Hello to all you sportsfans out there in JU land. Today I want you all to be like the proverbial midget at the urinal........you're gonna have to keep on your toes. My question to you is, what is it that you blog about on a regular basis, but get no responses? We all know that you can points-whore by posting about religion, or politics, or just by bashing the crap out of someone. But what is it that floats your boat, that nobody seems to care about? Me? I know what I love, but if I pos...

I'd hammer all mornin' I'd hammer in the evenin' all over the land............apologies to pp&m. I got it!!! Found a nice 55 pounder at a flea market for $65. I don't have a clue, but I was out there today heatin' and poundin' on steel. Just tried some basic techniques, but they worked pretty well. Bent the crap out of that piston rod again. Also practiced fullering and upsetting. (ummm, thinning and thickening the metal...sort of.) I will learn. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!! You are all in da...

Just a quick post, went anvil hunting today, two flea markets no longer existing, two didn't have one, but one of those pointed me to a salvation army that apparently had an anvil.......Psyche!!!!! Sorry, sold it........bleh. Well, there's always the big Bell County Flea Market tommorow. I did however get a hammer It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. It ships for about 17.97 and can be found in the Outdoors section of S-mart. That's right, shop smart, shop S-ma...

Just a quick post, went anvil hunting today, two flea markets no longer existing, two didn't have one, but one of those pointed me to a salvation army that apparently had an anvil.......Psyche!!!!! Sorry, sold it........bleh. Well, there's always the big Bell County Flea Market tommorow. I did however get a hammer It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. It ships for about 17.97 and can be found in the Outdoors section of S-mart. That's right, shop smart, shop S-ma...

This one goes out to the Texas Wahine, who got the Fanta song going in my head for the last 20 minutes or so. Damn your eyes. ("Too late!"-Marty Feldman) Everyone one has a commercial or two they absolutely hate, what's yours? I stopped watching t.v. about three years ago, but I still get them at the movies, and there's not a one there that doesn't raise the little hairs on the back of my neck. The Fanta ones are fun, but just get stuck in your head 'til you wish you had a harpoon gun t...

This one goes out to the Texas Wahine, who got the Fanta song going in my head for the last 20 minutes or so. Damn your eyes. ("Too late!"-Marty Feldman) Everyone one has a commercial or two they absolutely hate, what's yours? I stopped watching t.v. about three years ago, but I still get them at the movies, and there's not a one there that doesn't raise the little hairs on the back of my neck. The Fanta ones are fun, but just get stuck in your head 'til you wish you had a harpoon gun t...

and to be fair, the end of the line is modified. So I didn't get the job today, so I can't go melty melty melt to relax, because my new furnace lid ain't dry yet. So I post articles about weird hobbies instead of politics and get no comments, no worries! I just played with my furnace and tried something a little different. I've been planning to modify a brake drum to use as a forge. My propane burner for my foundry furnace is in set screws, so it comes right out. Now my old furnace lid...

and to be fair, the end of the line is modified. So I didn't get the job today, so I can't go melty melty melt to relax, because my new furnace lid ain't dry yet. So I post articles about weird hobbies instead of politics and get no comments, no worries! I just played with my furnace and tried something a little different. I've been planning to modify a brake drum to use as a forge. My propane burner for my foundry furnace is in set screws, so it comes right out. Now my old furnace lid...

ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! I've been waiting for the phone call all day that was supposed to say whether or not I got the job. And it came. Sort of. I took a friend down to the police station to report a case of identity theft, and when I came back.............now someone else has applied. They want to interview them first and let me know their decision next Tuesday. Legitimate competion, how I hate thee. It makes me think of the Donald Westlake book, The Ax, in which the main character s...

ARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!! I've been waiting for the phone call all day that was supposed to say whether or not I got the job. And it came. Sort of. I took a friend down to the police station to report a case of identity theft, and when I came back.............now someone else has applied. They want to interview them first and let me know their decision next Tuesday. Legitimate competion, how I hate thee. It makes me think of the Donald Westlake book, The Ax, in which the main character s...

So you're approaching thirty, seemingly mature, adult........yet you know damned well that you're still a goofy kid on the inside. What do you do to release those childish urges to play the same games you did when you were three? Simple, you lie to yourself and the world around you by making your games seem useful. Instead of racing your bike up and down the block, you buy a pickup. Instead of pulling on girls hair to show them you like them, there's sex......which admittedly in it's bette...

So you're approaching thirty, seemingly mature, adult........yet you know damned well that you're still a goofy kid on the inside. What do you do to release those childish urges to play the same games you did when you were three? Simple, you lie to yourself and the world around you by making your games seem useful. Instead of racing your bike up and down the block, you buy a pickup. Instead of pulling on girls hair to show them you like them, there's sex......which admittedly in it's bette...

Muhahahaha!!!! I'm dabbling once again in the realms of writing. I should stick to poetry, which I'm good at, instead of fiction, which I'm not. Either way here's something I played with for a little while this afternoon. It's the beginnings of what seems to be the usual hardboiled detective schtick (intentionally so, and intentionally cliche, but I want to go somewhere different with it.) In short, the cheese is deliberate. I'd like to turn it into a short story twisting the usual by ma...

Interviewed for the job today, NOT surprised when he popped out a guest co-interviewer. AHA!!!! Sneaky, sneaky, but I saw it coming. Talked the talk, I can walk the walk, forgot on the ways to get kids interested again and get attendence up to mention field trips to opera / musical theater, and hosting performing groups and choirs. Sigh............... Worked up, jittery, excited, nervous, wow. I should hear back Thursday. Is it possible to hold your breath for two days?

Interviewed for the job today, NOT surprised when he popped out a guest co-interviewer. AHA!!!! Sneaky, sneaky, but I saw it coming. Talked the talk, I can walk the walk, forgot on the ways to get kids interested again and get attendence up to mention field trips to opera / musical theater, and hosting performing groups and choirs. Sigh............... Worked up, jittery, excited, nervous, wow. I should hear back Thursday. Is it possible to hold your breath for two days?