An entry dedicated to the one I love Gary has been spending the past couple of days moving into the Jerkface Who Was Until Very Recently the Thorn in My Husband's Side's office. Apparently Jerkface left over 2000 lbs of aluminum scattered around the office. Oh yes, Gary is a Metallurgical Engineer. Basically, he tells people how to make aluminum. Gary specifically makes the tracks that airplane seats sit in on the floor of the airplanes, fins for mortar shells, parts to a brand-new civilian assault rifle that sells for $5K, and baseball bats. Among other things. Early in our dating career, we were walking through a Target and Gary showed off some of the bats that he had a hand in making. I told him that no man had ever been so sexy to me as he was in that very moment. We nearly got kicked out of the store. Anyhoo, Jerkface had this habit of keeping samples of EVERYTHING he had actually worked on, causing this huge stockpile of unnecessary CRAP. He also filled up the fire extinguisher storage out in the hall with the stuff. Gary spent yesterday afternoon throwing all that extra metal into scrap, which he says will screw up the inventory (apparently they inventory scrap) but he didn't care all that much. He's just glad to get rid of it. No, the plant where Gary works doesn't make aluminum cans. In fact, they can't have ANY cans on the property, as that is a safety violation due to the type of alloy that is in aluminum cans. It could totally screw up and contaminate everything. At least that's what hubby tells me. Also, for you "Star Trek VI" fans out there (the one about the whales) Gary says that transparent aluminum is neither possible nor a good idea, not when there's new composites being made everyday that would do the job so much better. Or maybe it wasn't impossible, just highly improbable. But anyhoo, Gary is more optimistic about a composite for such a thing. Watching TV and movies with Gary is fun whenever there is any wonky science going on. We've developed the "No Way" game in which if there's wonky science going on, one of us gets to call "No Way!" and then we discuss the improbablity of the science. For example, "Spiderman 2" with the Tridium, which is in fact an actual element, although it's a gas. You can apparently infuse the gas into a metal but Gary's explanation for that made my head hurt. Anyway, at the end of the film when Doc Oc says to "drown" the big-ass ball of Tridium? Bad idea, because Tridium would react with the oxygen (or something) in the waer and make it worse. Like nuclear explosion worse. Stuff like that. Well, okay. Me? Cookies are Good.
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