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Because this Chili will make you wish you had died instead.

A retirement gift for the wood shop teacher.

Make it out of cardboard. If you can’t make it out of cardboard first, you won’t be able to make it out of metal.

Think about how easy it is to cut and shape cardboard. And if you screw up, it’s only cardboard.

It works!

Princess Auto has a keyless chuck to turn your 3/8″ drill into a 1/2″ drill. Around $15 CDN as of this writing. Seems to work dandy, and the Hitachi lives to fight another day.

Why yes, they DO come off.

It took quite a bit of abuse to do so, probably made worse by trying to cut a 2-3/4″ hole in steel.  The chatter exploded the original chuck.

1977 Silverado. 1973 Ariens. And there was much rejoicing.

Thank you Ryan.  All the best on “the outside.”

Yes.  I am a BC Teacher.  You likely have heard about us in the news recently.

My take on things:

The BCTF pushes their propaganda.

The Gub’ment pushes their propaganda.

The media sensationalizes whatever increases readership, because readership sells advertisements.

Somewhere out there is truth, but neither you nor I am really privy to all of it.

My questions though:

If the Government is deemed allowed to rip up the Teacher’s contract (currently in their third appeal), could they not, then, set a precedent to be allowed to rip up any contract?

If we allow the Government to over-rule court rulings (E80),  could they not, then, set a precedent to be allowed to overrule any court rulings?

In the mean-time:

I am purposing to remain positive through all this, and not get emotionally dragged down by all of what is going on.  I must admit, however, that my enthusiasm and passion for the teaching career is slowly being beaten out of me, year after year after year.

What I do in my classroom is all that is important to me.  The rest of it is “just a job.”

Each of my kids got rides to school in the Super 7