Handwarmers S04E05: Using tweezers to inject platinum catalyst into springs
Channel: Mountain Parameters
Date: 2020-01-12

'She Who Must Be Obeyed's' eyebrows are not only important to her diaphanous persona, when they get raised, it is a critical early warning signal that there is a threat on the horizon, and I should imminently seek shelter. (She missed being a Millenial by one year, whereas I'm a Baby Boomer). Therefore my comfortable existence was under threat when the weight of a body of circumstantial evidence started to implicate a certain malfeasance with respect to her tweezers on my part. 

I was using her tweezers on my work bench. They seemed to work better than needle nose pliers or forceps for placing platinum catalyst into springs, so I would use them surreptitiously when she was at work, then put them back into her restricted zone of cryptic weaponry. She was none the wiser, until one fateful day when she did something she rarely does. If you're thinking, "She came home early and caught him", you'd be wrong. With Arduino sensors everywhere, I'm too smart for that. How was I to anticipate she might fuel our vehicle up? And how was I to anticipate that the fumes would react with the nascent catalyst that had been transferred to her eyebrows, and start an exothermic reaction? Although the gas station in question was a self serve, my membership in a demographic characterized by people of a certain age that like to react to Millennial's by shouting, "do you know who I am!", was no advantage when my I realized my clandestine activities had been exposed withal. SWMBO (who co-ordinates a team on a daily basis), gave me a lecture on the responsibilities of 'Stewardship' (which I had to go look up on Wikipedia*), and placed me on probation. The new tweezers that have been given substance in this video are the end result of subsequent research, grovelling, and my ongoing desire to actively engage in the practice of 'Handwarmer Stewardship' (and not shouting at Millennial's).

* Wikipedia says, "Stewardship is an ethic that embodies the responsible planning and management of resources. The concepts of stewardship can be applied to the environment and nature, economics, health, property, information, theology, etc."

Timeline:
00:00 Trimming catalyst pad
00:50 Spring
01:00 best tweezers for task
01:20 injecting catalyst material into spring
02:20 magnified view of the above process
03:10 beauty tips on plucking your eyebrows
03:40 sigh, a longing look at the way things used to be...
03:50 end roll: credits/disclaimer

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