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I really appreciate the heartfelt encouragement from the members. So does Fonda.

She's out of recovery and has been admitted to spend a couple of days. I don't know much else right now. Thanks to everyone for the support. A earlier biopsy had confirmed malignancy, but there's no indication right now it has spread. @playdeep Dad is 90, and spiraling down more quickly. The...

This morning (Tuesday) my mother-in-law is undergoing surgery to remove a cancerous mass in one of her lungs. It's not large (2.2 cm), and there's no indication it has metastisized, but obviously it's a frightening situation. She's 83, and in reasonably good health. I'll post later when we know...

Yep. It's not a chisel, but a formed tool to make the joint leak tight. There are actually three required to make the joint, one to seal the inside diameter of the bell pocket, one for the outside, and one for the center. The face of the tool is angled differently for all three, pushing the lead...

Who would have thought that young man would become one of the most admired actors in film history? He was a giant in the industry, and also universally admired outside it.

But a bit more work needed: 😬

Slowly getting more organized:

The last time I made up a lead and oakum joint in cast iron waste piping was November 1983. Who can spot the tool used in that process? What is all the other stuff used for?

I need a few more trailer harness adapters.

Why I haven't looked at that top shelf in ten years. Why do I have five grease guns and twenty tubes of grease? I don't want to clean this mess, but here we go. 🤪

The pinnacle of that risk taking was Apollo 8, even moreso than the Apollo 11 moon landing. While lower powered versions of the Saturn V had been flown with and without crews prior to the second half of 1968, it had never been flown manned and all up with the big S1-B first stage and its five...

You would be mistaken if you believe the 60s space program did not advance American technological knowledge more than today's shoddy farce run by NASA. It's not even close.

This is the force we're going to fight the Chinese with. Read the entire article, it's nuts. I suppose the Army is doing the same. As recently as June, Navy officials were still predicting that the service would miss its recruiting target for a second consecutive year, even as other services...

We've been buying pounds of marinated taco meat, which is coarsely chopped flank and chuck, at the carneceria a couple of miles from us. The store also has a couple of 100 quart Igloo coolers up front that are loaded with fresh and hot tortillas de maiz and harina every 30 minutes. It's...

This biography of Henry J. Kaiser is posted on the Kaiser Permanente website, and it provides a window into the life of the man considered as one of America's greatest industrialists. Kaiser's drive to success and the incredible growth of his empire was facilitated by concern for his workforce...

I've always thought a 3" deck gun would be a useful accessory on the lake. It could easily sink an offending watercraft at 1,000 yards.

Where's the column that pays for the IBEW and Pipefitters ads at Major League Baseball games? I've always wondered.

If you're old enough to need reading glasses it should be obvious why the Hubble can't take super zoom photos of the moon. It was built to explore galaxies, not take those photos. Jeez.

Really? I can tell the direction a boat with nav lights is traveling in a second.

I was gonna say, that's a John Holmes mustache...