2017 Chuff thread

[Howard_Casto]

Keeping your pee jars above the pizza bites.  Classy!!

[jdbailey1206]

Keeping your pee jars above the pizza bites.  Classy!!

[yotsuya]

Just told my department chair I don't plan to return next year. So after 21 years here, I'll be a free agent come May 20th.

[pbj]

Did you get the job?

[Mike A]

That's a bold move Yots.

[yotsuya]

No, but I have some other things in the works. I just need to go, and to widen my search, they need to know so I can do it the right way. Going to tell the principal tomorrow.

[pbj]

He already knows.

[yotsuya]

He already knows.

Probably, but I gotta make it official.

[yotsuya]

Made some more video game fundage fixing two more games at the local barcade. If only I could spin that into a full-time gig.

[yotsuya]

Oh, and the principal was pretty cool. He told me if I ever wanted to go back, he'd hire me in a heartbeat. So there's that.

[Howard_Casto]

Made some more video game fundage fixing two more games at the local barcade. If only I could spin that into a full-time gig.

The country really needs a chain of repair shops... not computers, those still exist, but just general electronics repair.  In our disposable society repairing old tech is a dying art. 

[yotsuya]

Made some more video game fundage fixing two more games at the local barcade. If only I could spin that into a full-time gig.

The country really needs a chain of repair shops... not computers, those still exist, but just general electronics repair.  In our disposable society repairing old tech is a dying art.

That's what fascinates me/gives me chuff about fixing stuff.

[05SRT4]

This is why I want to get out of IT admin, computers are cool and all but I get way more excited when working on other electronics, boards, etc even If I dont fix it I still have fun learning how everything works.

[pbj]

So, turns out if you freeze cider, and skim off the ice, you are engaging in fractional freezing / freeze distillation.  I had done it because it was drinkable, I wanted to kill off the yeast, and was too impatient to wait for it to fully thaw.

So two gallons were condensed to one.  Tasted about 15-20% and five of us plowed through it last night.  Was actually quite good with a squirt of stevia.  Next batch will be loaded with cinnamon, sugar, and cloves.

 

[yotsuya]

Enjoying a nice spring day at the ballpark!

[pbj]

[yotsuya]

Don't you have some meat you should be salting? Don't waste it on your posts.

[Mike A]

Don't you have some meat you should be salting? Don't waste it on your posts.

I am not a big baseball fan, but I love spending the day at the ballpark.

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[Mike A]

Tapatalk decided at random to include a quote with my post. I am still getting used to this app.

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[slickam]

I just got home from GOBfest, a local board game convention. There were a few hundred people there, playing games from 9AM to midnight yesterday, and 9AM to 5PM today. I took a couple pictures, but my phone didn't save them for some reason.

[Howard_Casto]

You know that meme that space jam goes with everything?  Apparently so does Rush.  Beat Mega Man 2, put some Tom Sawyer on and went through several rounds of Bubble Bobble.  Man some of these games seemed a lot harder as a kid. 

[harveybirdman]

You know that meme that space jam goes with everything?  Apparently so does Rush.  Beat Mega Man 2, put some Tom Sawyer on and went through several rounds of Bubble Bobble.  Man some of these games seemed a lot harder as a kid.

You should join the high score competitions you'd fit right in

[pbj]

Swap meet today...



Sure are a lot of white people here.



Crap I bought, all worked after a shot of contact cleaner.



Inside The Game Preserve.  I felt like admission was a little steep at $15 but I guess we all got bills to pay and unwashed masses to keep out.



A typical line up.

[pbj]

Another busy Saturday.

First it was time for more salted pork...



Then March for Science.



Then IKEA.  RIP wallet.

Then this...

[pbj]

Round 2 in my quest to spoil perfectly good food.



Made these all the same.  Gallon of apple juice, two pounds of sugar, cinnamon sticks, ground cloves.  Doubling the sugar has definitely sped up fermentation.  It was bubbling in 20 minutes.



Gave up on ever cooking a pork loin I liked, so after a week of salting and pouring off the liquid, this was washed off, coated in paprika and Slap Ya Mama, wrapped in cheese cloth, wrapped in parchment paper, and then given the full Silent Hill aesthetic.  Cheese cloth is found in the craft section now, btw.

 

[pbj]

Rest in peace, first batch.



 

[pbj]

That really dark bottle in the middle is foaming so violently it has overflowed the air lock twice.  All I can do is clean it out and shove it back in there.  Giving me very high hopes about the amount of fermentation going on.

[Howard_Casto]

Glad your pee is cooking nicely.   

I survived my stress test today. I didn't fall off the treadmill or have to make them stop it or anything embarrassing like that.  It also looks like they might be able to take me off of my blood pressure medication.  I'm down to a "lean" 235.  Oh and my Long John Silver's meal had a bonus cookie in it.  So yeah, probably won't die and free cookie!  In my sad little life I consider that a good day.

[pbj]

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[Howard_Casto]

Bill Cosby with his shirt off next to an attractive young woman.  Stranger Danger!

[knave]

Bill Cosby with his shirt off next to an attractive young woman.  Stranger Danger!

No, its ok . . . She's awake.

[pbj]

Perfect weather today.  85, sunny, and nobody around on my beach...

[Howard_Casto]

Boo!  It's 55 and raining here.  Looks to be that way most of the week.

[Locke141]

Yotsuya, Thank you for teaching. People don't understand how much work really goes into it and the fact you stuck with it for so long speaks  volumes about you. I wish you all the best in what you do next. If only I was abled to stay a one school for more then a few years but thats not in the cards, at least till I stop having to move.

PPJ starting salary in the NYC DOE in north of $45,000 and tops out just over $100,000 assuming you don't work summers or after school. It's also generally pays less then most of the surrounded suburban school districts. $50,000 does seem a little low but I have no ideal cost lives like when you live.
 
In other news, went to the local pool with my son and pick up some chicks.

[Howard_Casto]

There has to be some animal cruelty laws in regards to dying the feathers of baby birds. 

[Locke141]

There has to be some animal cruelty laws in regards to dying the feathers of baby birds.

I was surprised as well when I saw them. Took the three above home have a temporary setup for them now. Hopping the will keep the scorpions

[yotsuya]

Locke, thanks for the kind words.

I actually accepted a new new position this week with a private school. It's basically my old job, but with a substantial raise. I'm looking forward to it.

[Howard_Casto]

There has to be some animal cruelty laws in regards to dying the feathers of baby birds.

I was surprised as well when I saw them. Took the three above home have a temporary setup for them now. Hopping the will keep the scorpions

Do you have wolves/coyotes where you live?  With a fence like that you are about to find out.  No joke man, chicks are like candy to predators.  You might want to keep them indoors until they get a bit bigger at least.  Chickens are disgustingly dirty animals, but they do make surprisingly good pets.  Depending upon how well behaved they are either you'll never eat chicken again, or eat it every day and make them watch. 

[pbj]

I actually accepted a new new position this week with a private school. It's basically my old job, but with a substantial raise. I'm looking forward to it.

Uh-oh.  Brace yourself for rich, dumb kids and smart, poor kids.

[Locke141]

Locke, thanks for the kind words.

I actually accepted a new new position this week with a private school. It's basically my old job, but with a substantial raise. I'm looking forward to it.

Congratulations on the new job.

In my experiences private school jobs are easier. I think it's mostly because the parents income level is the single best indicator of how well kids doing school. Most of the ones I worked at typically only take students with minimum challenges. There are how will show kids the door. That said I loved all the teaching job I have ever had private or public, but I really want to get back to public school. 

Do you have wolves/coyotes where you live?  With a fence like that you are about to find out.  No joke man, chicks are like candy to predators.  You might want to keep them indoors until they get a bit bigger at least.  Chickens are disgustingly dirty animals, but they do make surprisingly good pets.  Depending upon how well behaved they are either you'll never eat chicken again, or eat it every day and make them watch.

Thanks for the advice, they've been staying in a cardboard box in my kitchen at night.

We have Tigers in some national forest, not to near me and big lizards just out side of town but the local Lao people are not to into conservation. anything that wonders into the town seems to end up for sale in the local market as meet.