Random Thoughts IV

[coolerifyoudid]

I will never understand how my work can go from insanely busy one week to watching grass grow the next. Clock watching at 1:30 equals a long boring afternoon for me.

Ah crap. It's not even 1:30 yet!

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Wife texted me pics of the hail we got. Hopefully the tree she was parked under got the brunt of it and not the car.

You need to tell her to be getting to texting you different kind of pictures.

 

[Doc]

Oh jeez, now some asshat is posting focus on the family stuff in the Cave.

 

[CyArob]

Oh jeez, now some asshat is posting focus on the family stuff in the Cave.

That guy is the worst.

 

[cowgirl836]

chaser, I hear the TIV is in Rockford.

 

[cowgirl836]

and they apparently drove thru Madison. Glad they didn't stop!

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Here Comes The Sun...

 

[stormchaser2014]

chaser, I hear the TIV is in Rockford.

Really? Haven't seen anything on Twitter

 

[cowgirl836]

Really? Haven't seen anything on Twitter

not sure where my mom heard it, but I checked their fb page and multiple people commented about seeing them in the Madison/Beloit/I-90 corridor.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

that a/c thread got me thinking about the good ole days back home. Dirt/limestoney basement, 100+ year old two story farmhouse with no a/c...nothing like sweating all night and fighting siblings for the prime spot on the floor to lay in front of the rotating fan. Ahhhh, and that is why we had a pool. It was probably good that we didn't have a/c at the farm though. Probably would have had too much heat stroke baling hay or milking in that weather if we were more used to the temp control.

Don't think I slept much last night even with the dinky fan blowing...just couldn't stay cooled off. Pretty sure DH didn't sleep well either - he always had a/c growing up. I was thinking about 2am how it was going to be nice to not deal with this in a week! Unless the unit breaks, I suppose. But we'll have a real (unfinished) basement that we could take refuge in at least.

I'm going to go Old Man Boxster reminiscing here for a second because this reminded me of something.

My senior year in high school we had football camp in the summer a few weeks before school started. Then it used to be three a days, so it was a week long overnight camp. The only place we could sleep was in the wrestling room, which was not air conditioned and, designed for use mostly in the winter, only had two banks of sets of three windows. There were no fans, so all we had was those floor fan things they use to dry the floor or carpet when moisture gets in it. First night, the group of preppies decided to take those, put them in the window like you would a box fan, and sleep under them. Next mornin we all wake up and those kids are covered in Mosquitos, flies, etc. Turns out, with no screen in the windows, it was just sucking all the bugs up from outside and shooting them all over the kids sleeping below.

The rest of the week was spent trying to sleep close enough to the fans, but out of the line of bug fire. And, of course, being high school teenage boys, every night was spent re-positioning them to cover unsuspecting sleepers that got too close.

 

[cowgirl836]

I'm going to go Old Man Boxster reminiscing here for a second because this reminded me of something.

My senior year in high school we had football camp in the summer a few weeks before school started. Then it used to be three a days, so it was a week long overnight camp. The only place we could sleep was in the wrestling room, which was not air conditioned and, designed for use mostly in the winter, only had two banks of sets of three windows. There were no fans, so all we had was those floor fan things they use to dry the floor or carpet when moisture gets in it. First night, the group of preppies decided to take those, put them in the window like you would a box fan, and sleep under them. Next mornin we all wake up and those kids are covered in Mosquitos, flies, etc. Turns out, with no screen in the windows, it was just sucking all the bugs up from outside and shooting them all over the kids sleeping below.

The rest of the week was spent trying to sleep close enough to the fans, but out of the line of bug fire. And, of course, being high school teenage boys, every night was spent re-positioning them to cover unsuspecting sleepers that got too close.

that sounds gross.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

that sounds gross.

They were completely covered the first time. Completely. Like, there's not way they didn't eat a ton of bugs in their sleep kind of covered.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Sheldon airport didn't fare so well.

 

[stormchaser2014]

not sure where my mom heard it, but I checked their fb page and multiple people commented about seeing them in the Madison/Beloit/I-90 corridor.

I know Reed Timmer and one of the "Red Shoes" was in Rockford.

 

[BoxsterCy]

I'm going to go Old Man Boxster reminiscing here for a second because this reminded me of something.

:laugh:

 

[VikesFan22]

We're (you guys) are averaging over 200 posts a day in RTIV.

 

[cowgirl836]

I know Reed Timmer and one of the "Red Shoes" was in Rockford.

sounds like he's down closer to the QC area now. Seems like our area may be pretty calm tonight now.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

that sounds gross.

Nope. That sounds like high school boys.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

We're (you guys) are averaging over 200 posts a day in RTIV.

This awful grammar made me die a little bit inside. You're better than that, Vikes.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Nope. That sounds like high school boys.

KC gets it. She raised a few.