Re: Good morning everybody. How was your weekend?

Friday, finished work and went to hang out with RH Mom for a bit. Came home and ate burgers and fries. Settled in to watch the holy shining light that is a Brad Brownell-coached basketball team shrink and melt under the intense spotlight of a prime time national TV audience. Even my dog knew that you FOUL a 57% free throw shooting team at the end, but somehow a millionaire coach doesn't. Flipped over to watch the second half of the Winthrop game just to make sure that any reason I had for keeping up with the tournament was smashed to bits like taking a metal baseball bat to the skull of an osteoporosis patient.

Saturday, Mrs. and I continued the tradition of morning coffee and vinyl record Select-O-Pick. Finally got moving and got a few chores in, walked pup, then off to replace the desk chair that broke last week. Few options of places to look, but made 4 stops and found either overpriced junk or super nice stuff that required hours mortgage paperwork. Ended up with nothing, so rather than take a chance on the comfort of something from an online retailer, I'll ride up to the office and steal one this week. Came home and ate some veggie soup and cornbread, gathered gear and left for MEDIUM volume acoustic jam. Great practice, got our set down for the private party gig this coming Saturday.

Sunday, slow moving in the morning, finally got going with a long hike with the pup. Then, off to the grocery. Back home to practice bass for a bit, the arepas, tostones, and pickled red onion for supper. Mrs. was watching a show called Wayne on Amazon Prime which turned out to be weird and hilarious, will continue watching. Then flipped over to watch Walking/Talking Dead and crashed after.

18.40/19 Covids, suffering the consequences of the Brownell note and chair shopping for the deductions, but on the positive side Clemson wins a baseball series against a respectable opponent, and our women's basketball team with a losing record went one round farther in a tournament than the men managed to this year.

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Mar 22, 2021, 8:52 AM

Thursday: supposed to get a Covid shot at 10am, and get a cracked filling repaired at 3pm. Both canceled because forecasters were predicting up to 12mph winds and up to .18" of rain. Both came true, so thankfully I was able to shelter in place, and didn't have to go out in that apocalyptic weather. And the kids got a half day out of it.

Friday: rescheduled Covid shot at DHEC. Got that done. Helped dad pick up a camper he's had parked for a few years that he's "loaning" to my sister. Went surprisingly smoothly. Grabbed lunch at the new Charleston Sports Pub in my lil neck of the woods, never been to any of them. First real day of the Dance, so it was pretty crowded, but not so much that we couldn't still keep reasonable distancing. Good burger, MIGHT even be worth the $12.99 regular price, but definitely worth the half-price Monday spot (might go hit that tonight, matter o fact). Truffle burger:

Watched Clemson lose to Buttgers. This is my shocked face.

Saturday: grabbed breffiss with pops at Eggs Up Grill. I realize I'm posting a lot of food pics, but when it's relatively exceptional, it's worth mentioning. I love eggs bene. I love Philly cheesesteaks. Ain't never seen any place combine the two until Saturday. Philly cheesesteak eggs benedict:

Fuckall, that was good. Pointed truck towards Asheville. Stopped through Greenvegas to see mumbo and grab some pecan for smoking, since he just took down an entire tree with his bare hands. And probably a chainsaw and a rented log splitter and some other people helping. I had to hop a chainlink fence and then go Magnus Ver Magnussen on a couple base chunks that never made it to his side of the fence--were probably 140 and 120 lbs. respectively, and I did not enjoy it even a little.

Get to Asheville and finally see the slabs of wood from the Death Valley white oak tree that were milled some 5 years ago, and drying ever since (and meet the guy who QB'd that whole thing, good to finally see him in person). Those slabs are absurdly heavy, even after drying. Mine is roughly 9'x 4-4.5' (natural edge so it varies) and a good 3" thick, if not more. Mumbo's calculation put it at 423 lbs. It's probably a wee bit less than that, but either way, completely impractical in it's current form. I'm going to see if a mill can slice it in half (thickness-wise) to make it slightly more manageable. First area of focus will be a slightly easier project: coffee table from a cross-section.

It's going to need some hefty reinforcement--the horizontal split in this pic is not hanging on by much, so I'm thinking a metal plate on the bottom and some bowties should do the trick. Some orange (and maybe purple) epoxy resin, and some metal legs my friend's son can make, should turn this into a pretty legit piece. I'm excite.

Stopped in Cola and saw my aunt and uncle--haven't seen my aunt since pre-pandemic. We're both on our first shots, so the finish line (kinda) is close. She misses my kids. Had a buddy come help unload the slabs at 9pm after a long day of travel. Covid shot had started kicking my ass a bit on the car ride, around 30-34 hours in, and I thought I was going to crash early. But actually started feeling better, and ended up staying up way too late drinking with the buddy who helped move the slabs.

Sunday: total lump of shit.

Here's what the big slab looks like:

This is what the guy who got the center slabs did with it--18' conference room table, so that's roughly what it'll look like.

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Good morning everybody. How was your weekend?

Another good one

"Neither of us brought a boat"

Cold but good

Welp, the Tigers didn't get swept but I didn't die

That is indeed a 9.6/10 weekend, however the

They didn't have many snooty IPA's and I really didn't want

Who is this "Shorty" you speak of and did he enjoy

He used to come around these parts but

Re: Who is this "Shorty" you speak of and did he enjoy

Yeah baby........paying the price

It was everything I thought it would be.