My great nephew. 4-5 years old. A newspaper reporter once asked him if he was going to be a cowboy when he grows up. To which he replied, “I’m already a cowboy “

Note: this is not a staged picture.

 

 

This near my work today. Not sure if a person the drives a Hyundai Accent isn't doing you a favour by exiting your life but there you go.

 

^ That's a suck.



I'm on day four dealing with an emergency situation at the transmitter, with relatively little sleep. (Maybe 12 hours total in the past four days? Can't really be sure.)

Basically, Sears Tower had a scheduled power shutdown on Friday night / Saturday morning, for ComEd to replace one of their 12th century distribution panels.

The work was estimated at three hours. The UPS lasted for four hours, the blackout lasted for five. Only two machines failed to come back online. One of them was an insignificant little convenience PC. The other was the site controller which, you know, is absolutely critical to maintaining control and monitoring of the transmitter.




Fortunately, my predecessor purchased a replacement for this ancient machine-stack about five years ago. Unfortunately, I'd adopted an attitude of "Meh, the old system still works."

Yeah, that was a bad decision.

Needless to say, it's going in.





This is the first night I've been home before midnight, and as I have a little bit of time to kill, I'm wrapping myself up in warm blankets of nostalgia concerning the new Ghostbusters trailer. And this reminds me of a video which I saw about ten years ago and intended to post here, but rum and other things were involved, and it didn't happen at the time.

Now it does.



I'm honestly not sure if it's today, tomorrow, or yesterday right now.

 

3 cylinder engine out of an AC compressor?

33:25 for Engine Start.

 

Not gonna lie, that's impressive,


Unrelated: I am fairly intoxicated, and mainlining 80s mashup **** right now.





If anyone here has received technical advice from me in response to a MT private message or FB message within the past few hours, you should probably disregard it. I've been exploring some new stuff. It took me several minutes to spell-check this post. Huey Lewis is basically my whole reality right now, which is weird as hell, as people of my generation (children of the 70s) were raised to believe that Pink Floyd held the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Nope.

Power of Love.

 

That was awesome

 

 

My kid playing in the same during the last bring your kid to work day. They seem waaayyyy too expensive a hobby.

 

Dylan won HRL high points for H350 this year, fantastic driver and good boat. The red boat i bought is also an Auld hull like his. The white carbon fiber boat is a Henderson hull, which was H-55 in the HRL series last year.
It's really not that expensive. Sure, maybe if you were building a boat from the ground up but not a lot of people do that and even fewer do all carbon fiber. The wood boats are still very fast and competitive. Compared to building up a track Miata it's not that much more. Outboard is even cheaper.

You could be into TV's.

 

This afternoon, while taking a moment of pause from doing heroic stuff, I had a really good beer with some fish tacos at a pub on Franklin St.

The name of the beer was Rudolph Vs. Unicorn, from the Pipeworks Brewing Company. (Google it. It's actually quite interesting.)

It was an Imperial Stout blended with a wee bit 'o spice. Dark, heavy, sweet, chewy.

Basically, a very good beer all around.

Unlike the post above.

 

Here is a thing:



I can tell that the creator of this thing shares my almost limitless opprobrium for interlaced video, based upon the number of times which they higlight its flaws. .

 

I found it interesting that it's supposed to be set in a fictional, small town in Oklahoma......but was filmed in Canada. I was under the impression OK offered some pretty decent incentives to have films made here.

 

 

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https://www.facebook.com/Jruda.1/videos/2950292111648332/

 

That's the best one so far.

 

Sound on. Kitty death metal.

https://www.facebook.com/100024602480169/videos/539374853559259/

 

Even as someone who was a part of the long-hair crown in the late 80s / early 90s, I found death-metal to be tedious and self-indulgently wanton for attention both then and now.

I was much more into the monstrously thick, deep layered, and melodic power-ballads of Queensr˙che, Metallica, Mötley Crüe, Ozzy, Def Leppard, etc., than the "let's see how insanely loud and distorted and high-BPM it it physically possible to be given the technological capability of these amplifiers" scene.

And yet I respect this video, with duly apportioned.

 

So not for you hehe? I saw these guys live back in '97-98 I think. I have a signed drum head from their drummer hanging in my bar at the house.