How'd it go today?

1/4 cup gluten-free rolled oats, 1/2 cup water, tablespoon flax meal, 1.5 min in microwave, or if I am making drip coffee I’ll heat extra water to rolling boil, use 1/2 cup of that in the oats, cover the bowl and let sit while flow-pouring the water for the coffee through the mini-drip. Add fruit (usually blueberries), nuts, pumpkin seeds, - no butter or sweeteners.
 

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Well, my internet provider screwed me over last week. I finally got paid for some lumber, and called them to get my service turned on. They often threaten a reconnection fee, but have never demanded it to reconnect. They add it on later. I had pretty much every penny allocated from that check, and confirmed what they were going to hit my card with. Well, they added the fee on top, and now I'm negative.:X So now I also will have an insufficient funds charge on top of trying to figure how to cover the overcharge. I'm beginning to think most of my health issues are caused by dealing with people, especially medical staff in charge of "communicating", rather than any actual illness.:/: I'm afraid to check my bp right now.:|:
 
People without money get frigged over in just about every way. A little short on money for your service? Well frig you, we're gonna charge you even more! Or you might go down to payday loan service(Loan shark). You get the money, but it comes with a hole that's hard to get out of, and usually gets a little deeper every week. Overdraw your account by 20¢? Guess what?



Wait for it...



Yea, that's a big frig you too, with even more fees piled on top. Bet you didn't see that coming! :^S
 
Cup of water. Pinch of salt, cinnamon, raisins. Boil. Add cup of oats. Turn heat down a little, cook until as dry/thick as possible. Serve, Add heavy spoonful of honey. Milk on top.

That being said…

 
Quaker had a limited edition apple cheddar rosemary instant oatmeal that was fantastic, so of course it went away. It was a contest or something from people's home recipes, and that was the winner. I'd love to get it again to study closer, so I could try to make it myself. Or they could get crazy, and just release the damned thing as a standard flavor...
 
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Deuce engine tag style I hadn’t seen before
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Friend gave me this, finally fixing and putting together

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Pretty light aluminum. Was $1k….in ‘88
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Yeah sure, we can mount a lift from a sprinter van on a refrigerated trailer…
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Well, it runs but I think it's got a killer air leak, idles at what should be about half throttle, very erratic, low ish compression but nothing horrible

Tomorrow I plan to weld up the crack in the handle, and probably head to the stihl/husky dealer to see about ordering an intake boot, the old one's pretty chewed up where the carb bolts to the plastic ring thingy, much rather work on a stihl but I guess I can live with a husky (or 3) in my shop for the time being, still need to get a new top end on my 395 and sell the 881. should probably sell my 261, needs a top end as well but I've since gotten a 400 with a full wrap so I don't feel a need for a 261 anymore, my 200T needs a top end so I'm planning to just send it off to get built one day, I'm not working on that thing myself, top handles and T27's on the same bench scare me

the 395 is the only 3 series I thought I'd want, but I'm digging the idea of a 365, this guy got it for free so I might be able to get a deal on it

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I have a few random screws left over so I guess I'm more efficient than the engineers, runs without them lol
 
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Worked on a little property job up north, and that put me a few minutes away from corn free gas, so I took two 5G containers with me. I'm a little overstocked now; about 17G, but I suspect gas prices are gonna increase above and beyond summer inflation, so I wanted to get in now. Added Stabil, and in the garage. $4/G for 90octane corn free. Gas prices are a bit higher in PA anyway.
 
Nick (TreeCareLA) has a drone and appears to be documenting their customer’s properties. Last evening he sent me this photo, as he had driven by my friend’s place in Altadena just the day before. I had eaten fruit from the grapefruit tree in the back yard. You can see the large chunks that are all that is left of their magnificent Italian Stone Pine (red arrow)which stood behind what was their garage. The electric utility came through and cut it down. I sat at their dining room table (red circle) when discussing the issues with their trees before referring them to Nick.
I am amazed at how the neighbor’s property to the right survived unscathed.

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just got a job for friday, a dogwood, hackberry and some other tree that I can't I.D, over a gazebo, pool, pool pump and an aluminum fence, tangled in a holly that we can't touch and theres a huge hackberry stopping us from laying any of them over whole, biggest stump will be about 14" and the tallest tree is maybe 40ft, leave them in the brush pile about 100 feet away, $2,000, all climbing and hand drag/carry, and some time once it dries out a little we are taking down a black walnut for a friend, said friend owns the neatest little crane ever (Pittman polecat rear mounted on a Mercedes 406 Unimog), only 40ft of reach but I recon we will wreck that walnut in just a few minutes


Y'all will think I'm stupid, but about a month ago I saw this video and it's changed my life as a groundie, no clue why it took me so long to figure it out
 
My guys would regularly pick logs up the "wrong" way despite being aware of the other way, made me smh.
 
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My guys would regularly pick logs up the "wrong" way despite being aware of the other way, made me smh.
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I've been doing the wrong way for years now, recently started doing the right way and I'm amazing I can still walk after seeing how bad the other way was
 
Stopped in at a friend's shop to finalize some measurements for a timber frame design I'm working on. They were working on a funky stair railing. Not just a helix, but changes in angle, as well. They were bending the handrail that gets attached to the top strap. I stayed for a couple of hours and helped. No math or computers were used. A fun and challenging project. This was only one of about four pieces.

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