I went and got the kit anyways. It was a good deal and I wanted it. I planned to use it to fix my exhaust, so hopefully, that will recoop some of the cost ( Read more... )

Yesterday's welding class was excellent. The fools let us run wild with plasma cutters. After cutting the silouhette of a bug, a chixor and Jaws, tried my hand at brazing, which is like soldering for steel. You melt brass to the steel and it holds it tight. i didn't do a very good job at making a bead, though ( Read more... )

I started my welding classes this past monday. I guess the teacher knew there was know hope for any articulation on our part, so our assignment was simple ( Read more... )

I am reliving the vicarious days of my youth. I have bought and received this cool thing. It's one of those electronics kits that you can make things with. 500 in 1 projects. Garage door openers, calculators, partical accelerators. You know the kind of thing.

Anyway, I am on project 20. Hmmm. Got a ways to go. Flippin sweet, tho.

I got a call from the Obama campaign here in Vermont asking me to volunteer to man the phones for a few days before the Vermont primary! I am very excited. It's the first time I have ever volunteered for a campaign.

So Vote Obama! Early and often! And if you don't want Obama,vote for someone else. Just vote.

Do you ever feel like there is something you want to do, really want to do, but you don't know what it is? And while the world blurs past you, you are left sitting still with an overwhelming sense of boredom ( Read more... )

"At my last job, we used to fling a stuffed monkey around." - Jay Alger

Ok, I have been on a self-serving energy efficiency binge lately. But let me be clear, it has nothing to do with saving the Earth. I can't stand the long-haired-freaky-hippie-type-granola-trustafarians who want me to stop eating meat, grow my own food, ride a bicycle 36 miles to work over rural mountain roads, poop in a shed, and sell buckwheat ( Read more... )

Well, I went and did it. I got married in Jamaica on New Years eve. It was the culmination of a year long effort. Since buying the ring last January in Ocho Rios, we meticulously planned the trip, got the passports, made the reservations, bought our wedding clothes and took the plunge ( Read more... )

I am telling you, that computer will never die. I learned on one, like so many others.

Oh well.

Lots of snow lately. I am hoping to get new carbide runners on my snowmobile and take it out. But first... dump run.