@AM - I'm no mechanic. I have a Briggs & Stratten 17.5 HP engined Craftsman lawntractor so it mows and sweeps the lawn and can plow the drive (have the plow attachment plus chains and weights) but it isn't a hardcore tracotr as I only have about 2/3rds of an acre (a bit less at 25000 square feet) in the city. It's a 40 year old house built on a subdivided old farm built on the edge of Farifield (at the time). Now it is smack in the middle of the city as the city grew to incorporate all those subdivisions.

But I'll do some research into the initiative. I'm always up for a little more independence from corporate America.

@Ancient -- I did in the past post a story -- but given my current status here, I don't think I would let my guard down enough to post right now.

Sorry if I'm thick, but 'current status'?
But okay : ). If you change your mind, send me an email or pm

@abge - Does you apartment complex have garages you can rent? You could rent one for the car and a second as the workshop. The two keys to a workshop are room to maneuver and store stuff, and power. I had my electrician put in two additional 20 amp 110 circuits along with the 15 amp that was already running the lights and garage door opener in the garage. Once I build the real workshop and free up the second car side of the garage, I will have him come out and run the circuits back to it.

Oh...I'm one of the resident assholes. lol Not liked....don't feel like taking unconstructive criticism for my writing. If I thought people could offer actual constructive criticism, I would in a heart beat...but...not here, not now, because no thread stands on it's own....cross-over thread hatred is the name of the game here, so I wouldn't get a fair shake.

Well, I'm moving into the city in a month and I'm not sure what the setup will be like. If I'm lucky, we may be able to find a place where the basement is included.

There's also people who do jam workshops...that is, anyone can drop in and work for a nominal membership fee. They're getting pretty popular. I went to a local one to help a friend work on restoring a car a few times.

My brother has a basement workshop. Just be careful not to build anything you can't get up the stairs!

Ah. That's unfortunate, but understandable. Not trying to make you do something you don't want to, but maybe make a google document or some such and then only share it with the people you are comfortable with?

@SD

Yeah, my dept actually has one of those for electrical and light mechanical work. It will be a shame to lose that resource.

@Draug

lol I'm having enough fun with my lamps for now. It will be quite some time before I start building things too large to carry : )

Sorry, should have said to aid ease if reading. My last post was addressed to krellin.

Abge, have you considered doing anything else with bottles/glass? As I understand it, some of them lend themselves to quite cool glasses/jugs

@AM

I'm not quite sure what you mean?

I'm currently designing a circuit to make night lights out of small bottles.

At the moment, by skills with glass are limited to drilling holes, which I've gotten pretty good at. I feel making glasses would involve heating the glass and reforming it, no?

With bottles what you can do is cut the top (or top half etc) off and if you do it correctly you can actually get a fairly clean edge that with a but of work is same to drink from (there are a number of ways as I understand it but most are either inconsistent or consistently too jagged)

Bit not but and safe not same

Ancient -- i will consider it. I like feedback. Generally I write sci-fi/fantasy, but delved into a little kinda horror...so it also helps if the reader is in to the genre. when you have an elitest wanna-be Shakespeare reading, for example, you end up with a critique that is longer than your writing, and includes wonderful comments suggesting that the sci-fi isn't believable because the technology doesn't exist...so, like, you know, you actually have to read and grasp the concept of sci-fi/fantasy to offer useful critique. (Which is odd...because Shakespeare includes ghosts and magic....so in retrospect it's odd to see that sort of criticism from Mr. shakespeare-wanna-be...)

@AM

I might look into that--sounds interesting.

Krellin:
Very cool, let me know if you decide to go through with it. Those are my two main genres for reading so hopefully I'd be able to help.

@Krellin Horror is such an interesting genre. Do you write more psychological or basic horror?

And abge, let me know how it goes; it's something I thought sounded really cool but I never really did it. If you have junk bottles around one fun thing to do along the same lines is you heat them in a line (usually either by rotating them around their vertical central axis while held parallel to the ground with a candle underneath or by burning a tied circle of alcohol soaked string) then dunk them in cold water and you can get the bottle to crack more or less along the heated line from temp change. It usually isn't clean enough to be useful though, as I understand it. Maye I just did it wrong though

In an attempt to fully re-integrate to the site, I will jump in on this :) my hobbies are writing, and recently my girlfriend has gotten me into Geo-caching. it is a lot of fun!

I have a friend who does that!
It does sound like fun.

It is, give it a try sometime! it is hard though, so make sure you are with someone who knows what they are doing!

I've always wanted to try it with my husband but never seem to find the time to do it. Interesting fact though: A geocaching mistake made Disneyland shut down it main gate for hours last month.

that is a very interesting fact indeed! I've only been doing it for a few weeks now, and I have already become addicted to it. It is a lot of fun when you do it with at least 1 person, but even better as a group of 3 or 4.

@AM

Sure thing. I've read about a few tricks for slicing glass, but I've never tried any. Good think I've been stocking up Yuengling bottles : )

Bump!

Any here on iRacing? I love a good motor race, its a real test of character. I win about 1 in 4 races which is good but not great.

I read philosophy and always on the lookout for a movie that has something to say or good comedy (not too pretentious).

Also try to improve my French when there is time.

Cards-Yuker, Spades, Poker, Cribbage, Hearts.

I really like watching pornos, eatting cheetos, and making my penis orange.