So ... what did you do with your Saturday?

[Dan]

Gentlemen ... Meet the Dragon ...

Up close, and personal!

http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/devil-closet.jpg
The Devil's Closet.

http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/Devil-2.jpg
Don't bother to Knock ... The door's open.

http://www.zyloo-enterprises.com/graphics/Devil-dance.jpg
Marshmallow time!

<..:eek:..>

From a live fire training evolution for Lamar County VFDs.

So ... What did you do today?


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[Wayne]

Well, it's already tomorrow here :)

Hobbled up to Ikebukuro (closest large shopping area) and bought a clip lamp to light up the blackboard outside, had a pint of ale, on the way home stopped in a liquor store for "supplies" then came back, helped prepare dinner and then watched some Poirot with a few jars :)

Not very exciting, but am having knee problems recently and walking is painful!

Wayne

[JN4OldSchool]

Glad you had some excitement. I stayed at my desk most of the day swamped in schoolwork interspersed with some forum hopping and a little work on a P-38 I am reskinning for X-Plane. It was not a fun day and I still have work left for tomorrow...

[Demz]

Well, it's already tomorrow here :)

Hobbled up to Ikebukuro (closest large shopping area) and bought a clip lamp to light up the blackboard outside, had a pint of ale, on the way home stopped in a liquor store for "supplies" then came back, helped prepare dinner and then watched some Poirot with a few jars :)

Not very exciting, but am having knee problems recently and walking is painful!

Wayne

hope the knee gets better or you'll have to get your beer Delivered ...


but what i did on Saturday,, was the usual, stayed in doors as its just to hot an drank a few beers

[Evil_Bert]

I slept in (after Friday night's beers) and stayed up late (technically, it was still Saturday there) to watch the Wallabies* play Italy. Other than that, I spent most of the day researching online.


* That'd be Australia's Rugby Union national side. They won 30-20, btw. ;)

[kona0197]

I worked. Then watched NASCAR.

[marcrblevins]

Slept til noon. I sleep less during Mon-Fri. Anyhow, turns out wife/kids wanted to shop all day! Mall, Costco, Safeway, & Starbucks. Came home at 9ish. Can't feel my feet.

[bob]

"Chainsawing In The Rain" (Wasn't there a song like that?). Cut up the fallen trees and limbs at our neighbor's house and hauled them to the dump. Then a shopping trip to the city for my wife and back home to start penicillin and combat a gum infection. Finally, I borked vBulletin for everyone. Good day! :D

[Demz]

what else can u bork up on vbulletin bob :D

[bob]

Well, it's a Bright New Day, and I'm in it right now, so......;)

[Demz]

whatever you do, dont bork up the login :D

[glennzo]

I like that word research used by Evil Bert. That's what I did. Yeah, I was doing research on the Internet all morning. Then I was summoned to do housework. Dishes, wash kitchen floor. Fun stuff. Took young daughter to the mall in the evening so she could spend some of my money on clothes. :rolleyes:

[notageek]

I usually pay my bills and stuff on Saturday. I decided to walk to the telephone exchange to pay my bill. A cool 3-4 km brisk walk.

But this wasn't going to be as useful as I envisioned, the exchange was closed, and so were other such offices on this Saturday because this was also the second Saturday of the month. A non-working day.

That was the closest I got, to do anything on this Saturday. I spent the rest of the day doing nothing :(

Edit: BTW Dan nice pictures, its not easy taking photographs of fire with an automatic camera.

Edit-2: Almost forgot, I downloaded the new Open Solaris, tried installing it through kvm on my other box, was going fine until it freezed inexplicably, didn't try it again.

[Dan]

"Chainsawing In The Rain" (Wasn't there a song like that?). Cut up the fallen trees and limbs at our neighbor's house and hauled them to the dump. Then a shopping trip to the city for my wife and back home to start penicillin and combat a gum infection. Finally, I borked vBulletin for everyone. Good day! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVkOXdfpvas

Jeeze, Bob! If I'd know you were gonna get bored and start breakin' stuff... I'd have saved you a spot on an attack line. Wouldn't have mattered if you screwed up ... we were gonna burn it down anyway. <..:D..>

[Dan]

Edit: BTW Dan nice pictures, its not easy taking photographs of fire with an automatic camera. I use manual mode most of the time. The key to fire shots is to slightly underexpose them. (And use a circular polarizer.)

[trigpoint]

I usually pay my bills and stuff on Saturday. I decided to walk to the telephone exchange to pay my bill. A cool 3-4 km brisk walk.

Haven't been anywhere to pay a bill in years, the only bill I do pay is my credit card and that is done sitting at home in front of my laptop. I've taken every direct debit and paperless billing discount going

[Evil_Bert]

Haven't been anywhere to pay a bill in years, the only bill I do pay is my credit card and that is done sitting at home in front of my laptop. I've taken every direct debit and paperless billing discount going
Likewise. They're taking that a step further here - with some, you now pay for paper bills, but get PDF statements by e-mail for free.

Glennzo - I like that word research, too - it gets me out of trouble a lot. :) Normally, I'd just say browsing, but I am actually researching hardware specs for a new custom firewall/gateway box(es). I may end up going with something like this (http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-alix2.php). I like their motto: "tiny shiny cool stuff". :)

[notageek]

Haven't been anywhere to pay a bill in years, the only bill I do pay is my credit card and that is done sitting at home in front of my laptop. I've taken every direct debit and paperless billing discount going

Call me old fashioned but I have a deep distrust of direct debit on account. I do not underestimate the ability of someone (or something) to put an extra zero or put the dot in the wrong place. :)

I do however pay my credit card bills online, but only because my savings account and credit card are from the same bank, because the debit/credit is almost instantaneous.

@Dan: Oh okay. Nice pictures, I like the colours in these photographs.

[trigpoint]

Call me old fashioned but I have a deep distrust of direct debit on account. I do not underestimate the ability of someone (or something) to put an extra zero or put the dot in the wrong place. :)

Have never had a problem, and if you do the Direct Debit Guarantee means that your bank will immediately refund the money, whilst the problem is sorted.

The amount I save per month covers at least one Friday night in the pub, and that's ignoring the companies that don't accept payment any other way. ISPs only allow direct debit, or a monthly credit card order. Sky only take direct debit, mobile phone contracts have to be by direct debit. You need to pay by direct debit to get the best gas and electricity tarrifs. The list goes on, and no possible problems can surpass my ability to forget :)

[notageek]

I did not know there is a guarantee, maybe I should subscribe to this service if there's one here.

Also there's no monetary incentive to go for a direct debit here, it costs the same with both modes of payment and there's no special rates given either, only the convenience of paying it from your laptop/desktop etc.

Edit: Then again, I don't trust direct debit stuff very much. But that's me and my old fashioned thinking.

[trigpoint]

The guarantee is probably a UK thing, but not processing bits of paper saves them an awful lot of money so I would be surprised if the banks are not encouraging direct debit.

[notageek]

Well the banks do encourage, but not the utilities we pay. I think if I were to ask for a special rates for call charges, they'd probably have a good laugh at my expense :D

Anyways the point I was trying to make was I pretty much did nothing this Saturday when I planned to get these "visiting offices" stuff done and I forgot that it was the second Saturday of the month. :( I wish I had planned something else.

[Iron_Mike]

Dan,

You seem to have some deep obsession with fire, now for 300 bucks an hour or an 18pk of beer a week we can cure you.......:D

Mike

[Dan]

Hmmmm.

You may be on to something here.

About that cure ... screw the 300 bucks, but ... On location down there? Complete with those drinks with the little umbrellas?

Maybe. <..:D..>

[kona0197]

Haven't been anywhere to pay a bill in years, the only bill I do pay is my credit card and that is done sitting at home in front of my laptop. I've taken every direct debit and paperless billing discount going

Not very wise. What happens when someone steals your identity?

[ibbo]

Going with the theme I too had a fire.

Albeit a belated bonfire to celebrate the death of the only honest man to have entered our parliament. aka bonfire night.

[brunson]

Saturday was boring. Yesterday my neighbor committed suicide by locking herself into her garage with the door closed and the engine of her car running. The catalytic converter caught fire and ignited the ceiling of the detached garage building.

http://brunson.com/IMG00091-small.jpg

In this photo you can see the rear of my white neon in the nearest door. You can barely see the end of the SUV through the door closest to the fire fighter on the left. This was taken before we knew Karen was still in it.

[Dan]

Damn!


Hard duty, Brunson. And a bad day. My condolences to all.

[marcrblevins]

Not very wise. What happens when someone steals your identity?

If you use very hard passwords, you are just fine. I use "Password Safe" for Windows and "Password Gorilla" for Linux, both uses the same .psafe3 password file.

[Jake]

I can't remember.

[Evil_Bert]

Not very wise. What happens when someone steals your identity?
Off all the forums you could make that comment in, this would have to be close to the worst one to do so.

[Demz]

Off all the forums you could make that comment in, this would have to be close to the worst one to do so.
im glad you said that bert an not i :) ..it was a rediculous comment to make