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This morning I was in my workshop spit shinning my boots and as I was looking at the tank, I noticed everything was so "up" and colorful. The fish are always up but the corals looked really open and awake so I decided to test my Alk which was like 5 for the last few months. I have a very old test kit but I tested it and saw that it is up to 8 now which is pretty good. Of course I had to add a half gallon of Alk but it worked. The next time I change water from here I will have to check that as we don't have "many" hard corals around New York so I assume our water doesn't need any alk.
Last week I re did both our bathrooms (even though the place was built 7 months ago) I made mine into a Real Man's Bathroom so no one mistakes it for a Girly, Sissy Man bathroom.
Before anyone asks what my wife thinks, she bought me the WW 2 metal posters.
(I bought the diamond plate that goes all the way around, as the posters do.)
Last week I re did both our bathrooms (even though the place was built 7 months ago) I made mine into a Real Man's Bathroom so no one mistakes it for a Girly, Sissy Man bathroom.
Before anyone asks what my wife thinks, she bought me the WW 2 metal posters.
(I bought the diamond plate that goes all the way around, as the posters do.)
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I bought a new power washer for my new house because my old one was gas powered and much to big for this new place. So I took the thing out of the box and had to assemble just a few little things.
I decided to read the directions because it has a couple of dials on it that I didn't know what they were for and unlike many people, I actually like to read directions. Like most men I may not ask for directions, but I do read them.
I noticed the part about cold weather storing because this will be stored in my garage where most things will freeze.
In the directions it says : "Do not store in a place that gets below 32 degrees". OK, the thing has water in it so that is common sense.
Then it has an entire section on how to store it in a cold climate where it says "If you have to keep it in a place where it gets below 32 degrees, drain out the water, pull the trigger to release the pressure, then don't store it in a place that goes below 32 degrees".
I mean is it me? They sell these things and put the directions in it and go to the trouble to translate the directions in 14 different languages including Farsi, Mozambique, Brooklynese, and some dialect in ancient Arabic that only Jesus spoke but they don't take a minute to read the thing.
I don't even think Jesus even had a Home Depot near by to get one.
I decided to read the directions because it has a couple of dials on it that I didn't know what they were for and unlike many people, I actually like to read directions. Like most men I may not ask for directions, but I do read them.
I noticed the part about cold weather storing because this will be stored in my garage where most things will freeze.
In the directions it says : "Do not store in a place that gets below 32 degrees". OK, the thing has water in it so that is common sense.
Then it has an entire section on how to store it in a cold climate where it says "If you have to keep it in a place where it gets below 32 degrees, drain out the water, pull the trigger to release the pressure, then don't store it in a place that goes below 32 degrees".
I mean is it me? They sell these things and put the directions in it and go to the trouble to translate the directions in 14 different languages including Farsi, Mozambique, Brooklynese, and some dialect in ancient Arabic that only Jesus spoke but they don't take a minute to read the thing.
I don't even think Jesus even had a Home Depot near by to get one.
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CRASH'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''. No, not my tank, don't be silly, I have an undergravel filter so my tank don't crash. It was my knee that crashed. I went tomy knee surgeon for a tune up on my new knee which has not been working well and I am not up to my 20,000 mile check up. The thing hurts and the reason I got the thing was to stop the pain and allow me to resume my Male modeling job and bungee jumping.
The physicians assistant comes in and pokes my knee on the side and before she could ask if that hurts, I was half way to the ceiling. I said WHAT WAS THAT??? She said, that is the ligament that is inflamed. I said, YOU THINK!!!.
She said, Thats not good. I said YOU THINK!!!
So the surgeon who replaced my knee comes in and picks up my foot. I said Now don't twist that thing. He says, I Won't. So he sticks his finger in a place at the bottom of my knee cap and before he can say, Does that hurt, I am past the center point to the ceiling.
He says, Thats not good. So he tells me, this only happens to one in 3,000 patients. He told me that once before. I asked, do you think you can rummage through the dumpster and find my old knee to put it back in? ;Wideyed
From his expression I could see that He can't or won't do that. He tells me I have two problems. I have tendinitis in this ligament on the left side of my knee and I have this neuroma on the front of the knee cap. I wanted to say, No I had one problem, I let you operate on my knee. Then he said, "This is very interesting". Those were not the words I would have chosen.
I said just shoot it up with cortizone. He said he doesn't want to do that because cortizone next to metal causes,,,,,,I could swear he was going to say rust, But he said infections. It is almost boating season and I don't have time for this. So he upped my anti inflamatory meds and said come back in 6 weeks. If that doesn't work, we (meaning him, unless he has a mouse in his pocket because I ain't going to help) will have to open up the knee (like it's a jar of peanut butter) and remove that tendon and replace it. "Replace it with what?" Like a piece of bicycle tube, beef jerky, Silly Putty. He didn't elaborate.
I will be in the Caribbean then, probably on crutches anyway so I hope we don't have to go that route.
So on the way home we have to go to an Italian Market because where we moved to we can't get good Italian food and we are both Italian so we need the right food. Not make believe Italian American food, but the real thing. In the store I am limping from my left knee so my right hip goes out. This market is great and they have stuff all over the place that you can sample, which I do. So I start limping worse and I almost fell to the floor from the pain. But on my way down, from the corner of my eye, I notice some home made, fresh mazareli (I can't spell that but we Italians call it Mootzadella with the emphisize on the Mootz) That gave me the strength to rise up and stick a tooth pick in it for a sample. Delicious. Now I am going down again and my wife SCREAMS,, "PAUL". Just then I notice a table with home made Italian bread and sauce. (We Italians call it gravy, I don't know why) But it was towards the door so I managed to get up enough to dip the bread into the sauce and take a bite. Fantastic. I was having a lot of trouble standing so I hobbled over to a table of pepperoni just in time. Anyway, these tables of great and were in line towards the door which is how i made my way to my car.
I texted my wife from there and told her that I missed a couple of cheeses if she could grab me some samples.
At home I grabbed some pain meds and a nice glass or Grand Marnier.
The physicians assistant comes in and pokes my knee on the side and before she could ask if that hurts, I was half way to the ceiling. I said WHAT WAS THAT??? She said, that is the ligament that is inflamed. I said, YOU THINK!!!.
She said, Thats not good. I said YOU THINK!!!
So the surgeon who replaced my knee comes in and picks up my foot. I said Now don't twist that thing. He says, I Won't. So he sticks his finger in a place at the bottom of my knee cap and before he can say, Does that hurt, I am past the center point to the ceiling.
He says, Thats not good. So he tells me, this only happens to one in 3,000 patients. He told me that once before. I asked, do you think you can rummage through the dumpster and find my old knee to put it back in? ;Wideyed
From his expression I could see that He can't or won't do that. He tells me I have two problems. I have tendinitis in this ligament on the left side of my knee and I have this neuroma on the front of the knee cap. I wanted to say, No I had one problem, I let you operate on my knee. Then he said, "This is very interesting". Those were not the words I would have chosen.
I said just shoot it up with cortizone. He said he doesn't want to do that because cortizone next to metal causes,,,,,,I could swear he was going to say rust, But he said infections. It is almost boating season and I don't have time for this. So he upped my anti inflamatory meds and said come back in 6 weeks. If that doesn't work, we (meaning him, unless he has a mouse in his pocket because I ain't going to help) will have to open up the knee (like it's a jar of peanut butter) and remove that tendon and replace it. "Replace it with what?" Like a piece of bicycle tube, beef jerky, Silly Putty. He didn't elaborate.
I will be in the Caribbean then, probably on crutches anyway so I hope we don't have to go that route.
So on the way home we have to go to an Italian Market because where we moved to we can't get good Italian food and we are both Italian so we need the right food. Not make believe Italian American food, but the real thing. In the store I am limping from my left knee so my right hip goes out. This market is great and they have stuff all over the place that you can sample, which I do. So I start limping worse and I almost fell to the floor from the pain. But on my way down, from the corner of my eye, I notice some home made, fresh mazareli (I can't spell that but we Italians call it Mootzadella with the emphisize on the Mootz) That gave me the strength to rise up and stick a tooth pick in it for a sample. Delicious. Now I am going down again and my wife SCREAMS,, "PAUL". Just then I notice a table with home made Italian bread and sauce. (We Italians call it gravy, I don't know why) But it was towards the door so I managed to get up enough to dip the bread into the sauce and take a bite. Fantastic. I was having a lot of trouble standing so I hobbled over to a table of pepperoni just in time. Anyway, these tables of great and were in line towards the door which is how i made my way to my car.
I texted my wife from there and told her that I missed a couple of cheeses if she could grab me some samples.
At home I grabbed some pain meds and a nice glass or Grand Marnier.
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Supermodels love retired, bald electricians with a bad knee. It's a quirk of theirs.
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I have this very old DeWalt 1/2" hammer drill and it was made in America so I don't want to part with it. I dropped it many times off the top of 8' ladders and it survived. But lately the clutch has been slipping and it got so bad that I couldn't use it any more.
The clutch mechanism is stupid anyway and made for Girly Men so the thing stops if the drill hits something that makes it stop instead of breaking your arm. I fixed it by jamming the clutch closed by putting round metal beads in the springs that put pressure on the clutch.
Now it works like a charm and just doesn't have a clutch. I could easily buy a new one but it wouldn't be American so I don't even want one for free.
I was also able to grease it so it is nice and quiet.
The clutch mechanism is stupid anyway and made for Girly Men so the thing stops if the drill hits something that makes it stop instead of breaking your arm. I fixed it by jamming the clutch closed by putting round metal beads in the springs that put pressure on the clutch.
Now it works like a charm and just doesn't have a clutch. I could easily buy a new one but it wouldn't be American so I don't even want one for free.
I was also able to grease it so it is nice and quiet.
Tools are not what they use to be.... I just had to rebuild three nail guns, a big hammer drill, and a zawl saw. I wish I still had American power tools!!
I do still have some of my grandfathers American made hand tools. I use them all the time and love them.
I do still have some of my grandfathers American made hand tools. I use them all the time and love them.
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You got skills! I don't like to throw tools away either! I had a dealt worm drive saw for over 25 years. In the end, my wife called it frankensaw because it had dropped so many times that the casing, made of plastic, was all cracked and held together with gorilla tape! I still ended up rebuilding my entire deck with it at which point it just fell apart in my hands! It was a sad day when I finally dumped it. [emoji20] what ever happened to making tools out of metal??
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Metal tools went away with metal toys. When I was a kid, there was no plastic. No plastic drills, no plastic bags, no plastic credit cards, no plastic TVs, no nothing. You had a choice of wood or metal.
Oddly enough the plastic housing on that drill survived but the part just after the chuck is cracked. That's the part you turn to set the clutch which doesn't work any more so it isn't important.
This week I bought a power washer. It runs good but it is very chincsy. There is a crank mechanism on it that is supposed to crank up the pressure hose, but you have to crank it and turn the reel with your other hand to get the hose on the reel because the crank, which I think is made out of 8 track tape machines is so weak that it would fall off in your hands if you just used that.
Like charge me double, but build something that won't fall apart. :mad:
Oddly enough the plastic housing on that drill survived but the part just after the chuck is cracked. That's the part you turn to set the clutch which doesn't work any more so it isn't important.
This week I bought a power washer. It runs good but it is very chincsy. There is a crank mechanism on it that is supposed to crank up the pressure hose, but you have to crank it and turn the reel with your other hand to get the hose on the reel because the crank, which I think is made out of 8 track tape machines is so weak that it would fall off in your hands if you just used that.
Like charge me double, but build something that won't fall apart. :mad:
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Sorry to hear this, Paul. You should have had them install an undergravel filter. I hear that prevents most problems.....
CRASH'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''. No, not my tank, don't be silly, I have an undergravel filter so my tank don't crash. It was my knee that crashed. I went tomy knee surgeon for a tune up on my new knee which has not been working well and I am not up to my 20,000 mile check up. The thing hurts and the reason I got the thing was to stop the pain and allow me to resume my Male modeling job and bungee jumping.
The physicians assistant comes in and pokes my knee on the side and before she could ask if that hurts, I was half way to the ceiling. I said WHAT WAS THAT??? She said, that is the ligament that is inflamed. I said, YOU THINK!!!.
She said, Thats not good. I said YOU THINK!!!
So the surgeon who replaced my knee comes in and picks up my foot. I said Now don't twist that thing. He says, I Won't. So he sticks his finger in a place at the bottom of my knee cap and before he can say, Does that hurt, I am past the center point to the ceiling.
He says, Thats not good. So he tells me, this only happens to one in 3,000 patients. He told me that once before. I asked, do you think you can rummage through the dumpster and find my old knee to put it back in? ;Wideyed
From his expression I could see that He can't or won't do that. He tells me I have two problems. I have tendinitis in this ligament on the left side of my knee and I have this neuroma on the front of the knee cap. I wanted to say, No I had one problem, I let you operate on my knee. Then he said, "This is very interesting". Those were not the words I would have chosen.
I said just shoot it up with cortizone. He said he doesn't want to do that because cortizone next to metal causes,,,,,,I could swear he was going to say rust, But he said infections. It is almost boating season and I don't have time for this. So he upped my anti inflamatory meds and said come back in 6 weeks. If that doesn't work, we (meaning him, unless he has a mouse in his pocket because I ain't going to help) will have to open up the knee (like it's a jar of peanut butter) and remove that tendon and replace it. "Replace it with what?" Like a piece of bicycle tube, beef jerky, Silly Putty. He didn't elaborate.
I will be in the Caribbean then, probably on crutches anyway so I hope we don't have to go that route.
So on the way home we have to go to an Italian Market because where we moved to we can't get good Italian food and we are both Italian so we need the right food. Not make believe Italian American food, but the real thing. In the store I am limping from my left knee so my right hip goes out. This market is great and they have stuff all over the place that you can sample, which I do. So I start limping worse and I almost fell to the floor from the pain. But on my way down, from the corner of my eye, I notice some home made, fresh mazareli (I can't spell that but we Italians call it Mootzadella with the emphisize on the Mootz) That gave me the strength to rise up and stick a tooth pick in it for a sample. Delicious. Now I am going down again and my wife SCREAMS,, "PAUL". Just then I notice a table with home made Italian bread and sauce. (We Italians call it gravy, I don't know why) But it was towards the door so I managed to get up enough to dip the bread into the sauce and take a bite. Fantastic. I was having a lot of trouble standing so I hobbled over to a table of pepperoni just in time. Anyway, these tables of great and were in line towards the door which is how i made my way to my car.
I texted my wife from there and told her that I missed a couple of cheeses if she could grab me some samples.
At home I grabbed some pain meds and a nice glass or Grand Marnier.
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I just brought a few of my Steampunk pieces to a gallery out here and the owner wants to get me commissioned to do pieces for people. I hope some of them are Supermodels. Christie Brinkley doesn't live far from here.
You seem to mention Christie Brinkley a lot Paul, reminded me of this music video with her in it...
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Thanks, I watched it three times. We went to one of his concerts in the Garden many years ago and she was there with him. I also see her occasionally on the street. She was always my favorite, next to my wife of course.
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Today I added five fish and an SPS coral. I know there is a rumor that I never add fish, but I do. And they are all susceptible to ich and everything else. I got some sort of dartfish, 2 queen anthius (to replace 2 of mine that are very old and I don't think they have much more time left) a small watchman gobi to befriend my other one and this guy. I think it is some sort of chalk bass but I am not sure. I don't like buying fish if I know what they are, that means they are very common.
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I think fetish for someSupermodels love retired, bald electricians with a bad knee. It's a quirk of theirs.
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This morning I was in my workshop spit shinning my boots and as I was looking at the tank, I noticed everything was so "up" and colorful. The fish are always up but the corals looked really open and awake so I decided to test my Alk which was like 5 for the last few months. I have a very old test kit but I tested it and saw that it is up to 8 now which is pretty good. Of course I had to add a half gallon of Alk but it worked. The next time I change water from here I will have to check that as we don't have "many" hard corals around New York so I assume our water doesn't need any alk.
Last week I re did both our bathrooms (even though the place was built 7 months ago) I made mine into a Real Man's Bathroom so no one mistakes it for a Girly, Sissy Man bathroom.
Before anyone asks what my wife thinks, she bought me the WW 2 metal posters.
(I bought the diamond plate that goes all the way around, as the posters do.)
Hope you don't frequent any military bases these days. None of these types of posters, calendars, pin ups, or other related stuff is allowed. Everything is PC these days. This along with the ROE's make me wonder what will happen in the next 10 or so years when things get real.
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