[TheForge] YAK [Was Re: MaiL]

Sat Nov 9 20:07:05 2002

> Wow Mike We're reeling from the lack of winter.

Heh.  And I was thinking of you, Frosty, when I posted my whine,
reckoning I'd get one of those yarns back from you that begins, "Waal,
Sonny, back in November of '78 it was so cold that..." :-)

Today was back to normal, sun all day and above 50F.  Got my quench
tank and a stake tool rack rigged, generator tuned up.  I believe I'm
going to roof over my 1945 Bantam Jeep trailer and make it into a
towable power plant and fuel storage.  Can't bring myself to store gas
cans in a shop with open flames and hot iron.  And the notion of
trying to run the generator exposed to a 40 mph wind and freezing rain
doesn't appeal to me at all.

> ...guy so he decided to climb a transmission tower and see how long
> he could hang from the wires....72,000 v transmission line he was
> hanging from...

Pretty spectacular.  What a kook.  Any fool knows, you want to hear
from the President, you just discard your tinfoil hat liner and listen
closely to an aluminum saucepan.  (Sometimes you have to ground the
saucepan with a piece of chain let down the well.)

Hardly any quakes here.  Only place in Atlantic Canada that gets hit
often is in New Brunswick where -- drumroll...rimshot -- they built
the nuclear power plant.

BTW, I took your advice and went, at least tentaively, for vertical
stock storage.  Sawed all the stock on hand in half for the move.  I
do believe I'm going to like it.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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