Doohicksie

No, just a coincidence I thought the forum might appreciate.

Just got home and watched the highlights. Looks like I missed a good one. Talking to my son and daughter-in-law and they mentioned names they're thinking of for their baby boy due in May. Right now they're leaning toward Bowen. My DIL is Chinese and it's actually a pretty common name there; it means "great knowledge" or "great culture". I like the name.

I'm over at my son's house so I guess I'll miss this one.

In other news, my family room remodel is coming along. There was probably 50-year-old water damage that was covered up by paneling and popcorn ceiling. After scraping the popcorn I found an area that really should be replaced but the drywall seems solid enough so I've just primed it with a sealing primer and skim coating it for now. If it gives me more trouble down the road then I'll replace it. I think I'd have to hire someone out for that and I'm avoiding that for now. The wall in that area I decided to completely re-do. I disconnected the outdated electrical circuit on that side of the room and ran new electrical. I have a known good (modern wire, grounded) feed on the plug that circuit connected to, but the rest of the wiring was ungrounded stuff that was not close to being to code. Then as I replaced the drywall, I also ran the electrical behind it, one sheet of drywall at a time. The room has loose fill fiberglass insulation. I found that if I was careful about it, I could remove the old drywall and the insulation would stay in place in some cases (in others it just tumbled out). So where the insulation stayed up I left it, and put up new insulation batting where I needed to. The foundation for the exterior walls juts into the room an inch or two at the bottom of the wall, so I encased the concrete foundation in dimensional lumber and will paint it the same color as the walls, and that will give me something to attach the baseboard trim to after I eventually put down plank flooring. Last weekend I got the new electrical hooked up on that side of the room and all is good. Then I turned my attention to the ceiling and it's getting there. Next will be taping/mudding the walls on that side of the room, then painting the ceiling and walls, then moving the furniture and junk to that side of the room and do the same on the other side. It's been interesting seeing how the house was built. I felt that this room, structurally a garage, was never used as one, since there's a corner fireplace that blocks where the garage door opening would be. I've changed my mind; in the wall I've been working on I can see the header structure for the garage door, and can see where they added the concrete footing wall in the garage door gap. The builder/original owner must have planned that fireplace from the beginning though, because the fireplace brick matches the home's exterior brick. Working on old homes can be really interesting. And terrifying.

What are the odds that a passenger aircraft flips over on landing and everyone survives? Wild. I poked around a little bit. Apparently the wind speed was measured at about 40 mph just before they landed. Max wind speed for a CRJ to land in? 40 mph. I think that's ultimately going to be determined to be the major cause of that incident.

Just looking at the numbers, @Pimlach. I was just as surprised.

Power - Bryson = good

Maybe someone heard that someone on the Sabres wishes they still had Mitts?

There were whole threads about it.

I didn't watch it.

Lack of coaching made him lazy in Buffalo.

I need the Sports Pack to get the NHL network on Spectrum.

The article seems like a hodge-podge of random data points. Not sure you can draw any conclusions from it. It never said how league viewership is doing overall.

Yeah, well, I probably won't watch any of it.