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@Geojoek @croyle Canadian Gaelic is interoperable, from what I was told.

@croyle@wandering.shop @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social Oh yes, that’s definitely a thing but vanishingly rare now. I knew two people who spoke it, years ago.

@croyle@wandering.shop @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social Don’t ride with my daughter - she times driving distances by how many repeats it’ll take. I confirmed this with some other officer cadets she gave a lift back to Hamilton from Kingston one time - they all affirmed that yes, WOTEF was on repeat the whole way. This may also have been a means of extorting gas money from them, I don’t know, but it did putatively occur

@croyle@wandering.shop @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social Look what arrived today (used) - it’s over 600 pages, and it’s a genuine, scholarly dictionary that apparently took 20 years to research and compile (I quickly skimmed the preface; I do need to read it in more detail, but it’s a legit university/linguistics grade dictionary)

@croyle@wandering.shop @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social As the big songs go, it was bigger than most

@croyle@wandering.shop @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social I’d manage

@croyle@wandering.shop @Geojoek@mastodon.hams.social It really is a great looking vise.

@Geojoek @croyle I’d like to get into lighthouse tending at this stage of my life. That would be a seismic shift.

@Geojoek @croyle When you say you had to fabricate a spring, what was involved in that? Did you have to forge or draw (I have no idea what the right term would be) your own spring steel? Or just cutting an existing spring to the correct shape/size?

Coil springs, at a minimum, are fascinating things, I watched a vid once of them being made commercially, and it’s an amazing process.

@Geojoek @croyle That would be some honest work

@croyle@wandering.shop If someone gave me less than a 59 report with that, I’d just come back with “no, sorry, try again”