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Subdeacon Joe

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  1. I shall, thank you. In the photo of her in the car she is wearing a sweater she made.
  2. Found on FB: Boat Tail vs Flat Base Battleship Shells In the WW2 era, only the French and Japanese adopted the “Boat Tail” base shape for their Battleship shells. The purpose of the boat tail on the shell base is that it allows the airflow to remain attached to the surface of the shell until it reaches the reduced diameter base, resulting in less base drag. Base drag is caused by the low-pressure ('suction') area created directly behind the shell as it travels through the air, slowing the shell. Interwar testing by the Japanese revealed that just adding the boat tail to their 14” shells achieved a 2,000 yard range increase with no other shell or gun modifications. Ballistician Bryan Litz wrote that the boat tail allows the projectile to "retain velocity / energy at long range, as well as less drop and wind deflection". The 38cm / 15” APC shells manufactured by the US firm of Crucible Steel for Richelieu in 1943 retained the boat tail base, although not exactly identical to the original French shell profile… The Royal Navy discovered in 1945 that putting a tracer on large calibre shells reduced the base drag effect, but information is lacking on how much research was done and the extent these tracers were implemented on existing shells. Post WW2 the RN did have a 14" APC projectile designated "Shell, Breach-Loading, Armour-Piercing with Cap, 14-Inch, Heavy, K, Mark IB Night Tracer" that presumably had a tracer base plug fitted. As a follow-up, in the 1960’s the projectile base bleed or base burn system was developed in Sweden to increase artillery range by expelling burning gas (similar to a tracer) into the low pressure area behind the shell to reduce base drag, this extended the range of the modified shells by around 20–35%. The boat tail projectile shape should be very familiar to you rifle shooters…. Many thanks to Ed Low for his assistance Diagram made by (FB Author)."
  3. I'll stick with the original, Green Jalapeno, or Chipotle. Others I like are Tapatio and Cholula. Get much over that and all it is is hot with no flavor.
  4. Good news https://fb.watch/r42p8xarUo/?mibextid=Nif5oz After a long 22 day stay, our Deputy Nick Dellia was released from a local hospital this morning! He has been hospitalized since he was critically injured in the deputy-involved shooting on March 4. Today marked a big step forward in his recovery with his friends, family, brothers, and sisters by his side. Local agencies joined us in supporting Deputy Dellia as we gave him a warm send off. He’s heading to a rehabilitation facility to continue his journey. Sonoma County, you have been extraordinarily supportive of Deputy Dellia and his family since this frightening incident occurred. We cannot thank you enough for the love and support you’ve provided the past three weeks.
  5. No sense if adventure! These tacos come in a paper pouch rather than wrapped in paper, so any spillage was contained. Good luck to the Devil Rays! We have actually taken a liking to the Giants the last few years. Which puts me in a bind on opening day. I was raised in San Diego County so I have a long standing affection for my original home team. Opening day we will see the Giants v. Padres. As an aside, baseball is the most religious of sports....it has Padres, Cardinals, and Metropolitans!
  6. So do we. Is it great food? No. But it's reasonably tasty, familiar, and modestly priced. We were pleasantly surprised by the BK tacos. The tortilla was crisp and an actual tortilla, not the preformed hard shell. Texture was between a fried flour tortilla and a fried corn tortilla. Meat filling was a crumble, not a paste. A slice of cheese rather than shreads. threads. It's a visual daily weather chart for the year, charting the daily high and low. The crafter picks colors for however they want to break down temperature ranges and each day is a row. See: https://www.guidepatterns.com/free-temperature-blanket-patterns.php Examples found online She's having fun with it. Decided she also wants a different stitch for each month, which means she has to learn some new stitches. Along with it she's making a "rain pillow, " charting weeks with rain, and using color to show how many inches of rain. "Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife."
  7. Nice looking pan. How long have you had it?
  8. Her temperature blanket, just the middle section. About 6 foot wide and will end up about 8 foot long. She's up to about March 5th on it now. The stitch she used for February took longer to do than she thought it would. Hmmmm.....this phone saves photos in a weird format that won't work here. I'll have to figure it out.... 20240326_202446.heic
  9. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/april/willis-lee-naval-academy-years https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/us-people/l/lee-willis-a-jr.html Quite a guy! A good video except the guy seems unable to form a paragraph without profanity . So I posted it as a link rather than embedded. https://youtu.be/cu9Mi0ury38?si=E9N2vbLbxEk_mNaN
  10. That's today. She got up about 0400 to use the necessary, when she came back to bed I greeted her with We got up, started the coffee and turned on the news to get information about the Baltimore Bridge I asked if she wanted to go out for breakfast. She said she didn't, but really wanted pancakes. Made a batch at about 0700. She went to the Tuesday Crochet and Cards at the clubhouse at 1100. I did dishes and such. She came home after only about 75 minutes, wanted to go to Taco Bell. As we were on the way I said something about wondering which way to go, at that time of day there isn't any way to get there.....or anywhere in town....that's not a PITA...so she said, "OK, Burger King, McDonald's, I just want to get out and have something different." BK it was. "Ooooo.....tacos, 2 for $2!" she said as we pulled into the drive through. So be it. Those things are pretty good ! As we were waiting I asked if she wanted to go out to Bodega Head. "Yes!!" Away we went. Told her that I wouldn't want a taco until we were on Hwy 12 West. "But feel free to go ah..."(CRUNCH)"had and start," I said as she bit into one. Then had to not snort crisp tortilla out her nose. Got out to Bodega Head....a beautiful N. California drive through some truly gorgeous country which she kept commenting on....and as we were standing there letting the bracing sea breeze (wind about 15, temperature about 58) wash through us I started to take out my phone to get a few pictures, stopped and told myself to just enjoy. Then she said, "Look atthecolors!" Now, she is working on a Crochet "temperature blanket." One row for each day, different color for each 10 degrees, high and low temperature, and some calculations for how many stitches for day and night so there won't be a straight line down the middle. Kinda cool. One of the tools she has is a program that will take an image and generate a color palette for it in however many colors you want. She's already planning the blanket for next year. I looked around and pulled out the phone to capture the colors. She should be able to get some good colors out of those . Only downside is that she has lost enough weight over the last. 6 months that her shoes are loose, so her feet slipped a little in her shoes, took a tumble on the sandstone, got some scrapes and scratches. Nothing serious. But even that had an upside...within about 10 seconds 4 or 5 people were there to help get her up, grab her cane, purse, and hat off the ground, asking if she was OK. Even with the fall she says she has had a great day.
  11. Par for the course. As I said, I didn't see it. The only things Lisa told me was that he said that the feds would pour money into getting it rebuilt ASAP - which is reasonable, and then duke it out with the insurance company - and that when an idjit asked a stupid question he pointed out it was a stupid question and ended the conference. There is so little that I like about the guy that I thought I should mention something he did that I see as a positive.
  12. Sad indeed. But with that water temperature that low it was pretty much a given after about 2 hours. I didn't see Biden's little speech, but my wife did. She said that when some idjit reporter asked about Iran or something totally unrelated, he said, paraphrasing, "That's completely inappropriate." and walked away from the podium. Good for him.
  13. I stand corrected on the anchor...report said that one anchor was deployed, or an attempt was made to deploy it. Even so, something that massive moving at 8 knots takes a long time to stop. Other factors- several reports say that her path was well out of the channel right from the start going downstream. Wind was brisk and on the port beam, so with the huge sail area of those ships it quickly swung to starboard once power and steering were lost.
  14. CHP - Buttonwillow · The Honda Fit. -40 miles per gallon -Surprisingly roomy interior -104 mph Who knew?
  15. It was only a couple of minutes from the MAYDAY to when the vessel struck the bridge. Not enough time to get tugs to it. Tugs don't stay with vessels until the reach open ocean. Where it goes off course would be where it lost power and was being pushed by the river. Dropping anchor is a major event on a vessel that size, half an hour or more. And, without power they may not be able to do it.
  16. I was just listening to some of the arguments, and commentary, about the SCOTUS hearing on an abortion drug and thought, "Gee....a lot of the arguments for the drug sound a lot like what we say in defense of the Second Amendment."
  17. Yeah, very odd. But consider that chemical leavening has only been around for less than 200 years. That means yeast, probably in the form of barm, was used before that. "As with cakes, we use pastry flour..." făina - ca și la cozonaci, folosim făină de patiserie, tip 000, de bună calitate. I may still use AP. Hmmmm....maybe make a small batch of each to compare.
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