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Rob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana . He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.2 FM in Ft. Wayne , Indiana , who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made things worse. With in a few seconds my butt started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony, I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it. However, the crack of my butt was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my butt. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, were all laughing hysterically. Needless to say I aborted the dive. I was instructed to make three agonizing in-water decompression stops totaling thirty-five minutes before I could reach the surface to begin my chamber dry decompression. When I arrived at the surface, I was wearing nothing but my brass helmet. As I climbed out of the water, the medic, with tears of laughter running down his face, handed me a tube of cream and told me to rub it on my butt as soon as I got in the chamber. The cream put the fire out, but I couldn't poop for two days because my butt was swollen shut. So, next time you're having a bad day at work, think about how much worse it would be if you had a jellyfish shoved up your butt. Now repeat to yourself, 'I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.' Now whenever you have a bad day, ask yourself, is this a jellyfish bad day? May you NEVER have a jellyfish bad day...!
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Good operating Boomer! Glad you're good to go!
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Good deal Perry! Glad you had a good ride. My ss1000 plans have been dropped for now. I will have to catch another one...
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Woo Hoo Party Time!!! Happy Birthday Lil' Bit !
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A road star stand is what I used. The bolt hole is smaller. Check carefully for the correct size to drill it. I believe it is 12mm. It is much better than the original but some say it needs to be even a bit shorter. It works for me.
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The app is 'tapatalk', it allows you to easily see the unread posts here. It is also useful for other sites.
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One other thought... I have seen these antennas installed incorrectly. There is an insulating washer that is supposed to be above the chrome mount so the center conductor of the coax is isolated from the ground. If you install it below the chrome mount, the center conductor is grounded and can also cause your problem. You can disconnect the coax from the meter and using an ohm meter, check for a short between the center conductor to ground. do this with the antenna unscrewed from the mount.
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Three possibilities... 1. The meter is connected backwards. Easy check is to place switch in swr position and see if it goes higher than in the set position. 2. Meter is not designed for 27mhz (CB) frequencies. 3. Open coax to antenna or bad antenna. Most radios have a safety circuit that will not allow transmitting into a bad/no antenna and will drop the power very low to prevent damaging the transmitter.
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Here is the proper way to display the US Flag...
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Rear end noise when backing or pushing
Owen replied to Mike G in SC's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
I will add that cleaning and lube where the pins insert is also recommended. I found that a 20ga. shotgun cleaning brush and wd40 does a great clean up job. -
Highway peg mounts
Owen replied to Stache's topic in Royal Star and Royal Star Tour Deluxe Tech Talk
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These are the only two reports I can find on the fatalities... State Highway 105 between Willis Waukegan and FM 1484 is closed. The small amount of rain we had brought the oils out on the road. It appears a pickup truck slid crossing the center line striking a group of motorcycles head on. There are two fatalities. It will be closed for several hours. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating a double fatality crash in Montgomery County this evening, officials said. According to the DPS officials, two motorcycle riders were killed about 6:15 p.m. Wednesday when they were struck near Cut and Shoot by someone in a pickup truck. They were hit while riding with a larger group of motorcyclists near State Highway 105 near Willis Waukegan Road. It wasn't immediately known if any of the other riders were hurt, DPS officials said. The investigation is continuing to determine what caused the pickup to hit the motorcycle riders. The road is expected to be closed for several more hours, DPS officials said.
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Prayers for Gunboat
Owen replied to Squidley's topic in Inspirational, Motivational, Prayer Requests, Etc.
glad you are pulling thru it all Don, God bless. owen n margaret -
What a great trip! I enjoyed my run around Lake Superior and the UP also. Thanks for sharing the pics!
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So... I was walking down the road the other day and noticed, out in the middle of a corn field, Boomer's brother and two pigmies fishing. Dangdist thing I ever saw! A little further down the road I pass Boomer and stopped to tell him about his missing pigmies and his brother standing in a corn field fishing. He said 'yea I know, their not too bright, I'm on my way to get my boat to save them before they drown!' ...
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I don't get it... I'm sure you too would have notified the authorities...
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Shifting w toe hard, heel easy
Owen replied to Sandbagger's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
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Shifting w toe hard, heel easy
Owen replied to Sandbagger's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
Only problem with shifting I have had is when the shifter mounting bolt was loose... -
There has been lots of discussion about these crash guards. Some feel they should bend back, some feel they should be more rigid. I personally believe they should be more rigid. After installing the braces, I went to a Ride Like A Pro class. I laid the bike on its side several times and the crash guards did not move at all. I vote for bracing them.
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I just recently wired my bike for the trailer connection. I upgraded the trailer lights to leds and used the Hoppy Led compatible 5 wire/4 wire convertor. All lights function normally including the 'back off' brake light flasher, emergency flashers, and turn signal auto cancel. I don't know what the difference might be that is keeping yours from working correctly. The only thing I changed was running the white ground wires directly to the connector and did not rely on the frame for grounding...
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The generally bend back toward the floorboard.
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If you have long legs, you can sit on the seat and push it with your foot. I used a pry bar like this. Now with the carbon1 braces I don't have to any more. http://gallery.me.com/k1oj/100024/IMG_2389/web.jpg?ver=13048254680001 http://gallery.me.com/k1oj/100024/IMG_2391/web.jpg?ver=13048254610001
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Yep, several times. I use a crow bar. They are really flimsy. I put on a set of the crash bar supports and now they are rock solid.
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What a great turn out! I didn't count but there must have been 75 - 80 no... 82 ... degrees! Ha! I had trouble finding my way out of the neighborhood. Some body move the street! It was great to see Roxie on the road again. Nice to meet a new couple and make sure they heard all about boomer! Till next time..
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Wow, that's a long way from home! The story...