It’s also International Women’s Day
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It’s also International Women’s Day
I dread tomorrow. The second Tuesday in March and the first Sunday in November make me wish I lived in Arizona or Hawaii but only because I have too many watches and clocks to reset. Yes, I have a few "radio controlled" clocks and clocks on every level of the home that are synchronized to my GPS-based time server that reset themselves but still...............
Mitchell-DIY-Guy
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You have way too many clocks if this is a 2x a year dreaded problem.
Who was it that once said, "A man with more than one watch never really knows what time it is"?
Ludington
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After retiring, you don't even know what day it is...
My wife changes all of our clocks. And she has them everywhere..
My wife changes all of our clocks. And she has them everywhere..
Mitchell-DIY-Guy
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Then, I guess it’s her problem and not yours! Haha.
I know of two clocks that we need to change… and the microwave but that’s it. Everything else is self resetting…
Curiously, my wife’s bedside clock radio is self resetting, but it doesn’t ever reset on the correct date. I think it’s a throwback to when daylight savings time started later and ended earlier or something.
She’s a keeper! Buy her some flowers!
Ludington
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She is definatly a keeper... 46 years now.
And flowers are a good idea, I havnt bought her any in a while.
I long for the days of the $39.95 Earl Scheib paint job excluding any Bondo work.
Ludington
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But then you would be making $ 1.75 / hr too.
Point taken. But it was a kinder, gentler time.
Ludington
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I certainly agree with that. Now, everyday there is shootings on the news.
I thought I was pretty safe in a small town. But I'm to near a big town (charlotte NC) and it's crazy there. It's rolling outward.
We have shootings and killings daily. Shoot outs at gas stations and drive by shoot your house and car up shootings.
It’s mostly black on black crime and the actors know each other. Typically domestic related, gang related or drug related or a combination of the three.
Ludington
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Still pretty scarey out there...
I bought flowers for my other half just yesterday. It is the simple things that keep them wanting to stay. Before this one, I usually just gave them houses after my divorces were finalized. Flowers are much cheaper!
Ludington
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I usually just get 1 carnation... lasts a long time and a lot cheaper than a rose that dies in 3 days.
Mitchell-DIY-Guy
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It STARTED as cleaning the down tube and P-trap at dad’s house. Drain was way too slow.
I started unscrewing the pieces. The zinc nut on one side of the trap crumbled in my hand. As I tried to unscrew the down tube from the sink, it just broke in my hand, the threaded parts remaining in the drain stopper. I realized now, nothing was salvageable. The output tube from the P-trap was missing its “gasket” end, all corroded away. The far end was soldered into the 1.5” copper stub out! I was planning on de-soldering the pipe out, but alas it wasn’t necessary; about the only thing holding it together was the chrome plating. I wrenched out what I could, cut and filed the rest. Bought a lot of pieces at Lowes to put it back together. The only thing they had at Lowes that would join the copper and PVC was a Fernco!
I started unscrewing the pieces. The zinc nut on one side of the trap crumbled in my hand. As I tried to unscrew the down tube from the sink, it just broke in my hand, the threaded parts remaining in the drain stopper. I realized now, nothing was salvageable. The output tube from the P-trap was missing its “gasket” end, all corroded away. The far end was soldered into the 1.5” copper stub out! I was planning on de-soldering the pipe out, but alas it wasn’t necessary; about the only thing holding it together was the chrome plating. I wrenched out what I could, cut and filed the rest. Bought a lot of pieces at Lowes to put it back together. The only thing they had at Lowes that would join the copper and PVC was a Fernco!
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Maybe its because I grew up in a rural area where flowers grow naturally, but I've never understood the desire to cut the flowers and essentially kill them to give them as a gift. well, more the desire to receive them is what boggles me. Ones that can be planted or something would be neat, but flowers are overrated, IMO. Now, dark chocolate is another matter. Or power tools. One can never have enough power tools.
Exhausted myself yesterday cleaning up the area around and on Mom's desk to try to reduce the number of roaches and have a clean spot for her new minipc. Spent hours and filled a 55 gallon trash bag with junk from the floor and on her desk. I had to move her chair out of the way and ended up making a bigger mess by knocking stuff down. I policed up the cords and got rid of ones that are no longer connected. Moved the remaining cords so they wouldn't get caught on her feet under the desk. Swept, vacuumed, sprayed Zevo to try to kill roaches. Took the monitor off of the riser thingy it sits on and set it aside after cleaning it. Did the same with the riser. Vacuumed, wiped things down with disinfectant wipes, sprayed Zevo all over, misted with diluted peppermint oil. Got the chair back in place but knocked a bunch of stuff down again. I can't lift it as high as I need to. Unboxed the minipc and filled unused ports with silicone plugs, taped dust screen over all the other openings/vents. Rubbed zevo on it and its power brick. Plugged everything in and made sure it turned on. Then I got Mom to come see it. She went through the setting up process and messed up a little and didn't finish it before she went back to bed. So I had to finish setting it up this morning and then had to troubleshoot internet issues. Had to reboot the pc multiple times, reset IP, flush dns, turned off ipv6, & eventually had to reboot the modem to get it to work. Then I got it to retrieve her saved passwords. The day before my friend took the m.2 ssd from her old computer and put it in the new one. Oh, and I got a desk organizer to hold it. Had to clear space to set it up. It's running and I haven't heard any sound from it, but my hearing isn't the best.
It's a cute little thing.
Took Mom for her appointment with the diabetes specialist. She was going to show Mom how to use the Dexcom G7 thing but the sensor was either defective or tampered with and would not deploy. She suggested informing the company that sent it that it was a bad sensor and we needed a free replacement. Dude called me while I was loading groceries and wouldn't take a hint that I was busy even after I asked him to just text or email me since I was in the middle of loading groceries and needed both hands. He finally caught on and said he'd text me. But they want me to call their tech support team about it and likely have them blow me off instead of replacing the sensor. But we'll see. The diabetes specialist said she'd never had a sensor fail to deploy before.
Exhausted myself yesterday cleaning up the area around and on Mom's desk to try to reduce the number of roaches and have a clean spot for her new minipc. Spent hours and filled a 55 gallon trash bag with junk from the floor and on her desk. I had to move her chair out of the way and ended up making a bigger mess by knocking stuff down. I policed up the cords and got rid of ones that are no longer connected. Moved the remaining cords so they wouldn't get caught on her feet under the desk. Swept, vacuumed, sprayed Zevo to try to kill roaches. Took the monitor off of the riser thingy it sits on and set it aside after cleaning it. Did the same with the riser. Vacuumed, wiped things down with disinfectant wipes, sprayed Zevo all over, misted with diluted peppermint oil. Got the chair back in place but knocked a bunch of stuff down again. I can't lift it as high as I need to. Unboxed the minipc and filled unused ports with silicone plugs, taped dust screen over all the other openings/vents. Rubbed zevo on it and its power brick. Plugged everything in and made sure it turned on. Then I got Mom to come see it. She went through the setting up process and messed up a little and didn't finish it before she went back to bed. So I had to finish setting it up this morning and then had to troubleshoot internet issues. Had to reboot the pc multiple times, reset IP, flush dns, turned off ipv6, & eventually had to reboot the modem to get it to work. Then I got it to retrieve her saved passwords. The day before my friend took the m.2 ssd from her old computer and put it in the new one. Oh, and I got a desk organizer to hold it. Had to clear space to set it up. It's running and I haven't heard any sound from it, but my hearing isn't the best.
It's a cute little thing.
Took Mom for her appointment with the diabetes specialist. She was going to show Mom how to use the Dexcom G7 thing but the sensor was either defective or tampered with and would not deploy. She suggested informing the company that sent it that it was a bad sensor and we needed a free replacement. Dude called me while I was loading groceries and wouldn't take a hint that I was busy even after I asked him to just text or email me since I was in the middle of loading groceries and needed both hands. He finally caught on and said he'd text me. But they want me to call their tech support team about it and likely have them blow me off instead of replacing the sensor. But we'll see. The diabetes specialist said she'd never had a sensor fail to deploy before.
@Zanne, I grieve for your plight regarding la cucaracha......... We found what we thought was a single Periplaneta americana and tore the entire kitchen apart to find where it came from. Turns out that our next-door neighbors who emigrated from Florida admitted they brought a few stowaways in their belongings when moving north.
