From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vp5sm9$2grd1$2@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 2/19/2025 5:13 PM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > In night school I practiced vertical up with solid wire MIG on their big   
   > Miller. I could do it but no one would hire me to.   
      
   You should have learned to weld upside down underwater.  They would have   
   hired you to do that.   
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   I worked with an engineer and former diver and saw what the conditions had   
   done to his brain. He told me stories of the Andrea Doria project, such as   
   who a shark ate just after they appeared in the film.   
      
   Practicing these crafts reminded me of how much I liked my day job, quietly   
   sitting at a lab bench creating exotic electronic gizmos or programs on   
   demand, such as a portable Rubidium atomic clock I called the world's   
   biggest, fastest wristwatch. Surprisingly for an Air Force project it wasn't   
   the most expensive. It was for receiving secret messages from far out in   
   space. I can't say more.   
      
   I spent today running laptops on solar power, refining the 2024 updates to a   
   spreadsheet I created to figure my taxes. For the last few years it has   
   matched my accountant sister's H&R Block results.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)