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I received my fair share of whoopings from the folks....

Still planning on getting it in this summer?

Gah, want to be drinking beer, but I can't until tomorrow or friday evening.

Especially since my organizational skills for paper is non existent.

I despise compiling notebooks for classes.

Its quite sad.

That is no joke.

Found my mp3 player today, only been missing for ~6 months, after I found it I remembered putting it there. *Doh*

My desk is like the weather in Kansas, it clears off occasionally when there are big gusts of wind...

I've got 12lbs of them currently.

No idear who a Quentin is.

Some baked beans (added bacon, onion, and brown sugar) and potatoes and it shouldn't be a half bad meal.

Need to pull the Ribs and chicken out of the freezer for the weekend, cooking ribs and a beer chicken for the roommates graduation lunch.

I made the mistake of googling that...

Sounds like summer is here. I can't wait for the lake to warm up. Nearing 60 degrees, but we need a bit warmer air temps before flocks of women in bikini's start getting in. Then we have an excuse to start drinking before noon Whoa. You are suppose to have an excuse?!

Nicely done.

sooooo i'm guessing geometry wasn't your favorite class. rofl Nope. not to geometry yet, will you go ahead an explain what i did wrong for you to realize i'm not the sharpest tool in the geometry shed. You are 17, if you can't think outside of the classroom and realize how to figure volume for a small thing like this you are in for a serious awakening when you reach life outside of high school. Figuring something like this is a very basic application of math that should be learned way before you have reached the age of 17 and is useful in lots of situations. If you don't know how to do this, it shows the failure of our school systems. Volume is the amount of space an object occupies. That involves all three dimensions, Length x Width x Height. Take the three numbers, multiply them, and you have the volume in whatever units you used (have to keep units consistent, as in all inches, or all feet (num. of inches)/12 for decimial equivalent of feet). Take that number, subtract from box volume and there you go.

Teh woman just left for home... In theory I should be doing homework. Reality is sitting on the couch eating cheez-its

Depends on what you are going to use, mild steel, chrome moly or what.

I did MIG that, but yes, there is rod laying on the bench from when I was welding the other day.

There is only going to be about 500lbs on the shelf, but the professor originally wanted 4"x3" tubing but talked him down to 3x3, I wanted 2x2. This is going above where people are going to be walking/working so we wanted to make damn sure it won't come down.

Here are a couple of pictures of a shelf that I welded up the other day at work, this damn thing is seriously stout, 3"x3" 3/16 wall tubing, 1/2" expansion anchors into the wall, then it is getting tied back to the wall with 5/16 grade 60 chain in two spots. This thing will pull the wall down if it comes off. We got it bolted up (no chain) though yesterday at work, one of the guys I work with was bouncing on the edge (2' out from the wall) and it didn't budge. We overbuilt the utter crap out of it...

Can't wait for the summer so I can get 40hrs a week and get some projects knocked out.

Speaking of side jobs. In June I'm picking up a small duplicator machine from my boss that I'm going to use to make some pistol grips.