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My folks have been spinning off their treasures for a couple decades now. They waited until their kids had already established & furnished their own households, so a lot of it ended up in the category of “Yes, I can put this in the trash for you.”
Lifespans are at the awkward stage where the kids are too old and the grandkids too young to want any of those household staples.
https://wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov/isoig/period/pb_iig.html
Lead-204 is the only isotope that doesn’t derive from radioactive decay, and it represents only 1.4% of the lead on earth.
Thought it was really elegant to lay out his 4 stanchions on a face plate and turn their outer arc all together, but I know I’d have trouble treating a faceplate as disposable - just make new holes to hold down whatever part you need. If I could get past this mental block of not wanting to ‘damage’ expensive parts, I think it would open a lot of possibilities.
He actually looks like he’s using an aluminum faceplate, and I can see where turning your own aluminum block to fit a back plate, then facing it every time you want to use it, like soft jaws, would be a decent compromise. Not as rigid as cast iron, but ‘just a hunk of aluminum’ when I would think about driiling holes into it.
I really enjoy lying in a warm, comfortable bed, especially a little groggy from sleep. I’m happy to wake up an hour or so ahead of my alarm so I can have that experience. That said, if my mind is really racing with anticipation of the day’s concerns, it kind of wrecks the lie-in. I’ll get up an hour or two early, have an extra special breakfast, start chores or some other thing I didn’t think I had time for.
That took 2 months. She served 4 days while deputies were empowered by another court case to do her job and right-wing nutjobs paid her bills. Then she met the Pope.
A Georgia election official who gums up the works for two months to give cover to a Trump victory is getting a big promotion.