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A month or so ago I welded together the shift linkage for a coworker's 1928 Model A Ford. Now he's driving it to work again. We get along even though our politics are almost diametrically opposite. I try to maintain at least some friendships like that.
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I saw a bumpersticker on a car. It shows a scantily clad woman in silhouette, with the legend "NO HOT LIZARDS". I have no clue.
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Today Monty spent some time staring mournfully at her kibble ball, which she has to push around to get kibble out of it when it's full, but by this time it was empty.
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Then she went and collapsed theatrically beside her foodbowl and proceeded to sigh dramatically.
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This may have been because I was making dinner: pizza with tillamook sharp cheddar cheese, turkey sausage, sliced bell peppers, and mushrooms.
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I printed a wax casting sprue for an eventual aluminum casting session. The sprue is 92% air, and only 8% wax, so it should melt out easily and without a lot of smoke. Investment castings, especially large ones, sometimes split during the process of melting out the wax, because it expands as it heats, and is a terrible heat conductor. That shouldn't be a problem with hollow wax forms. (I do hope none of the investment gets inside, though.)
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Monty and I went on a brief walk to wear her out, at the park down the street, where gold was discovered in 1859 or thereabouts. It's the reason Denver exists. There are almost always people there panning for gold. This group looked like three generations of panners, who also had a flow sluice and a power sluice.
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It was ferociously sunny. Sometimes that matters a lot more than air temperature for melting snow.
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The bridge, with the fancy suspension cables, is one of three along this bike path, between downtown and Golden, that together celebrate "Denver's maritime history", which pronouncement never fails to make me laugh out loud. Until people got aggressive with making dams and reservoirs in the 1870's, you couldn't even float a rowboat anywhere in the area.

My huge laser cutter showed up today. Well, it's not that huge. The box is the same size as the chest freezer, but that's because the machine was very securely packed. I have yet to fully unpack it.
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It's going to live in the garage because it can't be allowed to freeze, but spits out massive quantities of toxic fumes. I'm adding a fume extractor out a window.

Date: 2018-03-03 04:39 am (UTC)
grrlpup: yellow rose in sunlight (Default)
From: [personal profile] grrlpup
I can't tell if you're joking! But, she said earnestly, I think it might be NO LOT LIZARDS.

Date: 2018-03-03 06:43 pm (UTC)
armiphlage: Ukraine (Default)
From: [personal profile] armiphlage
I thought they only used that term in Canada - interesting how widespread slang can be.

Date: 2018-03-04 09:12 pm (UTC)
pr0ject_mayhem: (toon)
From: [personal profile] pr0ject_mayhem
Yeah, that's what I thought it was, too- especially with the way the figure is dressed.

"I'm just here to camp- no, I don't want to buy sex, but thank you anyway."

Date: 2018-03-03 05:05 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] secretagentmoof
What are you using for 3d modeling and printing? I've been attempting to use Fusion360 - but possibly because I come from an old-school drafting background (lead holders! paper! AutoCAD 10!) I'm finding some things Stupidly Difficult to create (e.g. "I have two rectangular holes where the center points are 1.25" away from each other horizontally") and am wondering if there's something else I should use.

Date: 2018-03-03 03:08 pm (UTC)
amaebi: black fox (Default)
From: [personal profile] amaebi
You sound more energized, and I'm glad!

Adults panning for gold make me Wary. Because some are chronic gold seekers who identify as such. Most of them are pleasant eccentrics, but some, as I'm sure you've encountered, are broadly erratic and hold nasty views views....

Date: 2018-03-04 02:12 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elusis
Venn diagram containing those who go out with metal detectors on the beach, and those who pan the Platte for gold - pretty close to a circle?

Date: 2018-03-04 02:17 am (UTC)
amaebi: black fox (Default)
From: [personal profile] amaebi
Idaho Springs was full of banners and prospectors, and the employed miners I knew were not among them. There was a very high incidence of weird.

Date: 2018-03-03 05:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] annie_r
Monty is such a sweetheart. I hope she's OK; please give her extra-dramatic pets.

Date: 2018-03-04 03:28 am (UTC)
ivy: Two strands of ivy against a red wall (Default)
From: [personal profile] ivy
Yeah, I was going to say, she's adorable when she's being dramatic. WOE.

(Yikes, to bloodbath.)

Date: 2018-03-03 06:42 pm (UTC)
armiphlage: Ukraine (Default)
From: [personal profile] armiphlage
You have cool toys!

Date: 2018-03-05 02:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] lantairvlea
I think the lady silouette has a tail.

Poor Monty, you obviously starve her constantly. I'm sure Rolo and Monty would comiserate on their lack of proper feeding.

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