How'd it go today?

Not sure what the workflow is supposed to be, but shouldn't there be a patent application in there somewhere?
 
Well, my interview was promising, but I won't get my hopes up. A lot of their accounts want 8 years post felony, and I'm only at 5, so there's a number of jobs I just wouldn't be allowed to do. This is why I went back to tree work and firewood. You can have all the drug convictions you can get, and still get hired. If you smack a junkie around though... Soon it'll be a hate crime because "Addiction is a disease", and it's assaulting the disabled and disadvantaged.

Anywho, may have a lead on a job painting, which I'd enjoy far more than plumbing, so that's the next on the list. I like to paint, and I'm good at it. I'd like to shake the cough before I call the guy, but I'm not sure I can wait that long.
 
I had a visit from Alaska!!!!
Stikine and his wife were in Copenhagen, because their daughter is at the university there.
So I took them out to see the most overdone, opulent, royal castle in the country,Frederiksborg slot, a reminder that we were not always socialist.
Let me tell you, those two are just good company, I really enjoyed it.
Completely forgot to take pictures. Stikine's wife took plenty, so maybe some coming from that end.
Here is a picture of the hotsauce and jelly they brought from Alaska.....................made from Kelp!!!
I opened a bottle as soon as I got home. Very different, but really good!! I love hotsauce.

IMO the best thing parents can do for kids is shipping them halfway across the World and let them live and learn in a completely different culture/society.

Great when 'Housers can meet up like that. That is really a fine by-product of social media. 20240329_125745.jpg
 
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We had a great lunch at a small inn afterwards that served smøørbrød, a traditional open-faced sandwich. Keeping with tradition we got to sample a fine tasting schnapps. This one is well traveled across the equator twice. I need to find a bottle to take home.
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Dagnabit! Got dandruff, and some of it itches! 20240329_130552.jpg 20240329_130540.jpg

Pulled the door panel off Gertrude to fix my door, and found nothing but bad news. Metal fatigue 😩! I don't have a welder, or the money for a decent repair. Gonna have to get a big fender washer, and a nut and bolt and bodge this thing together. Unfortunately that won't be today... can't go the junk yard route, I can't abide mismatched doors and that hillbilly crap. I'd have to rattlecan the whole truck, because that's more acceptable than the alternative.

So grrrr. Also, Sarah may have plans for my next few days...

Man I need a job! Come on phone, ring!
 
CurSedVoyce said:
Door Handle Reinforcement I believe....

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Thank you sir! I've saved the link, now I just have to scare up some cash!

For now, the op-rod is zip tied to the door, the mechanism is stashed away, and the door card is back on. I can roll the window down and open the door from inside, so life isn't too rough. I guess it'll stay like that for a bit.
 
My son puked all over his bedroom this morning. Couldn’t get the door open fast enough. Others are dropping like flies. Maybe it wasn’t food poisoning…

Discovered my 461 got a little busted. It got rolled by a dragged tree last salt cedar job. Shame, it’s a nice saw. Pulled the handle back straight with one of my big long handled ratchet straps. IMG_6009.jpeg

…obligatory husky missing screws… IMG_6008.jpeg

And just for fun dukes saw chain after some desert wood abuse. Still shaves a fingernail.

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I was out running some errands with a friend today and I got us into a bit of an adventure. We went past a moving sale on the way to town. Nothing exciting, other than an IH 4900 chip truck that had been sitting for five years. I knew the owner had been doing a fade in/fade out for the last ten years or so. On the way back from town, the truck had FREE on the windshield. I made my friend turn around. The truck was a little too far gone to be a legal commercial vehicle, but had enter ideal farm truck territory. (Mechanically sound, but rusty af, with a lot of lights missing, windows that didn't roll down, etc.) Short story, husband had 90 days to remove the truck by divorce decree, which ended in 2022. Now that the property is about to be sold, the wife is enacting her right to dispose of the truck and bill the proceeds of the sale of the house. Sermed easy enough, but the husband got wind of it and called the cops. Once the cop read the divorce decree, and he was satisfied that the farm plate provided registration and insurance, he vamoosed. It's been a long time since I've had the cops called on me.

We had to get a couple of batteries from the farm and some tools. The truck wouldn't turn over with the key, so I had to jump the solenoid. It fired on the first revolution after sitting almost two years. DTA466 and a six speed, but juice brakes, sadly. It ran really well. Might be 250 horse. Going to be a great two cord firewood truck when we get the bugs worked out. Great tires as well. All in all, a fun day.
 
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