Gunplumber

these people vote.

saw some pics of soup can shingles from the depression. But now for a little bit of reality-check. Take 1000 aluminum cans. Bring them to the recycling center. Get paid. Go to agricultural supply center. Buy 4x8' sheets of galvanized roofing. Install in 20 minutes. Take your change and buy some beer. Take beer to you neighbor's house - who has been working 10 hours straight and finally has a few square feet of shingles made. Mock him from your lawn chair while drinking beer. Offer him your empty cans, just as a good neighbor should.

what is it? I've never canned, but I have a preference for pickled jalepenos and cucumbers that are crisp vs soggy. I wondered why the difference.

I don't think my python really cares if the cat has been bathed. (jest sayin')

While I can see boiling coffee for stretching grounds in a crisis, it really trashes the flavor - the acids come out which = bitter. While drip is often wasteful, boiling or percolator (boiling) is like cooking a nice steak in the microwave. Yeah, you can do it, but it turns a nice steak into "just a piece of meat". My compromise is a French Press, where I can use water that is hot, but not boiling, and let it soak. It's annoying to clean. First 40 seconds. Bad words at 40 seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pco6GFCVcHU

I guess I'm the ultimate heretic because I stuck my garage sale acquisitions in the sand-blaster, took them down to bare metal, and then polished them a bit (they were a bit rough) with auto-body type sanding pads. Finished with scotchbrite - drilled the hole out in the handle for my 1/4" hooks, and then washed it really well, coated with grease and stuck in the BBQ. Really - it's a piece of metal. I use bamboo scrapes and a regular kitchen sponge for cleaning and just stick on the stove for a minute or two to make sure it is dry. Some people have their strange rituals, but its never made any sense to me. It's a hunk of iron. Just like the grate on my grill. Nobody complains about scrubbing off the grill with a wire brush, do they?

So I've been sandblasting for the last 8 hours, which gives me time to solve all the world's problems and ponder various and sundry things. I'm wearing a t-shirt my brother sent me advertising "Harry's Hunny" and as I wiped my nose it, I thought, maybe Darlene should make some t-shirts. Ok, you have to follow the ADD mind here . . . it jumps all over the place but there is a common, albeit subtle theme. For some reason, that morphed in my mind an image of a pioneer woman at a spinning wheel with an AK slung on her back (which then morphed to the same milking a cow). Thought it might be a nice T-shirt idea.

How did you know that snoopy as a sopwith camel pilot is my favorite character?

This. You have serious problems here. If you do not get it fixed, it will destroy your family. ETA,Nevermind, I just read that you'd already tried that. I have customers who tell me "don't leave a message on my machine, I don't want my spouse finding out". I am dismayed. What kind of relationship has a spouse concealing such significant financial issues from the other? I wish I had had some kind and supportive words for you, but it looks really bleak. This is a major issue, but it is just a symptom of an even bigger problem. Looks like you'll need to start covering your bases for the inevitable. When I got home from Desert Storm, I was homeless, (living out of my car or with friends), unemployed, and $50,000 in debt. I went to Consumer Credit Counseling and they told me they couldn't help. They did give me a chart for logging every single penny of expenditure. I used it for a month and was dismayed to find out how much I was spending a dollar at a time on crap. But then I WANTED to get myself "clean". I traded down on my car, made some lifestyle changes (pack a lunch), got employed, worked a 2nd job in the evenings and weekends, found a crappy 1 bedroom in crackville, and now 20 years later my (2nd and nicer than my first) house is almost paid off and I'm otherwise debt free. I discovered Dave Ramsey on the radio 5 years later than would have been optimal, but I really like him and have turned others on to his strategy. Bottom line - your husband has no will to change. There may be a number of reasons for this, but at some point, the reasons don't matter, only your exposure. I'm all for working things out, but when the ship is sinking, you have to decide when it's time to swim.

really? Just curious, because all my air compressors have safety valves that are spring loaded and screw into the tank., When the pressure in the tank exceeds the spring rating, the spring activates and releases pressure, but snaps back when it is done. Seems silly to me to have any pressure tank that has a valve that only works once.

I'm trying to figure out how junk food and frugal go together. Don't see much value in eating it even if it were free. And yes, I enjoy my occasional Hershy's Special Dark candy bar as much as the next person, but I don't see spending one cent for it if I'm in financial hardship. I hate bags of Halloween candy. I end up eating it. That's not a good thing.

Clip ain't the right term for that thing that holds the bullets. It's a "magazine". But everyone knows what is meant. And actually, the bullet is only the part the comes out, the magazine holds the entire cartridge which contains case, powder, primer, and bullet. I don't threaten to up and leave and stomp my foot and hold my breath till my face turns blue every time someone gets the terminology wrong and calls a magazine a clip or a cartridge a bullet. Bottom line is, there's something wrong in the head - whether it is structural damage as the teratogen/carcinogen evidence suggests, electrochemical, enzyme based or simply a lack of something as the genetic evidence suggest, the person with AS is not "normal". 'Else we wouldn't be having this discussion. The adult male (not a child) murdered his mom and a bunch of kids and he is claimed to have been diagnosed with AS. One of the major characteristics of the AS spectrum is a lack of empathy and social reciprocity. These are characteristics one would expect in a person committing mass murder. So it is reasonable for intelligent and rational adults to associate one with the other. So you can CHOOSE to get all dramatic and drama-queen like, or maybe you can see a great teachable moment to educate people on the difference between AS and ASD and what the effects are on social interaction. Seems like you are being handed a silver platter of opportunity here to share your knowledge. Guess I just don't see the point of stormin' off and slamming the door.

The DSM V is now out, in which just about every human emotion is categorized as a disorder - except Asbergers has now been removed . .. . . So if you don't trust the government, or question "authority", or stockpile food ("hoarding is now differentiated from OCD as a separate "disorder") - then you have a mental disorder. Binge eating - mental disorder. But if you have a mental disorder like Asbergers, then you don't anymore. I'm not opposed to this, as anything now can be called "pre-autistic" and it is a billion dollar industry. Jut like anyone who has ever had a bad experience (or knows anyone who had a bad experience - vicarious PTSD) can now have every emotion as "PTSD". Being a drunk is still a disease - the only one I know of you have to go to the market to buy.

It is a tangent, but I guess it would be silly for me to ponder what it is the government is putting in our food and water and "medicine" that is causing these mental defects.

I don't know what is more disturbing. A. That you believe some members here need to be alerted to sarcasm/satire. or B. That you may be right.

Absolutely! If we'd just lock up everyone with Autism - or get rid of them them completely - this tragedy could have been avoided. You need to put your personal feelings aside. This is a CRISIS and WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING. There is no time for rational thought we must DO SOMETHING NOW (because it is a CRISIS). Those Autistic people are dangerous and must be stopped. It's for the children.

staged event?

What I think you are missing is that my spell check works just fine on every other website. Just not this one. What word is mispelled in this sentence? Hmm. That's weird, I went and clicked on language = English again and now the red line appears. That's weird. Well, I gess it werks four now.

I am using firefox and this is the only website for which my spellcheck doesn't work

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Maybe people today are unaware of world and historic currencies, I assumed it was common knowledge. half-penny, penny, two-penny, shilliings, pounds sterling etc. British penny in the colonies was 1/2 gram. Pence was 1 oz. pound was a pound - british pound (or quid). 240 penny = 20 shillings (12 per) = 1 pound

some people said they had trouble loading. Mine took a while, but loaded fine (long page) - I'm impressed. http://shialabeowulf.tumblr.com/post/33670447154/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier

When I started in business, I had more time than work. Now I have more work than time. It has made me rethink "thrift". There is much to the saying "penny rich and pound poor." I used to use sandpaper - relatively expensive for a consumable - long past the point where it was worn out. Yet the labor cost in the extra time was more than what I'd have spent on buying new sandpaper, resulting in a net loss. It is difficult for me to throw away a paint spraying gun, but it costs me $16 at Harbor Freight to buy a new one. It costs me $10 in solvent and an hour of labor to clean the old one. I'm way ahead throwing it away. It all comes down to the cost of your labor - and most people don't assign a cost to their labor. If I was snowed in for a winter, the value of my labor might drop dramatically. If one has work that needs doing so one hires a handyman, is it worth paying him to wash his dishes? If he's making as little as $10/hr. that's $1.66 for the 10 minutes it takes to wash and dry the dishes. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to use a $0.16 paper plate and throw it away? I recently installed an irrigation system. Trenching would cost me 10-15 hours of hard work. Renting a trencher cost me $150 and took an hour round trip to pick it up and an hour to do the work. Then got me back in the shop where I could be making a lot more than $10/hr. "Penny rich and pound poor" also applies to buying tools and equipment. Saving money up front, but having a higher operating cost, isn't really saving money at all. Particularly if when pushed, the equipment simply cannot do the job. I find the highest quality tools I can afford and then buy the next one up. After 20 years, they have long since paid for themselves. There is a website I really liked on car buying because they factored in the operation and repair and registration costs of a vehicle over a 5 year period. This showed that the more expensive car actually was cheaper over 5 years than it's less expensive alternative that higher fuel and repair costs. With most equipment, there is a fairly consistent cost/value line plotted on a graph, up to a point. At that point one starts paying much more for only marginal increases in performance. Computers are a good example. It might be worth buying the "best" if one is an IT professional and can actually use the equipment to the limits of its ability, but I probably use only 10% of what my computer could really do. So I want good quality, but I don't need Olympic performance or cost. On my tools, I do. I run the same analysis on firearms. It doesn't matter what the gun itself costs, it matters what the gun, magazines, ammunition, and accessories cost amortized over a period of time. In this way I discovered that one of my more expensive rifles was actually cheaper over 5000 rounds than another similar rifle that cost half as much up front, but was more expensive to operate and maintain. I have customers who are mediocre shooters but with respectable income who want the "best" and I admire that. I just think they'd spend their money more wisely on training that will allow them to obtain the best that their equipment has to offer. A person who can only shoot a 4" group is well served by a rifle that shoots 3" groups. There is no benefit to paying me a lot of money money to build one that consistantly can shoot sub 1" groups. I am blessed to have more work than I can handle, and people willing to pay me well for it. I understand if I was unemployed, or a stay-at-home spouse, that my relative labor value would drop dramatically and it might suddenly be worth clipping coupons. Right now it isn't. My friend just had to close his Auto Transmission shop. He has two children not yet in school. His wife makes good money as a radiation docimetrist. While he has had some other job offers, it would cost him 75% of his income to pay for child care, and put them in a higher tax bracket, which would actually reduce his wife's effective income. He's not happy with it (male ego and all that) but from a practical standpoint, for now he's Mr. Mom. My point in this diatribe is simply that some people have tunnel vision or a psychological aversion to wasting anything, that makes their attempt at saving money actually cost them more than they imagine it saves.

My mom made me bring my tin foil home from school sack lunch, as well as my napkin and the paper bag. She pinched pennies there. But the sandwich itself was 3/4" thick in roast beef & cheese or ham. I always marveled at the other students who may have had "treats" like cookies or candy but it was one slice of bologna on Weber Bread. My siblings and I got desert only on "special occasions" (Birthday, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, New Years. That's all.) She is an active walker and picks up pennies - generally collects $150-$200 a year in parking lots, with her record (she keeps track) is just under $500 in a year. It was an interesting dichotomy - pinching pennies here, and buying good stuff with the money saved.