Today was a good day - the counter to trivial complaints

[SXIPro]

The route I take from the gym to my office in the morning takes me through 6 sets of traffic lights. On any given day on 5 of those lights, it's a toss up on whether I'll hit them green or red. Except for one light where it is ALWAYS red, and I mean ALWAYS. Doing the math, I've come to this light 624 times in the last three years. I believe once or maybe twice I've hit it when it was yellow, just turning red and snuck through. But never green....ever. This light is my nemesis. It taunts me. It is at the bottom of a very long hill so I can see it from a long ways back always green, staying green, teasing me, until I get within 100 yards or so, and then yellow...then red when I arrive at the light. I know what you are thinking. 624 times and never green; as far as statistics, odds, and probabilities go, that, sir, is impossible. Trust me, it's entirely possible.

Well, today was the day. Cruising down that never ending hill, there she hangs green and glowing, the temptress of my dreams and nightmares, remaining green as I approach....300 yards...green....200 yards...green...100 yards..green....50 yards......green....surely the traffic light Gods are being extra cruel today, antagonizing me, filling me with the slightest glimmer of hope that they surely will snatch away from me at the very last nanosecond....but NO!!, NO!! the light remains green and I sail through the intersection full of unbridled joy and a strange feeling of freedom, yes, sweet, sweet freedom!!!!

I am playing the Powerball today and every other LOTTO game at my local liquor store where I will be purchasing champagne to celebrate my traffic light victory and of course to celebrate the millions that will surely be coming my way when my numbers come in.

 

[Mdavies_02]

That cracked me up.

Woke up today and I panicked because my room was so bright and my alarm hadn't gone off. Turns out its been awhile since we've had a clear sky at dawn and I woke 5 minutes before my alarm.

 

[MCrider]

The route I take from the gym to my office in the morning takes me through 6 sets of traffic lights. On any given day on 5 of those lights, it's a toss up on whether I'll hit them green or red. Except for one light where it is ALWAYS red, and I mean ALWAYS. Doing the math, I've come to this light 624 times in the last three years. I believe once or maybe twice I've hit it when it was yellow, just turning red and snuck through. But never green....ever. This light is my nemesis. It taunts me. It is at the bottom of a very long hill so I can see it from a long ways back always green, staying green, teasing me, until I get within 100 yards or so, and then yellow...then red when I arrive at the light. I know what you are thinking. 624 times and never green; as far as statistics, odds, and probabilities go, that, sir, is impossible. Trust me, it's entirely possible.

Well, today was the day. Cruising down that never ending hill, there she hangs green and glowing, the temptress of my dreams and nightmares, remaining green as I approach....300 yards...green....200 yards...green...100 yards..green....50 yards......green....surely the traffic light Gods are being extra cruel today, antagonizing me, filling me with the slightest glimmer of hope that they surely will snatch away from me at the very last nanosecond....but NO!!, NO!! the light remains green and I sail through the intersection full of unbridled joy and a strange feeling of freedom, yes, sweet, sweet freedom!!!!

I am playing the Powerball today and every other LOTTO game at my local liquor store where I will be purchasing champagne to celebrate my traffic light victory and of course to celebrate the millions that will surely be coming my way when my numbers come in.

I was for sure thinking you were going to say you got t boned or something. Glad I didn'! Make sure if you win you build a sweet ski for us all to envy!

 

[OCD Solutions]

OMG, I know that feeling. I commuted 150 miles a day for over 4 1/2 years and there was one light that was always red, by default. It was on a sensor and would turn green within seconds of getting there but there was absolutely no reason why it couldn't have been green to allow through traffic to not have to stop. I wrote letters to the city about it but it never changed.

 

[SXIPro]

I was for sure thinking you were going to say you got t boned or something. Glad I didn'! Make sure if you win you build a sweet ski for us all to envy!

Funny you should say that. I got rear ended at that maniacal light this past winter. Some obvious newbie to that stretch of road plowed into me in his Jeep Wrangler. "I thought for sure the light was green". Well of course not, dummy, if I am in front of you, this light is bound to be red.

 

[swapmeet]

The route I take from the gym to my office in the morning takes me through 6 sets of traffic lights. On any given day on 5 of those lights, it's a toss up on whether I'll hit them green or red. Except for one light where it is ALWAYS red, and I mean ALWAYS. Doing the math, I've come to this light 624 times in the last three years. I believe once or maybe twice I've hit it when it was yellow, just turning red and snuck through. But never green....ever. This light is my nemesis. It taunts me. It is at the bottom of a very long hill so I can see it from a long ways back always green, staying green, teasing me, until I get within 100 yards or so, and then yellow...then red when I arrive at the light. I know what you are thinking. 624 times and never green; as far as statistics, odds, and probabilities go, that, sir, is impossible. Trust me, it's entirely possible.

Well, today was the day. Cruising down that never ending hill, there she hangs green and glowing, the temptress of my dreams and nightmares, remaining green as I approach....300 yards...green....200 yards...green...100 yards..green....50 yards......green....surely the traffic light Gods are being extra cruel today, antagonizing me, filling me with the slightest glimmer of hope that they surely will snatch away from me at the very last nanosecond....but NO!!, NO!! the light remains green and I sail through the intersection full of unbridled joy and a strange feeling of freedom, yes, sweet, sweet freedom!!!!

I am playing the Powerball today and every other LOTTO game at my local liquor store where I will be purchasing champagne to celebrate my traffic light victory and of course to celebrate the millions that will surely be coming my way when my numbers come in.

When I lived in Waco, there was a series of lights that were like this. What I did was timed them. If I saw the light turn red, I would count the seconds until it turned green again.
So if was heading towards it, I would know weather to speed up or slow down if it just turned red etc.

That seems a little OCD, but if you drive the same road for 3 1/2 years, you'll understand.

 

[Big Kahuna]

We use to have some lights like that. Coming off a bridge, if it turned yellow right as you got there, you could speed up just a bit and catch them. Then years later, they put bumped up the timer on the 4th light so it turned yellow just a bit sooner.............. screeeeeeech.

 

[Grouper]

Went to check on the get-about boat because we got a ton of rain and wind the past 3 days. The boat slip's bow mooring line eyelet ripped right out of the piling. Thankfully, an unknown good samaritan tied down the bow with some extra line I had in the watertight box to prevent the boat from banging around.

If I find out who did that, I owe them some drinks.

 

[Roseand]

Well, after using muriatic acid to clean off the aluminum that was melted onto my cylinder, there was no scoring of any kind to be found! It was absolutely perfectly fine and all I need is a piston and a hone to get going again. That makes me happy!!

 

[swapmeet]

I'm friends with a few of ya'll on FB, and of course I had the flooring thread...

But I guess i'll post this here, cause i'm pretty happy about it.

Wednesday I had a pool table installed at my house. Not any old pool table mind you... this particular table was purchased by my parents two weeks before I was born. They would play pool until my midnight feeding. Long before I was born, my mom would take peoples money playing pool. Then we move to TX when I was 3 and it lived in a closet. When I was about 10, they converted the garage into a game room and installed the table, and as a teen, my parents basically created a place for my friends and I to hang out, play pool etc etc.

Then I moved out and my dad later turned the game room into his office (he runs his own business out of the house.) The table went back into the closet, and I was told I could have it as soon as I had a house that would hold it. So for those of you who followed along with my flooring progress, filling the sunken living room, new wood floors etc... this is a big part of the final goal.

The only down side is that with all the rain in Texas, my foundation is doing the cha cha... so i'm probably going to have to have the table re-leveled after the foundation is fixed. But until then... Rack'em!

 

[Pablo]

Looks nice swap. I'm digging the navy felt. Y'all redo the bumpers? I got a 40+ year old Brunswick Heritage table. Mine needs bumpers redone. I'm gonna use a light beige/tan color felt on mine.


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[swapmeet]

Looks nice swap. I'm digging the navy felt. Y'all redo the bumpers? I got a 40+ year old Brunswick Heritage table. Mine needs bumpers redone. I'm gonna use a light beige/tan color felt on mine.


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Yeah this table had the original bumpers and I had them redone, and it used to have beige felt but I thought the Navy would look sick on with the wood and I couldn't be more pleased with the results. All total, to have it picked up, bumpers redone, moved across town, set up, new felt etc etc it was $850. But much like myself, its basically an antique and I've been told that today its worth more then 10x what it cost to set up. It'll be in this house forever so i'm not even mad. My wife and I play after work every day so far, loser has to make dinner lol.

We make all the ridiculous side bets on shots too. "Make that and i'll make dinner for a week."

 

[SXIPro]

Yeah this table had the original bumpers and I had them redone, and it used to have beige felt but I thought the Navy would look sick on with the wood and I couldn't be more pleased with the results. All total, to have it picked up, bumpers redone, moved across town, set up, new felt etc etc it was $850. But much like myself, its basically an antique and I've been told that today its worth more then 10x what it cost to set up. It'll be in this house forever so i'm not even mad. My wife and I play after work every day so far, loser has to make dinner lol.

We make all the ridiculous side bets on shots too. "Make that and i'll make dinner for a week."

Those aren't the side bets I'd be making with my wife........

 

[Big Kahuna]

Thats cool that you guys do that.

 

[swapmeet]

Those aren't the side bets I'd be making with my wife........

Gotta crawl before you walk.

 

[eastcoastjumper]

RTF taco bell Thursdays started last night. Waves were alright, a little windy. 2 rickters got towed back to the gas spot by some superjets. One rickter got towed back to the ramp, lol @DirtyDirtson. Everyday riding is a good day!

 

[zbomb88]

So my wife had a grand idea of doing a "pallet wall" in the basement, which seems to be all the rage right now. She didn't want to use pallet wood though because that wouldn't look nice enough, so I had to go out and buy a bunch of 1x8's and stain those. Turns out the job is kind of a PITA, but I think it came out pretty good!!!

 

[SXIPro]

So my wife had a grand idea of doing a "pallet wall" in the basement, which seems to be all the rage right now. She didn't want to use pallet wood though because that wouldn't look nice enough, so I had to go out and buy a bunch of 1x8's and stain those. Turns out the job is kind of a PITA, but I think it came out pretty good!!!
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I just saw them do a wall like that on one of those home makeover shows. Yours came out great!

 

[Mark44]

So my wife had a grand idea of doing a "pallet wall" in the basement, which seems to be all the rage right now. She didn't want to use pallet wood though because that wouldn't look nice enough, so I had to go out and buy a bunch of 1x8's and stain those. Turns out the job is kind of a PITA, but I think it came out pretty good!!!
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looks real nice lets see a closer pic.

 

[Dirtybird]

Looks great, mine also had that great pinterest idea. I used pallets, thought it would be quick.
Was pretty time consuming and not all that easy. She's happy and nuggets happy.