An Engineer’s Christmas List

The puzzles AND the 3D pen!

Might just make a few of the weird ones. Everything needed I already have.

Ha Ha! I had to laugh at the toothpaste tube squeezer because that was our first engineering project. I still have the drawings. I had accumulated various junk for experimenting including things like ink rollers, mousetraps, etc. Now I cut the bottom off the tube and swirl my toothbrush around the inside. To dislodge the glob stuck in the neck I blow on it. You would be surprised how much I get. A couple weeks worth.

The engineer's field pack is nothing compared to the backpack I had the last year of school. I bought all my books and went to a big box store and bought one they would all fit in. It must have weighed forty pounds and kept getting heavier. And I would haul it to school on the back of my bicycle. I wondered why it kept getting harder to climb the hills.

Nowadays I participate in organized bike rides and my fanny pack and pannier resemble the purse in the old pop song "She Can't Find Her Keys". I carry have tools. food. lights, first aid kit, fowl weather gear, hard case notebook for maps and paperwork. An extra rucksack is case I need to stop for groceries (beer) on the way home from the ride. And for the hell of it I threw in my old Boy Scout compass.

One time my neighbor baked a pie in a square pan so I placed a note on it that read "πr²".

This is what I am buying for myself for Christmas.

I found out this is what the guys down in the shop use to get at screws in impossibly tight locations. All the good tips I learn from the guys (and gals) in the shop I can't possibly re-pay. So I bring them in some home-baked cookies and stuff from time-to-time.

No. 7331 http://chapmanmfg.com/products/7331

All the usual caveats.

Bah! Humbug! Somebody has entirely too much time on their hands...

Back to work!!!...