What MADE your day today?

[RopeFiend]

Laughing at the absurdity of my life.  

I'm simultaneously downloading porn of a petite gal from 5 years ago (Halle Von) while designing a state-of-the-art particle detector / air quality sensor that's WiFi linked.  Nothing exists like it yet; the cheap stuff just has a small color display, so you have to go LOOK at it.  With WiFi you can monitor it from a distance, which we need for my application.  It'll measure teensy particles in the air in a number of size ranges, temperature, humidity, air pressure, and volatile organic content (stuff like alcohol and acetone fumes).  We'll have probably 4 of them scattered in different areas of the room we want to monitor.  I can build it for less than the other thing below.

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[IdleBoast]

The local "fashion" amongst young people usually tends towards jeans and hoodies.

We've had a sudden burst of hot weather, which seems to have driven all the males indoors, and all the females outdoors - an afternoon stroll on the beach was made especially pleasant by gaggles of teens in bikinis.

Very small bikinis...

Excuse me, I need to adjust something...

[ChirpingGirl]

The seven making sure the pets had water during a blackout in 106 degree heat today.

This house gets blazing hot without central air.  Too many hot girls. 

[ObiDongKenobi]

Seeing "Rich Hall's Hoedown" in London. I love Bob Dylan but completely agree with Hall's critique.

 

[ChirpingGirl]

Going through my twitter, talking to friends making sure everyone's coming for our BBQ pool party tomorrow when I see they're making a live action Ariel movie. Wifey took one look at it and said "It's Disney, she'll be black and all the black people talking about it will act like it's the best thing ever and like they've accomplished something greater than landing on the moon." Sure enough they cast a black girl as Ariel. She despises Disney for destroying star wars anyway. Personally I love them for it, she's promised there will be no trip to see the new one coming out this year. 

Wifey and her inherited racism. 

It's just funny to me she doesn't even care. She never self censors herself. As if she knows being a scorching hot Japanese girl will get her out of anything. Usually it does, so I guess the joke's on me. 

[_priapism]

I had a great Fourth of July.  Lots of food, fireworks, boating, family, and fun.  Reconnecting with friends I haven’t seen in a long time.

[e_monster]

That’s the way I remember the best kind of 4th celebrations the be.

[Athos_131]

Air conditioning.

#Resist

[ChirpingGirl]

Air conditioning.

#Resist

I guess it was possible that I actually agree with something you said.

[psiberzerker]

Who can't appreciate AC in July?  Well, maybe Australians, but in the Northern Hemisphere.

[_priapism]

I left the thermostats on 80° while we were gone.  I turned it down to 76°, the normal temperature, when we returned.  My son seems to think if you turn it down twice as low, the house will cool twice as fast.  It doesn’t work that way.  Woke up at 4 a.m. in a meat locker.  71°.

[IdleBoast]

New phone!

I now don't get stabbed in the finger tip with every swipe & scroll.

[ChirpingGirl]

The seven: Mommy, little girls are really weird.

Me: You're a little girl.

The seven: I know.

 

[Jed_]

I left the thermostats on 80° while we were gone.  I turned it down to 76°, the normal temperature, when we returned.  My son seems to think if you turn it down twice as low, the house will cool twice as fast.  It doesn’t work that way.  Woke up at 4 a.m. in a meat locker.  71°.

Mmmmm, sounds like a Texan.

I turn the thermostat to 65 and sometimes 60 at night.  I would not get any sleep otherwise.  For my Peruvian, hot flashes are keeping her warm at night.  During the day 70, if not home, maybe 75.

But I get the frustration, if my Peruvian thinks it feels cold in the summer morning, instead of just raising the thermostat, she switches it to heat.  Later when it’s sweltering around 85, I’m convinced the AC has died until I realize what she’s done and begin cursing.

[Jed_]

Air conditioning.

#Resist

Turned the AC down in the hotel room last night and immediately after heard a periodic low beep.  I couldn’t figure out why the AC was beeping and it bothered me all night.  Today my Peruvian said she thought it was the smoke alarm and not the AC.  So I called maintenance, and the guy came up saying the smoke alarm is hard wired , so no battery and no beep.  Then he opened the dishwasher and canceled the ‘done’ beep.  We never used the fucking dishwasher?

He said it happens all the time.

[_priapism]

But I get the frustration, if my Peruvian thinks it feels cold in the summer morning, instead of just raising the thermostat, she switches it to heat.  Later when it’s sweltering around 85, I’m convinced the AC has died until I realize what she’s done and begin cursing.

My teen does this also.  I think I am going to buy one of those lock boxes for the thermostat.  I will pay for itself in less than a month.

[Remington555]

But I get the frustration, if my Peruvian thinks it feels cold in the summer morning, instead of just raising the thermostat, she switches it to heat.  Later when it’s sweltering around 85, I’m convinced the AC has died until I realize what she’s done and begin cursing.

My wife does the same thing and it's an ongoing source of conflict. If she's too warm she just turns it off. Drives me crazy. Wish I had a dollar for every time I've said, "AUTO works, give it a try."

Remmy

[msslave]

Yesterday I got to be up close and personal with a B - 17, the WW2 bomber that was dubbed the Flying Fortress.  Bristling with twin 50 caliber guns and equipped with the super secret Norden bombsight, these planes carried bombs deep into Germany. 

I read a book on this plane many years ago and am still amazed at how tough this bird was.  There are many stories of the planes being shot up, even one with the vertical tail section missing, and still making it back to England with it's crew.  Many did crash too and I was told yesterday the the 8th Air Corps suffered more casualties than the Army troops on the ground.

I got to see several take offs and landings, as they were giving people rides at $450 a pop.  To rich for my blood, but I did get a look inside the plane.  That's a story all in its self...this old man trying to climb through very tight places with a camera around my neck. 

This plane came off the assembly line just after the war in Europe ended, so never saw combat action.  Somehow it was saved from the scrape heap, where most WW 2 planes ended up.  It's one of only ten B - 17s still flying.

 

[_priapism]

My son’s great-grandfather was a bomber on a B-17 over Europe. In a single 376 plane raid in August 1943, 60 B-17s were shot down. That was a 16 percent loss rate and meant 600 empty bunks in England. In 1942-43, it was determined to be statistically impossible for bomber crews to complete a 25-mission tour in Europe.

[psiberzerker]

I woke up to 3 new Stories, including 1 by a new author in SSBM.  Gives me hope for the future here...