Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1

[Cal Amari]

Well it was a response to the topic of inflation, not directly aimed at you, but partially agreeing that corporations are not more or less greedy than they always have been. I had been in or near a couple other conversations that same day about inflation in the past few years, and no one seems to grasp how it works. It's more complicated than that and I'm not an economist, but I get tired of hearing one side say it's covid, and the other side saying covid is just an excuse, and neither of them can understand they're both partially right, but you also can't just pump free money into an economy with causing inflation. I also understand this was in the U.S., and we have an international collection of members here, but the U.S. economy has an impact on the global economy. Anyway, back to reading fishkeeping posts for me

 

[Ulu]

A very early Good Morning from The Gateway to the Sierra.

I spent several cold hours out in the boatyard, cleaning up my VW chassis, rolling it back over to hit the ugly spots with a grinder. Scraping, wire brushing sanding and feathering paint is all nearly done on the bottom side.

Yet I want to put some more spot welds on the pan. About 50 more.

I am praying the weather will get dry enough to paint before it all gets rusty again. I still have a bit of minor welding on the topside first.

I’m not used to wearing gloves just for sanding, but I am much more sensitive to cold weather now, than when I lived on the muskeg, in Baudette Minnesota, at the Northwest Quadrangle.

That’s farther north than 3/4 of all Canadian people live. I didn’t realize at the time why the only TV shows we ever got were some variety show from Winnipeg, with stomping Tom Connor, and then Hockey Night in Canada.

I prefer the local warm weather, hitting 54F yesterday. Here’s hoping for continued warm weather. The paint I bought wants 55 min. I will heat the paint and the metal before I try to spray, but first it gets etched.

 

[RD.]

Cold? Lmao. You’re getting soft.

Spent 10 min sweeping light snow off the back patio off this morning in a t-shirt, sweat pants, and runners. 3F …. -10F with wind.

10 minutes was enough……

 

[esoxlucius]

sweat pants

Given the temperature I think I'd have just called them pants, lol.

 

[Ulu]

Cold? Lmao. You’re getting soft.

Spent 10 min sweeping light snow off the back patio off this morning in a t-shirt, sweat pants, and runners. 3F …. -10F with wind.

10 minutes was enough……

10 whole minutes? Yer gettin' zero sympathy here, Bro. ;-)

And don't think I haven't been there.

I have lived near Spokane Wash, Duluth & Baudette Mn, Ogden & Logan UT, Albany & Newport NY and Cape Cod.

There was a lot of bad weather. I shoveled a mountain of snow, and chipped tons of ice, until I was 20 and moved to the San Joaquin.

I don't have to suffer that anymore. Plus I have 30 tropical fish living outdoors.

So shiver on, RD. When I became an adult with choices, I chose not to freeze.

 

[Ulu]

Oh, also this…
This is the bottom of my truck. It is 13 years old. There is no rust.


My first car was from Minnesota, it was only five years old, and the fenders had holes in them.

 

[RD.]

It was a short sleeve t-shirt. lol 10 minutes was plenty long enough.

 

[Ulu]

Those crazy Finlanders in Duluth used to jump in the ice water naked.
So nothing would surprise me.

 

[Ulu]

The westering moon shines thru the Tule fog at sunrise.


Charlie says there will be no painting today.

 

[Chet E.]

Minnesotans may be a thing of the past.
Yesterday, my phone read, " Winter Weather Advisory may impact travel times." This was eight hours before the snow was predicted to start falling. Two inches over night became a major news story this morning. It was a cool fluffy snow (19°F). Several inches would have been great fun to run through with my wool stocking clad feet.