Recent content by Borzak

The guy I mentioned that worked on the Alaskan pipeline as a welder then other things before moving into the office he wound up having back surgery and he blamed it on his pipeline work. Leaning over, crawling ontop of and under pipelines and stuff. No idea if that is true or not. In my...

Gonna try it, thanks.

A lot of people who can lay a bead down call themselves welders....A welder can make good money if and pretty much only if they can weld in all posistions, in several processes (Mig, stick, Tig, Submerged arc etc...) on multiple alloys (low carbon steel, stainless, aluminum, high nickle content...

Never seen it, there were some people in high school that saw it often and made an event of it. Wasn't for me just based on my local audience.

Saw a video with him in it a while back. Totally immobile and someone had to hold up stuff in front of him and then he would say something.

My grandfather died in 1991. My grandmother lived until 2023. On the road my grandparents lived on a lot of women lived a lot longer than their husbands. Guess they worked them to derath, but my grandmother was the big bread winner. I think I had read Dollys husband was big in construction or...

Wonder how it would do sucking up primers you dropped and forgot about before you went off to work that day. I've never done it with a vacuum but I know people who have.

Reason we have magnets. That should be the end game bonus, a free virtual magnet after you spent umpteen hours looking for the needle.

Dead link.

Not an engineer. I work with a variety of engineers. Turnover is very low and has been that way for a while. Civil and mechanical engineers mostly supporting the petrochemical industry. When someone does leave or someone is hired it's mostly someone changing to another company that does the same...

Almost all my money invested is in a few index funds. I'm not sure where I picked it up. My grandparents or parents nerver owned a stock. Then when I get something like a mineral rights payout it's split between the index funds and a small part into something like I did with Valero this year...

Soon be cheaper to buy a Ram truck than Ram for your PC. Not that I want a Ram truck.

Nutcases around here and other places in the southeast gather up longleaf pinestraw and weave/make stuff out of it. Looks incredibly tedious. I do see some bales of the stuff for sale from time to time. No idea how they gather the shit and make use of it. As the name implies the needles from it...