Welding Coupons & National Disgrace

 

Welding coupons from my cert test. The lighting in the welding booth is not the best for taking photos of shiny reflective surfaces, but it's obvious that the coupons bent like they were supposed to. Paperwork gets done this morning.

I finished the job for Jimmy yesterday. I had trouble drilling the 1/2" holes in the 1/8" wall tubing. I had drilled a pilot hole and the bit wanted to grab and then stall out the motor on the drill press when drilling the 1/2" holes. The drill runs way too fast for drilling steel. I'm seriously considering spending my teaching income on buying a new drill press. However, that's one of the reasons I bought the mag drill a while back. The annular cutters make it easy to drill large holes. In this case I used the drill chuck that came with it and finished the job. The mag drill also runs a little fast for the twist bit but the job's done and I didn't burn up the bit. 

And now, several more reasons Joe Biden and the knuckleheads in Washington have pissed me off. First off, the pardon Joe granted his son after repeatedly saying he wouldn't. Hunter was forgiven a lot of sins, not only for his past, but what's coming up as well. Not really a surprise, though. We all should have known what was coming when he told the hard hat guy a few years back: "I don't work for you." That's for damn sure.

And then we have more money and arms being sent to Ukraine. The amount having been sent already is up into the billions of our tax dollars. That's a whole lot of blood money - the last figure I saw 600,000 people have been killed in that conflict. I don't like any of my money supporting that.

And then we have probably the greatest insult to the American people in my lifetime. It's bad enough the feds sent all of the FEMA money overseas, but now Slow Joe has promised one billion dollars in relief funding to African nations while the people in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina are living in tents freezing their asses off. When the severity of his dementia became obvious, they should have just given him his blankie and some pudding and kept him in his room. Instead, with less than two months remaining in his term, they send him off to the "dark continent" to pledge a billion of our dollars while the hurricane victims were pledged $750. If they qualified and could figure out a way to apply since the power and mail service was down, that is. Helluva way to run a railroad, as they say.