Post Race!

[dday9]

I love working with my hands, unfortunately I'm about as successful with what I'm fixing as Tim Allen is in Home Improvement.

[Shaggy Hiker]

When it comes to sprinkler valves, I always dread it. The valves I installed over 20 years back are no longer manufactured. If something fatal were to happen to one of the valves, I'd have to dig up a fair amount of ground to completely replace a valve. So far, every issue has been a diaphragm issue, and those are still the same in newer valves.

The digging would be made worse by the fact that there is a patio over parts of where I would have to excavate, so it would take even more effort.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Still, grabbing a massive earthworm when you weren't expecting anything to be there...is a bit of a surprise.

[gaouser]

who rated

[gaouser]

this

[gaouser]

just 3 stars?!?

[gaouser]

btw is this where all powerposters come from

[dday9]

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) the Chit-Chat doesn't count towards your post count.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This is where power posters go to...get bored.

[dday9]

And post board.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I had forgotten what my Post Race count was. As it turns out, if that count were added to my post total....it wouldn't really make much difference. If all the REST of my chit-chat comments were added in, that would probably add a fair amount.

[Shaggy Hiker]

My day has been derailed.

[dday9]

Is "My Day" the name of a train?

[Shaggy Hiker]

I was looking at a picture of a train when I wrote that. I don't think it was related.

[dday9]

What was the catalyst for the derailment?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Lack of any reason to stay on the rails, as far as I can remember.

[dday9]

I'm working on an app right now that allows users to select .torrent files from the internet archive and then have them playback using an full blown audio player on their phone.

Really the issue I'm running into is A) it is difficult to play .torrent files and B) I am running into CORS errors when downloading the file through my app. Unfortunately I don't think that B is solvable without running some sort of server and offloading that to the server which is unfortunate since I want this to be a serverless application.

[Shaggy Hiker]

CORS you run into problems.

[dday9]

9 times out of 10, CORS errors aren't actually CORS errors. However, this is one of those rare cases where it is a legit CORS error.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The only time I ran into a CORS error, it really was a CORS error. That's not really the area I work in, but that was a legit CORS error.

[wes4dbt]

Had our first 100+ degrees days of the year this weekend. Luckily the AC is working fine so all is good. Nice today, @ 91.

[dday9]

To be honest, I'm very surprised how temperate our weather has been so far. Usually by now we'd have the "its unbearable to be outside" heat, but like right now it's showing 74 with a feels like of 81.

[wes4dbt]

There's nothing unusual about us having 100+ days this time of year. We don't normally get long periods of it till July and August.

Your weather is much different. We don't have the high humidity like in LA. I can't stand the humidity. I guess it's really all about what your use too. I'm fine with 100 degrees here, I visited my sister in Houston and it was only 90, I was miserable because of the humidity.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I've lived in the hot and wet as well as the hot and dry. You get used to either one, you just have to be there long enough to get used to it. I'm not sure that I have a preference.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I don't know whether we hit 100 on Saturday. I was afraid to go outside. Sunday was much nicer, though blustery...with a significant chance of flats. I went right home and ordered new bike tires. The ones I have are just too thin for this area. I intended to replace them anyways, and had figured out what I was going to get, but I've had far too many flats already this year.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hopefully, flats are peaking.

[Peter Porter]

Photoshopped a couple of ghosts over this Morocan well.

[Peter Porter]

If I was Tusken Raider, you'll find me here:

[Shaggy Hiker]

Tuskan raiders would never be found in water. Those outfits take way too long to dry.

[dday9]

I’m in northern Georgia for the week and it’s bizarre. It is literally 68 degrees in June. I’m not used to it being this cold!

[Shaggy Hiker]

That seems unusually cold for Georgia at this time of year, north, south, or inside out.

[Shaggy Hiker]

We may touch 100...again, or not. Sure looks like rain will happen today (in the form of thunderstorms), but it's not forecast until tomorrow.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I got to go exercise in the heat as part of a physical assessment for work. Scored in the 99+ percentile on push-ups and sit-ups, then went out and melted in the sun. Had to soak my head once I got back in, cause I was too sweaty.

[dday9]

We hiked Tallulah Falls this morning and it was gorgeous (get it, gorge-eous). I still can't get over how nice it feels out here.

[Shaggy Hiker]

How were the ticks?

[dday9]

I didn’t see any, thank god.

[wes4dbt]

I didn’t see any, thank god.

How abouts the Toks????

[dday9]

Plenty of those.

It was pretty much us and one other person out there, however, when we got back it looks like there was a sorority with a bunch of young girls (maybe about 30 in total) and they were all on their phones. I'm sure creating Instagrams, TikToks, etc.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Sign of the times.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm not actually certain that ticks are a big issue in northern Georgia, though I don't know why they wouldn't be, considering they are common in other states at that latitude and altitude. Ticks are frightening because of the weird diseases they can transmit.