char1es.net » humor http://char1es.net musings of a peripatetic Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:57:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ode to a Bodna http://char1es.net/2008/12/10/ode-to-a-bodna/ http://char1es.net/2008/12/10/ode-to-a-bodna/#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:52:58 +0000 Nathan http://char1es.net/?p=142 a friend to me are you small pot
you stare right back from where I squat
with belly round and funny nose
that stretches out quite like a hose

or maybe like an elephant
you bellow loud with grand torrent
but that’s not quite the metaphor
for you don’t spray but rather pour

i’m happy for your secrecy
it really means the world to me
for you have seen me at my worst
and hold true tales best left unversed

i fall apart in front of you
you comfort me as mothers do
you help me up and on my way
but not for long, I’m back to pray

]]> http://char1es.net/2008/12/10/ode-to-a-bodna/feed/ 0 Dear < s-k > tools http://char1es.net/2003/10/16/dear-s-k-tools/ http://char1es.net/2003/10/16/dear-s-k-tools/#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:22:03 +0000 Nathan http://char1es.net/wordpress/?p=14 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

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