I’m not a big guy, pretty small actually. So I think that your tools should be stronger than I am. The reason I bring this up is that manure spreader got a flat tire, so my uncle and I jacked it up and he went to get another tire while i started loosening the lugs. Now manure spreaders carry a lot of weight so there are a lot of lugs, 12 actually at 1 1/8″ with fine threads. I’m not sure if they’ve ever come off before because every single one was frozen. I broke all of them loose except for the last one. It was pretty tight so I sprayed on some wd-40 and had at it with a 1/2″ drive socket wrench. I was torqueing the lug pretty good when my socket extension sheered off. So the question I have is, how much torque should I expect your tools to take.
Sincerely yours,
-Nate

I had another day of temp work today. I worked in a landfill picking up trash. It’s not as ironic as it sounds. We had 40+ mph winds today so I walked all over this grassy hillside picking up the loose pieces of paper and trash that were blowing away. It started out pretty awful but I actually was enjoying myself after a while. I ended up praying for one of the guys I worked with. He had one great thing to say. “When you always work with garbage, you start to talk like garbage and you start to act like garbage.”

I don’t think this lesson needs too much interpretation.

A friend was praying with me and asked me does the number 42 mean anything to you. I thought about it a bit and started laughing. The reference is from a book called Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The premise of the book is that there was a giant computer built to figure out the answer to life the universe and everything. After 7.5 million years the answer is given and it is 42. Now my first thought was that this was in referance to the emails I’ve been sending back & forth about China since they have all been titled. Life the universe and everything. However after some more prayer I think there is another meaning. See 42 is a nonsensical answer, they really wanted to know what the question was and thus asked the wrong question. So my question has been what should I do. But that is the wrong question–I should be asking who should I be.

“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” -John 15:9-10

Incidentally in the book a greater computer is build to determine the question. It happens to be the Earth–the program takes 10 million years to run and is destroyed 5 minutes before finishing.