++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[sdifox]

My church will be open tomorrow too for first time in probably close to a year. Max 55 people inside.

Meet thy god, sooner!

 

[bigboxes]

I was forced to take the wife and kids to the mall...

My condolences. That's a shoot me now moment.

I never took my wife to the mall unless it was to drop her off or pick her up. She worked at Macy's for 13 years. The only time I went to the mall otherwise, would be to get tools at Sears. I stopped going to Sears about 2013. It was so sad.

 

[bigboxes]

Did you go with the chili bowl or did you feather?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Welp, I just put an offer on a 40 acre property without going to see it. I'm a baller like that.

Close enough to town that it would be realistic to do that drive for even just a weekend, not lake front, but lot of lakes in the area, and overall nice area. I hope it goes through, I think this is the one.

Going to go see it Wednesday.

 

[Captante]

Cats on pizza?

 

[bigboxes]

You mean, cats about to get their ass wupped.

 

[bigboxes]

It's the humans that are the worst. They think it's cute to film them doing this instead of correcting the little bastards in the first place.

 

[sdifox]

Nyaa

 

[bigboxes]

Nyaa

Reverse mohawk?

 

[sdifox]

I don't know what a reverse mohawk is

 

[sdifox]

Googled and good thing I wasn't drinking anything.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sounds like the kind of haircut you'd get if you get the sudden urge to shave your head and your razor breaks on the first pass.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just signed some papers, getting real now!

Though I should not get my hopes up, this is just an offer, not a purchase agreement. It might already be sold.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thunderstorm.

 

[Red Squirrel]

As a side note the bottom element in my stove blew on me. That was quite spectacular. Was preheating it and putting away dishes while I wait then I noticed a bright light from inside the oven, at first I was like "weird, did I turn the light on?" then suddenly very loud 60hz noise and flashing of light, then I realize this was not operating nominally. Turned it off. There's a white spot where it blew. Hopefully these are universal and I can just replace it.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So making boiled eggs and peas instead of chicken and peas lol. I would use the BBQ for the chicken if it was not pouring rain.

 

[sdifox]

So making boiled eggs and peas instead of chicken and peas lol. I would use the BBQ for the chicken if it was not pouring rain.

Put bbq in garage, open garage door.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Fun. Power went out. Totally saw the lightning flash that caused it too.

 

[Red Squirrel]

...and it's back. Guess it just triggered the recloser and didn't actually cause damage.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Bell is going off at the school near my place lol. Think it's the fire alarm, probably triggered by the power outage.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sky is brightening up, storm mostly over. That was fun.

I wonder if I should call someone about that bell, but surely the FD probably got a call for it already.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Storm all over. I now hear sirens.

 

[bigboxes]

As a side note the bottom element in my stove blew on me. That was quite spectacular. Was preheating it and putting away dishes while I wait then I noticed a bright light from inside the oven, at first I was like "weird, did I turn the light on?" then suddenly very loud 60hz noise and flashing of light, then I realize this was not operating nominally. Turned it off. There's a white spot where it blew. Hopefully these are universal and I can just replace it.

You can replace the element yourself. How hard can it be? I rent, but I've watched them do that repair before.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You can replace the element yourself. How hard can it be? I rent, but I've watched them do that repair before.

Yeah I don't imagine it's very hard.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Realtor asked to see if I can set financing timeline to 1 week instead of 2 as there's lot of others interested. Fine by me. Hopefully I manage to snag this one, very competitive to get these parcels of land it seems. I probably should have offered the asking price instead of going lower, only went lower by like 2 grand though. I hope it's not going to get to a point where there is a bidding war over vacant land. I do have a bit of wiggle room though.