Watcha doing?

[Fenris]

Just got back from my son's wedding in the Holy Land. It was a blessed and wonderful experience.

[RabbiKnife]

Excellent!

Mazel tov!

[Cloudwalker]

I just received one of those fall detection/emergency buttons that you wear.  I don't need it now, but I may eventually.  I discovered that I could get this one through my insurance company, at no charge to me, so I  decided why not.  There is a bit of a learning curve.  When I was putting it into the charging device for the night it gave me a "fall detected" message.  When I figured out what was happening I was able to cancel the call.  I'm trying to get a second charging device so I can take it with me when I change my sleeping locations.

[Cloudwalker]

I finally saw Disney's  The Princess and the Frog.  I don't know how I missed it when it was in the theater.  But last night I bumped into it on TV.  I was channel surfing and bumped into it just starting and decided to watch it.  Worth watching.  I'm not sure I would call it classic on par with Sleeping Beauty.  but worth watching.  I especially like the alligator.

[Cloudwalker]

I went to see Inside Out 2 yesterday.  Very good.  If you liked the first one, you will like this one.  They, very amusingly, examine adolescents. And add new characters, Anxiety, Embarrassment, and Anouie.

[Fenris]

Excellent!

Mazel tov!

The ceremony was very special.

The wedding took place at a site on the outskirts of Jerusalem, overlooking the hills of Judea.

There is a traditional Jewish wedding song that has been used for many hundreds of years.

It is based on the verses in Jeremiah 33

This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom...

and it is parsed out to

there will be heard again in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom

and the best part is that the wedding ceremony made this prophecy literally come true.

God is good and His words are true.

[tango]

Finally got around to shifting stuff around in one workspace so I can move a saw into the space and cut up some insulation panels. So far I have three complete strips and one half strip cut and installed in my upstairs workspace. Hauling a table saw that weighs slightly over 100lb up a flight of rickety stairs and through a doorway that's just a little bit too narrow to be easy was interesting. But now it's in place next to my pile of panels, so I can cut them up much more easily. Without doing that the only alternative would be to haul the panels downstairs, which would also be a logistic challenge since they are 8 feet by 4 feet.

The spaces between my wall studs aren't quite as even as I had hoped, it seems the wood has twisted ever so slightly, but it's pretty close. Much closer than anything else I've worked with so far, which is always a good thing. Tomorrow I can cut some more strips and see how much more progress I can make. It's good to finally get on with stuff again, for a time it seemed every little thing I tried to do hit an obstacle.

[Athanasius]

I managed to recover a pair of old email addresses circa 2007 that I had completely forgotten existed, though I can't say the same for the other people who had still been emailing me there 😅

[ProDeo]

The incredible Femke Bol, she starts as last one in the 4x400m relay at place 4 and starts catching up.

[tango]

I took my bicycle out for a spin, for the first time in quite a lot of years. I cleaned it off the other day and today I decided it was about time I took it out for a ride to see if it was still in rideable condition. My main concern was whether it would need new cables or tires, given it's been 8-9 years since I last rode it.

It felt good to be riding again, although my body obviously isn't used to being in the saddle. That might take a bit of getting used to.

[Cloudwalker]

Well, my area largely dodged a bullet.  Debbie came ashore in the Big Bend area.  So all we are getting is some moderately heavy rain from time to time.  Some potential for tornadoes.

[Sojourner]

Well, my area largely dodged a bullet.  Debbie came ashore in the Big Bend area.  So all we are getting is some moderately heavy rain from time to time.  Some potential for tornadoes.

My area got off light as well. While mostly rain and thunder around me, one close lightning strike killed my power for less than a minute last night. Today, it's just light but steady rain. Considering the damage done by Debby elsewhere, we were very fortunate.

[tango]

Went for a run today, and spent a lot of the time wishing I'd chosen something lighter on the effort. The heat was pretty intense, but overall the run was easier than it might have been. I'm looking forward to cooler weather when I can push a bit harder.

[tango]

Yesterday was a bundle of fun. I got to play with some boards and beams in a very confined space.

First of all I needed to get a piece of wiring work done, before I laid the new boards. So that meant lifting some fiberglass to find the wire, then pulling a new wire. The ends aren't connected up yet but that can wait, the key thing was getting the wire to run through the space. Then I needed to re-seat the fiberglass, and lay some 8x2 boards over the top of it all. (The boards are sold as 8x4 but I have them cut so I can handle them and get them into place).

Once I had four boards laid and secured to the joists I needed to add a couple of supports so I could lay more boards in the corners of my crawl space. At this point there's almost no head room, and it's nigh on impossible to get at anything because of the confined space. I needed to cut a piece of board to length, then use joist hangers to secure it to perpendicular joists, and screw the hangers into place because there isn't space to swing a hammer to drive nails. The second support needed to have one end cut at 45 degrees, which was tricky because it was too tall to stand up in my miter saw so I had to cut it as a bevel. Thankfully that one was easier to work with, as I could drill through the perpendicular joists and use structural grade screws to secure the new support into place. It's probably overkill but I'd rather over-engineer something than find I need to revisit it later. At some point I'd like what I'm laying to become a subfloor for what will effectively become a third floor patio space, so I'd rather do it right first time.

Today my arms ached, because of the weird efforts in wielding a drill and screwdriver in a very confined space while also supporting my weight and trying to hold things still for long enough to drive screws and nails into them.

[Slug1]

Long day. Up at 0400hrs, at the church at 0430hrs, began smoking 6 pork butts for our Free Community Dinner by 0500hrs.