What are you doing today?

What am I doing today?

Procrastinating.
With some projects I just don't feel the love. I keep my eye on the £££s and try to get it done. But with the sun shining and temperatures climbing it's… difficult! 😁


Apple fanboy said:
Our sparrows are never far from the bird feeders. However Mrs AFB tells me the sack of sunflower hearts we buy has done up from £18 a sack, to £24 a sack.
They might be on rations!
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Glad to hear you've got Sparrows! Sadly here in Bath they are almost non existent… I miss their gregarious chattering in the shrubs.
Our feeders get robbed regularly by Starlings and Squirrels.
 
Arkitect said:
Haha! No problem.

I am an Architect — but gave up practising about 12 years ago — and now I do… this. 🙂
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Well that's just fantastic, I'll come back to that later so I can give your artistry an appropriate amount of time :)
 
Arkitect said:
What am I doing today?

Procrastinating.
With some projects I just don't feel the love. I keep my eye on the £££s and try to get it done. But with the sun shining and temperatures climbing it's… difficult! 😁



Glad to hear you've got Sparrows! Sadly here in Bath they are almost non existent… I miss their gregarious chattering in the shrubs.
Our feeders get robbed regularly by Starlings and Squirrels.
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We have sparrows, robins, blackbirds, blue tits, great tits, green finches, goldfinches, chaffinches and a thrush. It’s a busy garden!
 
We doing some home improvements and got our custom fit cabinet drawers installed, no more crawling around on the ground to get our pans out from the back anymore.
 
Eric said:
We doing some home improvements and got our custom fit cabinet drawers installed, no more crawling around on the ground to get our pans out from the back anymore.
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Congratulations! Cabinets are the true bane of my old and unrenovated kitchen. I live with them, but all my neighbors have probably learned some four-syllable obscenities while I struggle on occasion to get some stock pot or very large and not often used skillet back into service for some special purpose.
 
lizkat said:
Congratulations! Cabinets are the true bane of my old and unrenovated kitchen. I live with them, but all my neighbors have probably learned some four-syllable obscenities while I struggle on occasion to get some stock pot or very large and not often used skillet back into service for some special purpose.
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Thanks, yeah it's blessing. We still have to bend down but no longer need to get on the knees to access anything. They're not cheap and had to be custom built but it's worth it.

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Arkitect said:
What am I doing today?

Procrastinating.
With some projects I just don't feel the love.
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Same here. Especially after my back of the envelope calculations ruined the budget for a proposed project. Just over by $800K for a $5M budget!! This is why I'm not a finance guy. And probably shouldn't be involved in this project. I'm way over my head.

Going for a long-ish walk/hike to clear my head and then prepare for tomorrow's conference call. Yes, on a got-damn Saturday. :eek:
 
DT said:
Oh yeah, these were apparently from the Chesapeake Bay Area!
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Fabulous. We used to be gifted parts of the catch when fishermen there would be seeking shelter and so end up at our dock during some of those notoriously fast moving storms in the bay area. Crabs or oysters... past our budgets, ordinarily.
 
Finally got around to watching a film that I've wanted to see for a while, and since it has been nominated for an Academy Award as "Best Picture," plus a few other awards and the annual awards broadcast is coming up this Sunday night, tonight seemed like a good time....

"CODA" (the acronym and title stands for [Hearing] Child of Deaf Parents) is a lovely film and I highly recommend it. This is one of those films which taps into the emotions without overdoing it. I laughed, I cried, I was sorry to see the story come to an end. The acting was excellent. This film is unique in that instead of using hearing actors to portray deaf people, they chose deaf actors to play three of the key roles, which really makes a difference and adds an authenticity which is often missing in other movies. The actors use their native language -- American Sign Language (ASL) -- and there is also captioning so that hearing viewers can understand what is being signed. Some scenes in the film also provide additional insights into the lives of those who cannot hear, but this isn't a film focusing only on what is perceived as disability, although of course that is a key aspect of their lives which influences everything else, it is a film focusing on a family and the personal interactions among its members.

Highly recommended!
 
Right now (9:30pm Pacific Daylight Time), I'm soaking in there's roughly 2,700 airplanes over North America. Seems like a lot. But maybe not.

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ronntaylor said:
Same here. Especially after my back of the envelope calculations ruined the budget for a proposed project. Just over by $800K for a $5M budget!! This is why I'm not a finance guy. And probably shouldn't be involved in this project. I'm way over my head.

Going for a long-ish walk/hike to clear my head and then prepare for tomorrow's conference call. Yes, on a got-damn Saturday. :eek:
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That is a "not so good place" to be in… been in similar situations decades past. And like you, probably why I am not a finance guy. 🙂
Just be calm and up front. Mistakes happen.

Good luck!
 
ronntaylor said:
Same here. Especially after my back of the envelope calculations ruined the budget for a proposed project. Just over by $800K for a $5M budget!! This is why I'm not a finance guy. And probably shouldn't be involved in this project. I'm way over my head.

Going for a long-ish walk/hike to clear my head and then prepare for tomorrow's conference call. Yes, on a got-damn Saturday. :eek:
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What's the nature of the project? Tech related?

You know, I think back to our post-acquisition days, tossed into a huge aggregator with dozens of other companies, totally misaligned service models, different perspectives of project scope, etc., and I recall some 7-digit budget misses. At the time, it seemed like the apocalypse - in retrospect, it didn't even matter :D

Good luck, I'm sure it'll work out :)


citypix said:
Right now (9:30pm Pacific Daylight Time), I'm soaking in there's roughly 2,700 airplanes over North America. Seems like a lot. But maybe not.
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Hahaha, when I see those tracking graphics, I'm like, NFW am I getting into a plane again ... :LOL:
 
Arkitect said:
Haha! No problem.

I am an Architect — but gave up practising about 12 years ago — and now I do… this. 🙂
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That’s fantastic! Is that your account?
Apple fanboy said:
Moved in two years ago. Only put the first picture on the wall a month or so ago.
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I was successful in getting pictures up on one wall in spare bedroom #1.
Eric said:
Thanks, yeah it's blessing. We still have to bend down but no longer need to get on the knees to access anything. They're not cheap and had to be custom built but it's worth it.
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Be still my heart!
 
Apple fanboy said:
Moved in two years ago. Only put the first picture on the wall a month or so ago.
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An almost similar story here, having moved in two years ago. And then my wife and I went on a rampage putting up paintings and photographs just about everywhere. Feels like home now.

Most of the photographs I make are of strangers I hit up for conversation and then a portrait, on streets in different San Francisco neighborhoods. The majority are from about ten years ago for a couple of projects. I now have my office walls covered with them. In one sense it's a little eerie. In another, even though they're not friends, it feels like it seeing them on my walls.
 
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