What have you done today? (Pt 2)

[Parts]

Insulated an attic

[Icequeen]

Helped a friend paint and move.

[odeon]

Not a lot, but it's morning.

OTOH, I'm not planning on doing much today.

[renaeden]

Walked to the shops and chemist in 37C heat. Didn't know it was that hot until I got home. Took advantage of the heat and hung out a load of washing. It was all dry within an hour. Tried to study in between a friend's texts. It wasn't easy.

[Queen Victoria]

Made the decision not to post all the boring details of our house adventure here.  Aren't you all glad?

[odeon]

Not really, no. I'd be more pleased if you hadn't had the house adventures at all.

['andersom']

 


I've been trying to get kids out of bed and to school. Stressed, comforted, made decisions. And, after having one on her way to school, and the other in bed, I had a cup of coffee at 11 am. I started with the waking routine at 6 am, ffs. (yes, I decided to sleep in for half an hour today)

[DirtDawg]

The bit of thanksgiving that is still remnant in my country is a christian celebration, thanking for harvest and jobs. There is a praying day for the same in spring. No holidays, just a moment of gratitude and prayer.
So, last Wednesday, a colleague brought cookies, with a card, saying thanks to her colleagues for making a pleasant group to work with.
I liked it a lot.

Honestly, that one encounter seems about as pure as a thanks giving (notice I did not capitalize and I made two words of the notion) can possibly be.

Sounds like you have at least one amazing coworker.

Nice!

[odeon]

Not a lot, yet. I'm staying at home and will not do a lot today, apart from a doctor's appointment.

[DirtDawg]

Once my son came home from school, I had promised that we would go shoot my Remington 1100 shotgun for his first time.

I also took my Ruger  twenty two pistol and rifle as we have done several times.

Unfortunately, I only took one box (twenty five rounds) of shells. I figured that the recoil of this twelve gauge shotgun would put him off a bit and after a few shots, I would get a turn.

No way! (He is a fairly big boy.) He fired off those twenty five rounds and did not even blink. THEN, he did not even want to shoot either of the smaller guns.

I did not get to shoot.

 

That's great.

SO just gave me a Winchester 1300 full camo a few weeks ago...have to switch the choke on it...but looking forward to taking it out.

Why do you have to switch the choke?

Going :: (I was actually trying to write the word: (  D U C K  ), but it seems as if there is some kind of ignorance preventing the use of such a word - - -  LOL)  hunting instead of turkey or something?

My son has just shot a twelve gauge shotgun for the first time last week, who is also just learning how to hand load our own ammunition was almost jumping up and down, (and I use that word "jump"as a classifier, but he DID actually  jump, once) to get back and make something more powerful to shoot. To his dismay (and surprise, since he has become so impressed with   "how into it his father is and always has been, etc"), I am not set up to load shot shells. 

Seriously , I have eighteen other rounds that we can load, but I have never even tried to reload shot shells, mainly because they are so damn cheap to buy from the beginning.

If he keeps up like this, I might put my Weatherby three hundred magnum on his shoulder and see how he feels after firing off a magazine of four. (Yes, I load mine fairly hot).

I know what he is going through. It is the amazement of finding that your imagination (after playing a bunch of games, reading everything you can find, talking to every one of your peers, handling the weapons almost every day for months, etc.), after all these months was not enough to compare to the actuality of real thing, like actually doing it for yourself.

As many times as he has stripped my Colt .45s  and said that they were the coolest thing in the world, he just seems to like long guns. He only shot about four magazines from only one of my .45s and he was done with pistols (it seems).

[DirtDawg]

Back on topic and again, as always, I am generally late to report.

Last night was Halloween (unfortunately, the weather was horrific and we did get many t or t'ers) and I had been working in my spare time to create a disc of combined "Scary" sound effects that I had gleaned from several corny discs from the library.

I slammed a few together, using Audacity to combine thunder, rain, howling, screaming, bumping and creaking effects effects all into one track, etc. I made a fairly awesome hour long disc, using or combining the  best parts of five other creepy sound effect discs.

I set out one of my bass speakers, dual fifteen JBL, wired in stereo, but all in one enclosure. I figured that no one would care that it was not actually presented in true stereo after they had approached all those enhanced low frequency sound effects emanating from bass speakers, instead any of those squeaky little  speakers that most people put outside.

Unfortunately, the weather sucked (we had snow, ffs!) and we only had about twenty "trick or treaters"
Planning to make this a new family tradition since both kidletts (too old to go trick or treating) were SO into this idea.

You might be amazed how awesome these screamy, thundery, creepy things sound coming from bass speakers! NO shit!

My dad built 3 hi-fi sets in the early 1960's.  On New Year's Eve he would put the speaker to our set outside and play Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture at full blast.  He always timed it so the cannons shot off at midnight.  (It was a record made with real cannons overlayed with the hall recording.)

One thing that is interesting about that particular piece of musical work is that is is so often played with some sort of make believe cannon sound effect.

Even inside; once I used my sound system (it was paid work) where, at the right moment they had a "percussion musician" fire a shotgun into a barrel filled with sand to emulate the sound of a cannon.

Yes, every one of my microphones (I think I had seventeen microphones covering the orchestra) went "max out"  and as loud as the sound was live, back stage, my sound system, amplified the the sounds it captured. REALLY. Half of the people in the audience stood up and clapped.

They experienced not only the massive sound of a shotgun fired into a barrel  backstage in a super efficient  auditorium, they felt basically every thing my sound system could do to support that sound from  the stage.(I never went minimal with my sound jobs - I had a lot of power there, really!) Everyone stood up and clapped, but I am sure it was from the fact that the orchestra company scared everyone in the audience with an incredible sound effect created outside most everyone's imagination.



Honestly. it was a night to remember as evidenced by the simple fact that, after all these nights and all these other jobs  have done since, I still remember THAT night, after about thirty years.

The special thing about this recording was that they used actual cannons.  Awesome sound.

You might be talking about the famous Telarc Digital vinyl record, which was actually one of the very first completely digital recordings in history.  I have measured this record with an oscilloscope in front of audiences before. I can tell you that when the cannons fire in this record, it has some five hertz signal content.  You actually need a pretty decent turntable to even play it in vinyl, to be modest.

That particular record is still considered to be one of the best ever recordings in the entire history of recording.

I wish that was it.  This is a recording from the early 1960's.

Hey!
Do not dismiss older recordings so quickly. By the early sixties, the entire recording industry already knew how to make amazing recordings AND they put them on vinyl!

[DirtDawg]

Not a lot, yet. I'm staying at home and will not do a lot today, apart from a doctor's appointment.

SUX to be you!

ON another note, I have an appointment with my doctor next Thursday to see if this newish medication that has made me nauseous for three months is working or if he needs to UP the dosage or not.

Long story - short version: he is trying to help my rapidly aging body grow more bone, with this med, around a massive injury he created. All of us hoping that I can more fully accept his invasively placed prosthesis and eventually live out all the promises he made to me before I agreed to surgery.
 

Know wut?  SUX to be me, too.

 

[DirtDawg]

Back ti topic:

I had a rare day off, today.  Probably will regret it with the ensuing workload, but ...

I made a kind of strange platform to mount my old table saw (the one I had before I bought my new "BEAUTY") to and have it to be portable.

So, I have a four foot by six foot frame, very solid, that I have mounted my older saw to, with casters underneath that will allow me to roll it out, lock the wheels down, stand up on the platform, saw away on smaller panels and even some delicate stuff, then roll it back into the garage and stow it for the day.

Kind of like one of those little chop saws, but with table saw precision.

['andersom']

The bit of thanksgiving that is still remnant in my country is a christian celebration, thanking for harvest and jobs. There is a praying day for the same in spring. No holidays, just a moment of gratitude and prayer.
So, last Wednesday, a colleague brought cookies, with a card, saying thanks to her colleagues for making a pleasant group to work with.
I liked it a lot.

Honestly, that one encounter seems about as pure as a thanks giving (notice I did not capitalize and I made two words of the notion) can possibly be.

Sounds like you have at least one amazing coworker.

Nice!

I have indeed.

['andersom']

Back ti topic:

I had a rare day off, today.  Probably will regret it with the ensuing workload, but ...

I made a kind of strange platform to mount my old table saw (the one I had before I bought my new "BEAUTY") to and have it to be portable.

So, I have a four foot by six foot frame, very solid, that I have mounted my older saw to, with casters underneath that will allow me to roll it out, lock the wheels down, stand up on the platform, saw away on smaller panels and even some delicate stuff, then roll it back into the garage and stow it for the day.

Kind of like one of those little chop saws, but with table saw precision.

Nice.