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Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

  • Get outdoors

    Votes: 13 61.9%

  • Campfires at the cabin

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Spend hot nights in the city

    Votes: 7 33.3%

  • Wonder why Red Berenson isn't a Lodge member yet

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • Sweat over your favorite team's players leaving early for the ECHL/AHL

    Votes: 4 19.0%

  • Consume copious amounts of bacon-wrapped melon made by Giada

    Votes: 12 57.1%

  • Get hacked by Freddy

    Votes: 10 47.6%
  • Total voters
    21
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

Going on week 8 off work (first 4 regularly scheduled, last 3+ waiting on license renewal). Atleast I'm getting to hang out with friends around here quite a bit, mostly on golf courses.

Mookie, you ever venture up to World Woods? Going up to play Rolling Oaks in the morning, should be a blast.
 
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goldy_331 said:
Good Morning Lodge.

So when can Jr and I bring our boat (that we bought last night) up to Greyeagle's (or YE's) cabin?;)
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Any time!
South shore of Green, about ½ mile west of the launch. From the lake look for the "Stop" sign. We should be up there most of Memorial weekend; you can buy me a beer. :)
 
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If I ever had the use for a boat, I'd love a simple pontoon. Just something to chill on the water with. Get a little grill, a cooler, and a radio.

Busy day today at work, the new truck guy is pretty good, still learning the nuances of the job (at my building, they are pretty much trained just to know what to take and what to leave, as I am usually not there to tell them). No updates on the former driver, will wait a couple more days then ask. Weather is blah, but cannot complain after the perfect weekend. Right now it's looking like the weather will be blah until Sunday morning, then turn nice. I can handle that.
 
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Brenthoven said:
If I ever had the use for a boat, I'd love a simple pontoon. Just something to chill on the water with. Get a little grill, a cooler, and a radio.
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When my daughter graduates from college my wife & I are buying ourselves pontoon as a graduation gift. We have a simple one now, homemade benches, plastic chairs, etc. Next one will be more comfortable....and definitely with a four stroke.
 
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Greyeagle said:
When my daughter graduates from college my wife & I are buying ourselves pontoon as a graduation gift. We have a simple one now, homemade benches, plastic chairs, etc. Next one will be more comfortable....and definitely with a four stroke.
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My brother had a homemade one, but for the lake he was on (Beebe Lake in St Michael, was the name of it, IIRC) it was good enough. A college roommate's family had a rather large proper pontoon, his family lived in the CCC north of Two Harbors on a lake (Google maps are not helpful). Love those boats.
 
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I like pontoons for gatherings on the water, without a doubt. But I'll definitely have a small fishing boat before one of those party barges.

I have a few friends that have parents that are very protective of their pontoons, and rightfully so. One day a bunch of us went out on one of them. The wind started picking up and I told people that we should more evenly distribute the weight. You know, not have everyone (except for the driver) and all the coolers in the front. Also told my buddy to not travel perpendicular to the chop. Ignored. Numerous times. I eventually just sat in the back and let the inevitable happen. After burying the entire front half of the boat into the lake three or four times, they figured it out.

His parents prefer me to drive over their son now. :D
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

Good Morning Lodge.

Yeah, pontoons are not easily trailerable, especially single handed as I will sometimes be doing after Jr goes off to college. Also not the best for fishing, not bad, but a specific fishing boat is better for that. A pontoon is the min-van of the boat world. So it's easy to see why GE wants one. :p

I reset the trip odometer on the way out to pick up the boat and again on the way back. Got 34+ MPG on the way out, 21 on the way back. :eek:

ETA: I put a photo of the boat up on FB.
 
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Since I have a lake cabin said pontoon will only need to be trailered twice a year - once into the water and once out. :p For fun I kayak to the boat lift and watch cake eaters try to get their boats in/out of the water. :D

Our other boat is an 18 foot Lund Grand Tyee with a 135 Yamaha. Screw fishing (yawn), it's about skiing & tubing. :)
 
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Good Morning Lodge!

I am old school, back to nature type when it comes to the water- sail boat, canoe, row boat or in a pinch small motor. I don't fish. Thankfully auntie les is on a small lake. Not keen on large lakes/pontoon boats. Abhor those nasty, noisy jet skis or huge boats. They are like snow mobiles- noise pollution, waste of gas and all around waste of time that disturbs the peace for miles around. I know people love them but I don't get it. You are going so fast you can't see the beauty in the world (or hear it)
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Going on week 8 off work (first 4 regularly scheduled, last 3+ waiting on license renewal). Atleast I'm getting to hang out with friends around here quite a bit, mostly on golf courses.

Mookie, you ever venture up to World Woods? Going up to play Rolling Oaks in the morning, should be a blast.
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Played there a while ago. Neat place. You'll have fun.

Originally built by a jap company. Mookie played with the jap manager and his jap wife/gf.

Have to say it was a good day
 
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Mookie used to sail often. Lived on the south shore in cohasset for a while and would sail out on the ocean. Done the week rentals in the VI. Nothing better boat wise
 
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Speaking of sailing, my cousin and her husband run charters out of Duluth. They are fun and very experienced on the big lake.

http://sailingduluth.com/

They have quite the life, summers in Duluth on the boat & winters in Summit County, CO, where he's a ski patrol & avalanche specialist at Arapahoe.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #185: Summer Activities

My boss was just drilling laser beams into me with her eyes. :D

The new desks we have are split into three pieces, more or less. The first is where the main computer and monitors sit, it elevates and lowers for comfort. The second is just a table top, more or less, that forms the ell against the first piece. The third piece is irrelevant.

Well, the second piece started squeaking a little, and I started a little investigation. They're not bolted or screwed in place at all, just so arms coming out from the wall dividing me from my neighbor to the left. I commented on this lack of bolting, and the guy who sits behind me started to join in on the investigation. My manager overheard this, told us that they're designed that way, blah, blah, blah, don't break anything. So my coworker and I continued our investigation, naturally, and lifted a little higher the section of desk that shouldn't, swinging it up in the front like a hinged door, for a better investigation this time. When we were done, I started to lower the piece back into place but it wouldn't come down. Then it dropped into place and that was not a quiet experience. Lady Boss turns around and just glares at me. It doesn't help that she's pregnant and a little prone to overreaction at the moment. Whoops. :D
 
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We just received an email from one of the higher ups in the office today about the Sponsor Advisory Council, and were then treated to an email about "exploring and reviewing the SAC." So it's not just the tech managers using inappropriately funny acronyms around here.
 
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Belated Good Morning.

I actually had a "yawn!" message but deleted it because it was drizzling in the early AM. I went back to bed and then forgot to sign in. :o
 
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Ralph Baer said:
Belated Good Morning.

I actually had a "yawn!" message but deleted it because it was drizzling in the early AM. I went back to bed and then forgot to sign in. :o
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It's OK Ralph, you're retired. You don't have to check-in, sign-in or post a "yawn" unless you want to!
 
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St. Clown said:
We just received an email from one of the higher ups in the office today about the Sponsor Advisory Council, and were then treated to an email about "exploring and reviewing the SAC." So it's not just the tech managers using inappropriately funny acronyms around here.
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I was just editing a spec about who pays the SAC and WAC charges on a project.
 
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