Morning all. Yesterday was another long one. I hit 40 hours at 11 am today. Who wants to bet I don't get to quit for the week?

That sounds like zero fun at all. I remember back in the day of the photolab working several 90 hour weeks in row. Literally go home, straight to bed, and right back to work early.

Good luck David

ITs also pack the kid up weekend and send him off to college in LA

Values are nuts these days. I had to up my coverage when I realized my factory sport seats are now worth more than I paid for the whole car! 😳

That is a good problem to have.

I guess you keep any car long enough and the values start going up! 🤣


I like my ROI on my truck though. I kept it 10 months and made 10k when I sold it! 🤣🤣😬😬

Yea, my El Camino is only up to 372,000 miles and worth more than what I paid for it. Of course we do really need to consider that 2021 dollars are not the same as 1991 dollars.

It still ain't for sale for any reasonable price.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1965-chevrolet-el-camino-12/

Mornin' all. Hey, its lunch time. Daughter is taking the van to get the fixed windshield fixed again.

Mine is a nice car, but not at all like that poor baby that averaged well under 500 mile per year.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1629476905.JPG

This is mine with the most expensive cargo load I ever hauled. A $490,000 aerial camera system. One of the last brand new Leica RC-30 film cameras.

So the cameras almost doubled the value there!

That is just one camera. One box is the lens, the other box is the camera body and the two film magazines are in separate boxes themselves.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1629477849.jpg

You can see the scale of the lens by the leg and foot of the man behind the lens.


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1629477918.jpg

This is the rear of the lens. The square is 9x9 inches. and that is where the film is pressed against the platen during exposure. The lens alone is about 150 pounds. It has the handles so one strong man, but preferably two men can lower it into the camera mount attached to the airplane. The aircraft has a 20 inch hole in the belly so the lens looked straight down.

The mount was gyro stabilized. If the aircraft wings tilted or there was any for aft tilt or yaw it would tilt or rotate to compensate. Amazing technology.

As the exposure (1,000th second) of the rotary shutter the film platen would advance in the opposite direction of the ground according to altitude. So a low altitude flight the film would move more than a high flight to compensate for the forward motion. It would flash a light to the pilot if it was getting close to the limit of compensation so he could slow down if possible.

I see that it is hold together by three small rubber bands as seen in the right hand corner......

Yeesh. Those days are/were terrible. I remember one rotation I did. We left at 9-10 pm at night. I would then wake up at 2 am for the next day. For 4 weeks straight. And we were just the students. The 2 interns had it worse. They'd stay in-house every other night. Meaning the night they weren't on-call, they'd leave at 10 pm and be back about 4 hours later.

It still amazes me that we accept this as normal in the medical field. A truck driver legally has to stop driving after 14 hours at work, but we make doctors work weeks on end getting 3-4hrs sleep or less and expect them to operate in high stress environments with people’s lives at stake all the time. Just crazy that there aren’t more rules about how long that shift is.

I suspect there is an element of hazing in there.

The current doctors went through it, so the new ones have to do it as well. I can see the teaching to work under pressure, and in some emergencies, working insane hours is just necessary. But there really should be limits on it.

Medical errors cause an estimated 250,000 deaths in the United States annually. If that was car crashes or gun deaths there would be marches in every city demanding something be done.

Yet anytime I am sick, I am going to see my doctor, and not some acupuncture, faith healer, chiropractor, or holistic scammer. I want science on my side.

I "got" to mow the yard again yesterday. It had rained .03 inches overnight. The humidity was 98% so kinds thick. It was just 73 degrees and sweating did nothing but make me wet.

The yard was so wet I had to hose off the mower top and bottom. The humidity was so high it was nuts.

Stormed here last night. Prior to that we had over an inch over the weekend. When I got back from CA the yard looked like a prairie. Soon as the cut grass is dry I will have to sweep it.

Morning all. Its another all stops out week to make an issue. Had to run out and get tabs for the kids car so I'll have to make that time up.

Oklahoma finally moved into the 21st century with tag renewal. I can do it all online. The new sticker just comes in the mail.