@cb I may or may not in fact be talking about a blue Tercel wagon that may or may not have a blue plaid interior.

I have the EGO cordless 18" bar chainsaw with 5 amp hour battery. It will cut almost an entire full sized maple on a charge. It has a 3600 rpm chain speed so it's just as fast as a gas saw too. It works for my camping needs.

@longtime-lurker Yeesh. My SIL’s fire season is officially over. Her hotshot crew just had their end of season party.

@roadkilled I mean, it's a rental so give'r.

@carsoffortlangley thiccc

@cb A few (in this case maybe a lot - nest looks huge!) well placed pellet/BBs will take care of that!

@zipfuel not really....the program doesnt care if the mouse moves....need to scan a barcode and run a test to keep it happy
it...and a host of other problems ive found so far should be getting fixed when the people that built the test rig come back to overhaul the rig and software...no word on when that is tho.... just instructions to document and try to replicate any problems i run in to...
basically...im beta testing

@ibrad haha, totally. also the fact that we're all reasonably okay with it. if you'd told us in 2019 that sitting outside would be made illegal, there'd be outrage.
we were so young

@cb Have a good sleep on your earned day off.

I could go for 600 hours of vacation.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly We’re used to joking about how having a proud history means we still use the same gear that we did when we marched west 148 years ago.

@cb said in A work rant, as we all know what I do for a living:

A friendly reminder that, if you see bad things happening in your neighbourhood, please call ghostbusters your local problem solvers so that they're aware.

Nothing in my neighborhood of 30 years has yet risen to the level of calling upon my problem solver

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@cb hehe. I did back to back 16 hours shifts this week.

not fun. esp with the storm that raised noah ark passing through TWICE

@classicdatsundebate said in Good morning from the grids:

@cb
‘Moose in the Barley Public House’ would make a good name for a hipster brewpub

Public House Moose would be a good name for a band.

@ibrad said in Outside Canada’s most famous Dairy Queen:

@cb Are you there on official business, or official curiosity?

Looks like someone got out of there in a hurry!

It’s the town where I grocery shop.

@bicyclebuck I definitely would not enjoy being charged by a horse!

@grindintosecond said in "Why does he always have this cryptic and nonsensical advice?":

They must know of bad kid decisions while a kid.

They also need to learn what it means to work hard when they are kids. Both of my kids have had it relatively easy. We focused on schoolwork and grades and let them get by without jobs, although both have been required to do volunteer work. My daughter spent the summer working at a coffee house and now knows all the ins and outs of working a service job, from the nasty customers to the flaky coworkers. Yesterday her manager asked if she really had to go back to school. It was a relief to know that she learned how to work hard without us making her get a job in high school.

@rallydarkstrike said in Back to wearing long sleeves on night shift:

@nauraushaun I like how that's cold to you, haha!

We live for the days as winter wanes here when the temperature is back to 18C in the Spring 😛

cold? nah it's pretty nice!

@mastermario

Another possible reason is that lack of affordable healthcare discourages lots of would-be entrepreneurs who might challenge existing businesses.

@the-crazy-kanuck said in Shaping up to be a 16 hour day:

@cb me knowing what you do for work. It could be the most boring 16 hours, or the most exciting 16 hours.

I refuse to comment on which way it is because that will only tempt fate.

@highlander said in Good evening, Oppo:

@dipodomysdeserti I’ve never heard of a drug that can kill you so easily. Fentanyl is one…

Yeah. My sister was starting out as an RN when the pharmaceutical reps first started really pushing the “safer” forms of this stuff, ensuring them that it was safe with little habit forming risk. Of course anyone who took the time to actually read up on it knew that was BS. She’s had a number of fellow nurses start abusing opioids as well. Trust the scientific process, not the guys with marketing degrees.

@svend I've never tried to take a wheel off a modern VAG product. I've just seen the caps and thought they were the head of the bolt and VW had decided to use a kind of torx head on the bolts for some unknown reason. They are already silly enough to use bolts instead of the superior studs so why not top them off with a kind of torx head instead of a standard hex?

@cb Not bad, could be more...but still cool though!!!

@cb I'd heard it was basically just another PA. Seemed kinda nice actually, but there wasn't a soul out and about downtown when I poked around.

@someoneatacura said in Wooo vacation!:

@highlander said in Wooo vacation!:

@cb Saskatchwan to toronto, that's like a 47 hour drive at 110 kph right?

I want to drive across Canada so badly. Had a trip planned for queeeebec but COVID happened.

It's something I would love to do someday as well....my parents did it twice before I was born, so I'd love to do it myself. Even better if I did it in some sort of weird and quirky classic car or the like 😛

@fintail said in Another day, another few dollars:

@cb This is the most cryptic thing I've seen here in some time 😉

Don't get too anxious - if your protections are anything like they would be in Murka, nothing will come of it on a professional level.

Cryptic is half the fun! Even though at least 50% of people here know what I do.