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Haven't you had enough already? I think you guys are good on rain...Probably more rain by the weekend.
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KA-BAR Chat thread - Come on in the house
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It's kind of like being at the drinking fountain in kindergarten and we're trying to hog it all.
We're well beyond good. Dams on a few lakes are failing.
Wow. I could build all sorts of crazy stuff if I had all that. Some time in the future.I wish I could afford to have my own WJ at home.
I'm a member of TechShop, a membership-based workshop. Members have access to all kinds of tools not normally available in a typical home workshop.
In addition to typical things like table saws, wood and metal drill presses and chop saws, hand tools, etc, there's a wood lathe, 2 metal lathes, 2 metal mills, 2 CNC ShopBots (wood/acrylic/MDF), a CNC Tormac (metal), a FlowJet WJ, MIG/TIG and arc welding, wood and metal band saws, sheet metal bending/shaping tools, sand blasting equipment, powder coating oven, planers, joiners, spindle/disc/belt sanders for wood, laser cutters and more.
The one thing they don't have that we're hoping to eventually get is a 2x72 belt grinder.
The only TS in Texas is in Round Rock. If you ever get over to Austin, you should drop by for a tour.
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Got another .75" last night and the garden/back yard looked like we had a 6" toad-choker. When I was pickng blackberries this morning, I sank 9" into the black loam we have for soil around here. Almost lost a fire boot to the mud-monster before I got it out.
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Wow. I could build all sorts of crazy stuff if I had all that. Some time in the future.
I just built 2 more replacement windows for my 100+ y.o. farm house. Cost my time and about $30 in supplies for each window (building them out of cedar so they'll last). As the windows are "1904 Standard" they obviously don't meet 2015 manufacturing standard sizes. Custom windows to fit the holes in my wall would have cost me about $4-500 apiece - paying for my membership one window at a time.
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I just built 2 more replacement windows for my 100+ y.o. farm house. Cost my time and about $30 in supplies for each window (building them out of cedar so they'll last). As the windows are "1904 Standard" they obviously don't meet 2015 manufacturing standard sizes. Custom windows to fit the holes in my wall would have cost me about $4-500 apiece - paying for my membership one window at a time.
That's pretty awesome.
Last weekend I told my resident 15 year old lawn care semi-professional, "At that magic moment when you don't have homework, swim team, it's still light out and it's not raining, mow quick. You might not be able to finish the whole yard."
He got it mowed. Maybe we'll weed eat sometime in June.
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Damn, send it up to the panhandle. Last time I was there lake Meredith was 50' low and Alabates was closed
Just looked up Meredith. If I'm reading this right, http://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/meredith , it's down by almost 75 ft. But, it filled up .5% in one day, and .6% the day prior! But it's still a dismal 8.7% full.
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Finally got new computer today... Internet Exploder :barf: has locked up on me 5 times while trying to download a different browser. Maybe I'll get it done before my warranty runs out. 
Finally got new computer today... Internet Exploder :barf: has locked up on me 5 times while trying to download a different browser. Maybe I'll get it done before my warranty runs out.
I think that's the only thing anyone uses IE for.
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Locking up?
After 5 tries - got chrome downloaded. Browser has not locked up 1x since finally switching an hour ago.
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Wow, sorry it took so long to catch this...
Yes sir, that's it. Back in the 80's it was a really fun spot to grow up. We lived about 20min on back roads(through a carbon plant heh) from there. Now its about gone. Even the town we lived in, Electric City, is listed as a ghost town. Crazy stuff man. Had a lot if fun around there as a kid and I really miss the canyons. I heard they're finding all sorts of stuff like a plane and 2 guys that went missing decades ago.
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