I'm on my third random outbreak of mushrooms. I just wake up one morning and there's two dozen in my yard three inches high. I yanked them out and the same thing happens three weeks later.
since my update consists of pulling a bunch of weeds and ivy (including poison ivy) I'm going to pass the mic to someone with a more interesting update
The project got a little um... more difficult when I removed the old switch, and realized the single gang box, was actually a double gang box that had been patched over.
@BMitch Yes I have a new tool, and already used it to cut lath. And boy is it good at it.
replaced the dishwasher in the house I just bought and moved into. It shoulda burned down, alu and copper wirenutted under DW, wirenuts totally melted off, bare wires, scorced jackets just lucky
No a customer that I put a new kitchen in for last summer, just filty people, left standing water and put scaulding hot pans on it
even the best glued joints on preforms will get damaged it you leave water on them for weeks at a time
I have a need to build a room that is resonably fire resistant. I have played around the thought of adding fire resistant panels underneath the dry wall, but if they heat up too much, they themselves with catch anything behind them on fire. The room is in the basement, so the floor is on the foun...
I received a complaint that the oven wasn't heating as well as it used to, so I cleaned it out and checked the burners. I'm guessing the door gasket needs replacing, but it looks fine.
@BMitch You can upload to imgur and then link it probably - little extra work.
From imgur "Our upstream provider (Voxel dot Net) is having storage issues, which is affecting a small percentage of images. Some images may show up blank or appear to have been removed. We're really sorry about this, please stay tuned for updates while they work on the issue."
@NiallC That's weird - I grabbed pics off it the other night. It was acting a little strange though, some of my pics were permanently thumbnailed (not sure that's the right term for the [l, m, s] URL modifiers)
So yeah, imma be MIA until at least the 4th of november. Prolly past it. Haven't finished tiling my kitchen yet. Spent a week in Chicago at the datacenter.
No, in Nov we're supposed to go live with what we're working on. Then we're supposed to move all our work over to it, at which point we can take down the equipment at our primary datacenter and put it back together in the new way. Sum total is a lot of hours. Yeah, I'm already back in Texas.
Weather was GORGEOUS while I was in chicago though.
Was driving around with the windows down when I went for food.
It's been like that this week in Texas. Highs in the 70s.
I ate Portello's every other meal for the entire week. :D
@KarlKatzke Oh man, I haven't been to Portello's in years. I love Goose Island Kolsch as well...it's their summer beer, but I'd make an exception if you can find it :)
@SteveJackson Heh. A good kolsch is always welcome where I live ... sadly, it's only cool enough for me to drink red wine or really dark beer here like two or three months of the year. The rest of the time it's all summer stuff. Doubt I can find it down here. Texas is still stuck with lots of nasty blue laws that makes it a pain to sell beer here.
Which, d'oh, you know.
Forgot you're here. My brain is NOT working today.
Yeah, I ate at portello's so much because it's so tough to find good italian beef in Texas.
I was drinking a german heffeweisen most of the time I was there. I hadn't had it before, Hacker-Pschorr. It was excellent and just right for the season.
I recently purchased a house, and it came with a gas oven. I've never owned or used a gas oven before, and the oven takes an extremely long time to preheat (like hours). I replaced the door gasket after reading up a bit online about common problems, but it still seems to heat very slowly.
What a...
@shirlockhomes While I had it apart, I noticed the left side was lit well. All the burner ports looked good on both sides, but I didn't think to check the right while it was on.
I suggested this in chat
"We should start a series of challenge questions on the site. give a
list of random materials, and see what people can make with them.".
And @Aarthi Devanathan Ψ suggested we do it on the blog , and also offered to help fund a prize. So all we need now is a list...
I actually flagged that post to be a community wiki since it looks like a list kind of question, not sure of the mods (pinging @ChrisF) check the flags over on meta
frying all your food is not good for ya, that is a reason I liked the jenn air grill so much. when the snow flies I can still grill chicken, chops and steak
@shirlockhomes if you are around on Tuesdays, you'll see a Blog link near the top of the main page. It appears for 24 hrs. after a new blog post is published.
I like to write, just been a real busy season. Wanna do a Q&A in local paper, editor thinks it's a great Idea, jut gotta find time soon to start it. My have to send some of the questions out for you guys to handle
Which reminds me I must put my blog post about the walk in shower together. Not this weekend though as we're off to see the eldest at University. Seeing how he's settled in and taking a food parcel.
guys i just spelled the same sentence wrong four times. i either need to stop drinking or drink more. I'm out, I love y'all, @SteveJackson or @BMitch close up shop for me?
@shirlockhomes it was awesome getting to meet you -- I'm just sorry I couldn't be around much this week! But, this event happens weekly. Hopefully I'll get to meet you some other time -- maybe even next week! :D
Don't forget even a partial answer can help - DIY is a bit like programming in that respect. Often all you need is a hint or even to know that your problem can be solved.
You can then go back and edit the answer to make it complete later.
I need to get some pencils to restock the bucket at the local Habitat chapter, their current ones all say Habitat on them, but I don't think they'd mind a donation
Imgur is having some trouble I guess.
I can't upload any images on Stack Exchange.
It looks they have some maintenance issues.
I suggested this in chat
"We should start a series of challenge questions on the site. give a
list of random materials, and see what people can make with them.".
And @Aarthi Devanathan Ψ suggested we do it on the blog , and also offered to help fund a prize. So all we need now is a list...
