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   Snag to Bob La Londe   
   Re: Speaking Of Welding - The Job, Big A   
   19 Feb 25 21:29:39   
   
   From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 2/19/2025 6:18 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
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     Oh Shit , my last post ... you're right !   
      
      OK , got any good loads for a .222 Rem using 50/52/55 gr bullets ? A   
   wide selection of powders is available .   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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