Resistance
Willard left the revolver in this post here so I could take pics and make that post.Today I demanded he take it home before I grew too attached to it and refused to let him have it back.I made my Will...
View ArticleWhy My Sewer Repair Isn't A Cheap Trip To Home Depot
Sendarus in comments made a reasonable observation. I replied thus:That there is orangeburg pipe. The only material that's harder to patch is clay.There's a couple of reasons to bring in a pro.First...
View ArticleStill Less Offensive
Watch this:This is still less offensive to the original material than The Hobbit films.That says something.Loudly.
View ArticleUnder The Slab
The $700 spent today got the sewer fixed and the outside isolated from the inside.The leak is under the slab, on the cold side of things.$800 more for leak detection, demolition, repair and...
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I Think I've Found It
You can hear the water running with your ear close to the washer shut-offs in the garage.Looks like someone needs to break through some concrete and replace some copper.I wonder if I can save some...
View ArticleBeing A Vegetarian Is Child Abuse!
Well, it makes your descendants less likely to survive anyways.Never mind the trauma being denied bacon, look what that does to to Moslems.This study puts paid to the idea that we evolved to be...
View ArticleStill Think It's About The Weather?
Never, EVER, forget it's InterGOVERNMENTAL Panel on Climate Change.Read up.All those links I got sent just backed the lie.An obvious lie.A lie they didn't even bother to conceal.A lie you believed...
View ArticleFortunate
While I complain about my water and sewer problems...I must also reflect that I am extremely fortunate that I have the friends that I do.We were short about $1,000 of what this is going to cost to fix...
View ArticleOn Mint Juleps
How the heck is it that I have Akavit in this house but not a drop of bourbon?Something unamerican about that.And I can't make a mint-julep without bourbon.
View ArticleAmmination
This sort of stuff fascinates me.I want to do more research on that turbine now, it seems like at the pressures and temperatures the steam would be wet at that point... That's not good for turbines.
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Water Tight
We start with finding the leak.My gun and tank damaged ears pin-pointed it within a couple inches. At least as good at the $250 acoustic leak detector.Let the destruction begin!This is the leak:Let the...
View ArticleMeanwhile On The Moon
The United States of America is unique among humanity in that we sent men to walk on the moon and returned them safely.But we are NOT the only nation to have gone.The USSR sent a fucking tank!Plus lots...
View ArticlePeak Mosin
It think it's safe to call it.With SOG selling unremarkable Tula Hex 91/30 plus accessories and bayonet for $289, we're past peak Mosin. $299 for hand-picked.They're only going to get more expensive...
View ArticleSlow Clap
Verizon FIOS has been sold off to Frontier Communications.They've told us this day was coming for months.I was ready.You'll never guess who wasn't.Well, Frontier Communications, since you can't seem to...
View ArticleKing Geek
Who is the bigger nerd?The person speaking Dothraki or Klingon?Addendum: The biggest nerds speak Sindarin.
View ArticleFirst Impression
We have a new local range.And I do mean new, having been built from scratch on a property where a hotel once stood. Said hotel was razed to the ground and a new building installed.It's very large.They...
View ArticleElvish 3
I've done several things that my players despised.Not least of which has been being rational about languages.When you consider that at one time Portuguese, Spanish, French and Italian were all once...
View ArticleUglaubich
Rather than learn the right way to do something, people would much rather find an easier way to do it wrong.I am simply tired of trying to explain that doing it right in the first place is also easier...
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