On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:17:00 -0500, Al Bundy
wrote:


Remember those things when you (me anyway) were a kid where you wrote on
the film over the silver/grey backing? You pulled the film up and it
erased the writing for a clean slate. Can't remember what it was called.

I had that and I liked it. I don't remember the name.

Some old memory bubbles have popped out saying Magic Slate" maybe. I think
I used a Magic Marker on it eventually. Figured they were both magic and I
wanted to see magically how this marker that won't come off anything came
off my Magic Slate. "Waaaaaahhhhh! Mommy, my Magic Slate is broke.
Wahhhhhhh!".

LOL.

We didn't have Magic Markers when I was that age. I don't think
anyone did.

So mom tries to fix it by using fingernail polish remover and the film
melts big time.

Guess mom didn't "Know your solvents vs plastics:" and check the the MDS
sheet first, ehhh Richard :-)

Definitely, mom didn't know that chart.


Just duct tape one of those to the can and change at will at the station.

Great idea. I should have though of that. ...

So I decided I should fill the other container too, but I only
labelled one. The guy didn't care at all and he filled both of them.

I ended up at a tool rental place. They sell the kerosene for
heaters, and it was 2.89 a gallon from a big tank. And they'll sell
as little as the customer wants.

Not 7 dollars a gallon in a pretty plastic bottle.

But it turns our there aren't many places around that sell it. Later
I thought I shoudl have gone to my favorite hardware store, and I was
there today and they don't sell it. The closest place he could think
of was 15 or 20 miles from here, almost in Pennsylvania. So I wasn't
a fool for not knowing where to go.

Years ago, I bought a quart can, just to spur the wood fire in the
fireplace (using an iron pan with a porous brick in it.) No one seems
to sell the quart can anymore, but I also refilled that, again.