Random Thought Thread

I was a young lad at the time, and Festus actually was my favorite even with Marshal Dillon being the man. Just don't think my affection for the show would been the same had Kephart been the inspiration for Miss Kitty.

Frilly dresses and all notwithstanding, maybe the long curly red hair would've helped? :eek:
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I (illegally) took some of my son's attention deficit disorder medicine (that is basically methamphetamine) on the way home from Dayton Ohio to Mooresville North Carolina to stay awake. Now I can't sleep...
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Haha... I'm prescribed 30s. But as demonstrated with the K20 pre-sale, I still can't pay attention.
 
Stopped by a rest area on the way to Las Vegas and found some alternatives for those that missed the K20.

*Steel unknown
**Cannot confirm if blade has a +Lightning perk

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Richard338 said:
There's a truck stop in Missouri just outside KC with a wide selection of battle ready swords in the $9-$79 range. Explaining to my son how and why there should be a turd in the urinal kind of soured me on the place...
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What is it about truck stops and cheap knives/swords? There's one on the Indiana/MI border that has a whole section.

Buddy who discovered I was into knives said, "Hey, have you ever stopped at this place? They have a ton of knives and stuff".

🙄 "Yeah, I've stopped there and used the Men's room before".

Do a lot of 8 - 12 year olds boys drive semis or something? Because that's about the age when those fascinated me. I think I learned about carbon steel vs stainless steel 'wallhangers' around 16. It wasn't until quite a bit later, that I encountered the term SLO (Sword Like Object).

 
bluemax_1 said:
What is it about truck stops and cheap knives/swords? There's one on the Indiana/MI border that has a whole section.

Buddy who discovered I was into knives said, "Hey, have you ever stopped at this place? They have a ton of knives and stuff".

🙄 "Yeah, I've stopped there and used the Men's room before".

Do a lot of 8 - 12 year olds boys drive semis or something? Because that's about the age when those fascinated me. I think I learned about carbon steel vs stainless steel 'wallhangers' around 16. It wasn't until quite a bit later, that I encountered the term SLO (Sword Like Object).

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As a CDL-A license holder, I sometimes transport equipment that I operate to various job sites and stop at trucks around CT, I don’t recall seeing any of these gaudy wall hangers at any of them. That’s also probably because Connecticut.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
If anybody ever wondered if tiki torches actually work. I just sat on my back deck to enjoy some beer that a kind forumite got for me and was getting ate up by mosquitoes. I lit three of these torches and they're pretty much all gone.
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Haven't really tried tiki torches for that purpose, but I sure do love Thermacells for keeping mosquitoes at bay.

The other thing that I started doing 2-3 summers ago, was fogging the plants/are around the house. Little assholes hang out in the shrubs and hedge near the doors, then occasionally sneak in when someone opens the door around dawn/dusk.

Fell asleep in the recliner one day, and woke up with a half dozen bites. Decided it was all-out war. Left the house empty to run errands, and used 2 Thermacells to 'hotbox' the house (the active ingredient is Allethrin. A pesticide. Outside, the mosquitoes can detect it, and stay away. Trapped in an enclosed space where they can't fly away, it WILL kill them).

Came back, opened the windows to air the place out. No more issues.

Then I checked and discovered that there are cheap propane foggers (~$6X for the Burgess propane fogger). Got one of those and a gallon of Black Flag fogger fluid and promptly blasted all the shrubs surrounding the house (in the middle of the afternoon, when the damned mosquitoes are hiding in the shade, on the underside of the leaves in the shrubs).

Blasted everything within 50 yards of the house. Sat out that evening. No mosquitoes. Success! And no more worries about them zipping in the doors around dusk/dawn. Just fog periodically to kill the ones who think it's a good idea to hang out near the house.
 
bluemax_1 said:
Haven't really tried tiki torches for that purpose, but I sure do love Thermacells for keeping mosquitoes at bay.

The other thing that I started doing 2-3 summers ago, was fogging the plants/are around the house. Little assholes hang out in the shrubs and hedge near the doors, then occasionally sneak in when someone opens the door around dawn/dusk.

Fell asleep in the recliner one day, and woke up with a half dozen bites. Decided it was all-out war. Left the house empty to run errands, and used 2 Thermacells to 'hotbox' the house (the active ingredient is Allethrin. A pesticide. Outside, the mosquitoes can detect it, and stay away. Trapped in an enclosed space where they can't fly away, it WILL kill them).

Came back, opened the windows to air the place out. No more issues.

Then I checked and discovered that there are cheap propane foggers (~$6X for the Burgess propane fogger). Got one of those and a gallon of Black Flag fogger fluid and promptly blasted all the shrubs surrounding the house (in the middle of the afternoon, when the damned mosquitoes are hiding in the shade, on the underside of the leaves in the shrubs).

Blasted everything within 50 yards of the house. Sat out that evening. No mosquitoes. Success! And no more worries about them zipping in the doors around dusk/dawn. Just fog periodically to kill the ones who think it's a good idea to hang out near the house.
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I have one kid with autism and another who is probably on the spectrum. These are neurological issues and I think these kids might be sensitive to pesticides.. And my house is on Cornelius Creek which feeds Lake Norman which is the water supply for the area. For these two reasons I've mostly stopped using pesticides except for the occasional blast of wasp spray on a nest. I have cybermethrin and phantom (insects can see the permethrins but phantom is not visible to them) but I would only use them if things were really out of hand.

We normally don't have bad mosquitoes here but here recently they've been pretty bad.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Why do hand trucks usually have pneumatic tires. What is that all about? They're usually flat. Do you really need the smooth ride and high traction of a pneumatic tire in this application? Wouldn't a solid rubber tire offer lower rolling resistance and never need aired up. I mean seriously, who wants to perform routine maintenance on a hand truck
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I've wondered this about kids strollers lately. and wheelbarrows. what's that all about? Its ONE WHEEL.
 
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