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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out

Where's my weekend? I want a refund. Finished "temporary" steps yesterday. I'm beat today. Nothing's in code right now.

As for permit, once what we were replacing became more than what we were keeping, we needed a permit. Even if it's the same dimensions. If we build without permit, we can't sell house until it's up to code. Gah.
I need to jam. No practice last two weeks.
 
Where's my weekend? I want a refund. Finished "temporary" steps yesterday. I'm beat today. Nothing's in code right now.

As for permit, once what we were replacing became more than what we were keeping, we needed a permit. Even if it's the same dimensions. If we build without permit, we can't sell house until it's up to code. Gah.
I need to jam. No practice last two weeks.
Did somebody just driveby and stop to give you a Stop Work order?
That's pretty crappy of them.
 
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Gotta make 200lbs of baguettes and 200 lbs of pretzel buns. Should be a light night. Hoping to be home dooming at 6 or 7.

Why no babies???!? Get 'em started young. ;)

Ugh, that gives me bad memories of having to make dinner rolls. A single batch was 80 pounds of dough, to be cut, weighed, and rolled. Never got buy with less than two, and generally made three or four.
 
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Ugh, that gives me bad memories of having to make dinner rolls. A single batch was 80 pounds of dough, to be cut, weighed, and rolled. Never got buy with less than two, and generally made three or four.

I work at a local artisan bakery that produces around 20,000 lbs of bread daily. I normally run 500lbs solo. I am actually in training to become a supervisor and am expected to oversee a team that will produce 4-600lbs of product from bag o' flour to packed product per person. My trainer and I made like 4000 lbs of baguettes last week, 1300 in one morning. It was intense.

If you were hand rolling those dinner rolls I can only imagine the forearm endurance you built up. Or maybe they were already in good fitness;).

I had never dreamed that I would be a baker, especially when I was sitting in all of those college classrooms. But with a sociology BA and the job market in the ****ter I had to find something. Now I work for a company that I love, produce a product that I can be proud of and gain recognition for my efforts. The job is quickly becoming a career and I am good with it.

I will have to indulge you guys with some bread porn down the line, as I know y'all love to talk about food and cooking.
 
I work at a local artisan bakery that produces around 20,000 lbs of bread daily. I normally run 500lbs solo. I am actually in training to become a supervisor and am expected to oversee a team that will produce 4-600lbs of product from bag o' flour to packed product per person. My trainer and I made like 4000 lbs of baguettes last week, 1300 in one morning. It was intense.

If you were hand rolling those dinner rolls I can only imagine the forearm endurance you built up. Or maybe they were already in good fitness;).

I had never dreamed that I would be a baker, especially when I was sitting in all of those college classrooms. But with a sociology BA and the job market in the ****ter I had to find something. Now I work for a company that I love, produce a product that I can be proud of and gain recognition for my efforts. The job is quickly becoming a career and I am good with it.

I will have to indulge you guys with some bread porn down the line, as I know y'all love to talk about food and cooking.

Yeah we rolled them all out by hand. 2.5 oz each, natural yeast, proof before baking off.

That was just the bread for the table. We had a sh!t ton of other prep daily as well. My forearms and hands were up to the task when I started, but rolling bread and shucking oysters built is up even more. We put the new guys on bread solo for the first week or so when they started. If they couldnt hack that prep, they wouldnt stick around to cook on the line when we were getting slammed.
 
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So I cracked open that Geddy Lee and it's mystery preamp has no markings but looks professional. Also no batteries unless they are supposed to be under the pickguard so maybes it's passive? 3 knobs two switches and a like varitone switch thing?
Is that the Miami Vice pastel preamp. I owned a 1991 Kawasaki KLR650 and the color pattern for that year bike model was jokingly and appropriately referred to as the Miami Vice model LOL.
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Did somebody just driveby and stop to give you a Stop Work order?
That's pretty crappy of them.
Nope, but we plan on selling in the next year and didn't want to build twice. If the drop between the land and the house was 24" or less, we wouldn't need a permit. If the ground was 24" or less it would cover my basement window well. The best bet was to build something small, that we could use until we sort the legal part. We made it out of all scrap wood, except for some 4x4" that I had for a fence project. My house was built in the 1980's and the previous owners did not really upkeep anything. The solid oak hardwood had to come out, the redwood deck, we just destroyed. Sucks to have all this nice, unusable material.
 
Sleep slacker rock for your Monday morning:

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Man good stuff, dig it! Neuro put me on new medicine for migraine aura and not sure if the new meds or the rainy weather got to me or both in conjunction but I vegged the whole weekend and listened to a lot of music and this would of been perfect for that. Head was hurting too much for heavy stuff and after listening to stoner and doom for a few years now I am not digging a lot of stuff I used to love.
 
Man good stuff, dig it! Neuro put me on new medicine for migraine aura and not sure if the new meds or the rainy weather got to me or both in conjunction but I vegged the whole weekend and listened to a lot of music and this would of been perfect for that. Head was hurting too much for heavy stuff and after listening to stoner and doom for a few years now I am not digging a lot of stuff I used to love.
I haven't put on a punk record for a few weeks, but I jammed some Wu Tang the other day. Forever is pure gold.

Stoner/doom/heavy, is what mostly rules my ear holes these days. It like music in standard tuning just seems to be missing something... So, I think I know what you are going through.
 
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I'm down for some porn, er bread porn.
Hell I'd just love to see all the stainless y'all got laying around to make it with.
I love industrial food equipment.

We have 2 large shaping machines, a 500lb mixer and a few stationary mixers, 5 rack ovens and 6-door, 9-door and 12-door stone ovens. I'd love to take a picture of the shaping machines and post them, but since as you are probably aware, most of that stuff is custom built for the production space. Although this is just the TB S/D thread, I fear the potential outcome of uploading those kind of pictures on to the internet. It would probably never get back around to me, but if it did I would probably get canned. I will snap some pics though. The sheer amount of flour is mind bending. Something like 150k lbs.
 
Man good stuff, dig it! Neuro put me on new medicine for migraine aura and not sure if the new meds or the rainy weather got to me or both in conjunction but I vegged the whole weekend and listened to a lot of music and this would of been perfect for that. Head was hurting too much for heavy stuff and after listening to stoner and doom for a few years now I am not digging a lot of stuff I used to love.

I listened to that album almost every morning first thing for a year when I had a record store job. It's a good album for that time of day. Or lazy rainy afternoons at home. They have a few other albums that are pretty good too, but York Blvd is my favorite of theirs.
 
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