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|    Bob La Londe to Jim Wilkins    |
|    Re: Speaking Of Welding - The Job, Big A    |
|    19 Feb 25 17:18:27    |
      From: none@none.com99              On 2/19/2025 4:24 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:       > "Bob La Londe" wrote in message news:vp5b4q$2d5v7$1@dont-email.me...       >> I've heard people say you can dress for cold, but you can't dress for       >> heat. Well, that's kind true, but...       >       >> The thing I never learned to manage was hot and humid.       >       > -------------------------------       > I've found soft and flexible warm clothing, mostly at Walmart. I'm       > wearing a sweat top that doubles for pajamas for its hood, a quilted       > shirt and a pile lined hoodie, plus lined pants. In this I'm comfortable       > at 60F napping and 55F moving around a little. My mother's olde New       > England side of the family tolerated cold, she'd leave the thermostat at       > 60F until my father got up. My sister doesn't mind it much either. I       > think we have a little Viking ancestry from the Norman Conquest.       >       > Despite our northerly latitude NH sometimes gets Gulf of Amexica heat       > and humidity, daytime highs pushing 100F and 75+ lows at night, the dew       > point. Florida hurricanes often reach us and Hurricane Katrina passed       > over us as a rain storm. I can eventually get used to it, even Atlanta       > summer climate when visiting my father's family. In the Air Corps my       > father was a company commander, my mother's brother his top sergeant.       >       > I was downtown in Concord NH the day the bank thermometer showed 104F,       > our record.       >              Okay, now we are all now officially old. We're sitting around talking       about the weather.                            --       Bob La Londe       CNC Molds N Stuff              --       This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.       www.avg.com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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