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Wise Guy!

That's great to see Doc. The old lady and I keep talking about starting a garden at the West Virginia house. Just haven't got around to it yet. Maybe next season.

And yet again. I want to give a Galaxy wide shout out to my Captain "THE Captain" of the Starship Enterprise. William (Bill to his friends) Shatner. Slinging Dick and banging HOT Green broads throughout the galaxy for 95 FUKIN years. Steady as she goes Sir. Helm answering! We wish you many more.

So now she wants an 'ultra-light' to go with her 4-wheeler?

So I went stumbling through the door of my local.......................................................... WAIT! STRIKE THAT! WRONG STORY. to be told at another time. So I had a catastrophic failure at HQ. My beer fridge suffered an unauthorized death. I arrived at the aforementioned HQ, only to be surprised as I reached into the (supposed) chilled micro environment, and pulled out a European style room-temperature adult beverage. That, here in the states, is known as an ABSOLUTE No-Go. I mean, that's completely unacceptable. So me, being the inquisitive young (relatively) lad that I am, proceeded to tear the thing apart in a (just less than) unmitigated fury. I mean, come on.............warm beer just isn't an option. So, using the troubleshooting skills that I've honed over a couple years of learning how things turn on and off in this world. My investigation led me to a faulty thermostat as the culprit to this horrific finding. I can't imagine why a beer fridge that's 25 years old would have it's thermostat go tit's up. I may just have to author a nasty memo to the manufacture as a result of this. Anyway. I ordered a replacement stat from an online source that I've used for parts throughout the years. Only to have the replacement stat be of the wrong variety. It's like it had a completely different temperature range that it would try and maintain. Ain't it a bitch when a 20 dollar part doesn't work properly? So me being the controls nerd that some of you know me to be, (remember me re-wiring my washer/dryer combo), I threw my hands in the air in frustration and declared that I'd "Take Care Of It". Which I have. I don't need no stinking mechanical thermostat to keep my beer fridge cool. I've upgraded the whole thing. I snatched one of the many controllers that I use off of the work truck, a simple relay and a CT (to monitor compressor status of course), a temperature probe, and a little bit of Panduit (wire trough) to keep it somewhat clean looking. Hell, after some baseline thermostat type of programming , I even put in some temperature tracking just so I could watch the highs and lows. And yes. I've attached it to my home network. So now I can pull up the beer fridge from any computer in the house. This is what technology was made for! Here endith the sermon. Now.........LET THE BEER BE SERVED! Up close. Screen cap of a summary page I have built into the software.

Nope. Haven't seen that one yet. But you can be damn sure that it's in the que. Kelly Johnson was an engineering genius. Good find brother.

1 week for a form 4 is outstanding. Mine have spanned anywhere from 6 to 14 months over the years.

Thursday was crazy weather even for the DC area. Woke up to go to work around 0430, it was 71 degrees. By 1100 (ish), it was in the low 30's and snowing it's ass off. Then, by approximately 1700, the sun was out and was already melting any of the snow that had accumulated on the ground. A 40 degree swing in a 12 hour span is nuts. I blame all of the schmucks in the Capitol building just because.

Or........pack tannerite around your processor and let the games begin.

TRUE!

Expensive is a very "relative" term. Especially with this crowd. Great Setup there brother.

I went down the AAC route years ago. So I've set up just about all of my rifles with their QD muzzle devices. From 5.56 to 7.62 across the board. The 300BO is by far the quietest. It's just too funny because it's "hollywood" quiet. All you really hear is the action of the rifle and the thump of the round hitting the berm, or the "ting" of the round hitting the metal plate. 7.62 on the other hand. You can get it so it's hearing safe with a decent can. But that's about it. There's always gonna be some kind of "crack" as the round pops off.

I'd go with the murphy door idea along with Tom's Secureit system. Those look pretty cool. Of course, me being me, I'd take it to the next step and motorize the door.

I'm not a boat/water guy. But that's a bad ass setup right there.

True. All the way across the board.