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[aart]

Both BCM pullets laid nice solid dark eggs today.
Have had a few softies from one or both in the past week.

 

[bruceha2000]

The new one is called the bridge fire and it is up out of Sacramento

Just what you need, another fire

How long has it been since your last HS reunion? Whishing you a good time!

I've never gone to one and never will. HS was hardly a positive point in my life.

 

[aart]

I've never gone to one and never will. HS was hardly a positive point in my life.

Same here.

 

[sourland]

Just what you need, another fire


I've never gone to one and never will. HS was hardly a positive point in my life.

Same here.

Amen !

 

[Sally PB]

I've never gone to one and never will. HS was hardly a positive point in my life.

I went to my 10th. Some of the kids had just gotten 10 years older, but hadn't grown up. I ignored the invite for the 15th, never heard from anyone again. Not really interested in what's going on in any of those people's lives. They couldn't have cared less that I was there.

There was one teacher I went to visit when I visited my brother (they both live in the town where I went to HS). As I got older and had more teachers (college, people training me for a job, other activities), the more I realized that he had been one of the best teachers I'd had in HS.

It made my day to be able to tell him so.

 

[ronott1]

The weak concentration of a strong acid.
A strong acid is one like hydrochloric or sulfuric. But one drop of that in a drum of DI water isn't going to hurt anything.
Acetic acid (vinegar) is a weak acid, 3-9%. I eat it every day on my salad. But glacial acetic acid, 99.7%, is corrosive and can burn skin on contact.

Reminds me of a rhyme from my old chemistry class:

Little Willy was a chemist, Little Willy is no more. For what He thought was H20 was really H2SO4!

 

[ronott1]

I went to my 10th. Some of the kids had just gotten 10 years older, but hadn't grown up. I ignored the invite for the 15th, never heard from anyone again. Not really interested in what's going on in any of those people's lives. They couldn't have cared less that I was there.

There was one teacher I went to visit when I visited my brother (they both live in the town where I went to HS). As I got older and had more teachers (college, people training me for a job, other activities), the more I realized that he had been one of the best teachers I'd had in HS.

It made my day to be able to tell him so.

I feel the same way about High School. At my age, a lot of them are dying. My DW went to a funeral for one of them...that I had not seen since about 1984.

I likely would not know them if I ran into them randomly some where.

 

[DobieLover]

Both BCM pullets laid nice solid dark eggs today.
Have had a few softies from one or both in the past week.

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Who laid that jumbo green one!?

 

[Sally PB]

But glacial acetic acid, 99.7%, is corrosive and can burn skin on contact.

In college, I studied the Dye Transfer photography process. For one part of the process, we used glacial acetic acid, but I don't remember the dilution. IIRC, it was to "eat away" the part of the gelatin emulsion that had not been exposed.

My dad was a PhD chemist. I was asking him about the various chemicals we used. That was one he told me to be very careful with.

Sadly, Kodak discontinued making all the films, papers, and chemistry for Dye Transfer in 1993. Another one lost to the digital age.

 

[DobieLover]

I've never gone to one and never will. HS was hardly a positive point in my life.

I went to the first one and will never go to another one. Once I got there, I said to myself "Hey. I never liked any of you in high school and I STILL don't". The ones that I did like, I stayed in contact with for a while. I never see any of them now.