Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 53 Amurrkin out and foggy (dark) with a predicted high of 76 and partly N.O.S. for the day, whatever that means. Today is laundry day and I have a meetin’ over to the church house at one-thirty this p. of m. This is a meetin’ of EYP, the Senior Warden and myself to set the agenda for next Moanday’s Vestry meetin’. Hopefully it will not last long. We shall sup upon boxed lasagna (don’t judge!), sallit, and cheesey garlic bread.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy demands sustenance. Then, onward into the day. Rah.
It’s a not so bad 43 degrees outside. Supposed to be cloudy with a high of 61.
Today is doggie toe nail trimming, ear cleaning day. I did his ears last night, but his toenails need it badly since we didn’t get to them last week. It’s so much easier if we to keep to a schedule.
Now that it is warm outside the cat is back to his normal rude self. Comes in to eat and right back out. I didn’t even get a chirp from him.
He swiped his pill pocket to the floor, I’m glad the dog was outside. So I countered by taking away his food until he ate his pill. He hates soft treats, I wonder if I left the pill pocket out to harden if he would like it better.
TB, sorry about the cash loss, but glad they recovered the bag and nothing else was missing. Will Japan Rail send it to you, or do you have to pay shipping costs?
Wet one, well, I guess if the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse show up, it could get worse, but yeah, an ice storm is not a good thing. Stay safe.
swampy, so you have a meeting to set up an agenda for another meeting? You folks are organized.
BLTC (what is your MMP name?), took them that long to start? When I did my bathrooms and kitchen last year it was started within a couple of weeks of my signing the contract. And ruble, you think that cannon of yours could be used to clear snowbanks?
Up about 7am and just waiting for the lawn mower place to open so I can drive down there (and pay my water bill on the way) and reclaim my mower. That’s the major chore for the day. Supposed to get close to 70F this afternoon so I may mosey outside and see what else is going on. Or not.
Since it’s going to be warm here I may try to do a little yard work.
Mostly picking up sticks, there are always sticks.
It’s hard to do yard work though when somebody is trying to take my shoes the whole time.
Does controlled mean you decide when to push the plunger or how much boom material?
:eek: I thought meetings to plan for meetings ended when one got new tires.
Walter White
Well, if you buckle them first it’ll make it harder to steal them. I suggest you buckle your shoes, shut the door, then pick up sticks, in that order…& after you pick them up, don’t forget to lay them straight.
About 30 years ago my wife and I bought our first house. It was brand new and we were quite excited. Oddly enough, considering my prior post, I was installing garage door openers when my screwdriver slipped and touched both wires, instantly tripping the breaker (or so I thought) and cutting out all the lights. I went to the breaker box, but nothing was tripped. Checked the wires with a multi-meter - yep. no power. I spent about an hour tracing the wiring from the garage to the box, still couldn’t find the issue. About that time my wife called down from upstairs “My hairdryer won’t work!”. Great, another electrical issue in our brand new house. I stopped what I was doing, trudged upstairs and, sure enough, the hair dryer wouldn’t come on. Then I noticed 2 odd little buttons on her bathroom outlet. One read “Test”, the other “Reset”. I pushed the one labeled “Reset” (my approach to solving most things - push buttons until it does what you want) and the hair dryer sprung to life. I went down to the garage and, lo and behold, the lights were on. And that, chilluns, is how I learned about GFCI outlets. To this day I have no idea why the builder thought it prudent to have the master bath and garage on the same circuit, but thanks to my lovely bride’s wet hair emergency it all worked out.
And dang near 80F on Thursday! I loves me some southern winters. It gets cold for a spell, then a warm break.
I can’t buckle shoes that have no buckle. Do shoes even come with buckles anymore?
I will shut the storm door, but I won’t shut the interior door because that is the signal that I am outside. If I close that door and my son walks by and sees it unlocked, he will probably lock it, thus locking me out of the house.
In this house we operate on signals, open door means I’m outside. TV off, Living room light off, hall light on means I’ve gone to bed. I’d turn the hall light off when I go to bed except the switch is at the other end of the hall. If I wake up and the hall light is off then that means my son is up.
If his bedroom door is closed with the light on then I know he is in there. If his door is partially open I know he is upstairs.
Anyway, if I close the door behind me he won’t think to look outside to see if I am out there, he will think I forgot to lock the door and lock it.
And of course I will lay the sticks straight, you can’t have sticks laying about all willy-nilly jutting out in all directions trying to trip somebody.
You’re talking to the person who lines her cans up in the cabinet with all labels facing forward, and who folds her clothes to Marie Kondo’s specifications and lines them up neatly in the drawer. Even my undies get folded into little packets and filed neatly in the drawer.
In theory it would be no issue; in practice I can think of several different methods to deploy — I MEAN TRY using it. Which begs the questions: will we get enough snow to build good banks and can I talk the neighbors across the alley into piling snow against my garage door just so I can try a couple different techniques since they will basically be staring down the muzzle?
Yes. That is where I got lucky finding the Old Wench. She only objects when its uncontrolled explosions inside the house.
(And I don’t care what Mythbusters says; you can accidentally blow up a vacuum cleaner with black powder. I know because I did it. :smack: )
Sari You can get buckle shoes… if you’re a little girl. My daughter has some Mary Janes that have buckles.
The knee is a little sore today, but nothing I’m going to file a workers comp claim for or anything. More bummed that the notepad I had been writing on got wet and some of the writing is smudged.
It’s back to being freaking cold here and the stuff that melted the last couple days has turned to ice. My side walk was almost all ice this morning, since the snowbanks on both sides of it were melting the last couple days. Tossed some salt on it this morning before work. We’ll see how that goes.
21° when I left the house at 05:25 this morning. I saw 16° to 18° going from Whatcom County to Skagit County, but mostly it was 21° for the trip to Seattle. It’s in the upper-20s down here. But the heater in the office seems to not be heating. It’s 49°F in here. I’m still wearing my sheepskin RAF ‘Irvin’ jacket.
I did press both buttons on the outlet, but apparently I didn’t press them hard enough. Neither one was popped out or anything. The electrician said sometimes you need to get a large screwdriver to push them all the way.
I thinks we had the same builder, but mine went one further. I have 2½ baths & the garage all on the same circuit. I wouldn’t want to try a couple wimen trying dry their hair at the same time. :smack:
However, I know that iffn I come home & can’t get the garage door to go up after repeated presses that the thing to do is go upstairs to the hall bathroom & press <Reset> on the GFCI outlet. There are times where I’ve had to do that & can’t figger out how it got tripped in the first place.
GFCI shuts down if the current in both wires don’t match. That means CP is touching one leg and standing in saltwater next to the aquarium, so it shuts off. The outlet also turns off power to devices that are wired after it. The door is apparently connected to the same circuit as the GFCI and downstream from it. GFCIs are often used in bathrooms and aquarium rooms.
GFCIs are used around water - kitchen, laundry room, workshop with a sink…
The wiring in our house is kinda weird, tho not as bad as it was. We had an electrician replace our circuit box with a larger one so all circuits have their own wires (WHEW!!) Now we just need to figure out what’s on each circuit, or we can wait till one blows, then label it when we reset it…
No, I mean it worked when I left the house, no one has taken a shower between when I left & came home, at most used the toilet & washed their hands. Outlets are all on the wall, about 1’ above the level of the sink, & on the opposite side from where towels are. IOW, I don’t know how anything wet got to near the outlet to trip it.
The GFCI outlet also protects outlets that are connected to it.
Electric connection==Living==dining==GFCI==kitchen==garage
The GFCI will not trip for the living or dining room, but will trip for the kitchen or garage.
I don’t have a clue how the outlets are wired in my house.
