Actually AC ones should have a battery backup b/c they don’t do much good in an electrical fire.
Sorry for the hijack, Sari; perhaps we should get Flytwerp a cute, cuddly widdle puddy-tat.
That guy needs a better dental plan.
LUNCH TIME!!!
It’s been a busy and “fun” morning. Too bad I don’t drink - I could use a drink about now.
You go ahead and floss him.
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Well, what SHOULD be there is either wired with a ten-year non-replaceable backup battery or a non-wired, again with a ten-year non-replaceable battery, as required by California law for rentals. AFAIK, that currently only applies new or replaced detectors after a number of fatal fires where burnt smoke detectors were found with no batteries in them.
So far, I like my new landlord, but I’m not buying her eight of either kind of detector or getting them wired correctly.
How bizarre…my home office is in the front of the house and I’ve got the window open. What am I hearing from down the street? Chirp!.. What are the odds that a neighbor and I would have a smoke detector battery run down within 12 hours of each other? :eek:
Smoke alarms, in different homes, lose their battery voltage at the same time.
Little did Mister Words know, this smoke detector…is in the twilight zone.
It means it rhymed and fit the rhythm. 
I once asked one of my Abenaki friends about one of their traditional songs for gar fishing; just how the words translate. His response was “They don’t. Think of it as our version of koo-koo-ka-choo.”
Saw the Croaker and he said its healing slowly but well. I asked him for a second opinion and he said I was fat and ugly too. <rinshot>
Pictures or it didn’t -------------- ah, never mind. 
Maybe he was a Captain Beefheart fan and couldn’t get Trout Mask Replica to fit?
My Sportie is DRK RD for Dark Ride – amusement park slang for haunted attractions. I was taking my helmet off in a parking lot one day and some guy walking by said “You don’t look like you ever had red hair”. :smack:
FCM heard this one in person a few years ago. Our car is WVIEW PK for West View Park; a defunct amusement park that was special to my late BIL and the Old Wench. Twenty years back we were driving to a wedding near Herndon VA; back in the days when there were all these off shootings and road rage incidents around DC and the area. This car comes up behind us – ratty old thing with this dirty looking guy driving. All of a sudden he starts honking and trying to pull up on our right and then on the left and then back to the right ---- and I got the OW digging my speed-loaders out of the glove box. I have no idea what is going on but I figure it isn’t going to end well. Finally he gets beside us and yells out the window “I grew up in West View ---- I LOVED THAT PARK” and drives off. :smack:
But I will always love and remember when PA first authorized vanity plates. Some guy ordered one and got it ---------- only to have the State Police arrive in his driveway and confiscate it six months later. It seems as how someone figured out that MERDE was a dirty word in French. The owner, Mister Robert Merde, was not amused and sued. I don’t know what the final result was. :smack: :smack:
I’d do like I always did with my dog; toss him something tough and worthless to chew on. Now where would we find something like that?
Kansas?
Howdy Y’all! I accomplished yahd irk, got cleanded up, went to the sto’, came back to da cave, unloaded and put away groceries, and had a sammich. I am now in chill mode. Nappage to ensue.
Let’s see: predicted high of 99 degrees Amurkin. Blurf. Rain chance by Monday. I love rain!
I’ve been locked out of all of the office systems, so I can’t contact anyone. This is extremely annoying because I need to find out about my benefits and how the transition from short-term to long-term works. So I’ll be playing office email roulette today and trying to get lucky.
Other than that, I plan to hide inside with the A/C on. Yep, big day here.
That looks like my high school mascot. 
spidey, I would have read that car tag as Las Vegas family.
doggio, maybe it was the Mom voice. 
(I’ve been known to use that with some of the younger set at irk and even kids who are total strangers that are publicly misbehaving. )
gotti, it could be that the batteries were both replaced on DST time change day, as is suggested on the news.
It looks like I’ll be here all day doing month end stuff. Tomorrow, I get the oil changed in the car and staff the heathen booth at a local Pride festival. Sunday is for sloth.
Today the gravel and sand for the patio should be delivered. Tomorrow I have to call Home Depot at 7:01 a.m. in order to reserve the plate compactor for the day, because they don’t do advance reservations. I expect to have the gravel down tomorrow, and with help from the Roomies, the sand part done Sunday. Then I have the cover the whole mess up and wait for the pavers to be delivered next week.
How old are the homes? All built at the same time, say 10-11 years ago with materials from the same lot?
…& it’s (abbreviated) vacation time. Heading downashore now, have dinner, spend the night & leave in the morning. Not even sure I’ll make it to the water. 
blurf still waiting to see what kind of storm if any we will get. The maintenance men came around and took a tent down that is our back patio cover and made noises about us putting the trash cans inside. Come on 1800 and Tropical Storm.
So far my email roulettes are all failing. Why, it’s as if the HR department doesn’t want to hear from me! :eek:
-1 person on maternity leave
-2 Mailer failures
-1 Email box not read anymore
Spiffy, I say. Just spiffy.
Happy Firday!
Or not.
We let Red Robin make supper. Now we’re home in veg mode. Let the weekend begin!!!
I wanted Red Robin but I was overruled. Burger King had to suffice.
The sprog declared his candidacy for class treasurer. Apparently, no one else shares his taste for delicious irony. The election is next week at the class leadership retreat.
I really wish doctors’ offices would call me back. I’ve been taking the same mood stabilizer for the past ten years with no dosage adjustment. It’s no longer doing the trick, so it’s time to play Medication Roulette. So far, two large practices are not taking new patients at this time, and two haven’t called me back. :mad: I guess I know what I’m doing Monday morning.
Howdy Y’all! OYKW arrived and was properly “welcomed” home. Pizza got ingested. He had a soak in the tub and is now snoozin’ away. Due to nappage this afternoon I am not ready for sleepy time as of yet. All is well.