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My neighbor is semi-retired and does maintenance around my condo. He called me yesterday to say my dryer vent is clogged. I don't normally do laundry, but I noticed it took more than 2 cycles for the comforter to dry. I haven't checked the vent in... a long time!

So, I went around the back of the building this morning to see. Wow.. there is a cage around the vent that keeps animals from getting inside. It was packed with lint. I'm surprised any clothes or towels dried. Inside the laundry room, I removed the vent hose from the dryer where it connects to the outside wall and inserted the hose from an industrial strength shop-vac but it was only able to get lint inside the vent as the vanes are one-way letting air out and close tightly with the vacuum.

Armed with a broom, screw driver and wrench I used a ladder (yeah, I'm on the 2nd floor) to remove the cage surrounding the vent. I was able to clear the lint from the louver & vent, but it's not worth trying to get all of it out of the holes in the cage.

Good for now, Home Depot sells those cages for $9.
Not a priority and it will happen at a later date!

Since I've been experiencing the life of Riley I have been to the library alot to just 'net surf. I go to CS and then to FB then to my mail and just ride the 'net.

I have never been real close to my classmates from my graduation year in 1959. I've never gone to any reunion nor do I care to. I haven't even "friended" any of them just because. Basically I have saved that list and made it open to my kids and grandkids and people I now associate with.

Well, wouldn't you know it that some of the people from the 1958 class wanted to be friends. I accepted them simply because these people were pretty cool and I think about them from time to time.

Yabos! Then Kelly Noble, nee Betty Barnes, "friended" me and I thought, "Her"? Betty was one good looking babe. EVERYONE (the guys) thought she was "Miss Peach's & Cream". And me too!

We had lunch yesterday because she had moved to Riverside, CA years ago and now that I lived here, well, she just PM'd me on FB and we made a "date".

We dined and had a beer. I found out about her kids and she had seen mine on FB. We talked about old classmates and I told her I never really kept in touch with anyone. I didn't want to say the reason, which was, I was not popular. I was considered a goof ball. And Betty? She was very popular.

After talking and eating I walked her to her car and we hugged, but we made no plans for future visits. The years have changed and we don't really have anything in common anymore. And since she's married and I am waiting for my CS sweetie I didn't bring up the subject.

Years ago I would have jumped at the chance to be with her. Now, it was just nice knowing that she hadn't forgotten about me and wanted to be friends again.

Before I ride into the sunset I want to share this tale that I shared with her from many years ago. She, of course, had forgotten. I didn't because I was a twitterpated young man just looking for the chance to just talk to her.

It involved me sitting at a basketball game behind her. Being the chivalrous dude that I was I offered her some popcorn that I was eating. Unknown to me I had dropped the gum I was chewing into the bag. Yep, you guessed right, with the next handful she grabbed it and she bit into the gum. I was embarrassed. I was such a klutz!

It's a good thing passing years make for a funny ending and we just laughed and continued on other subjects.

Well, I must admit. Yes, she's an old woman now but she still looks so pretty. I was impressed

It appears, Gorilla Glue mishaps are good for business as the woman in Louisiana had TikTok on fire, GoFundMe racking up thousands in her account, a plastic surgeon pays her travel and gives her a free haircut, some real beauticians claim to actually use Gorilla Glue, Gorilla Stock goes up due to the increased business.

The photos are out. As I thought... they weren't able to melt the glue and salvage her hair, what they did is remove the glue to expose her month long growth.



She was very lucky.
Not done with some details:
The money went to charity and she lost some weight from all the crying and stress.

How to cope with life pressures how to stay stress free

Sometimes people do not know how to use the spell checker so I thought that this might be helpful.

How I access spell check:

Place the cursor at the beginning of the word or words that you wish to check, click and hold the left mouse button, scroll over the words you wish to check, let go of the left button (it should highlight the word or words), place cursor in the highlight area, click the right mouse button, look down the drop down window until you see "check spelling".. click this. When there is a spelling error.. you will see a red squiggly line under the word or words. (If you cannot find the correct spelling type the word in your browser.. maybe you will be able to find it online).

Now if I could just remember to always use it

I refrain from explaining punctuation errors; the scammers lack of is beneficial to us.

Tag.} Plan R
Leap of Faith / I Q
For the First Time / the script
Faith / taking back Sunday.

A quick reminder that we will not always have the convenience of the Pepsi Co Exxon skynet intercontinental web machine...As such, let me Recommend sum books you should have ordered..
Long time ago..
Understanding the F word
Wagging the Moondoggie
Weird scenes in the Canyon...all by D. McGowan

Anything by Eustice Mullins....
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance...Dr. Strong.

The Naked Capitalist
The Naked Communist...Cleon Skousen
..and - in our ILLUMINATED opinion- the single best documentary on the C word...
JFK to 911 : Everything is a rich mans trick.

And for Canadian s...who may be partial to a band called RUSH....there is..*
The deepest story ever told through moving pictures

This Mcblogment hereby informs the reader of how
Sophisticated r a n g e work is assembled...bit by bit....from books of the old school. Range 04, for example, literally took over 6,000 years of lag time.

*By Nicholson 1968..} a superior content Creator.

I live in a city that I cant even pronounce.

We (the country of South Africa) has an international debt of more than 300 trillion but yet they see fit to change the city name. Hate for the British must run deep.

...Any doubts that the same folks that riot, loot, murder, attack police, and commit arson---would be above fiddling with ballots? Especially the mailed ones, where most of the problems are alleged to have occurred, and which seemed to put sniffy, creepy, real racist Joe ahead of the president.
But only after counting was arbitrarily stopped, in key States, and then the surge came on. Where legal close oversight was denied.
Imagine all THAT, all.

Calculating the volume of a tank 84" long x 36" deep x 48" high = 145,152 cubic inches.
That's roughly 628 gallons. Use 1" thick acrylic mounted on a 2 x 2 welded metal frame 36" high braced every 16 inches. Wrap it with access doors on 3 sides to allow storage and changing of the filtration system.

I'm contracted to do a decorative wood surround for a salt water aquarium.
The actual design/concept is pretty easy with a few flip doors and removable panels.
All the seams have to be overlapped so light doesn't transmit through the panels in the canopy that houses strips of high intensity LED lighting.

Everything has to be sealed as the humidity will be high and the salt will be corrosive.
My choice would be a catalyzed paint and primer system.
My fear is the toxicity as some paints though considered dry will give out VOC's (Volatile organic compounds) for many weeks after the application.
I brought this up to the project manager who awarded the work to my company.

The suggestion is to use low VOC water based primer and paint and get everyone (manager, architect, aquarium fabricator, client) to give their blessing and keep my company from any liability should a few thousand in exotic fish perish.

Build early, paint early, let it fully dry before installation.

The lesson repeats itself, if one listens and watches oneself carefully. After all, our God, she gave us two ears and one mouth. Who thinks it's to talk twice as much as we listen? So, waiting for my endless cup of large coffee, and the guy in front of me in line is flirting endlessly with the hottie at the counter. Anger rising---worse for us addicts. But I practice the serenity prayer, and he FINALY moves over. As a younger man, there would certainly be words. Only good for improving fighting skills, usually by getting the shiite kicked out of me in some parking lot.. So, peebles. My turn. Immediatelly, I begin the shuck and jive with the heavy flirt. She graciously plays along, but I sense a tad bit of discomfort in her overall gestalt. Methinks, "Could there possibly be someone behind me, also thinking how nice the world would be if this a--hole would just pay up and move over?" Sure enough, there is. I beging to apologize, and the fellow is a regular Prince about it. I tell him this story, and he says "No worries, matie---it's how to prevent all wars---start small". Blew me away. Like the first time I read the Buddhist riddle about the Monk, disciples and woman with child at the stream. Aa.