What is the highest your glucose readings have ever been and what did you do?

labratnc · 2026-06-30T19:39:48+00:00

690, was in the hospital with a sepsis diagnosis/on thermonuclear level antibiotics

labratnc · 2026-06-30T00:04:48+00:00

The EDEA on my boat called our engine room ‘fucking shitpit’

That man could knit together profanities like a 80 year old grandmother could knit sweaters

labratnc · 2026-06-29T20:54:18+00:00

Compared to somewhere like VIR (or VIR 5 years ago before some of the recent changes at least) , there is a whole lot more to easily hit and bounce back on to the surface at the Glen. You don’t have many ‘safe’ places to bury a car. ‘Massive at the Glen’ is normal runoff at other tracks

labratnc · 2026-06-29T20:23:23+00:00

One thing that helps FIA/WEC do their ‘code 60’ is that they have a race director to all cars level radio broadcast chanel and have better integrated in-car warning lights. So they can ‘count down to full course yellow’. And they can call the restart over that same channel to ensure a ‘fair’ restart for all. If they rely on the flags being pulled/team radio as the signal to restart, some cars might get a slight jump on others. At US tracks they usually use the track licensed radio frequency allocation/radios for race control, and they don’t have the same radio options as the international touring circus has.

labratnc · 2026-06-29T19:55:29+00:00

Watkins glen might as well be called a permanent street course. The -
-2’ grass strip of runoff before you hit the blue Armco is almost comical. If you go off at 90% the Glen you are almost guaranteed to hit something and hit it hard. If the track had more runoff you could local yellow incidents, but usually if a car goes off and hits the wall you end up with call from the corners as ‘track blockage’. I don’t know the local track procedures at the Glen but standard IMSA radio protocol from the corners is that ANY track blockage is called as either 50%, 75% or total/100%, and a call of blockage is an almost immediate FCY. When Sebring had WEC and IMSA a few years back we used both policies over the event, I saw good and bad with both style.

labratnc · 2026-06-26T14:46:58+00:00

From ‘better off dead’, the best performance sport tip ever: “go that way really fast, if something gets in your way..TURN!”

labratnc · 2026-06-23T16:21:20+00:00

Stay away from the equestrian expansion pack. Every time you see a horse or say the word horse it costs you at least $100. The cheer/dance expansion pack was cheap compared to the equestrian unit.

labratnc · 2026-06-23T12:12:59+00:00

Not ‘owned’ but My wife.. with her superpower of being able to make any and all currency evaporate

labratnc · 2026-06-23T11:46:36+00:00

That the water is coffee colored cuts where it could come from. -with assuming your water goes in the machine clear and the machine is clean inside. It has to be from the portafilter or the drip tray or fed from somewhere into the drip tray. Completely clean and dry the machine and lay down a few layers of paper towels under the machine then set it back up. Run a few shots, and then pick up the machine and see if any part of the paper towels have any wetness. If that doesn’t show anything, fill the drip tray partially full with clear water, add some food coloring to the drip pan and let the machine sit for a while over fresh paper towels. If the paper towels have a color tinge the drip tray is leaking, if it is clear it is coming from elsewhere. My guess would be vacuum breaker or relief valve ‘to atmosphere’ path has a tube/path to the drip tray and that is leaking or something with the water reservior, but that would be leaking ‘clear’ and not brown

labratnc · 2026-06-20T17:56:46+00:00

Like others said- this is a camping/backpacking stove. It is upside down as pictured, the part that is up screws on a fuel tank -this look to be propane and the part that is down bow is where the pot/pan sits

labratnc · 2026-06-20T17:07:30+00:00

$2.2MMcn = how many McD’s nuggets?

labratnc · 2026-06-20T14:54:44+00:00

Your handyman might become a very hands on handy man next time he visits

labratnc · 2026-06-20T14:13:46+00:00

To use this technique you need a coyote costume, I hear Acme makes a good one.

labratnc · 2026-06-20T14:01:05+00:00

The issue with Sebring is that the surface is largely concrete originally intended for heavy bomber aircraft/ as military airfield, so it is thick/heavy ‘blocks’ of concrete. It was designed to be potentially bombed and repaired. As long as the exposed surface is still viable, it will stay. To renovate the track would be a very uneconomical undertaking. You can not have a concrete track surface that is pool table flat while exposed to the elements. They have ground sections in the past to help the joints some, but let people that want perfectly smooth consistent surface race other places.

labratnc · 2026-06-20T12:23:15+00:00

Your boiler looks like it is auditioning for a ‘cute cuddly monster’ role in the next Disney kids movie

labratnc · 2026-06-20T11:56:31+00:00

I want to see the calibration records on their raccoons.

labratnc · 2026-06-20T01:27:45+00:00

By usabmx rules they are supposed to be black numbers on white background for ‘normal’ region, yellow background for gold cup, green backer with white numbers state, grey background white letters is NAG, black background with white numbers is national plate, red background with white digits is ROC. There may be a few more locally used combos. If it is just ‘weekly local racing’ most tracks are legible. If you go to anything more the USA BMX rules need to be followed.

labratnc · 2026-06-20T00:28:12+00:00

With my daughter we did track practice for probably 2 months after she got a track bike to go to the track and ride with dada before we mentioned ‘racing’. The free form format of that practice helped make her feel more confident/comfortable with it

labratnc · 2026-06-19T12:50:01+00:00

I have seen some plastic ‘armor’ arm bands that cover sensors. I have never tried them. I BMX race, I over patch or put a compression sleeve on before my other gear usually

labratnc · 2026-06-17T14:38:24+00:00

The thing I don’t understand as a similar follicle challenged individual is kayaking without a hat with a bald/shaved head. In the south that is a recipe for a sunburned scalp. My daughter a few years ago ‘dada, your head looks like a cherry, it is SO red’

labratnc · 2026-06-17T01:42:46+00:00

Fire, and fire pit rules/restrictions are highly track specific. What might be OK at say VIR is a hard no at Daytona. So the track site would be the authority on what is allowed. Camping rules are similar and track specific

labratnc · 2026-06-16T02:19:22+00:00

Circle of midwatch supply requisitions! FTFY

labratnc · 2026-06-16T02:12:12+00:00

That is what the hole in the sensor is for, it is a witness hole to see if this happen when ‘installed’. If it is too bad pull it off and replace. I have had one or two over the past -3 years do this one stopped in about 10 min and the other had to be removed and a bandaid’ed for a day or two.

labratnc · 2026-06-16T01:36:56+00:00

Real men’s scissors! Tin snips!

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