Life in Lynch Lair at Wildcat Station

[thatguy]

boil some oil!

--tg

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

I'm thinking I'll just plant a lot of trees as a privacy screen and dig a moat and construct a trebuchet to launch cats.

 
Dude, for cats you have to use a *catapult*. Sheesh!

[cranefly]

So we're down to siegecraft humor now?

Plumbing new depths on DOOM...

[The Queen]

Oooh, what kind of beasties can I have in the moat?

[Drunk Monk]

At Ranch Macbeth, we grew a bamboo wall to separate our backyard from the neighbor behind that had a two-story that stared down into our yard. We bookended the wall with redwood trees. The last time I was by a few months ago for inspection between tenants, it was still solid although the bamboo had thinned a little. Fortunately the redwoods are huge. I was proud to have planted it all.

The trick with bamboo is you must corral it. It must be planted inside a thick plastic root barrier (it's a heavy grade of plastic) that's a yard deep. I dug that trench by hand. Then you have to keep an eye on it because it'll figure out ways to jump over that wall. Once you have it it, it's low maintainence and thickens up quickly. 

Bamboo is a culture all to its own. We grew Goldenrod and Bissettii. But that's a crazy deep rabbit hole. We went to bamboo shows and such to learn about it. If I ever own another home, I'll grow more. 

Best bamboo resource in Cali is here: http://bamboosourcery.com/

[Greg]

Look, Trebuchet is a much cooler word. But CATapult, dammit.

The neighbors have added two more sea containers to their collection. They are less visible from our house than the first one. But they stand out like a sore thumb when you come up the court to our house. It's what the neighborhood was lacking, that industrial feeling.

[Greg]

The Internet Access Problem

When we moved in, we got a satellite to access the web, because it had the fastest internet speed. That was only for download. Upload was still atrocious. Which wasn't a problem until I had to start uploading a 8gb movie file. Well, the satellite has always been spotty. It has good periods when it is super fast and it has bad periods when you just want to punch the computer. And it hangs, which is especially bad when you are uploading a super big file. I spent at least three days trying to get the Stro onto the web.

This becomes a serious issue when tQ started work on her new project for her company. She's building a training/social media portal for the company, where she gives webinars a couple of times a month. It's embarrassing when her internet goes down during the broadcast. When it happened the first time, she immediately went out and bought a Verizon Hotspot to cover in case the satellite went down. The Verizon hot spot kind of works but it is slow. It is just fast enough for her to do the webinars. Just

Well both Verizon and the satellite went down at the same time earlier in the week. Panic. tQ contracted with our phone company, the only phone company in our area to get them to put in the DSL line so she can have a hard wired internet connection. That goes in on Monday.

To top that all off, for the first time since we have had the satellite dish, we hit the throttling threshold. It's that weird practice of unlimited data but only to a certain point. Our internet was bad then got really bad. tQ called to complain and that is when she heard about the throttling. We are still ten days from the rollover. I really wanted an explanation of how we used so much data.

The throttling ends on Tuesday. I'm supposed to do a live Q&A for the Warsaw FF on Sunday. Which is why I'm driving to the Yeti's brother's house in Manteca on Sunday to use his internet. It's only a hundred miles. I have to be there at 6am for the test before the Q&A at 8:28. Good times.

[thatguy]

--tg

[Greg]

Duh.

[Greg]

I don't know if this is good or bad, but I'm leaning bad. There is a small-batch distiller in Oakhurst. They make all sorts of alcoholic beverages including single-malt whiskey, including a wheat whiskey. What in god's name is a wheat whiskey?

Maybe this needs to be in the whiskey thread?

[Drunk Monk]

It's a good thing because now I'll have to come back and you're only 3 hours away.

It's a bad thing because now I'll have to come back and you're 3 hours away.

Wheat whiskeys are an American thing, kind of like a Corn whiskey. Instead of using malted barley like in Ireland and Scotland, they use wheat or corn. KB is rather fond of corn whiskeys. Wheat and corn whiskeys tend to be sweeter.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

“Small Batch” = “Not Scotch, so why would you even bother, do you like lighter-fluid mixed with sugar you philistine?”

[Drunk Monk]

“Small Batch” = “Not Scotch, so why would you even bother, do you like lighter-fluid mixed with sugar you philistine?”

fair.

A lot of small batch distilleries shifted over to making hand sanitizer when the pandemic hit. They seemed to shift effortlessly. That's telling I think. 

tQ - please try some and report back to us.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

“Small Batch” = “Not Scotch, so why would you even bother, do you like lighter-fluid mixed with sugar you philistine?”

fair.

A lot of small batch distilleries shifted over to making hand sanitizer when the pandemic hit. They seemed to shift effortlessly. That's telling I think. 

That made me laugh. We have “Seven Stills Distillery” out here and it sucks seven different ways. Basically, hipster/tech-bro Nuveau Douchebags trying to find a way to make whisky fast so they can sell it. It doesn’t “taste like horseshit” it has “a dank taste, earthy, yet strident”. Their hand-sanitizer came out lightning fast and smells better than anything they made for drinking.

[Drunk Monk]

I do prefer small batch hand sanitizer.

My buddy who’s a so cal pot dispensary mogul also went into sanitizers when the pandemic hit. They had the hardware because they do all manner of extractions. They donated it all to various health care facilities because they’re super cool peeps, not hipster scum.