Cupcake? Heresy? Pony? 4 stacks of plexi?

home depot thought they were delivering between 6AM and 8PM so i called them and let them know.

we aren't open for deliveries between 6AM and 10AM.

@DavGrape same here. 78f and only 34% here, feels nice. had windows open for a while but it got warm.

fans cranked, all is comphy.

Ha!
Just broke out my little oscillating fan... got stuffy in here.
The 5pm to 7:30 sun really heats it up... blasts thru the west-end house windows.
At 79 now, 47%.... fan is just right.

Last night's storm was weird.
Approached with deeeep..distant thunder....
Siren started, rain started....
But the wind never came in. Barely. Just a hard rain.

Weirdly calm, the whole time, with deeeeep rolling frequent thunder, like, high altitude lightning an' shit.
Damage and power outs all over the place, but unscathed here.

Phuck! Thought I lost my wallet. Looked and looked. Nothing. Turned in the cards lost. Ordered a new license.

Looked one last time. Found it. Tight between the driver seat and console.

Whew! And shit! All at the same time.

ARRRGGGGG!

Wallet's a personal paranoia with me; I frequently give my pocket a stealthy tap for reassurance.
You know, when walking in a store and stuff.

Here; I'll just broadcast everything that happens to me or has happened and how I feel about every subject that comes up.....

DavGrape said:

Last night's storm was weird.
Approached with deeeep..distant thunder....
Siren started, rain started....
But the wind never came in. Barely. Just a hard rain.

Weirdly calm, the whole time, with deeeeep rolling frequent thunder, like, high altitude lightning an' shit.
Damage and power outs all over the place, but unscathed here.

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windy af right now here. rain should all miss us but i have dots on the driveway and patio so maybe we eek out a little moisture.

every maple is losing all it helicopters today if they still had any.

Egad... helicopters been like snow flurries today.

rcole_sooner said:

Whew!

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that. been there, drives me nuts.

i only have two places in the house where i will set it down. and zero places outside the house where i will set it down. (other than hotel rooms on work trips.)

just got a dust storm warning, wtf is this 1934?

cleared em hour ago, my patio becomes a whirlpool of everything that falls from the sky because it's closed on three sides.

had some thunder but no splashes.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning
for Williamson County

Issued by National Weather Service
Austin/San Antonio, TX
8:21 PM CDT Fri, May 16, 2025

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 915 PM CDT FOR WILLIAMSON...NORTH CENTRAL TRAVIS AND NORTHERN BURNET COUNTIES...

At 820 PM CDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from Sunnylane to near Joppa to near Burnet, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Two inch hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...People and animals outdoors will be injured. Expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

Locations impacted include... Round Rock, Cedar Park, Georgetown, Taylor, Burnet, Marble Falls, Bertram, Serenada, Leander, Hutto, Liberty Hill, Jarrell, Florence, Weir, Georgetown Dam, Watson, Lake Victor, Joppa, Andice, and Shady Grove.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building.

&&

TORNADO...POSSIBLE; THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE THREAT...CONSIDERABLE; HAIL THREAT...RADAR INDICATED; MAX HAIL SIZE...2.00 IN; WIND THREAT...RADAR INDICATED; MAX WIND GUST...60 MPH

rcole_sooner said:

Phuck! Thought I lost my wallet. Looked and looked. Nothing. Turned in the cards lost. Ordered a new license.

Looked one last time. Found it. Tight between the driver seat and console.

Whew! And shit! All at the same time.

ARRRGGGGG!

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It's always in the last place you look

DavGrape said:

Egad... helicopters been like snow flurries today.

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There’s only one place in Texas that has maple trees it’s called Lost Maples. That’s what I’ve heard. Because I’ve never seen any around here.

DavGrape said:

Wallet's a personal paranoia with me; I frequently give my pocket a stealthy tap for reassurance.
You know, when walking in a store and stuff.

Here; I'll just broadcast everything that happens to me or has happened and how I feel about every subject that comes up.....

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Ditto.
Phones (both of them, though the city phone is usually in my shirt pocket), wallet, pocketknife, hearing aids.... the right side is a CROS unit with no speaker, transmits to the left side, $o I could potentially lo$e that one and not notice immediately... on the plus side, since the only speaker is on the left, when I touch the one on the right, I hear my finger scratch the microphone in my left ear.

When in a moderately crowded place, my left thumb is usually hooked on my back pocket touching my wallet.

Olds442 said:

that. been there, drives me nuts.

i only have two places in the house where i will set it down. and zero places outside the house where i will set it down. (other than hotel rooms on work trips.)

just got a dust storm warning, wtf is this 1934?

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Pocket contents remain in the pockets 24/7.
Transfer to clean pants in the morning. No valet tray.

there was some kind of dust storm, it rained lightly so i pulled the car in the garage and damn, it's covered in some shit.

pressure wash that off tomorrow before the porch. and maybe the house.

CB91710 said:

Pocket contents remain in the pockets 24/7.
Transfer to clean pants in the morning. No valet tray.

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i could do that, but i don't. sometimes it does work out that way.

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cleared em hour ago, my patio becomes a whirlpool of everything that falls from the sky because it's closed on three sides.

had some thunder but no splashes.

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There is unrest in the forest, there is trouble with the trees....

Olds442 said:

i could do that, but i don't. sometimes it does work out that way.

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Goes back to my fear of a house fire as a child.
We never had a fire, but we watched Emergency, and several of my friends had house fires.
Honestly, the place I lived that had screw-in glass fuses, I'm surprised it never burned.

So anyways... if the EDC stuff is always in my pockets, then if I have to scoot in the middle of the night, I'll have everything when I pull my pants on.