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My nose does not respond well to neti pots. Headaches for me are just a daily annoyance. I get 1-2 everyday but thankfully they typically are not terrible enough that it would be considered chronic. I joke with my wife that I eat ibuprofen like skittles.

Summer colds are the worst. My poor nose has been inoperable for the last several days and my head feels like a balloon. In other news, this weeks entertainment at work was on Monday right as everyone was coming in. Co-worker in the office turned his computer on and it made a loud *POP* sound. We all turned around and looked with a "what the insert word here was that?". With a confused look he moved his monitor to look at his computer and just went "O god its on fire!". A resistor blew on the board, caught fire and melted wires . Office smelled of burnt electronics all day. The best part was my boss asking me if I could fix it. My simple response was "the motherboard has a blown resister and I cant solder, plus wiring is melted and the board itself is scorched. No I cant fix it." On the plus side, his hard drive was able to be saved and data taken off using an external adapter I had laying around at home. I know I build computers as a hobby and what not, but I can't repair burnt/melted electronics lol.

Started putting my grinder back together finally. It has just been too hot to be in my tin cooking oven of a shed to do much, but got the grinders drive wheel bearings reinstalled and it is up and running again!

My shipment from Aldo's finally arrived! 4 bars of 1084 and 2 bars of 15N20. Now to try to make Damascus billet over the weekend for fun. See if I can manage to catch myself on fire again.

Frosty, the joke is pretty bad. You can tuna piano, but cant piano a tune. What about the glue? I knew you would get stuck on that! I am full of dad jokes. I keep them all stored in my dad-o-base. Thomas, I would also much rather pound hot metal to messing with computers when I get home. Especially today since all I have done is rebuild our method of handling bids and jobs from the ground up. The next VLOOKUP I write might just find the method of my death.

George, you can tuna piano but you cant piano a tuna! Anvil, I believe there are effectively "emulators" if you want older style windows. It will run on modern windows, but have the complete look and feel of say XP. At one point I had several operating systems installed on my various hard drives. I had XP, 7, 8.1, 10, Linux, Ubuntu and a random Apple OS.

I was just trying to retrace our steps and ended up cross eyed with a headache

Back to coding because more people can't fathom how to build things to be future proof. They build it for what is good at that moment and the rest da....you get the gist. I have spent a large chunk of my day in Visual Studio writing API calls and who knows what else just to parse extremely poorly structured data that if it had been done correctly, could have been done with a quick and dirty excel formula. I am not about to go through 5000 or more rows cleaning up data. Grrrrrrrr......

We have gone from medieval crossbows, to technology, to explosions then to lawn maintenance. How do these things happen?!

I have a joke for you guys. What's the difference between a piano, a tuna and glue?

I don't mind mowing and such. What I hate is maintaining flower beds.

One of my neighbors takes great pride in his lawn. He seeds it every year to make sure it keeps a nice full look and he treats/fertilizes it several times a year and mows it twice a week to prevent build up. I will give him that his grass is a very nice dark green and soft, but that is too much work lol.

Just outside Marysville is the Scotts Lawn plant. I am not too sure what exactly they produce in that plant, but I know one thing is fertilizer, which means lots of ammonium nitrate. Train loads of it. When the plant in Texas exploded I think around 6-8 years ago, they had a fraction of the amount of material the Scotts plant has. My father in law works there and said after that plant went boom, their entire plant was shutdown for a mandatory safety meeting. I am told by my father in law and others that the plant has enough ammonium nitrate to turn that side of Marysville into a crater and the shockwave would likely shatter windows in Dublin/Hillard which is roughly 10 some miles away. When I worked in Delaware, I dealt with PPG a lot and at that plant they made paint for cars. I never went into the plant proper because I was told they have chemicals that would kill you before you even realized you were breathing them. One of the main engineers I worked with said if that plant would explode, it would take the entirety of the city of Delaware with it. Terrifying stuff. For comparison, the more recent explosion that happened last year oversees at that port (India I think?) was caused by ammonium nitrate, and they did not have close to the same quantities that a fertilizer plant has on hand.

I was the talk of the neighborhood for bit when I tried messing with it. I was shooting fleas several feet into the air in a shower of sparks. Looked quite cool to watch and everyone was enthralled until my beard nearly caught on fire from one lol.

They let Thomas in, so I think theyll let anyone in.

I will have to give that a try and see how it works. I was holding the thing a good 2 feet away pointed towards the pipe and it was still blowing ashes and hot coals everywhere. On a side note, I now pull the pipe out when I am not out using it. After repeatedly telling my daughter to stay away and not run around it, she when running by and before I could reach out and grab her, clothes lined herself on it.

Will I get to see this fabled hat of Thomas'?

I was using a bed inflator I got from Rural King, but boy no matter how I angle it, it puts out way too much pressure and blows stuff everywhere. Gets the fire super hot though.

That is a funny story Chimaera that reminds me of the time my neighbor was putting down new gravel in his driveway and had a bob cat. After I was done helping him, I asked if I could borrow it for a moment to move a mount of dirt and some large rocks. He gave the go ahead and said don't damage it. Well I did 3 loads to the back of my yard and I sat there thinking I should quit as the yard was wet and I was starting to sink. I said "one more" and went for it. Well on the way back out, I was thinking to myself I can't go near my new shed, as I had dug a trench for power and the dirt was still soft and I would sink. Thinking about it caused me to spin the bob cat the wrong direction and I went right into it. The bob cat sunk a good foot and to the point where I just shut it off because I knew it was stuck. the neighbor came over and said "what the *insert the word here* did you do?!". I replied that well, I didn't damage it like you asked, but on a related note, can I borrow your truck? I owed him quite a lot of beer after that ordeal and he still gives me grief over it. JHCC, I apparently didn't have enough dirt between the firepot and the plywood and the plywood underneath caught on fire lol. Thankfully I had somewhat anticipated it happening and had the hose on standby next to me.

Well I full on tried to use it this weekend and apparently I did not have enough dirt between the bottom of the fire pot and the bottom piece of plywood as it caught on fire . Thankfully I sort of anticipated it happening and had the hose next to me on standby. I also need to get a different blower. The one I have is just too strong and blows stuff everywhere. I nearly caught my beard on fire with a forge flea.

Black voodoo magic, but only after you have done a special dance, sang a special song and sacrificed a cicada to the ancient gods.

That sucks Billy, but have been there. When I first moved into our current house, I did not know the ends and outs of the yard just yet and I caught a root that was a good inch or more thick. That actually broke the blade and the piece was sticking through the deck. Had to replace the blade, bearings and belt since the shock caused it to snap.

Appears several of you had a good and productive weekend. All I managed to do was sweat my butt off doing yard work and catch my JABOD on fire

That is entirely possible. It was all second hand info to me while taking to the local maintenance guys who came in frequently. They were talking how busy they had been installing space heaters for the office areas since they have been running cold and said that supposedly the building was built with them in mind. Being in my line of work, I have a love/hate relationship with architects/engineers. Mostly hate at this point JHCC, maybe the entire structure is sinking at the same time, the same distance perfectly?

Slight tangent here, but speaking of heating a building, we re-did the lighting in the Delaware county courthouse a couple years ago and retrofitted all of their lighting to LED. The building had quite a bit of T12 fixtures along side T8 fluorescent fixtures that were retrofitted with LED strips and such and was a decent size project. Well this was all done in the middle summer, and you might be thinking, why is that important? Well, apparently the building was so tightly designed that the engineer/architect took into consideration the heat output of those old lamps. Since the change was done in the summer, no one noticed any differences other than the building was cheaper to cool. The problem came during winter when they realized the building would no longer stay warm due to the loss of heat from the old lamps and that the boiler system wasn't large/strong/efficient enough without them to keep the building properly heated. No one at the time would have even remotely considered what the loss of the heat from the lamps would do to the building during the winter.