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What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Discussion in 'Everything Else (off topic)' started by Gasifier, Oct 6, 2013.

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  1. yooperdave

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    Burned last evening and again today. Right around 65 in the cave now.
    Painting the workshop walls again.
     
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    any time death comes this close it makes you think
     
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    Wow. So sad and untimely. Sorry rotti-:tears::confused:
     
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    Got the oil changed in muh mower. Could be mowing in 4 or 5 weeks. :hair:
     
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    I contemplated evening the weeds out on Monday but did something else.
    Sunlight changing to the positive quickly now
     
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    well lukem, I got 3/4 inch of ice thick enough even grass is frozen.. spent four hours sanding ice skating rink I mean drive way:hair:
     
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    DST ends in what, close to/ less than 2 weeks, right?
     
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    March 13th.
    plenty of daylight this morning leaving the house @0515 and I watched the last of dusk fade away from the upper inlet of a turbine ~1845.
    Loosing the morning daylight sucks for us early risers.

    I've morning daylight on my side this weekend atleast, scrambling to get a turbine crew in for the muscle to pull a few combustor cans, and replace a little seal.
    Anybody that ever whines about working on a car engine, quotes are $18-20k, for a job that should take less than 20hrs.
    I could make it happen for under 5k, but they ain't cuting me a check for the difference:rofl: :lol:
     
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    Shoot, I'd hold yer iced tea for a small percentage of that difference.....at least til I'm all healed up- then I might earn a bit more helping ya:thumbs:
     
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    I had two millwrights on T&M today doing some weld repairs and they were gung ho on breaking flanges.
    one is a younger ,taller, hard working, Gomer Pyle sounding gent, and the other older than me but sharp and a doer - something tells me the older guy wanted to see something new, but neither would ever come back if I sent them into the manway to align a seal that is a confounding PITA
     
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    How did your plowing and clean up go rottiman ? How is your elbow and arm doing, and feeling while your doing stuff?
     
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    Shoot he should be charging you for putting up with ya!:rofl: :lol::rofl: :lol:

    Gary
     
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    Similar here. Warmer days lately, but the 10 ton snowdrift Blob remains, and we get a small amount of snow every other day.
     
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    :rofl: :lol:
    I might have to agree with that statement!
    Heck, I could make $100 bucks an hour managing the other voices in my head as it is:rofl: :lol:
    But- I'm cheap.
    FHC.....great therapy.:thumbs:
    :)
     
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    Don't know how much it means, but I just checked the forecast for the whole month and everyday is above freezing!! Unheard of! :hair:

    Guess it's an early spring.
    :binoculars:
     
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    I don't know if I'd trust that.:whistle:
    What is your evidence?:whistle:
    Sound familiar?!:whistle:
    :rofl: :lol:
     
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    I see now that after two weeks, they just list average temps for the highs.
     
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    I am still smelling that sawdust smell that I had mentioned a couple weeks ago. It went away for some time, but the last two days, I can smell it again. Primarily at the computer station in the cave seems strongest, but even throughout the house on main floor.
    I even went up into the attic above the 2nd floor to see if the chimney was leaking but the smell was very faint up there. The chimney was worked on a couple years ago, converted from brick to block but only the last few feet through the roof.
    99 does not smell it at all!

    The only way I can describe it is it smells like old dusty wood (like from inside a wall) that has been fresh cut on a saw.

    Annoying!

    If a chimney leaks, shouldn't the smell be distinguishable as wood stove smoke??
     
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    Well, that should shut me up....... For a minute.
    BUT WAIT, there's more:rofl: :lol:
    How?
    Why?
    When?
    Where?
    What?
    Rinse, repeat.
     
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    Are you presumably running the stove in the Davecave hard, and just drying things out to a point where cooler air is somehow pulling this "aroma" down to where you sit at the computer? Or have you been lugging in old sawdust unknowingly?:whistle:
     
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