I know, it can be useful. It has been useful to me. But sometimes, if I’m looking up something on the regular Google homepage (not the Image Search), and it’s something like a gross medical condition or something equally gory/disturbing, and I have carefully turned off the “Load images automatically” feature on Firefox, Google still manages to show me a bunch of upsetting pictures on its search result page.
Google, I don’t know how you do that, but please, for the love of whoever is up there, stop it.
+2. I live in a quiet house, with a quiet husband and a (mostly) quiet cat - going out in public to all the blahblahblah and noise can really rub me the wrong way some days.
Or they can just drink the magnificently pure, clean water that comes out of our taps for fractions of a cent per litre.
When my allergies are bad, my eyes get crusted when I sleep. Maybe that’s what happened?
The horses are gone from our AZ place. The evacuation order has been lifted and my friends and their live stock were allowed to go home. They cleaned up everything, Tony went to inspect and said that he could still smell the toilet cleaner.
Had it been me, I would have moved back home and then come back to clean after a good nights sleep in my own bed. I guess my friends are more considerate than I am.
Last night, I learned about hard wired smoke detectors. And that if the battery goes out, it will give out a shrill, teeth clenching beep about every 30 seconds until the strange noise is tracked down and then the triple A batteries are replaced.
Why the heck would a smoke detector that is connected to house power need a battery and why do they need weird sized batteries that we don’t have at 3 AM?
Additional ranting about it being a smoke detector on the ground floor, if it had failed on the 2nd floor, we could have just shut the doors and gone back to sleep, but NOOOO it had to be the one in his office. He’s got so much electronic stuff in there that it took us forever to figure out what was beeping and shutting the doors didn’t work.
Not to mention that poor Bill couldn’t find triple A batteries at the c-store so had to go to a grocery store. At 3 am.
(Bill didn’t know. He bought our home 7 years ago, and this is the first time he even knew the smoke detectors had batteries. Yeah, he bought enough weird sized batteries to replace them in all the detectors, but we aren’t going to remember when they fail in 7+ years)
For the same reason that clock radios have a battery backup: because house power can fail.
One of our former posters was a volunteer firefighter as well as a general contractor and licensed electrician and plumber. He told me that non-house-wired smoke detector batteries should be replaced every 6 months (standard fire dept. rules), but that wired ones should be safe to replace once a year. As long as you’ve got the batteries, you might as well replace the rest of them. If it hasn’t been done in 7 years, I predict the others are going to start failing soon, too.
I hate pretty much everything right about now. It’s all probably due to the fact that my period has decided that it needs to come every two weeks so I dont forget about it, or something, but arrrgh. Im cranky.
OK, that makes sense. It sure didn’t at 3 in the morning. Thank you, I just put a yearly reminder in our shared outlook calendar to remind us to change batteries on a yearly basis. I think we replaced the batteries in all of them now, but we have honestly never noticed them before.
No advice, but can I offer you some chocolate and sympathy?
I do not understand people who think that the only clean water is bottled. I drink bottled water too, but my bottles are reused and refilled from the tap. Bottled water is pretty much just tap water from somewhere else, anyway.
flatlined, A sugestion for sleeping bliss: replace ALL of the batteries at once, with the long-life Lithium ones. The batteries are there as a backup in case you have a problem when the power goes out. AAA batteries are becomming the norm now that they are designing things to eat less power. I remember the bad old days when C and D cells were the norm.
Sometimes it gets hot out. Sometimes it doesn’t. In either case, I wear socks and shoes to work. What makes you think that every time the thermometer rises above 70 that I want to see your varicose veins, cellulite, and gross-ass bare feet? You drive from an air conditioned house in an air conditioned car to an air conditioned office building. So call me crazy, but I see no need for you to dress like you’re going to the beach while all the men dress as they would in the winter.
So guess what girls? Cellulite doesn’t disappear when it gets warm out. Painted toenails do not camoflage varicose veins. Either suck it up and put some pantyhose on or wear pants to work.
