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« Reply #180 on: March 06 2017, 02:29:45 PM »
Hey Mike


My aunt has had her cochlear implant for about 10 years and she loves hers.  She had slowly lost her hearing over her lifetime due to illness as a kid.   She's in her 50's and from my understanding they don't like doing them in adults anymore.  It's amazing the technology that we have, and what it can do for people.   
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« Reply #181 on: March 06 2017, 07:41:44 PM »
I think that's cool!  She will appreciate you and the wife when she gets older
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« Reply #182 on: March 06 2017, 09:37:58 PM »
The hearing impaired/deaf world is quite vocally divided on CIs, and especially CIs for young children.

Onto more exciting news - we got a new project car today! Only this one snaps together.



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« Reply #183 on: March 06 2017, 11:13:01 PM »
Wow, this has been a stressful stretch for you guys. So glad the path forward is positive. Pretty sure without kids there would be no gray hair.:)
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« Reply #184 on: March 09 2017, 04:16:54 PM »
Wow, this has been a stressful stretch for you guys. So glad the path forward is positive. Pretty sure without kids there would be no gray hair. :)

It has been pretty wild - the good news is Talia has an incredible disposition, which is quite sunny.   Our kids are are giving Natasha grey hair, and the fact that they are girls is making me bald.
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« Reply #185 on: March 09 2017, 07:15:15 PM »
You haven't even made it into the double digits yet. Take this time in as best you can, there might(will) be much more trying times ahead. Though I wouldn't trade any of it I have stories of some of the shenanigans ours pulled to make all your hair fall out.
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« Reply #186 on: March 09 2017, 08:51:38 PM »
I am learning how to braid hair... gotta keep the customers happy.
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« Reply #187 on: June 11 2017, 10:34:44 PM »
Repaired my IR T30 air compressor which has been broken for a month.

We picked up the new Boldar L1430T motor last weekend, and I spent the week tripping over it - I literally left it in the middle of the floor as a constant reminder that I needed to install it. I kept ignoring it (because I dread anything to do with household wiring) until today when my oldest daughter asked when I was going to inflate the splash pool (Natasha put her up to it). So guess what I did for about the next six hours?

I am really grateful that I spend a lot of time in the gym, because that made it pretty effortless getting the 80lb motors down and up 5+ feet off the floor.

What I am not grateful for is the motor starter I decided to add. This ate up most of the job trying to figure out how to get the damn coils to fire - Square D does not include instructions (probably a liability issue). Much smashing of my head was done over finding the correct order of wires. Thankfully I was saved by a redneck on YouTube who literally went from post to post (paint by number simplicity). Then I added a simple toggle switch, and now have ON/OFF capability - no more pulling the plug out of the wall for this guy! (at least until I need to weld something that is).

Compressed air, oh how I missed you. Even if it cost me a day of not wrenching on a car and playing with my kids.

Sure am going to enjoy sitting in the pool on the deck.
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« Reply #188 on: June 13 2017, 08:31:21 PM »
Baldor? :)
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« Reply #189 on: June 13 2017, 09:42:15 PM »
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« Reply #190 on: June 13 2017, 10:30:04 PM »
Waiting for the part the splash pool exploded.... Tim the Toolman style


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« Reply #191 on: June 13 2017, 10:41:56 PM »
Waiting for the part the splash pool exploded.... Tim the Toolman style

The girls were stoked when they came home to it ready to go last night.  Amazingly it is still holding air.

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« Reply #192 on: September 05 2017, 08:34:21 AM »
They say take a kid to a car show... I say forget that noise - take them to the track and show them what cars can really do!

This weekend John and I took my girls to the drags just like our parents did... worked on us, and it should work on them too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svTN0FdSRrs

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« Reply #193 on: September 05 2017, 09:28:14 AM »
I agree Mike. I really need to take the boys, the youngest hasn't been yet.
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« Reply #194 on: September 05 2017, 09:31:40 AM »
When you take them it is an experience not soon forgotten. My son is 21 and still talks of trips to the races when he was little.
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