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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

      16/ Get job done...and win is pulling sheeting out from under the cinderblocks before I've got the tractor parked. Plan B: get some rope and lash the sidewall bottom pipes down to cinderblocks. This works. Walk into tractor bucket one more time. Am spitting blood....

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      17/ ...both literally and metaphorically.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

      18/ My text to farmhand makes it clear that if he doesn't get back in the next week to finish the job I may very well cut him into pieces and feed him to the hogs.

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

      19/ He does show up and finishes the job, while grumbling.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

      20/ We're about to jump forward to last night, but first we have to jump sideways to a DIFFERENT story last year.

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      13/ Several times I've given in on some issue after telling him "no" six times. "FH, use nails" oh I think screws are better "no, use nail" why do you want nails? "they're code" you don't care about code, do you? Screws are better "please just use nails" why? Screws hold.
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      14/ "just use nails; I already bought them" why do you like nails so much? "I assume that code specifies them because they have higher sheer strength." No, they're the same kind of steel. "I have no evidence of that; they might be a different alloy. So, use nails"
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      15/ him: I think screws are better. me: !@#$ it, look, fine, whatever. 4 hours later: him: I used screws, like we discussed. me: I...I... me (whispers to myself) "I'd kill him, but there are basically no other options. Also, who'd dig the hole for me?"
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      19/ Yes. So now I've got decking screws holding structural members together, and nails (which pull out) holding barn siding down, which WILL try to cup as it ages, and which will pull nails out. FFFFFFFFFFFF https://twitter.com/plzbepatient/status/983413273167933440 …
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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

      25/ So anyway, the takeaway from this story is: farmhand likes to use decking screws, even when I tell him not to, even when they're the wrong tool for the job. Hang onto that fact.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

      26/ So now we pop forward to yesterday around 6pm, after work. I look at my greenhouse and notice that there's a small rip on one side. Well, it's Friday night, and it's getting dark soon. But I'm gonna deal with this first thing Saturday morning. I've got special tape, etc.

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          27/ I go inside, unwind with some bourbon, go to bed...and around midnight, in the middle of a nice oaky buzz, I hear strong winds. "Oh, F" I think.

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          28/ This morning I go outside. ...and I see something bad. This is the good side of the greenhouse. Everything there is solid.pic.twitter.com/3YDXUA9FmY

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          29/ This is the other side. I didn't take pix first thing because I was so angry that blood was nearly coming out of my eyes. But everywhere you see a red line in this image, the greenhouse cover (installed just a few months ago) was torn.pic.twitter.com/XB61TMvLby

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          30/ WHAT HAD HAPPENED? Well, look closely at how the film is secured to the frame. There's C-channel running horizontally, and the film goes over that, and then a long "wiggle wire" spring goes over the film. There's a stress point, I guess, at the C channel?pic.twitter.com/cKZzVS3OVp

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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          31/ I'm really really pissed. Pissed at myself, because if I had repaired the small tear yesterday, it might not have grown. ...but then I realize that the small tear did NOT grow. These are new tears. The C channel somehow broke free of the horizontal black plastic frame.

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          32/ How did it break free? Normally I secure things really well. I investigate, and see that decking screws were used to secure the C channel. That's odd, I think. That's not the kind of thing I normally do. (I'm forgetting an important clue here)

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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          33/ ...so I go over the entire side, drill holes through the C-channel, use bolts and washers to secure it, then only after that's done, do I start taping up all of the holes in the film. Dozens of strips 90°to the rips to stitch them together, then more pieces along the rip.

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          34/ In the end, I do a pretty good job. Unless you were looking for the problem, you'd just see a greenhouse, maybe not even notice the patch job. Here's the after:pic.twitter.com/a6puiD51Mu

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          35/ ...but I'm still beating myself up. Why the F would I have used decking screws? That's the kind of idiot move the farmhand does, but I was one who build the greenhouse (I'm still forgetting something). I'm so God-damned angry at myself. Tighten bolts before wrapping up.

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          36/ ...and then I see something. Here's the inside of the greenhouse. You can see the ends of the bolts that I just installed to replace the deckscrews. ...but there's a little clue. Can you see it?pic.twitter.com/SEsVpxUyHp

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          37/ let me zoom in a little bit and use one meaty Italian-sausage finger to point to it.pic.twitter.com/U8YWTcM1CC

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          38/ What's that hole? Interesting. It's the exact right size for the bolts...did I drill this a few minutes ago in the wrong location? No.... O.M.G. Two memories come rushing back.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          39/ One: me building the greenhouse, and USING BOLTS TO ANCHOR THE C CHANNEL (that's what the hole is from: 2014 or so) Two: me asking farmhand to replace some C channel as part of the re-skinning.

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          40/ THAT GOD DAMNED PIG !@#$-er took apart bolts and washers and nuts that I had installed in order to remove the old C-channel, threw the bolts away (I'm guessing), and then reinstalled the C-channel...not w with the bolts...but with GOD DAMNED DECKING SCREWS.

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          41/ 100% agreed. I'd decided last November, after that bs, that I would never use him again. This spring started thinking "well, if I ever need two guys at the same time, I can bring him in to help my new farmhand". ...then decided "no, NEVER again" https://twitter.com/jan30982573/status/992899654483312642 …

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

          42/ Anyway, I've been insanely angry all day long. Not only did he waste my Saturday morning, not only did he half-ruin a still-basically-brand-new greenhouse skin, but he had the right answer right in front of him, and ACTIVELY threw it away in order to do the wrong thing.

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          43/ I've avoided beating my wife and kicking the dogs all day long, which is a decent accomplishment given the blood-boiling rage I'm still riding. ...but barely. I want to !@#-ing kill that guy.

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          44/ I actually had a headlamp I was using. The bucket forks were oriented at an angle where, viewed end on from the height of my eyes above the ground, they effectively disappeared into the tractor bucket 4 feet away. Never once walked into them side on. Always end on. https://twitter.com/magsinok/status/992902140359266305 …

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          Do you know what "nemesis" means? https://twitter.com/jan30982573/status/992902694451990533 …

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          46/ In other news, the piglets I ordered through the farm store will arrive on the 19th. Two weeks! Just three, though, not 16.

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          47/ I've got a face for radio. https://twitter.com/BellaLibertas/status/992904027888324608 …

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          48/ Yep. Dude has many issues. Also, I noticed empty beer bottles showing up in my barn garbage can, and many days his workers would work while he "slept" after a long night "staying up too late with friends". https://twitter.com/JarlOfRedmond/status/992904800084705280 …

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          49/ Fairly convinced that he's an alcoholic and he's been slipping further down the greased slide the last year or so. You hang w friends till 4am once, nap in your truck? Ok, I can believe that. It happens 4-5 times? Dude, let's just call a hangover a hangover.

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          50/ If anyone wants to do it, I promise in advance to LOL.https://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/992906271861936134 …

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          silicon age tulpa @mr_archenemy
          at the very least this needs to be orange county cycled, or whatever that meme is
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        26. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

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          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
          "Farm hand" is a platonic ideal, a little known card in the traditional Tarot, a lesser demon in Norse myths, a trickster / a-hole in the Icelandic sagas, a vengeful spirit in Japanese folklore. In other words: IT'S ALL THE SAME FARMHAND. https://twitter.com/AV_snarkeyes/status/992934085411602434 …
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        27. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 5 May 2018

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          52/ I'm just realizing that I hired a farmhand way back before I bought a farm. I need to tell y'all the story of the time I hired a drifter to help me demolish an addition. (And maybe also the story of the time I tore down a chimney, for new friends)https://twitter.com/dustdevil313/status/992936218189905922?s=19 …

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          I know that guy well. There is a variant in this neighborhood known as the 'fxcking cowboy'. He usually needs $40 'gas money' after day one, but will be back bright and early tomorrow.
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