Bobbio: :eek: 
neck spasm acting up. blurf
Kopek, I am hoping to avoid travelling by hovercraft since they do have a tendency to be full of eels, but at least they will make a very nice angolna pörkölt if we catch enough of them.
Welcome, magnum - don’t worry about this lot, they are crazy but they’re not troublesome. Apart from Flytrap and the Cap’n when they start hatching plans involving sharks and stuff. BTW, Cap’n, there is a working trebuchet not too far from where I live…just sayin’
I suppose I ought to pack at some point since I am off on my travels tomorrow. First order of the day will be taking the mogs to the feline holiday camp for their break, then back home to stash the mog-carriers and collect the steamer trunk ready to head off to the airport. Yes. Packing. Hmm…maybe I’ll just have another cup of tea first.
Hey! all you sound engineers! Check out this book!
(it’s by my Bro - he’s an industry expert)
Moi?
BooFae, please go there & get us contact info for Dr Peter Vemming, who the website lists as building their trebuchet. Imma thinkin’ he could help us with the launch angle of the finned projectiles, especially since they list firing it about 800 times per year. 
Who is going to crank up the !@#$ thing?
You’re using the wrong ammo. From the website: Manure and dead animals were also hurled by the machines into the besieged castle to spread disease! Pigs were often picked as the animal of choice as they were thought to be more aerodynamic! In this case, pigs most definitely could fly!
Ummmm, I suggest you start hitting the gym!
I’d think sharks (& their fins) are more aerodynamic than dead pigs.
Sometimes, flying pigs even dress like me! 
First load of laundry is done, second load is in the dryer, third load is in the washer.
Pizza had been delivered, Sah-son is chowing down but I had a few bites of my cheeseburger sub and that was enough. Nothing tastes right when I have a cold.
I’m getting my moving plans together. OAOASO is going to help me move, he has a big pickup and a trailer so hopefully that is all I will need and it all can be done in one trip. We really don’t have a lot until I start looking around and it’s more than I think. I need boxes and I to start throwing a lot of stuff out.
Supper was fish-n-chips. We’s stuffded. Now we’re showered and chilling till bedtime. MWAH!
I gotta disagree. Pigs are more roundish, while sharks are too long. Once tumbling starts to occur while in flight - and don’t kid yourself, anything flung by a trebuchet (or lesser weaponry) WILL start to tumble almost immediately - the roundish projectile will be less affected, and land with greater accuracy. That’s why the knights and engineers used boulders instead of blocks or logs. Basic aerodynamics, I should think.
So I have to come up with a plan to get a physical inventory count completed in the very near future. Level of difficulty: it has to happen over a Friday and Saturday, and the Accounting office has to have all of their receipts and issuances completed within the inventory program. They are usually one month behind on that stuff, so our inventory is always one month (or worse) out of date. Also, once the count is made, it has to be entered into the program before the start of the workday on the following Monday.
Happytravels BooFae andMooom.
Stoopit horsepistol still hasn’t sprung me. 
Howdy Y’all! Irk is over for the day. YAY!!! Ima make chikin fried steak for dindin along with smashed N .O.T. and peas, butterbeans ‘n okra all cooked together. Oh and cornbread. I got me a gnawin’ and a cravin’ for cornbread.
Glad to see MOOOOOOM and mom made it safely to Merrye Olde Englande. I imagine they’re snoozin’ right now.
I read but didn’t retain. Hugs, yays, smooches, boos, wedgies, chitlins, trouts, noogies and how you doin’s all around, as needed.
This is not a very smart thing to say given that 8 of the past 10 posts have been about trebuchets; would you like us to come ‘spring’ you from said horsepistol? :eek:
Get better!
Sari, what you need to do is start packing & sneak a box or two per day into your car & then over to OAOASO’s for temporary storage until moving day. That way you can move out & HFH won’t even know it. Then come back after 3-4 days & go up to your room as if nothing happened, muttering how you hate lock-up. <will the mods please give us an eeevil smiley to be inserted here>
How about sea pigs?
But if you want aerodynamic symmetry, why not bowling balls or lots of steel ball bearings?
The good news is that my brakes are fine.
The bad news is I have a wheel bearing wearing out.
The worse news is the guy who used to do my mechanicin’ moved to Louisiana.
Guess I’ll be asking people at irk tomorrow if they have any recommendations for good mechanicin’. At least wheel bearings aren’t too terribly expensive.
I did that myself when I was young. Have you any young male relatives that you trust? I rare combination, I understand.
The only male relative who’d be able to fix my car is 2.5 hours away and incredibly busy. My oldest nephew just started driving (stay off the sidewalks!) and the other three are too young just yet to mess with cars.
Victuals have been ingested. YUM! I done good.
Red if you haven’t been already, hope you’re sprung from the horsepistol soonest.
Now I shall go see what’s happenin’ on teh intartoobz.