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Miscellaneous Monday - Sum Sum Summa Tiiiiime

Meg Holbrook

Happy Monday, friends!

It's 100 degrees here in sunny California, USA with 50% humidity YUCK! (37 degrees+ for all using metric out there). Basically, I feel like I'm in a hot pan with butter shoes every time I walk out the door.

To my disdain, my in-laws came down for the weekend and wanted to visit an outdoor flea market/farmer's market. Maybe that came out wrong. I love my in-laws. What I do not love is Summer and walking around on hot pavement for four hours, which is what we ended up doing.

Like a dummy, I am now burned to a crisp and resembling a very sad lobster on his last walk to the boiling pot. Actual photo of me below. Why don't I wear sunscreen? Who knows?

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On the plus side, I have scores of delicious vegetables and a couple of flea market treasures. On the down side, I can't move my arms.

Did you do anything fun this weekend? (Lookin at you @Community Manager!)

Anyone south of the equator that can make me jealous of cooler weather?

Happy Monday all, stay cool.

Comments

Scott Theus

It was surprisingly pleasant in Cleveland this weekend....I spent it working on my kayak; it's time to cut the hole for the cockpit and build out the coaming. I chickened out though and sanded instead. It's a big hole in a work piece that took about 100 hours to build, so I have to work up to it.

Brittany Wispell

I have chosen the wrong time to visit my family in California. Y'all might not know but I'm from Texas so this heat is not THAT bad but I came here for cooler weather and it looks like I just brought it with me. So sorry!

The beach was much cooler than inland so that is where I went. Later in the evening I attended a Shakespeare play at UCI. They built this really cool outdoors circular theater (mini-Elizabethan theater) we were right in the action and it was a much cooler night. It was pretty cool. I've never seen a Shakespeare play before. I can not get the Insert Photos to work...so here is a link to the website for anyone interested. New Swan Shakespeare

Jack Brickey

Living in Austin this time of year I get to enjoy those 100 degree days often. Avoiding the long walks on hot pavement are a given for sure and I stick to early morning and late evening walks w/ the dogs.

I did have fun this weekend preparing for my month-long trip to the North Carolina Outer Banks (Ocracoke). I pulled out all of my surf fishing gear, took inventory and added to it at my nearby outdoor store. Though it isn't until October, it helps pass the time thru the heat of the summer. I have decided I will need a new chair that will comfortably hold me and my favorite beverage on the beach for hours. Oh...and I will be using sun screen! ;-)

unknown

My house flooded so I spent most of the weekend shop vacuuming up water out of our server room.

If I wasn't cleaning up the water I was replaying Batman: Arkham Knight.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

I was here with my friends who wanted to watch football

Meg Holbrook

@Scott Theus, it's gorgeous!!

In terms of price, do you feel like building your own is more cost-effective than purchasing a pre-built? Some people are in it for the hobby aspect, for sure, but that fatty kayak price tag is what makes me think... "hmmm... I'm not too shabby with hand tools."

Those were my last words before I sunk in my handmade boat.

Jack Brickey

start small and in the center. HA!

Looking nice!!

Jack Brickey

well i see a few beers on tables so seems like a good place to be.

Meg Holbrook

I'm stuck in the Northern California valley, and now I know who to blame for this terrible weather!

My brother lives in McKinney, so I definitely have it better than their 114 degree weather plus thunderstorms, EEK!

So glad you got to see a Shakespeare! Outdoor theaters are wonderful, and luckily I've been able to take my kids to see a few.

Meg Holbrook

If I was a lobster in Cali, I'd be a fried egg in Texas right now.

My brother tells me they've had a bunch of thunderstorms recently, you see any action?

That's the one thing that I miss going through the midwest is all the crazy storms that come out of nowhere, so cool to watch.

How'd you get so lucky for a month off? Sounds like it will be wonderful right in the middle of fall.

Meg Holbrook

oh noooooes!

Plumbing failure or weather-related? Hopefully there won't be too much water damage.

Meg Holbrook

Do they set up outdoor seating just for the world cup or is always like that? We have a couple of places in town that set up big car ports outdoors due to surges in business for the games.

Happy hour pretty much all month, huzzah!

Scott Theus

Thanks!

@Meg Holbrook, it really depends on the type of kayak, the material it's made of, and what you're going to use it for. All else being equal, I'd say building your own is less costly...You can get a good touring boat in a kit from Chesapeake Light Craft for about $1200, while a similar fiberglass boat could run around $2,500 or more. (Rotomolded plastic is cheaper, but heavier; carbon fiber is lighter and more expensive.)

Add in the build time (100-200 hours for a kit or 500+ for a strip molded boat like mine) and there is no comparison. I'm using redwood, which is pricy. If I were to sell this when it is finished I could probably get $8-10 grand for it.

Thomas Schlegel

I met with friends, for a strawberry cake, then we played Pandemic Legacy

and Escape Room Funland

Then we were so exhausted from saving the world and escaping from Funland, we urgently needed a barbecue and of course played one more: Fresko

Meg Holbrook

It sounds like you had a wonderful weekend.

I've only ever played Pandemic, how is Legacy? My board-gaming power couple friends moved to Sweden last summer, so we've been woefully behind on gaming.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

The TV, tents and some of the benches are pretty much permanent. Just off to the left of the photo, there's a massive sunny garden where most of the benches usually are. This pub regularly wins awards for its beer, so that's even better.

You can probably tell that Chris and I (the chap in grey) have zero interest in the football...

Thomas Schlegel

Legacy games usually tell a story. By playing the game, you will change the game permanently. E.g. a city can get destroyed and it will be permanently destroyed for the rest of the games. Your character can die and then the card will be torn - the character has gone. Every decision might be a decision for all future plays.

Pandemic Legacy is played in 12 episodes. In each game, the story is told further on. You open secret packages, get new goals, put sticker on the board, destroy cards, etc. And the story continues...

unknown

My sister is a "dingus" as she put it. She didn't turn our sprinkler system off correctly and the hose burst on Wednesday. So Thursday during the day my brother realized that the water had been coming in through the window well right beneath it.

Luckily it was a storage / server room that had been destroyed previously by a plumbing failure AND a weather-related flood that we hadn't repaired yet. The window area is completely destroyed and the carpets in the hall were so soaked that when you stepped on it there was about an inch of water.

There wasn't really anything important in that room that got wet aside from a few franken-computers I was working on. I'm drying those out to see if they're salvageable. It got all the way to my bedroom but not into my bedroom thank goodness cause I have hardwood floors! That would've sucked!

unknown

I WANT LEGACY SO BAD.

Pandemic is the one game all four kids in my family will play together. We're so bad at following rules that we have a house rule for all games like this called "narrative ruling"... basically, if the story we've been playing out makes sense to change a rule, we will. Especially when playing games like Pandemic, Eldritch Horror, or Arkham Horror.

Legacy has that built in. It's at the top of my wish list (after the rest of the Eldritch Horror expansions haha).

Community Manager

I was in Montreal this past week, and we faced two back-to-back days of 90+ degrees. I don't handle it well, but I loved everything else. 😎

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Jack Brickey

Austin has been blessed by some good rain that started last week and really kept the oppressive heat in check. Yay!

Well in my job I have some flexibility. :-) In reality I can work remotely so while I will be gone a month I will be work off and on as needed. But, hey If I can sit on a call for an hour in the morning and then jump in a boat and putt around casting lines the rest of the day I'll take it!!

Kat Warner

It is Winter here. On Sunday it was grey and rained most of the day which gave me full permission to sit on the couch with a blanket and my toddler watching Netflix all day.

The toddler was feeling unwell so wanted a quiet day otherwise we would have had to burn off some energy outside despite the weather.

Meg Holbrook

Now I'm jealous of your ability to conference in during the morning and be in a boat a short time later!

Jodi LeBlanc

Hey @Meg Holbrook sorry to hear about your lobster adventure, sounds so painful! You would love it here in PEI, it's 27 degree, and that's hot for here, we usually have about 24 degrees (75F), on average in the summer.

As you may have noticed I have been MIA for about 5-6 weeks, I have been studying around the clock for my Language level evaluations (did them on July 5th) and this weekend was the first weekend/evening that I didn't study, felt so good! I get my results this week, fingers crossed.

I spent the weekend relaxing, catching up on things that I had put off for several weeks when French was my life, and spent sometime hiking in the woods with my hubby and dog, and visiting friends.

I will be more active on here and may go back and reply to some of your Miscellaneous Monday posts, always looked forward to them each week.

Have a lovely rest of your day!

Jodi

Tinker Fadoua

@Jodi LeBlancOn a pas mal de Francophones dans le groupe

Jodi LeBlanc

Merci beaucoup, je peux pratiquer mon français avec vous tous

Monique vdB

Just got back from Costa Rica; it was amazing. Here is a picture of me in the ocean!

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carolyn french

Pura vida! 🤩

Welcome back to the other vida- we missed you!

carolyn french

This past weekend was spent getting over a cold by lounging on the couch and binge-watching How I Met Your Mother, which I can't believe I never started in on before now. How that is possible, I don't know.

carolyn french

Welcome back with more French skills than before! Definitely noticed the lack of PEI updates

Meg Holbrook

Living in west coast California all these years... it still amazes me how BLUE the ocean is in places that are not here.

I hope you had a great time, you were missed!

Meg Holbrook

I never did get to the last couple of seasons. Now you make me want to go back and watch, I loved that show so much.

Monique vdB

@Meg Holbrook I know, it was blue and not freezing cold! So different!

@carolyn french Pura vida!! I missed you all too, for real. 😍

Tinker Fadoua

Well well well while some people are relaxing, I am trying to hold Atlassian and make sure it doesn't fall 😜

Monique vdB

have so many thoughts but will save them until y'all get to the ending. But here are some pictures we took on the set!

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Monique vdB

I love this picture so much. You definitely help hold us up, Fadoua!!

And also your jean cuffs are so cute too. 😊

Tinker Fadoua

Thank you @Monique vdB! My jean was supposed to be little bit higher but it was almost 3 pm and I was already exhausted.

Scott Theus

...as one would expect after holding up Atlassian all day @Tinker Fadoua!

carolyn french

That's too cool! Where's the set?? (and is that a fake baby... I'm not far enough along to know for sure....)

Might be a while till I get through all the seasons. I try to save my binge watching for when I actually can't do anything else but veg.

The bar totally reminds me of the pub in Shaun of the Dead. It's like they can't possibly go to another one. 😄

unknown

I visited my sister on the weekend. We ended up going to an ice cream festival.

I was not able to capture the moment for my love of all ice cream by taking a selfie of me stuffing my face, instead I have found an image of one of the ice cream stalls that might help you @Meg Holbrook (or make you jealous).

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Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_

This weekend here in the UK it was so hot that I was able to spend a day at the beach with my partner which was really nice.

Long may the heatwave in the UK continue.

Kristian

Monique vdB

This looks heavenly, @Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_!

Monique vdB

That looks absolutely divine.

Tinker Fadoua

Yum Yum @[deleted]. I hope you had a great time with your sister.

Tinker Fadoua

I let you enjoy Beaches, ice creams, festivals. For me since i learned that there is (Water on Mars):

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I am going there:

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Meg Holbrook

@[deleted]- the depths of my jealousy are without bounds. I feel like every time I go to baskin robbins, they just have the crusty frost-bitten leftovers from each bucket, and it will never EVER look as good as this does.

Obviously, I need a better ice cream joint.

Meg Holbrook

I love how there's just tons of people chillin on the side of the road. This is the life I want.

Meg Holbrook

@Tinker Fadoua - any weekend you get to wear a space suit is a weekend well spent IMO.

The galaxy looks good on you.

Tinker Fadoua

Lol when you have kids, weekends go by their choices. I try to enjoy what they pick. Even sometimes I end up having more fun than them 😅

Jodi LeBlanc

Wow! This suit suits you Fadoua, maybe a career change is in your future - I am sure you would be a fantastic astronaut I met two astronauts in the past few years (Hadfield and Saint-Jacques), such an amazing experience. Here's a couple photos

Davin Studer

Spent the weekend in Vancouver B.C. with my wife. We had an awesome time visiting Stanley Park, Granville Island, and the Capilano Suspension Bridge.

Fabienne Gerhard

We have some sort of April weather at the moment in the south of Germany - starting with 58 degress (Fahrenheit) in the morning we have a mixture of heavy rain and burning sun means temperatures between 60 and 80 during day.... crazy weather

But we were brave (according weather) on sunday and went out for a 5 hour hike with llamas and alpacas - and it was so much fun. Those funny, fluffy, wonderful animals stole my heart

Here are some impressions from our tour - have close look on alpaca 'Caramello' - he got the award for best hairstyle.

Meg Holbrook

I love alpacas!! They are the sweetest creatures. It looks like you had an awesome time.

I am a fiber spinner, and alpaca is one of the most fun to yarn-inate (yeah, that's totally a word! >_>)

Looks like the weather was gorgeous.

Fabienne Gerhard

@Meg Holbrookwe had the best time - and were lucky according weather, one hour later heaven opened it's doors and we had some sort of apocalyptic rain coming down.

Spinning sounds great - I try my best in knit and crochet (which ends in beanies most of the time) I would love knitting with alpaca wool - imagine who soft and warm it would be on the head (memo to myself: get some alpaca wool)

Please show some of your spinning stuff you made

Kimberly Deal _Columbus ACE_

Now it's summer time!

...and another sidewise pic...

LarryBrock

Got to escape the scorching Texas heat over the past couple of weeks with a trip to Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. Got to see my younger daughter graduate from Lancaster University, drink a pint of Guiness at the brewery, taste some fine Jameson whiskey at the distillery and roam around beautiful countryside in Ireland and Scotland. Several hundred pictures to sort out but one of my favorites is this one of Doune Castle - used for many of the castle scenes in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail".

Now go away or I will taunt you a second time! :-)

Kimberly Deal _Columbus ACE_

Awesome! that sounds like a fantastic time!

Community Manager

@LarryBrock Beautiful. 😍

Community Manager

@Davin Studer The sky is so blue! Amazing.

Davin Studer

Yeah, it was awesome weather. Beautiful area.

BiancaE

Does it really get that hot in Sacramento?!? I've considered it as somewhere I may want to move to, but idk, you're kinda scaring me off with that heat.

As for this weekend, I splurged and got a facial which was SO amazing. I got several compliments on my skin, which was flattering, in addition to feeling fresh and rested. (not me, but same feelings)

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BiancaE

Oh man, that looks like so much fun!

BiancaE

Oh, I love BC!

Monique vdB

omg @BiancaE, Sacramento gets SO HOT.

BiancaE

@Monique vdB it was 122* at my parents' place last Wednesday. I think as long as it stays below 105* I can manage. @Meg Holbrook how common is that under 105*? Is it at least a dry heat?

Meg Holbrook

I think 107 is like the really HIGH end of summer life, but who knows what future years hold. Typically we're in the high 90s except for the last few weeks of July/early August.

Humidity isn't like the southern United States, but hovers around 30-40% usually. Not crazy, but still miserable some days.

Other than the heat sometimes, I absolutely love my city and it just gets better every year.

MK_76ws8t

People need to buy a sapling and then plant it and nurture it, until it can handle on its own...

Not be a fancy one could be any plant in any category. It really helps prevent the global warming...

By the way global warming is a big picture, really big picture!!! For now I'll stick with "beat the heat, go green", small things make huge difference when everyone stands together to make a small difference!!!

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