What's everyone up to right now?

[emjay]

Uncomfortably holed up in my bedroom binge watching SWAT on Netflix, dreaming of our current heatwave ending... it just makes it impossible to do anything, so just been stuck in a state of lethargy for several days now with temperatures around 28 degrees C, which is very hot for us.

And that on top of it being 'Freedom Day' outside, or what I'm preferring to call the Purge ie the day all/most Covid restrictions in the UK are being lifted. Reasonable minds can differ on the wisdom of that but personally I think going from basically total lockdown to total freedom in one day is not a great idea, hence thinking of it as something akin to the Purge. Suffice it to say I'm not looking forward to going out there amongst people throwing all caution to the wind because of this, as is already evident from footage of nightclubs which presumably came into operation at midnight last night. Don't get me wrong, I miss nightclubs, but I'm nowhere near at the point where I'd feel comfortable going in one without a mask or social distancing, but clearly I'm in the minority on that.

[brewer]

Repaired our carpet shampooer, the brush heads had stopped turning. Thank you Youtube!

[Rev. Rye]

Here's one thing that happened during this vacation: Until fairly recently, one of the "yeah, I'm never doing that" things was going all the way up to Eagle Tower. It was about 75 feet tall, and looked like this:


Then, the state of Wisconsin decided it needed to be deconstructed and rebuilt. It was closed in 2015, deconstructed the next year, and I came back this year to find the new Eagle Tower in its place: 

It's 60 feet tall (shorter than it had been), and it's developed a new feature that somehow made it less intimidating to me: an 850-foot ramp. It's probably the closest I'll ever get to crossing the Bridge over the River Kwai (note: the one still standing in real life is a rebuilt version of the one originally built, in concrete and iron, not wood). Here's what it looks like:



It wasn't really intimidating until you got to the last stretch, when you could finally see the end, and at points, it looked like a sheer drop. Finding some of the knots in the wood had fallen down didn't help, since you could still see the drop. Fortunately, the tower was secure enough, and, after about a minute, I hastily descended the  tower.

Here's a woman who filmed herself going all the way up:




And here’s something I actually took (partly because I'm not quite satisfied that the pics I took can do the thing justice and partly because I wrote most of this on my laptop, and my pics are on my iPad):



The next day, we tried, and eventually failed, to get tickets to see a Gypsy Jazz ensemble at Fishstock (my Dad's neck was bad, so we didn't go).

And now, I'm getting ready to see a one-man version of Hamlet at Door Shakespeare, the first of only four plays I'll be able to see this season.

[AkiraTheViking]

^ I'm guessing you have a fear of heights? Both versions doesn't look that bad, they have railings and stuff.
Back in 2017 I climbed up this mofo:

And even though I'm not afraid of heights for some reason the lack of railings caused my survival instincts to kick in and I started crawling up the stairs when I only had a 1/3 left to the top. Suffice to say I did made it.

[Angrboda]

Baseball. We won the first game of a double-header, and Mitch Garver, just back from IR, hit two home runs! Go Twinkies!

[Fireball]

Back in the '80s I climbed a 200 foot radio tower. It was just a triangular structure that was erected into the sky, with guy wires to stabilize it in the wind. I get vertigo, much to my chagrin, but I climbed all the way to the top and stuck my head out...and froze. I eventually was able to pull back below the trap door and climb back down. One of my fellow workers got out on the platform and counted to ten. Another guy made it about 30 feet and then scurried back down.

I worked at Cape Canaveral on and off from '01 until '07. Launch Complex 40 (demolished, and a new once since rebuilt) at level 20 is about 200 feet AGL. If the air is clear, one can see Cuba. I walked on the outside walkway with my inboard shoulder brushing the structure, but I did it...and that's another climb I'm not anxious to repeat.

[HappySkeptic]

I have a threshold of about 40 feet, above which I start to panic.

I nearly had a heart attack at the Athabasca Glacier Skywalk

[arewethereyet]

I have a threshold of about 40 feet, above which I start to panic.

I nearly had a heart attack at the Athabasca Glacier Skywalk

I can stand on the kitchen table to clean the ceiling fan. It's a taller cafe table...that's about my limit. I have to take some deep breaths before I stand all the way up and reach for the fan.

As I kid I was at the top of the Cape Hatteras Light more than once (roughly 190 feet)...I honestly do not know when my fear of heights started. As a kid I climbed trees and playground equipment like a damn monkey. My stomach drops now when a movie does a quick shot over the edge of even a second floor balcony.

[brewer]

My wife had a molar extraction earlier today, had the clot come out when removing the gauze and is on her way back to the dentist. I don't anticipate a pleasant evening. Thankfully there is hydro waiting once she gets home.

[arewethereyet]

My wife had a molar extraction earlier today, had the clot come out when removing the gauze and is on her way back to the dentist. I don't anticipate a pleasant evening. Thankfully there is hydro waiting once she gets home.

I so feel for her. I had two lower molars removed a couple months ago. On one of them two of the roots broke off making the procedure exponentially worse. Doctors and dentists here are afraid to prescribe anything any more. I feel like I lost two weeks of my life completely and suffered another month...my food intake was reduced to soup, sherbet, pudding, and jell-o.

I'm still pissed that all that milk I was forced to drink as a kid didn't help me have better teeth.