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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad_Jack" data-source="post: 9774290" data-attributes="member: 6750306">Jack is irritated.  (See? --> <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />)The night before last Jack had to call out of work because he wasn't feeling well. This resulted in Jack getting written up for too many call-outs, and in Jack losing the two-and-a-half hours of overtime he'd put in earlier in the week.On the other hand, Jack did get to hit things with a large hammer today after work, so there is that... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:"  data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" />Had to replace an outdoor faucet and needed to chip away a bunch of cement to do it. Cool Story: When Jack was 12-ish, there was an old burned-down one room cabin out in the woods behind his house, nothing left of it but rotting floorboards and the stone chimney. Jack used to spend hours out in the woods banging on the chimney with rocks, chipping off bits of the chimney stones. Because young Jack was a strange kid. But this apparently endowed Jack with excellent stoneworking and masonry skills - the notch that I had to cut out of the cement in order to remove the old faucet and put on the new one was nearly perfect, despite being chiseled out with a big foot-long concrete chisel and a 4 lb. sledge hammer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></blockquote>

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