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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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