SuckWOW = not enough suck, or WOW so far...

Ok people, I'm tapping into your giant brains (and the brains of any dad's, grandpa's, nerds, welders, farm grrls, and other resourceful inventy types you forward this to :D ). I'm in the final stages of inventing the SuckWOW, but so far it's conspicuously lacking in WOW.

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The air conditions in my shop are way better than they were using the "crack a door and a window method". I no longer taste all the gross welding crap in the back of my throat all day, and, not to be too gross, but my Kleenex's are less black. But still.

I thought with the giant furnace fan encased in my work bench, and my inflow vent right at my work area, and what with the little vent slot I cut into the top-- the SuckWOW would be practically sucking my helmet off-- but no. There seems to be very little suction going in, even though there is plenty of air blowing out of the building. And when I'm welding and cutting you can still see fumes billowing up to the ceiling. Less, fumes, but, fumes = bad.

Tomorrow I'm going to seal up any possible air leaks around the bench. There are some places where there are gaps or holes in the steel sheathing etc, and I'm going to redesign the top so the vent "hole" is raised right up to the level of the bench top. Currently it's about 6 inches below the catwalk grating I use for my top and there's open space all around the perimeter (it's sitting on spacers).

Sorry this is so boring and techy. If anyone has any ideas I'd appreciate advice.

In other Sue news-- Today was SO awesome! I hope everyone got to go play outside for a while. I had my best run in a super long time at the mountain bike trail. Last weekend when I was over there I was running around and my dumb tibia was hurting, so I was kind of gimping along trying not to be a baby, but also not break it any more and all of a sudden I felt this thing clamp down on my leg-- just as I was thinking about it too! Needless to say I almost poo'd my pants, because there was this big dog "pretending" to bite me. He was just running around loose!

He was only kidding around because he didn't really exert any pressure, and then kind of grinned and romped around. He had some people way down the hill from me (walkers), but kind of ran around with me for most of the way. (I was more fun. He confided in me.) It was funny because I usually run in my kitty hat, so it kind of was like a dog chasing a person, dressed as a cat... I felt a little cartoony.

Anyway, my leg started to feel better as I went along, (which happens a lot-- endorphins) but I started thinking, "what if this is some kind of magical dog of healing?" Who knows? ???

Today's run was totally perfect. Great weather, ultimate trail conditions, friendly riders, easy running, my iPod was playing only good songs (foos, weezer, stripes, brad sucks, spoon, joan jett, beck). Just great. Now tomorrow I hope they're wrong about us getting a bunch of sucky freezing rain. Wreckage. Boo.

If they are wrong I'm going back for another helping. ~running high~

Help if you can with the SuckWOW. Thanks.