Good morning! Are you up yet? What's your plans for today?

[Jshooter71]

John....
Tell God I said Hi

I already did for you. 

Will do, thanks Brother. 

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Monday- back to the grind! Only for 3 days for me, though, I’m taking 3 days vacation for a 5 day weekend for our anniversary. Up this morning at 0350 CT. I have a blower motor to replace in an air conditioner that’s an hour and a half south of me. It’s going to be hot all week, so I’ll take all the windshield time as a blessing. 

[Rabbit\Squirrel Killer]

Hanging out where it's green.

[Blowpipe Sam]

I’m off today.  Gonna sit in the garden and listen to the radio.

I’m a Luddite remember?

[buellm2]

You one of them progressive Luddites with newfangled ee-lectric devils fire radios?   Or Orthodox Luddite with traditional coal fired radio?

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Tuesday! It’s Hump-Day for me, as tomorrow will be my Friday! Yesterday kicked my butt… it was hot, the work was ridiculous for just one guy, and I didn’t get home until 2200 hrs. This morning I didn’t move a muscle until 0500 CT. Today I’ll start off with a brand new site experiencing their first summer, they say it’s too hot in certain areas. I’ll take a ride and check out their A/C… First, coffee! 

[Blowpipe Sam]

Afternoon y’all.  Off today.  Gonna take the memsahib to the feed store.  Then I’m gonna catch a few catfish and fry them.  Probably shoot some gassers today.  Good day for it.

[Frank in Fairfield]

Yard work.

[Madd Hatter]

Does that hat really help?

[avator]

No, but a fedora would look a little funny, don't ya think?

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Wednesday! It’s like my Friday, as far as the work week goes, I start vacation tomorrow. This morning I have my 0600 meeting, then a 2 hour ride to my first job: a 3 door cooler. I’m hoping to make a dash for home at the 5 o’clock whistle. 

[anti-squirrel]

Doing the usual- immersing myself into mountains of data.

I may squeeze some time during lunch to improve fitment of an adze handle.  And a perspective buyer may be coming by today to take a look at my 86 F150.

[avator]

Seems like the hits just keep on coming....
Last night I got home from work just before the storm rolled in. Betty Lou and I were sitting there discussing dinner plans.  The clap of thunder and the lightning strike were simultaneous. The cable box on the cedar trunk under the TV "SNAPPED" and the TV, phone and internet all went away. Nothing else in the house was affected. No power loss... nothing. I hooked up DVD players to made sure all 3 TVs survived. They did.
Called the cable company and we did some diagnosing and discovered that the main cable box outside was hit.
Now I'm waiting for the cable office to open so I can get a window of time that the service guy will be at the house. When I get that info I have to run home and tell Betty Lou so she can put the dogs up and open the gate.... She only has the house phone and it runs through the cable.

[Hoosier Daddy]

Dang Bill, that stinks!
Hope they get you sorted out in short order.

[avator]

Apparently we are not the only ones that suffered the storm damage. They couldn't give me a window of arrival because they are so busy. Best they can do is have the service tech call me 20 minutes before he arrives. In that 20 minutes I need to go home (3 miles from work), open the gates and put the dogs up.

[Madd Hatter]

Went out early to do some weed whacking because of the fire restrictions. No chainsaw or weed whacking after 9am. Come on monsoons!! 🔥🔥 After we get a couple of down pours the fire restrictions will be lifted. Hate summer!!

[avator]

Apparently we are not the only ones that suffered the storm damage. They couldn't give me a window of arrival because they are so busy. Best they can do is have the service tech call me 20 minutes before he arrives. In that 20 minutes I need to go home (3 miles from work), open the gates and put the dogs up.

Cable tech called just as I was leaving work at 5:00 so we arrived at the house at virtually the same time.
Here's the list of zapped units...
The main box outside.
The battery back up box for the phone.
The internet pod.
The cable box in the living room.
He was here for an hour chasing down the issues and making sure everything was back up and running. He said he had one more job before he was done for the day.

[Jshooter71]

Good morning GTA! Happy Thursday! Up at 0500 CT. I’m on vacation and I don’t have much planned for today, I’m kind of winging it. I think as soon as it’s light enough I’m going to get the mowing done. I got the girls a pool last week and where we set it up wasn’t all that level and a little close to my septic tank. My neighbor has a few piles of dirt he said I could have. I’d like to truck over some dirt and see how leveling the new spot goes. Of course, I’m on vacation, so I might not do any of that- I might just shoot some Co2 air rifles. 

[avator]

Apparently we are not the only ones that suffered the storm damage. They couldn't give me a window of arrival because they are so busy. Best they can do is have the service tech call me 20 minutes before he arrives. In that 20 minutes I need to go home (3 miles from work), open the gates and put the dogs up.

Cable tech called just as I was leaving work at 5:00 so we arrived at the house at virtually the same time.
Here's the list of zapped units...
The main box outside.
The battery back up box for the phone.
The internet pod.
The cable box in the living room.
He was here for an hour chasing down the issues and making sure everything was back up and running. He said he had one more job before he was done for the day.

Not so fast there buckaroo...
Went to the mancave/bar to check things out.
That strike hit the router and the laptop down there.
Our company just upgraded all the office desktops recently and there are 50 or 60 of the old ones stacked up in the IT office. I'll see if I can get my hands on one of them. I have a 500 gb hard drive here to put in one if I can get one. Then I'll replace my router... I had just bought that one recently.
Oh well, coulda been worse... we could be homeless.

[Outer_Rondacker]

Morning folks. I am sorry to hear about the ones who got hit with the bad weather. Hope everyone is ok and wish everyone best of luck coming out of it. With that said I have not posted on here in a while. I have been busy and at the late hour I call it a day just dont have enough in me to hit the keyboard. Plans for today. Well I have to finish fixing my truck after getting ripped off on the parts from good old ebay. Going to napa where I should of gone in the first place. Talk soon.