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    Oh GREAT!

    First 25 or so were pretty good. Last 7 years were hell, as she went through a bunch of life changes, failed to deal with depression, and decided it was all my fault. She took it out on me, I took to drinking myself stupid every so often to get a break from it, essentially, taking out that I had...
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    Member buddies and end of life planning....

    I gotta say, the best "end of life planning" I ever saw, was a Watchmaker (stone deaf) in Regina that I met. 'He' was pretty keen on maximizing his potential values, but 'She', stated that the first guy to the front door with a truck and a $20 Bill, was gonna get the whole lot! Don't diss on...
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    Oh GREAT!

    Sorry, but after spending 30 years married to a woman that thought she was smarter than me, the LAST thing I am interested in, is having anything that thinks it should be smarter or better able to make decisions than I am. F**k AI! Not interested.
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    End of our backyard chicken experiment.

    People confuse education, with intelligence! Often! When faced with the question "What do you know, you don't even have a degree?" You soon lose your respect for what passes as "higher education". Been there, done that, too many times.
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    Aluminum wire going to make a comeback?

    Ayup! Excrement eventuates! LOL! (sh*t happens!) Good habits, especially when you understand why they exist, can save your bacon, when the fire flares! It may have not a single thing to do with what you are doing that day, but if someone else screwed the pooch, it could still kill you just as dead!
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    End of our backyard chicken experiment.

    LOL! I took my niece (laughing girl, above) Hunting, and we harvested a pretty nice Mulie Doe! Free range, organic, meat! I never went through the "post secondary" BS, but refuse to put up with the concept that this means I was stupider than those that did!
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    Aluminum wire going to make a comeback?

    We ran a lot of 550V, 3Ph power in the hangars I worked in. The power switches were on the left hand side of the box. We were taught the Right Hand Rule, which, essentially meant that you never switched the power on, other than with your right hand. The "Switch" was a lever mounted on the LH...
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    End of our backyard chicken experiment.

    I had a family of In-Laws (now EX!) that personified that! One ranted at me because she had a "University Education!", and I didn't, so why would my opinion carry any weight, and wasn't over impressed, when I asked her how, with all that education, she ended up so f***ing stupid! Probably the...
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    End of our backyard chicken experiment.

    LOL! Yep! A problem is just an opportunity that has not been fully understood yet! :P A fair few years ago, I met a little old lady on Vancouver Island, who had a tarp spread out in the trunk of her car, into which she was shoveling horse poo, from the manure pile. She said she had almost a...
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    Controlling the mice population in our backyard

    I too have issues with putting out poisons, despite that they are often the only viable option. I ran essentially, a trap Line, in my garage when I lived north of Edmonton. Mostly snap traps, unbaited, but nosed in to the area of the wall that the mice ran as they followed it along. Got five in...
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