The Mad Industrialist Part 3
Back to work.
This week we were doing multiple layers of weld on single joints. The top weld in the picture is a single weld, the bottom joint has one weld on top of the other, and there’s a third one to come.
Check out more pictures after the jump.
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Today, I’m just like everyone else
No Mad Industrialist today. One inch of snow and they called the whole thing off. I’d say all of us lads on the course would have made it. We love our welding, and I’d say we’re all pissed that we didn’t get to go in today.
Here’s an old snow picture. Like it’s a consolation.
New Glasses
Remember when I said I loved getting eye tests?
Here are the glasses I picked. Large, thick, and metal. I love em. And my vision is now in HD.
The First Beard Update
So, I’ve decided to grow a Lincoln beard for as long as I possibly can. If I manage to get to the end of the year, I’ll shave it on January First of 2011. Planning on updating once a week.
Also…
Kimberlee is not that into Valentine’s Day.
The Mad Industrialist Part 2
Week two of my welding course and today is the first day that we joined two pieces of metal together with both tack welds and fillet welds.
The line where the top plate joins the middle plate has been tack welded. One tack welds something so the pieces of work do not shift during the heavier welding.
The bottom and middle plate are permanently attached (thanks to me) with a fillet weld. The trick is to weld slowly. I love welding, I really do.
More next week. And a close up picture after the jump.
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Today I became…
The Mad Welder!
This here’s my booth. After the jump the first pictures of my first welds.
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First Hair Cut Of The Year
Before…
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The Mad Carpenter’s Top Ten Pictures
So at the end of this year… Year nine I guess since we reset everything. As is the tradition with television and the internet it’s time to make a top ten. So since I haven’t completed ten projects this year (I’m aware that I am not a very productive carpenter) I’m going to pick my ten favourite pictures of this year. As is usual, we shall start at number ten.
10:
The second picture of the year, and my tenth favourite because it is a perfect picture. It makes me look good.
More after the jump.
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All right; enough is enough
It’s never going to be perfect, and I’m not going to be properly ready to blog for another few weeks, but nuts to it, let’s get this damn show on the road.
Today I went into town to do something that I always look forward to. Every time it rolls around I’m more than happy to get it done, even if it’s difficult to pay for.
I’m talking of course, about an eye test. I love getting my eyes test, and sleep deprivation not withstanding, I had a blast. I know this all sounds really dorky, but I genuinely enjoy it. I didn’t go to my usual guy, which is kind of annoying because my usual guy has an unusually soothing voice, but I digress…
As is par for the course these days the hardest part was trying to get what I wanted for a price I could afford. With some finagling, a gentle nudge of a 25% discount [supposedly only for the over 60's], and a mid sized thwack from my medical card I was able to get a very nice pair of glasses, with decent lenses for 80 euros. Not bad at all.
They’ll be available for collection on the 18th of this month, so I’ll try and get a picture up around then.
Other than that I paid the rent and got a haircut. The before and after pictures for the haircut I will post somewhere in the next few days if I can manage it.
Tomorrow is the second day of my welding course, and the first day we actually start welding. I’ll try to remember to bring the camera.
I am working on getting character bios for some of the characters of the fictional Irish city: Castlefinn City.
The first [and hopefully more] of these will be posted soon along with an illustration of each character drawn by Frank.
Nonsense to waiting, and enough hanging about. Let’s blog this shit.
