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   Richard Smith to Snag   
   Re: Speaking Of Welding - The Job, Big A   
   20 Feb 25 07:24:16   
   
   From: null@void.com   
      
   Snag  writes:   
      
   > On 2/19/2025 3:21 PM, Richard Smith wrote:   
   >> Bob La Londe  writes:   
   >>> ...   
   >>>   
   >>> The thing I never learned to manage was hot and humid.  If there is a   
   >>> way I can't fathom it.  In Northern Ohio I saw what I called 90/90   
   >>> plenty of days in the summer.  Over 90 degrees and over 90%   
   >>> humidity. That was just miserable.  ...   
   >>> ...   
   >> I experienced that - what you call "90/90".   
   >> I worked in a research foundry.   
   >> Thing was that onlookers were unlikely to think of - surely when the   
   >> temperature goes up, with the same unchanged amount of water (moisture)   
   >> in the air, the relative humidity must go down(?).  So sweating works.   
   >> Problem was "home" - an apartment right under the asphalt'ed roof...   
   >> Having a friend of the female persuasion around was not for the   
   >> heterosexually faint-hearted...  :-)   
   >>   
   >   
   >   When you said "Hey baby , wanna get sweaty?" you MEANT it ! There's   
   >   somethin' to be said about slippin' an' slidin' ...   
      
   Happy days... :-)   
   It was a very happy time, with both working and feeling happy in my time-out.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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