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What did you do this weekend?
As part of a weekly series, these topics are a place for users to casually discuss the things they did — or didn't do — during their weekend. Did you make any plans? Take a trip? Do nothing at all? Tell us about it!
This probably comes of as bragging, but I just had such a lovely weekend! Me and a few friends rented a house and spent the weekend playing boardgames and expanding openyr and paper RPG campaign. We have this as a biannual "tradition", but haven't done it since before the covid times. It is great to get back at it! Sooo much fun to just hang out, eat food and play games all day!
Our theme this year was "time traveling heist" so naturally in our RPG session we did just that. Plan to rob a museum of a magical crystal in the high tech ancient times (3000 years before our current campaign's setting). We still need to pull of the heist, but how hard can that be?
So my weekend has two parts, the normal part, and the shit part that was intertwined.
The normal part.
I've mentioned, probably, that I'm building a workshop/second garage at my home. In order to do so I need to do some prep for the contractors. So this weekend I had the guys over to help do so with payment in some large, delicious, grilled tomahawk steaks at the end.The work involved tearing down the old storage shed in my back yard, hauling it to the dump, tearing down the portion of fence where the new driveway to the workshop will go, trimming a large oak tree that has branches hanging in the same place the workshop will sit, move my Tercel project from the side of the driveway nearest the shop to the other side so it won't be in the way of contractors, take some scrap metal to a recycler, and pull up some bushes where the new fence will go. Nothing major, just time consuming manual labor that benefits from having multiple hands.
Everything except the bushes, which aren't time sensitive, got done. Good job everyone.
The shit part.
Some lowlife piece of shit stole the catalytic converter off one of the friends' car on Saturday (which I'm paying to replace).Likely the same scum came back that night to attempt to steal the catalytic converter off my car, but got spooked and drove off. Still damaged it and my car. Based on the sounds I hear in the neighborhood, it seems like the thieves stole several other catalytic converters this weekend in addition to oxygen.
The friend with the stolen catalytic converter then had the fuel pump fail in his other car while he was on his way to my house on Sunday and had to get a expensive tow back home.
Unbeknownst to us on Sunday (we all just found out today), the second friend that was helping lost three of his cars in a fire when his ex-neighbor (he just moved out of a house in the boonies and into a house closer to town, but still had things like his project cars and other stuff at the old house) were burning trash, lost control of their burn pit/barrel/pile, causing the fire to spread to the storage shed on my friend's property and then to his three cars parked next to it, consuming an E30 BMW, AWD Civic Wagovan, and 1968 Plymouth Belvedere.
TIL that's a thing that happens... and apparently it's getting more frequent even here in Canada too.
I rode my motorcycle for 2.5 hours on backroads and hilly vistas east of San Francisco. I'm still on my learners permit so I'm limited to areas around where I live but I'm having a good time still. Since I got my motorcycle two weeks ago, I have put ~400 miles on it, slowly approaching the 600 mile service. This week I will be doing my MSFS course so I can get my full license and maybe get to branch out to other areas in the Bay.
I installed a smart thermostat to save on energy, and now have to go down the list of how connected I want this thing to be, since the old thermostat had four hookups (R,G,Y,W) and the furnace has three more (W2, C, and Hum) that I have to figure out if I want to leave as is, or run new wires for. Complications things is that I have an extra wire that wasn't being used, so I could hook one of these things up now, and get an adapter for C...
Also got a old stationary bike who was trading up, and I'm trying to do a health. It's supposed to get better, I think, but personal fitness isn't really selling me on it day one.