Yup. Even though Fall means a break from the heat (sometimes), It means that I lose almost two hours of daylight at the end of the day, when I need it the most. In other news, I did it again, folks: Last night I got drunk, and bought a few hundred dollars worth of parts from Summit Racing.
Are you providing them with artificial light? I know you have to do that with chickens to keep them laying year round.
No, I don't supplement light. I have a light in there that I've used for training purposes but it's not currently on. In my experience the ducks lay like a machine for the first year or 18mo and then become more seasonal. Their seasonality seems to be based on their molting more than anything. I have a batch of new layers just starting up, and my older ducks are recovering from a late summer molt. I am getting 8 eggs from 11 girls. It's a tossup if the older girls will keep going in the winter or not. Usually they still lay, just not every day.
That could have ended so much worse. But yeah, don't run from ex-football players while in cuffs... you ain't gonna win.
To be fair, it's a special kind of stupid that tries to run when you're handcuffed behind your back. I mean, what was the fucking end game?
Yay for the little things. I managed to fix the ice maker (one that has a serious design flaw that I 3D printed a part to try and fix). As a result I've been celebrating with glorious gin and tonics with tons of ice all night. Your government may be shut down, but my in-house bartender is working overtime.
I went and bought myself a push mower. We didn't really need one at this house, at first. All the landscaping and crap I've done has cut off riding mower access to several sections. With my front ditch, I was week whacking several thousand square feet of grass. That got really old towards the end of the year. I'm excited, even if I only get to use it one time this year, that being tomorrow.
The refrigerator that came with our house was a GE side by side that was like a reverse TARDIS. I've never experienced a fridge that badly designed. When the water dispenser died, we used that opportunity to replace it with a French door that was functional.
Bunch of shit for me this week. Boss has been in jury duty so I've been doing his work and my work. New Waylon album dropped but mine hasn't shipped yet. Weather has been extremely overcast with light bouts of drizzle which apparently gave my weed plant bud rot. Tried to get a good margarita buzz last night, had two and fell asleep on the couch
I drank half a bottle of gin last night with some G&T's... this morning I'm wishing I fell asleep on the couch after 2. It's been a crazy week at work. A couple months ago my VP left due to company fuckery he wasn't happy with, and was replaced with a super smart engineer type from Amazon who has zero fucking VP skills, or communication skills, or people skills, or software development skills. He brought in his own crew from Amazon with him, and my role (eng lead of the group), has been basically cut out. Half the group is now interviewing elsewhere and bailing out. Worst. Morale. Ever. I've been told that networking is one of my super powers, and it did pay off in this case. I made a call to an SVP that I've worked with off and on over the past 5 years, told him the situation, and he made it happen. "You were the guy I wanted to run this new project so this is very opportune. Let's get you the fuck out of there." Wrote the job description just for me, made the call to the VP and told him he wanted me. It was all approved by HR yesterday afternoon, effective next week. So last night was a bittersweet celebration of leaving a once-great group that has been absolutely fucked over by execs hiring the wrong guy for the position he was put in, and moving to an incredibly exciting brand new major project as the eng lead, overseeing around 150 devs. Next step is to try and find room for a bunch of people that want to come with me.
Mark Sanchez was stabbed and is currently in critical condition, and meanwhile Mac Jones spotted a dead body floating in the water near his hotel right before gametime. NFL QBs are going through it right now.
Sometimes, I think I'm a good parent. Spoiler: And, sometimes my kid proves very, very wrong my kid giving double birds next the still while it is making the homemade, un-taxed liqour.