The Rant and Rave Thread

[MsDark]

Rave: I'm here! Staying in a nice AirBnb in Queens. It's gorgeous and pretty much exactly like the pics. Ordered some food and groceries last night. Met my friend (finally). About to go do some things. Meeting up with the girls I'll do Boston with either tomorrow or thurs.

Rant: The only thing that sucks is this Wifi service. Thank gawd for mobile hot spot. Oh yeah, and the hot tub on the rooftop wasn't hot. But they guy is gonna come check it today. Hopefully it will be hot when I get back and wanna get in.

I have not put a lot on social media (at least facebook) because I've been laying low since being on leave because bitches are nosey!

[mostroop]

Nice. I lived in Queens for many years.

[MsDark]

Dude came by today who owns place. Hot tub works, wifi works, he showed me how to light the gas firepit. And gave me some subway and downtown tips

I got myself a Metro card and took a walk on the NYC High Line today! Took a break midway and hung out at an out door bar with a couple folks and had a glass of wine. Nice bartender let me charge my phone! (note, get a portable charger if you visit here, people who live here probably know this already).

Cue my red neck ass asking people for directions at least 5 times today. But everyone was believe it or not, nice! And of course would ask me where I'm from.

I felt WAY safer walking around anywhere here (Queens and Manhattan) than in Memphis. I still know to be careful. And I almost got lost in the damn subway station on the way home, but found my way (again) by asking someone.

By the time I got home I had almost 20k steps! See? If I lived here I'd be skinny. I know it.

 Can I just say how bomb this hot tub is after all that?

[mostroop]

We NYers are generally very polite and quick to help when we see people looking lost.
I know all my walking helped me maintain my weight.
I think I'll blame FL for my weight gain - it can't be me 🙃🙃.
Have a great time! You must take advantage of the delicious food choices.

[MsDark]

I know eating whatever I want will not be an issue because I am getting more than enough of a workout here.

It makes me realize how much I miss being active throughout the day and I don't want to go back to my 40 hr a week ass job (or at best 50/50 ass job vs walking around).

Yes I am worn out at the end of the day.  But I feel so much better overall physically and mentally.

[notoriousmkg]

Rave - the Head of Storyboards for the "Spiderverse" animated movies is visiting our daughter's campus next week.  Our daughter was one of two students in her animation class selected to give a pitch to the Head of Storyboards for the "Spiderverse" animated movies.  She is already a huge fan of the Spiderverse movies, so I guess this is like a dream come true.  Ironically, or not so ironically, this is exactly the kind of work our daughter wants to do.

I had a chance to see our daughter's draft presentation last week and was pretty blown away by how cool it looked.  Her idea for a story is pretty surreal, too.  It will be interesting to see what happens.  Even if nothing comes of it, it is pretty wild to be in a position to actually put your ideas out in front of a person who is involved in major movie production.

She has been asking me for advice on how to present it.   I think she gets 5 slides and 5 minutes.

[notoriousmkg]

Rant - this weekend I had set aside time to apply clearcoat to Mrs Mo's car - a front left panel (the part above the left wheel) is completely missing clear coat. And there's a part just under the driver's side window where the clearcoat is flaking up. So, yesterday, I cleaned the areas to get ready to apply layers of clear coat.

As I'm spraying, the door (which is titanium gray), seems to be getting dark. Which I though made sense at first because clearcoat will not only make a panel shinier but also darker. Then, I got some of the spray paint on the tip of my glove and it was black. I was like "wtf". I re-read the can's label and I had not bought clear gloss- I had bought BLACK gloss. I had just sprayed this on a section of Mrs Mo's door - like 18 inches by 6 inches.

I freaked the F out, and hopped into my car and headed over to an auto parts store to see what they had to remove paint. The whole time I'm feeling like I'm about to effing cry because not only have I not made Mrs Mo's car door better - it looked like I had vandalized it!  

When I got to the car parts store, the only paint remover they carried would be something that would strip ALL the paint down to the metal.  

So, then I went to Home Depot and described the situation to them. There was a young guy there who gave me three things to try. I bought them, along with a big bag of shop rags.  

I raced back home and the product that worked was: "Goof Off: Graffitti Remover". It worked almost magically and right away. But you had to know when to stop so that you only took off the black paint layer. Once I got it off, I rinsed it with water, and then waxed it to blend the base coat again.

So, I'm kind of back to where I was before except I DO now have the proper clear-coat spray. Mrs Mo never knew what happened, but the kids do.   I still have hopes of restoring the panel and other messed-up areas, but the weather is getting kind of unpredictable with temperature and wind. I think I'll need to pull it into the garage to do the work.    

[notoriousmkg]

Rant - I didn't have time to make breakfast for myself before I came in to work today.

Rave - when I entered my office, someone had put an Einstein Bros egg, bacon, and cheddar sandwich on my desk!

Rant - there is almost nobody here today.  Which means they probably left it yesterday when I was working from home.  Meaning that it has been sitting on my desk for almost 24 hours

Rave - I'm going to eat it anyway.  Hopefully, I won't experience "symptoms" tonight when I go to the animation festival with our daughter..... 

[MsDark]

Nah you'll be fine.

There's probably just enough preservatives in it that it would be good for a 24-48hrs at least.

[notoriousmkg]

Oct 20, 2024 5:06:11 GMT MsDark said:

Nah you'll be fine.

There's probably just enough preservatives in it that it would be good for a 24-48hrs at least.

That turned out to be accurate, LOL.

Huge Rave - Yesterday afternoon, I was walking through the Costco that is practically across the street from where I work.  Someone called out my first name.  I turned around, and there was this guy about my age, with a big smile on his face.  He looked pretty familiar.  I forgot what he said next, but then he goes, "Do you know who I am?  I'm a former coworker."

So, I guessed like THREE wrong names, including one who wasn't even a coworker of mine, but of Mrs. Mo's.  And he was laughing and saying no.

Finally, he said, "My first name is Scott."

As soon as he said that, I immediately knew who he was and guessed his last name.  I had not seen (or talked with) this guy since 1987, when we were both in college and working at a miniature golf course together.  So, like 37 years freaking years ago.  And he picked me right out in the middle of a store.  I told Mrs Mo and the kids about it, and they thought it was hilarious.

We're going to get together for lunch soon.  He works about three miles from our house, LOL.  Amazing.

Oh, and I replaced the broken fill valve on our master bathroom toilet last night.  It had been messed up since before Mrs Mo headed to Asia.  So, I sent her before and after photos, LOL.

[kittylady]

Oct 23, 2024 15:47:06 GMT notoriousmkg said:

Oct 20, 2024 5:06:11 GMT MsDark said:

Nah you'll be fine.

There's probably just enough preservatives in it that it would be good for a 24-48hrs at least.

That turned out to be accurate, LOL.

Huge Rave - Yesterday afternoon, I was walking through the Costco that is practically across the street from where I work.  Someone called out my first name.  I turned around, and there was this guy about my age, with a big smile on his face.  He looked pretty familiar.  I forgot what he said next, but then he goes, "Do you know who I am?  I'm a former coworker."

So, I guessed like THREE wrong names, including one who wasn't even a coworker of mine, but of Mrs. Mo's.  And he was laughing and saying no.

Finally, he said, "My first name is Scott."

As soon as he said that, I immediately knew who he was and guessed his last name.  I had not seen (or talked with) this guy since 1987, when we were both in college and working at a miniature golf course together.  So, like 37 years freaking years ago.  And he picked me right out in the middle of a store.  I told Mrs Mo and the kids about it, and they thought it was hilarious.

We're going to get together for lunch soon.  He works about three miles from our house, LOL.  Amazing.

Oh, and I replaced the broken fill valve on our master bathroom toilet last night.  It had been messed up since before Mrs Mo headed to Asia.  So, I sent her before and after photos, LOL.

If you keep on with all this handyman stuff we're going to have to get you some cut off denims and a rake to fondle... 

[notoriousmkg]

Oct 23, 2024 18:09:20 GMT kittylady said:

Oct 23, 2024 15:47:06 GMT notoriousmkg said:

That turned out to be accurate, LOL.

Huge Rave - Yesterday afternoon, I was walking through the Costco that is practically across the street from where I work.  Someone called out my first name.  I turned around, and there was this guy about my age, with a big smile on his face.  He looked pretty familiar.  I forgot what he said next, but then he goes, "Do you know who I am?  I'm a former coworker."

So, I guessed like THREE wrong names, including one who wasn't even a coworker of mine, but of Mrs. Mo's.  And he was laughing and saying no.

Finally, he said, "My first name is Scott."

As soon as he said that, I immediately knew who he was and guessed his last name.  I had not seen (or talked with) this guy since 1987, when we were both in college and working at a miniature golf course together.  So, like 37 years freaking years ago.  And he picked me right out in the middle of a store.  I told Mrs Mo and the kids about it, and they thought it was hilarious.

We're going to get together for lunch soon.  He works about three miles from our house, LOL.  Amazing.

Oh, and I replaced the broken fill valve on our master bathroom toilet last night.  It had been messed up since before Mrs Mo headed to Asia.  So, I sent her before and after photos, LOL.

If you keep on with all this handyman stuff we're going to have to get you some cut off denims and a rake to fondle... 

LOLOLOL

[notoriousmkg]

Rave - this weekend, I took my kids to do early voting.  It was our son's first Presidential election since turning 18.

Rave - a lot of useful stuff got done, but the best part was that I finally tuned up our lawn tractor.  I replaced the oil, the oil filter, the air filter, the fuel filter, and the spark plug.  And it runs great.

Rant - because I followed the tune-up instructions, I ran the tractor for 2 minutes before I drained the oil.  I think the idea is that it makes the oiler warmer, more fluid, and easier to drain.  They also said to disconnect the spark plug to prevent accidental ignition or something.  This is where things went wrong.  When I reached over to grab the spark plug wire, I felt an instantaneous searing pain in my thumb and fingers.  What happened was that I accidentally touched a hot pipe while trying to get to the spark plug.  I pulled my hand back and ripped off the glove.  I could see the glove had melted and some of the rubber from the glove was still stuck to the pipe and smoking.  My fingers were actually, okay, but a spot on my thumb was turning white, which meant I was about to get a blister.  See below:




Rave - so I did what I did last time I did something dumb like this.  I painted an eyeball on the blister.  I did something like that around 10 years ago when I burned my finger on the stove.  And then I would chase the kids around with it.  Below is the 2024 version:

[loftybike]

^^^You are very funny, I'd never thought of that, I'd rather whine about the pain to no end.

[mrsfawlty]

notoriousmkg   Fu*kin' brilliant......a proper Halloween thumb!