Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

Thanks engineer42 I know very little about attractions in Pa. Our local steam engine the 611 is running trips north of Roanoke Va. been on her a couple of times very much fun was had

 

[Buppies]

Thanks Thomas

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

46.8 presently high in low 70s grass still needs mowed got lots to do today mostly work related.

Every day Holly goes down a little more mixing up where she lives who I am who care givers are. I pray for her everyday.

Safe trip mostly continued safe travels Drew, rest up Thomas if rain doesn’t come snow will increase your moisture, trailer looks good ArlyA, nice flail sodamo

Prayers for all our Country

Prayers for Holly and Buppies.

Today was a good but tiring work day. We have bi annual External Advisory Conferences for our program. Today was one. Over the past few years, I've made friends with most of the "guys". A very diverse group, most of which have graduated from our program in the last 34 years or so... Some are retired and consult, but most are still in industry. 2 of them are former trainees of mine. If you are interested in how things are going in different businesses, they are so interesting to listen to. One guy, told us his company has wells (or helped drill them) drilled in the Gulf of America and that they have estimated reserves of over a trillion cubic feet of natural gas. But the gas is HOT at about 340 degrees fahrenheit and it takes a lot of money to get it to market. He said the pressures average between 10-15K psi. He said if the price of a facility to handle it on land costs a million, then in 1' of water the price goes to 10 million, and if in deep part of the gulf 100 million. So the costs are so high. It is taking banks time to adjust to the required amounts needed to finance in this new realm.

Did you know:

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit came up with the idea that mercury boils around 300 degrees on this temperature scale. Work by others showed that water boils about 180 degrees above its freezing point. The Fahrenheit scale later was redefined to make the freezing-to-boiling interval exactly 180 degrees,[13] a convenient value as 180 is a highly composite number, meaning that it is evenly divisible into many fractions. It is because of the scale's redefinition that normal mean body temperature today is taken as 98.6 degrees,[17] whereas it was 96 degrees on Fahrenheit's original scale.[18]

The Fahrenheit scale was the primary temperature standard for climatic, industrial and medical purposes in English-speaking countries until the 1970s. The British Meteorological Office officially adopted "Centigrade" — the Celsius scale — as standard in 1963 but continued using Fahrenheit for public broadcasts into the 1980s. It is presently mostly replaced by the Celsius scale long used in the rest of the world, apart from the United States, where temperatures and weather reports are still broadcast in Fahrenheit

I still prefer Fahrenheit because each degree represents a smaller change...Just like I prefer PSI over bars for the same reason. Metric measurement with micrometers does not suffer this same problem. So I'm good with that. LOL.

Also had a career fair with about 20 or so recruiters. It is so nice to see the kids get dressed up in suits and nice dresses while trying to land a job or internship.

Pop, nice pics, nice welding.

Wonder if a Toe Biter hurts more than stepping on a hidden walnut shell barefooted??? Don, did you not know you were picking up a scorpion? I have so many here I have to go out with a black light and stomp them at times.

Wonder how PJS and RNG are doing?

We are in the process of getting my middle daughter declared disabled for SS and tax reasons. Hope we don't have to hire a lawyer. I've heard that SS has a very thick stack of paper to go through to get it done. While high functioning, she won't ever be able to handle a job in her current condition, but I'm praying for cures for autistic people.

Prayers for our team, our nation, the sick, and peace in the world.