This is probably way off the mark, but the first thing that came to mind was a shock absorber. Sometimes opening and shutting valves can create a kickback. In copper piping systems, the plumber traditionally installs a vertical dead end leg to accumulate air as a compressible medium to stop "water hammer". Just as likely, the air can be siphoned off or reabsorbed in the water flow. Ideally, this leg would be accessible and have a removable cap to "recharge" the chamber, but few are.

i was in the Apple Store last night. I never saw so many blue T-shirts, birkenstocks, little goatees, soul patches and funky hip designer-nerd glasses in one place at one time. . . and that was just the girls. Funny . .. I didn't buy the IPad 2 cuz THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY!!! But if I had, would've I have gotten a hug?

Happy Birthday, my dear friend...! Hope you'll have a blast...!

@mike lucey said: Love to Rich, but too busy, too busy, too busy That's a real shame. It's a pity the community miss out. But surely you can put something together for CatchUp at some stage?

Hurray for Chris! (I will be a bit fat that day but with all who participates - in "spirit")

@unknownuser said: "speedy" Absolutly no problem

That artist is crazy good! See another, earlier performance here: YouTube - Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation (Україна має талант / Ukraine's Got Talent) [flash=640,390:2udlbl6x]http://www.youtube.com/v/518XP8prwZo[/flash:2udlbl6x] Edit: I see she has a YouTube Channel

Well if you would all check your gmail "buzz" (and if you are following rick wilson), he posted somewhere 12 hours ago that it was down and he was working on it. It should be working now though, but if there are still errors, let Rick know.

When they are gone you feel exposed

Gaius, I would have used "woodhenge", but one already exits near stonehenge. They (?) think stonehenge was for the dead and woodhenge hosted ceremonies for the living. Frenchy that is cool. I may try that, I have always told my wife our house would look slightly better about one foot farther west. When I was in Vietnam I did something similar. Our major on inspection tour told me to get our water trailer off the ground or the tires would rot in the sun and also become misshapened. After thinking for a while I had my troopsset two railroad ties vertically in the ground. Next we made a ramp of sand bags leading up to these posts. Then, with rope, trailer we towed the water until the axle was above the post. Next we cut the sand bags so the trailer settled onto the posts. Finally we cleaned the sand out so that on next inspection there would be no evidence of our method. AR-CAD, I have to admit that there was some block throwing and the little guy kept insisting we were building "Robots" if I could understand what he was saying. His mom is a freakin genious if I do say so myself. She just got her third degree which was a Masters in educational technology and distance learning. Adrian is her personal lab project.

There is still hope: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNJyRd8Oi8c&feature=related note the chaps reference to 'political will' near the end of the presentation.

Check your PM

+1 Love the retro Sci-Fi. How many books I had with covers like that. Wish I hadn't let them go.

Ok... It's been 9 days after receiving my first Apple product, an iPod Touch 64GB. Let me tell you that Apple hardware is fantastic, but the software they write for Windows is terrible. I still can't get the thing to consistently connect to iTunes. I have just returned from Apple Tech Support. The thing connected without problem to one of their Macs, but back at home the problems begin again. Alrealdy tried everything in Apple's troubleshooting database. I was told to update the iOS... Downloading now. Grrrr...

Brought back alot of good memories.

I really can not complain either way Next will be these: http://www.madfiber.com/tubular-ceramic-road-wheels-article?tcc=1 This is on order, Should be here in a few days: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=&pID=69043 I have registered for 3 races this year so far and have 3 more I am looking into. My main goal is to do my first century this season. Scott

It's just 5000 $ for a module!

Met the developer today - great guy. A back-woods, country-boy, for sure. He's gonna do some dirt work for me and put in a couple 12" dia culvert pipes, side-by-side, so I can drive to the back of my property. No land fill. Maybe some cow pies though.

Getting Older and Busier. Good combination. The very best to you. John

Well I had the pleasure of meeting Mr.C at BaseCamp so it's no surprise that he's slow off the mark He mightn't even read our replies Only kidding John. Hope all the family is well. Good to see you still float around.