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Working until noonish at office. Then some seed returns. Then get ready for tomorrow. Pretty sure mrs is quite ready to be done with this.
Oldest son has his graduation today from 9th grade and will move to what is sort of the equivalent of high school after the summer break.
Rode yesterday. Now the humidity has entered the room. Still struggling with the strange jump I am trying to clear. Improved some Strava time and had fun. Little wrist pain. Will need to try to adjust the bar.
Rode yesterday. Now the humidity has entered the room. Still struggling with the strange jump I am trying to clear. Improved some Strava time and had fun. Little wrist pain. Will need to try to adjust the bar.
Might do some trail work, eye examination at 1:00, which will make the rest of the afternoon useless... Need to pick up the Moonlander.
I'm about to touch down in Minneapolis, 30 minutes early which is a nice surprise. It'll give me chance to grab a sammich somewhere. Originally I only had a 50 minute layover.
Super chilly here, snow above 8 or 9k. Even turned on the heat a little, it was 49 inside, and that doesn’t please the wifey. Still bad pain in the morning, but trying to just take non-opiates except a little Tramadol. So fun! This month is basically the best riding conditions of the year under 9K.
oh, well, at least my teeth are healthy, so I got that going for me.
oh, well, at least my teeth are healthy, so I got that going for me.
Morning Monkeys.
Back to reality and it sucks. Had a really great vacation, though. Very relaxing and enjoyed the wife and the pups. Abbey is a beach dog and was in heaven with an empty beach to zoom.
Floors look great, very happy and we got $450 back because the existing tile was cheap and poorly installed, so it came up easy and clean during demo.
Wife isn't a photog.
Back to reality and it sucks. Had a really great vacation, though. Very relaxing and enjoyed the wife and the pups. Abbey is a beach dog and was in heaven with an empty beach to zoom.
Floors look great, very happy and we got $450 back because the existing tile was cheap and poorly installed, so it came up easy and clean during demo.
Wife isn't a photog.
1/3 of the way though the work day. Fried Egg sandwich for breakfast. Gonna start to make bread tonight. Fed and split the starter last night. Half went into the fridge the other half got left out to ripen. I just fed that half and split it. Should be able to make the dough for two loaves tonight and be able to bake by Thursday night
Trying to permit a project in my hometown, and the "building department" is perhaps the most dysfunctional and disorganized I have ever encountered. FTS does not even begin to describe my current attitude.
New damper arrives today, Fast.
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A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. | TechCrunch
The director of marine operations at OceanGate was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull.
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Oops?
Send then official correspondence, return receipt and regular mail, tell them what's up, tell them if they disagree or feel it's contrary to law, to send a written response in 7 business days. Some people like this you can't call on the phone. You give them a reasonable ability to respond and if they do not, you got a paper trail that you can sue them by if things go south later.
Maiden playing and 9/10 volume in the office, not even sorting, just throwing shit in boxes and the next guy can figure it out.
That guy posted on Reddit about it last night, it was interesting.A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired. | TechCrunch
The director of marine operations at OceanGate was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull.
Oops?
Also interesting, is that this thing is bolted shut from the outside. So those on the inside are forever trapped, if lets say they happened to be on the surface.
And if they're on the surface, the thing has no location devices. So they have zero ways of tracking it, if they lose communication with it.
The port window on the thing was also originally only rated to something like 1300 meters, but they were going to go deeper with it anyways, for reasons. Its hard to decipher is that port was redesigned afterwords or not, but the Titanic is 3700 meters down.
Here. Went onsite for a meeting just to find out that it was supposed to be virtual. Oops. New assistant city manager, so a kind of important person to not fuck up with, but ended up being really good since we were able to meet and go through a lot more than usual.
Studying and working the rest of today.
Studying and working the rest of today.
This part isn't that odd to me, granted some form of escape hatch would be wise, I guess, but at the depths something is likely to go wrong it's not like they have any time to escape, and if they did they'd be squished/drown long before they made any meaningful progress swimming to the surface.
These two things I find very weird/unacceptable. They can't either tether it to the boat or buy a Garmin In-Reach?
The rating seems like an issue with "rating" not the actual ability to perform at depths due to human occupancy. I'm no submariner, but I imagine it goes a little something like lifting, or fall protection where the safety factor goes up significantly when used in an overhead lift or fall protection. So perhaps the vessel and glass is capable of 5k meters, but not the 15k meters it would have to survive in order to be certified for human occupancy at 5k. Why would a business think they should service rich folks without safety protocols in place? Do they just love the idea of being sued?
I also now have a serious urge to watch Hunt for the Red October.
i would apply the everest rule...
you are left for dead.
does this thing have a beacon...in case...you know...
it has a pipe wrench you bang on the hull like a cave man with a club...
Give Ron Swanson a call, maybe Councilman Jamm.
That's quite a ribbing you gave him.
I pretty much deserve this pun-ishmemt.