Eventually everything will 'sync'.

I remember before leaving the Forest Industry (I ended up the Fire Marshal and weekend Camp foreman), we quit buying Caterpillar Tractors due to the non-metric thing. None of ever thought we'd see that day, we had about 30 Cats from D7's to D9's.

Bought Kubotas.....

And they sold wheeled skidders and we replaced them with Swedish ones. The Swedes had nice calendars...LOL...right short shorts and a bikini top on a machine in the bush with our skeeters and flies...LOL.

I worked for the last Canadian Fire Department that did not go metric. We took a terrible time over that...from others. Worked for us.

I stumbled across an apartment fire, 3rd floor, ladder to the balcony. A former friend of mine was the captain and the engineer yells I don't know what to pump at...he says "ask the bald guy with the beard..." I yell 225 psi at your 3rd guage. Guy fires it up, I step on the hose and say, 'back of 10 psi.' Got a call 2 days later, John the Italian captain says, "those kids were really impressed..." Now if they changed to metric I'd just stand on the hose and guess.....

All my garden stuff is quick connect. The faucet going out of the house has an 8 inch stem to keep the valve well inside the house, otherwise it would freeze. That's like our fire hydrants, 8 foot stem to the main....or they'd freeze too....

It's +1 today, HEAT WAVE! I love it, except it's damp and makes my arthritis scream.

1 million Canucks this year are going to Cuba on vacation. I did last year, might go to Ecuador this year, not sure yet. For 1400 CDN $ or about 1250 US I can fly return to Aussie to one city on a pass and take in three more before heading home. Sounds like a good deal but my feet swell if I leave them down longer than 7 hours. The last long bus trip I took I couldn't wear my shoes the 2nd day....

Hope you sort this out. Ain't culture wonderful!?

John Conley
Musica est vita