OT: General OT Thread #44 - The World is Still Turning

[Minnewildsota]

I don't like any of the home assistant things. The wife wants them as a convince thing, but her cybersecurity degrees kills the idea without me having to say anything.

I work in IT and don't personally have any devices such as the Amazon Echo. If people knew how much data is being farmed from those devices consistent listening, they would probably be very frightened. Similar to how I don't have Facebook Messenger on my phone.

We did an experiment while at work one day. A coworker installed Messenger on their phone. We started talking about Fairlife Milk. Within 30 minutes, the coworker had advertisements pop up on their Facebook feed centered around...? You guessed it! Fairlife Milk!

 

[Wabit]

Maybe the MIL and wife will learn their lesson of giving me vague instructions? I doubt it.

MIL says simply find her a property to buy, and it has to have a house (so she has a mailing address). I may or may not have sent her a bunch of (very nice) land for sale links last time she asked for property. Not even a general location of where it should be (US is a given). Well it's deer season here and I just got back home from my "rustic" cabin, so this is prevalent in my thoughts.

So my first search is Montana land for sale (with house). I find some really nice places (not crazy expensive) with between 40-300 acres. Send them to her and the wife and got told no. Those are all just hunting cabins (I'd happily live in them) with outhouses. My reply "well aren't 2 houses are better than one?" This did not seem to go over well with either of them for some reason.

So now I'm in trouble for doing what they asked me to do. The wife then told me "this is why I feed you before we go grocery shopping." I smile and nod, no clue what grocery shopping has to do with my house hunting. But I was only kinda listening, so many wonderful thoughts of hunting in Montana were filling my head.

 

[Wabit]

Possible gift ideas for tool junkies. I want that Craftsman tap/die set.

This is channel is my 1st stop from tool comparison videos.

 

[Wabit]

Well it's snow tire time of year again. So a friendly reminder to get the lugs torqued properly and then have the torque rechecked after 50 miles (or whatever the tire place says).

Don't be like the guy, who after the rear brake job, told his kid to retorque the lug nute (or have him check it) after a couple trips to work and school. I'm guessing you can see where this is going...

350 miles later, late night call, 2 broken tire studs, 2 other missing lug nuts, and a badly rounded out rim and it's back to the parts store and tire shop the next day.

Yes that guy is me, and I'm have a crap day. It's also somehow all my fault. So learn from "my" mistake.

 

[TaLoN]

Looks like fun driving tomorrow...

 

[TaLoN]

Now they've upped the projection to 5-8 inches today

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Best part of a fulltime WFH schedule? Avoiding winter traffic to and from the office.

 

[57special]

Speaking of multi screwdrivers, i've just ordered a couple of Megapros for my son and I. I have high hopes....I've never had a multi driver worth a damn since my old Snap-On.

 

[Wabit]

Just got home from watching this movie. I thought it was great.

The wife says it's her new favorite x-mas movie. Her top-3 now are this movie, "Rare Exports", and "Die Hard".

 

[Wabit]

Learn from my mistakes lesson # too high to count.

TLDR: don't show Granny neat stuff that you don't want around X-mas time.

My kid loves rocks, the shinier the better. She'll pick up enough random rocks in a year to fill a couple 5 gallon buckets. Her Granny has too much money and likes to spend it. While I was looking at houses/land for Granny (a few posts earlier in this thread) I came across some cheap (less than $5k for 20 acres) mining rights land near Yellowstone (so not close to anyone at all).

I just thought it was something neat and interesting so I sent the link to the wife. Now I know jack and squat about what mining rights are, and was just wondering if she knew anything about them. Nothing more than future dinner table conversation that might interest the kid (because shiny rocks). It's also something different than the high school drama I'm really sick of hearing about every day.

Well the wife (unknown to me) sent the link to Granny. That same night I chat with the kid about it as we're out doing stuff. Her first words were "Do you think Granny would buy that for me?" I laugh; because I won the bet with the wife about her reaction; and remind her how far away it is and with she would do with it. "Shiny rocks" was her answer. So I'm like "No, don't ask Granny. It's far away and you're in high school. Plus you have no plans to live near Yellowstone when you grow up."

We get home and I tell the wife about the conversation with the kid. She replies with "Granny just asked if she should buy it for the kid as an Xmas present, because she likes rocks." WTF, how does Granny know about this? That's when I then learn she shared the link with Granny.

Now I have no clue if Granny is going to buy these mining rights. I'm afraid to ask. Just in case she forgot about it and it would be a reminder (or she might mistake it as a hint).

That being said, I'm now becoming an internet expert on mining rights. I'm also down a youtube rabbit hole on how to pan/mine/dig for gold. This is something I have no interest in ever doing. It also looks like work that my body (bad ankle, back, and shoulder) is too broken to really do. Even the youtubers I've watched say that it's just a money-sink hobby for them.

So yea, I'm 75% sure it's going to happen, just because it's my luck.

 

[TaLoN]

NHL Survivor begins with the games on Friday, December 23rd

New games will post at least twice a week.

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The winner will get a HF Trophy, 5,000 in Sportscash and something from the Evolve Media prize vault.

Remember you can only use a team ONCE

Good Luck Everyone ​

 

[thestonedkoala]

Learn from my mistakes lesson # too high to count.

TLDR: don't show Granny neat stuff that you don't want around X-mas time.

My kid loves rocks, the shinier the better. She'll pick up enough random rocks in a year to fill a couple 5 gallon buckets. Her Granny has too much money and likes to spend it. While I was looking at houses/land for Granny (a few posts earlier in this thread) I came across some cheap (less than $5k for 20 acres) mining rights land near Yellowstone (so not close to anyone at all).

I just thought it was something neat and interesting so I sent the link to the wife. Now I know jack and squat about what mining rights are, and was just wondering if she knew anything about them. Nothing more than future dinner table conversation that might interest the kid (because shiny rocks). It's also something different than the high school drama I'm really sick of hearing about every day.

Well the wife (unknown to me) sent the link to Granny. That same night I chat with the kid about it as we're out doing stuff. Her first words were "Do you think Granny would buy that for me?" I laugh; because I won the bet with the wife about her reaction; and remind her how far away it is and with she would do with it. "Shiny rocks" was her answer. So I'm like "No, don't ask Granny. It's far away and you're in high school. Plus you have no plans to live near Yellowstone when you grow up."

We get home and I tell the wife about the conversation with the kid. She replies with "Granny just asked if she should buy it for the kid as an Xmas present, because she likes rocks." WTF, how does Granny know about this? That's when I then learn she shared the link with Granny.

Now I have no clue if Granny is going to buy these mining rights. I'm afraid to ask. Just in case she forgot about it and it would be a reminder (or she might mistake it as a hint).

That being said, I'm now becoming an internet expert on mining rights. I'm also down a youtube rabbit hole on how to pan/mine/dig for gold. This is something I have no interest in ever doing. It also looks like work that my body (bad ankle, back, and shoulder) is too broken to really do. Even the youtubers I've watched say that it's just a money-sink hobby for them.

So yea, I'm 75% sure it's going to happen, just because it's my luck.

Does your daughter want to become a geologist?

 

[Wabit]

Does your daughter want to become a geologist?

She wants to take a geology class, but I think that's as far as it'll ever go. Her therapist (the kid has an alphabet soup of issues) says it has something to do with her ADHD brain and rocks somehow satisfy her visual and textile something. Kind of like a fidget spinner or one of those pop pads things.

The therapist stuff is the wife's department. That sounds bad, but it's not meant in "a woman belongs in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant" way. It's in a 2 medical professionals talking to each other type of way. Meanwhile I'm just the dumb kid in the corner playing with blocks while the adults talk.

 

[Jesus comma Brodin]

Learn from my mistakes lesson # too high to count.

TLDR: don't show Granny neat stuff that you don't want around X-mas time.

My kid loves rocks, the shinier the better. She'll pick up enough random rocks in a year to fill a couple 5 gallon buckets. Her Granny has too much money and likes to spend it. While I was looking at houses/land for Granny (a few posts earlier in this thread) I came across some cheap (less than $5k for 20 acres) mining rights land near Yellowstone (so not close to anyone at all).

I just thought it was something neat and interesting so I sent the link to the wife. Now I know jack and squat about what mining rights are, and was just wondering if she knew anything about them. Nothing more than future dinner table conversation that might interest the kid (because shiny rocks). It's also something different than the high school drama I'm really sick of hearing about every day.

Well the wife (unknown to me) sent the link to Granny. That same night I chat with the kid about it as we're out doing stuff. Her first words were "Do you think Granny would buy that for me?" I laugh; because I won the bet with the wife about her reaction; and remind her how far away it is and with she would do with it. "Shiny rocks" was her answer. So I'm like "No, don't ask Granny. It's far away and you're in high school. Plus you have no plans to live near Yellowstone when you grow up."

We get home and I tell the wife about the conversation with the kid. She replies with "Granny just asked if she should buy it for the kid as an Xmas present, because she likes rocks." WTF, how does Granny know about this? That's when I then learn she shared the link with Granny.

Now I have no clue if Granny is going to buy these mining rights. I'm afraid to ask. Just in case she forgot about it and it would be a reminder (or she might mistake it as a hint).

That being said, I'm now becoming an internet expert on mining rights. I'm also down a youtube rabbit hole on how to pan/mine/dig for gold. This is something I have no interest in ever doing. It also looks like work that my body (bad ankle, back, and shoulder) is too broken to really do. Even the youtubers I've watched say that it's just a money-sink hobby for them.

So yea, I'm 75% sure it's going to happen, just because it's my luck.

I hope selfishly hope she buys it, because the story is too good.

 

[Wabit]

I hope selfishly hope she buys it, because the story is too good.

I told the wife your comment and she laughed. Then I got an "I told you so, and we should buy it even if her mom doesn't."

 

[TaLoN]

 

[Lapa]

Merry Christmas!

 

[Digitalbooya]

Merry Christmas!

 

[Wabit]

 

[Minnewildsota]

Dafuq?
Why is it so cold? Should have started in Germany

 

[Wabit]

It made me laugh.

 

[Wabit]

Just an update. The kid didn't get that mining claim for x-mas from Granny. Now the wife is trying to figure out how to squirrel away the $3k to buy it for the kid's b-day.

IMO that money could be much better spent on adding to my collection of vehicles; which she very rudely refers to as a junk yard.

 

[Wabit]

The 2 dogs (jack russel pup and an old shibu mix) we were watching finally went home yesterday. A couple of weeks turned into just over 6 months while their owner was going through mostly inpatient cancer treatments. Now our 2 dogs are confused because they aren't around anymore. 4 dogs is just too much for a house without a fenced in yard in town.

I will miss the old girl. She was mostly blind, deaf, and had to go out every 2-3 hours. She was my napping buddy and the weekly Thursday morning walks around farm and fleet. We skipped a week around xmas and the cashier ladies noticed.

The pup (7 months old when we got her) isn't my type of dog, but she grew on me. She is a good dog, just not my type of dog, the complete opposite everything of my heeler. The house is much quieter today that's for sure.

 

[Minnewildsota]

Watched the first episode of The Last of Us. Highly recommend.

 

[57special]

Grilled Chicken Bahn Mi's at Quang.