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In on Tuesday.. 3 cups of coffee has had virtually no effect... well, maybe to my bladder..

I wish I could buy a bottle of motivation, I got so much work to do and not enough "give a f..." to cover it all..
 
tradewater said:
It kind of has a Carl Sagan ring to it, not sure though. Vonnegut is great. Otherwise monkeys wouldn't be trying to type his novels all the time.

Good luck with crawling around under the house. Those repairs always go smooth as silk. :rolleyes:
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I remember it was some early, turn of the century mathematician, but I can't remember the name..
 
tradewater said:
Good luck with crawling around under the house. Those repairs always go smooth as silk. :rolleyes:
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No kidding :( The good news is, I have a fair amount of experience... this will be the fifth time I've worked on either our pipes or Angie's parents' since I moved down here. Every time I replace a leaky section of pipe, a few months later it lets go further down the line - apparently that's just kind of how it works. Short of hiring a professional to replumb the whole house(s) (which is never going to happen :D), I'm left with addressing the leaks as they come up or just burning the place(s) to the ground and starting over.

Hmmmm....
 
In other news, from Wiki:

"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

In this context, "almost surely" is a mathematical term with a precise meaning, and the "monkey" is not an actual monkey, but a metaphor for an abstract device that produces an endless random sequence of letters and symbols. One of the earliest instances of the use of the "monkey metaphor" is that of French mathematician Émile Borel in 1913,[1] but the earliest instance may be even earlier. The relevance of the theorem is questionable—the probability of a universe full of monkeys typing a complete work such as Shakespeare's Hamlet is so tiny that the chance of it occurring during a period of time hundreds of thousands of orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe is extremely low (but technically not zero)."
 
LeeBower said:
In on Tuesday.. 3 cups of coffee has had virtually no effect... well, maybe to my bladder..

I wish I could buy a bottle of motivation, I got so much work to do and not enough "give a f..." to cover it all..
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if you find it, lemme know where cause I can use some too! I'm having a f(...)k it all kind of morning. laying in bed talking to Miss about Friday (might be going to a concert in Chicago Friday apparently) and drinking coffee, don't have to work till 3.

james terrio said:
No kidding :( The good news is, I have a fair amount of experience... this will be the fifth time I've worked on either our pipes or Angie's parents' since I moved down here. Every time I replace a leaky section of pipe, a few months later it lets go further down the line - apparently that's just kind of how it works. Short of hiring a professional to replumb the whole house(s) (which is never going to happen :D), I'm left with addressing the leaks as they come up or just burning the place(s) to the ground and starting over.

Hmmmm....
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Duct tape, got a leak just use a couple turns of duct tape and boom done! Or they have these clamps that go into pipes.
 
The actual fixing of the leak is the easy part. Getting to them is usually problematic.
 
LeeBower said:
I wish I could buy a bottle of motivation, I got so much work to do and not enough "give a f..." to cover it all..
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Chameleonbear said:
if you find it, lemme know where cause I can use some too!.
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james terrio said:
No kidding :( The good news is, I have a fair amount of experience... this will be the fifth time I've worked on either our pipes or Angie's parents' since I moved down here. Every time I replace a leaky section of pipe, a few months later it lets go further down the line - apparently that's just kind of how it works. Short of hiring a professional to replumb the whole house(s) (which is never going to happen :D), I'm left with addressing the leaks as they come up or just burning the place(s) to the ground and starting over.

Hmmmm....
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There are only a few things funner than crawling around under your house to wrestle with some plumbing. :D !!!

My parents bought an old old old old 2 story farm house, and moved it further into the country. When they sat the house down the yard below was pretty much sand and stickers... My dad used to make me crawl under there with him to help all the time. Learned a lot about plumbing and stuff... also learned that when you sit a house down on sticker infested sand the plants die, but the stickers just hide slightly below the sands surface, and then you're making a home for spiders and scorpions... fixing a leak also meant picking stickers out of your face and battling whatever the hell that is crawling up your leg... good times, good times. :D
 
Thanks for the video Cbear.

Hmmm.... Now i feel like batoning..... I havent tried to baton with the 3V chopper crimson made yet.... I think ill go down in the basement and give that a go real quick.
 
james terrio said:
No kidding :( The good news is, I have a fair amount of experience... this will be the fifth time I've worked on either our pipes or Angie's parents' since I moved down here. Every time I replace a leaky section of pipe, a few months later it lets go further down the line - apparently that's just kind of how it works. Short of hiring a professional to replumb the whole house(s) (which is never going to happen :D), I'm left with addressing the leaks as they come up or just burning the place(s) to the ground and starting over.

Hmmmm....
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I know a good project manager in the fire and water damage restoration industry....just sayin'
 
worldwood said:
Thanks for the video Cbear.

Hmmm.... Now i feel like batoning..... I havent tried to baton with the 3V chopper crimson made yet.... I think ill go down in the basement and give that a go real quick.
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Joe posted it, I just reposted it. You're welcome though. Make sure you get a good froe and DON'T USE A HAMMER!

Tdhurl1103 said:
Yup, second from left. LOL....You are such a tease.
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Not a problem, I'm just making sure you are sure of what you're looking for. Personally I prefer the 11 than the 14.
 
I spent a couple of pleasant hours yesterday using some of the blades from Worldwoods package deal and a BK9. The RTAKII did well on a large shrub as did the Condor Golok. The Golok did an outstanding job also on some saplings. The BG compact Parang worked well for its size but I don't think I will be using it much. The BK9 worked the best though. The balance and the outstanding handle combined to make it just feel right in the hand. It was a bit more nimble than the Golok. To sum it up, the BG compact Parang is too small and light for most of the chores I have but is a good buy for the money. The RTAKII is hampered by its blocky handle. It feels like it is attached to a 2x4. I may contour the handles in the future. The Condor Golok was great. I have wanted to try one of them for quite a while and I'm glad I now have one. The overall champ is still the BK9. It is hard for me to find any fault with it.
 
Try to convex the edge on the BG Parang.. I think that was the one that once it was convexed was a helluva blade. I've heard that about the RTAKII before. Since Tooj moved over to Ontario they have some new handle designs coming out that are a lot more comfortable. Checked them out at Blade show and yeah, not quite Becker handle comfortable but definitely more comfortable than the RTAKII.
 
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