@[email protected] The place is a restaurant and not what I would call a pub, and there’s definitely no video poker machines, patio, or cove park below it, so I think you’ve got someplace else in mind… But that part of Depoe Bay is tiny so I’m sure you’re close enough! :)

@[email protected] Very close, it was taken at Tidal Raves in Depoe Bay.

@[email protected] Thanks, it was just a quick snapshot I took while we stopped to listen to him play.

@[email protected] Shows what I know about those!

@[email protected] Ah, that’s very cool and sounds like a fun set building gig. Have they given you various height specs to work towards?

This also reminds me that I need to go find a copy of The Backstage Handbook. I’ve been meaning to get a copy for I think a couple of years now. :)

@[email protected] It is a cool spot to visit. My kid and I went magnet fishing there once a pulled out a bunch of scrap and old railroad spikes, which I use in my blacksmithing.

What’s the story behind the fake I-beams?

@scott @Geojoek And my understanding was that Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are similar but different.

@[email protected] @[email protected] They said there was a revival underway in Scotland, but I imagine it would be tougher to keep going with fewer speakers in Canada.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Interesting! Just last night I learned about Canadian Gaelic for the first time… Shows how much I don’t know!

@[email protected] I use my bench (engineer) vise very often as well. In fact I just used it this morning! Extremely useful things…

They are of limited use for blacksmithing though. For that, you really want/need a post vise.

@[email protected] They’re also very heavy steel Rorschach tests, apparently. :)

@[email protected] Post vises are wonderful, very useful things, which is why they were so common back in ye olde days… They always catch my eye when I see one, like in a video game or a tv show. :)

@Geojoek @scott 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂 😆 😂

@[email protected] @[email protected] With a writer and performer well-seasoned? :)

Also you’re not making it easy for me to avoid that earworm.

@Geojoek @scott Well, it *is* a great song, but I’d leave that for after hours when the tourists have gone, for sure.

I do love lighthouses. I’ve been to most of them along the central and northern CA and OR coasts and we even have a couple of related knickknacks up on the walls of the house.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Good! My kid will eventually need a job and preferably their own money. 😂

I suspect that on the pay front being a trained and competent computer user likely helps, as opposed to just like a field surveyor of old… Maybe?

@[email protected] @[email protected] For blacksmithing, I rely on it second only to my forge and anvil.

@scott @Geojoek It’s sounds very peaceful, apart from the tourists and hopefully no desperate emergencies. :)

@Geojoek @scott Haha, I’ll be sure to share that wisdom with my recently-graduated GIS-using kid. 😁

@[email protected] @[email protected] Here’s a photo of what the final spring (foreground) looked like and a photo with it in the center of the vise.