For anyone that wants a place to express their frustration...here ya go.

 

Whoever got to TRU a minute before me when it opened and bought 6 of the 7 VC's and left me with the dented one. Arg!!!

When your Bricks & Pieces order finally arrives after 3 weeks and you cannot for the life of you remember what project you ordered all those DBG 1xN tiles for ....

It's possible I intended to order plates instead of tiles ..... oh the joys of middle age ....

RIP Kenny Rogers 

I miss Lego discussions 

2 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said:

RIP Kenny Rogers 

He was one of my fav's growing up.

My gigabyte service... Guess too many people are home. What is this? 1996? Ugh.
 

RIP Lee Fierro, an actor best known for playing Mrs. Kintner in “Jaws,” has died of complications from coronavirus, according to The Martha’s Vineyard Times. She was 91.

"Now fellas. This is not the time or the place to perform some kind of a half ass autopsy on a fish. And I'm not going to stand here, and see that thing cut open and see that little Kitner boy spill out all over the dock!" --- The Mayor, Jaws

Oh my god, I'm flying through stock so quickly I may run out of shipping supplies. Not really a complaint, but also sort of given then amount of trouble it might be to get resupplied right now. 

47 minutes ago, Mark Twain said:

Oh my god, I'm flying through stock so quickly I may run out of shipping supplies. Not really a complaint, but also sort of given then amount of trouble it might be to get resupplied right now. 

I've been ordering some supplies and they seem to be shipping on-time from EBay vendors.

I wish are profiles would show which state we live in. Over the years I have been able to get an idea of where members are located. Alpine Maps is in Switzerland, Exciter1 lives in an Amish community and Darth_Raich is on a Death Star somewhere. 

Y’all stop using stimulus money to buy baby tigers. Carol is pissed and I don’t want any of you to disappear.

Shaking my head.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/stormtrooper-trying-get-customers-attention-taken-down-officers-canada-n1201696

R.I.P.  Comedy Master Fred Willard 1939-2020

4 minutes ago, Belac said:

R.I.P.  Comedy Master Fred Willard 1939-2020

Loved "Fernwood 2 Night"

10 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

Loved "Fernwood 2 Night"

 Nice reference:)... Classic.  His Line delivery would often steal the scene in much of his work(IMO)

Sewer backed up into the basement tonight, 4-6" and really all across Chicagoland after 4" of rain. Lost a few sets on the lowest shelves, but because I keep them all in moving boxes, I had time to save most of them before the water got through the boxes. My wife helped me debox the few soaked sets, luckily they were bigger sets with the manuals also wrapped in plastic. Not the end of the world because we were mostly prepared for this eventuality, but I'll definitely be looking into getting a sewer check-valve installed.

42 minutes ago, keymomachine said:

Sewer backed up into the basement tonight, 4-6" and really all across Chicagoland after 4" of rain. Lost a few sets on the lowest shelves, but because I keep them all in moving boxes, I had time to save most of them before the water got through the boxes. My wife helped me debox the few soaked sets, luckily they were bigger sets with the manuals also wrapped in plastic. Not the end of the world because we were mostly prepared for this eventuality, but I'll definitely be looking into getting a sewer check-valve installed.

Ah, man.  I'm sorry to hear that.  That definitely sucks.  Good luck to a speedy repair, and hopefully little lost value.

42 minutes ago, keymomachine said:

Sewer backed up into the basement tonight, 4-6" and really all across Chicagoland after 4" of rain. Lost a few sets on the lowest shelves, but because I keep them all in moving boxes, I had time to save most of them before the water got through the boxes. My wife helped me debox the few soaked sets, luckily they were bigger sets with the manuals also wrapped in plastic. Not the end of the world because we were mostly prepared for this eventuality, but I'll definitely be looking into getting a sewer check-valve installed.

Sorry to hear.  That is tough.

Per my own experience, I recommend these to make clean up easier:
1. Submersible pump (I use Wayne Waterbug)
2. Dry / wet vacuum 
3. High velocity fan
 

Star Trek Discovery. Where to begin?..

7 hours ago, MarleyMoose said:

Star Trek Discovery. Where to begin?..

Have you watched the whole show, or just the first season?

Second season was much better than the first.  And some great news just came out about a spinoff from the season 2 cast.

2 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

Have you watched the whole show, or just the first season?

Second season was much better than the first.  And some great news just came out about a spinoff from the season 2 cast.

First season was so many hours of my life I could never get back.  The writing was awful and the plot was nonsensical.  Basic logic was never known to this show and the only good thing was the special effects.  I stuck around 1st season out of loyalty to the brand, but honestly I could never watch anything created by this writer room.  I refused to watch season 2 or Picard because there are too many things I'd rather use my time on.

I am just glad DS9 is free on Amazon

Patiently waiting for season 3 of The Orville 

8 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

Ah, man.  I'm sorry to hear that.  That definitely sucks.  Good luck to a speedy repair, and hopefully little lost value.

Only 10 sets damaged!

2x 60141 police station. 60216 fire brigade 60110 fire station. 70909 batcave. 75219 AT-Hauler. 76108 Sanctum Sanctorum showdown. And three little ones. Somehow most of them were already earmarked for personal use. Only three were in the sales pipeline! Certainly not enough damage to call insurance.

The water went down on it's own after maybe an hour. I did my best to send the dirt back with it. It's all unfinished and luckily a similar thing happened just after we moved in so I knew to keep stuff up off the ground, just not quite high enough for the bottom row of shelving. 

18 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

Have you watched the whole show, or just the first season?

Second season was much better than the first.  And some great news just came out about a spinoff from the season 2 cast.

I finished the binge watching early this AM before I posted here. 2nd season was a bit better trying to fill the plot holes from season 1. Hopefully the  Pike spinoff will be much better. 

9 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

First season was so many hours of my life I could never get back.  The writing was awful and the plot was nonsensical.  Basic logic was never known to this show and the only good thing was the special effects.  I stuck around 1st season out of loyalty to the brand, but honestly I could never watch anything created by this writer room.  I refused to watch season 2 or Picard because there are too many things I'd rather use my time on.

I am just glad DS9 is free on Amazon

Patiently waiting for season 3 of The Orville 

Picard is garbage as well. 

4 hours ago, MarleyMoose said:

I finished the binge watching early this AM before I posted here. 2nd season was a bit better trying to fill the plot holes from season 1. Hopefully the  Pike spinoff will be much better. 

Picard is garbage as well. 

I enjoyed Season 2 much more than Season 1, and it definitely left me wanting a Pike show over a Season 3.  It helps that Anson Mount has a pretty cool podcast, and is an interesting guy.  

I loved Picard.  Did it have it's faults?  Sure.  But I thought it was really good.  Just enough fan service, and I enjoyed the new characters (and the episode with returning characters, too).  I have high hopes for the Pike show.  I like Pike, Spock, and Number One, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they round out the cast.

I think someone from UPS is stealing stuff I order from Amazon. It's the 3rd time in a week my package arrives at the carrier facility then goes "Out for delivery" only to be lost and Amazon offers me a refund. Very annoying.

12 hours ago, MarleyMoose said:

I think someone from UPS is stealing stuff I order from Amazon. It's the 3rd time in a week my package arrives at the carrier facility then goes "Out for delivery" only to be lost and Amazon offers me a refund. Very annoying.

So there's no delivery scan?