Mr Van is all checked out, decked out, & back from the shop...
...ready for next week's trip to the big October show!
...ready for next week's trip to the big October show!
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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!
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Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I get to take my niece to her probation officer today. They are going to drug test her (she thinks she should be ok 
), and if she fails she gets jailed for seven days, and if not it's off to the half-way house she goes.
And if my sister even just thinks about getting her out again, I think I'm going to break every bone in her hands, one at a time, and even snap her ulna and radius because we all tried to tell it wouldn't end well the last time she did that crap.
), and if she fails she gets jailed for seven days, and if not it's off to the half-way house she goes.And if my sister even just thinks about getting her out again, I think I'm going to break every bone in her hands, one at a time, and even snap her ulna and radius because we all tried to tell it wouldn't end well the last time she did that crap.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I'm pretty much at the "give me just one more reason" point from cutting my niece (sister's daughter) out of my life. I'm over her attitude, and I'm over her basically spitting on her support system (including me) and not following through on the things she needs to do even though we've given money and time to helping her, have rearranged our days to help her, and have had to suffer the Himalayan sized drama and bull**** that she brings with her. Her mouth makes it embarrassing to be around her (and that is coming from me, who laughs hard at people like Robin Williams and Kat Williams), her attitude is beyond ****ty, and always, no matter what and no matter the situation, it's always some "*****es" fault, never her own. The way she runs her mouth, I am very surprised she's never gotten her *** stomped. Except, embarrassingly, the one time someone was going to it was her own mother! (I had to pry mother off of daughter at that moment)
Also, as I sat in the probation lobby today waiting on her, I wondered if it's a normal thing for families to go to court dates and hearings, take them to their probation check ins, jail/prison visits, and that sort of thing. Is it normal for families to do this, or is my family truly 50 shades of ****ed up?
Also, as I sat in the probation lobby today waiting on her, I wondered if it's a normal thing for families to go to court dates and hearings, take them to their probation check ins, jail/prison visits, and that sort of thing. Is it normal for families to do this, or is my family truly 50 shades of ****ed up?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Christ! It wasn't even my probation check in, not my neck on the line, and I was the one up and ready to leave on time!
Just got offered some nice Civil War era machine tools.
It gets better.....
They're cheap!
They'd be delivered to me!
It gets better.....
They're cheap!
They'd be delivered to me!
Jedster
Flying through space
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Congratulations....
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
What kind of machines? What they do? Because I might just be asked random crap about Civil War machines if I ever go on Jeopardy, lol.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Not so cheap after all, but still attractively priced.
And delivered for cheap.
Gear cutter (pre Civil War ??)
Either a milling machine or slotter of some sort (pre Civil War ??) (from Ford Museum)
Lathe...either wood working or model maker's (from Ford Museum)
Tire shrinker (unusual design) <-- they shrink steel tires for wooden spoked wheels
Probably not...this was a common design.Probably a Cannon lathe
The face plate make's it versatile.
Nice big one!
The gear cutter was made by the Hope Iron Foundry in RI.
This company was instrumental in the north's Civil War effort.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
So now that Revoltingistan is getting old machines from museums, is the nation itself now considered a Museum?
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I find I'm quite fond of putting regular yogurt in the freezer and eating it frozen.
I also need a new keyboard because this one has buttons getting stuck and not working right.
I also need a new keyboard because this one has buttons getting stuck and not working right.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
And it's sad what passes for a boombox these days. Back in my day, a boombox wasn't some little puny portable stereo, iza box that went BOOM!
More of a "relic".
