Dang! I love threads and posts like this one!
There are posts that I think of as
Ulu
posts; those are the ones where an intelligent and capable guy takes an old electric toothbrush, a leaky garbage can and the gear set from a 20-year-old Schwinn bicycle, and transforms it into a functioning shuttle craft straight out of StarTrek.
And then...there are
wednesday13
posts...the mad scientist in his tower, working on some steampunk contraption that is simple, yet so extreme in size and scope that virtually nobody else would think of it...and literally nobody would actually do it. "It's alive!
It's alive!!!"
Both of you guys help me out more than you know. Whenever I make the mistake of commenting to my wife what I am planning, and she immediately tells me I'm insane, I don't need that, I have other things more important that I should be doing (
pfffft!), and my personal favourite: "What will the neighbours think?" (
PPPFFFFFFFFFTTT!!!!!) ...all I need to do is show her the latest post from either of you gents, and it immediately puts my little project into perspective.
She's so accustomed to me showing her your threads, she says she feels as though she knows you both; she's started to refer to you two guys as Itchy and Scratchy, in a not-entirely-affectionate way...