The return to SNARKdom

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That depression under the doghouse is probably cooler and more comfortable than inside it. When I was a kid our dog would always dig holes under the tree in his pen to lay in.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Dogs are a holes like that. I once insulated and carpeted the house I had built for a dog we had and he proceeded to tear everything out of the doghouse that he could. After that he just got cedar chips.........which he tried eating multiple times before he figured out they weren't edible.

Nice MPG. The average on my dash readout currently says 11.7. Pretty low, but it idles a lot over the winter to warm up and whatnot. Once I quite warming it up it will probably sit around a 14-15 average.
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I'll give Neko a couple weeks to get more use to the house sitting there... If he still never goes inside I'll be repurposing it... Not sure what to... But i won't waste it. I could remove just the front board, add a shelf inside and make it a firewood rack or something... But no wasted space inside my hillbilly hangout.... The 4x4s are buried 3 feet.... I don't wanna move it either LOL


Very happy with the MPG on this truck. Averaged 20-21 before the exhaust change... Get 22-24 mostly now but see up to 28.

People on the tacoma forum say an exhaust change won't improve mpg... I only wanted the truck to actually sound like a truck... But definitely noticed an increase in MPG... Maybe it's magic... I Get better fuel economy in this V6 than i did in the 4 cylinder that got totaled.
 
ac700wildcat said:
Insurance companies are a pain in the rear and make no sense. Misti has been on injections 3x a week since late summer and they are doing their job, but she keeps having injection site reactions. We went and saw her neurologist a few weeks ago to talk about a change in meds and decided on a once daily pill. They put the order for new meds through the insurance company and they denied it and wanted her to try a cheaper drug. It make no sense because the original drug she was on was $30,000/month and the new one is only $5,000/month, so its saving them a crapton of $$ and is the better option on the few meds we had a choice of. Now we decided on another drug and they are sending it through insurance again, so hopefully this one gets approved.
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Good luck man! I hope they take care of you guys.

Insurance is a necessary evil if you ask me... Have to have it, costs way too much, hate to have to use it.... And then they do everything they can to pay as little as possible.

I know of several People who continue to Work only to keep insurance... They'd retire otherwise.
 
Don't fall behind on rent to the overlords again. Service is commensurate to pay.
 
Hi everybody. Is this where I sign up to slag off all you buttholes?

Oh yeah, In on the FORUM DEFAULT PAGE SETTING..
 
A very short -and perhaps stupid- question to my fellow snarkers:

Ever so often it happens that I use my Becker knife to eat out of a plate. The plates are often ceramic/stone/whatever hard stuff they make plates off.
So after that meal, said Becker knife is almost always dulled from scratching around in the plate. What do you guys do in those situations? DO you eat out of a plate with your Beckers? Do you strop 'em afterwards? Don't do anything and eat more? Take 'em to a ceramic rod? Outright sharpen them?

I wonder...
 
Spent some time this afternoon to rehandle an old hatchet. Broke it's handle a while back while throwing it (Waddayaknow, they're not meant for throwing)...
Found an old handle from a larger hatchet/axe. A simple Mora worked really fine in trimming it down to size for the smaller hatchet head. But holy smokes does my thumb hurt from controlling/push cutting the thin-spined Mora!

Happy with the results though. Where's those scandi beckers :D... Snark!

Left one is the revamped one with the reused handle/shaft.
 
What on earth? Trying to catch up on the snark this go round is like opening Pandora's box.

Something about this sign made me think about you guys...

 
IOTFDOWTTIOS
(In on the first day on which this thread is officially sanctioned.)
 
now that we have a primary snark thread again, I thought I'd repost this since it got deleted last time.

the other day my dad and we're looking online when we found a page for the unit he served with while in Vietnam (720th MP BTN) while looking on the page we found a picture of the track the he was on



He was an M60 gunner on the M113 APC's which they used for convoy escort

that's not him in the picture, however he did serve with him
 
worldwood said:
Very happy with the MPG on this truck. Averaged 20-21 before the exhaust change... Get 22-24 mostly now but see up to 28.

People on the tacoma forum say an exhaust change won't improve mpg... I only wanted the truck to actually sound like a truck... But definitely noticed an increase in MPG... Maybe it's magic... I Get better fuel economy in this V6 than i did in the 4 cylinder that got totaled.
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Engines are weird like that. The 4 cyl should use less gas but sometimes they just aren't enough and end up outside their ideal powerband. The V6 isn't working as hard doing the same job so it can stay in the ideal RPM range. And then the stock exhaust is mostly designed to keep the truck quiet rather than help the engine be as efficient as possible. Same with the intake, there's usually some sound muffling effect to that as well and doesn't flow as well as it could.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
A very short -and perhaps stupid- question to my fellow snarkers:

Ever so often it happens that I use my Becker knife to eat out of a plate. The plates are often ceramic/stone/whatever hard stuff they make plates off.
So after that meal, said Becker knife is almost always dulled from scratching around in the plate. What do you guys do in those situations? DO you eat out of a plate with your Beckers? Do you strop 'em afterwards? Don't do anything and eat more? Take 'em to a ceramic rod? Outright sharpen them?

I wonder...
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Wooden plates help save the edge.
 
Galeocerdoshark said:
A very short -and perhaps stupid- question to my fellow snarkers:

Ever so often it happens that I use my Becker knife to eat out of a plate. The plates are often ceramic/stone/whatever hard stuff they make plates off.
So after that meal, said Becker knife is almost always dulled from scratching around in the plate. What do you guys do in those situations? DO you eat out of a plate with your Beckers? Do you strop 'em afterwards? Don't do anything and eat more? Take 'em to a ceramic rod? Outright sharpen them?

I wonder...
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Don't smash your knife edge on rocks. Ever.
Ceramic plates are glass-covered rocks.

Eating knives should be serrated. The tips of the serrations take the beating, leaving the inner arc of the serrations sharp.
 
It was a good steel day...2 Ka-Bar packages and a steal of a deal on a sod buster Jr...@$12.49 I regret not grabbing both that were left. It's OK though, a fellow Knife nut coworker grabbed the 2nd.

 
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