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emeraldking said:

What are you doing today?​

Just came home from bringing a parcel to a courier. It will be shipped to Poland. Three groups of endlers: Cumana staeck,Cumana rainbow and Campoma nr.31 blue snake. It's send special delivery, so he'll get them somewhere by the end of tomorrow afternoon.
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Polish guppies ? Something’s rotten in Denmark .
 
Tore into my main computer with a vengeance! Welll, OK, mayhaps more like passive aggressive. ;) Removed a small hard drive that I use for video conversions and replaced with a MUCH faster drive with twice the storage that I had sitting around but not in use. I have a pretty extensive movie library of well over 1000 movies and such. There are often times where I'll download a video from such a site as YouTube and need to convert the download to a different video format to fit my preference. What I did will cut the processing time for such videos by 25-30% at a minimum. If you are a media junkie such as me this is a BIG deal. ;)
 
We drove 5 hours to North Carolina to spend the weekend with the grandkids. I usually do the cooking so I made meatballs and spaghetti using impossible burger fake ground beef. My son-in-law is vegetarian. Oh well. The grandkids are 2 and 5. Little devils! My fish back home will be fasting until Monday.
 
A day off today! I kind of need it--I love my kids but they do tire me out sometimes. On the agenda for today: Water changes, doing some work on the new bow that is taking shape in the garage, maybe doing some work on the elk hide, practicing with the Irish band, a good nap, and cleaning up the house, which we are still trying to sell. Only the last of those will actually feel like work; the rest are fun and relaxing. So if I can get out of that somehow, it will be a great day! :lol:
 
emeraldking said:
Nope, sorry...
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LOL! I think it was meant as a joke... Swedish Fish are a gummy candy. @Back in the fold lives in the U.S.. ;)

As for me I'm wondering if my fridge will make it through the weekend. It is still working but making a 'rumbling' sound when it does. I suspect the compressor but don't know a lot about refrigeration systems except the basics of how they work. Not a critical situation even if the fridge stops working as what is in the freezer would just go in my chest freezer and the little in the actual fridge, such as milk, would just go in a cooler with ice.

I just think it sort of my luck that this happens on a Saturday morning when there will not be anyone here to report the issue to until Monday. ;) Even if the fridge totally failed right now I wouldn't lose anything as there isn't a lot in the fridge part of the unit. I live mostly out of my freezer just thawing what I need to prepare each day. LOL! 10 ice cube trays and a cooler will keep anything in the fridge part fine for a couple of days. I keep my chest freezer cold enough that it will freeze a tray of ice in an hour.

This is one of the advantages of apartment life. No matter what it won't cost me any money as appliance repair/replacement is the responsibility of the apartments. Don't like the current management (which is soon changing) but LOVE my apartment. People that live in other countries may not relate but those in the U.S. probably will. I live in a medium size 1 bedroom unit that is actually pretty nice, especially since I got management permission to add such things as ceiling fans and such. In today's market it is dirt cheap at $754.00/month USD including water and electric. LOL! Since I'm a 69 year old single guy I don't have a 'man cave'. My entire apartment is a man cave. :)
 
@jaylach I just bought a new refrigerator . The old one was twenty years old and making deathly noises . It probably was the compressor because that’s the thing that goes kablooey most often . Mine made a big clunk every time it stopped . I decided to get a new one before it died completely . Not the way I wanted to spend $900 smackers but that’s the way things go sometime . Got it from Best Buy which was the best price I could find but was very dismayed that it was Chinese made . That included extended warranty which I felt was the smart move seeing as how chincy and cheap stuff is these days . The customer sure gets bent over these days .
 
Apartments in Wyoming? I am certain you live in the saddle, singing yourself to sleep with gene Autry tunes as schools of fish mill around your trusty horse.
 
Back in the fold said:
@jaylach I just bought a new refrigerator . The old one was twenty years old and making deathly noises . It probably was the compressor because that’s the thing that goes kablooey most often . Mine made a big clunk every time it stopped . I decided to get a new one before it died completely . Not the way I wanted to spend $900 smackers but that’s the way things go sometime . Got it from Best Buy which was the best price I could find but was very dismayed that it was Chinese made . That included extended warranty which I felt was the smart move seeing as how chincy and cheap stuff is these days . The customer sure gets bent over these days .
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Actually the danged fridge stopped rumbling. I'll still let management know Monday but something may have just set the fridge off balance. :dunno:
GaryE said:
Apartments in Wyoming? I am certain you live in the saddle, singing yourself to sleep with gene Autry tunes as schools of fish mill around your trusty horse.
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LOL! The only saddle I have is the seat on my bicycle. and my music is more like Yes, Moody Blues, CCR... to many to list. Let's just say classic rock. ;)

LOL! It is a bit different with horses here though. Twice a year they shut down the main street so horse herds can be moved to different pastures. True story. It is actually sort of a town event.
 
I remember driving up to Saskatchewan from North Dakota, along the edge of Montana. My wife thought we were looking at the unsettling of the west. It seemed we were looking at corporate megafarms and abandoned houses, all the way through both the US and Canadian sides. All those myths in the movies were based on a very short period of time, long gone.

But I choose to imagine our Montana, Wyoming and generally western members as characters in a spaghetti western, even if it is all in the pasta.

Here at that time it was fishing and ship building, with a lot of lumber cutting added in.

But it's sunny, although cold, and yesterday I bought my first set of little seed packets for the Spring. I start a lot of plants inside the fishroom. Today, I have to get native columbine seeds cold, and keep them cold for a few weeks so they can germinate. That is kind of easy in my garage. I'm a few weeks away from starting the tomatoes and peppers.
 
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