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For the past month I have noticed that the bed has been making a scree, cha-thump when ever the wife or I would get in or out of it. So a few weeks ago, I figured it was just the central support of the main frame, so I got under the bed and checked the central lateral support and feet and tightened them, since the were both loose.

The noise didn’t go away, so after promising this weekend I would take the bed apart and look at it, I got to it this afternoon. After getting the mattress and box spring off I saw that the lateral support feet had just crushed the carpet so I got a couple of wood blocks the spread the load and tightened it all over again. Then I noticed something wasn’t right about the bottom of the box spring, yes, undoubtedly the central metal channel had snapped in the middle of the bed. The sexual Olympics over stretched the support systems all right. So I thought to myself, how do I repair this. Ding, ding, ding. Rebar and ¼” electrical zip strips. So I cut two 3 foot sections of rebar and after hammering the channel mostly straight I tied it all together with the zip strips, I used about 20 of them. Yes, zip strips, not just for restraining criminals and spouses any more, now for extra strength bed reinforcement.

Anyway, the sound went away and I am refusing to answer my wife’s questions about whether her ass is fat. I like breathing. Breathing is good.

Last night I was sitting watching Bionic Woman with O and it was towards the end of the program. Jamie strips down in preparation for a bath that her sister has drawn and waiting for her.
O observes as she takes off her shirt. “We’ll she’s not wearing a bra, that means they must have replaced her boobs when they gave her bionics.”

I said, “No they just replaced her Right arm as far as I know. But it would be cool if she had bionic boobs!” I elaborate, “Just think she would thrust out her chest, ::Nah, nah, nah, nah:: And her boobs would extend 5 feet and SPANK the living crap out of the bad guy, then retreat ::Nah, nah, nah, nah:: back to their normal position.

The disbelief on O’s face was classic, then Crevette said, “Just think of the interesting nipple marks it would leave on the baddie. It would be like the mark of the Phantom ring.”

O said, “Fine you could have just said go to bed.”

Crevette was bugging me that I ought to update my LJ so I guess this is me doing what my wife tells me to do. So this isn't exactly leaning out the cat litter box, but it may count as cleaning out a bunch of waste products.

Work has been keeping me very swamped these past many months, so much that I really have to work at the job, what the heck is that? I mean I didn't sign up for a full 8.5 hours of work, I only wanted to do 3, maybe 4 hours at most and goof of the rest of the time, surf the net, post on message boards and stuff like that. Darn work.


Sunday Crevette came across a dumb bug.

This cockroach is so stupid that he ate himself into an acron and got himself stuck. This actually makes him only just smarter than our cat Luna.

A little something I finished up last week.

An objective marker for the WW2 game Flames of War,15mm bogged down M4A1 Sherman tank.

	WWII US Tank Objective
	WWII US Tank Objective
	WWII US Tank Objective
	WWII US Tank Objective

In looking for a document today I found this bit of fun with raphaela. This is from May of 2003. Enjoy.

From major_thom4321
How much arrd could an aardvark vark. If an aardvark, could aard vark?

I figure if you put a pink tutu and ballet slippers on one you might get 10 grams.

From raphaelaraphaela</lj>
I disagree. You put an aardvark in a pink tutu and ballet slippers, and he's not going to be able to aard any vark for all the scantily clad porcupines mobbing him. It's just that way.


From major_thom4321
But it he scantily clad porcupines are plucked and pleasantly patterned in pristine puce and purple polygons the aardvarks may produce more.

From raphaela
This is true. I'll check with my people to see what we can do in puce.


I checked with my design team. The puce washes out the porcupines leaving them in a pallor. I suggest going with a pink plaid, which isn't nearly so pernicious in paling the porcs.


From major_thom4321
Perhaps producing a plaid would be pleasant but pink on porcs are proscribed by populist proclamation in parliamentary polling.


From raphaela
Those populist prols can probably be appeased with a production of polyester once they are provided proper positive instruction to the profits of such-in pink.

From major_thom4321
Polyester produces a pusie pox when put in proximity to porc. pituitary production ports.

From raphaela
Pathetic! Principally when presented proper products, though, porcs pine for poly.

From major_thom4321
Preposterous, professionally produced projects found profound poxes to prevalent when placed in parallel with pathetically palled porcs. Presently no pharmacology prevents the pathology that is present. 



This certainly brings back memories.

I wish she could actually repeat what she is told, or interpret accurately.

I tell her the following just 15 minutes ago.

“Marge, the 2 base foam tools that we buy, we can’t get them from our supplier, because their mold produces them in the wrong ratios; 6 plano, 2 twos, 2 sixes and 2 eights, and they don’t have plans to re-cut the mold to produce a more balanced distribution of sizes. Offer the customer plano base foam tools instead, since the way this supplier works, no back orders, I can only get them if I time my phone call to them right.”

Marge interprets this to a customer as;

“Sir, you can’t have the 2 base tool you want. The manufacturer, uh supplier, is uh, not making them right now so I don’t know when we’ll have them again, if ever. I have plano base tools I can sell you.”

It's that time of year again. O and o went to the annual Girl Scout Father-Daughter Dance.

	Father-Daughter Dance 2007 Right before the dance
	Father-Daughter Dance 2007 O & I right before the dance.
	Father-Daughter Dance 2007 Putting O in her chariot, off to the ball.

She had a great time, came home exhausted. She is growing up way too fast. ::sigh::

As promised earlier Images of the painted NVA. If i hadn't mentioned it earlier they are 20mm scale.

I know I haven’t updated in a very long time and this is an extremely lame excuse of a post. This is a modeling and painting post so you can run for the hills now if you are not interested. Don’t say that you were not warned.

The commission Vietnam NVA minis are very nearly finished now. This is the second half of the commission work that also included the US troopers. In many ways painting these guys was a lot harder than painting the US troops, mostly because of the non-standardized structure of the NVA suppliers and the use of local variants. So after long though this is how I painted the NVA troops. Blouses and helmets were painted GW Kommando Khaki. Trousers, backpacks and webbing were painted Testors Acryl Olive Drab. The ubiquitous chest magazine pouch was painted GW Catachan Green. Bedrolls, belt pouches, holsters and bread bags were painted GW Graveyard Earth. Flesh tones were painted GW Bronzed Flesh. Canteens and RPG heads were painted GW Dark Angels green. Rifle stocks were painted GW Dark Flesh, while the metals were painted with Testors Acryl Gun Metal. I painted the bases GW Graveyard Earth last night and they are ready for a dry brush of PollyS Sand tonight. Then I all I have to do is on some of the Viet Cong, is paint their scarves, then give them a seal coat.

After that both the US and NVA will get static grass added to their bases followed by a coat of Testors Dull Coat. Hopefully soon after I will have photos up of the finished product.

Finally I prepared and primed the three pieces of terrain, 2 huts and 1 mortar pit. If I have time I'll start painting them on Wednesday.

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