If I had to drink wine to be healthy, I would hold my nose and make bad faces.

Well... you can always fix yourself a piña colada an pretend it was spiked with rum... you wouldn't hold your nose for that, would you?

 

One side of my family is strong in alcoholic abuse. I suspect it is tied to a tendency toward muscle spasms, and that tendency started when alcohol was the best remedy available. Unfortunately, alcohol activates the "euphoria button". I have the tendency toward muscle spasms, but I detest the effects of alcohol. But for that grace, I might have gone down the dark road.

For those that can imbibe moderately, more power to you.

 

Well... you can always fix yourself a piña colada an pretend it was spiked with rum... you wouldn't hold your nose for that, would you?

A virgin colada? Reminds me of Thai food. Not bad, but not my preference.

 

One side of my family is strong in alcoholic abuse. I suspect it is tied to a tendency toward muscle spasms, and that tendency started when alcohol was the best remedy available. Unfortunately, alcohol activates the "euphoria button". I have the tendency toward muscle spasms, but I detest the effects of alcohol. But for that grace, I might have gone down the dark road.

For those that can imbibe moderately, more power to you.

That pretty much sounds like the "fuse" I have in my system... after so many drinks, I stop liking it anymore and move on to coffee or something else... I pity those whose body keeps on demanding more and more until they're knocked out

 

In my opinion, trying to legislate morality is a mistake, but this quickly becomes political, a banned subject on this site. I also think that when our government ....

Disown it and then renew it.

 

I just walked in from my shop. I am building a grill for my new three burner Camp Chef stove. It is 104 deg. F. in my shop and I have sweat rings in places I should not mention on this forum. I am sitting here reading this thread with an ice cold frosty beer in my hand. It is 4:15 in the afternoon and life is good.

 

and I'm sitting here thinking I need to go replace that fence post, but I just can't face the heat. Why do fence posts rot out in July? January would be so much better! If only I drank, maybe I would have an excuse...or feel the heat less...

 

Do what I do. Work just as hard, just not as long. When I get that, getting too hot, out of focus feeling, I stop, go inside, get on my computer and go to this forum called,"All About Circuits". I futz around, read a few posts, see that #12 has already answered all the really good questions. About that time I have cooled down and I head back out to the shop again.

Oh yea, I've cooled off enough and the beer is empty. Time to finish that lid hinge. See you later.

 

I just walked in from my shop. I am building a grill for my new three burner Camp Chef stove. It is 104 deg. F. in my shop and I have sweat rings in places I should not mention on this forum. I am sitting here reading this thread with an ice cold frosty beer in my hand. It is 4:15 in the afternoon and life is good.

There are so many things in a normal man's daily life to be grateful for, but most of us either shrug them off or flat out ignore them... good for you for knowing how to enjoy life's little moments. Cheers!

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Do what I do. Work just as hard, just not as long.

Your 104 ain't like his 104. 73 and cool in Minn today.

 

Your 104 ain't like his 104. 73 and cool in Minn today.

Thank you for noticing that. I have cleaned spark plugs in Phoenix at 104 degrees and thought it was a vacation compared to a heat index of 104 in Florida! You see, sweating doesn't work here in July. You just drip sweat without getting any cooler than the heat index. When your brain gets fuzzy, you either find air conditioning or a swimming pool...or risk dying. Now, if only I could have you dig the fence post hole in Minnesota, and mail the hole back here.

 

I lived in north west Florida from the age of 6 to the age of 28. So, what we are talking about here are the different degrees of hell, based on where we live. I refer my hell dry, with a twist of mesquite, and a beer chaser, thank you.

 

Ah well...I got here because of family, and long before the heat bothered me, I was entrenched. At my age, security feels more important than adventure. I still have enough brain cells to find my way around a new place, but I don't want to.

 

You know what Tucson's slogan is? Tucson: 112 in the shade, IF THERE WAS ANY SHADE!

 

Doesn't everyone drive with welding gloves or kitchen mitts on during July and August??

 

We have the dubious title of the worlds largest city to experience the widest swing in temperature.
-40°c to +40°c.
Max.

 

I kid Les. I LOVE the old Pueblo. Spent about 15 years in the area, and a proud Wild Cat alumni. Oracle (Biosphere II) Catalina, Tubac, Downtown Saturday Night, The Mall at the U of A (though they've destroyed it) 4th Avenue, Hotel Congress, Hi Corbett Field, Gates Pass, Winterhaven, Summerhaven, Sabino Canyon, Sierra Vista, Vail, Saguaro Monumant, Bisbee, Tombstone, The Desert Museum, Pima Air Museum, too many hiking trails to list.

Just glad I'm not there right now.

 

You know what Tucson's slogan is? Tucson: 112 in the shade, IF THERE WAS ANY SHADE!

I went to the first Microchip Master's conference in Chandler, in August. Survived it but stuck in the un-airconditioned jetway to board the return flight to Dallas I heard a classic old-Dallas lady exclaim "I don't carah if it is a driah heeet. I ain't nevah comin' back to Phoenix in the summah!" Melted my heart.

 

Whew! Good thing I'm a cautious person. I would never let any part of my batch go to Fahrenheit 451. (Isn't that a book by Kurt Vonnegut?)

Ray Bradbury

 

I'm having one right now