Posted on 11/26/2024 11:19:27 AM PST by Red Badger
Good morning. Happy Friday!
It looks like we got some Melissa weather this morning. It was raining pretty hard when I walked The Princess this morning. Fortunately she got everything done. But she noted that she doesn’t see us using the toilet in the shower.
It was surprisingly warm in the low 50s this morning, too.
Mrs. ArGee is doing an initial distribution of actual money to her siblings next week. Two of them wanted wire transfers. The lawyer vetoed that idea. He said if a wire transfer goes wrong you can’t do anything about it. And we can’t expect to come back to this burg 2 more times to do the remaining transfers. So we’re mailing checks - period. Considering it came from the lawyer, the siblings relented.
Of course, we have to wait until after the move to deposit our checks because there’s no brick-and-mortar branch nearby.
Wordle treated me well today.
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Happy Halloween ya’all...
Weather is kinda garbage...Working from home today and heading down to my parents later to help them hand out candy...
Not a word I use very often, so this one took a bit.
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Good Friday Morning!
Happy Halloween!
Took me a long time to get from row 3 to row 4....
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Yeah, I took a while staring at what I knew from the first two guesses trying to come up with anything that would work for guess 3.
I managed to catch myself before entering one of my favorite unforced errors, using a letter in a place I already knew it didn’t belong.
I don’t know how many of you are Star Trek TOS fans. I still monitor my F-I-L’s old email inbox, until Spectrum takes it away. He got an email today from Herbert.
It made me think of that episode with the hippies who kept calling Kirk “Herbert” because that represented a straight-laced by-the-book administrative flunky.
Yes, I hate when I get excited and put a letter where they already told me that it doesn’t go there….
I used to watch the original Star Trek programs, but never really got into any of the follow on series….
Same. It’s hard to really like a Star Trek version when you always want to kick the first officer in his smarmy smile. After that it was like, ‘Meh!’
Although Zoe Saldana as Lt. Uhura is OK by me!
Reminds me of all those times in an action comedy when the one person says, “You’re lucky there’s this door between us!” and then the door starts to open.
I finished my CosPlay project for my youngest last night: A pair of Vi's gauntlets from the "Arcane" series.
We succeeded in getting articulated fingers with the knuckles made using sprung "hinge" pieces from toggle bolts, and flexed via monofilament "tendons" running from the fingertip sections to rings inside the gauntlets.
The frames were hot-formed PVC pipe sections with 4" couplings serving as the entry points for the wearer's arms.
The outer shells were constructed using black 10mm EVA foam, which cuts marvelously with a SHARP Exacto blade, bonds well with hot glue, and takes paint pretty nicely.
This is our THIRD crafting project in three months, and by far the most ambitious.
Last month I used gap-filling foam in an open-top mold cavity with a length of 1/2" PVC pipe running up the middle to create play sword forms for a Percy Jackson themed party. The guests used various colors of duct tape to wrap their swords to personalize them, then went outside and had a war. The PVC on the inside gave structure and the tape on the outside kept everything together.
And the month before that, I refinished a 70's vintage Kryptonics Cruiser-style skateboard with a custom logo on the bottom of the deck and fresh blue/black fade deck tape on top. I rebuilt the trucks with fresh rubber and it's back on the streets again.
I'm planning to take 3-1/2 weeks off spanning Christmas and New Year's Day. I think it's deserved. LOL!
Today's second row gave me the ammo though it took awhile to get to the "Ah-haa!"
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Sounds like some great projects.... and a lot of fun too!
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