Random Thoughts or Whatever
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SolderIron
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Don't step off the wrong rung on a ladder.
If you do, your bell get rung.
A few random thoughts and what not.
Walking from home to the bus stop to go to work includes walking across the front of the Cape Cod mall. Last store in the line is Target and I pass in front and along the side. So likewise, once I got the text from my manager saying no work, I had to pass by Target again. Just like the last time, the same Target employees that were waiting to be let in on the first pass were still there on the 2nd pass, freezing. What kind of cruel ogre is their boss?
Observing the shoe prints in the semi frozen glop on the sidewalk, apparently, someone was up early with nothing better to do than make as many tracks as possible. In fairness, there just isn't much to do in the middle of the night/early morning. Fellow insomniac?
Upon reaching Barnes and Noble at opposite end of the mall from Target, the 3 of us sat down on the bench and debated what to do. "Oh, that's right! I have a Dunks gift card!" So, me, myself and I agreed to go to the one on the way home. As if 3 crazy people living inside one man's head needed more caffeine at that point. Oh well.
While at Dunks, I watched some videos my hiking buddy sent me and he called in middle of one. He's on vacation this week and was idling his way in traffic and fog to New Hampshire to meet an author who wrote a book about something hiking related. It's actually warmer off Cape than on and there is less snow or really white slush. He gave himself what he thought was plenty of time only to find out he'd be late instead of early. I've had that kind of experience and it sucks.
More rain is falling, RALPH!
Walking from home to the bus stop to go to work includes walking across the front of the Cape Cod mall. Last store in the line is Target and I pass in front and along the side. So likewise, once I got the text from my manager saying no work, I had to pass by Target again. Just like the last time, the same Target employees that were waiting to be let in on the first pass were still there on the 2nd pass, freezing. What kind of cruel ogre is their boss?
Observing the shoe prints in the semi frozen glop on the sidewalk, apparently, someone was up early with nothing better to do than make as many tracks as possible. In fairness, there just isn't much to do in the middle of the night/early morning. Fellow insomniac?
Upon reaching Barnes and Noble at opposite end of the mall from Target, the 3 of us sat down on the bench and debated what to do. "Oh, that's right! I have a Dunks gift card!" So, me, myself and I agreed to go to the one on the way home. As if 3 crazy people living inside one man's head needed more caffeine at that point. Oh well.
While at Dunks, I watched some videos my hiking buddy sent me and he called in middle of one. He's on vacation this week and was idling his way in traffic and fog to New Hampshire to meet an author who wrote a book about something hiking related. It's actually warmer off Cape than on and there is less snow or really white slush. He gave himself what he thought was plenty of time only to find out he'd be late instead of early. I've had that kind of experience and it sucks.
More rain is falling, RALPH!
Sitting at the pizza parlor, paying 53.1415926535897932384626433832% attention to the Chiefs/Ravens game, the score was 17 to 7 Chiefs leading early in the 3rd quarter when I walked in. No one has scored since? With less than 5 minutes left in the game? This is why I lost interest.
Pio1980
AK Member
Because you stopped looking after you found it?
Think of all the treasures you didn't find because you stopped.
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nailer
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I don't stop until item is found.
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Pio1980
AK Member
Yes, but if you kept looking after, who knows what would have turned up.I don't stop until item is found.
Bill Ferris
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Volumetric Displacement, Q-2, I think it`s called. And blew my mind too, with the concept of a boat being built with a concrete hull !Still can't get my head around that a boat built from concrete can float.
I know the "theory" behind it...but can't appreciate it!
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Hydraulic concrete was sometimes even used to temporally patch WWII US Naval fighting ships from various hull battle damage until the ship could reach a dry dock repair capable port, I seem to remember reading decades ago.
Back around in the mid seventies, my at that time, live in GF`s friend`s Danish born craftsman husband, who designed and hand built a nearly 40 ft. sail boat out of concrete !
He first formed and poured a 2ft. thick slab of concrete pad to start building/forming/welding the keel with rebar, and wire mesh frame for the boat`s hull.
He then rented a concrete pumper, but I don`t remember the lime to sand density, or type concrete he selected, also I`m not sure, but I think the hull`s sides were at least several inches thick with a very smooth concrete finish both inside and out.
His sail boat`s design and hull was so well constructed, that he was able to readily get a loan from a bank after a Marine Surveyor appraised the the undecked but finished sail boat`s hull`s construction as collateral for the purchase of the sail boat`s expensive diesel marine rated motor.
The seasoned Marine Surveyor exclaimed that this home made sail boat`s concrete hull was the best designed attempt and execution that he had ever seen !
My GF`s friends intended to live on it permanently instead of renting a apartment after it was built, where they had been living since I met them several yrs. before the boat was being built. I took a bunch of color pictures of this whole impressive build with my Nikon SLR, but never bothered to scan them into any computer !
He even told me that he even had to add quite a few tons of ballast in the keel for this concrete boat to sail properly, which further blew my 23 yr. old mind !
This Danish craftsman guy was a very super detailed very high quality craftsman, and was in high demand, as a self employed master custom interior wood worker for the South FL. for wealthy mansion types down there, with everything he did, but totally lacked electrical circuit wiring knowledge (that`s where he needed me to help guide him) and he even totally hand built the outfitting of all the beautiful interior/outside wood work and even designed and hand built the sail boat`s two masts with hand selected lengths of laminated hard wood boards, while the outfitted and lived on sail boat was berthed at the Marathon Key marina !
That couple were still living on and sailing that concrete sail boat out of Marathon Key when I moved from South Miami in 1983, but I`ve lost touch after I moved, as they never had a land line # connection to the boat from it`s berth at the Marina.
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Dust bunnies ...
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
That was quite the detailed and interesting share, BF!
Made for a thoughtful read, and another mystery solved, before the "Big Sleep".
We have a fun-boat-event in my locale, wherein the youngsters have to put together a small water craft, assembled only with, I think cardboard and duct tape.
It's quite the hilarious water scene, with many not being able to reach the finish line...but some do.
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spicer
Lunatic Member
What a great story! Thank you for taking the time to share it. Great craftsmanship on that scale is, what to say... awesome, almost as if from another world.
Quadman2
Lunatic Member
I may have an answer for you, and it took a bit of a "look-see" to find out your "mental dilimah".
You may in fact not suffer from a Hypertherthmestic Syndrome, thus lack an autobiographical memory.
In plainer words, you are normal, and was thinking of something else, while putting the "thing" down, thus forgot where you put it last.
OK?
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Bill Ferris
Lunatic Member
Thanks for that kind compliment, Mr. Ted.That was quite the detailed and interesting share, BF!
Made for a thoughtful read, and another mystery solved, before the "Big Sleep".
We have a fun-boat-event in my locale, wherein the youngsters have to put together a small water craft, assembled only with, I think cardboard and duct tape.
It's quite the hilarious water scene, with many not being able to reach the finish line...but some do.
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