Delta! 987 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Today is my first day at my new job, I'm super psyched, and excited, but also a bit nervous(what if I'm not what they expected?). But just living in the beautiful Cape Winelands are already worth it. will post pictures later on, but it is scenic mountains, and vineyards, and the area is soooo green! Delta! Link to comment
Scleameth 19 Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Today is my first day at my new job, I'm super psyched, and excited, but also a bit nervous(what if I'm not what they expected?). But just living in the beautiful Cape Winelands are already worth it. will post pictures later on, but it is scenic mountains, and vineyards, and the area is soooo green! Delta! Congrats!! Hope you enjoy the Cape, maaan Remember getting out of bed before 9am is considered a felony... Link to comment
Delta! 987 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Today is my first day at my new job, I'm super psyched, and excited, but also a bit nervous(what if I'm not what they expected?). But just living in the beautiful Cape Winelands are already worth it. will post pictures later on, but it is scenic mountains, and vineyards, and the area is soooo green! Delta! Congrats! Hope you enjoy the Cape, maaan Remember getting out of bed before 9am is considered a felony... Thank you, the Cape is wonderfull, but unfortunately work starts at 7:00 in the morning already. what a shocker for me, I used to get up at 8 to be at work at 10:00 only! But working at Delaire is sooooo worth it, the stuff I'm learning is brilliant! I'll post pictures in Good food we serve at the restaurant soon, but so far it is only desserts. Delta! Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 zomgod, Theuns, it sounds like you've run off too retire to some lush wine land where delicious chef-cooked foods grow on trees? gogo P.s. Tell me about the plating test. Do they make you plate a food item from your own repertoire, or do they show you something on their own menu that they want you to see if you can handle? Are you presenting yourself as a desert mainly cook or as Savory as well? Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 The whidow of my best friend asked me to put names on old pictures from the time before she met him. I started with the first concert I visited with my nowadays wife, my friend and his then girlfriend: Fury in the Slaughterhouse. We drove there with motorbikes and put up tents and a campfire before we returned. Won't forget these days: I had a guitar. a harmonica and a tamborine with me. Had a sidecar on my bike,so I had some room. We sung some of the Fury's songs, mainly 'Radio Orchid'. It is a fantastic song for campfires,but rarely played on radio. Link to comment
Lord Marius 3 Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 (edited) Ive started planing to make my knight armor, I'm wish to join medieval reenactment groups all over Europe and set my self as a good example of knightly conduct and skill. My first task was relatively simple find a reliable blacksmith who shares my passion for medieval arms, then convince him to help me. The biggest hurdle I have now is getting enough cash to make the project a reality. First I wish to make a sword, a templar great helm, a pair of gauntlets and sabatons. To give you a idea the helm looks like this...My link The greathelm and sword arent mine, but the chain mail is, and to give you a impression as to how hard it is to be a knight that chain mail weighs 15 kg. Edited November 20, 2011 by Lord Marius Link to comment
Popular Post chattius 2,526 Posted May 12, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 12, 2022 Two weeks ago I dismantled our Fasssauna (barrel sauna) to check for damages, moulds, ... Rebuild will be this weekend at my brothers place. Our house, barns are under cultural heritage protection. So permanent buildings (such with a fundament) are not allowed or need a long paperfight. The barrel type sauna can be easily dismantled. Its sockets keep it away from ground so it stays dry and is in less danger to rot. The round shape is least surface to volume, It also has few angles where water could condense. The new Fasssauna will be way bigger because of the bigger family (hope covid isn't a factore in summer). Two cousins are carpenters and I am not a complete beinner in woodwork and so the costs will be really minimal. just the needed not selfmade parts (42mm thick panorama thermo glas, electric oven, screws and mounts), 10 pizza and a 50 litre barrel beer ~ 6000€. Cost when a company would build an equivalent one would be 22000+€. Okay the cousins asked if they could show it to possible customers. They plan to make parts for more saunas in winter when the carpenter business is on low flame, so mine is just a prototype. The sauna-side will be pointing towards the ponds and the valley. It will be like two barrels with a connecting part with the entrance door. One barrel with the sauna and the panorama window, one barrel to change clothes, the electrics and storage. Doing two barrels will keep the planks short- so easy to dismantle. Should be hydraulic liftable for transport without dismantling. This is needed for access to the in mountain rooms behind the which are part of our water clearing. Without all the extras, a do it yourself two person barrelsauna starts at around 1000 euro. To get an idea about what I mean with panorama window: 2 Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 I had a dislocated shoulder several time 12-20 years ago. A surgery solved this. For the several rehabs I got my own shoulder-chair, a CPM machine, continous passive motion robot. Mom fell short before x-mas as I posted somewhere else. Needed an implant for her upper leg and the humerus is now a big mess of plates and screws. The rehab has one CPM but several people needing it. So she can use it only 2 times a day each 15 minutes. The docs, med students, nurses in my family said that she need way more time with the CPM. We looked after my CPM stored in the barn: still working but a way too big. I shortened the metal arm with a laser cutter at work, calibrated the engines and re-wrote the software together with our second who studies orthepedics and arteficial limbs. My wife did a plastic model of the arm of my mom and a 3D printer did a soft perfect fitting cover of the metal arm. Our oldest and her husband worked on a programmable control for the shoulder-chair: now including controlling of TV, radio, sun covers of windows, ... All in all took 4 days and she needs it for at least two more month. 1 Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 You always have these amazing project chattius I woud not know where I would find the time! No grand projects here... Just a whole backlog of little ones. Sometimes I wish we hadn't bought a house. 1 Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 1 hour ago, Timotheus said: You always have these amazing project chattius I woud not know where I would find the time! No grand projects here... Just a whole backlog of little ones. Sometimes I wish we hadn't bought a house. An own house is actually a big real life project. If you think you did the most - laws will change and better isolation, more modern heating and whatever are demanded. And with an house under cultural heritage this will result in lots and lots of paperwork with different authorities. Germany is a third world country in this, they all rely on paper which has to be done by the owner instead going digital and exchange the data from authority to authority. No, they are old school and send a paper demand to the owner as it was done 250 years ago when our house got its nowadays shape. The CPM robot was more a whole family project, my own contribution was a single saturday morning at work for the cutting and adapting old stepping engines to a Raspberry Pi interface.The Raspberry was used in science classes at the schools of my kids. So our oldest and her husband did the user interface. The movement limits data was calculated by our second who is in orthopedics, my brother as an engineer did the savety certification, ... The project was cut in pieces and each piece done by another person. 1 Link to comment
Popular Post gogoblender 3,070 Posted February 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2023 5 hours ago, Timotheus said: You always have these amazing project chattius I woud not know where I would find the time! No grand projects here... Just a whole backlog of little ones. Sometimes I wish we hadn't bought a house. omgod...what you said Timo... My fam is constantly on me for getting a house...meanwhile..im five minute walk from the underground metro, tons of food vendors down the street, Mount Royal right behind me ( I can run or hike every morning ) ... cheap (ish) rent ...lol I sometimes think the fam just wants me to share their *house suffering* and think that im "getting away with it" gogo 2 Link to comment
Popular Post chattius 2,526 Posted February 24, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 24, 2023 16 hours ago, gogoblender said: omgod...what you said Timo... My fam is constantly on me for getting a house...meanwhile..im five minute walk from the underground metro, tons of food vendors down the street, Mount Royal right behind me ( I can run or hike every morning ) ... cheap (ish) rent ...lol I sometimes think the fam just wants me to share their *house suffering* and think that im "getting away with it" gogo You don't buy a house for yourself. We didn't buy one till our second was on her way. At our oldest we were still at university. You buy a house for the kids, a garden, nature and fresh air, dogs, ... Later -when the kids are out of house- it will be a place where all meet from time to time - hopefully. But with an own house on countryside you can do alot of jokes town life: small dogs and big rats hunting them, omg missed the bus and it will take 10 minutes till the next bus village life: big dogs and small cute rodents, you never miss a bus because you can hear the only bus from 3 villages away. 1 1 Link to comment
Popular Post Timotheus 416 Posted September 7, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted September 7, 2023 Well I might as well share the news here. We're going to have a baby this November... So yeah, big project 1 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted September 7, 2023 Share Posted September 7, 2023 5 hours ago, Timotheus said: Well I might as well share the news here. We're going to have a baby this November... So yeah, big project Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! Timo oooooooooooooh, thats so awesome!!!! Congratz my old friend now, new daddy gonna be!!! gogo 1 Link to comment
Popular Post chattius 2,526 Posted September 9, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2023 On 9/7/2023 at 8:33 PM, Timotheus said: Well I might as well share the news here. We're going to have a baby this November... So yeah, big project Congratulations - Surely something that changes life There is an old african saying: It needs a village to raise a kid! Hope you have your village: family, friends, good neighbours in times of need ,... We were lucky in this and we hope you will be lucky too 1 2 Link to comment
Delta! 987 Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 Congratulations Timo. Hope the mother and the baby are both doing well. And you? Getting enough propper sleep? Link to comment
gogoblender 3,070 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 c'mon Timo... share share share...he'll be one of our youngest members yet! Wait... I think Llama posted an ultra sound when he had his first kid years ago! gogo Link to comment
Popular Post Delta! 987 Posted January 29 Popular Post Share Posted January 29 Latest Real Life project that I think I have finished with, at least as far as I know, is our home... This is what the basic flat looks like. I did not take pictures of exactly what my flat looked like before we started... but they are all the same basically, some of the photos are flats that are currently in the market, it might just be a mirror image of mine. Those photos are all from Property24, and is a good example of what the basic flat looks like. This is what the outside and Patio looked like when I just moved in, these are photos that I took to apply for the closing of the patio. First I took the sliding door out and replaced it with framed stacking doors that we always keep open. the last picture is just the difference when we watered the grass a bit... What I have done since I have moved in is painted the walls a new light grey colour, installed new lights, New kitchen cupboards including a spice rack and extended the counter, and added more drawers, added an Inverter and battery that helps with Loadshedding (a truly South African experience where our energy supplier "Eskom" switches off the power on a schedule, for about 2,5 to sometimes 4 hours... because they did not do maintenance and let our power stations go down the drain, now they can't supply the county with enough electricity.), added small cupboards above the doors in the bedrooms, put new bathroom cabinets in, as well as extra towel rails, extended the Patio roof and enclosed the patio with glass stacking doors, added a ceiling below the extended patio, did laminate flooring to cover the broken tiles on the patio, added a new cupboard in an alcove/useless nook (where the microwave now stands), installed a wine rack that can hold 395 bottles, mounted the TV on the wall, Installed shelves in the enclosed patio area, which we now call the dining room, we also redid the garden, at first we just started by watering it a little, and getting the grass to grow and become green... and then I got a landscaping company to extend the bedding, install a watering system, add 2 new bedding's and put a border around the garden beds. The Bedrooms got retractable ceiling fans with new lights, and 3 HALO lights in the living room and dining room. I think for now, we are done.... 1 1 Link to comment
chattius 2,526 Posted January 31 Author Share Posted January 31 Nice Never had the luck(?) myself to design the interior of a house. Old beast was build before there were any norms and is under cultural heritage. So we normally repair the perfect fitting old furniture. Only the kids rooms are new. Were former cow stalls. Link to comment
Timotheus 416 Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 On 1/25/2024 at 4:08 PM, Delta! said: Congratulations Timo. Hope the mother and the baby are both doing well. And you? Getting enough propper sleep? Our little guy could not wait to get out, Tam's leave was about to start when her water broke. He was born 3 days later, almost 5 weeks early. They spent 2 weeks in the hospital, there was some medical stuff after, but all well and good now. Just getting used to a constant lack of time and sleep On 1/27/2024 at 4:30 PM, gogoblender said: c'mon Timo... share share share...he'll be one of our youngest members yet! Wait... I think Llama posted an ultra sound when he had his first kid years ago! gogo I prefer not to throw pics of the kiddo online hope you don't mind it's his choice in my opinion, not mine. And since he can't choose yet, I prefer to keep him offline. @Delta! Your place looks amazing you should be proud! The painters are here to do our window sills and stuff, some much needed maintenance! 1 Link to comment
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