What'd you do today?

Saturday: "Fixed" my broken power steering by removing it. Installed a bidet. Comedy show.

^^ I'm in Edmonton JERKFACE!  Anyways, you have a beautiful drive ahead of you, Gas is expensive north of Dawson Creek, fill up in Fort St. John, and again in Fort Nelson because you will pay close to double at some places north of Fort Nelson.  Make a point of stopping at Muncho Lake - they have great cabins for rent -  and for sure stop at Liard Hot Springs just north of that.  I'm jelly, I love it up there.

Edited by JohnnyCanuck - 08 June 2016 at 7:57pm

JohnnyCanuck wrote: ^^ I'm in Edmonton JERKFACE!  Anyways, you have a beautiful drive ahead of you, Gas is expensive north of Dawson Creek, fill up in Fort St. John, and again in Fort Nelson because you will pay close to double at some places north of Fort Nelson.  Make a point of stopping at Muncho Lake - they have great cabins for rent -  and for sure stop at Liard Hot Springs just north of that.  I'm jelly, I love it up there. http://www.northernrockieslodge.com http://www.tourismnorthernrockies.ca/places_liardriver.php

You truly deserve that world's best dad coffee cup.

If it were me I would have left the kid at home because I would have been driving recklessly.  I'm sure a 3-year old on a 5 hour road trip is a pretty good sleep inhibitor though.  

I took a picture

I'm piecing together a road trip from Milwaukee down to Dallas to visit some of the wife's family in October, and tossing around the idea of picking up an AR, which if I want to do now will probably mean selling my handgun.  

Edited by procarbinefreak - 13 June 2016 at 9:18pm

Holy crap that's awful Whale. We had a few locals killed as well who I've probably bumped into around the area. 

I went to work today and not much else. I went hiking in the Whites over the weekend and managed to injure myself and enjoyed 10 hours of limping over very rough terrain after. I took a sick day yesterday. Here I am proud that I managed to not to gain weight over the winter as my body now seems to want to do and pulled a hip flexor on one side and jammed my knee on the other, just in time to go back to a summer of leading hikes. I suppose this should be good motivation to keep a decent fitness routine and not neglect flexibility exercise this summer. I also bought a new set of hiking boots since the ones I wore don't provide stability to my scrawny ankles or have a decent heel cup. I have the worst blister of my life and it's the easy painful issue I developed on the whole hike. 

impulse418 wrote: Finally installed the Geisselle trigger on my Sig MCX. And I also found out yesterday the Orlando shooter used the same weapon system. That was kind of awkward... Usually I'm up to date on what those mass murderers use, but at this point it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it technically wasn't an AR-15.

But did that realization give you "temporary" PTSD? Because apparently they kick like a howitzer and sound like bombs going off if you're an uninformed reporter for a NY rag. Of course, I'd expect nothing less from the NY Daily News....

As for me, I spent the last week down in rural West Virginia with Appalachia Service Project repairing the homes of those most in need. We were assigned a simple sub-floor inspection and install, but what we got was a can of worms.

The house is from the 1920s or 30's and was built (due to the inexpensive nature of the method) using "post and beam" construction techniques. Of course, over the years, things have been added on here and there (you know, like electricity and running water) so it's tough to get a read on what you're dealing with until you open it up. At some point in the 60s, someone sheet-rocked the walls and by the 80s had installed vinyl siding over the original exterior. We didn't know all of this before hand. We took up the carpet in the laundry room where we were to do the job. One layer of shag (not tacked) over one layer of berber (not tacked) on top of 1/4" low density foam for a "pad" which was randomly stapled to the sub-floor. Except, the sub-floor wasn't really the sub-floor. It was 3/4" quarter-sawn white oak tongue-and-groove hardwood..... and it was destroyed by termites sometime in the past. That made me nervous from the get go. Demoed the affected areas to get a look at the joists underneath. More damage. What's more, the band-joist on one side of the room was at a 25* angle (meaning the wall was coming down) half of the foundation was gone (like, not farking there)and the other exterior wall was so termite damaged at the floor level that it would move 4" outward with the slightest push.

We now had to pour a footer and install a support pier for the double rim joist where the foundation was missing. We then had to "kick" the roof to prevent it from coming down on us while we removed the bad band joist piece by piece and replaced it with new pressure treated lumber. But! When we removed the old band joist, we had to saw through the exterior wall to get to it. Turns out that the exterior walls are just 1/2"x6" planks nailed to the box rafters at top and the box joists at the bottom (band and rim). There was then a thin piece of brown paper, and then the original interior walls which were 1/2" bead board. That's right. 1" thick walls with ZERO insulation. What's more, cutting the exterior planks meant that the wall that WAS stable was now no longer tied into the structure of the house. That meant we had to figure out some way to get it all tied back in. We then had to go in and replace the two bad joists with new ones, but all the "good" or reparable joists were all mill-sawn lumber, so they were completely out of dimension, even with each other, so crown-matching them was a real PITA. We finally got everything in and hung properly, laid the OSB for the sub floor, and put nailers around the bottom of the walls to tie them back into the structure with 2-1/2" screws. We then had to frame new interior walls in front of the nailers so that insulation could be added, and to give the structure more rigidity and support. Finally got everything framed and up by Friday with insulation in on most of it. So much for a simple floor job!

At least they won't fall through the floor when doing laundry anymore. They'll also have a warmer and dryer house thanks to us. Next crew to come in will do drywall and finish the floors most likely. Bastards don't know how lucky they are we got to that stuff before them.....

Might go back in late July to help with the "button up" weekend where they finish out unfinished projects. ASP is a pretty cool group. If you get a chance to join in on one of their projects, I highly recommend it.

Tallen, sounds like a pretty cool project.