Nah, I did not take it even a little bit personally.

I did take it personally the the fact you made your rib-eye this week instead of last though! :)

Last Sunday about 3:30 or so would have been a better time you know!

Got so focused on finding a local place to eat, didn't even think about grillin and chillin.

And you could have met the Pepper. And gotten way more doggie attention than you could possibly want? She turns into a giant puppy around new people, or basically anyone except me.

It still worked out well and I was just giving you a hard time.

Our lab loves new people, our beagle, not so much.

We used to have some pretty good eats around here but a lot has gone downhill lately.

Next time. May even crank up some homemade ice cream if it ain't so chilly out

Hopefully Pepper will be more behaved next time you come thru.

Remembered my Dad used to make his own BBWQ sauce. He would buy a bunch of different brands of BBQ sauce. Mix them up in a big pot, then put it in mason jars. Friends and people he worked with thought it was the best ever and bought it up like crazy. He only made a batch when our bottle of sauce (it had a Kraft label) ran out and he wanted more. People at work would even give him their empty mason jars for a refill on his next batch.

Dang cows!

The one job we did get flown yesterday is for a licensed land surveyor. His clients pays for a survey and he is on the ground doing his part. If the customer wants a nice new photo to go behind our under the survey that is our part. The client wanted photos and we provide them. Of course everyone wants our photo to match up real close to the points he surveyed in.

The surveyor puts down aerial targets. Those are just a large white X that he has to put on a piece of level ground in the open. Obviously they have to be seen by the camera so under trees or bushes will not work. We then find that target in the image and tell our software the X, Y and Z values that the surveyor provided to us. That helps put our image right on top of the survey. Remember it is a target in 3 dimensions. The final image is an orthophoto and is corrected to fit the Earth real well.

https://online.wr.usgs.gov/ngpo/doq/doq_basics.html

This survey was in a field and there are cows. Cows are dumb machines people invented to turn grass into tasty steaks. If there is something different in a field they will go investigate it and either eat it, pee on it, crap on it or just tear it up. We have photographic evidence of a cow with her head right on the remains of the target. It is scattered all over the place and much of it is gone. That target is unusable.

Dang cows.

Did the cows lay one their backs, udders up?

Nope, no cow porn.

They just destroyed the target and we caught one in the act of destruction. Likely eating the target.

Probably not on purpose then. Would have been a very funny pic though.

Cows will eat anything to see if it is edible.

The guy that works for me has never had home made ice cream.

Nooo, you haven't gotten brain freeze until you've gotten it from eating home made ice cream. That is the original brain freeze. Before there was such a thing as an icee drink.

Have had home made ice cream at only one restaurant. In Meers Oklahoma. The town is only the restaurant. They serve bbq, burgers, steak, chicken fry, lots of old fashon sides but the most important is fresh cobblers with home made ice cream!
It close to Altus, OK. Bit of a drive from OKC. One of the Porsche Club Saturday lunch drive destinations.

That restaurant in Meers is closed. It was a cool place.

Closed, oh noo, now I don't know of a restaurant to get cobbler with home made ice cream?!?

Last time I went to Meers, split a burger and cobbler with my Mom. Still left full as a tick.

Good Morning all.

The laptop in the airplane that runs the flight software has a good battery, but not many laptops can run for hours on end and be processing data the entire time. We need a inverter that car handle 12 volts or 24 volts. Some airplanes are 24 volts and some have both 12 and 24 volts.

In the end we just bought a 28,000 mAh batter pack that has connectors on it for a USB 5 volts for running a cell phone or iPad, a 12 volt and 19 volt connector. The laptop needs 19.5 volts so it can charge the laptop. It is light and easy to use.

It is a 5x7 by 3/4 inch thick battery pack. It works great.

Glen, that is entirely too simple of a solution. What you needed to do was get a deep cell marine battery and hard wire the inverter to it and put it all in a box with a handle to carry it on and strap it down in the plane. That would have been the much less elegant solution, therefor the "better" solution.

Richard, I guess you are stuck making your own cobbler and ice cream.

morning all. missed out on yesterday with tons of work. Job security I guess.

Good Morining or Mertnin for short

Having a horrible day already and I've only been awake for under 2 hours.

Have been told by my brother to only do what I am told.
It is because, "It is not what I say or how I say it, but I make people feel stupid."

Being a good problem solver that hates seeing things done inefficiently, especially when it wastes money, I am finding keeping my mouth shut very difficult.

What kind of work environment is it where you can't make suggestions or comments when it has to do with your job specifically, and you have been doing that job for 30 years?

Yea, this is a cool gadget.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U4I0A0I/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

If I had a laptop and I traveled a lot and could figure out why I need one I would buy one for myself. I just can't think on any reason I really do need one personally. It will be vital for long missions with our laptop.

With the USB you could keep your phone going for days in Jeff's country!

Hi guys! It's hot as hell here in SoCal. We may see 100 degrees. The Santa Ana winds are bringing hot, dry air from the desert to help roast us. Next week, we'll be back into the upper 60s/lower 70s. Can't wait!

It is 60 degrees and full blue skies. Kinda breezy, I bet it is hard for skinny people to walk around. They have to carry rock in their pockets.