Well, here it is less than 24 hours until that day that Arcey was always reminding us of; I am not in the mood. But, in the interest of congeniality, Merry Christmas, and Happy New year, in case I don't get around to it before the change of the year - or, whatever celebratory sentiment floats yer boat.
That .45-70 semi-auto is one sweet looking item; I have always had a penchant for one off, oddball things and that fits me to a T. If I was rich instead of so handsome, I might have to get me one.
Weather here in Sin City is winter like to a degree; some days are clear, some, like today, are overcast, some windy - more often than not, cool to cold depending on the wind speed; dry. Prognosticators are saying we're short of rain, but that is just fine by me, I didn't come to live in the desert to enjoy the rain.
Reading back in the posts, I smiled at Good Troys rant about doing a start-up just before the holiday gap; been there, done that. One time my employer had a large demand customer that wanted to get their new forges up before the break so that on the 26th, when they started into production, they would be up and on line. We fed their 2.4/4.0KV switch room from a 66KV-12KV, 12KV-4KV substation. On the 23rd, at about sunset, they were ready, so we set up our system to energize and test from the main substation. We tested each segment good up to the circuit breaker at the plant that fed their switch room, and all was good. When we closed the 4KV breaker to their equipment, both of our transformers grunted really hard, the 4KV breaker and the 12KV breaker tripped simultaneously, the 66KV fuses on the feed line all blew, and the 66KV breaker at the main substation locked out; the fault was so severe that it affected the system frequency for a few seconds. And - I say AND - all of the smoke escaped from their switch room; set off alarms and called out the local fire department. What a mess. Needless to say, they did not begin production when they planned to. Come to find that they had a "bolted short to ground" in their main buss - they had somehow missed it in their inspections. The only loss to our system was the 66KV fuses, but that's what they were there for. Man, what a show.
'Nuff war stories. Y'all have a good Christmas.
Later.