When I worked over in the US in good old Wildwood NJ working as a Pool Guard at a beach front hotel I never had the appetite for hot food and would eat out most days buying a salad bowl "all you could eat" option. When I came home I was in the best shape I have ever been. The heat during the summer there and the swimming we used to do just dropped off the pounds....my favourite salad bar was Roy Rogers I think...from memory...I think a warm hot climate is much easier to loose weight in...my other favourite was bowls of Frosties and Ice cold milk....great food when it is boiling hot... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Thanks Tom....I might look in later...it is 7.30 pm here and 2.30 pm your time...things are often good if I am on around midnight-1.00am over here...so I might see you then! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Lol, salads...if you go to Wendy's the mandarin chicken salad has more fat than the spicy chicken sandwich.

Subway is always a good option. Quiznos subs such as the trukey ranch and swiss are not healthy. You have to pick and choose and I am sure you are right about being better than the frys.

If we all post alot more we might break 700 tonight, I will be doing some continuing education anyway so might as well sneek on over here right?

Tolly we got rain! I bet over .5 inch so far, prayers answered.

Glad, I mowed the yard a few days ago. Also glad I didn't spray weeds yesterday. Now I need to go toss some seeds in some bald spots from some construction damage.

Rattlesnake Roundup anyone? It is this Fri, Sat, Sun.

Rounding up Rattlesnakes is an eye opener for me....I would'nt think of this if having to do some "gardening"....go careful!!

Ya, the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup is this weekend. It is supposed to be fun.

I hate bluetooth head sets, none seem to work well. Got a wired headset for my Blackberry, best thing since sliced bread.

I'm not a fan of wireless anything. More complexity, more cost, more points of failure.

Lol, I like my wireless phone and come power tools <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />.

Aurora or Koster? Or another?

For me I find the Scandi edge is not as durable or long lasting as I would like...and I have some good Scandi bushcrafters with good heat treats...they do easily "come back" with ceramic rod passes though...in fact you almost need to use them like a butcher uses his knives...just keep topping up the edge...but compared to a "convex" edge they score a bit lower...forinstance....the idea that you sharpen them keeping the Scandi edge flat against a stone is not for me a durable edge....most grinds give a grind angle at around 12 to 16 degrees either side...usually on a new blade more down around the 12 degree to 14 degree level...this gives under 30 degrees as a total which is a very fine scary sharp edge which can roll...so I find the best results are to use this angle as a secondary bevel and use a primary bevel with a Spyderco sharpmaker set on a 40 degree or 20 degree either side. Using the white rods and topping up the edge does work quite well but the thin 30 degree edge from the grind can roll too easy for me. This is true of Infi and any other steel...too thin is too thin.

Maybe HD can comment if he has done a test on edge types....

For me I prefer the convex edge on my RMD or my Hattori Cowry X knife to my Scandi edges on my Alan Wood or Mick Wardell bushcrafters....once profiled well this seems to last a lot longer in the field....particularly on "rowling tasks" with the tip...or splitting bone on animal food preperation...

If you bring the true Scandi grind down to a 20 degree angle the blade looks "wrong" and you have little clearance before you hit the flat sides...which does'nt make for easy slicing.

Plus on a top up basis...for a convex edge it is as easy to carry leather treated with stropping compound and use this pulled tight over your thigh or over a survival tin as it is to top up with ceramic rods.

The only difference is the issue of restoring an edge....carrying grit paper and a mouse mat set up is a very temporary system...the paper does'nt last that long...but a leather strop can convex a primary and secondary flat grind so you can recreate a convex edge...it just takes a good bit longer....but I expect a convex edge will much more readily withstand abuse so recreating one should not be needed. It never has been for me.