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    hey rick i hear you its freezin up here in the northeast I'm from rhode island

    Yeah, real cold this morning. In fact I should be at my other job right now at 8:30 this morning (teaching special ed children) but my wife woke me up at 6:00 am to tell me the house is cold. Furnace went out. Looks to be the pressure switch for the cpu gave up, I jumped the switch and it works fine. So I pulled a sick day in order to fix the furnace.

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    Working at gearing up for next year, reading, surfing the web, finishing the inside of my shop, and building an office in the shop.

    Hey lets see some of those radios!!

    A past time hobby for me is playing with old transmitters, like cb radios and ham radios. Got a bunch of friends around that I talk to.

    One of my hobbies too. I have three Yaesus, two hh vhf and uhf 5W and a base/mobile 50W uhf. A fun hobby.

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    Tools Explained

    DRILL PRESS:

    A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it.

    WIRE WHEEL:

    Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, "Oh, ****!"

    SKILL SAW:

    A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.

    PLIERS:

    Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters.

    BELT SANDER:

    An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs.

    HACKSAW:

    One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle... It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

    VISE-GRIPS:

    Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

    OXYACETYLENE TORCH:

    Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race..

    TABLE SAW:

    A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity.

    HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK:

    Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

    BAND SAW:

    A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the outside edge.

    TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST:

    A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect.

    PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER:

    Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but, can also be used, as the nameimplies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.

    STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER:

    A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms.

    PRY BAR:

    A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part.

    HOSE CUTTER:

    A tool used to make hoses too short.

    HAMMER:

    Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit.

    UTILITY KNIFE:

    Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while you are wearing them.

    Son of a b*tch TOOL:

    Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling "Son of a *****" at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

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    I held the Flip video camera for a few minutes while plowing and put the video on Face Book for the in-laws to see what this winter in America is like. I'll try the link here to see if it works. I should have turned down the radio in the truck.

    <object width="400" height="224" ><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.facebook.com/v/1779150966644" /><embed src="http://www.facebook.com/v/1779150966644" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="224"></embed></object>

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    Sharpen your plumbing skills for rig building pipe roll and toobz they got free lite versions it's fun and free check em out in app store...ha ha..another fun game not related to water flow is tiki totems have fun.

    I bought the Itouch 64Gig for my wife a few months ago and it is amazing. I think one of the coolest features is the ability to pick up WIFI. She can sit somewhere and using SKYP talk and see her family and friends in eastern Europe.

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    I bet it is fun. I have always wanted to operate one just so I could have the experience of it.

    Somewhere online I saw a plow attached to a Honda civic. And it worked.

    That's got to be some crazy fun work.

    Maybe years ago when i was a kid it was fun but it's not so fun now. It's kind of boring to sit in the truck for 18 (not a typo) hours in a truck plowing snow. Listening to audio books on the cd player makes time goy by easier and watching the idiot drivers get stuck and crash into each other is sort of fun too. I've got to say though that this truck (F250 Super Duty) is much more easier to sit in for hours on end. It's the first Ford truck I've owned and it more comfortable than the Silverados.

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