Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[Jeff Scott]

Lest we forget, the informal definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results...

you mean, like playing in a cover band?

 

[beans-on-toast]

I ordered some unsoldering stuff from amazon at noon today. Tracking says on the truck for delivery two hours later. I'll believe it when the driver knocks at the door.

 

[Jeff Scott]

I ordered some unsoldering stuff from amazon at noon today. Tracking says on the truck for delivery two hours later. I'll believe it when the driver knocks at the door.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

I ordered some unsoldering stuff from amazon at noon today. Tracking says on the truck for delivery two hours later. I'll believe it when the driver knocks at the door.

 

[beans-on-toast]

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Close but this one is electric.

 

[Passinwind]

I ordered some unsoldering stuff from amazon at noon today. Tracking says on the truck for delivery two hours later. I'll believe it when the driver knocks at the door.

The truck is in Seattle, it may take a while.

 

[beans-on-toast]

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My postman only knocks once, then runs. I'm otherwise detained till they arrive today, if they arrive.

 

[Jeff Scott]

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Close but this one is electric.
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Which one will work during a power failure?

 

[Black Out Jazz]

When I was in micro miniature soldering school in the Navy, they stressed over and over---LESS IS MORE. DON'T OVERDO IT.

Nobody at 7ender ever heard that. Ever.

 

[Black Out Jazz]

Which one will work during a power failure?

Over the course of my career, 35 odd years, I must have had every flavor of 'lectric solder/desolder station there was. I deduced the electrics are more trouble than they're worth. I spent more time cleaning the tips out than I did working. YMMV

 

[beans-on-toast]

Which one will work during a power failure?

I thought about that. It turns out that it isn’t a problem as I don’t work during a power failure. I do have a few manual pumps and a battery based soldering iron on standby.

 

[LBS-bass]

I decided to stick with Asian, but opted for sukiyaki instead of those wanton wontons.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I decided to stick with Asian, but opted for sukiyaki instead of those wanton wontons.


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My old neighbors named their dogs Suki and Yaki.
... but my father named the cats Simon & Schuster so
got nothing to plead.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Over the course of my career, 35 odd years, I must have had every flavor of 'lectric solder/desolder station there was. I deduced the electrics are more trouble than they're worth. I spent more time cleaning the tips out than I did working. YMMV

A clean tip is a happy tip. I think that I saw that in a condom ad.

 

[GwenOnBass]

Better than to take a tip from Q

 

[Black Out Jazz]

A clean tip is a happy tip. I think that I saw that in a condom ad.

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Absolutely perfect.

 

[roccobass]

A clean tip is a happy tip. I think that I saw that in a condom ad.

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Better than to take a tip from Q

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Either two are better than partaking off the tip of one of these!

 

[GwenOnBass]

Either two are better than partaking off the tip of one of these!

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[gtmalone]

Got no use for peeps who eat gluten-free for any reason other than a medical issue. Use almond flour. Pat yourself on the back. Then beatch about the water crisis in the western U.S. Bah, humbug.

One line from a PAESTA (Pennsylvania Earth Science Teachers Association) podcast is especially worth noting.

"To grow one almond requires 1.1 gallons of water, and to grow a pound takes 1,900 gal/lb. The crazy thing about that is that walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, and cashews all use roughly the same amount of water to grow as well, but it is the almond which is in such high demand at this time."

The entire podcast transcription:

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I worked with a person who said they had to eat gluten free. They had food delivered and made sure everyone knew about the gluten thing and how they had to get special food and how great it was. lol.

I tasted a gluten free pasta once...once.

 

[gtmalone]

Right behind you at the buffet line. Might sound weird, but there's a Chinese-Mexican buffet on 19th Ave, a block south of Bell Ave. in north Phoenix that's really pretty good!

There is an Italian restaurant in Brownfield, TX that also serves catfish. I need to talk to my doc and see if there is a treatment for cognitive dissonance. The catfish was pretty good, by the way.