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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • So many who think bombs are the way to go. They are not.

    None of the following is a good idea, either.

    Fun facts I’ve learned while working for a living:

    1.) A bottle of coca-cola, or any sugary drink, will ruin a concrete pour.

    2.) Diesel equipment doesn’t like water, gasoline, or eggs in the tank.

    3.) There are two ends of a telephone line. One end is at the building. The other end is in a box nearby that nobody is watching.

    4.) A battered hard hat, old steel toe boots, a dirty yellow safety vest, and an air of confidence will turn you invisible.


  • sugar into a concrete mixer and prevent construction and such

    I used to work for a concrete precasting plant. A single 20oz bottle of coke will ruin ten cubic yards of concrete easily.

    But it’s even easier than that. You can spray forms/reinforcement with soda before the concrete is even poured, and it will ruin the pour because the concrete won’t bond to the reinforcement.












  • I love the miata, especially the NA miata. I’m a sucker for pop up headlamps, and an even bigger sucker for small simple vehicles.

    What I would love to see again are the small SUV’s that Suzuki used to have in the US. Sidekick, Vitara, and last but not least the Samurai. They were small and easy to park, had small engines, got reasonable gas mileage, and were very capable off-road. There is a TFLtruck video on YT where a $100,000 modified Jeep is pitted against a stock Suzuki Samurai and the old sami kept up. There wasn’t anywhere the jeep went that the samurai couldn’t follow and it was really eye-opening. Especially for a guy who has a modified Samurai…