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For some reason, I couldn't read that. May need new glasses. Maybe, x-ray glasses?

That philosophy is endless, of course, but that's the way it is now. The instructions for a new blender my wife and I bought last week says not to put your hands inside the blender while it's running. Someone somewhere probably did that, or tried to, I suppose.

Don’t tell Hippy with his SpaceX buy. He’d of been better off playing pitch at the high roller tables. He wouldn't even have had to worry about taxes. 😉

Ha! Happens that way doesn’t it? Was trying to get bath redone for wheelchair/transport chair access a couple years ago. Bidders came in from $25k - $80k. Unreal! Found a company in Htown (Shower Doors of Houston) who replaced all my glass in the shower—which already has a low 3” threshold I can get her over—with a 34” door. With veteran discount, cost me right at $2500.00 with a lifetime guarantee & free seal replacements for life. All the doors in the house needed to be widened as many were 24”, and I couldn’t get her chair through. That required a whole new paint job after the demo & installs. Now, all doors are minimum 32” except closets. Of course, carpet was 25+ years old & had so many wrinkles from stretching, it was a safety hazard & pain to roll her on. So, that had to change. Grout in the floor tile was very discolored. So, I had it acid washed & recolored. Looks brand new next to our porcelain tile—which just needed a good acid scrub. Was already in this deep. It looked like crap next to the rest of the house by then. So… Long story shorter, what started as a bathroom/shower remodel that was ridiculous turned into a newly remodeled home that accommodates handicap everywhere for less than the lower end of just the bath remodel. Took me 3 weeks to clean & regrout the shower. But hey…it was worth it for everything else we got done. My arm about fell off after. 😂

Saw this on X this morning. Explaining the stock market to your kids.

Maybe grunt doesn’t describe me well. I was skilled at what I did. I was never a plant employee. Some of our guys were lucky and got absorbed into plant employment. When we lost the maintenance contract, my old manufacturing plant reopened and I returned there, working until I retired. I could complain about missed opportunities, but I am who I am, and it’s been good. Just installed a walk-in shower and deciding on how to trim it out. If your wife is anything like mine, when you change one room, the whole house needs a facelift. Lol

You have to regulate common sense and put guidelines in place because someone is going to line step....and the minute they do you better have your ducks in a row to prevent a lawsuit as a organization..now if something happens and the school wasnt following the guidelines its the school butt on the line and not yours....

No problem with asking. I am all ears if things need to be updated or changed. We need member feedback.

Saw this on X: The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones just hit new record all time highs this morning. Congratulations to all who invest in America, your 401ks and stocks have never been more valuable. Stocks are now up over 50% since April of 2025 when the “experts” told you economy was collapsing.

I was just asking.

What rule or rules in particular need to be updated?

Looking forward to getting the pickems lined up as well. Thanks @Bigdog

No such thing as a grunt. I got out of serving our country, and began as a lowly "B" operator handling the BOD (poop ponds). Went back to school all while working shift with a family and a young child. All about how bad you want it. My neighbor is a young scaffold builder employee. I think he's actually a gold hat now. I know he's moved up the chain, and doing well. My dad retired from 'Uncle EI' Strang Rd. decades ago. Much of DuPont was sold to Dow. Strang Rd. facility in La Porte was parcelled out. It's pretty much gone now except for the boiler house, and a smaller Noltex unit. (I think it's still Noltex. Haven't checked in years.)

Very impressive. I’m just a grunt, but it takes all kinds to make it work. I’m not sure what happened to DuPont in Beaumont. There was an ammonia facility there because they had an ammonia ship, The American Eagle, that I loaded stores aboard back in the day. The smell would almost knock you down. Now, there is a new ammonia plant under construction across from the prisons on hwy 69. I always wondered who figured out what went where, when looking at all the piping. I guess I found one. I’ve worked with some blueprints for shooting elevations and setting forms, but I don’t think I could tackle a piping print. Lol

Are forum rules updated? Just asking.

Appreciate your work. I am working on my schedule for the season as well.

Hardin dropped to 3A D2… They are with Newton and Woodville now

When you hear discussions about the Colonial Pipeline (main pipeline manifold system that feeds most of the terminals around the country and begins in Kinder Morgan Galena Park) you’re hearing and discussing my engineering design. I—and my design crew—designed the entire manifold system. 24-36” rolled plate manifolds, 3 levels high, connecting with valves as large as small vehicles that had to have their own individual casings and access to reach and containment for required maintenance. It was one of the first major projects in the terminal business ever fully designed with 3D software & intelligent databases. That way, when maintenance, replacement, or repairs were needed, surveys were minimal, probing was unnecessary, and materials could be easily drawn from the intelligent models. Training, safety, permitting, everything required under ASME 31.4 and other regs was easily managed. Took my crew of 8 engineers/designers about 4 years to finish my design. Every line can connect to a different major supplier, or other oil distribution pipeline in the country by valving redirection at any time. Kinder Morgan now uses the design as a block template for all their new manifolds. Basically, a ‘cookie-cutter’ approach. Saves them a heck of a lot of engineering/design time and money. I should have asked for a different type of compensation package. 🤣 EDIT: Looks like Matrix is still using some of the models for service today, and it's been designed for decades. [Hidden Content] Pig loading area. (Clean out/chaser 'pigs' would be pressured through the lines for clean out/inspection/other needs. Almost like a large vacuum tube system you'd find at some bank drive-ups. But, obviously much larger.)

It helps if wartime leaders are popular.

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I am working on the schedules and should have them done this week, I have 6A-3A done so far. 2A and 1A to come.

Hardin out of the way? Are they not in the same district anymore?

I just read in the PAM thread that KJ is back at EC and will be their QB.