Good Morning All. Happy Friday the 13th if that sort of thing spooks you. Clear and 50°, will get close to 80° later on. Shorts continue to be the attire of the day. Except for the rain and ensuing cooler daytime temperature on Saturday, more of the same temperature range for the next 10 days.
The weekly grocery trek went off without incident yesterday, stopped and picked up take-out pizza on the way home. Wife's birthday was low key and we went out to eat at her favorite hamburger place in Denton, a place called Rodeo Goat, a more or less local chain with about a dozen locations in the DFW area. Nothing but burgers and sides. Their gimmick is that the burger options are named after rock stars and local sportscasters, like Don Henly, Billy Gibbons and Neil Young. The table-sized platter of fries comes with a topping of cheese, bacon and Jalapenos. It's really good. High carb meal for sure. Quite crowded for a Thursday night, but no wait on a table.
Intermittent fasting is my practice. I go from 7:00 pm each evening until noon the following day with only non-alcoholic liquids consumed
I started another project out in the train shed yesterday; and then stopped immediately. I pulled a Walther's farmhouse off the shelf because I just had the itch to do a structure kit.
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After reviewing the better than usual instructions, I took a look at the parts. Whoops! There is a defective wall.
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That ends that for now. I'll be calling Customer Service this morning to see if I can get a replacement.
Then I had to repair my workbench chair - a leg mounting had split and it was very wobbly. Nothing a couple of 2" screws couldn't fix. But I will have to buy a new one soon.
Chad - Yep! I remember getting two different days off from school for the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. Didn't get either off once in college though.
Kevin - Sorry to read about the back issues returning.
Terry
I remember those kinds of meetings. Our original owner didn't allow them. But the corporation afterwards did. My favorite was a two hour Sales presentation regarding our company starting up a pre-hung door department. No one on the staff had any idea regarding them. Spent 6 months setting it up. Then a poorly trained and unsupervised employee milled out over 200 door blanks for locksets/dead bolts and put them on the mill table upside down. All had to be scrapped. That department was eventually shut down after 9 months because of a total lack of sales. We knew how to make and sell windows and sliding glass doors, not pre-hung doors.
Tom O -
I regularly don't carry a phone with me. Matter of fact, the only reason that I have one to begin with is that my wife took advantage of a "buy one, get one free" sale back in 2018.
Texas doesn't have a mobile ID system yet. It has been approved but not implemented.
Everyone have a great Friday.
