What's Oppo doing this fine morning?

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher) 06/03/2018 at 10:56 • Filed to: Breakfast FTW!

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My awesome wife brought me breakfast on our front porch. Sausage and egg scrambler, and peanut butter toast. Not pictured: coffee. Glorious coffee. My wife may not let me completely fill the driveway with beaters, and the garage with janky scooters of questionable origin, but I’m glad she kept me.

Excuse the mess. It’s a gorgeous morning, and I can’t be bothered to care.

Mercedes Streeter > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 11:18

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About to get dressed to head out to the storage unit. At bare minimum, I plan to get the scooter naked. Though, I hope to get it running to some degree. It doesn’t need to run well, just run.

Maxima Speed > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 11:29

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Chilling on YouTube, getting ready to go sell shaved ice at a dirt bike/quad race.

TheRealBicycleBuck > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 11:30

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Working. Still working. I finally shut it down about 1:00 this morning after I FINALLY got the geoprocessing models functioning. I know, that means nothing to most folks. Basically, we have hydrologic engineers who are running watershed models. When they are done with their work, I take the data and use it to figure out how much of a difference their proposed drainage improvements will make during the next flood event. That involves analyzing four different flood scenarios with and without the improvements and calculating how many homes would be “saved” by the proposed improvements. Then we can generate a benefit/cost ratio and determine whether the improvements are worth funding.

Since there are deadlines for funding and lots of projects which must be evaluated, I’m living and breathing work for th e next couple of months. The upside is that I get to post on Oppo while the models are crunching numbers.

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 11:35

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Just kicking back and relaxing

shop-teacher > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 06/03/2018 at 11:55

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Egggggselent!

shop-teacher > TheRealBicycleBuck 06/03/2018 at 11:56

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Gotcha. That’s important work!

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 06/03/2018 at 11:57

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Yeah, even if you hear it fire up once, that’ll be huge.

shop-teacher > Maxima Speed 06/03/2018 at 11:57

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Hopefully you’ll sell a bunch.

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter 06/03/2018 at 11:59

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Also, I bet you could sell that bodywork for a few extra shekels.

MoCamino > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:00

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Eating at a great local Mexican restaurant with my wife, as has become a Sunday tradition for us. Finding good, real Mexican food in the Midwest is a challenge. Fortunately my wife grew up in San Diego so I have a good judge with me.  The machaca y huevos I had today was great!

AestheticsInMotion > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:09

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Building things! I decided to wait for father’s day to look for a nice hand saw, so instead I used.... A cordless angle grinder

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:11

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Driving from Austin to Lindsborg, KS. Just about 600 miles. Just stopped at Buc-ee’s next to the TX Motor Speedway. 200 miles under the belt so far. Ultimate destination is Custer SP in SD.  

$kaycog > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:16

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Your breakfast looks delicious! *drool*

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:19

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Took the dog for a walk and now I’m chilling waiting for the power to come back on, it’s like I live in some rural backwoods mountain town or something.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > AestheticsInMotion 06/03/2018 at 12:30

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What is this thing you are building

MM54 > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:38

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Mowed the lawn, raked the lawn (still paying for it getting to be obscenely high when I was on vacation a couple weeks ago), tried to trim but the weed whacker ran out of string, so I’m off to grab more and lunch, then will resume trimming.

AestheticsInMotion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 06/03/2018 at 12:45

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A pullup/gymnastics ring station. The new job is requiring a lot of my time, and the only chances I have to get to the gym are when it’s super busy. Which basically means.... No gym. I have an extra room for car parts, which will now become the home gym!

AestheticsInMotion > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 06/03/2018 at 12:46

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Alternate answers:

Miata sized 2-post lift

Gallows

gmctavish needs more space > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 12:52

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Gonna do some grocery shopping, and then wander over to north van to return brake parts, and maybe go somewhere that has good burgers

blacktruck18 > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 13:08

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Getting over a cold, my plans for today are limited to playing Playstation and watching the Indycar race this afternoon, I might do some laundry later.

shop-teacher > blacktruck18 06/03/2018 at 14:52

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Sounds like a good recovery day!

shop-teacher > AestheticsInMotion 06/03/2018 at 14:53

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Interesting improvisation! Nice work!

shop-teacher > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 06/03/2018 at 14:54

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Pups!

shop-teacher > MoCamino 06/03/2018 at 14:54

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Nice!

shop-teacher > MM54 06/03/2018 at 14:55

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Many much yardworks!

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 06/03/2018 at 14:55

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Enjoy the drive!

shop-teacher > $kaycog 06/03/2018 at 14:55

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It was!

shop-teacher > gmctavish needs more space 06/03/2018 at 14:56

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You can’t beat a good burger!

MM54 > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 15:24

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After lunch I re-wound the string with the new roll and trimmed, finished in a light rain. Turned off the weed whacker just in time for a flash of lightning and thunder. Couldn’t have timed it better!

wafflesnfalafel > shop-teacher 06/03/2018 at 17:57

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jealous

LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com > TheRealBicycleBuck 06/03/2018 at 22:13

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Ooooh, you are speaking my language. I don’t get to do analyses on that scale, though.

TheRealBicycleBuck > LimitedTimeOnly @ opposite-lock.com 06/03/2018 at 23:10

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It can be fun, but when we are under such a tight deadline, it’s rough. I’ve had several months of 60+ hour weeks, the last two were over 70 hours. I’m tired.

The fun part is all the data we get to work with. Even better is knowing that if successful, we’ll generate nearly $100M in funding and help hundreds of thousands of people.