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shortylickens

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MrSquished

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LOL. That's different. Sort of an intentional, "life imitates art"?

It's a whole thing that's been going around the internet the last week and a bit. I think it was started by a museum. Basically make your own meme with art. Kinda cool.
 

UsandThem

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It's a whole thing that's been going around the internet the last week and a bit. I think it was started by a museum. Basically make your own meme with art. Kinda cool.
I figured people would create the Tide Pod Part: 2 challenge by now. :p
 

mopardude87

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Sadly had to sell off a gold quarter ounce american eagle, this virus crap and the lack of a stimulus kinda dragging me. Well i got enough to last the month then some now, i found these bins with various types of coins and i picked these 3 for my "new" collection. Been 9 years since i bought single coin for my collection. Not a bad shop where i sold the gold, awesome coin choices. Got these 3 for like $22 out the door. Brought a nice smile to my face when little else does these days.....


 

bbhaag

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We've been working our asses off. Since the State of Illinois made us close our doors for walk in retail we've been working almost around the clock to get our online store up and going for curbside pickup. Over the last 5 days our sales have outpaced 2019's sales. It has been truly incredible.

Shameless plug---------->www.shopwashingtongreenhouse.com
 
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Greenman

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We've been working our asses off. Since the State of Illinois made us close our doors for walk in retail we've been working almost around the clock to get our online store up and going for curbside pickup. Over the last 5 days our sales have outpaced 2019's sales. It has been truly incredible.

Shameless plug---------->www.shopwashingtongreenhouse.com
I clicked the link and there was no shameless plug. I'm disappointed, I expected some new kind of porn.
 

Kaido

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So my rental just banned smokers (BBQ). I can't even use my electric plug-in smoker. They banned charcoal last year.

I need to move.
 
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snoopy7548

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Assembled the dust collector I got last week. I might end up wall-mounting it to save space, and I need to buy a garbage can so I can turn it into a two-stage system (it came with a separator lid). I will eventually upgrade to a Wynn filter.

Now I just need to install a subpanel in the garage, and add some 240V outlets, so I can power it up...

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highland145

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@snoopy7548. Redneck version. Only 30" or so. That's about what I deal with. 1/4" malimine(?) to raise the whole piece up. Stops, shims, wedges...worked pretty well but the wood wasn't happy. One of my useless pieces. You can see that the warp followed the bark when I was done. But, hey, better than what I had.
 

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feralkid

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Assembled the dust collector I got last week. I might end up wall-mounting it to save space, and I need to buy a garbage can so I can turn it into a two-stage system (it came with a separator lid). I will eventually upgrade to a Wynn filter.

Now I just need to install a subpanel in the garage, and add some 240V outlets, so I can power it up...

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Looks like it's ready to go bowling.
 
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highland145

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Assembled the dust collector I got last week. I might end up wall-mounting it to save space, and I need to buy a garbage can so I can turn it into a two-stage system (it came with a separator lid). I will eventually upgrade to a Wynn filter.

Now I just need to install a subpanel in the garage, and add some 240V outlets, so I can power it up...

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I would "like" to have a clean space but that ain't me. Start a project, eff everything up, clean after. And I'm in the 80 y.o. garage. Have no intention of conditioning it.
 

purbeast0

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Today was my most worthless day in quarantine. I sat on the couch doing nothing today watching stupid shows on the ID channel most of the day. The only productive thing I did was put a crib together for our son who is due in August. But it wasn't even from scratch, I just had to attach like 5 larger pieces since I had taken it apart from my first born son growing out of it.

Other than that though? Didn't do a damn thing.
 

highland145

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Today was my most worthless day in quarantine. I sat on the couch doing nothing today watching stupid shows on the ID channel most of the day. The only productive thing I did was put a crib together for our son who is due in August. But it wasn't even from scratch, I just had to attach like 5 larger pieces since I had taken it apart from my first born son growing out of it.

Other than that though? Didn't do a damn thing.
You missed the Tetris championships?



So sad.
 

shortylickens

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Got to thinking about stuff today. Bored. Much time to think.
Several of my favorite porn stars have only been recorded on VHS and very low quality digital video. And they are retired now. So theres a whole slew of gals who are quite hot and made good porn that looks like shit and no one seems to care.
Girls like Sasha Grey, Jenna Haze, and Bella Donna were basically wasted. As was the first half of Lexi Belles career. Not to mention all the 80's classic stars like Ginger Lynn and Christy Canyon. They may have done one movie on film but its quite unlikely anybody has tracked down the negative and scanned it properly for an HD release.

Similarly theres a metric ton of shows from the pre-video era that have been scanned and look awesome, then theres the bulk of 80's/90's stuff which was shot on magnetic video and looks like shit even if somebody was able to track down a copy that hasnt degraded much, then we have the start of the digital recording era which also doesnt look so hot. MASH looks great. Threes Company not so much. Cheers was shot on film (probably the last series ever) and Frasier was done on video. The first two seasons in particular look bad. The last season was shot with an HD camera and looks excellent.

Oh well, rant is over. Everyone go back to staring at the wall.
 

mopardude87

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Been doing tons of reading on various things, like this for example. I love this stuff as i have been coming out as pagan to my friends and i get that one friend who thinks i am into satanism cause i want a pentacle instead of a pentagram. This article sums up how absent minded people can be and how ignorant. Knowledge is the best gift in the world, think how many celebrate pagan holidays like Easter/Xmas.


Doing research on so much mainly ancient text, i find it fascinating to actually learn new stuff. Make it a goal to learn something new daily. No matter how insignificant it could be. The pentacle history was the best read in prob over a week for me.
 

DAPUNISHER

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Been doing tons of reading on various things, like this for example. I love this stuff as i have been coming out as pagan to my friends and i get that one friend who thinks i am into satanism cause i want a pentacle instead of a pentagram. This article sums up how absent minded people can be and how ignorant. Knowledge is the best gift in the world, think how many celebrate pagan holidays like Easter/Xmas.


Doing research on so much mainly ancient text, i find it fascinating to actually learn new stuff. Make it a goal to learn something new daily. No matter how insignificant it could be. The pentacle history was the best read in prob over a week for me.
Just for you

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mopardude87

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Just for you

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Most of my reading starting right from the source, Gaea which many to this day unknowingly knowledge STILL. When anyone references mother nature well, that is Gaea. Her story with greek mytholgy so far has been great. :) Still reading of course, with all the history of the word i heard of people who have invested 40 years and still learn things.
 

snoopy7548

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I would "like" to have a clean space but that ain't me. Start a project, eff everything up, clean after. And I'm in the 80 y.o. garage. Have no intention of conditioning it.

Haha yeah. Once I start a project, my bench and everything is a mess. I'm in the middle of some projects, but I've shelved those until I can get a few other things done, so everything is nice and neat for now.

The garage isn't conditioned, but it is insulated (and the living room is above it, and the basement is off to the left) so it's not bad working in there in the winter.

Here's my work area:

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Red Squirrel

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I can't wait to do my garage. Built my shed a few years ago so I can move everything out of the garage since the garage was basically a shed. Got the floor redone last year but it was late by the time the concrete guy came so it was too cold to epoxy. Going to do that this summer. Then I can start on insulating and overall just finishing it. Need to run electrical etc as I only have a 15 amp circuit going there.

Been a long time that I want a proper shop to work in, and organize all my tools, so it will be nice to have a designated spot to work on projects. I sometimes do it in the basement but that dust is not great to have in the house. My only complaint it's that it's so small so don't really have room for big tools or big projects. Just maneuvering a 4x8 sheet of plywood in there is tricky. Eventually want to buy land so I can build a huge garage. Would be great to be able to get into working on cars too.

Took out the old fireplace chimney though, that bought me a couple extra square feet of space, just a big block left over at the floor but workbench will be over all that anyway.



My crappy masonry job to fill in the hole:



New floor:



Looks big there but add a work bench and tool shelves etc and it does not take long to feel clusterphobic in there. At least it's no longer used for storage though so that will free up lot of room.
 
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snoopy7548

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I can't wait to do my garage. Built my shed a few years ago so I can move everything out of the garage since the garage was basically a shed. Got the floor redone last year but it was late by the time the concrete guy came so it was too cold to epoxy. Going to do that this summer. Then I can start on insulating and overall just finishing it. Need to run electrical etc as I only have a 15 amp circuit going there.

Been a long time that I want a proper shop to work in, and organize all my tools, so it will be nice to have a designated spot to work on projects. I sometimes do it in the basement but that dust is not great to have in the house. My only complaint it's that it's so small so don't really have room for big tools or big projects. Just maneuvering a 4x8 sheet of plywood in there is tricky. Eventually want to buy land so I can build a huge garage. Would be great to be able to get into working on cars too.

Took out the old fireplace chimney though, that bought me a couple extra square feet of space, just a big block left over at the floor but workbench will be over all that anyway.



My crappy masonry job to fill in the hole:



New floor:



Looks big there but add a work bench and tool shelves etc and it does not take long to feel clusterphobic in there. At least it's no longer used for storage though so that will free up lot of room.

I dig the extension cord!

That'll be a nice space once you finish it. You should have left the fireplace open so you could have a secret dungeon. :p
 
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