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Get the Holy Handgrenade!

Those killer bunnies are mean. They will rip yer throat out in a heartbeat.

Where is everybody? Jim has sailed away, and no posts yesterday by anyone but me. I guess the thread is dying a slow death of neglect.

Happy F R I D A Y! Y'all

Morning all. I spent most of yesterday on the phone with IT. Every meeting I attempted to be in on got dropped cause of some setting. I think its fixed now, till the next stupid update.

That must be frustrating. Our Zoom meeting went fine. A few of the guys only had the top few inches of their heads visible. One guys was against a bright window so he looked like a 60 minutes interview with a concealed identity. He finally turned on the room lights so we could see him.

The guy that hosted the meeting has a full version of Zoom so he can host a meeting for up to 23 hours and 59 minutes. It is cool that in the present time everyone has a computer or cell phone to be able to join in. It was not too many years ago I was the geek because I had computers at home and few others did.

The worst part is that I was sharing my screen doing CAD in real time to make client based changes. One minute I'm online the next I'm clicking rejoin meeting. Turns out they made an update to the VPN that some of the computers didn't like.

Yep, the idiot IT department, ya just can't trust them to do anything right!

Where is Brent. Is he out sailing with Jim?

Its all Saturday to everyone but us.

I saw a neat product advertised on Faceplant. It is a heat shrink tube with a little ring of low temp melt point solder in the middle. Just shove the wires into the proper sized tube, and apply heat from a heat gun or lighter, and the solder melts and the tubing shrinks up and makes a neat looking soldered connection. I ordered one kit of them and I got to try them out today. They work pretty well. The heat shrink tubing really makes a tight seal, and the solder just helps fuse the wires connection.

Pretty cool product.

He is eating the lunch that belongs to the head of IT!

Did electronics assembly as a part time job when very young. Did that kind of stuff manually with solder, soldering iron, heat shrink tubing and a heat gun. The tubing wasn't clear like the new stuff. Also the solder required more heat than the tubing. The heat required to shrink the tubing was a bit cooler so shrinking the tubing wouldn't melt the wire insulation.

Took Electronics in HS. Wrote a manual for TV repair. Both tube and integrated circuits, crt, and led. Teacher ended up using mine for his other classes.
My favorite part...Step 1.) Is it plugged in?

Bought a battery operated soldering iron/pen a few years ago that doesn't itself get hot at all. Just heats the wires and melts the solder.

Daughter was accepted into the AmeriCorps program. Will be based out of Colorado.

Cool. What part of Colorado? The eastern part is as flat as Kansas. Then there are a few mountains. ;)

My business partner has a really cool soldering station. It is way more than just a soldering iron. He has some bright lights, a de-soldering station, and the soldering just also has a little heat gun built in with a little vacuum to suck the melted solder fumes out. It is beyond anything I have ever used.

Denver/Aurora I think.

Hey, that is close to the Wayne's world home. Knarly dude!

At least she is used to snow, but that altitude takes some getting used to.

They will be based out of there, but no guarantee where they will be working. They may be tutoring there in CO or cleaning up a national park like Yosemite. With her luck, she will be cleaning a park like the Effigy mounds that are 1.5 hours away from here and she has already been there.

I don't know what Americorps does.

Bro helped girlfriends boy get in with job corps. They had him on a program to be a bread/pastry chef. Studied in San Francisco with someplace famous for their sour dough. Quit when they talked about sending him to study in France for a year. Don't think he understood he could claim studying under those chefs and open his own place. Now he works as a dishwasher at Rib Crib. Don't think he is all there.

Hey, it is Saturday for everyone again.

Yep....my kids are still in bed so I’m cherishing the silence while it lasts.

I’m trying to get motivated to do some chores but man this coffee cup is heavy. [emoji2]


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