Well, it is now official.....from start (puff of gun smoke),

 ...to finish (My war cry and finish line fist pump were weak due to having NOTHING left at the finish) . Thanks Cheryl, Bubba, Stash, and Brandon for the video and still photography.

I just received the certificate for the World Record!!  Thanks again to all the friends and family that made it happen. Especially my new adopted family at Camp Eyabsut.

Now, what will all you Firefighters do with this challenge? Let's break it!!!! For crying out loud a sub eight miler has to be out there in a station gym or a cross fit warehouse. C'mon a short four laps round a track! Ya gunna let a forty-five year old show up all you twenty and thirty something tower climbers??? It's easier than a Warrior Dash, and WAY shorter.

Tony

TO MUCH HOMEWORK!!

Today, Jonathan my eldest son, was complaining about the amount of homework he's responsible for. My questioning response was, "How much, a Butt load?" he said, "At least that much."

Well, get a load of this...

There is an exact unit of volume called the butt.

See Webster's dictionary:
Butt: a measure of liquid capacity equal to 126 gallons or two hogs heads.

From another dictionary:

An English butt is 2 hogshead of 54 imperial gallons each or ~129.7 US gallons (i.e., a UK butt is apparently slightly bigger than a US one).


A Spanish butt is based on a wine cask and is equivalent to 140 US gallons or ~116.6 UK gallons (i.e., a Spanish butt is bigger still).

So next time someone says they have a "butt load" of stuff, just remember, that is about two 55-gallon barrels worth of stuff.

To recap...

1 butt equals:

• 2 hogsheads (this is probably the easiest to remember for social occasions)
• 476.961 liters
• 126 gallons
• 104.917 UK gallons
• 13.5347 bushels
• 0.131592 cords
• 11.6574 firkins
• 4032 gills
• 21504 ponys
• 4032 noggins
• 1008 pints
• 96768 teaspoons
• 12.0308 ephahs
• 1.58987x10^7 drops
• 10752 jiggers
• 16128 shots
• 629.504 wine bottles
• 630 fifths

And the punchline...

One microbutt = 0.0968 teaspoons.

 

Other fun, interesting and old world measurements can be found at:

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/

http://phrontistery.info/unit.html

Unfortunatly he was using the incorect unit as a butt measures volume of a liquid, duh.  He has since been corrected and redirected to words such as....

ream (rm) (1)

a traditional unit of quantity used for counting sheets of paper. The word is thought to be derived from the Arabic rizmah, meaning a bundle. A ream is equal to 20 quires, which would be 480 sheets with the traditional definition of a quire as 24 sheets. In recent years, however, the ream has been redefined to equal 500 sheets. (Working backwards, this changes the definition of a quire from 24 to 25 sheets.) The new definition reflects the current practice of marketing many kinds of paper in packages of 500 sheets. The older size of 480 sheets is now called a short ream.

Tony