• Weekend

    From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Saturday, February 01, 2020 08:05:00
    I took a day off of work yesterday (Friday) to take my new/used car in for service - with new brakes and transmission/transaxle fluids changed we're ready for a trip up to the Sierra Nevada mountains to ski in the next few weeks. The last time we went up there, we had 5 people and a dog in a Prius. This car's an AWD SUV with a 3rd row seat.

    It's the first weekend in February, which means it's Super Bowl Sunday in
    the US. My local team, the San Francisco 49ers are playing so there are a couple of viewing parties going on.

    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San Francisco, we'll see if his public school history education paid off. When I asked him who King George III was he said "A Royal Dead Dude".

    Hope your weekends are going nicely.




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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, February 02, 2020 08:06:00
    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San Francisco, we'll see if his public school history education paid off. When I asked
    him who King George III was he said "A Royal Dead Dude".

    Well thats accurate if slightly unflattering... :) You'll have to get him to elucidate..

    Spec


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to poindexter FORTRAN on Saturday, February 01, 2020 21:21:59
    Re: Weekend
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Feb 01 2020 08:05 am

    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San Francisco, we'll see if his public school history education paid off. When I asked him who King George III was he said "A Royal Dead Dude".

    That sounds like something Bill S Preston or Ted Logan would say (from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure).

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  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to Nightfox on Sunday, February 02, 2020 05:58:35
    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San Francisco, we see if his public school history education paid off. When I asked him King George III was he said "A Royal Dead Dude".

    Nice! I live in the SF area and after a year of trying, we finally won the Hamilton lottery. Amazing show.

    -Alpha

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, February 02, 2020 19:50:12
    On 01 Feb 2020 at 08:05a, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    I took a day off of work yesterday (Friday) to take my new/used car in
    for service - with new brakes and transmission/transaxle fluids changed we're ready for a trip up to the Sierra Nevada mountains to ski in the next few weeks. The last time we went up there, we had 5 people and a
    dog in a Prius. This car's an AWD SUV with a 3rd row seat.

    Sounds nice, over here it's summer and I started the weekend out by doing
    some rather full on gardening around our section. My wife and I took out a
    few larger trees that had been starting to outgrow the areas they had been planted in. We got so busy we opted to get a skip booked for our property so
    we can dump a heap more garden waste etc. into it over the coming weeks :)

    It's the first weekend in February, which means it's Super Bowl Sunday
    in the US. My local team, the San Francisco 49ers are playing so there
    are a couple of viewing parties going on.

    Best wishes for you team. I would like to watch that game but I think it's
    like on my Monday afternoon while I am at work. Oh well.

    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San Francisco, we'll see if his public school history education paid off. When I asked him
    who King George III was he said "A Royal Dead Dude".

    Words of widsom to live or die by :)

    Hope your weekends are going nicely.

    You too!

    Best, Paul

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  • From Phoobar@21:2/147 to Spectre on Saturday, February 01, 2020 22:56:43
    Well thats accurate if slightly unflattering... :) You'll have to get him to elucidate..

    If I remember correctly...that idiot who claims to be VP here in the states never figured it out or why they were picking on him. His son...I have no
    doubt will enjoy it and know more about it than Pence ever will.

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Spectre on Sunday, February 02, 2020 01:59:19
    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San Francisco, we see if his public school history education paid off. When I asked him who King George III was he said "A Royal Dead Dude".

    Well thats accurate if slightly unflattering... :) You'll have to get him to elucidate..

    ...and then show him Bill and Ted :D

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Alpha on Sunday, February 02, 2020 11:54:33
    Re: Re: Weekend
    By: Alpha to Nightfox on Sun Feb 02 2020 05:58 am

    I'm taking my son to see Hamilton this afternoon in San
    Francisco, we see if his public school history education paid
    off. When I asked him King George III was he said "A Royal Dead
    Dude".

    Nice! I live in the SF area and after a year of trying, we finally won the Hamilton lottery. Amazing show.

    Although you replied to me, you were quoting Poindexter Fortran..

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Tuesday, June 09, 2020 07:39:00
    The kids are now officially done with their remote schooling for the year.
    We just got back from a socially-distanced weekend in the Sierra Nevada mountains - spent some time at my family's cabin, hiking around and watching movies. We didn't go into town except for one grocery store run. Every time
    I go up there, I like to go at least once to the local independent grocery story, try to help keep them in business.

    Sunny on Friday, hail turning to snow flurries on Saturday, partly cloudy on Sunday and sunny and warm on Monday. Snow. In June.

    3 days without internet, news or cell phone coverage. It was a nice break
    from working at home. Now I've got to figure out why the BBS crashed as soon as I pulled out of the driveway and catch up on 240 messages in FSX_GEN. :)




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Saturday, June 20, 2020 22:41:00
    Looking to save some money, and my web hosting contract is up, so I'm
    looking at backing up 10 years of IMAP mail and a wordpress site to
    prepare to move to a new provider. I deleted close to a 100 megabytes
    of email in preparation, and deleted a bunch of dead subdomains.

    I'm currently paying $9.95 a month on a grandfathered plan, hoping I
    can switch to a plan with the same web host for $4.95 and more
    features.



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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, June 21, 2020 13:35:00
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Saturday 20.06.20 - 22:41, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All:

    Looking to save some money, and my web hosting contract is up, so I'm looking at backing up 10 years of IMAP mail and a wordpress site to prepare to move to a new provider. I deleted close to a 100 megabytes
    of email in preparation, and deleted a bunch of dead subdomains.

    I hope the WP "move" works out for you. Seems to me that there are a lot
    of subtleties to be aware of. Copying the MySQL database is one thing,
    but then all the links in established posts would be another!

    I would love to move or atleast copy my wellandhistory.ca site to another host where I can test a newer WP version.


    I'm currently paying $9.95 a month on a grandfathered plan, hoping I
    can switch to a plan with the same web host for $4.95 and more
    features.

    The low (introductory 4.95/mo) offers are just that, introductory. And
    then the rate goes up after a year or so. :(


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  • From Zip@21:1/202 to Ogg on Sunday, June 21, 2020 21:02:16
    Hello Ogg & poindexter!

    On 21 Jun 2020, Ogg said the following...
    I hope the WP "move" works out for you. Seems to me that there are a
    lot of subtleties to be aware of. Copying the MySQL database is one thing, but then all the links in established posts would be another!

    I learned at work that there is a plugin called "Better Search Replace" which could help when moving:

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/

    Best regards
    Zip

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, June 22, 2020 18:39:54
    On 20 Jun 2020 at 10:41p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    Looking to save some money, and my web hosting contract is up, so I'm looking at backing up 10 years of IMAP mail and a wordpress site to prepare to move to a new provider. I deleted close to a 100 megabytes

    I got rid of a wordpress site the other day, got sick of the attempted logins by bots etc... so went to a static HTML site - it's bliss now :)

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Sunday, June 21, 2020 18:09:00
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    The low (introductory 4.95/mo) offers are just that, introductory. And then the rate goes up after a year or so. :(

    Yeah, it would go up to the current price after 1 year or 3. Sacving
    $150 over 3 years for an hour or two's worth of work would be worth
    it.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Avon on Monday, June 22, 2020 07:16:00
    Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I got rid of a wordpress site the other day, got sick of the attempted logins by bots etc... so went to a static HTML site - it's bliss now :)

    I'm tempted to get rid of Wordpress and set up a static photo site.

    I used to use it as a combination work journal, placeholder for
    technical info I'd written, and photoblog. I think the time for a
    personal blog has come and gone, but I like having a place to show
    off photos.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 20:10:00
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg <=-

    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    The low (introductory 4.95/mo) offers are just that, introductory. And then the rate goes up after a year or so. :(

    Yeah, it would go up to the current price after 1 year or 3. Sacving
    $150 over 3 years for an hour or two's worth of work would be worth
    it.

    As it turned out, I asked my webhost if they'd honor the promotional
    pricing, and they're going to offer me 3 years at half of the current
    price. No migration needed. It pays to ask...



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  • From Arelor@21:2/138 to Avon on Wednesday, June 24, 2020 09:45:15
    Re: Re: Weekend
    By: Avon to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Jun 22 2020 06:39 pm

    On 20 Jun 2020 at 10:41p, poindexter FORTRAN pondered and said...

    Looking to save some money, and my web hosting contract is up, so I'm
    looking
    backing up 10 years of IMAP mail and a wordpress site to prepare to
    move to a
    provider. I deleted close to a 100 megabytes

    I got rid of a wordpress site the other day, got sick of the attempted
    logins by bo
    etc... so went to a static HTML site - it's bliss now :)

    Welcome to the club.

    I have a static site too, which scripts that maintain it in paralel with my gopher
    site. I looked into adding "pseudostatic" comments functionality in. The idea was that
    I could have a javascriptless form for comments on each entry of the blog, which would
    send an email to me with the comment, and the comment could be integrated back into
    the site via scripts.

    Then I thought it was not worth it.

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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sunday, July 05, 2020 23:19:00
    Hello poindexter!

    ** On Tuesday 23.06.20 - 20:10, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to poindexter FORTRAN:

    As it turned out, I asked my webhost if they'd honor the promotional pricing, and they're going to offer me 3 years at half of the current price. No migration needed. It pays to ask...

    Did they throw in the "more features" that you hoped for?

    If I asked my webhost provider now at over 8 years with them if they'd consider offering the same promo rates as they do for new accounts, they would just laugh at me and say.. "sorry, those rate are for new accounts only".

    I have quite a few MySQL databases and associated Wordpress sites that I manage. Moving to another webhost wouldn't be worth all the extra work
    and risk that something might not transport.




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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Sunday, September 13, 2020 15:26:00
    I spent the weekend with my wife getting my family's cabin near Donner
    Summit ready for the winter. Shopped for cleaning supplies, firewood
    and pellets, cleaned the fridge out, drained the hot water heater and
    water pipes, and put antifreeze in all of the traps.

    We took a break to take my new (to me) Subaru Crosstrek out on the
    trails to check out a couple of beautiful, out-of-the-way lakes. The
    car handled well, as it's got a lot of ground clearance. My street
    tires were a bit of a concern, as some of the rocks looked pointier
    than I'd liked.

    There were lots of cross-treks with agressive tires, roof baskets,
    push bars and driving lights. I think I'll keep mine mostly stock and
    get a more modern head unit instead. Maybe get some of those Falken
    Wildpeak A/T tires; they're supposed to be great in the snow.

    Tomorrow, the Prius gets a carpet shampoo, spray wash, and goes on the
    market. With the lack of driving I'm doing, I'd rather have AWD in the wintertime and not scraping against every curb I see.



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  • From Tiny@21:1/130 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, September 14, 2020 11:19:34
    poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All <=-

    I spent the weekend with my wife getting my family's cabin near Donner Summit ready for the winter. Shopped for cleaning supplies, firewood
    and pellets, cleaned the fridge out, drained the hot water heater and water pipes, and put antifreeze in all of the traps.

    I hate that job. :( I've got about another month here before I have to
    do it. But honestly with Andrea at school I'll probably start packing
    things up this weekend (Tues-Wed for me) and slowly bring things home
    get things cleaned up.

    Tomorrow, the Prius gets a carpet shampoo, spray wash, and goes on the market. With the lack of driving I'm doing, I'd rather have AWD in the wintertime and not scraping against every curb I see.

    Makes sense to me. I drive under 5,000 klms a year in my personal vehicle
    (mostly work and back 6klms each way) and to the woods and back a few times
    (the rest of the time we go in Andrea's vehicle) so my 20 year old rusted
    out smashed up minivan stays in service. :)

    Shawn

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, September 14, 2020 07:35:12
    I spent the weekend with my wife getting my family's cabin near Donner Summit ready for the winter. Shopped for cleaning supplies, firewood
    and pellets, cleaned the fridge out, drained the hot water heater and water pipes, and put antifreeze in all of the traps.

    My kids are from the Sacramento area - I certainly love the donner summit.
    [And South Lake, round the other way if you go thru Truckee/Nevada City]

    We took a break to take my new (to me) Subaru Crosstrek out on the
    trails to check out a couple of beautiful, out-of-the-way lakes. The
    car handled well, as it's got a lot of ground clearance. My street
    tires were a bit of a concern, as some of the rocks looked pointier
    than I'd liked.
    There were lots of cross-treks with agressive tires, roof baskets,
    push bars and driving lights. I think I'll keep mine mostly stock and
    get a more modern head unit instead. Maybe get some of those Falken Wildpeak A/T tires; they're supposed to be great in the snow.

    Subaru-anythings are totally badass man; and its funny you talk about other peoples ones... up there it seems like they ONLY buy Subaru's. Should
    probably tell ya something... :P I've been caught in Truckee in a winter
    storm, with a HUGE truck... and seen them Subaru drivers just going for it. I think they work. :P

    Tomorrow, the Prius gets a carpet shampoo, spray wash, and goes on the market. With the lack of driving I'm doing, I'd rather have AWD in the wintertime and not scraping against every curb I see.

    I rented a Prius once... once.



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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to paulie420 on Tuesday, September 15, 2020 08:06:00
    paulie420 wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Subaru-anythings are totally badass man; and its funny you talk about other peoples ones... up there it seems like they ONLY buy Subaru's. Should probably tell ya something... :P I've been caught in Truckee in
    a winter storm, with a HUGE truck... and seen them Subaru drivers just going for it. I think they work. :P

    Yeah, this car used to be my wife's - we bought her a SUV with a
    third-row seat because we need the extra room for family trips (and
    she wanted something a little larger for her commute. We've taken
    this thing in the snow with all-season tires and it's been great.

    I joke that all of the online forums for Subarus have dudes and their
    butched-up Crosstreks and battlewagon Outbacks with skid plates, lift
    kits, trail tires and roof baskets. Out here by the beach, it's all
    female college coeds and older gray-haired empty-nest women who
    probably gave their Outback to one of their kids. Subarus engender
    brand loyalty like no other car maker these days.



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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to All on Sunday, October 18, 2020 10:44:54
    Well my efforts to work on a my linux box for Agency BBS hit a small snag,
    the box is 'needed' so we can use it to stream Bathurst motor sport racing
    this weekend. So it's currently got a windows os drive in it and is sitting
    in our lounged hooked up to the telly so my wife can watch her beloved motorsport annual event.

    I hope to get the box back in the next 24 hours to carry on my site up
    efforts :)

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Avon on Saturday, October 17, 2020 14:54:00
    I hope to get the box back in the next 24 hours to carry on my site up efforts :)

    Hope you get you box back but glad that'll give you and you lady some time.. :)

    I got your netmail also. It's doing the same as the other one, bouncing back and forth between 4/106 and 4/106.2. I'm still not sure why but I am thinking MBSE has done something with that netmail. Not sure what but I'll see if I can get one of the MBSE developers to look at that .pkt and see if they have any ideas.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to Al on Sunday, October 18, 2020 11:24:56
    On 17 Oct 2020 at 02:54p, Al pondered and said...

    I hope to get the box back in the next 24 hours to carry on my site up efforts :)

    Hope you get you box back but glad that'll give you and you lady some time.. :)

    Thanks, yes I need to get off the PC and go spend some time with her now!

    I got your netmail also. It's doing the same as the other one, bouncing back and forth between 4/106 and 4/106.2. I'm still not sure why but I
    am thinking MBSE has done something with that netmail. Not sure what but I'll see if I can get one of the MBSE developers to look at that .pkt
    and see if they have any ideas.

    Good news, but also a bummer ... glad you found it though. I've seen stuff
    like this between Mystic HUBs also... where netmail can't find a home so it bounced back and forth...

    Next week I hope to get Agency cut over an running on the box then will start work on the HUB

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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Avon on Monday, October 19, 2020 15:34:00
    Well my efforts to work on a my linux box for Agency BBS hit a
    small snag, the box is 'needed' so we can use it to stream Bathurst
    motor sport racing this weekend. So it's currently got a windows os

    Don't you guys over the ditch get it on a free to air station?
    (Considering a NZ guy won the thing). %->




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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to vorlon on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 15:48:36
    On 19 Oct 2020 at 03:34p, vorlon pondered and said...

    Well my efforts to work on a my linux box for Agency BBS hit a
    small snag, the box is 'needed' so we can use it to stream Bathurst motor sport racing this weekend. So it's currently got a windows os

    Don't you guys over the ditch get it on a free to air station? (Considering a NZ guy won the thing). %->

    Nope, Sky TV New Zealand have the rights so I bought a 7 day access pass and streamed it.. it seemed to me to be a slow somewhat dull race this year.

    :)

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Avon on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 15:51:00
    Nope, Sky TV New Zealand have the rights so I bought a 7 day access pass and streamed it.. it seemed to me to be a slow somewhat dull race

    It was possible to get a "free" stream here. But I refuse to sign up and give someone my Credit Card for something they're telling me is free.. it just feels
    wrong on to many levels...

    Spec


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  • From vorlon@21:1/195.1 to Avon on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 17:24:17
    On 19 Oct 2020 at 03:34p, vorlon pondered and said...

    Well my efforts to work on a my linux box for Agency BBS
    hit a Av> small snag, the box is 'needed' so we can use it to
    stream Bathurst Av> motor sport racing this weekend. So it's
    currently got a windows os
    Don't you guys over the ditch get it on a free to air station? (Considering a NZ guy won the thing). %->

    Nope, Sky TV New Zealand have the rights so I bought a 7 day access
    pass and streamed it..

    That sucks that it wasn't on a free to air station...

    it seemed to me to be a slow somewhat dull
    race this year.

    I didn't watch it untill the last safty car #-0L)




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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to vorlon on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 19:43:27
    On 21 Oct 2020 at 05:24p, vorlon pondered and said...

    That sucks that it wasn't on a free to air station...

    Yeah been that way for some years now here :(

    I didn't watch it untill the last safty car #-0L)

    :)

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to All on Monday, April 12, 2021 07:14:00
    I spent Saturday with my daughter and 2 of her friends bodyboarding at a
    local beach, and got sunburned in the process. Made sure the kids were slathered up, neglected myself.

    Yesterday was spent moving patio furniture from our front deck to our
    recently landscaped back yard, spraying a couple of coats of paint on an
    older table and building a fire pit out of concrete blocks with a metal
    liner.

    It'll be finished in time for summer, would have been nice to have it done during the lockdown, but it took quite a bit of work to level it out, and money was tight.

    As it was, we made the most of a good-sized deck; we bought a propane fire
    pit and a tank-top heater and spread out a couple of benches to socially distance around the fire pit. It'll be nice to have a full back yard to
    spread out in and let the dog run around in this summer.





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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, April 12, 2021 17:11:00
    Hello poindexter FORTRAN!

    ** On Monday 12.04.21 - 07:14, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All:

    fire pit and a tank-top heater and spread out a couple of
    benches to socially distance around the fire pit.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Why do you need that if it's for your onw family bubble?

    Unless.. you mean when you invite friends over?


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  • From HusTler@21:4/10 to poindexter FORTRAN on Monday, April 12, 2021 23:22:06
    Re: Weekend
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Mon Apr 12 2021 07:14 am

    Yesterday was spent moving patio furniture from our front deck to our recently landscaped back yard, spraying a couple of coats of paint on an older table and building a fire pit out of concrete blocks with a metal liner.

    It'll be finished in time for summer, would have been nice to have it done during the lockdown, but it took quite a bit of work to level it out, and money was tight.

    As it was, we made the most of a good-sized deck; we bought a propane fire pit and a tank-top heater and spread out a couple of benches to socially distance around the fire pit. It'll be nice to have a full back yard to spread out in and let the dog run around in this summer.

    Sounds like your all set for a fun summer. Will you be cooking outside daily? I BBQ all year. Even in the snow. My ex-wife won't eat steak unless it's BBQd. Do you have a picnic table. Me and a Pal built one from scratch last year. Very east to make and save a lot of money.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Ogg on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 06:19:00
    Ogg wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    fire pit and a tank-top heater and spread out a couple of
    benches to socially distance around the fire pit.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    Why do you need that if it's for your onw family bubble?

    Unless.. you mean when you invite friends over?

    We have one family that we've seen through this whole thing, and they us. We meet outside and keep our distance. We've been doing so up to now on our elevated deck, which is a little cramped. Having a whole back yard to spread out is going to be nice. We're very fortunate.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to HusTler on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 06:21:00
    HusTler wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Sounds like your all set for a fun summer. Will you be cooking
    outside daily? I BBQ all year. Even in the snow. My ex-wife won't eat steak unless it's BBQd. Do you have a picnic table. Me and a Pal built
    one from scratch last year. Very east to make and save a lot of money.

    I live on the coast in California. We barbecue a lot. :)

    We have a metal and glass outdoor table that I re-painted this weekend, and
    a picnic table of my mom's that we're going to use as well.

    My wife is wanting to make benches out of cinder blocks and 4x4s. We'll see how that goes, they might make a nice border to the terracing we have where
    we leveled out part of the yard.


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