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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Anyone know if you can get a book on tape onto a 4 gig ipod, or do you need 8 gigs? We want to get one for the girl and would like to do the 4 to keep cost down, but she really wants to be able to put books on it along with music. She’d probably use it mostly for music though.
We had a good week, but it will be great to be done. We went ice skating, sledding, and to an imax movie. His dad will go with him tomorrow, and then they’ll come right back. Both his parents will go back with him on Wed. and stay until Friday. We’re glad to be able to stay home, but wish he was done and could stay too...4 more weeks.
Thanks,
Mrsnad
http://gallery.mac.com/djulicher#100015
I can’t seem to link to the new version of the .mac album. But everyone go check it out.
Yes, you can fit several books on tape on a 4.
A normal CD will only take up a couple dozen megabits. So you can fit a good bit of music and several books on tape with no trouble.
Thank you very much sir.
Glad you two are home safe and sound.
Mrsnad
Heh. A moment on the lips, forever on the hips...
Thanks for the pics, Talon & Jen!
Thanks for the pics. We will be sharing more as they become available.
—ExGeeEye
I was very glad to meet you and glad you were a part of our special day.
—MrsEx
woohoo!!! Have a great nite!!!
I keep a bag of sand in the back of my van, along with a shovel. I once had to get a car at the top of a hill out of a snowbank, so that I and another car could get ourselves up an icy hill. Even with the AWD, I prefer having something to get myself out of a jam, if need be.
SirKit and Joseph like the plastic one. They sprayed it with WD40, and the snow slides right off it!
We got up to almost 50 degrees today, and this evening we had a driving rain. We’re hoping a goodly amount of the snow will get washed away, but I’m sure there will still be plenty on the ground for Christmas Day.
Thanks very much for the photo page. We really enjoyed seeing it. OB & LSA
It was really great to see the photos of the wedding.
MrsEx looked lovely, beautiful dress. LSA.
EGE: you clean up real good. OB
Best wishes for many happy years together. OB & LSA
We got to 30 but the windchill was 20 so not much melting even though the sun was out all day.
Birds were scarce, the hawk has been making the rounds.
Local streets well snowpacked so getting around is okay, long as you keep the speed down.
RuhRoh! We did a marathon shopping trip yesterday. The kids were exhausted when we got home. ;o) I spent much of today at the Church, in the morning for Choir practice and 11am Mass, and then decorating for Christmas. We did the downstairs Hall early in the afternoon, That's where the 4:30 Christmas Eve Mass is held at the same time as the Mass upstairs. After the 5:30 Mass, this afternoon we were able to decorate the Sanctuary. The 10' tree we bought a couple of years ago got broken in the trip up from the 'bomb shelter', the basement storage area under the school. The top part of the tree had broken off, and there was no way we could re-attach it. I called SirKit and he brought down a 6' stainless steel threaded rod and zip-tied it to the lower pole, then attached the broken off upper part to the bottom of the tree with the threaded rod and zip ties. I was downstairs making bows, and didn't even make it back upstairs to see what it looked like, but SirKit said they turned the lights on and everything was working fine, and the gals said it looked beautiful.
We don't have to be at the Church until 11pm tomorrow night to get ready for the Lessons and Carols we do before Mass begins. Fortunately, if I have to go out at all tomorrow during the day, it's only to the library to get a book for Clare, and to the store for a gallon of milk. I'd send Clare or David, but since I requested the book from the library on my card, I'm the one who has to pick it up. That is, if the library is even open. I'll have to check on that. Otherwise, I'll just make candy and wrap gifts while listening to the live broadcast of A Festival of Lessons and Carols on the radio from King's College Chapel in Cambridge England. Our local public radio station has it every year. I'm looking forward to a relaxing day.
And today I almost had a Sunday Gun Pron Disaster. Well, not really a disaster, but an embarrassing moment.
I was looking at the Docter red dot sight on my ACOG, and the mount didn't seem quite square with the scope. It seemed a bit more tilted from the rear than from the front.
That made no sense at all, so I decided to remove the sight so I could get a better view of how the mount lined up.
Two hex head screws have to be removed to take the sight off of the base. No problem with the first one. Hugh problem with the second. The hex on the second screw was chewed up, and the wrench slipped, messing it up even more. I hate hex head screws, especially the tiny ones. And this one was tiny. The mount also used a mixture of metric and regular screws, and hex sizes. Give me a good, honest Torqx screw any time. One size worldwide, and far less fragile than the corresponding hex head.
Fortunately, my dad left me a decent set of machine tools. Even more fortunately, I managed to acquire a tiny percentage of his skills. I used a drill smaller than the threaded hole, and drilled down through the mangled hex until the head separated from the screw body. The sight was now free of the base, and undamaged.
Then I put the base back in the drill press vise, and attacked the remaining threaded stub. Because the drill, the flutes on the drill, and the threads all turned clockwise when viewed from that direction, when the flutes bit into the stub, they didn't drill through it, but instead unscrewed it out of the base. The tapped hole in the base was still intact. That's how I got the "one-way" screw off the Mossberg safety, too.
The Mossberg safety was marked "professional installation only", but I think I've become enough of a talented amateur that I can pull some of these machining stunts off.
I have some spare screws from the mount, and everything is ready to reinstall and check the squareness (which was the simple task that started this whole saga), but I decided to quit while I was ahead, and leave it for tomorrow.
Dang ........
Did you add the docter sight on to the ACOG or purchase it like that ?
Sounds like ya dodged a bullet there WinMag !
Pics of ACOG’s like mine at links below......
http://www.gandrtactical.com/images/archive/Trijicon/TA31Dot.JPG
http://www.gunblast.com/images/Trijicon-ACOG-Docter/MVC-351F.jpg
http://www.bowerstactical.com/store/images/TRTA31DOC.jpg
http://www.rainierarms.com/img/shop/product/bdba035e547ec3af1acfa2106fcd3a5d.jpg
Going home for Christmas? Hope you and kitty have a safe trip, and a Merry Christmas!!
Thanks for all the pictures!! I’m so glad y’all were able to be there for ExGeeEye and his bride!
Have a wonderful First Christmas together!!
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