What Do You Do When You're Not Doing CNC

[Geof]

I figured I would revive this thread to wish everyone a

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

My current, non-CNC, activity is sitting at my computer eating Ginger Bread cookies bought in Germany a couple of weeks ago. Life has been good to me this past year and I spent almost two months enjoying myself travelling. I could really learn to like being retired.

[RICHARD ZASTROW]

Lebkuchen?

Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

Dick Z

[ger21]

These are from September.
Zip Line in Roatan.

[Geof]

I had to Google 'Roatan' to find out where it is.

Vastly different to where I was in September. We took a cruise around North of Scotland and had some 'interesting' seas in the Pentland Firth. Waves up to 40', fifty six broken windows on the ship, windows on deck 8 were shattered and the theatre flooded 9 inches deep and the bow area and some hull plating buckled. Fortunately only two minor injuries from flying glass, the worst of it happened when half the passengers were in the theatre and the other half in the dining rooms so people were not walking around.

[Geof]

Lebkuchen?

Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

Dick Z

And Stohlen, and marzipan, and goulash, and bratwurst, and, and, etc, until I couldn't fit in my clothes. Had a great time: lucky enough to fly into Franfurt just before it shutdown at the beginning of December and then out again just before it shutdown a week or so back. Otherwise I would still be there I think.

[ger21]

Waves up to 40', fifty six broken windows on the ship, windows on deck 8 were shattered and the theatre flooded 9 inches deep and the bow area and some hull plating buckled.

That might deter the wife from future cruising.

[Geof]

In our case no; actually we found it interesting. We were at dinner just having finished our first course when the first big thump came and dishes and bottles of wine went everywhere. The captain gave an announcement that everyone should stay where they were so we quickly got our server to grab two intact bottles of of wine. Of course the galley had just plated up the main course and we were informed that was now decorating the galley floor so dinner was concelled. We didn't mind because we had plenty of wine and about an hour and a half later when the wine was almost gone, the seas had subsided and almost everyone had left the dining room our server showed up with trays full of food. So we ordered more wine and had a great feast.

[Dugg]

I'm building a '27 Ford roadster street rod. All the brackets on the chassis are CNC machined and I'm a pretty decent welder.
I designed the whole car on Mastercam starting with a 15" circles for wheels and working up and out from there.

I was building a helicopter around an Allison 250 turbine until one day my said if I wanted to finish it, I'd have to get a full time job... to which I said, let me give that some serious thought, no thanks.

The street rod is cheaper.

[DouglasR]

I love my old cars!
Here are a few I've rescued.

[tobyaxis]

Nice!!! I'm sure we will all be needing one of these some day DouglasR .

Lately I've been playing with my new toy, a 2011 2500HD. She's 8 months old now but still smells new like the first day we bought her.

My wife named her T-Rex.

Tongue weight is 1500 Lbs
Max Towing 13,000Lbs

Have fun with your toys. I'll be towing a 10,300 LB 37 foot Camper Trailer upstate NY this summer.

[Geof]

.....Lately I've been playing with my new toy,....

A voice from the past!!!!

Where have you been hiding these past few months?

My latest toy isn't quite a T-rex but it is lots of fun. We bought a cabin up in the mountains and my son-in-law and I bought snowmobiles to go even further up in the mountains. The cabin is circled in the second picture.

And I didn't respond earlier because I was in a cruise ship off the Kamchatka Peninsula on a cruise from Kobe to Vancouver.