Back [01:11:45]<rue_house> YES
[16:58:54]<Tom_L> rue_house, how much snow did you get?
[16:59:18]<rue_house> 4-6"
[16:59:35]<rue_house> after the first 3" I cleared off the tent infront of the shop
[17:00:02]<rue_house> the remaineder was too much apparently, at about 8 this morning I heard the tent collapse
[17:00:16]<rue_house> trying to work out if this is an opportunity to redo things differntly
[17:00:18]<Tom_L> oops
[17:00:21]<Tom_L> what was in it?
[17:00:43]<rue_house> bench grinder, disc sander and work table
[17:00:46]<rue_house> + lots of misc
[17:01:00]<rue_house> lots of cracking when it went over
[17:01:49]<rue_house> the truss tore thru a free-standing fan that was under it
[17:02:45]<rue_house> just last week I realized that the lower shelf of the bench corroded so badly its collapsing
[17:03:58]<Tom_L> time to rethink storage
[17:04:08]<rue_house> its the outdoor workspace
[17:04:11]<Tom_L> or clean house
[17:04:17]<rue_house> the outdoor covered workspace
[17:04:33]<rue_house> the outdoor covered, fire resistant, workspace
[17:04:33]<Tom_L> make a patio cover between the house and shop like i did
[17:04:39]<rue_house> no
[17:04:43]<rue_house> fire bridge
[17:05:00]<Tom_L> they won't let you?
[17:05:00]<rue_house> trying to leave a reasonable fire-stop gap
[17:05:11]<Tom_L> mine's not connected to the house, just the garage
[17:05:27]<Tom_L>http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/patio/patio_index.php [17:05:29]<rue_house> yea, if I built something it could bridge a building fire easy
[17:05:41]<Tom_L>http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/patio/patio21.jpg [17:05:49]<Tom_L> it won't go anywhere
[17:05:59]<rue_house> I remember that
[17:06:01]<Tom_L> the center support has an I beam across it
[17:06:20]<Tom_L> the rear has T metal between the 2 x 6 supports
[17:06:26]<Tom_L> welded to the posts
[17:06:36]<Tom_L> with bolts thru them all
[17:06:42]<rue_house> nice tree
[17:06:48]<Tom_L> it's old
[17:06:51]<Tom_L> but healthy
[17:06:54]<rue_house> maple?
[17:06:58]<Tom_L> no
[17:06:59]<Tom_L> elm
[17:07:05]<rue_house> oo nice
[17:07:11]<Tom_L> cruddy tree but nice shade
[17:07:18]<rue_house> yup
[17:07:36]<Tom_L> the one in the back is maple
[17:07:43]<Tom_L> autumn blaze
[17:07:59]<rue_house> the tent is a peaked pitch, I'm wondering if a single pitch would be more suitable
[17:08:14]<rue_house> the peak is bad for throwing weather against the side of the shop
[17:08:58]<rue_house> the tent is designed for housing the 12' mecha construction
[17:09:09]<rue_house> it just *ended up* as the shop tent
[17:09:59]<rue_house> thats a bit of a long spand for that steel beam isn't it?
[17:11:05]<Tom_L> no
[17:11:11]<Tom_L> it's quite rigid
[17:11:28]<Tom_L> guess how i got the beam home?
[17:11:46]<Tom_L>http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/patio/patio23.jpg [17:11:52]<rue_house> cool stuff
[17:11:55]<Tom_L> it was at the scrap metal place
[17:12:08]<rue_house> custom trailer?
[17:12:15]<Tom_L> i drove over it with the S10 and strapped it to the front and rear and drove home
[17:12:24]<rue_house> heh
[17:12:25]<Tom_L> :D
[17:12:34]<rue_house> that beam is like 20'?
[17:12:43]<Tom_L> umm about i'd guess
[17:12:48]<rue_house> hah
[17:12:59]<rue_house> was it far to drive?
[17:13:07]<Tom_L> it was the perfect size
[17:13:16]<Tom_L> i did cut the end off a tiny bit
[17:13:23]<Tom_L> the poles were from the scrap yard too
[17:13:32]* rue_house nods [17:13:39]<rue_house> primed :)
[17:13:45]<Tom_L> i had them get the crane out to uncover em for me
[17:14:15]<rue_house> looks from the same source
[17:14:27]<Tom_L>http://tom-itx.no-ip.biz:81/~webpage/patio/patio20.jpg [17:15:12]* rue_house thinks [17:15:23]<rue_house> hard to do anything with the weather like this
[17:15:40]<rue_house> I'd rather just leave it and work it out when things clear up
[17:15:44]<Tom_L> i wanna get that windows code out and mess around with it
[17:15:51]<Tom_L> i was ready to give up on it
[17:15:57]<Tom_L> but kept what i'd done
[17:16:20]<rue_house> database?
[17:16:24]<Tom_L> yeah
[17:16:39]<Tom_L> was trying to figure out the print system last night
[17:16:45]<rue_house> ah
[17:16:49]<rue_house> never used that
[17:16:59]<Tom_L> it's windows like
[17:17:04]<Tom_L> nothing like before
[17:17:06]<rue_house> do you render to a magic window and tell the system to put it on paper?
[17:17:17]<Tom_L> probably how i will do it
[17:17:22]<Tom_L> save to file and print the file
[17:17:35]<Tom_L> would be easiest rather than recoding it all
