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Saturday, October 31, 2020

This Week

A Pen Pal I don?t know? Have you ever seen the movie "84 Charing Cross Road" with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins (1986)?  The story is about a woman in New York (Anne Bancroft) who likes English writers (this is in 1951). She's has a hard time finding the books she wants in New York but discovers a Book store in London that has everything. She writes the book store asking about some books and they have all of them for very cheap $2 - $3 each. The guy at the book sto... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, October 31, 2020

Saturday, October 24, 2020

This Week

Do you smell something? I did two stupid things last week: I was filling up some gas cans for the trams and I looked up. When I did, I pulled the nozzle out of the can and sprayed gas all over the side of my truck, my shoes, the gas cans, my hands. Everywhere. It wasn't a lot of gas, maybe a cup or two, but it got on everything. So now everything smells like gas, mostly me! I washed my hands about 20 times, sprayed my shoes with air freshener, cologne, mouthwash, bug spray anything t... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, October 24, 2020

Saturday, October 17, 2020

This Week

Bubble Gum Popcorn? After Katrina in 2005 I bought a used Ham radio off Ebay so I could take it home and keep learning Ham Radio Stuff and so I would have one to send with somebody if another Katrina happened and we needed to talk with them while they were down there. I spent the next 2 weeks putting up the antennas and pulling the cable in to the house. I had it all set and was tuning the antennas. Macky & PK were in the next room watching a baseball game. I had 3 different antennas... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, October 17, 2020

Saturday, October 10, 2020

This Week

Flat-top grill hair removal Over the years we've broken a lot of pipes. Every time we build a new building we bust a few pipes. We were putting in geo-piers which are like columns in the ground. You drill a big hole, fill it with rocks and pound them down till it's solid. Then the slab sits on top. So we hit a gas pipe. After they got it fixed we went around re-lighting everything. There was so much air in the line that we had a hard time lighting anything in the kitchen, so we j... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, October 10, 2020