Awoke this morning to the nightmarish realization that our neighbours to the south have elected Donald Trump to be their next president. The fallout has already started, with various minority groups being mocked and threatened (moreso than usual) by the goons that have crawled out from under their rocks to praise their glorious leader Trump.

Will ( Read more... )

     *BLEAH!!*     It's the fourth of October, and it's snowing.  We're actually under a snowfall warning, with 10 to 15 cm of snow expected in the next 24 hours.  It's supposed to warm up by the weekend, but I'm worried about the trees that haven't shed their leaves yet, like the large Poplar tree here at the shop.  Glad that I bedded the horses' ( Read more... )

Four months and a day.... :/

Summer is always a crazy time at the shop, and it seems to get crazier every year. Hopefully as things slow down a little in the cooler months I can use LJ's date-change feature to add things I've been slacking on.

Question for anyone who has upgraded to the new version: Does it change your page's formatting and ( Read more... )

     Gads... I've been meaning to update this journal for over two months!  It's not that things haven't been happening, or that I've intentionally abandoned this - It's just been an issue of finding time to write a proper entry.  Unlike FB, which I often use more like twitter with just short blips and/or photos, I like my LJ entries to be more ( Read more... )

      Ok, now that I seem to have figured out how to copy videos from FB, here's another one that caught my fancy: Philly Cheesesteak Sliders!  The provolone cheese is news to me - I always thought it was Mozza and/or a Mozza/Cheddar blend.  Either way, I want to try this!

Facebook post

Let's just see if this works - going to try to embed a video from Facebook:

Facebook post

Well, after a huge amount of struggle, that seems to work. Sharing videos from FB is a major pain in the butt, but there are (obviously) ways to work around it.

Here's the text version of the recipe:

50 minutes to prepare, Serves 6-8
Ingredients:

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It seems to me that I just updated this thing, yet I look back and I see that over a month has passed since the last entry! So much for more regular updates. :/

Things have been busy both at the shop and at the farm, and they will likely only get more so as the weather warms up and more and more stuff comes in. MARCH came in like the proverbial ( Read more... )

     As I mentioned in the last post, what I do with failure analysis is more like a Post-Mortem than anything else; The idea is to go through whatever evidence I have (usually an oily pile of broken parts and shrapnel) and try to figure out what happened.  The customer is always hoping that I will find a factory defect, and the factory always ( Read more... )

     Wow....  That was a bit of a hiatus, wasn't it ( Read more... )

     One of the many facets of Iron Pony is that I do repair and warranty work for a lot of companies.  A lot of stuff gets sent here for repairs that really shouldn't have been sent here, mostly because the clerks at the stores don't know what they're doing.  What really irks me (and should be irking the managers) is when a store gives the ( Read more... )