From the "let's give Joe P. nightmares" collection:

 

Scott, just let me know when you'll be arriving. I'll gladly come to the airport to help you kill the time.

 

what else is good food at that airport?

have a layover flying back from Greece.

 

What's the problem? We have all sorts of stuff locked on. This is the real world.


Some are wet.

 

Honestly, I don't know. Didn't actually go anywhere else and the layover wasn't that long. Well, other than stopping to stock up on Cuban cigars...

That was when I had a private-sector defense job and got to fly first class. Now that I'm back in a gov job I don't even get to leave my region for training I desperately need.

Edit: ****, forgot random pictures thread. DoD acquisition process chart:

 

Christmas gifts for work.

 

My company sells products to DoD and VA hospitals. It's not as simple as that diagram would indicate. The good news is that if you do it right, the gubmint just loves stroking some checks.

 

Turns out that the missus is both a car nerd and a nerd. She sent me this tonight:




One one, two twos, and three threes. Getting to be time for the first spark plug change.

'Roo!

 

Does this mean there is now a Mrs. Jose Perez?

 

and a perez jr too

true story bro

 

In for technical explanation with diagrams and chicken photo.

 

Joe's "missus" has cred with y8s as she apparently attended the same university at the same time.

 

How did you photo shop those mountains in that Penn State photo?

 

 

It's a duck. C'est un canard.

 

Have to admit, we both got a pretty good laugh when that realization clicked. And didn't you both wind up knowing some random dude that'd been in the vet med program?


As regards the circuit breaker stuff above... None of that prevents the breaker from tripping on overload, only from being manually tripped off. I did the exact same thing a few years ago during a family coast-to-coast RV trip to keep the generator's main breaker closed from the Grand Canyon until we reached Vegas and could buy a replacement part. Not really sure what happened internally, but the damn thing just wouldn't stay closed even when the genny was powered down and the transfer switch was in the Shore position.

I performed many hacks during that trip which seemed mundane to me, but apparently qualified for sainthood status amongst the fam.



Image completely unrelated:



Bestest little fuzzbutt ever...

 

I parked next to... this... while getting lunch today. I think the picture hides just how imminent failure is.

 

is that just a shock body and no shock?

 

I'm wondering why I never realized that two small gauge pieces of hardware store angle iron = frame rail.

Unrelated pictures of frame rails:

 

Somehow i failed to mention this in my post. But yeah. Common practice.


Random picture from last week.