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Wow.
I hit 5K today.
Time to give away a knife!

I'll do it after the New Year though.
Gonna be a busy rest of the month for me....
 
I got them fleece caps in if anybody wants one, remember beckerhead as a promo code gets you 15%off
 
Good Kid's Editorial:-

Dear Santa,
I hope this letter finds you and the missus in jolly spirits as your big day approaches. I know, you know, that I made every effort to be a good kid this year, I didn't hardly use any bad words just for fun, only when needed. In regards to my earlier letter in which I mentioned I wanted a twisted spine and pinched nerve, that wasn't from me. Somebody forged my name that time. So, if it's all the same to you, I will forward the a-for mentioned spinal irregularity to the Island of Misfit Toy's. I am sure that guy Charlie in the Box can use a good reason to cry. I will close for now, at least until I get relief to allow me the freedom of movement to write more often. Please give my regards to Herbie and the elves.

Yours very intently,
Good Kid.
 
gmoneyluv said:
Probably less entertaining than Catching Swords.
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Probably not a lot of participants, given the learning curve. Pretty hard to get a handle on......

tanglediver said:
Good Kid's Editorial:-

Dear Santa,
I hope this letter finds you and the missus in jolly spirits as your big day approaches. I know, you know, that I made every effort to be a good kid this year, I didn't hardly use any bad words just for fun, only when needed. In regards to my earlier letter in which I mentioned I wanted a twisted spine and pinched nerve, that wasn't from me. Somebody forged my name that time. So, if it's all the same to you, I will forward the a-for mentioned spinal irregularity to the Island of Misfit Toy's. I am sure that guy Charlie in the Box can use a good reason to cry. I will close for now, at least until I get relief to allow me the freedom of movement to write more often. Please give my regards to Herbie and the elves.

Yours very intently,
Good Kid.
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Well, shit. I got one of those for Christmas 3 years ago, and I didn't even ask for it. The gift that keeps giving - still numbness in a few toes that I'm pretty sure'll be with me until my very last Christmas. I (quite literally) feel your pain, and wish you some relief.
 
Sometimes I think I should have taken Shop in High School rather than calculus. It certainly would be more useful now.
 
DunkEm said:
Sometimes I think I should have taken Shop in High School rather than calculus. It certainly would be more useful now.
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Those are the most important classes you can take in high school. Sad part is I don't think that any schools offer them any longer.
 
NixKustoms said:
Those are the most important classes you can take in high school. Sad part is I don't think that any schools offer them any longer.
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My school was so rural that there weren't many classes. I had 3 1/2 years of vocational agriculture and shop classes along with the college-prep stuff. I still can't really weld though.
 
Guyon said:
My school was so rural that there weren't many classes. I had 3 1/2 years of vocational agriculture and shop classes along with the college-prep stuff. I still can't really weld though.
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I took a shop class at every high school I went to. Metal shop, wood shop, auto shop, and the last shop class I took was some "new" kinda shop class where there were computer stations and the shop power tools were behind a locked door. Lame but some kinda interesting. Oh yeah, robotics, and computer programming. I don't remember anything about computer programming though. Hahaha
 
One of my biggest regrets about my education so far is not taking shop classes in high school. I thought that I would never need those skills. Skip forward a few years, and I was a welder/robotic welder programmer for almost 5 years and helping family and friends with carpentry on the side. I learned much of it on the job, but if I would have learned any of it in high school, it would have put me that much further ahead.
 
DunkEm said:
Sometimes I think I should have taken Shop in High School rather than calculus. It certainly would be more useful now.
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Hey, Calculus is useful too.

You never know when you need to find the volume of an elliptical paraboloid without having to consult Google.
 
KingMC said:
Hey, Calculus is useful too.

You never know when you need to find the volume of an elliptical paraboloid without having to consult Google.
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At this point in my life I'm pretty sure I do know when I'll need to be able to figure that.

Now, welding, knowing how to properly use many workshop tools, make some things, those are things I could use these days.
 
I collect about a terabyte of (non-video) instrumentation data annually. Calculus is definitely useful there, but I don't often have to worry about it myself.
Actually, I think calculus is beautiful and relatively intuitive, though I haven't had to operate the mechanics in awhile.

Unfortunately it took me until nearly 40 to learn my way around a basic workshop!
(nevermind my childhood workshop hijinks, they taught me.... other skills.)
 
Man, I feel lucky - I was required to take shop - small engines, plastics (vacuum forming, polystyrene bead molding) and woodshop in middle school, along with every other student, male and female both. Also required were Home Economics classes - cooking and sewing. I liked the shop stuff but was already tinkering around on my own at home; I was also cooking (part of growing up in our family) and had been taught to use a sewing machine - I think the use of the "thread injector" is a great skill - think Tactical Tailor. I'd love to have an industrial machine at home - I'd be prototyping all kinds of packs and bags, tactical kilts and the like. I would like to learn welding - which I still can, if I could find the time; there's a maker space within walking distance (like, .2 miles close) of my house that has classes in that stuff regularly.
I guess I generally learn by doing - though only with hands on kinds of skills. Higher order math - that's what school was for. Actually, the math turns out to be a pretty vital skill, IMO; I feel like it taught me general problem solving and troubleshooting as a byproduct. And since I have children, it comes in handy there as well - someone has to help them with their homework.
If you've got the cojones and your head is attached firmly, learning to arc weld would only require some $$ and a commitment to failure. If you can buy a welder at HD, it probably isn't impossible to learn.
 
Oof. 0° right now and our power went out about an hour ago. Temp has dropped 4° inside. Thinking I might need to dig my way to my shed and dig out my big buddy heater and some propane.
 
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