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[#] Wed Mar 21 2018 11:07:35 EDT from zooer

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No, I am saying that anything that has a hole in the bottom will not hold water. 



[#] Wed Mar 21 2018 18:09:34 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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It doesn't have to hold water. In fact, it MUST NOT (in the RFC2119 sense) hold water. I've got to go find some bricks so I can raise it a couple of inches off the ground, just to give the water an easy way out.

But mostly this is just a cheap excuse to use the word "bunghole" in the canonical fashion instead of its more common double meaning.

[#] Wed Mar 21 2018 20:02:43 EDT from zooer

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You said you cut the bottom out of it, and left the bung hole in it to drain water.  IF YOU CUT THE BOTTOM OUT YOU DON'T NEED A DRAIN HOLE.



[#] Thu Mar 22 2018 13:18:40 EDT from pandora

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He cut the bottom off and then made the open side the top, I think?

[#] Thu Mar 22 2018 18:08:37 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

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Yes, I did, and zooer knows it; he's just being a DORK. :P

[#] Mon Nov 26 2018 09:30:50 EST from LoanShark <>

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Sigh. This year's shared ski-haus is going to be trying.

My girlfriend and myself havbe been in various shared houses for about 10 out of the last 11 years. All have had their issues, but I'm becoming nostalgic for the last one already. Unfortunately the owner passed away.

For this year's, we became new members of a long-established house; most other members are in their 50s and 60s by the look of things. That's fine, but unfortunately a "couple" (I put that in scare quotes because they're not in a relationship, but they drive up to Killington together and made sure to become members of the same house) from the last years' house is now a member of this house. They were known, behind their back, as The Bickersons, and for good reason.

And a longstanding member of this new house is clearly a severe alcoholic at this point in his life. He seems somewhat socially clueless, dresses badly in political slogan t-shirts and other t-shirts, drinks to the point of sloppily spilling things, is thin-skinned, old and unattractive, and unable to admit that he has a drinking problem. ("I don't need that crap!", he said, about somebody who lectured him about the drinking.) Ugly bloodshot eyes at the dinner table last night. The one glimmer of self-awareness I detected in him was a faint one, he mentioned that this might be his last year in a ski-share because he doesn't like the long drive any more. (He complains a lot.) The rest of us should be so lucky. At least he hasn't come across as violent, yet; only petulant.

[#] Mon Nov 26 2018 09:31:49 EST from LoanShark <>

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Skiing was nice on Saturday, however, and we were able to get a good view of the World Cup giant slalom from a ski trail across the bowl.

[#] Mon Nov 26 2018 10:19:15 EST from wizard of aahz

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Hey LS - I'm glad you still get the bonuses of the experience. Keep focusing on the good things.

[#] Thu Nov 29 2018 12:42:57 EST from pandora

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Went camping out in Lincoln National Forest for Thanksgiving. It was a might bit cold for this Texan, but I already want to go back when the weather is nicer. Though in addition to being cold, I've never been at elevation before, and setting up and breaking down camp at 9,300 feet was hard on my lungs.

[#] Mon Dec 10 2018 18:10:05 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I seem to recall hearing that altitude sickness sets in at around 8,000 feet unless you get acclimated to it slowly (such as traveling by land instead of air).

[#] Mon Dec 17 2018 14:57:36 EST from pandora

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well, I did drive up, but any major excertion was really hard on me.

[#] Wed Jan 23 2019 19:38:46 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I'm going to Denver in a couple of weeks. So I will get to experience the altitude thing and see how it goes.

[#] Thu Jan 24 2019 14:05:56 EST from Ragnar Danneskjold

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If you don't exert yourself you won't even notice.

[#] Thu Jan 24 2019 16:29:50 EST from wizard of aahz

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I'd never notice.

[#] Mon Jan 28 2019 09:58:28 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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I'm not going there to exercise. I'm going there to attend business/technical meetings and to go high-speed kart racing.

(The kart racing is an evening social thing that the vendor put together.
If I had my way, it would be Mario Kart cosplay, but perhaps that's not the right group to do that with.)

[#] Mon Jan 28 2019 10:39:31 EST from wizard of aahz

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Just bring along turtle shells, banana peels and a Honey I Shrunk the Kids attachment for your Kart. You'll be good to go.

[#] Wed Jan 30 2019 12:34:23 EST from fleeb

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Oh... "a(l)titude"... this wasn't some peculiar dig at folks from Denver that didn't match my expectations.

[#] Thu Feb 07 2019 14:46:09 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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It was fun. These karts were particularly fast, compared to some others I've tried. And I did have trouble breathing inside the racing helmet.

[#] Thu Feb 07 2019 15:01:24 EST from wizard of aahz

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Should we assume that there were no car fires?

[#] Fri Feb 08 2019 10:26:20 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

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My wife told me that the next time I get injured during a business trip she isn't coming to get me again. So I had to avoid the car fire.

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