{"id":3917,"date":"2009-07-14T13:45:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2009-07-14T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:45:35","slug":"pavlovs-machinist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=3917","title":{"rendered":"Pavlov&#8217;s Machinist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>SALE!!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I got an email from Enco today. They love sales and promotions. This one is pretty good. Free shipping, plus 10% off. How am I supposed to get anything done, with a temptation like that rolling around in the back of my head?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see. What do I need right now? A square. Definitely. Micrometers! The ones I got from the guy who sold me my lathe are useless. And with Enco&#8217;s sale, it&#8217;s all nearly FREE! FREE! FREE!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I&#8217;m breathing into a paper bag. I guess I don&#8217;t actually have to order anything.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, my dad needed to fix the latches on some cabinets on the boat. I went with him, looking for stuff at local stores. It&#8217;s amazing, how these cabinets manage to be incompatible with almost everything out there. Yesterday I realized that if I had a MILLING MACHINE, I could fix this problem pretty easily. For that matter, the band saw would also do a good job.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve discovered the problem with having tools. When you have them, you develop an unspoken obligation to MAKE STUFF for people.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what state the mill is in right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALE!!!!! I got an email from Enco today. They love sales and promotions. This one is pretty good. Free shipping, plus 10% off. How am I supposed to get anything done, with a temptation like that rolling around in the back of my head? Let&#8217;s see. What do I need right now? A square. Definitely. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}