Weekend accomplishments-Dec.8

Tom Dunlap

Tom Dunlap

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Last month I moved into a new place. Little by little things are settling into place. The house has an attached single car garage that has sheetrock on the walls and ceiling! No garage door just a service door and a window. This is turning into a nice shop. The porch that connects the garage and the house is used to store a lot of 'stuff' so that the shop is the shop for the most part.

On Sunday I needed to tap a hole for a project. When I grabbed the tap tray from the drawer I saw what looked like a metal log jam. The taps were all jumbled from the move and from dropping the tray too many times. The handles are almost non-existant.

When I started to sort the taps I took each of them and ran the tang over the wire wheel on my bench grinder so that I can read the sizes. Now they're all laid out in their beds nice and neat, it looks like a barracks. The handles are fixed too.

On Sat. our family went to Jim's daughter's holiday orchestra concert. All of the secondary orchestras combine and played an hour and a half program. 20 years ago when the music program director started there were 140 students in the program, now there are 1,400! My memory of orchestra concerts om jr/sr high was that it was nothing more than cat-tail pulling and screeching until the sr. orchestra played. This is not the case with these kids! What a nice program!

What did you do this weekend?
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I worked 14.5 hours of OT, plowing snow on Sat.

Sunday took the kids sleding at Kensington Metro Park, it was cold (about 12), then I was very protuctive; played my Game Cube - Splinter Cell (awsome game)
 
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Basic rule of Weekend Accomplishments...no shop talk...hahaha! We all work too much on the weekends
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Family time is the best!
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Do you use sleds, plastic or hopefull, an old fashioned wood tobaggon or my favorite, inner tubes!
 
did the NJ work day Saturday, then laid in bed recovering from a nasty cold. Oh and beat my wife at scrabble. If I keep that up I may need to build a dog house.....
 
I watched the air show that was supposed to be the re-enactment of the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor. It was better afterward when my son and I met the last official reunion of the Pearl Harbor's Survivor Association veterans. This was to be their last get together, understandable since there were only a dozen of 'em and not doing too chipper. Kind of sad.

The airplanes were fantastic. The old Confederate Air Force does great work here. There were Japanese regular home defense soldiers who came over from Japan in costumes, some veterans not too friendly towards 'em, also understandable. The sole survivor of the midget submarine attack on Pearl and also WW2's first Japanese prisoner of war was here because we have his submarine at our local museum. He cries alot at these get togethers.

Then I smoked a youngster feral hog with cherrywood all night!
 
I went to one of my daughters basketball games, it was cool to see her on an all guy team playin just as hard as the boys.(I need to get her a saddle and get her up a tree).
I then ended up at home and went back and forth between the playstation and computer all the while going in and out a sleep deprived slumber. Finally, snapped out of it and cleaned up the garage, took the recycling to the recycling center and then detailed the truck (so I can get it dirty all over again).
 
I drove back from a little road trip.I first visited Todd K and took a Tour of KTS.That is gotta to be the coolest office/ yard/ shop I have ever seen.Thanks Todd for the tour.Then me and Jason Dealio aka tree dogg and Rocky Top Had quite possibly the best pizza I have ever ate.Then I left Chicago and drove in a snow storm to Louisville(well, a snow storm by a Texans standards).I made it there at 1 am. I woke up and had lunch with Kentucky Limbwalker and crew. Then, I went and hung out with Rich H and tricked him into doing some splicing for me. Me and Rich went and checked out his place and Toni's work. Later had some really good Mexican food in Kentucky-who would of thunk it. I crashed at Rich and Toni's.I woke up that morning and went and visited the whole Limbwalker gang-cool bunch saw the real deal,kentucky sawyer aka corn julio and k limbwalker and a whole host of characters.I hope someone could post that Christmas picture and you could understand what im talking about.Really cool shop real organized. They had to work so they ran me off,good thing too. I heard they where having a party the next day.I then went back to Riches splicing shop and tried to get him to do some more splicing but he made me do it. Thanks for walking me thru it. I've spliced 16 strand a hundred times but in front of Rich I totally forgot how-duhh.I left Rich's and headed for Nashville and kicked it with Ben Poteet and family. Ate some good food but I started to really miss my wife and headed to Texas at 8:30 pm. After 3 redbulls some dr peppers and lots of chocolate not to mention countless bathroom breaks(red bull goes right thru me).I listened to the old school,new school need to know no show for about 3 hours and that kept me goin(some of the worse hip hop ever played).I made it home at 6:30 am and woke up Chindarella. I slept 3 hours and greeted a nice 65 plus degree Texas day. I dont think it was ever above freezing during this whole trip and i let everone know how much I hate the cold. Nice to be home.
 
aww Jimmy, why you going to pass up detroit like that! I see how it is. its cool, I didnt stop by when I was in texas either so its ok. Next time. Limbwalkers rock thats for sure.
 
Crazy Jimmy thats one heck of a trip. Next time i'll fly down there and do it with you sounded like a lot of fun. Cept well show up later and crash limbwalkers party. Just saying.

Heck of a trip hope i can visit all of you sometime like that. Ahh to dream
 
That was a crazy wkend.... Out to Catalina Island by boat ,got there at 10:30 am up a large Euc tree,finish by 4:30 and up the next day for the next tree and found out that my ground man grap the wrong rope bag $%%#@ rope not long enough , so we go back out this wkend ....

Later in SO-CAL
 

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jf1962...'Weekend Accomplishments' is for non-work related activities
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You worked...so you got robbed of the weekend, now you have to try and reschedule those days.
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Did you see any critters on the boat to Catalina? Do any fishing? Have a nice dinner?
 
Is house cleaning WORK.

well if so - then no i did not clean house.

I went to a Dance Saturday evening, dressed all pretty in a black dress, hair in a bow, stayed out late, and slept late on sunday.

On Sunday, spent several hours at the local animal shelter, playing with the dogs. CUTE BUGGERS that they be.

then a nice dinner on the back deck, music on the radio and a glass of water with lemon.

NICE

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Hey Tom , i did forget to mention that we had to dive for our dinner ( Lobster )that was the fun part,,

I will give you a call and up date you on that Brazil trip ..

Later from SO-CAL
 
Really busy now, but I´ve had a few distractions; this week I´ve been salting and smoking the sheep rib we have for xmas dinner, tree days in salt and two days in smoke. Already looking foreward to the meal..
In the weekend the wife and I are going to town and hear the Harlem Angels, have a lovely dinner out (where we ate when you were here Mark) and stay at a lovely hotel. Next day we´re gonna meet my daughter and son in law and bring the grandchildren back with us to Voss. Its gonna be great!
 

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Saturday:

Finished installing an old 'jelly-bean' iMac whose CRT had gone out into a PC chassis and external LCD. Tedious but gives it more life. Still have to keep my hand in the elec. engr. world.

Took a woman I've been dating on her first rec. tree climb. Very good student, RADs on single rope, no problem. We climbed next to a Bicentennial Tree (site of '06 or '07 TxTCC). Had a Subway sandwich 30' in the tree.

My daughters' concert was fantastic. 1400 orchestral students are of 3 middle schools (6-8), 1 high school (9-10) and 1 sr. high (11-12).

Sunday:
Got with my buddy's and jammed for 4 hours, or until enough of our hands were sore. There were between 5 and 7 musicians.

In the evening took my mom to the Celebration of Lights on the SMU campus. Superbly mild evening, good program of carols, prayers, songs and even a holiday dance. The finale was the lighting of the Christmas tree and surrounding trees-- 130,000 lights this year!
http://smu.edu/flashvideo/?id=252
http://smu.edu/newsinfo/slides/celebration-lights2008/
 
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