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Randomness XVII: The Madness of the Quorum


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On 10/21/2020 at 8:07 PM, Pegazus said:

@LittleBluberry I have to take specific training for that periodically. I’ve seen the accounting go so far as having little tiny employee badges (half sized dominoes) that had to placed in the tool box when a tool was removed. Rivets had to be counted by the parts counter person before giving them to the mechanic, and all failed rivets had to be returned as well. 
 

Course, if the stuff I work with goes boom, it turns 8-11 digits of money into interesting stones on the ocean floor, so there’s that difference.

My dad had a wall of pictures of subs that he had worked on in the yards that had failed.

 

Scorpion and Thresher, being the ones that I remember.

 

Another wall had the Squalus, the Tang, and others, including the Sea Wolf, that he had trained on.

 

The Auld Grump

On 10/21/2020 at 9:53 PM, Crowley said:

Foggy night... Perfect for a hot spiked cider and some DS9.

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Pinky, are you contemplating what I'm contemplating?

 

The Auld Grump

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5 hours ago, ManvsMini said:

 

Heard back from the doctor about Dixie (sooner than I had anticipated, I didn't even get to stress-eat). Mass removal went well, now it's just a matter of waiting for the pathology results to see what comes next (fingers crossed for best results). I can pick her up tomorrow morning, then begins the next two weeks worth of keeping medications straight, having sleep schedules interrupted for random potty times, etc. She'll have to go back in to have her external stitches removed.

 

Glad to hear it, and I'll keep my fingers crossed, too.

 

So, apparently fall happened today. When I left for work there were some leaves in the yard, bur not very many. I came home to this:

 

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7 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said:

Glad to hear it, and I'll keep my fingers crossed, too.

 

So, apparently fall happened today. When I left for work there were some leaves in the yard, bur not very many. I came home to this:

 

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After my trip up to my bank's drive thru to sign some papers dealing with Mr Spending Spree on Amazon, I came home & for some reason decided to rake mine all up............for now. I know the little bastards will be back!!!

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Chaoswolf said:

Temporary insanity.::P:

 

Thou for my efforts I did come back into the house afterwards with a wad of dog* or whatever animal crap on my shoe....sigh. At least they are semi-flat bottom athletic shoes & cleaned out easily.

 

Thou the only big critters that can get back there would be cats????

5 hours ago, WhiteWulfe said:

There is the Reaper Vex yes, but it would take a month (or more) to get here after ordering, and it's priced pretty much right around what a TG5 would cost locally after conversion ($199.99 USD is about $263 CAD, TG series are $271 CAD at a store that's walking distance).  Price isn't necessarily the worry, it's that 4+ weeks it would take to get here, alongside availability of spare parts.  Reaper has commented about spare parts, but it's also the fact that if something breaks, I'm waiting several weeks to be able to use the brush again.  Vex does look like a nice brush though.

 

Paasche Talon has also tempted me, probably because it's one of the cheapest ones available, and also comes in a kit with a hose.  The Grex TG5 is tempting because, well, I have rsi in both wrists and I've a feeling the trigger style on that one would cause less aggravation, but at the same time that Iwata's trigger is fairly light, at least when it isn't hooked up.  The Iwata HP-CS is the only one I've actually held in my paw though.

 

Or, in other words, man I wish this was an easier thing to figure out, but it seems like it's pretty much along the lines like most artistic tools - personal preferences and comforts can play heavily into things.

 

Just replace brand names with resin printer names you've got what I'm debating right now. Thou, mine is between 3 of the same brand (Mars, Mars Pro, Mars Pro 2 & a Phrozen mini 4k or whatever that is called.

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20 minutes ago, Zink said:

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Hasn't been this bad here yet but it's a game I've played often enough.

I've had winter days like those.

 

Not bad in the city with tons of reference points, but long stretches of highways or lone country roads with hidden ditches are downright terrifying.

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