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pykemann

@pykemann@techhub.social

Geek/nerd that loves humor, tech, doing the right thing. I enjoy fixing commercial coffee equipment for a paycheck and volunteering to do a/v & broadcast work for a small HoW. Computers and tech keep me busy in my free time. Star Wars, Star Trek, MCU, sci-fi are my go to for entertainment. I'm the guy that always has heard he has a great radio voice. (Thank goodness since I don't have a face for TV 😛🤪) Ask me anything.

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kevbob, to portland
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Bethany Portland Oregon

pykemann,
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@kevbob 98662 Vancouver WA

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ai6yr, to hamradio

Going the extra mile: the radio operators who connect all 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon https://huntnewsnu.com/77235/city/metro/going-the-extra-mile-the-radio-operators-who-connect-all-26-2-miles-of-the-boston-marathon/

pykemann,
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@ai6yr I always enjoyed working the amateur radio operators that worked on the Portland Marathon and Hood to Coast every year.

I volunteered helping with logistics and operations of both events for about 10 years a piece.

They were of great help on rhebHood to Coast due to several areas in the Coast Range where our commercial system couldn't reach.

ai6yr, to diy

SUCCESS (I hope, LOL)! Fixed a broken toilet flange and reset a toilet. Really, just fixed something I didn't figure out 10 or 15 years ago and installed wrong. Saved myself paying more to the plumber and getting an earful about how badly done the toilet job was previously.

pykemann,
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@ai6yr my experience back in 2021: toilet base rocks and has a crack in it. Dates back to 1980 when house was built.

Order new toilet, remove old toilet. Find out flange was too high, someone tried a universal repair along with massive amount of wax to seal it... Except it didn't.

Leaked into basement slab around pipe, but not into barhroom. Trees found great nutrients as I found roots in toilet base and packed into flange so tight I thought it was some kind of fiber packing.

Remove corrosion and roots. Nothing left to attach a fix flange onto. Chisel out 6" of concrete (brittle as heck!) and roots, pour in new concrete, set new flange and Bob's your uncle.

Guys at plumbing supply store knew me by name for a few days. And this coffee brewer service technician became an expert at the disposal system for the by-product of his normal money maker - coffee!

Master bath went much easier since it was on wood subfloor! 😂

Bottom of a 40 year old toilet showing a poorly used flange repair kit and a lot of wax attempting to correct a poorly installed flange in concrete. Note some small tree roots embedded in wax.
Newlyninstalled closet flange, flush wirh floor instead of over 0.5" off of it.

mdmrn, to random
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Happy Tuesday. I'm going to be my brother's best man at his this fall. And now I officially have to make a toast.

So, I told him I'm just going to recite the Pastor's monologue from the wedding in . That's reasonable, right?

Have a great day.

pykemann,
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@mdmrn my best friend did that at my 2nd wedding as the officiant 😂

it was a shotgun wedding too. My ex-mother-in-law was holding my great-grandfather’s double barreled shotgun standing alongside her pregnant daughter.

We checked most of the humor boxes on that one. 🤣

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