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Did they show the episode of Highway Patrol (starring Broderick Crawford) where Leonard Nimoy was a gun-toting heavy?

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I didn't think they were running Highway Patrol these days and I don't see it listed.

BTW, Thank you, I got the package. I haven't been on the group for a while, due to all the trips to the VA wound clinic. The long days of travel leave me exhausted. At least I'm no longer waking myself up with my screaming in pain, and catching myself about to roll out of bed from the muscle spasms.

Dunno, I stopped watching after 1 AM.

They why aren't they building their own pipeline in their own country? Or, why aren't we using short runs of pipe and building refineries in Montana, etc. so it could be refined here in the US instead? That would do us some good, drop the price of gas, keep the oil safe and available, etc.

I thought all the refining would be done elsewhere; all we got were the labor charges for building it and a pittance for flowing it. BUT, if the US has so much refining capacity, why are they closing refineries everywhere over the past 2+ decades? Answer: They keep the price of gas up by pinching off the refining capacity. If anything, the Canadian glut will raise them even more. How does that suit anyone but the oil companies and their refineries?

As if...

Egad! Welcome back. I wondered where you'd gone, not having seen a post from you in a coon's age. Condolences on the pain. That has to be the absolute suckiest portion of our human existence.

How'd the VA fix ya? New meds (hopefully) or (eek) procedures?

Thanks. I was spending a little time on Facebook, to catch up on friends who don't know what Usenet is, or have no access to it.

I have been making trips there since around last Veteran's day. They have a wound clinic, and use things like Santyl in the deep ulcers. A 30 gram tube of the stuff is over $250, They use some silver bearing pads, and at first they used some special foam pads to adsorb the drainage. Then everything was covered with a soft cast, for a week at a time.

The wound was a long thin line. It is now two smaller, and shallow wounds that they covered with skin grafts. They didn't give me anything for the pain, of course. I was told by one VA nurse that being in enough pain to consider taking your legs off with a chain saw was only a '3' on a scale from 1 to 10. I called her 'Nurse Ratched'. She was also they PITA that insisted that no one could figure out how to use a Glucose meter, without sitting through their class. :(

I had a strike on my barn, years ago. The electric lines ran underground, to the power pole, near the house. It got into the phone line, and vaporized the wire all the way to the street, a mile away. It destroyed the SLIC in the pedestal, and made it over five miles into the CO, in town. It also damaged a computer monitor that had the cables disconnected, and wrapped around the base of the monitor. It fried the C-band TV system, a TV, a stereo and one of my computers.

After lightning hit the tower at a CATV headend, I cleaned up the mess made by the unskilled who wired the place. I used a spare aluminum rack panel, and drilled a row of 3/8" holes in it. Then I installed a row of F81 bulkhead adapters to connect all of the antenna lines from the tower. The plate was connected to the headend grounding system. I also replaced all of the audio wiring with Belden foil & drain shielded wire. We never had a problem, after that.

They may end up building a pipeline to the West Coast if the Keystone one i s not approved. The Keystone pipeline is intended to connect to existing pipelines in the U.S. so the oil could be sent to Texas and refined there. So a lot of the needed pipeline already exists. There are already refine ries in Texas.

Building more refineries would raise more hate and discontent than building the pipeline.

They close some refineries because they are old and it would be expensive t o upgrade them to current technology. If you already have a refinery it is easier to get permits to enlarge it than to get a permit to build a new on e.

Dan

be used and will not keep the CO2 out of the atmosphere.

The closest "above ground" electrical wire to my place is almost 2 miles away, with half a dozen transformers in vaults between here and there to "catch" the surge and dump it to ground before it gets here. The dual conversion UPS looks after what's left. (we are in Ontario's "thunder alley" so we get lot's of lightning storms.)

Well, good.

Sounds nasty, but I'm sure it was nice once you got the meds on.

What a beeyotch!

After having _used_ one several times daily for 30 years, eh?

That sounds like one hell of a lightning strike!

Remember the cold war kept 1/3 of the planes in the air at a time. That is a lot of gas. Most Air force bases were served by 3 refineries. It allowed on to go down for repair and used 1 or 2.

Now with a lot of the aircraft in mothballs, and the replacements are fewer with less flights, we have fewer refineries...

Navy down, down, down, ....down in size. Less fuel oil, gasoline and jet fuel needed on the fleets.

Let WWIII really break out - as it isn't - trade lines are in danger, either from the sender or the route taken. Look at the crazy pirates working the tankers and ships now and they are small fry. Not a navy with work to do.

And Keystone has branches to the central time zone already. Just none to make OK to send Oklahoma sands down here as well as Canada.

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Do you have a 300 foot tower to deal with? :)

I had a battery powered digital thermometer explode. It wasn't connected to anything. The power went off during another storm, and it was raining so hard that I would have never made it from my shop to the house in the water running down that hill. So, I was inside a windowless building that was light most of the time by light that leaked in around the steel doors. When the storm ended, the news reported over 1100 strikes in under a half hour.

That was my first, but I had taught my dad to use three different models over the years. They had canceled that class time after time, yet complained that I wasn't testing my glucose levels. She got really pissed when I told her that I knew engineers that designed the medical equipment they used.

Where in my description would that fit in??? Yes, the high tension wiring is on tall steel towers. The street lamps are on steel or re-enforced concrete poles. There are cell and radio towers around - but none of them have any influence on our local power distribution, phone, or cable.

That was to do with the strike at the CATV headend. :) BTW, that service was underground.