If yer butt’s loading yer underwear, yer doing something wrong.
Since we can’t go out, I decided to treat myself to a new steam engine casting kit.
It arrived few weeks ago, in the form of a very heavy box filled with cast lumps of bronze wrapped individually in brown paper.
This thing will take about 50 hours of machine shop time to complete, so I have plenty to do.
The best part? I get to order all kinds of little tool bits and assorted machinist paraphernalia.
Every day or so a new package arrives, and I try to guess what it is. Yesterday a 1/4” carbide ball end-mill cutter showed up. Maybe my 11/16” reamer will appear today. Or the 7/16-40 tap and die.
I love buying new tools…it’s half of the fun of this hobby!
And just a few minutes ago the mailman stopped by.
Cool! the 11/16" reamer arrived, along with the 7/32-40 taps and die. Now I have some fun stuff to do.
Who knows what will show up tomorrow…
Man. That would be nice. Amazon could really up their sales with that business model.
“Here, Mr.Zone, enjoy a nice adult beverage, on us. Be sure and look/buy more more and more!”
I just got an alert, my origami paper will arrive today. :dubious:
Very very nice, DC! May I make a small suggestion?
Tuck a few tubes of LANACANE cream in a nook or cranny of that bag.
When you bug out, the bloodthirsty bugs BITE. Lanacane will save your soul and your sanity.
You can worship me later.
~VOW
Amazon Prime - phooey! I ordered something last week. Thursday, a message was posted on the order, saying that the package had been picked up by the carrier, from a Amazon warehouse less than 10 miles from my house. Saturday, the message says it was transferred to the local postal carrier. WTF? So an Amazon carrier drove it to the post office, so it could be delivered to my house, 10 miles away? Why am I paying for Prime?
How are you doing that? Nothing I’ve ordered has shown up in less than 2 weeks, and that includes a CD and some face wash foam.
Dunno. It might be that a lot of what I’ve bought isn’t actually sourced from Amazon warehouses.
Oh. That’s why my “Green ball Ant Animal Antenna Headband Hairband Halloween Cosplay Party Costume Headwear” took so long to come. Fortunately, I don’t need it before Halloween. Also, the item that arrived was better than the picture.
I salute you, minor7flat5. You’re doing this right.
Bread has been made from the gluten-free flour. I added the requisite xanthan gum, and followed the space-shuttle-button-pushing-instructions for my breadmaker.
I’m just now polishing off my slice. Definitely an OMG moment.
I am really glad, since I have about 350 pounds of the gluten-free flour left.
Xanthan gum was purchased on Amazon, and received shortly after I clicked my mouse on “Place Order.”
~VOW
In my neighborhood, either the uptick in mail orders from the quarantine or the release of some unknown malefactor from the hoosegow has led to a resurgence in porch piracy. And of course Amazon delivery crews can’t be expected to ring the doorbell the way UPS does… sigh. But it’s keeping me from going the way of Beck, at least for now.
My origami paper showed up ‘on’ my mailbox. Yes I said ‘ON’, DIL said the obvious Amazon white shipping bag was balanced on top of the mailbox. Now, my RR mailbox is several miles from my driveway. It’s amazing it was still there. Low traffic road is all the saved it.
I usually have things sent to a post office box I rent. UPS has been doing better about bringing things to my Drive. Sometimes they leave pkgs. on the gate or the driveway. If you stand at my gate and look toward the house you can’t see much. It’s kinda spooky. Occasionally they’ll come on down the driveway, to deliver.
I know when they stop at my gate because I have a gate alarm. So I know somebody is there or coming to the house.
I have nightmare stories about UPS.
We try desperately to get stuff delivered to the PO BOX, but Amazon has hissy fits over that. The US Mail box for our AZ property is right off the paved highway. And that’s two and a half miles away from the house.
FedEx knows where our house is. Everyone else is confused.
~VOW
Well, after receiving my special tap and die I got down to business and made the tiny oil cups for the bearings of the steam engine–the funky tap and die were needed for those fine threads on the lids.
They were made from a solid brass rod, and each one took a dozen or so machining operations.
I have a feeling this project will keep me busy for a few months. By then we can hopefully peek out of the bunker. Meanwhile, it continues to give me excuses to buy more tools!
Whoever it was that named the streets in my neighborhood was an idiot. My street is, let’s call it 65th St. It’s 65th St. from the main road all the way to the cross intersection just past my house. At that point, and there’s no stop sign or anything, straight across the intersection for some reason becomes 65th Place, and 65th St. continues after a 90 degree right turn.
Why the fuck would you continue a street around a corner and rename the remaining section something else?! I cannot come up with any practical explanation. These streets were all built at the same time, there’s no fucking reason for this at all. I’ve been writing to the county/city (we’re not technically inside the borders of the city our postal address lists us at) for years to try and get at least one of these streets renamed but haven’t made much progress.
And of course, UPS and FedEx drivers are prohibited from using their own GPS (“It’s a distraction from driving” is their reasoning), so they always, always go down the wrong street (the part after the right turn) and claim my address doesn’t exist. If I’d realized this when we were looking at the house I’d never have bought it, it’s the source of endless frustrations.
I just recieved a gift I bought for someone from Amazon.
I can’t wait to gift it.
My understanding is this item came from Guatemala. It came in 4 days from the time I ordered it. Simply amazing how fast USPS got it to me.
Yay!