I have one of these helium tanks sitting around, and would like to do something with it. Any ideas? It can be something useful or something decorative. I'm also into car track days, woodworking, and music if that inspires anything.
I have some standard male pattern baldness setting in and I tried shaving my head but my wife likes me better with hair so here I am looking for a barber that has experience with helping things look even. I don't need miracles, I still have a lot of hair, but my current barber tries to blend things and even out sections but it looks botched .
Before I get trashed for being some type of elitist prick, I never pursued aptitude testing until my therapist theorized some of my mental health struggles could be attributed to having an uncommonly high aptitude. I adore my wife. She's one of the best people I've ever known.
My wife and I have a wide aptitude gap. I test well into the 99.5+ percentile (140-150 IQ depending on the day/test) and my wife is a bit above average by informal estimates and tests we've both taken (+/-115 IQ, 84th percentile). For context, 30 IQ points is roughly the aptitude gap between the average person and Forrest Gump. She's brilliant in her field of study but outside of that, the difference can feel hard to bridge. Things that are obvious to me take her time to figure out, she doesn't understand why I make or resist certain decisions, and she often accuses me of "not thinking things through" before eventually reaching the same conclusion I did. I try very hard to not be condescending and I pick my battles, she doesn't seem to harbor any resentment and often turns to me to "be [her] computer for a minute". This isn't causing marital strife, it's just... Lonely? Sometimes frustrating? Unfortunately my therapist has not had much advice besides being patient. Anyone else in a marriage like this with any unique tips that have helped?
Tl;dr I have a very high aptitude and my wife doesn't, there isn't any strife but some unique frustrations and feelings of loneliness (mostly for me) arise and I'm looking for any similar stories.
My wife and I got a free secondhand Baby Jogger travel stroller when our baby was born. A year later, it stopped folding. One side wouldn't release and made it very difficult to put in our car. Obviously no good for travel too which we do often enough to matter. We did end up buying another secondhand stroller (but we got one with a second seat attachment and bassinet option so it'll work with planned baby 2 + toddler) but I didn't want to toss the Baby Jogger. Problem is, they're entirely unserviceable with peened rivets holding the frame together. I decided to risk it and grind them all off to see if I could fix it. I did manage to find the broken plastic arm that caused the issue, came up with a clever fix that fit in the tight space, and put it back together with nice stainless steel bolts I salvaged from some aftermarket car parts that came with an old car I had. I bought one $1.29 bolt of an odd size from my locally owned hardware store, and I saved this stroller from the dump. The part that broke is clearly a weak link and I wonder how many of these strollers have been dumped over this little part breaking.
Tl,dr: Fixed an unserviceable stroller with (mostly) reclaimed hardware.
I just bought this old Craftsman table saw that's in amazing shape but I'd like to try and clean it up and stop it from degrading. How should I manage the corrosion on the chrome and painted surfaces without scratching it up? Bonus points for help with cleaning up the turned surfaces.