Watcha doing?

[Slug1]

Drove 2,075 (round trip) miles to see my father last week. Always a blessing to be "with" family!

[Fenris]

My son is engaged to be married. The wedding will be in Jerusalem this June.

[Fenris]

Well... latest girl-type friend drives a Saturn AWD (V6) and claims to be a "woman of faith."  She is waiting for some kind of financial bonanza based on said faith and is into all kinds of dark conspiratorial, pseudo-faith circles and relies heavily on smoking whatever substance (likely pot).

Was very concerned that she was out of food etc, and have been led to help and earnestly pray for her.

Curious to see who is the spider and who is the fly here.

Shall see.

Ah. An adventure!

[RabbiKnife]

My son is engaged to be married. The wedding will be in Jerusalem this June.

Ah! An adventure!!!!

😳

Mazel tov!

[Fenris]

Mazel tov!

Thank you!

[tango]

Found out that my flooring project is a little more complex than I first thought. I figured out how to cut the floor and laying new floor isn't all that hard, but the strip I want to lay perpendicular to create a cleaner transition from one area to another isn't quite so clean. Because it needs to align nicely with the door I need to figure where the door is going to go, which I can't do because that wall isn't framed. Framing the wall is awkward because the ceiling joist doesn't quite align with the floor joist - it's further across and not quite angled the same. That means that I need to either secure the top beam of the wall to the ceiling joist and put the bottom beam between floor joists, or screw some kind of struts between the ceiling joists so I can screw the top beam into it. Then I can cut the floor, secure whatever I need underneath to support the perpendicular piece of floor, cut and position the perpendicular piece of floor, and then lay the rest of the floor.

Along the way I need to consider the implications of cutting away the floor in the bathroom. It's not in great condition, it will be covered with some kind of vinyl flooring so can be replaced with plywood or OSB just as easily as nicer flooring, but if the stud wall between the bedroom and bathroom isn't over the floor joists I'll need to make sure cutting the floor doesn't suddenly create a section of floor that isn't supported any more.

So what I hoped would be a simple job has, once again, proved to be more complex. I need to frame the walls anyway, I just hadn't expected that part of the work to shuffle its way to the top of the line.

[Cloudwalker]

Be praying, especially for our churches drama ministry's director.  Things are moving fast.  The Pastor is doing a series on The Sermon On The Mount and he is arranging for eye witness accounts.  We just finished The Alice In Wonderland Tea.  And we are about to start rehearsals on a redo of our Living Last Supper from last year.  Fortunately most of the cast is coming back so it will go easier.  I'm playing James in this.  On top of that our choir director has asked me to sing He's Alive on Easter Sunday.  Fortunately I sing with cd accompaniment and that is one of my songs that I, basically, already have ready.  So all I have to do is pull it out and brush it off.  Which will mean putting aside the series of audiobooks I'm listening to for a while.  Easter is almost as busy a time for performers as Christmas. 

[tango]

A gentle-ish 8 mile run today. Trying a new approach to build a low-level aerobic base, which is essentially running until my heart rate rises very far into my zone 3. Then I walk until it's back to the middle of zone 2, and resume running. The idea is to build how long I can run at a slightly harder pace before my heart rate goes high enough for my watch to beep at me. So far it seems to be working, my watch is indicating higher levels of performance based on whatever secret algorithm it's using. I'm just not sure whether it's because my fitness is objectively improving, or if I've found a quirk in the algorithm.

[Cloudwalker]

I just remembered I am also singing on March 17th.  Will definitely need prayers.  I am singing He Looked Beyond My Fault And Saw My Need.  It is sung to the tune Danny Boy.  What is going to make it harder to sing is the 2nd verse.  I wrote it and I sometimes have trouble getting through it without choking up.

[Slug1]

I begin taking Ham Radio classes this month and will test out in May for my license... excited to finally do this.

[tango]

Nasty day today, rain all day, so exercise had to be indoors. Now fiddling with updating a piece of code. I couldn't figure out why the appearance was all wrong but then noticed I'd set it to a different application style, which explained everything.

It's always good when a single setting change shakes out a whole bunch of cosmetic issues at once.

[IMINXTC]

Glimpsing briefly some of the depths of QAnon. A cult of dizzying, unbridled momentum.

[tango]

Got a walk in after church but my wife came to rescue me from the heavy snow that appeared. Then after lunch I tried again, and the snow stayed sufficiently away to get a good walk in.

I hope I can do some running tomorrow but we're due 40-50mph winds so that might not happen.

[ProDeo]

After ~5 months of struggling with neural nets I finally am happy with the results and released my new version REBEL version 16.3

https://rebel7775.wixsite.com/rebel

[RabbiKnife]

Neural nets?

Will this require an implant???!!!!

😳