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Bah! I zoomed in on the photo. I think it’s pretty cool. From pallets? That’s just wild!

When I was a kid, I helped my dad build a duplex vacation cabin for a friend. Went on ALL kinds of odd jobs with him. I got to do some really cool stuff. Like straitening nails. Cheap prick!

I can build a beautiful model wooden ship. Check out what I can do with some 4X4’s and 2X2’s.

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In my defense, those posts were perfectly vertical when I built it. 6 months later I added those cross beams to keep if from getting worse.

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Hey, building stuff isn’t the easiest thing, but it’s rewarding. Diy is just the way to go, especially these days. It feels like a gamble sometimes, especially when you have to pay thousands for someone else to do a lot of work. I’m planning on trying to fix the kickboard at our front door, the woods super decayed :skull_and_crossbones:. I’m gonna go buy some wood for that job though.

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Do you live in the US, or Canada? Come tom think of it, it probably doesn’t matter. You must have a Lowe’s or Home Depot there. Ask what they have in scrap-wood. When they cut some wood for someone, they gotta do something with the scraps. Been there, done, that.

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I jumped in a dumpster earlier and didn’t even realize there was a camera right on it. I started poking around and saw the camera. I looked directly at it and dropped the 2x4 scraps back down. They probably don’t care, but I don’t know that. I’ll just ask next time if I see workers out there.

I went back to the construction dumpster and secured 2 beautiful pallets. They look brand new, the boards are pretty smooth. I took them 1 at a time and road my bike down the street holding them lol. Luckily it was all downhill.

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I also started building a second little shelf, this one is for holding spices. I wanted to make it bigger, idk in just gonna see how it looks first. I figure if it holds at least 14 of the most used spices it will free up the cabinet a bit and be much easier to find them. I think I’m gonna leave this one just wood. Maybe I’ll paint it.

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You just keep getting gooder and gooder!

Wait a minute. A camera? Whata they care if someone steels wood. I dunno where you live but you live in a fucked up neighborhood.

Ooh, Ooh! I know. Ask google for a sample calculus problem with answer. Print it up and show it to the camera. See, I’m not your average thief. Who knows. Maybe you’ll get that job in construction after all.

Your luck, they’ll say you’re over qualified. You should be applying for a tool picker job.

I once had an issue carrying something on my bike. I’d picked up this bottle of $200, 20 year-old single malt scotch and put it in the basket of my bike.

Then I thought, what if I fall and break the bottle? So I drank the whole thing and headed home. Good thing I drank it too. I fell off my bike SEVEN times!

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LOL!!! :skull_and_crossbones:

I don’t drink anymore, but I remember one time… It must have been the most drunk I’ve ever gotten. I kept trying to get on my bike and falling off. I could not for the life of me get on my bike. Holy crap. I just kept falling over. I didn’t even drink liquor that night. It was hard seltzers. :skull_and_crossbones:

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Okay, here’s a true story. Oh, and I still drink too much.

So, I’m at a busy liquor store, and once a month we’d stock up on booze. We play a lot of cards here. I mean, I topped off a grocery basket. Shit load of wine, Admiral Nelson Spiced rum… (HALF the price of Captain Morgan and much more smooth.)

Cop behind me with a 6 pack of bud light. I said, “The wife doesn’t want to see me drinking tonight, so I have to consume all this on the drive home.” Everyone within listening distance busts out laughing. Cop? Stone cold glare.

I mean come on, prude! That’s funny right there, boy.

Shy, aren’t I?

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Some cops have a good sense of humor. Maybe he’d just seen some horrific drinking an driving accidents in his time. Whenever I’ve encountered cops, the ones with “the eyes” are always the worst. It’s that stone cold glare, it’s like there’s something missing inside of them. It’s scary. I’ve only encountered them 2 times luckily. Both were the ones that lie too. They’re corrupt.

Down in GA the cops were actually really awesome. Had encountered just one cop that went off the rails and began just randomly pulling over people for no reason. He had “the eyes.” Pulled me over on my way home from work, from 7 cars behind me, because “it looked like I was putting my seat belt on.” He got behind me, gets on his freaking loudspeaker, and tells me to pull over into the right lane. Then he tells me to pull into a parking lot.

I watched him pull people over left and right at that same intersection. It went on for a couple weeks and one day it just stopped, I guess even the department got tired of his shit and moved him.

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I didn’t really start drinking until I was 40 ish. Wife and I found wine. Then gained weight. Hate beer. Does NOT go good with pizza.

How-some-ever… The drunkest I’ve ever been was when I was around 18. Was before you had to be 21.

A friend of mine and this kid we used, that we called “Dink Dan” started drinking around 1:00 pm. 'Round 4:00 pm, we were at a pool hall and this chick named Rhea Barker, (Yes, her parents must have hated her) that we called a REEEEAL Barker, (She was not attractive. My buddy had a kid with her) walked in.

You know how guys drink to make their wives look good? This chick was smoking hot! Started hitting on her. The last thing I remember is dropping my cigarette, bending over to pick it up and falling, got back up with the help of the pool table, dropped it again…

Next thing I remember, I’m in the drunk tank, looking for the porcelain god, when some dude is dumping the hot ashes of his smoke on my Adams apple. He was black. Seems I said something he found offensive.

Back then, there was no real issue with drinking and driving, so when I was sober they let me go. My friend picked me up. I was like, wheres my car? He said you totaled it, don’t you remember? WHAT???

Seems Dink Dan had this Plymouth some shit or another with a big ass 400 CI engine. Sad ass rear ratio good for speed on the expressway. He thought he could take me in a quarter mile race, in my Ford Cobra. NICE rear ratio for street racing.

Evidently, I took him up on the challenge. Nice quiet back road with a couple stop signs about 1/4 mile apart. My buddy wanted to see the rear end of my car, so he rode with Dan. We agreed that Dan would honk his horn and we’d go.

And we did! My buddy said I was “Almost” at the stop sign and Dan wasn’t even half way. He said there was one of those window van, like an E150 in my left lane. Had I switched lanes, I’d a won $20.

Said instead of switching lanes, I fell over in the seat. Thought I musta passed out. Rear ended the van, back of my car left the ground and from that distance he said he saw the hood disengage from the back, near the windshield, and hit the back of the van. Said I flew through the windshield to see if my engine was alright, fell back again and went back to sleep.

Or knocked unconscious. Cops got there. Started pulling bottles of liquor out of the back of my car, lining them up down the hood and the fast back. I was asked if I’d been drinking. Seems I said, a whole, fuck of a lot!

Since then I stuck with the giggle smoke. Well, maybe a little acid here and there. Sid Barret set SUCH a good example!

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This is a small town of 20K. If you’re not from here, you’re shit. Several years ago, our alarm went off at around 4:00 am. Grabbed my 20 gauge. ran down stairs and there’s some dumb ass in my dinning room looking confused. Racked a round in the camber, that unmistakable, ca-chunk, and he bolts out the door, runs into the 6’ privacy fence, full body slam, backs up and jumps the fence…

We left a window cracked that slid sideways, for the whole house fan. He’d moved the grill in front of the window, pried the screen open, and climbed onto a dinning room counter. Cops came. Pretty quick, too. But not before I had time to pull up the footage from our cameras.

Kid looked RIGHT at a camera! Cop comes in asking questions. I show him the video from out back where he came in. Calls out on his walkie talkie. White male, baseball cap. That’s it. It’s in color!

I say, olive green cap. He tells the other cops. Green kackie shorts, blue shirt, black thick rimmed glasses, blond hair, goatee… He’s relaying it, bit by bit, as I say it. I sensed reluctance.

Next day, I put fliers on all the cluster mailboxes in the hood. 2000 old timer’s houses here. Shot of his face, here’s my number or OPD’s… We have a facebook group. All things Oakdale. Posted there. Some woman comes back, here’s his address, place of work, phone number…

Called it in. The officer is on vacation for 2 weeks. Seems only the responding officer can respond? Now. When the responding officer was here, he told me the kid was probably drunk, confused as to where he lived and thought he was locked out of his own house!

Right. And I’m Elon Musk. Went down to the station with a book. asked to speak to the chief. Was told he was out of the office, that’s okay, I brought a book. Sir, we close in 45 minutes.

Whataya, gonna touch me? Physically remove me? I dunno what I’d to with a City, but I know you’re in the black. I’d at least buy a ranch house instead of this 2 story we hate. Move to Hawaii?

15 minutes later the chief shows up. I show him some video of the punk in front of my house, staking it out. Agrees he’s not drunk. Says hell talk to officer Vanderhyden. Whom I called officer Vanderhiding behind his badge.

Long story short the punk went to trial and was let go. They said I changed my story! like the video changed.

Turns out, officer Vanderhiding behind his badge was good friends with the punks family.

Never did trust a cop. Not that I ever did anything to attract attention.

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California right? That’s so rediculous. I don’t hate cops, I hate corrupt cops. I could swear cops are different in different parts of the country too. NYC cops and LAPD have a bad rap. I wouldn’t wanna have to be interacting with them at all. I can’t imagine the type of shit they must see on a daily basis though. :skull_and_crossbones:

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This small town? That was probably the most excitement they’d ever seen. We’re in the middle of the State. Little south of Sacramento.

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Ok, I totally did take a little break from the cabinet. I was working on some other small projects and riding my bike. I think I’m gonna resume today, it just that it’s gotten cold again. Ugh. Spoiled by the warm weather. A few weeks ago I’d be out ridibg in a sunny 53 degrees in a tank top.

Had something come over me the other day, longing and slight depression mixed with nostalgia and hope, and hopelessness. The nice weather messes with me and brings back very strong memories. It was really hard to focus and stay motivated. I just wasn’t into it. I found the perfect word to describe the feeling.

“Saudade” is a untranslatable Portuguese term that refers to the melancholic longing or yearning. “Saudade is a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present.”

I’m gonna try today to finish the shelf. I did make a small wooden box, I totally screwed up the lid though. I was pissed, and the glue got freaking rock solid in a half hour. I can totally make another one though, and the next one will be even better!!! I really wish I had a mitre saw to cut perfectly straight lines. :skull_and_crossbones:

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53 is warm?!!! It’s 53 right now and freezing. High of 62. Brr. Supposed to be 79 Sunday. That’s more like average since mid March.

You can have mine. I’ll never use it again.

Now when I lived in Michigan, where lows often hit 15 below, 40 degrees was swimming pool time. Assuming it’s heated.

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I just read that and so “oh f— no!!!” Then I read the

part.

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Often times, it snows on Easter!

Here in central California it’s usually nice from mid March through mid June. Then mid Sept through mid November. Winters average around low 50’s and summers around 95.

Summers can get into the triple digits for a week, then a delta breeze knocks it down to low 90’s for 10 days. Lowest I’ve seen was 28 overnight, and 113 in the afternoon. Those highs last from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

Almost always a gentle breeze, so 98 at 13% humidity and the misters going in the shade is rather tolerable.

The F___ are misters? When sitting under that covered patio (The one I showed you that’s going to fall over) we ADD humidity! These misters spray a gentle mist onto the skin, and the breeze evaporates it. Like getting out of a swimming pool and shivering even thought it’s hot.

Like most of the world, there’s always something to complain about the weather.

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Good grief!!! I can’t imagine going camping. Taking a winter bag to sleep in, and then jumping into a creek wearing a bathing suit the next day. I need to go camping here soon for a few days. Weathers looking perfect. 30-40 degrees at night is actually pretty easy. So long as it’s in the low 40s when I wake up it’s not too cold.

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Camping in the winter in Michigan. Oh, HELL, no!

In what I still call, “back home” there are 2 kinds of people. Memorial day, you either go camping, or plant your veggies.

Labor day. Camping, or harvesting veggies. At least camping you have a little lee-way… Gardening? Don’t be early to plant, don’t be late to harvest. Nice weather in Michigan. May through mid June, and mid September through early November. Subject to mother nature getting laid by father time.

Family in Michigan. Why don’t you come out for a visit? WHEN?! Winter? Closest thing to a jacket I own is fleece. I don’t own a snow suit. Rules that out.

Spring? Maybe. Sometimes. Pretty good chance for a lightning storm. They’re freaking awesome! Can’t DO anything, 'cept watch and listen. Tornadoes are NOT cool. Summer? Upper 90’s 100 % humidity. We call it swamp butt. Heat index: 95. Feels like 100 due to the humidity. THAT we call the humizery index.

Fall? Same as the spring.

Winter. Wind chill. Temp, -10. Weather.com. Wind chill. Feels like 25 below.

Then there’s the brilliant ones. -10 degrees. Lets get on our snow mobiles and go 160 MPH to create an even better wind chill. And if the snow is only a foot deep, these snow mobiles will ruin your landscaping. And if you can’t find your car in the snow, they crash into them causing significant damage to their mobiles our vehicles and themselves.

Brother in law used to drive a snow plow. We had odd/even parking. Odd day, one side of the street, even days the other. Towards the end of his career, he got one of the newfangled phones what had a camera. He took pictures of the good ones. Some ass doesn’t know if it’s odd or even and their vehicle is sent spinning into a yard, garage or home. Damn, he thought that was funny.

And THAT ladies and gentleman, is how you kill 2 hours.

Oh, and the only State I have never camped in is Alaska. Favorite place to camp? Yellowstone! If your interested I’ll tell you about an event there involving my youngest, a video camera, and Moose and her offspring. Pretty funny!

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Go for it!

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Grab some coffee and fill your mod…

Youngest boy and I were camping in Yellowstone. Bob. Hada be mid 20’s. We’re camping alongside some river. (Don’t recall which one, but it was wide and shallow). Evening, sun’s thinking about setting, he goes to look for stuff to burn. Comes back. “Dad, look at this huge mushroom I found!! Ummm. You see that hair, 5 to 6’ up on the pine trees? Bison like to scratch themselves on those trees. “Yeah?” When Buffalo take a shit it’s called a chip. “yeah?” You’re holding a chip.

“Wait, you’re telling me this is buffalo shit?” “Pretty sure…” Tosses it forward. Lands in the campfire and freaks out. “It’s okay, Cowboys did it forever”. Next day, it’s still smoldering. Pours water on it. Never read a Zane Gray that said anything about that, so I made him drag the tent, WAY far away!

Had a Cam Corder. Recorded to a VCR tape. He’s watching some mountain goats with my binoculars, swinging to the left, he spots a moose on the other side of the river. Big sucker!

We hiked over with the camera, I’m recording and the kid says, “man, she’s looking right at us!” “Actually” said I, “she’s looking behind us.” I swung the camera around, and we both saw a calf. The kid goes AWOOOO! Damn near took a swing to the back of his head. Via his nose!

Turned back to the moose. Halfway across the river. Not moving slowly, but definitely cautious. We both dropped the F-bomb simultaneously and RAN!!! Me? Not like the wind. Kid? Gone with the wind!

Dropped the camera. You think I’m going to go back and get it? I aint even LOOKING back!

Soon after a TV show came out called America’s funniest home videos. Never missed an episode. Never saw my video. How’s that even possible?

Speaking of rivers… I have a niece that lives upstate in New York in a small town called Ogdensburg. Smack up next to the St. Laurance, river. Can see Canada. She LOVES to fish in a river named Oswegatchie. Shares custody with an illegitimate son. I call it the Azwhatgotchi in trouble, river.

Older brother was in the Coast guard, there. Searched ships for drugs. Mostly giggle smoke. Every couple of months I’d get a package with a quarter pound. One time I got some shit he called a creeper. Told me not to smoke a half joint with less than 3 friends. Right, I know my tolerance. Was baby sitting a niece. No friends around. Smoked a half joint. Nothing. Riding my bike. The other half. Nothing. Riding my bike. Fuck it, a whole other joint.

Fuck it. Rode back to her house, she’s 12 years old, can take care of herself. BAM! First half hits. Holy shit! I’m stoned. Never been so high. An hour later the 2nd half hits. An hour later the next joint hits. I’m freaking hungry. I go to the grocer to get a pound of bacon. Except the last place I was, was Canada. I had no $ and they didn’t know jack about currency exchange rates.

I’m fucking wiped. Find the nearest bank. I’m like, here, I got this pretty paper, but nobody wants it. Chick is helpful, but I couldn’t remember where the store was at. That was some good shit! Took me a couple hours to get back to my sisters house. She and her husband were home. And PISSED!

Went out to the garage and introduced them to – Azwatgotme in trouble in the fist place. I know their tolerance, so I let them take only 3 hits each. I abstained. Explained what happened, how I got so freaking high, the search to rescue bacon.

Sister. Did you look in the fridge?

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