Blurf!
Thank you Mr. Sunbeam for the early wake up call. I can’t wait to get home to safety & QWERTY keyboards (which means out of this hotel). More details to come (probably tomorrow) once I’m home.
Hijacks away…
First! Back with more immaturity in a few.
Why is Spidey barking? Wouldn’t that be Poodleman, terror of unruly curls everywhere?
Wie gehts?
Blurf. I got nuthin.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffienatin’. YAWN Ok, was caffienatin’ when I made the first post but this is a real post. ‘Tis a chilly 48 degrees Amurrkin out with a predicted high of only 67! Tonight’s low is predicted to be :eek:38:eek:. Of course by midweek highs will be in the 80s and goin’ up.
Know what? I has an irk holiday today! I did not even think about it until this mornin’. I forget that I get some of those weird state holidays bein’ as I have never had ‘em before. Today is, get this, Confederate Memorial Day. So, why don’t you go back to bed you may ask. Well, I’m up and I need to get the oil changed in twuck so I’ll be there when they open at seven-thirty a.m. so I can get that done. After that Ima throw a beast roast in the slow cooker with veggies to make a pot roast and do some yahd irk. I need to do some weedin’ and if’n its gonna be this cool, ‘tis a good time to be out doin’ it right?
Now I need some more caffiene and brekkie for rumbly tummy. Then I shall purtify a bit so as to be publicly presentable.
Happy Monday Y’all!
Blurf.
Twins with serious nighttime congestion is twice the fun.
I am low on sleep.
They are cute, though.
Anyone want to come and clean my house for me?
So are cats, right up to the time they disembowel you.
My phone interview is today. Hopefully I’ll score an on campus interview!
Last night I dreamt I forgot how to use the phone. :smack:
Warum ist der springenwerken kaput?
IME, that’s not really a whoosh, based on rear-world experiences I’ve had with engineers. In their field, they’re so smart they glow in the dark, but send them to the store for garden fertilizer or if they attempt automotive repairs, stand back and take cover.
Any relay where I can see the contacts is automatically suspicious for having crud or dead bugs mashed in there. Hopefully,it’s just a bad relay or pressure switch,or even just the wiring, rather than the expensive thing down at the bottom of the well pipe.
Meanwhile, waking up with normal coffee that I made. The weather is broken - they were giving wind chill temperatures on the morning local news.
Not counting the poke to Moooooom’s ribs, in any electrical system ever devised, the weakest link is always any device that relies on contact to complete a circuit. Relay and switch contacts get dirty, corrode, and erode, and cable connectors get dirty. The close second weakest link is the cabling, especially when it has to flex.
The snark directed at Moooooooom was a reaction to her lament on having to dig a new well. I really, really doubt that will be necessary, but she may have to cough up high end $$$ depending on where the problem really is (bottom of the well?). If it’s at the pressure tank, that’s a DIY job.
A submersible pump hanging on a pipe, chain or plastic rope or a failed foot valve.
My money is still on the pressure switch.
(Looks over at sleeping baby, checks for razor-sharp claws)
They haven’t grown in yet. That’s a relief.
I note a lack of housecleaning volunteers. If we still had the cats I’d tie dusters to them and get Gnat to chase them around, but since they vamoosed last spring I may have to do it myself. Sigh.
Blurf. Yeah, whatever. Assorted Monday noises.
My iPod is blaring Ravell’s Bolero at me, so I should be awake by the final crescendo.
Carry on.
Ich bin sehr müde!! And it’s my own dumb fault. Years ago, I realized that if I have caffeine any time after noon-ish, I’d have trouble falling asleep. Naturally, last night at dinner, I was cold, so I had 2 - count 'em: TWO - cups of hot tea. Round about midnight when I was still tossing and turning, I figured out why, so I left my poor sweetie to try to get uninterrupted rest and planted myself in front of the TV.
I had a movie in my instant queue on Netflix that I decided to watch - Drowning Mona. How could a movie with Danny DeVito, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Bette Midler suck so bad?? The funniest part was that virtually everyone in the movie drove a Yugo! But it did kinda help me unwind, altho I still lay awake in bed till almost 2:30. And with **FCD **getting up at 5, well, you do the math.
I slept a couple more hours after he went to work, but if I hadn’t gotten up, I risked getting stuck with my days and nights reversed. So I’m up.
Regarding the stupid water issue, I think we’re more or less agreed that the problem is the pressure sensor part of the relay/pressure switch. We can make the relay connect/disconnect and the pump will run, but it won’t always do these things on its own. That tells me the pressure switch is hanging up.
And I know you’re just giving me crap about my mechanical engineering spousal unit trying to deal with an electrical device, but like me, he was trained in electronics in the Navy, and in his career in industry as well as at NASA and his current gig, he does a lot of electro-mechanical design. He knows how relays work - he figures out a lot of stuff by just looking at how a system is put together. I think you’d be impressed if you saw the filtration set-up he designed, built, and programmed for our aquarium - he may have his brain farts, but he’s quite sharp, and unlike some engineers, when presented with an opposing view, he actually listens and considers it.
I, on the other hand, have all the answers, so don’t cross me!! 
**LiLi **- I know young mothers get far too much unsolicited and unwelcome advice, but I saw this with love - your sons are in danger of becoming hard-core slackers if you don’t put their little asses to work! If they’re old enough to drag a blankie around the living room, they’re old enough to dust. If you don’t set up and enforce the rules early on, they’re liable to hang around till they’re teenagers, eating you out of house and home. Believe me, you don’t want that. So for your own sanity, sit them down and lay down the law! After all, you know the only reason we have kids is so we have someone to support us in our dotage!!!
OK, that’s out of my system. And a bowl of cheerios is in my system. It’s chilly (41°) and dreary and wet and icky outside. I do need to run the vacuum, and it might be a good idea to mop the kitchen floor. I need to run into Leonardtown later and get **FCD **some of his favorite wine, but other than that, I have neither motivation nor plans. I foresee a day of suck.
Happy Monday. blergh
Kommst du mit in der bibliotek?
That’s the extent of the high school German I’ve retained.
Ok, by a show of hands, everyone who isn’t at work today because they “just don’t feel like it”
Looking at you CatWife…
:dubious:
I feel like a semi full of blurf backed up at my house and unloaded its cargo all over me. Ugh.
German 1300.
A dog is a “growlin-scratchin-pantn-sniffer”.
Dogcatcher: “Growlin-scratchin-patntn-sniffer-snatcher”
The Property Formerly Known As The VunderLair had a surface pump. It was also about 8 feet over the water table. I know where Mooooooom lives, and given the geology, 40 feet is a conservative depth guesstimate, so yeah, she’d have a submersible pump.
I’ve seen FCD’s aquarium system in person, and it is rather impressive. My comment was he needed to add a Jacob’s Ladder to the setup so it would fit in a mad scientist’s lab.
I am so stealing that line, and you can’t stop me.