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I'd rather be in the relative open at the urinal so I have a shot at getting away (get off the X). In a stall you're completely boxed in. Someone kicks the door in, the only way out is through them.

Can't drill and tap it? Maybe not with a hand drill and bits from Walmart, but any sort of decent machinist shouldn't even blink at that. Google says it shouldn't be any harder than HRC 48, which is getting up there but a long way from too hard to tap. Look up Mike at Lawenforcementsalestn.

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Burn bans pretty much everywhere around here. Smoke in the air was so thick it blocked out the sun at 4:00 this afternoon.

Be sure the floor you sit it on is up to the weight. If that's concrete, make sure there's a vapor barrier to keep the bottom from rusting.

That's about the same as what my $2B/yr, 4000 employee company is offering for next year. It's functionally a catastrophic coverage plan. Based on my medical expenses this year, it's borderline that there will be any benefit to having insurance. But with kids, no real choice there. Yay.

So yeah, if the threads could be merged that'd be great.....

Great Horned Owls are really cool. The power in their feet is amazing. Also amazing how something that big can be so quiet. Pound for pound.... all 3lbs of them.

Ok, how about the police?

You let the game warden do it.

I wasn't intending to throw stones, just a view from the other side of the fence. That buick sounds like an adventure. Perhaps a gate or a sign is in order. My parents live on the end of a dead end road and occasionally get people who manage to ignore the "dead end" and "private drive" signs. Thankfully none of them have ended up in the back yard. That would be interesting for sure.

Corporate inertia is really big. I bet they started this 10 yrs ago. Somebody high up realized how much they've got tied up in it and told the marketing folks to spin it. Certainly a good attempt at timing to cash in on the impending election panic.

I had a similar conversation with a neighbor, I was the trespasser. I had my 2 yr old in my arms so he could give a different neighbor's horse an apple across a fence, which we'd done several times before with permission from the horse's owner. Useless old bitty got all pissy about it. I told her my thoughts on the matter as well. We haven't spoken since. Booby traps are funny right up until someone gets hurt. Then you get to laugh all the way to prison.

And there's a good reason for that.

I'm pretty much done with the exception of one Roma tomato that simply won't die. Everything else has been pulled up and burned, but this one plant just keeps on going. I've a couple volunteer tomatoes coming up in the flower bed. I doubt they'll bear fruit before frost gets them, but time will tell. In general we did pretty good this year. Canned a modest amount of stuff for the first time with our heirloom canner.

I learned people are stupid and panicky. I didn't need fuel for the duration. I can commute on my motorcycle for 3 weeks on a single 2.4 gallon tank of gas.

Bald Eagles use the same nest year after year. The nests can get huge and weigh a couple thousand pounds. There's a handful of eagle cams set up on known active nests. Late winter to early spring is nesting season, Mom watches this one a lot... http://harrisonbayeaglecam.org/

The Cubs pitchers are good, but they're not so good that getting a single run in support results in wins. The Indians pitching has been good, but I'm not sure the Cubs could score runs off me at this point.

Golden Eagle? They haven't been seen here in quite a while It takes a juvenile Bald Eagle 4-5 years to get its white feathers, until then they're basically all brown. Bald Eagles have a very distinctive call, and it's nothing like you hear in the movies (which is typically a Red Tailed Hawk call).

SmugMug. Not free but not expensive and I can send you a discount code.

My kids get fussed at when I catch them shooting at one another. The guns get taken away when they point them at me.

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Competition for Farnsworths, hope they do well.

I'm sure there's state/national guidelines, but the local municipality is the final authority.

If they expanded the safety zone to the whole road, I bet we'd all be amazed at the revenue that would generate (not that I'm advocating tickets as a revenue stream). If it was a new road, there's no way the speed limit would be more than 35. Look at the Pigeon Forge bypass for comparison... way less traffic, 4-6 lanes with a median, less curves, practically no businesses, and 40 mph limit. Knox city/county is too afraid to piss off all the influential folks who use it daily to cut the limit to something more appropriate and actually enforce it. Thankfully I don't have to drive Chapman Hwy regularly, and I avoid it whenever possible.