What a relief !!
Kent

> It's not near as bad as you make it sound, Kent.  True, we buy plywood in 4 ft.
> x 8 ft. sheets.  But it's 9 mm thick.
>
> Colin
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> And you think you have problems ?
>
> I immigrated to Canada from Denmark. They are metric, right ?
>
> I buy a house by the square footage, no clue what the size is. I order PCBs in
> inches
> and design them in mils. Had to buy a new gauge and rulers to measure things.
> All my hex keys don't fit. I can't repair my old Pontiac. Tons of tools wasted.
> I sent my screw assortment - metric - over here. Had to buy new.
> When I order cable or hose or wood or copper tubing it is by the foot. I have
> no clue
> in my mind how much I need and have lots of extras already after 5 months here.
> My little son is 13 pounds and 22 9/16 inches according to the nurses.
> And then everything wooden is held together with these square hole head screws.
> Size 1,2,3,4,5 - I have to bring the whole (new) set of bits with me.
>
> Should feet be smarter than meters ? I have a calibrated one meter step, that I
> measure things with. Now I have to use baby steps. And when I measure cable I
> have to take my shoes off in the store to figure out the price as accurate as I
> can in
> meters stretching the cable across my chest.
>
> It gets even hairier:
> Then if you ask how far it is to Squamish you get "about 45 minutes, eh" and
> the
> directions are "take a left right here,eh".
>
> I once had a good eye measure. Now it is warped. My mind is tired.
>
> Kent
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