On Tuesday 18 June 2019 12:11:37 pm Dave Cole wrote: > On 6/18/2019 11:20 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > To me, thats a sign they never paid any > > attention to the physics when they were in school all those years > > ago, but I'm doing it on an 8th grade education that ended in '49. > > Gotta move my ears back a bit to make room for the grin.:) > > There are a number of technical areas that have been ignored by > schools and there are some huge shortages in talent because of that. > > Skilled machinists are only one. Skilled metal fabricators are hard > to find. Radio transmitter maintenance? Where would you even go to > school to learn that? > Good question. Devry used to do that but they're gone I hear.
> I'm doing fine other than working a bit more than I would like for > this time of year. > I'm not getting any younger and I reach for the bottle of Aleve a lot > more than I used to. Too many heart attacks associated with that, so I only take it when I need help just to get to bed. I was on gabapentin but it wore off so I quit it too, now they've put it on schedule. My back gives me hell and theres times when my sciatics are pinched tight enough the legs don't do as they are told. I find as much relief of pain as the aleve can do with lots of D3. That and just getting used to it. > I've got a Bridgeport mill waiting for a conversion. But I need to > pour some concrete to set it on. > I have an addition on the back of my garage I added years ago and a > ground hog (or army of ground hogs) invaded and they have put two > tunnels under the floor. So I'm battling ground hogs for the > moment. I think I found the fix after much searching. Ammonia > poured in the holes will drive them out and keep them out... I have > been told... nothing else worked. They ignored live traps loaded with > tasty food. They are extremely wary. That and fresh grass this time of the year. How about a Maryland version of an air rifle? One of my boys that lives in Maryand killed a coke can Sunday at the 200 yard berm. 45 cal skirted slugs with 3k psi hit way more than hard enough to make crow bait out of a groundhog. But Brigeports are HEAVY, so how do you backfill the tunnels to make them load bearing again? > Dave Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
