NON POLITICAL POSTS

[neurosis]

My eldest and her B/F want to live in Japan. They absolutely love it there.

My girlfriends daughter says the same thing

[Elmer Fudd]

Just got back from Hawaii and got a Caribbean cruise booked next sprng with snowboarding coming on soon. Life is treating me good at the moment.

[Rstewart]

When my son in law completes his year in Turkey he will be stationed in Okinawa for four years, along with my daughter and 2 boys, of course.

My wife keeps talking about how much she's looking forward to visiting Japan. I keep telling her that Okinawa is significantly different than Japan.

Yes sir it is...  Sushi isn't really that big of a thing in Okie, more like Spam.  I do like it over there though.  I should be there sometime in February for two weeks

[Newbeeee™]

Yes sir it is...  Sushi isn't really that big of a thing in Okie, more like Spam.  I do like it over there though.  I should be there sometime in February for two weeks

Spam?
Well it sepends on how you have it.
Spam with chips?
Spam with egg and chips.
Spam egg chips and spam.
Spam egg spam chips with spam.
Spam spam egg spam and chips with spam
And, well, you know....unless you're just too young....

[kccadcam]

Just finished installing a complete whole Home Solar/Battery system.
EG4 FlexBoss21 Inverter, GridBoss MID, 2x 14.4kwh batteries, 16 Sirius 410w bi-facial Solar panels on a custom ground mount. Officially Net Metering with PGE now.

Now integrating the whole system into Home Assistant.
Automating my home all locally, no Cloud.

[TSmcam]

Coming into a warm summer here.

Kudos to CNCAppsguy building a GT. I used to race a 1982 GT 24 back in the early to mid eighties (NZ5 in Pro Cruiser). I was restoring vintage BMX race bikes in the early 2000's. Had a 1981 GT Junior, 1983 GT Expert, 1983 GT Pro, 1982 GT 24, 1981 GT 26, 1983 Pattterson 24, 1982 JMC 24, 1982 RRS 24 and a 1983 Kuwahara 24. Just have the 1982 GT 24 now.

I just took delivery of a 1942 Ford GPW WW2 jeep. Fully restored and all correct. Just in time for some summer driving, and of course, maintaining. These things are a constant task to maintain, but that is part of the fun.

[gcode]

I keep telling her that Okinawa is significantly different than Japan.

You are not wrong.
Japanese think of Okinawa like New York blue bloods think of Central Florida country folk.

I'm sure things have changed a whole lot since I was there in 1976/77. The thing I remember most about Oki was the heat and how much I wanted to go home.

Later in life I read many books about Marines in Vietnam and they loved it there.
The base I was stationed at was an R&R camp during the Vietnam War. One of the Vietnam Marines favorite wishes
was for a wound bad enough to get you sent to Oki for rehab.
Time on OKI was time "in country" and counted towards their 13 month oversea tours.

It made me ashamed at how much we hated it and how much we whined about it we I was there.
We thought of Camp Schwab as the armpit of the world and counted the days and hours till we could leave.
The Vietnam Marines considered it paradise. a sanctuary from  the slaughter in Vietnam and a place to work down
their 13 month tours of duty in safety.

[ghuns]

I enjoy killing furry or feathered creatures and usually eating them.

Spent last Thursday-Sunday hunting southwestern Kansas for pheasants, quail, prairie dogs, and unfortunately, snakes.

Afternoon temps were in the mid 80s and the rattlesnakes were out in force.

The little guy pictured below was in a prairie dog spot, not somewhere you'd normally hunt birds, so I was content to snap a pic and let him live. He had other ideas and had to go meet snake Jesus.

The boy kid was the winner of longest shot on a prairie dog at 350 yards. I couldn't hit any past 250.

[SuperHoneyBadger]

I'm in the midst of changing all my home PCs over to Linux, save one newer Win11 laptop that the wife uses. The one I use as a media server has been very good so far, almost 3 weeks of uptime on Ubuntu LTS 24. Somehow the whole thing runs cooler than Win10 as well, it used to heat my living room - a 1200W heater - now we're almost reaching for the thermostat. It just works and works, and from the internal SSD to the RAID0 stack, I'm getting 700 mb/s writes for large files, so pretty happy with that. Been doing a few hours of archiving in the evenings, I have a more than a few TBs of data strewn between 3 PCs and a handful of old HDDs + external drives, so I'm harmonizing them to one location.

Eyeing up an ASUS FLASHSTOR 12 for a NAS, that and the new Steam Machine will hopefully be my big tickets for next year. But if you ask my wife it's floors in the living room, 2 bathrooms redone, and a kitchen reno!

My little boy had his first picture day at school, first report card, and has been sick for 2 months, lol. So we're checking the boxes for school firsts so far. Waiting on the chicken pox...

I have a tradition in my family that we do Christmas on the first or second weekend of December, so everyone can travel a little cheaper, and be sure to get the time off. We are busy baking and wrapping for that one the next week or two.

And I've been on a live music kick lately too, going to another show on Dec 5th, it was a long time since I had seen any bands (maybe 5 or 6 years) and that will be 2 in a month.

[Rstewart]

@ghuns what did he get that 350yd shot with? That is impressive!
Jealous AF of those pheasants, we don't have those down here, and I don't have a Midwest connection 😅

[mowens]

I live in Kansas but I've only been pheasant hunting once. Didn't get a thing. At one point there were 6 or 7 of us walking in a line when a pleasant flew down the line of us. Bam, bam, bam. We each took a shot. The pheasant just kept on flying.

[ghuns]

@ghuns what did he get that 350yd shot with? That is impressive!
Jealous AF of those pheasants, we don't have those down here, and I don't have a Midwest connection 😅

He got it with his .270 Remington 700.

My little brother was shooting an AR in .204 Ruger. He is generally the best shot of all of us, but with the wind out there in Kansas, that tiny .204 bullet struggles.

[ghuns]

I live in Kansas but I've only been pheasant hunting once. Didn't get a thing. At one point there were 6 or 7 of us walking in a line when a pleasant flew down the line of us. Bam, bam, bam. We each took a shot. The pheasant just kept on flying.

Last season we had 25 guys lined up walking a field. We jumped a covey of easily 100 quail. When a covey like that jumps, they go in ALL directions. It sounded like WWIII.

At the very end, a single quail flew parallel to our line about 15 yards out. Probably only half of us still had shells in our guns to shoot, but that bird went screaming down the line untouched.

This year 6 of us jumped about 30 pheasants all at the same time. We knocked down 3. In our defense, we were all in awe. None of us had ever seen so many birds in one place. It was awesome. Then you have to identify which ones are roosters, pick a bird, and shoot. You have about 3 seconds to do that before they are out of range. I didn't even get a shot off.

[Smit]

This year 6 of us jumped about 30 pheasants all at the same time. We knocked down 3. In our defense, we were all in awe. None of us had ever seen so many birds in one place. It was awesome. Then you have to identify which ones are roosters, pick a bird, and shoot. You have about 3 seconds to do that before they are out of range. I didn't even get a shot off.

That does sound like fun.

I'll bet 30 birds of that size jumping up size was pretty cool to see. Or for that matter a big flock of quail too. I haven't seen that in decades!

[neurosis]