And now what did you do TODAY?

[Dusty Chalk]

5 hours ago, skullguise said:

Last night Andrew made me dinner to celebrate my retirement.  Also got to see his condo just about fully done with renovations.  This kid did amazing design work for it!  Even the Designer he worked with - who also did our bathroom remodels in 2024 - said he had an great sense of taste and style, doing some things even she didn't think about.....

Dinner was awesome, roast seasoned chicken (amazingly tender), dan dan noodles with a decent kick/spice, and sauteed and seasoned spinach.

Watched Buckaroo Banzai (*) and listened to a bunch of music and just chatted.

A really wonderful night!

(*) I updated my LinkedIn profile to list my "new" job as Laser Engineer, Oscillation Overthruster Division at Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems.  That is the fictitious company in the movie.  Only one person got it so I had to update my "About" section to tell people to Google it, and that I was retired.

And that person was not me.  I am so ashamed.  I did change my answer though, hope that wasn't too spoiler of me.

[Grahame]

No work on the turbo encabulator, or the Rockwell retro encabulator?

Dissapoint.

[skullguise]

6 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

And that person was not me.  I am so ashamed.  I did change my answer though, hope that wasn't too spoiler of me.

No worries at all!  I had found your original comment funny too, but this is even better!

BTW, forgot to mention that I even put "John" as my....nickname?  And no one asked me about that as well!  (For those that haven't seen the movie, the aliens, both good and evil/male and female) are all named John or some variant)

[luvdunhill]

Would this be the equivalent of me saying:

Pool Boy, at a stealth-mode, roof top Olympic sized swimming pool

Edited April 10 by luvdunhill

[Grahame]

Yesterday:

Installed (functional) matching tie backs.

Fixed hissing / pinprick leak in valve that caused rise from set point to edge of overflow by replacing entire valve assembly after replacing and lubricating just the washer valve failed to improve the situation. Now stays silently at set point.

Today:

Then:

For the house.

 

Replaced

With one of

For the 'fridge.

I think I may deserve a Usual after all that.

 

 

 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

You know...there is whole house reverse osmosis...

[Grahame]

16 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

You know...there is whole house reverse osmosis...

But that's not what the previous owners installed.

Besides.

https://nmwd.com/your-water/water-quality/

 

[Dusty Chalk]

11 hours ago, Grahame said:

But that's not what the previous owners installed.

Besides.

https://nmwd.com/your-water/water-quality/

 

(clicks tongue) Noice.  Winning.

[skullguise]

Highs and lows.....sorry if TL;DR

The highs: I love my neighborhood, and the people within.  I maintain a website for the "Bunco Babes" here, a group of women who would get together monthly to socialize, play bunco...and drink.  Since Karen passed, much of the organizing has dropped off.  But the OG's of the babes invited me to a get-together; little did I know if was partially to thank me for the web site and congratulate my retirement.  Pics below.

A low with a little bit of high: we have a local "Buy Nothing" FB group, for free things.  I have refurbed and donated computers perhaps a dozen times now.  Gave two laptops away this weekend, one to a gent who has been out of work for almost 4 years because he was in an accident where a Mack truck blew a red light and slammed into him.  He is now in somewhat constant discomfort or pain, and can't do much physically; insurance fights every step of the way.  He even gets PTSD driving long trips....  Yet still, he does a lot of nice small things for others, and we shared our stories about that.  Oh, yes: we had one FB friend in common, a wonderful woman with whom I used to work.  She passed away from cancer and pneumonia complications recently; it turns out this is her distant cousin, and he didn't even know of her passing.

The lower low: another laptop I gave to a woman who has an autistic son (two other kids too, one of whom has pretty high functioning autism).  I volunteered to bring the laptop and a full docking station with monitor setup I had over.  This amazing woman and her husband spend almost 24x7 watching her youngest, as he has non-verbal autism and also has a potentially deadly condition where his digestive tract will get blocked.  Constant monitoring and care, advocating for him at hospital and doctor visits, etc.  Hugs and tears resulted.  They don't even have a place right now to set up the full monitor, so I told her I will come and help when they do find the space.  You can see the strain, yet the strength all at once.

Humans are such amazing creatures.  But the two situations above point out how much the system works against so many, though!

 

Edited Saturday at 03:43 PM by skullguise

[Torpedo]

Thank you, Todd. This last post of yours helped me to recover some faith in the human race, which I’ve been losing for a few years now.

[Dusty Chalk]

4 hours ago, skullguise said:

Highs and lows.....sorry if TL;DR

The highs: I love my neighborhood, and the people within.  I maintain a website for the "Bunco Babes" here, a group of women who would get together monthly to socialize, play bunco...and drink.  Since Karen passed, much of the organizing has dropped off.  But the OG's of the babes invited me to a get-together; little did I know if was partially to thank me for the web site and congratulate my retirement.  Pics below.

A low with a little bit of high: we have a local "Buy Nothing" FB group, for free things.  I have refurbed and donated computers perhaps a dozen times now.  Gave two laptops away this weekend, one to a gent who has been out of work for almost 4 years because he was in an accident where a Mack truck blew a red light and slammed into him.  He is now in somewhat constant discomfort or pain, and can't do much physically; insurance fights every step of the way.  He even gets PTSD driving long trips....  Yet still, he does a lot of nice small things for others, and we shared our stories about that.  Oh, yes: we had one FB friend in common, a wonderful woman with whom I used to work.  She passed away from cancer and pneumonia complications recently; it turns out this is her distant cousin, and he didn't even know of her passing.

The lower low: another laptop I gave to a woman who has an autistic son (two other kids too, one of whom has pretty high functioning autism).  I volunteered to bring the laptop and a full docking station with monitor setup I had over.  This amazing woman and her husband spend almost 24x7 watching her youngest, as he has non-verbal autism and also has a potentially deadly condition where his digestive tract will get blocked.  Constant monitoring and care, advocating for him at hospital and doctor visits, etc.  Hugs and tears resulted.  They don't even have a place right now to set up the full monitor, so I told her I will come and help when they do find the space.  You can see the strain, yet the strength all at once.

Humans are such amazing creatures.  But the two situations above point out how much the system works against so many, though!

 

You're an amazing person, Todd.  Cheers!

EDIT:  And that was before I saw the other post. I'm at a loss for words. Thank you so much, Todd and everyone.

[skullguise]

Couple things.....my LinkedIn transformation is as complete as I think I'll get.  Added a pronoun (Red Lectroid) and updated my profile pic.

 

Next up: met three school friends, all Jewish women, one of whom I hadn't seen in 40 years!  An awesome time catching up, and spending time with them all.

The woman I hadn't seen in 40 years gave me 3 things from her scrapbook: my Bar-Mitzvah invitation, the Party Invitation, and my Thank You note to her. All about 48+ years old!  It was incredible!

She and her husband live in Southern Maine, not far from my condo up there.  So we'll definitely get together!

I am fucking LOVING retirement!