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9:20 PM The wind was gusting pretty high a few minutes ago, rain, lightning. But nothing very intense, and I'm OK with that. I'm right on the edge of that block.

We evacuated from work the other day. A four inch gas line separated and thirty PSI natural gas came roaring out. It happened right at shift change so I didn’t get any extra break time out of it

The world is my oyster and youtube serves them up fried, raw, on the half shell....anyway I want and some I didn't know I wanted.

From a drone?

She thought it was funnier than hell

I’ll have to check it out. I just started watching The Old Man. Looks good so far.

Perfect day here , didn’t check the temperature but it was warm. Prolly high seventies

Back when Badge was still with us, we had a neighbor who had squirrels living in his attic. There was a hole in the eave the squirrels would use. Badge would chase them and they would run straight up the wall of the brick house. The squirrels won several times, Badge studied the situation. There was slanted roof, over a basement staircase that came down within a few feet of the ground. Next go round, rather than chase the squirrel Badge headed up that slanted roof and intercepted the squirrel just before he made the eave.

A coworkers son in law bought him a subscription to a gay porn magazine. The coworkers wife was amused.

When I was in highschool Studebakers were the winter beater car of choice for the motorheads. They were readily available for 100 dollars and were built like tanks.

I've learned to put my plants far enough apart that I can weed with a lawnmower...

They've been growing !!

It was March I believe, a cold wet March. We were at the start of construction on a Cracker Barrel Restaurant. The site was a literal mud hole, a big track excavator got buried to where water was at seat level. We were a crew of four and normally would start the day with coffee around a burn barrel, usally a few jokes and a bit of discussion about the goals for the day. So one morning Lester, the foreman, shows up, ignores the coffee, says anybody touches a vehicle, you're fired, get the fuck to work. I was totally in the dark, wondering what brought this on. Jessie filled me in later. Ron put a handful of pebbles inside the hubcap of Lester's van, Lester stopped, in the rain, to check the wheel. He was not amused. Shortly before lunch I was talking to Lester and Ron walked by, shaking a pop can full of pebbles and making engine noises. Lester turned bright red, gritted his teeth, then relaxed and started to laugh. Looked at me and said, that fucker's got balls.

My guess is he's glamping and sitting next to his tent.

They throw away an unbelievable amount of useable stuff at the mill. They used to let people take it home, but some asshole took home a barrel with chemical residue in it. He let his kids play with it and when they got chemical burns he tried to sue the company. So now nobody can have anything from the mill.

I've always been interested in the Loomis Gang and Nine Mile Swamp.

A couple of state police showed up at my buddy’s workplace. The entire welding department went out the back door. Forty welders had reason to not want to talk to the police

I think there are six. I use them all in the course of night. I often find a couple on the floor in the morning, they must have been eating crackers.

We went to Sea World a few times when the kids were younger Shamu was fun but did seem sad

There is still manufacturing here, not as much as there was. Mill I work at makes some very exotic alloys, the stuff that goes to the moon. There are a few titanium plants. There is a lot of robotics stuff up in Pittsburgh, but more research than manufacturing. Mesta Machine used to be not far from here. We still operate a 3200 ton Mesta press, looks simlar to this.