#slackjack

[byronschmidt-blog]

Are you in a seismic zone? Do you install hold-downs, tension-ties, or slack-jacks? This little guy is on the second floor of the 5-story #landingprojectlangley. These are the largest @strongtie hold-downs I have seen thus far. Let me know what you are using or ask away if you have no idea what this is. #slackjack #holddown #tensionties #seismic #earthquakeproofing • . . . . #apparement #handforscale #carpenter #carpentry #woodworking #woodworker #woodwork #framer #framing #framersareadyingbreed #buildersofinsta #bluecollar #construction #framersofig #roughframing (at Langley, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnkjcrQgNde/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1c2susrei75z0

[hippoplatypus]

Slackjack. You are amazing. Anyways. Say one needs to have $500 to go to a convention in two weeks. Selling one's body and possessions are out of the question. What's the most creative way you can imagine to make that money, with a seed capital of $50? If you did this and the con was cancelled what would you do with the money?

Go find work at a drycleaner’s without air conditioning employed as a contractor and not an employee.

500/.85 = 588.24 (how much you have to make to have 500 after the 15% tax the IRS puts on income)

588.24/7.25 = 81.14 (the number of hours you’d have to work to earn your 500).

And then afterwards you still have a job.

[hippoplatypus]

SLACKJACK. Give me the most fantastical reason you can imagine for why I haven't actually posting more of these?

You were dancing for a community theater musical and the dragon you were fighting in the play came to life and you had to shove your sword through its gullet but it got stuck and then you had to kill it barehanded, but it was a pretty big dragon, so it took a lot of hands, so you sprouted a few more and got the job done.

[hippoplatypus]

Slackjack. So it feels like Houston where I'm at right now. Constant thunder, 90+ degree heat, constant rain... what's your ideal climate? Why?

Um, heat index here is 112 degrees, and straight up sunny skies, not a cloud to be seen.

But yeah, ideal climate, cool, just a little humid, cloudy but not with rainclouds. Just a little overcast. Perfect.

[hippoplatypus]

Slackjack. An infinite supply of non-carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages of your choice, provided by and at any retail facility that ordinarily stocks drinks, or an infinite supply of carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages of your choice with the same caveat? What specific beverage would you get the most? Why?

Non-carbonated. I do not like carbonated drinks, plus non-carbonated/non-alcoholic includes water, so probably water.

[hippoplatypus]

Slackjack. FINALLY. Okay. Would you rather possess the ability to make a crowd laugh with nothing more than words, or to make a crowd cry with nothing more than words?

SORRY. I should have written an RP response instead of answering that, just so you know.

Cry. Crying affects people more than a good laugh, and it makes them think and stuff.

[hippoplatypus]

Slackjack. You're good to publish that if you want. Can even stick my tumblr name in the tag if you want. Feeling more creative now - SO. Deer Aunt Bertha, or Dear Aunt Beartha?

Dear Aunt Beartha.

People have the liberty of choosing how to spell their name, but not how to grammatically begin a salutation.

[hippoplatypus]

Slackjack. I'm not feeling creative tonight, so what's one thing you'd like to ask me?

What is the one thing you’ve felt most ashamed of in your life?