Marfa Low Crown

If 2019 was any kind of predictor then my 2020 will probably look a lot like this...

Thx, Roy.... I bought a propane tank as scrap and cut off the cap ends. The shop space I've got access to has a Harbor Freight Vulcan 225 AC/DC stick welder and it's....... a $500 machine. It pales in comparison to the larger Miller / Lincoln machines I've used but as long as you pay attention to the duty cycle, for basic fabrication the Vulcan is completely serviceable. For AC welding it balks a little unless you crank the amps and that's a knock on some of the other Vulcan machines as well. The Vulcan 225 doesn't run 6010 for shit but I've used a $4000 Miller dynasty that couldn't handle 6010 properly either. My understanding is Harbor Freight had this line of machines made to compete with Lincoln's AC/DC entry level crackerbox at a lower price. Having used both machines, the Lincoln costs a little more but I think it runs stick a little better... your arcs are more crisp and stable...and of course it's an American company and the money stays here. | The bowl is vented to allow for roaring wood fires but it would be a lot less wear and tear on it to fill the bowl with aggregate and put a propane ring in it. Lolz.. yeah the lip of that bowl with a wood fire going is hot enough to melt your shoes if you're dumb enough to rest them on the edge.. like I once did.

Also.. fuck you 6013. Nobody likes you and you should feel terrible.

I appreciate that. There was a gap... the lip of the bowl vs. the greek key flat strap constituted an even up to 1/4" rise throughout the project. I really like E7014 here... it's a great blending rod. I think I came in around 110 amps. .. 7014 It sucks for big gap fill (porosity) but fuck if it doesn't lay down some brass. I love me some E7024 but that would have been too much in this situation also. That was a narrow lip between the bowl and the strap 7024 might have run away with it. 7018 would have been too slow... 6010-6011 too crude.. so here we are. So... that's a stick weld. E7014....I parked the arc on the bowl side and just when I saw it wash over.. I cranked the electrode over about 80 degrees to the other side.. Just on the high spots. the rest was a weave just to let the arc push hold it together. . Cheers. I love this shit.

We've enjoyed a number of board / tile games over the last couple of years... Quirkle Hive Settlers of Catan Seikatsu Tak ..a couple more I can't think of of the top of my head Azul, however, has taken the cake and the other games are gathering dust. Azul just about has it all - endless replayability, strategy, a bit of random luck, fuckerating other players.. I mean I've just been blown away by what a great game it is.

I think there was a welding thread(s) on teh shag but there doesn't seem to be one here on the new site. Any surlsters going to be lighting up in 2020? This is a fire bowl I recently finished building. I've got plans to do some more in the new year along with other art / furniture projects. Whatcha building this year?

You're absolutely right and that's what I would tell UGA fans... both programs were in the same position at that time. With Mack we'd been passed up by the TCU's and Baylor's of the world and it was obvious he wasn't going to get it back...4-5 losses a year were going to be the new norm.

Michigan is really in a pickle. I lived in Atlanta during Mark Richt's waning years, talked to a lot of UGA fans, and there are some parallels to the two situations. Really it just comes down to what everyone has already said - it seems obvious at this point that Harbaugh isn't going to get Michigan over the hump. Yet, they're bowling every year and winning a respectable 9-10 games....hell, at Iowa or Minnesota you'd get the stadium named after you.

Girlfriend woke up briefly and it's not good..... Me: I have some questions Her: <eyes narrowing> I bet you do Me: I have no memory of paying the bar tab. Her: I paid it Me: Pizza... did I... where did that come from exactly? Her: You called it in and you walked in to pick it up Me: Did I eat any of it Her: Yes, right before you passed out on the couch.. which is one thing... but that was after you peed all over the toilet Me: I what? Her: Yep Me: Do you still love me? Her: Yes. No more rumpleminze.. K? Welp... a few years ago I had to part with jagermeister this way, too.. Me: Why are there 3 dirty pans on the stove? Did you get up extra early and make breakfast already Then girlfriend : <eyes narrowing> No. You did. Me: I what? Then girlfriend: You made a three course meal at 4am and woke me up for it Me: what? Then girlfriend: You were very sweet and polite but you also weren't taking no for an answer Me: jesus fucking christ Then girlfriend: Then you passed out in the hallway...so I left you there... and then you woke me up about 2 hours later to give me a wet towel Me: a what? Then girlfriend: Yeah, you were convinced I had bbq sauce on my fingers and you wanted to give me a hot towel. Me: Did I make bbq? Then girlfriend: No, you made omelettes. No more Jager... k?

Fuck it. You're a godless r'n fuck hack if yoiu've never been to Texas. Fuck you. It's 520 AM in Texas and I just woke up. NO. I just came to. I don't remember paying the tab at the bar. At all. I don't remember picking up pizza... I just saw there's two boxes in the kitchen. How the fuck did that get there? I don't remember eating anything. I have no f'n idea what time I passed out. It's hours before my GF wakes up and can help me start to backtrack this shit. The last thing I remember is taking shots of ice cold christmas. Gotdammit. F'n Rumplemintz

Merry new year to the finest collection of incorrigible bastards I’ve yet to encounter 🤘

You look at Wisconsin over there and it's just all about snow and coeds with tree trunks for legs and having a head coach who looks like Greg Davis but doesn't fucking suck.

Damn...barely lowered the gates to 2020 and we've already got a man down. Based on last year I'm expecting to shit sneeze my boxers at least twice. Actually I'm not getting any younger, let's make that 3.

Okay so are we peeing in her butt or what?

It appears he shit canned his OC which comes as no surprise. When he fired Enos, I wonder if Manny had flashbacks to that cold Utah night when a quarterback with a wooden leg ran all over him & cost him his job.. Diaz is a fraud who hasn’t stayed anywhere long enough to build much of anything. He won’t be at Miami long enough either

That's a really good question...

Looks like _iaz has been given the famed 'vote of confidence' by the AD but will be forced to make staff changes. That was a pretty eye-opening loss and Manny enters the 2020 season with his ass on fire. I wonder how many wins he'll need to keep his job. ESPN link

Get ready for an Ash Cich-ing? Idk I got nothing... Very cool though, I think Yurcich is going to really enjoy his year in Austin.

A high school classmate died at the age of 42 from walking pneumonia. Same kind of thing everybody is saying.... she just tried to tough it out until it was too late, left behind two kids under the age of 10..... and before her death I was pretty ignorant.... I thought pneumonia wtf... that should be as easy to lick as the common cold in this day & age. Hmmmm.... I had always heard that George Washington had been sleeping with a slave and then had to wait outside in the rain to hide from his wife & caught pneumonia in the process. Regardless it’s no joke as we all know... I had a buddy catch it very recently, ended up in the hospital but he did give me some great advice : he says bro ..... if you’re ever in the hospital and they offer you morphine. Tell. Them. Yes.

My mother has a nativity scene and each year I put baby Jesus on the roof of the manger... sometimes I put the donkey up there... sometimes I put baby Jesus on the donkey... sometimes I put the donkey on top of Joseph...sometimes I put baby jesus and all the animals on the roof... and then I stack Joseph and the 3 wise men on top of Mary in the manger. Anyways y'all get the idea

Funnier looking than most, even?

Another vote here for Mule dick. Surly royalty is royal. How do you inside m'fers know Major got a bj? I've never known all these years exactly what happened

I really appreciate the responses and as I was contemplating the least I'd take... the hunters up and offered over $2500 as-is, where-is. And I'm pretty sure.... I took it. Thanks for all the input 🤘

They're eating them churros boy.....