Museum of Alaska and saw this exhibit as part of their Alaska Pipeline display.


She sent me the image, because she remembered seeing the one I cut out of a piece of scrap pipe on the pipeline when I was there as a 19 year old in the summer of 1976 -- in the Copper River Valley and in the Chugach Mountains..


I could buff mine up to a shine, get that little bit of white pipe dope off of it that just came from lugging it around, and trace a cleaner line showing the pipeline route and I think it is just as good. I was a pretty fair hand with a torch in those days. Now I can barely tie my shoes.

 

[BBUK]

Hello all,

Back home now. I picked up the BB from his mom after he got out of school.

He wanted a happy meal. Wonder what Papa bought.

My Darling is with friends jabber jawing and eating. I do hope she has fun. Had some pork chops thawing but I stuck them in the fridge. I snacked around and I know My Darling won't be hungry. Decluttering my office and aligning it is the hearts desire. I can't stand clutter. The BB has a different idea though....... Legos.....

Have a restful weekend.

Oh, had some serious contention today but it will keep until Monday or Tuesday....😉

 

[warrior-cat]

Finished with cutting the grass and weed eating. Cleaned up and now am enjoying a nice cold Warsteiner in a frosted glass.

 

[berniecarbo]

Good morning folks. Working from home today.

Suddenly my house, recently full of the clamor of two adult kids, is silent.

My daughter and her boyfriend got a chance to take a trip to Europe - Paris -- associated with his job.
My wife is in New York City visiting her favorite aunt who lives in Manhattan.
My son took a break from his moving truck job to drive up to Boston to help a friend who us relocating from there back to DC.
My older daughter -- she lives in Kansas City with her husband and kids so she wouldn't be home anyway -- is wrapping up a cruise through the glaciers in Southeastern Alaska.

Everybody is doing something interesting but me.

My daughter used to say, '' Daddy, I'm boring.'' As I've gotten old, it seems sometimes boring days are very good.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

My daughter used to say, '' Daddy, I'm boring.'' As I've gotten old, it seems sometimes boring days are very good.

Bernie, I am well content to be a boring old man. I am happy to think that I wasn't a boring young man. When I get a little older I want to be like this character in the Townes Van Zant song (sung by Steve Earle) trying to convince people he lived like a rake as a young man, knowing no one will believe his "ravings and lies..."

 

[UK82]

Our tomato plants seem to be thriving (so far). Mostly heirlooms. Only 8 plants this year. My wife has to watch it with her acid reflux.

 

[BBUK]

This might interest any of you fellows who ever worked with an acetylene torch.

My daughter was in the State Museum of Alaska and saw this exhibit as part of their Alaska Pipeline display.

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She sent me the image, because she remembered seeing the one I cut out of a piece of scrap pipe on the pipeline when I was there as a 19 year old in the summer of 1976 -- in the Copper River Valley and in the Chugach Mountains..

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I could buff mine up to a shine, get that little bit of white pipe dope off of it that just came from lugging it around, and trace a cleaner line showing the pipeline route and I think it is just as good. I was a pretty fair hand with a torch in those days. Now I can barely tie my shoes.

I cannot read the plaque name plate and it won't enlarge but I am very sure that top one was never touched with an acetylene torch. (Did that for a living as well welding on box cars for Whitehead and Kales in Michigan plus various other interactions with welding of different types. Just loved welding aluminum. Loved silver soldering as well. That just flows beautifully. MIG, TIG...) Upper looks more like plasma arc cutting. jmo

The top one may be acetylene torch made but I have never used that type of equipment or seen it.

An aside, you held a torch well as well though... I made a living for a couple years burning rods. Boxes and boxes of rods...

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I cannot read the plaque name plate and it won't enlarge but I am very sure that top one was never touched with an acetylene torch. (Did that for a living as well welding on box cars for Whitehead and Kales in Michigan plus various other interactions with welding of different types. Just loved welding aluminum. Loved silver soldering as well. That just flows beautifully.) Upper looks more like plasma arc cutting. jmo

The top one may be acetylene torch made but I have never used that type of equipment or seen it.

An aside, you held a torch well as well though... I made a living for a couple years burning rods. Boxes and boxes of rods...

That’s an interesting thought BBUK. The plaque only says the top one was “cut” from a piece of the 48 inch pipe used on the pipeline. So, it is steel pipe and it was cut with some kind of torch. But maybe not by hand. I can vouch that the bottom one was cut by hand.

I did some utility welding up there on things like the VSMs —vertical support mounts. (I assume you’ve seen the pipeline. Most of it is above ground on H shaped shock absorbers to keep it from rupturing in an earthquake.) But I was not good enough to actually weld on the pipeline. I did a lot of fitting and cutting.

There were some talented pipeliners up there —the best in the world. I was just a kid, and knew I’d never be as good as the top hands out of our Union —Pipeliners Local 798.

 

[BBUK]

That’s an interesting thought BBUK. The plaque only says the top one was “cut” from a piece of the 48 inch pipe used on the pipeline. So, it is steel pipe and it was cut with some kind of torch. But maybe not by hand. I can vouch that the bottom one was cut by hand.

I did some utility welding up there on things like the VSMs —vertical support mounts. (I assume you’ve seen the pipeline. Most of it is above ground on H shaped shock absorbers to keep it from rupturing in an earthquake.) But I was not good enough to actually weld on the pipeline. I did a lot of fitting and cutting.

There were some talented pipeliners up there —the best in the world. I was just a kid, and knew I’d never be as good as the top hands out of our Union —Pipeliners Local 798.

I never had to join a union. I was too young. I started at $11.42 an hour back then about 1976 or 77. That was some real good dough for a guy my age that was still in high school. Minimum wage back then was around two bucks an hour. I lived large and got some serious over time. Where the dough went only the ladies knew...

 

[Catfan in Tn.]

Beautiful night. Got the fire and music going.

 

[AustinTXCat]

BTW, never got an answer to what poster is no longer posting on the D

Believe me, I'd love to tell you all about the situation. But once I start naming names, then I'm no better than the careless individual who started this shitstorm in the first place.

I'm better than that.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 71°F and raining. Thunderstorms hit us earlier this morning. Today's high expected around 97°F. Pup got upset by all the booming and banging going on.

Gonna shoot a productive Saturday after a morning walk. Stay tuned.

Wishing all D-League members an awesome day.

 

[warrior-cat]

MORNING LEGIONNAIRES!

73° this morning with a lot of wind. Thunderstorms just to the north keeping their distance so, no rain today.

Not much scheduled this morning other than walking the monster, working out, cleaning the house, killing some moles, wait...I take that back, that's quite a bit for the morning.

@AustinTXCat I will need a few of those Ice Teas to be of the Long Island variety please. MIL is coming over again today (almost every weekend now).

UK baseball playing LSU today in a Super Regional at 1500 eastern time. Gives me a reason to go to my bedroom and watch tv while the MIL is here.

Well, got to get started, it is starting to get light out and I must walk the monster before the sun gets shining.

Enjoy the Saturday folks and God Bless.

Oh yeah, GO Cats!

 

[55wildcat]

Believe me, I'd love to tell you all about the situation. But once I start naming names, then I'm no better than the careless individual who started this shitstorm in the first place.

I'm better than that.

I figured out who it is, guessing it has to do with one of those pro nouns from the political board.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Out for a long walk. It’s a stunning day so far in the east - flawless blue skies, cool so far. A light breeze. Great weather for my long walk.

Still in the hours where being alone is more a positive than a negative. Wife and kids will be back from their various trips tomorrow. Until then I’ll enjoy doing whatever I want.

I hope you all have a good day.

 

[BBUK]

Good morning all,

Guess I'm a soccer Papa... That's where I'm headed....

Have a great day...

 

[BBUK]

Out and about,

Just hit an Asian market and got their lunch special today.

 

[warrior-cat]

Out and about,

Just hit an Asian market and got their lunch special today.

I hope they don't sue.

 

[BBUK]

I hope they don't sue.

I hit em lightly. They hit back so, we're good.

Ate the snot out of some good food. I will post pictures later today.

 

[blubo]

 

[BBUK]

Had a fine, fine dinner out and about....

The tray was full but then I thought to take some pictures. A seaweed wrap with imitation crab, egg, spinach, pickled turnips, carrots, and a couple other items...

The below is called be-bim-bop. Pour the sauce in and mangle it up and eat it. A tangy-spicy sauce but what you see is what you get. (Egg, carrots, cucumbers, spinach, bean sprouts, cabbage, and a couple other veggies.) This would have been enough for me and My Darling but eating the above as well, staves off supper.

This soup came with it along with rice and black beans. (The soup was some sort of sausage soup. My Darling re-boils it to get a lot of the fat off of it and then strains it but it makes for a good snack later today.)

All of the above ran right around $16.00.


Part of the bounty from our shopping trip. That is a little less than $10.00 worth of Mackerel at $1.99 a pound. They were about as fresh as you can get from the store. My Darling cleans them. Those will see the air fryer in a day or two if the Lord doesn't take us home.

Edit: the fish are about three or four meals for us.. definitely not one sitting.

Have a great rest of your day... cleaning, cleaning, decluttering, decluttering.......

 

[*CatinIL*]

Hopefully all the DLers are doing well. The wife and I just finished driving on I-90 across NY and Mass. I can’t wait to get the bill for all the tolls. 🤮

 

[UK82]

Cats/LSU game delayed a bit. Checking out the radar. Could still be some bad weather coming in.

 

[UK82]

14-0. That's about as bad as it gets in baseball. Still a chance.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. 74°F is our current temperature. Today's high expected around 101°F. Triple-digits expected for at least the next 8 days. Yikes!

- LSU kicked Cats butts last night. Ugh! Need a good comeback tonight.

- Purchased new fire extinguishers yesterday. Yep, growing more care these days.

Wishing all a wonderful Sunday.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

68.7°F and cloudy here today on our way to 79°. We have had .11" of rain over night. We need ten times that amount.

@*CatinIL* The Northeastern states know how to take the fun out of travel.

 

[vhcat70]

Had more rain in last hour than in last three weeks. Maybe 1/4".

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

Had a nice evening last night -- a reunion of the old Scripps Howard News Service Washington staff now widely dispersed, at the Virginia home of a friend of mine. Some really good folks I rarely get to see.

I worked there from 94-2000. The bureau in Washington was where famous war correspondent Ernie Pyle had worked before being sent to cover WW2, and there was still lots of his old memorabilia around the office, along with other war correspondents and notable political reporters from the 40s, 50s, 60s. Scripps always kept an overseas writer on staff in Ernie's job after he was killed by a Japanese sniper in 1945, and I had that job for a few years.

There was a nice turn out, a lovely cool summer evening in Arlington, not far from the Cemetery, and a clear night full of stars. Lots of memories shared with those folks.

Hope you all are having a good Sunday.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Had more rain in last hour than in last three weeks. Maybe 1/4".

Vh we need to get better at paying the preacher or improve our rain dances!

 

[BBUK]

Good late morning all,

Wasn't able to take time to even post on my phone this morning. Left around 0730. My Darlings first day of singing in the choir. The early service is the only "worship" service, the next three are "contemporary" with the third one being a Spanish only service.

The contemporary service has you listening more than participating in the music part. I guess change from worship...

In any event, I just made a pan of biscuits I hadn't been able to make in at least three weeks. Was almost angry about it. They came out nearly like cake but not sweet so I did my duty. The mixture of the sharp shredded cheese makes it a meal. I have a half one on my plate left as I type.... I made another and Oops it is gone....

Have a blessed day and replenish whatever it is you need revitalized....

Still decluttering...

 

[UK82]

The Canadian wildfires are wreaking havoc on NYC. Looks like something straight out of Soylent Green.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

The Canadian wildfires are wreaking havoc on NYC. Looks like something straight out of Soylent Green.

But it ended Friday.