So there is this box turtle that lives in the woods in my back yard. We've only seen it a handful of times, but today when my wife was leaving for work she saw it by the garage. And while she was moving it she noticed it had some kind of growth on its neck. Expecting it would need help, I lined a box with a towel and put the turtle in.

I contacted a local wildlife helpline and explained the issue, they spoke to a reptile rehab and called me back letting me know that it would likely need medical attention. They told me the address of the closest ER vet open that accepts wildlife patients. I looked it up and it's 45 minutes from my house.

Well, I packed my kids into the car and drove the turtle to the vet. My oldest was super excited to help the turtle, and even made a special bed for it. One listening of The Princess in Black audiobooks later, we arrived at the vet.

I filled out a wildlife surrender form (mostly so they know it hadn't bitten anyone and where it was found) and they took it back. Once they were situated, they invited the kids back to see how they were taking care of the turtle and showed us how to identify that it is a female turtle. I think it meant a lot to them to see other adults taking good care of this animal.

Then I drove us home and stopped to get slushies from Sonic on the way.

Around 100 shogun shells, and a few 45 colt. Magnet fishing fun!

And I guess wrong! I did a pretty good job folding the fitted sheet for this to happen.

We had a fun storm last night. An estimated 60mph/100kph straight line winds and heavy rain. It was amazing just how much you notice a wind storm like that even in the middle of the forest. The rain was nearly horizontal coming through the yard. Even though it rained like a cow pissin' on a flat rock, I have no idea of what the rainfall was. Because you don’t get much rain in the guage when it’s nearly horizontal.

Anyway, the power was also out from about 6:30ish pm to 4am this morning. But the boys from our electric co-op (all 6 of them) must have busted their balls all night to get things running again.

And now there is a heat advisory for today and tomorrow. Highs in the mid 80s and the wet bulb is at 80. The AC is going to get a real workout today.

Bought an active 25ft displayport cable for 2K@160 and now I can shove my PC into the closet and forget about it

The jet engine (during BG3) now has a muffler xD (Yes, IK I need to set fan curves)

cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/Dullsters@dullsters.net/p/1674538/saw-a-baby-preying-mantis

I've named her Stacy

Figured I'd post on dullsters and cross post over here. If you're not subbed to !Dullsters@dullsters.net it's the gender neutral sister comm so it's unambiguous women are welcome to participate :)

We have a coffee machine in the breakroom where we can have unlimited free coffee. They just increased the size of the disposable cups. They're wider and hold a few extra ounces.

Puzzle is as follows:

What's the longest word (or words) that you can make solely from l33tcode digits? Namely:

• 0 = O
• 1 = L or l (but not both in the same word)
• 2 = Z
• 3 = E
• 4 = A
• 5 = S
• 6 = G
• 7 = T
• 8 = B
• 9 = nothing

I queried English lemmas from the English Wiktionary, filtered them in Python, and ended up with three 12-letter words:

• asbestosless
• sabotageable
• seatbeltless

Edit: Upon request:

• 458357051355
• 548074634813
• 534783171355

Weather's dull, right??

It's currently 72 degrees with a high of only 82 in the middle of July. Humidity is a comfortable 76%. Sun is shining, not a cloud in the sky, I don't foresee having to run the A/C at all today, and my house's PV system has been getting a great charge all morning.

This sure beats the 99 degree days with 99% humidity and heavy clouds last week.

My only complaint is I don't have today off work.

Can’t make the wrong people look bad.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/52635399

Already got made fun of by some teenagers with more fragile egos and less expendable income than me.

Could've just asked and I would've let them try!

Axial SCX24 Base Camp for those interested.

Gonna be a part of my grill table so I can use cast iron cookware. Gotta smoothen a few bits and have not thought much about how to mount it (probably two iron bars under it)

edit: Thanks for all the remarks. I had some of the concerns myself (but decided a test-drive could confirm/take away those) Now I'm not all that sure if i'm gonna use it or make a different solution. Also due to the weight. It's something like 30Kg. The kamado is another 100Kg plust the table itself ...... it's getting heavy.

But wait - there's more! I also had a paintbrush wrapped in plastic for over 2 weeks because I was too lazy to clean it but yesterday I needed to do a little more painting with the same color so I was able to use the already saturated brush.

What I learned from this? That I'm already performing at the highest level and nothing needs improvement.

The original stairs were pretty beaten up oak. Here's the stairs halfway done

Here is the stairs before sanding, priming and painting. They stayed like this for about 18 months because we got busy and couldn't decide on finishing.

So I put some in I think they look sweet even though I basically did a bad job

My wife was trying to clean our kettle

I said, it needs CLR

she asked what CLR is

I said Calcium Lime and Rust. There is also Lime-Away.

She put the CLR in there. Then she washed it out many times. All of the mineral deposits washed away. She rinsed it out with water many more times, and then eventually cleaned it with vinegar after rinsing it many times. At least, I think that's how she cleaned it. She's the kettle cleaner, I don't know much about it, other than that CLR exists.

It was very clean for a few months.

We got a regular kettle after that

I don't have much experience with car repair.

Woke up to a very dead 2018 Lincoln. It was the battery. Bought a new battery which turned out to be a heck of a chore in an mkx. I dropped a ratchet into the engine. I crawled underneath to see if I could pull it out. That's what I noticed this bolt sticking out. A little research, a jack and jack-stand, a 15mm wrench et voila.

Just another dull day.

I consider myself lucky with how this went.

Edit: The second picture

I was super stressed about it (still is, thanks for all the help and good words in the knives instances) I guess I will see if I did good on my next camping trip.