In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well, all missions for today well and thoroughly accomplished. 
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Quote:Congrats! You persevered despite the rain!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, all missions for today well and thoroughly accomplished.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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What's the word for turning a crisis into an opportunity?
That was my day today...
I didn't get to test my drain pipe fix like I was hoping to with the thunderstorms we were supposed to get because of the goddamned winds from hell this morning. They completely destroyed my yard, and they blew out one of my porch windows (now at least I know to keep the rest of them as spares and I'm glad I haven't had room to throw them out yet).
Got all the big stuff to the curb, but I'm going to be cleaning up sticks for hours this week before it's clean again...
The wind knocked the power out for about 6 hours too.
Started that fiasco with a nearly full sump well. So I figured out that I have at least a 30 gallon well because I used a large drinking glass to fill a 3 gallon bucket 9 times, and had to crab walk my happy ass back and forth to the toilet to dump it out.
Rain wasn't nearly as heavy as expected, fortunately, so in between I had to dump out another 9 to 12 gallons (I don't remember if I did another 3 or 4 trips down there before the power went back on). Had I known when the power was going to come back on, I didn't need to manually empty any more. I actually had to do a load of laundry and it wasn't until halfway through the rinse cycle that the pump went off again. (Only did the load because I wanted to test that the pump was still working).
Knowing that the well is 30 gallons, I'm now convinced that I was severely underestimating how much was being dumped right outside of my house every time the pump went off. I think we're looking at anywhere from 15 to 25 gallons or more of water that was being left right along the foundation of my house and right back into the well. That's probably why it was going off every 3 minutes during the heavy storms. I honestly can't wait for another big storm (that doesn't knock out the power) to see how well everything works now.
Also, when the power went back on, my computer didn't work. The CPU fan, which has sounded like it was about to break for at least a year, finally took a crap. The computer knew this and wouldn't boot beyond the BIOS and automatically shut down. I could tell the fan was trying upon boot though, so there was still some hope. (It's a very expensive proprietary fan to replace, and I also didn't want to wait 7 to 10 days for it to ship either).
I took this touchscreen unit apart, piece by piece, then pulled apart the fan casing. Using some 409, I cleaned everything out really good, and I used quite a bit of canned air to further clean it out and get the fan moving both ways.
No dice...
Got out my trusty 3-in-1 oil and worked it around a bit. Had to put out a newspaper and get the fan going a few times with a few PC bootups and it finally started loading windows.
I'm hoping I got all the residual oil out and it doesn't leak, but I was afraid to keep hard booting and turning it off before Windows loaded just to air out the fan.
Everything seems good now. Fan is quieter than it's been in a year... not making a peep in fact. The computer even seems to be running better than it had before.
All in all, not a bad day. Glad that it's over though.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Congrats! You persevered despite the rain!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, all missions for today well and thoroughly accomplished.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
Yes, I did.
Which was something. It was nasty out there today.
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If you're going to make up quotes in my name or change the context they were posted under I'll post that post here. Guess what you did with this one.
T 
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh goody! You just reset the "defamation" clock!
TRUMP and his cronies??? Like ... Ivanka got a job with Energoatom (Kiev's nuclear power plant operator) for $50,000/ month and Trump got a $500,000 "speakers fee"? You mean ... something fact-free, like that?
Don't you mean Biden, his son, and a gaggle of DNC cronies and operatives have been extorting Ukraine for a long time?
You're just to stupid and dishonest to post anything with factual content comrade sig.- TUGR
Quote:FIFY
Originally posted by THUGR: Stuff completely unrelated to Ukraine or to anything
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Everything done for today in the dry.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Size Football Stadium"
Shit, you could fit all the people who cost Clinton the election in one chair.
She was the one who ran such a lousy campaign it was that close over many, many states.
MEANWHILE, we still have the electoral college because GUESS WHAT!! it's written in the Constitution. Get over it ... unless you really like being anti-American.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
Even the Legacy Media is turning against Hillary.
I'm starting to have my doubts that she will be a late entry into the race. It's not good when the Clinton News Network is taking jabs at her over her comments on Tulsi.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/politics/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-
russia/index.html
This is just one of quite a few articles and videos from CNN on the topic. They've gone as far as to actually say the words "conspiracy theorist" when referring to Clinton here.
And as far as I can find, none of the other Democrat candidates still in the race agree with Clinton's tweet either. Sanders and Buttigieg have both come out defending Gabbard.
But, overall, the Democrats are scared. They know they have nothing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2
020.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=curQuote:
Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’
Party leaders who are fatalistic about Democrats’ chances in 2020 are musing about possible late entrants to the race. Sherrod Brown? Michelle Obama?
This has even given AOC the opportunity to make the tweet of her short political career:
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1186633016807964673Quote:
If ~2 years and 20+ candidates aren't enough for ya, I don't know what to tell you.
Priceless.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
T
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Quote:Holy fuck, SIX. What kind of windstorm did THAT???
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's the word for turning a crisis into an opportunity?
That was my day today...
I didn't get to test my drain pipe fix like I was hoping to with the thunderstorms we were supposed to get because of the goddamned winds from hell this morning. They completely destroyed my yard, and they blew out one of my porch windows (now at least I know to keep the rest of them as spares and I'm glad I haven't had room to throw them out yet).
Quote:Jeezus
Got all the big stuff to the curb, but I'm going to be cleaning up sticks for hours this week before it's clean again...
The wind knocked the power out for about 6 hours too.
Quote:I can see why you're so curious. If it was me, I'd be want to know too!
Started that fiasco with a nearly full sump well. So I figured out that I have at least a 30 gallon well because I used a large drinking glass to fill a 3 gallon bucket 9 times, and had to crab walk my happy ass back and forth to the toilet to dump it out.
Rain wasn't nearly as heavy as expected, fortunately, so in between I had to dump out another 9 to 12 gallons (I don't remember if I did another 3 or 4 trips down there before the power went back on). Had I known when the power was going to come back on, I didn't need to manually empty any more. I actually had to do a load of laundry and it wasn't until halfway through the rinse cycle that the pump went off again. (Only did the load because I wanted to test that the pump was still working).
Knowing that the well is 30 gallons, I'm now convinced that I was severely underestimating how much was being dumped right outside of my house every time the pump went off. I think we're looking at anywhere from 15 to 25 gallons or more of water that was being left right along the foundation of my house and right back into the well. That's probably why it was going off every 3 minutes during the heavy storms. I honestly can't wait for another big storm (that doesn't knock out the power) to see how well everything works now.
Quote:Do you have a lot of dust in your area? I would guess probably not because you get reguar rainfall, but in the process of cleaning did you see a lot of dust coming out of the heat sink? A clogged heat sink will kill anything, according to hubby.
Also, when the power went back on, my computer didn't work. The CPU fan, which has sounded like it was about to break for at least a year, finally took a crap. The computer knew this and wouldn't boot beyond the BIOS and automatically shut down. I could tell the fan was trying upon boot though, so there was still some hope. (It's a very expensive proprietary fan to replace, and I also didn't want to wait 7 to 10 days for it to ship either).
I took this touchscreen unit apart, piece by piece, then pulled apart the fan casing. Using some 409, I cleaned everything out really good, and I used quite a bit of canned air to further clean it out and get the fan moving both ways.
No dice...
Got out my trusty 3-in-1 oil and worked it around a bit. Had to put out a newspaper and get the fan going a few times with a few PC bootups and it finally started loading windows.
I'm hoping I got all the residual oil out and it doesn't leak, but I was afraid to keep hard booting and turning it off before Windows loaded just to air out the fan.
Everything seems good now. Fan is quieter than it's been in a year... not making a peep in fact. The computer even seems to be running better than it had before.
Quote:Jeezus, no kidding!
All in all, not a bad day. Glad that it's over though.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Happy to say that at this end the big trash pickup people hauled away about 200 pounds of scrap wood. I'm VERY happy whenever something crosses the perimeter in the outbound direction! Decided to work on cleaning up the office and dear daughter's bedroom in-between helping with the bathroom. I figure that's the most productive that I can be. It's very picky work because there are so many "little things" to decide on, but at least it's not like the garage where there are (were) a million unsorted screws, bolts, nuts, and washers.
We have set aside a 33 gallon bin for scrap metal ... of which there is still a surprising amount despite the fact that DD and I trolled the backyard and garage a couple of months ago. Looks like another 50 pounds of metal.
Didn't get to take my papers to the city shredding event, nor did I manage to get to their free mulch event. Been too busy with Dr appointments and home repair and family events. But at least I can box up all of my shreddable stuff while I'm cleaning the office and see if I can find another place for them to be shredded and recycled.
Well, back to the cleanup!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Holy fuck, SIX. What kind of windstorm did THAT???
I couldn't even tell you. I've been living her over 8 years and having a window blown out is a first for me.
At least the city came around again and picked up all the large branches I'd gotten to the curb. They only come around once a week now, on different days in specific areas. Mondays are our days, so I figured I'd have that on my driveway for a whole week, but it was gone by noon on yesterday. They must have known how hard we got hit.
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I can see why you're so curious. If it was me, I'd be want to know too!
I already know that it must be working much better. There was a decent amount of rain the other day even though we missed most of it. Had I not fixed that pipe a few days before I'm sure I would have gotten a full well or two during the day just from the residual stuff that had been dumped with the broken pipe.
I'm not awake 24/7, but as far as I know, the only time it's gone off since the power was restored was when I put that load of laundry into it and the well is still not even full.
I'm hoping we get a good storm to really test it out soon though. I don't want to leave it all open very much longer now that we're going to start seeing overnights go below freezing.
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Do you have a lot of dust in your area? I would guess probably not because you get reguar rainfall, but in the process of cleaning did you see a lot of dust coming out of the heat sink? A clogged heat sink will kill anything, according to hubby.
The computer is weird. A single touch-screen unit with all the innards, including a full sized hard drive built in right behind the screen. The CPU fan is right at the top, and is only connected to the CPU via a flattened copper tube, with the filter itself right on the outside of the case. Videos showed that you had to remove the whole thing to get to the fan, but I was able to manage removing the fan casing without having to do all of that.
No dust on the board or the CPU at all. The fan was dirty as hell though.
The funny thing is that there's a second similar unit for the GPU. That fan didn't seem to want to move much at all when blowing it with the air. The computer doesn't have a problem booting up despite that though, and the (likely inaccurate) program I have to monitor temps shows the GPU at quite a lower temp than the CPU.
It's a 13 year old beast at this point. The only reason it keeps up with today's technology at all is because my brother must have paid a mint for it when it was new. I'm just going to miss it when it's gone because it's perfect for my needs. Laptops are pretty cheap these days, but I'm going to miss that big screen, so I'd have to have the laptop attached to my TV whenever I buy something new.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well the last few days, today, and the next 3 days are in the 90-100F range with a 'red flag warning' - high fire danger due to the hot, dry Santa Ana winds. After that temps are predicted to drop as onshore airflow returns.
The recharge basins under the 'wings' of the T-shaped interchange of the 605N/S and the 210E/W (the 605 abuts the 210) were full when I went past them on Sunday. The ppl who manage the system must be purchasing water from elsewhere to recharge the ground water basin.
And as I was wandering through a local newscast, a long-term prediction for this winter is that it'll be very dry in terms of rain - 8" - which is about half the normal amount.
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I know that you don;t have AC KIKI, you must be looking forward to the cooldown even more than I am, and I'm counting the hours! At least it's cooling down at night ... over here roughly sixty-ish. But that means an almost 40-degree swing from hottest to coldest. Crazy, huh?
Yep, there's no way the recharge basins could be full with local water, mist be the expen$ive imported kind. I sure hope Raines is wrong with his forecast! Funny thing, we had so many years of sparse rain and then last year with so much, as I walk the dog I ee a lot of re-roofing going on in preparation for THIS winter. I wonder what people will think if the rains don't come? It's Mother Nature, and her practical jokes, again!
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Over here the cleanup continues - hubby and I (the trusty helper) fixed a couple of HVAC vents that had come down partially, and are cutting tile to fit around the sink.
On my end, I'm cleaning out the office. It's hard to stitch together more than an hour or two for the cleanup, and it's kind of detailed work because I have to look at many small items and papers. But since the office is one of those places where things have collected over time I have several large giveaway boxes that I'm sure I'll fill. Some of my giveaway items include a few small items of "vaseline glass" given to me by a colleague. Vaseline glass is a transparent form of uranium glass which was made with ... yep, you guessed it! ... uranium, which was added to the glass before the melt.
Uranium creates a bright greenish yellow color, and some items have iron oxide melted in them which turns the piece more distinctly green, but the cool reason why the glassmakers used it wasn't because of the bright color but because it glows under UV light! If you put the pieces in bright sunlight then run into a dark room you'll see it glow for few minutes from absorbed energy. Apparently it was quite the novelty in Victorian days and later. Also it's slightly radioactive, which I have duly noted on the box.
Anyway,finding lots of items to give away!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Wow... Uranium glass? Kind of crazy the things we used to make things with before we knew better. I don't blame you for getting that out of the house. 
Man.... I know you don't want it, but I'd trade weather with you Kiki. Staring down the barrel of 4 or 5 cold months and high energy bills over here. Down in the 30's again tonight. The days in the 60's are probably over now unless we get some weird fluke weather.
Kind of been having a bad week. I think my SAD has started popping up.
At least my friend is coming over tonight and we're going to work on the floor and possibly on installing the new door if there is time for it. We won't probably have either of them done in one night, but at least 80% of the floor should have a surface to safely walk on.
Going to get my haircut today. I've waited a bit too long between cuts this time. I never feel good when I get this shaggy and I always feel great after getting it cut. Maybe that's just what the doctor ordered.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SAD ... I hope a haircut takes care of that! At least for a few weeks!!
I have posted to Brenda that getting a bright full-spectrum light might help, if that's what you have. 20 minutes a day works, or so "they" say!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Couple of more days of rain expected then drying out again for the beginning of November.
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Signy, I hope you're not too terribly frustrated with the pace of things. But it sounds like things that need doing are getting done - and that's a good thing! (I mean, imagine them not getting done, and more and more household disasters just continuing to pile up over time - right?)
UH ... could we arrange for me to have some of that glass? I normally am NOT one for decorations and tchotchkes but those sound unique.
Yeah, I'm waiting for a cooldown as well.
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I don't envy you your winters, Jack! It gets somewhat cold here - sometimes down to below freezing - but not like where you are! Have you considered an electric blanket? Sleeping cold is a real problem and for not much cash outlay or electricity cost you could be reasonably comfortable while you sleep.
Aside from being cold at night, I think what makes me most bugnuts about real winters like what you have is the driving. And though you pay for your beautiful green summer biome with winter snow, what makes me most bugnuts is the driving in snow. I could personally can put up with the cold, but the snow makes everything that much more ... difficult.
I get SAD. It's no bueno.
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Enjoy the dry you've got coming Brenda!
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As for me - I spent hours - HOURS - yesterday looking for my cellphone. I did find it - a black phone on a nearly black floor tucked away near the chair - but what a waste of time!
Going to do some generic cleanup at home today - what I call tasks as opposed to projects. Projects would be me continuing to 'move' from my entire house into the front half, in preparation for tearing the back half down. But today is going to be focused on dishes, bank, laundry, shopping, cooking, and ordering some things online as gifts, replacements, etc.
ETA: one of the things on my list for today was to try on new sneakers I bought online. I haven't had a real pair of sneakers in probably over a decade, or a real pair of shoes in 3 decades because I have godawful wide feet. So I measured and measured and looked at all the online size charts and figured my feet are a mens's 10/6E and ordered from NewBalance because they have actual widths (thanks for the tip, Signy!). And I JUST tried them on. I CAN WEAR THEM! They're a little loose in the heel, but differential lacing can take care of that. For the first time in AT LEAST 10 years, I have sneakers!!
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Oh sure Kiki, you can have the whole box! I think it's only five small items iirc, but it's all boxed up and ready to go. I'll PM you.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SAD ... I hope a haircut takes care of that! At least for a few weeks!!
I have posted to Brenda that getting a bright full-spectrum light might help, if that's what you have. 20 minutes a day works, or so "they" say!
I might have to look into it. Not having a job at the moment is alright, but if I'm going to mope around all day until mid-April, that's not doing me any good. I can't justify it if I'm not always making progress on my house issues.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I don't envy you your winters, Jack! It gets somewhat cold here - sometimes down to below freezing - but not like where you are! Have you considered an electric blanket? Sleeping cold is a real problem and for not much cash outlay or electricity cost you could be reasonably comfortable while you sleep.
Aside from being cold at night, I think what makes me most bugnuts about real winters like what you have is the driving. And though you pay for your beautiful green summer biome with winter snow, what makes me most bugnuts is the driving in snow. I could personally can put up with the cold, but the snow makes everything that much more ... difficult.
I get SAD. It's no bueno.
I'm warm enough when I sleep. Got a lot of blankets. The problem comes with not wanting to ever leave the bed because it's so cold in the house. I put the heat up a lot more last winter and had higher bills, but I was also making a decent buck at work. Hopefully the heat is going to perform better this year after messing with the ducts a few weeks back.
Yeah... snow sucks so bad. Lots of really bad driving to work and back last year. One more reason why I hope I can get a gig working overnights on weekends at a local grocery store. It's less than a mile away from me.
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So.... I had a strange experience with my car last week when I was changing the oil. The metal washer for the drain plug was disintegrated. I don't want to blame it on the SeaFoam that I had put in there, but in the 12 years I've had that car the washer was always fine.
Unfortunately, I didn't really realize the implications of that until after I had drained the oil. There wasn't enough washer left to put back, so I had to just put the plug up there without a washer (and not tighten it too much, because like I said before I have a tenancy of breaking things by over tightening them). It's been leaking all over my cardboard in the garage since.
Got a $2 plastic plug washer from autozone today. It seems to have done the trick. I really would like to know if the SeaFoam did that or not though. Kind of leery about using it very often if that's the case.
I forgot it was trash day today too. Got my cans out before I ran errands, but they haven't picked them up yet. I'm hoping I didn't miss the pickup. They usually don't come around until 1 to 3PM. Going to be pretty angry with myself if I missed a pickup with all the stuff I still have to salt out over the next few months.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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"I have posted to Brenda that getting a bright full-spectrum light might help, if that's what you have. 20 minutes a day works, or so "they" say!"
I had one many years ago but stopped using it because 1) it was fluorescent and 2) it didn't seem to help that much (though maybe I wasn't either using it enough or consistently enough). The fluorescent bulb kind used to be poorly coated on the inside with phosphor and a LOT of UV leaked out that could wreck your eyes! Check to see if they have LED versions now, or low UV emissions.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/seasonal-affective-diso
rder/in-depth/seasonal-affective-disorder-treatment/art-20048298
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* Is it made specifically to treat SAD? If not, it may not help your depression. Some light therapy lamps are designed for skin disorders — not for SAD. Lamps used for skin disorders primarily emit ultraviolet (UV) light and could damage your eyes if used incorrectly. Light boxes used to treat SAD should filter out most or all UV light.
* How bright is it? Light boxes produce different intensities of light. Brighter boxes will require less time to use each day, compared with dimmer boxes, to achieve the same effect. Typically the recommended intensity of light is 10,000 lux.
How much UV light does it release? Light boxes for SAD should be designed to filter out most or all UV light. Contact the manufacturer for safety information if you have questions.
* Can it cause eye damage? Some light boxes include features designed to protect the eyes. Make sure the light box filters out most or all UV light to avoid damaging your eyes. Ask your eye doctor for advice on choosing a light box if you have eye problems such as glaucoma, cataracts or eye damage from diabetes.
* Is it the style you need? Light boxes come in different shapes and sizes, with varied features. Some look like upright lamps, while others are small and rectangular. The effectiveness of a light box depends on daily use, so buy one that's convenient for you.
* Can you put it in the right location? Think about where you'll want to place your light box and what you might do during its use, such as reading. Check the manufacturer's instructions, so you receive the right amount of light at the proper distance.
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Here they give you bins for trash, but since they use trucks with "arms" to pick up the bins, anything else (requiring hand loading) requires a call to the trash pickup company and ... my oh my ... they seem to have a lot of requirements on what theywill and wont pick up! So I'm always holding my breath a little bit when I call in a special request until I see the stuff disappear.
I feel ya, SIX!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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So, I thought I smelled wood smoke and of course I ran to my computer and the CalFire website and google - but nothing in the area that I can see. Phew!
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Enjoy the dry you've got coming Brenda!
I will Kiki.
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Well, I told my boss that I bought myself a small Christmas tree and got almost the same sort of reaction that I got from my brother on FB. Only she didn't verbalize the "Why?" that I am sure she wanted to ask me.
People don't understand that this is the FIRST time in 10years that I have been able to do something for me.
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The place where I got my hearing aides is moving their office into another city. Seems the company is consolidating all their offices into 2 offices. One in a city across the river from me and the other office in Vancouver. What a pain!
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Quote:Oh my gosh! It's been way too long!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I told my boss that I bought myself a small Christmas tree and got almost the same sort of reaction that I got from my brother on FB. Only she didn't verbalize the "Why?" that I am sure she wanted to ask me.
People don't understand that this is the FIRST time in 10years that I have been able to do something for me.
I hope your Christmas tree adds to what becomes a heartful of holiday happiness.
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Quote:Oh my gosh! It's been way too long!
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, I told my boss that I bought myself a small Christmas tree and got almost the same sort of reaction that I got from my brother on FB. Only she didn't verbalize the "Why?" that I am sure she wanted to ask me.
People don't understand that this is the FIRST time in 10years that I have been able to do something for me.
I hope your Christmas tree adds to what becomes a heartful of holiday happiness.
It has Kiki.
It will definitely make me feel better for the holidays. Something pretty to look at. I don't want any lights on it but I got some decorations and that is good.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Here they give you bins for trash, but since they use trucks with "arms" to pick up the bins, anything else (requiring hand loading) requires a call to the trash pickup company and ... my oh my ... they seem to have a lot of requirements on what theywill and wont pick up! So I'm always holding my breath a little bit when I call in a special request until I see the stuff disappear.
I feel ya, SIX!
I got it out there in time. :)
All the stuff I have these days is either small enough to fit or I can cut it down to fit. The problem right now is the weight of it all. Those patio pavers aren't light, and even beyond the two layers I put in the porch and all the ones I'm keeping for putting underneath where the gutters will eventually go to keep the divoting from happening anymore in the bare dirt, there were a ton of broken ones and ones that had bad ends or other defects that I'm throwing out. I really can only put in about 7 or 8 of them on top of whatever else I'm throwing out. I have a huge lawn, so they give me two cans, but it's still taking a very long time. Maybe 3 or 4 weeks and it will all be gone.
I also cleaned up the sticks from 2/3rds of my lawn this afternoon and filled an entire can today, so I was only able to put about 4 pavers on top of it. I didn't want to risk making it too top heavy.
Going to get the rest of the sticks from the wind storm from hell tomorrow...
But that's not exciting.
Want to know what's exciting?
I FINALLY GOT THE PORCH FLOOR IN WITH MY FRIEND TONIGHT!!!
Got some tweaks and other things to do for the two cutouts on the end that shares a wall with the shed, so those are only tacked down for now, but the floor is in and rock solid and looks totally professional. We even got the flooring for the doorway looking great.
We know what sized storm door I need now, so I have to figure out how expensive I want to go with it, and hopefully we can get that framed out and installed and get a proper threshold down there this time so this crap never happens again. :)
Other than that, just have to put my visqueen up on the louvers to keep the snow out until I install windows in the spring and get the gutters up.
Going to be re-doubling my efforts to find a job as soon as those two things are done. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:So happy for you!
I FINALLY GOT THE PORCH FLOOR IN WITH MY FRIEND TONIGHT!!!
Got some tweaks and other things to do for the two cutouts on the end that shares a wall with the shed, so those are only tacked down for now, but the floor is in and rock solid and looks totally professional. We even got the flooring for the doorway looking great.
We know what sized storm door I need now, so I have to figure out how expensive I want to go with it, and hopefully we can get that framed out and installed and get a proper threshold down there this time so this crap never happens again. :)
Other than that, just have to put my visqueen up on the louvers to keep the snow out until I install windows in the spring and get the gutters up.
Going to be re-doubling my efforts to find a job as soon as those two things are done. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:Many congratulations! I bet that feels awesome.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I FINALLY GOT THE PORCH FLOOR IN WITH MY FRIEND TONIGHT!!!
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Got the last of jewellery cleaned last night. Just need to separate what will be donated tomorrow.
Couple of things to do today. Rained early this morning. Gotta see if I need an umbrella today. Also expecting some wind.
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Puzzles dropped off at my local senior's centre, shopping done, some shredding down and a mess of negatives sorted through.
It is windy out though folks.
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I was hoping that the red flag warnings and fire danger would be over at the end of today ... but even though temp peaks are expected to drop below 90F after today and the red flag warnings are supposed to be dropped, the low humidity and winds will continue and create a fire watch condition.
* San Gabriel Valley - that's me.
Quote:As I've learned over the last few fire seasons - even from Fort MacMurray - I shouldn't assume any longer that there's protection even in a place that seems too downhill, too well-developed, or behind too many freeways, or even all 3.
Issued: 2:36 PM Oct. 25, 2019 – National Weather Service
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE HILLS AND CANYONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COAST AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY*...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE HILLS AND CANYONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COAST AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY...
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a Fire Weather Watch for wind and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Sunday evening through Monday afternoon.
* Winds...In the Hills and Canyons, Northeast 8 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 into this evening. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph possible Sunday night and Monday.
* Relative Humidity...As low as 2 to 9 percent into this evening, and 5 to 10 percent Sunday night and Monday.
* Impacts...If fire ignition occurs, conditions will be for favorable extreme fire behavior and rapid growth which would threaten life and property.
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Well, I butchered 2 pork shoulders and 2 beef briskets for stews, and now they're all snug in their dutch ovens and keeping each other company in a low slow oven.
The pork is going to be a comfort-food pork and white bean stew, into which my pig's feet broth will also go; while the beef is going to be a caliente and picante beef, potato and green chili stew.
Also, my neighbors have got to stop using their wood-burning fireplaces. It's make me nervous!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I was hoping that the red flag warnings and fire danger would be over at the end of today ... but even though temp peaks are expected to drop below 90F after today and the red flag warnings are supposed to be dropped, the low humidity and winds will continue and create a fire watch condition.
* San Gabriel Valley - that's me.Quote:As I've learned over the last few fire seasons - even from Fort MacMurray - I shouldn't assume any longer that there's protection even in a place that seems too downhill, too well-developed, or behind too many freeways, or even all 3.
Issued: 2:36 PM Oct. 25, 2019 – National Weather Service
...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE HILLS AND CANYONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COAST AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY*...
...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY AFTERNOON FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR THE HILLS AND CANYONS OF THE LOS ANGELES COAST AND SAN GABRIEL VALLEY...
The National Weather Service in Los Angeles/Oxnard has issued a Fire Weather Watch for wind and low relative humidity, which is in effect from Sunday evening through Monday afternoon.
* Winds...In the Hills and Canyons, Northeast 8 to 15 mph with gusts to 25 into this evening. Northeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts to 40 mph possible Sunday night and Monday.
* Relative Humidity...As low as 2 to 9 percent into this evening, and 5 to 10 percent Sunday night and Monday.
* Impacts...If fire ignition occurs, conditions will be for favorable extreme fire behavior and rapid growth which would threaten life and property.
Getting that on the news up here. I can't imagine being in the midst of that.
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Big wind storm blow through British Columbia today. Ferries delayed and sailings cancelled. Trees uprooted and branches blown down. Power outages up the Interior because of the wind. Stanley Park was closed because of the wind. Safety measure since it sits right on the water and trees and branches were being blown down there.
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I hope your power stays on Brenda, and there's not too much damage overall.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I hope your power stays on Brenda, and there's not too much damage overall.
I hope so to. But I don't think there were any power outages in my area and by that I mean the Lower Mainland which is my city, Surrey, Burnaby and Vancouver.
Some trees down in Vancouver which is where Stanley Park is. News showed a couple of cars damaged.
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So I had a little adventure that gave me a window into American business.
For the first time ever, I decided to order jeans online from Levi Strauss. Reading the negative reviews, I noted that the most frequent reason for return was poor quality, with one reviewer specifically mentioning that the turning point was after the company moved its production to India* (I didn't find a date for the move after a cursory search, but indeed, they're manufactured in India). When I got them, I noticed that the fabric was far thinner than in the past* and one leg was 2" longer than the other*. So I got a return authorization*, and, using the pre-printed FedEx label*, with all the appropriate paperwork*, returned them the very next day*. After 5 days I started checking my credit card to look for the itemized return, and after 10 days I checked the FedEx tracking number. Indeed, the company had received and signed for the jeans within 4 days of me sending them back, but nothing happened after that*. So I called to find out where was my money, and what the person on the other end told me was that yes, they'd received my return on the date indicated by the tracking number, but for some mysterious reason, the return hadn't been 'processed'* (I have no idea how they could have such a faulty return system for one that was -timely, -preapproved, -sent with paperwork, -to the correct place. Perhaps refunds don't happen automatically as one would assume, and they wait for irate customers to call.). That's when I found out I got charged for shipping using their return label* (it wasn't free, I should have checked). If I hadn't called, I wonder HOW long the 'processing' would have taken. It only took the person on the phone a few clicks on the computer.
Well, the company went public earlier this year, and I guess they have to keep those stockholders happy. But every step of the way looks like a company chiseling its customers at every turn, down to keeping my money to make that bit of interest on it, long after they received the return.
ETA
Well, darn. Today was supposed to be cooler - out of the 90-100F range - but it's not. I guess the weather didn't get the forecast memo.
But Signy - I see you're significantly hotter than me! Your predicted high was 88F and your current temp is 107F. There must be a pretty good offshore airflow, even if there's no wind per se. And I'm sorry you're having to deal with such hot temps!
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Dry where I am and it looks to stay that way through Halloween. So at least the little ghosties and ghoulies won't be wet.
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That's good news for the little kiddles!
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Quote:Oh I don't think it was THAT hot! I took puppy-wuppy out for a walk between 10:30-11:30AM and it felt cooler than yesterday. I think the temps were about as predicted ... about 88 deg F.
Well, darn. Today was supposed to be cooler - out of the 90-100F range - but it's not. I guess the weather didn't get the forecast memo.
But Signy - I see you're significantly hotter than me! Your predicted high was 88F and your current temp is 107F. There must be a pretty good offshore airflow, even if there's no wind per se. And I'm sorry you're having to deal with such hot temps!
But I was working inside, so even if it had been hot I would have been OK. Still working on cleaning up the office. Not a "detailed" cleaning where I do thru every single paper, but I did set aside a box of files for shredding, recycled a whole bunch of old work diaries, boxed up a bunch of stuff to give away (saving the vaseline glass for you!), tossed a bunch of stuff ... altogether prolly got rid of/ set aside five or six boxes of stuff from the room. Not that it looks TOO much better because now I have to call St Vincent de Paul, but at least I recycled/tossed out four boxes-worth! The desk is cleaned off, I just need to go thru a couple pre boxes. But tomorrow I have set aside to go thru dear daughter's room. Sigh.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
That's good news for the little kiddles!
It is. It's no fun when it is wet and windy out.
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I'll catch up with everyone soon... I'm freakin' beat. What a night....
We got that rain I wanted to test out the pipe, and then about 8 tons more.
Things were going well. Hours into the storm, I did my first test and it was 53+ minutes before the pump went off. The next trigger was 74 minutes. This was after a few hours of decently heavy and persistant rain. I thought everything was going well.
I was on the phone with my brother and kept taking measurements while on the phone with him.
37 minutes... not great, but not the end of the world.
18 minutes... mmmmmmmmmmph
4 minutes.... shit.
That entire hole I showed you pictures of? Completely filled to the brim with water that wasn't moving anywhere (I should have clued in on this being somewhat good news at the time, but I was in panic mode so I did the exact opposite of anything smart for the next few hours).
My dumb ass spends the next half hour manually bailing water out of the well, and after god knows how many gallons I crab walked to the toilet, I still wasn't keeping up and the pump was going off every 3 to 4 trips or so anyhow. Probably got around 80 gallons out this way before I couldn't do any more and my moral was so low because I was fighting a losing battle here.
Then I finally smartened up a bit and said to myself, why am I going to give myself a heart attack here. The power is on. The pump is working...
I then wasted the next hour or so manually forcing the thing every few minutes after it went over the inlet hole to see if it ever "caught up". It didn't...
But after all of this, I went outside and noticed the water in the hole was quite a bit lower at least.
Then I finally got the "genius" idea to take my bucket outside and dip in in the trench and just throw it on my lawn. That's a whole hell of a lot easier and quicker to do than trying to bail it out from inside the house. Not fun when it's in the 40's and your soaked to the bone, but at least I was actually making progress this way.
Not sure how many buckets I (quickly) got out of the hole (10... 15 maybe?), but I finally got down to the pipe and to my surprise (since what was really going on hadn't clicked in yet), the PVC and rubber seals and straps were all still intact and tight.
WTF, right?
Then it dawned on me...
Unlike when I had the cracked pipe there to slowly (or I dunno, quickly) drain out water to the street through the hole, the cleanout shows that shortly after the pump stops that no water goes to the street at all.
So the three to five minutes between the pump going off, the ground around the house just keeps getting wetter since I have no gutters and the hole eventually gets filled with water until the pump goes off and allows more water inside to get pumped out.
Now that the rain has slowed down a little I'm almost 6 minutes between cycles again.
Jesus... Until tonight, I had no idea how much potential damage I've been doing to my house by not having gutters all of these years. What an asshole.
By fixing the pipe, the fact that I don't have gutters is probably 5 times as bad as when the pipe was cracked. Water used to be constantly going toward the street every second when the pipe was cracked. Now it only goes to the street as fast as the well can fill up from whatever french drain system I have, allowing much more water to sit around the perimeter of the house.
To further illustrate this, with only around 1.25 inches of water today, I have more water in the living area of my basement than I've ever had (maybe around 3-4 gallons worth). When we had the 8 to 12 inches in the monster flood a few weeks back I didn't have as much water in the living area of the basement.
First thing in the spring I better get those damned gutters up. I might just call around and see how much it would cost to get them professionally done and bite the bullet and pay 3 times as much to have somebody else do them.
Do Right,
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weather.com is apparently freakin broke tonight. For the last half hour it's said 0% chance of rain by me, but it's never stopped. Holding steady at 5 minute pump intervals with the hole half filled with water. Should be drained by the time I wake up. The heavy rain is behind us but since the dark cloud has apparently stayed right above my house even though we've only had a 30 to 50% chance of rain the last 3-4 hours, I'll probably be the guy on the block who's still getting rain at 7AM when it's only 10%.
Oh well. Can't afford to lose any more sleep over it. Too much crap to do tomorrow.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:I think I'm having a hard time picturing how this is happening.
By fixing the pipe, the fact that I don't have gutters is probably 5 times as bad as when the pipe was cracked. Water used to be constantly going toward the street every second when the pipe was cracked. Now it only goes to the street as fast as the well can fill up from whatever french drain system I have, allowing much more water to sit around the perimeter of the house.
To further illustrate this, with only around 1.25 inches of water today, I have more water in the living area of my basement than I've ever had (maybe around 3-4 gallons worth). When we had the 8 to 12 inches in the monster flood a few weeks back I didn't have as much water in the living area of the basement.
First thing in the spring I better get those damned gutters up. I might just call around and see how much it would cost to get them professionally done and bite the bullet and pay 3 times as much to have somebody else do them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Water used to be constantly going toward the street every second when the pipe was cracked
I can interpret this two ways, neither of which makes sense
1) Because water was "recycling" back to the sump, the pump was on much more frequently and therefore doing an overall more effective job keeping the house dry. That doesn't make sense because it seems like the pump was on just as frequently during this storm as before, but unless that water is being efficiently moved away from the house you'll still have lot more standing water around your foundation.
2) The crack in the pipe was acting as an INflow and draining water away from the house even when the pump wasn't on. Hmmm... it looked to me like the crack wasn't big enough to act as an efficient drain, that it could only potentially move a lot of water if the water was under pressure.
You did mention, if I understand you correctly, that the hole that you left open (so you could observe the repair) was filling up with water, to the brim. That's a LOT of water!!! What was the source? Was is just rainfall off the roof running into the hole? Seems like a lot of water to account for that! Or was it undergound water flowing across your property? Isn't it possible that the hole itself was the source of your problem? That it was acting like a sump, collecting water near the foundation of your house, and allowing it to seep into your living space? That once you fill the hole and put pavers under the drip-line the problem will disappear, or at least mitigate?
Or, what am I missing here?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:I think I'm having a hard time picturing how this is happening.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
By fixing the pipe, the fact that I don't have gutters is probably 5 times as bad as when the pipe was cracked. Water used to be constantly going toward the street every second when the pipe was cracked. Now it only goes to the street as fast as the well can fill up from whatever french drain system I have, allowing much more water to sit around the perimeter of the house.
To further illustrate this, with only around 1.25 inches of water today, I have more water in the living area of my basement than I've ever had (maybe around 3-4 gallons worth). When we had the 8 to 12 inches in the monster flood a few weeks back I didn't have as much water in the living area of the basement.
First thing in the spring I better get those damned gutters up. I might just call around and see how much it would cost to get them professionally done and bite the bullet and pay 3 times as much to have somebody else do them.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Water used to be constantly going toward the street every second when the pipe was cracked
I can interpret this two ways, neither of which makes sense
1) Because water was "recycling" back to the sump, the pump was on much more frequently and therefore doing an overall more effective job keeping the house dry. That doesn't make sense because it seems like the pump was on just as frequently during this storm as before, but unless that water is being efficiently moved away from the house you'll still have lot more standing water around your foundation.
2) The crack in the pipe was acting as an INflow and draining water away from the house even when the pump wasn't on. Hmmm... it looked to me like the crack wasn't big enough to act as an efficient drain, that it could only potentially move a lot of water if the water was under pressure.
You did mention, if I understand you correctly, that the hole that you left open (so you could observe the repair) was filling up with water, to the brim. That's a LOT of water!!! What was the source? Was is just rainfall off the roof running into the hole? Seems like a lot of water to account for that! Or was it undergound water flowing across your property? Isn't it possible that the hole itself was the source of your problem? That it was acting like a sump, collecting water near the foundation of your house, and allowing it to seep into your living space? That once you fill the hole and put pavers under the drip-line the problem will disappear, or at least mitigate?
Or, what am I missing here?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
Well... I've learned a lot overnight, although I don't have the entire picture yet. I can really only speculate on things, so maybe I can bounce some ideas around here and you ladies might be able to tell me if you think my logic is sound here or not.
Rather than answer your questions directly, I will just paint the entire scenario as I know it and hopefully this clears things up a bit.
1. Although I've never dug deep enough, I'm really quite confident that I must have some sort of french drain system around the perimeter of the house. (Absolutely unsure if it was original installation, or if it also extends to the porch foundation). There is a 4" inlet pipe toward the middle-bottom of my sump well.
2. Once the pump started going off every 4 minutes and I was doing all the craziness, I saw several dozen times over a few hours that while the pump was going off and immediately after it stopped there was a constant heavy flow of water going right back into the well from this inlet. (Constant enough to keep the pump going off every 5 to 6 minutes until around 2:30 A
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Signy
My interpretation was that the crack was acting as an inflow for the gutter water ... and that the hole (while recycling some water back to the foundation) was additionally mostly just a large flow ballast for the sump, filling up then draining away, filling up then draining away ... (and so not entirely defeating the sump's work to remove water from around the foundation)
Hey Jack - I guess we X-posted! This was to Signy, posted before your expl came up.
I have one quick comment off the top of my head - before I think about I too deeply - "1. I need to shorten the float and get the pump lower into the well so it goes off earlier and stays on until the level gets lower before shutting off without going too low as to make the pump suck in air." Is your pump submerged or above the well? Submerged pumps might rely on water for cooling, so if submerged, you probably shouldn't allow the water level to expose it.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
My interpretation was that the crack was acting as an inflow for the gutter water ... and that the hole (while recycling some water back to the foundation) was additionally mostly just a large flow ballast for the sump, filling up then draining away, filling up then draining away ... (and so not entirely defeating the sump's work to remove water from around the foundation)
Quick reply.
I added a lot and edited things before you replied as I re-read it and thought of other stuff to add.
But, yeah, that's kind of what I'm thinking is going on here.
I don't remember exactly why I put the level so high in that well before the pump triggers because my memories of those days are foggy, but I'm pretty sure after having to change out two sumps in freezing water up to my knees I didn't want to burn out a 3rd pump and because of the crack bringing a lot of water right back in I didn't want the thing going off every minute for a few days straight during and after a heavy storm.
I think now that the pipe is fixed, I've mitigated that very large problem and if I can manage to get the pump situated where it goes off before the inlet pipe, or at least only halfway up the inlet pipe, then it should keep this from happening again. (All of those gallons of heavy water building up 10" to 12" above the inlet pipe while the pump is doing nothing is preventing a constant good flow of inlet water to the well via gravity, I would guess)
I'm glad I left the trench open during all of this to figure these things out. Had I filled it up first and I saw this behavior with the pump intervals, I'd probably be digging it all right back up again today, confident that it was busted again.
None of this behaved the way I expected it to, but what do I know? I'm an idiot. Until last night, I think I've spent the last 8 years in this house diagnosing my water issues as if I were trying to diagnose cancer via WebMD.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I edited and added as well! So I'll see you and raise you! Ha Ha!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Signy
My interpretation was that the crack was acting as an inflow for the gutter water ... and that the hole (while recycling some water back to the foundation) was additionally mostly just a large flow ballast for the sump, filling up then draining away, filling up then draining away ... (and so not entirely defeating the sump's work to remove water from around the foundation)
Hey Jack - I guess we X-posted! This was to Signy, posted before your expl came up.
I have one quick comment off the top of my head - before I think about I too deeply - "1. I need to shorten the float and get the pump lower into the well so it goes off earlier and stays on until the level gets lower before shutting off without going too low as to make the pump suck in air." Is your pump submerged or above the well? Submerged pumps might rely on water for cooling, so if submerged, you probably shouldn't allow the water level to expose it.
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The pump is submerged when the water is already very much above the inlet pipe. When it shuts off (usually around 28 seconds of operation) it is almost entirely exposed with just enough water to keep it from sucking in air.
Everything I've read didn't mention overheating at all, but did mention that if you suck in air instead of water you're going to have a burnt out pump almost immediately.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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This thing has been trying to update itself for the last two days and it won't work. I give up on trying to get it to update.
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Brenda - the website isn't updating?
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I'm exhausted...
Did way more than I thought I'd do today.
Got the hole filled in, and I re-graded about 90% of the dirt bed in front of the house and got the patio pavers under where the gutters need to be installed so they don't divot the ground anymore. I was able to monitor every time the sump pump went off while I was out there too since it was easy to hear with the cap off of the cleanout.
When I started, it was close to 20 minutes between cycles. Strangely, when I filled everything in, it went back down to around 16 to 17 minutes between cycles. Maybe this had to do with me packing dirt down all over the place, and maybe from putting dirt down in the hole that was very wet and directly above the inlet?
I dunno... but I'm not worried that anything broke when I put it back together. Flow looks amazing compared to when the pipe was cracked when the pump is flowing, water continues to run around 20 seconds after the pump stops and then the flow dies, and the water is clean with no evidence of any dirt being pulled into it. I was able to see witness this with around 20 cycles while I was out there working.
We're back close to 20 minutes between cycles right now. I'd imagine that will be quite a bit less by the time I wake up tomorrow.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Brenda - the website isn't updating?
Website is fine Kiki. I am talking about those updates from Windows that you get notifications on.
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Windows 10?
Is it giving you any sort of error, or after you rebooted is it giving you any messages regarding the failed update?
They are rather important. I know you don't use credit cards, but there's other reasons why you'd want at least the basic protection of having an updated windows.
I had problems with one of the installs in the last 6 months that took a few tries to get right. I can't remember what I did other than just trying to let it do its thing when I was going to work so I wouldn't miss having the computer and it finally went through. Maybe we could figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Windows 10?
Is it giving you any sort of error, or after you rebooted is it giving you any messages regarding the failed update?
They are rather important. I know you don't use credit cards, but there's other reasons why you'd want at least the basic protection of having an updated windows.
I had problems with one of the installs in the last 6 months that took a few tries to get right. I can't remember what I did other than just trying to let it do its thing when I was going to work so I wouldn't miss having the computer and it finally went through. Maybe we could figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah that's the one.
No, I don't shop on line at all.
I got a "could not complete the install" message.
I made one mistake on its first try, as I turned my computer back on and that screwed it up. Then Saturday or Friday night, I let it go but it still didn't complete it. So, when it comes up again I will let it go.
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Bright sunny day and things to do. So out in a bit.
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Windows 10?
Is it giving you any sort of error, or after you rebooted is it giving you any messages regarding the failed update?
They are rather important. I know you don't use credit cards, but there's other reasons why you'd want at least the basic protection of having an updated windows.
I had problems with one of the installs in the last 6 months that took a few tries to get right. I can't remember what I did other than just trying to let it do its thing when I was going to work so I wouldn't miss having the computer and it finally went through. Maybe we could figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I hear you and kiki like hot sauce, mustard and other condiments.
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How about mustard, ketchup, hot sauce, sriracha and the like? When I'm looking for a quick meal I just grab some plain-cooked meat and throw some of that on top.
T
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Trump-Ukraine: John Bolton 'sounded alarm about Rudy Giuliani's actions'
The former US national security adviser, John Bolton, was reportedly so alarmed at a back-channel effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Donald Trump’s political rivals that he told a senior aide to report it to White House lawyers.
The revelation of Bolton’s involvement in the effort to block a shadow foreign policy aimed at Trump’s political benefit emerged from congressional testimony given by his former aide, Fiona Hill, the former top Russia expert in the White House.
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Hill, the British-born former senior director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council, spoke to three House committees for 10 hours.
According to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Hill described a sharp exchange on 10 July between Bolton and the US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, about the role played by Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to persuade the Ukrainian government to open investigations into Democrats, including former vice president Joe Biden.
Hill said Bolton instructed her to tell the National Security Council’s attorney that Giuliani was acting in concert with White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, in a rogue operation with legal implications.
“I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton instructed Hill to tell the NSC lawyer, according to her testimony.
She said that Bolton had told her on an earlier occasion: “Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.”
Hill also testified on Monday morning before three congressional committees about Trump’s decision, taken despite strenuous objections from aides including herself, to recall the US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch.
The Washington Post reported that she had confronted Sondland over the Giuliani’s activities, which were not coordinated with officials charged with carrying out US foreign policy. Sondland is due to give his version of events on Thursday.
According to Fox News, Hill told congressional investigators that she and other officials went to the national security council lawyer with their concerns that the White House was seeking to prompt Ukraine to open investigations into Trump’s rivals.
Hill’s lawyer had earlier rejected arguments from the president’s attorneys that her testimony on Ukraine was covered by executive privilege.
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The week could deteriorate rapidly for Trump, whose effort to rally defenders in his own party has been damaged by concerns about a growing disaster in northern Syria, following Trump’s abrupt pullback there, and a sense that major secrets attached to the Ukraine scandal are yet to come out.
Sondland’s testimony on Thursday comes after a previous attempt by the hotelier-turned-diplomat to testify was blocked by the state department, as part of a blanket White House defiance of the impeachment inquiry.
Congress is also due this week to receive relevant documents from an array of the most powerful figures in the administration, including the vice-president, the defense secretary and the White House chief of staff.
Out of the flow of new information, congressional investigators hope to fill in the picture of the Trump administration’s dealings in Ukraine, and answer the question of whether Trump’s conduct rises to the “high crimes and misdemeanors” cited in the constitution as grounds for impeachment.
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Windows 10?
Is it giving you any sort of error, or after you rebooted is it giving you any messages regarding the failed update?
They are rather important. I know you don't use credit cards, but there's other reasons why you'd want at least the basic protection of having an updated windows.
I had problems with one of the installs in the last 6 months that took a few tries to get right. I can't remember what I did other than just trying to let it do its thing when I was going to work so I wouldn't miss having the computer and it finally went through. Maybe we could figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah that's the one.
No, I don't shop on line at all.
I got a "could not complete the install" message.
I made one mistake on its first try, as I turned my computer back on and that screwed it up. Then Saturday or Friday night, I let it go but it still didn't complete it. So, when it comes up again I will let it go.
Yeah. If you can, just let it run overnight when you're going to go to sleep.
I know I had problems a few times with it with one of the recent installs, but I don't think I actually had to do anything but let it try a few times and it worked itself out.
Windows 10 is pretty amazing compared to all of the versions before it. I miss a lot of features that I used to use a lot back with Windows XP that they've never gone back to, but as far as security and stability go I'm very impressed with it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Windows 10?
Is it giving you any sort of error, or after you rebooted is it giving you any messages regarding the failed update?
They are rather important. I know you don't use credit cards, but there's other reasons why you'd want at least the basic protection of having an updated windows.
I had problems with one of the installs in the last 6 months that took a few tries to get right. I can't remember what I did other than just trying to let it do its thing when I was going to work so I wouldn't miss having the computer and it finally went through. Maybe we could figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah that's the one.
No, I don't shop on line at all.
I got a "could not complete the install" message.
I made one mistake on its first try, as I turned my computer back on and that screwed it up. Then Saturday or Friday night, I let it go but it still didn't complete it. So, when it comes up again I will let it go.
Yeah. If you can, just let it run overnight when you're going to go to sleep.
I know I had problems a few times with it with one of the recent installs, but I don't think I actually had to do anything but let it try a few times and it worked itself out.
Windows 10 is pretty amazing compared to all of the versions before it. I miss a lot of features that I used to use a lot back with Windows XP that they've never gone back to, but as far as security and stability go I'm very impressed with it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah, that's what I will do next time it comes up.
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Nice and clear here tonight. Still dry as well.
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Windows 10?
Is it giving you any sort of error, or after you rebooted is it giving you any messages regarding the failed update?
They are rather important. I know you don't use credit cards, but there's other reasons why you'd want at least the basic protection of having an updated windows.
I had problems with one of the installs in the last 6 months that took a few tries to get right. I can't remember what I did other than just trying to let it do its thing when I was going to work so I wouldn't miss having the computer and it finally went through. Maybe we could figure it out.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah that's the one.
No, I don't shop on line at all.
I got a "could not complete the install" message.
I made one mistake on its first try, as I turned my computer back on and that screwed it up. Then Saturday or Friday night, I let it go but it still didn't complete it. So, when it comes up again I will let it go.
Yeah. If you can, just let it run overnight when you're going to go to sleep.
I know I had problems a few times with it with one of the recent installs, but I don't think I actually had to do anything but let it try a few times and it worked itself out.
Windows 10 is pretty amazing compared to all of the versions before it. I miss a lot of features that I used to use a lot back with Windows XP that they've never gone back to, but as far as security and stability go I'm very impressed with it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yeah, that's what I will do next time it comes up.
It's likely not super critical if you're not being harangued 24/7 about installing it.
The one I had problems with was a pretty major one that Windows was harassing me for not installing yet. Most updates will just happen whenever you reboot. This was one of those ones where the computer would tell you it was rebooting if you didn't click within 15 minutes to tell it otherwise.
Very annoying when I'd be away when the message came up and it would take an hour to update only to fail so I'd have to deal with it again.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Nope, Jack. No haranguing. Yeah, I've had those ones too. But this install, I just decided to ignore. Well, that happens.
I'm sure it will come up again and I will just let it to its thing.
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I can't imagine doing online shopping with a Windows PC, or even an Apple-based PC. Fortunately hubby knows a thing or three about PC security and he has our main PC buttoened up pretty tight. Plus we have Noscript, PrivacyBadger and other apps running. I've set Googletagmanager and Googleanalytics and Facebook and a few other scripts to permanently UNTRUSTED.
On my smart phone all of my family's phone numbers are under aliases. I never text anyone using their real name in the text because ... what happens if my phone gets lost? Of course I never do online banking or email or purchases or homesecurity over such a loosey=goosey platform. It astonishes me when I see ppl checking their home security cameras over their phone, or swipe to purchase. Same thing with the tablet. Nothing important happens there. I read the news, chat with you guys, play music or listen to The Duran or Tom Luongo or whatever podcasts are interesting but that's it. Every now and again I go to my security settings and reset all of the "allowed" apps and sites just incase I let something reside as "trusted".
Anyway, speaking of important things, been busting ass trying to get ready for out of town vistors. The rest of the family has been sick but I've been plowing thru various rooms. Hubby has a crap-ton of PC parts most of which I can't imagine would ever be useful; I hope he picks thru them and sets aside parts for the next build plus some spare parts and junks the rest - all I could do was take them off the diningroom table (where they have been for a year) and box them up and dust. If he manages to go thru those boxes I see a lot of outgoing items. Also been sorring thru dear daughter's possessions ... it's a problem because she has a hoarding tendency and has a real emotional attachment to every single item. sigh.
But this is also open enrollment, and so I have to get going on health insurance things. birthday parties happened this month, and dd's favorite holdiy (Halloween) coming up, I have a lot to do!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Another bright sunny day here. Things to do.
Have a bag of stuff to take over to local seniors centre for donation.
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I can't imagine doing online shopping with a Windows PC, or even an Apple-based PC. Fortunately hubby knows a thing or three about PC security and he has our main PC buttoened up pretty tight. Plus we have Noscript, PrivacyBadger and other apps running. I've set Googletagmanager and Googleanalytics and Facebook and a few other scripts to permanently UNTRUSTED.
On my smart phone all of my family's phone numbers are under aliases. I never text anyone using their real name in the text because ... what happens if my phone gets lost? Of course I never do online banking or email or purchases or homesecurity over such a loosey=goosey platform. It astonishes me when I see ppl checking their home security cameras over their phone, or swipe to purchase. Same thing with the tablet. Nothing important happens there. I read the news, chat with you guys, play music or listen to The Duran or Tom Luongo or whatever podcasts are interesting but that's it. Every now and again I go to my security settings and reset all of the "allowed" apps and sites just incase I let something reside as "trusted".
Anyway, speaking of important things, been busting ass trying to get ready for out of town vistors. The rest of the family has been sick but I've been plowing thru various rooms. Hubby has a crap-ton of PC parts most of which I can't imagine would ever be useful; I hope he picks thru them and sets aside parts for the next build plus some spare parts and junks the rest - all I could do was take them off the diningroom table (where they have been for a year) and box them up and dust. If he manages to go thru those boxes I see a lot of outgoing items. Also been sorring thru dear daughter's possessions ... it's a problem because she has a hoarding tendency and has a real emotional attachment to every single item. sigh.
But this is also open enrollment, and so I have to get going on health insurance things. birthday parties happened this month, and dd's favorite holdiy (Halloween) coming up, I have a lot to do!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
I don't even care about this stuff anymore.
Credit cards cover fraud as long as you're watching them at least once a month, which I do. The one time it's ever happened to me, they let me know about the activity and asked if it was me.
Don't have any real money to steal...
I'm not an interesting person, so I'm not worried about anybody spying on me either.
Wasted a lot of time being paranoid about stuff like that when I was younger. In 2019, who hasn't been hacked? The sun still rises.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, I have to worry abut family members who are not competent, and overall try to protect assets which are being set aside for the future, so I guess I have a different set of worries. AFA the NSA or the FBI coming after me ... there is no way to protect yourself from a politically-motivated spook agency "investigation/ prosecution". As has been demonstrated by Flynn and Trump, they'll just make up shit if they want. But I'm a boring person anyway, so I don't worry too much about that.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Off to the chiropractor I go.
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Well, I have to worry abut family members who are not competent, and overall try to protect assets which are being set aside for the future, so I guess I have a different set of worries. AFA the NSA or the FBI coming after me ... there is no way to protect yourself from a politically-motivated spook agency "investigation/ prosecution". As has been demonstrated by Flynn and Trump, they'll just make up shit if they want. But I'm a boring person anyway, so I don't worry too much about that.
Yeah. I know about that. My mom thought she had paid for Microsoft customer support back when they had a business. It's not fun trying to get somebody you care about to realize that they've been taken. Something similar almost happened again to them just recently. I hate that they're so far away and I can't babysit them.
You really don't have to worry about things financially though. There's a lot of security out there, and although none of it is bullet proof, they're really good about getting your money back to you. I couldn't say if they actually catch any of these people though, because when I've inquired about it in the past their go-to statements were along the lines of that's legal info I'm not privy to. I don't even know how true that is, or if that's just what the low level employees are told to say if they're asked, but I don't really care as long as I have my money.
You're safe as long as you're not clicking emails that go to fake sites that look like your financial sites, or you don't go giving out things on the phone like your social security number. Really, don't ever go to any sites with personal info required from email links, and instead go directly to the site in a separate tab.
I've been doing online banking for nearly 20 years now. It's easy, it's convenient, and overall it's so much better than the old way of doing things like driving to your insurance agent and hand delivering a check. I've only been "hacked" twice, and almost immediately the companies took care of it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Oh... and if you have a VPN, dump it immediately.
I've been saying for over a year that one of two things happen if you sign up for one.
A) You're put on a government watch list with your actual name tied to the account. "What are you hiding that you need a VPN?" The government has access to whatever goes through a VPN at any time it requests it. There is no such thing as anonymous internet browsing.
B) You're opening yourself up to weak security at these firms and/or being scammed by the firms themselves and/or just adding an unnecessary 3rd party into the mix that has access to all of your online activity, as well as paying for something you don't need if you have Windows Defender, AVG Free, Malwarebytes all installed and properly updated.
"A" hasn't happened yet, but I'm sure it eventually will. "B" however?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/
I see a lot of YouTube content creators I really enjoy shilling NordVPN and other VPN services all the time and I'm ALWAYS trying to tell them not to because their credibility will be destroyed. I've been doing that for at least a year. Then the Nord thing happens...
This guy just made the video two days ago I've been trying to tell people about for a year. I hope both content creators and the general public see it and heed his warnings.
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The cost of shilling VPN companies is your reputation.
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Double post....
FFF.net seems to be falling apart these days. I'm constantly having problems getting pages to load over the last month or two.
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Off to the chiropractor I go.
I'm sure you're aware by now that those aren't real doctors and that the entire practice is under a lot of heat for not being real science, with a lot of people being injured and even some people dying. If not, you might want to google it.
Hope your guy or gal is a good one, Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm just dropping by to say hey all!
And despite the cooler temps, the air is still ridiculously dry, the winds are still blowing, and the red flag warning is still up.
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Off to the chiropractor I go.
I'm sure you're aware by now that those aren't real doctors and that the entire practice is under a lot of heat for not being real science, with a lot of people being injured and even some people dying. If not, you might want to google it.
Hope your guy or gal is a good one, Brenda.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Yes, I know about all of that about chiropractors. They've been investigated up here when the deaths happened.
I've been going to my guy for 25years.
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I'm just dropping by to say hey all!
And despite the cooler temps, the air is still ridiculously dry, the winds are still blowing, and the red flag warning is still up.
ETA Hydro crews coming from BC to help.
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BC is tabling legislation to leave BC on daylight savings time permanently. Most of the province wants this and I agree.
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I hope it goes through, Brenda! At least someone will be showing some sense!
As for me, I find waiting out the extreme fire risk is wearing. I feel I can't entirely relax - that I have to keep one eye open and one ear cocked all the time. With any luck the winds'll be gone by the end of tomorrow.
I'm finishing preparing my beef, potato and green chili stew. After that I'll be cooking chicken pot pie, but without the crust, since wheat really bothers me. So instead, I'll also add potatoes! I think it'll be really tasty.
Once that's done, I'll be back to being stocked up with a good supply of meals with big helpings of vegetables.
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We've been ordering pizza, eating out or scrounging the kitchen the past four days. I have to say I like home-cooking better!
Today we had a long-delayed chicken and dumplings. tomorrow its going to be turkey half-breast with asparagus (on sale) and yam (on sale).
*****
I broke down and set up a humidifier in our room bc my nose is infernally stuffed with thsi dry air! Wunderground says Thu Fri and Sat still drier than normal, but Sat will be halfway back to normal so I hope my nose starts unstuffing soon.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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I hope it goes through, Brenda! At least someone will be showing some sense!
As for me, I find waiting out the extreme fire risk is wearing. I feel I can't entirely relax - that I have to keep one eye open and one ear cocked all the time. With any luck the winds'll be gone by the end of tomorrow.
I'm finishing preparing my beef, potato and green chili stew. After that I'll be cooking chicken pot pie, but without the crust, since wheat really bothers me. So instead, I'll also add potatoes! I think it'll be really tasty.
Once that's done, I'll be back to being stocked up with a good supply of meals with big helpings of vegetables.
Me too. I hate the clock changing and there is no reason in the world for it now.
Stay safe Kiki.
There are as of Tuesday this week 11 wildfires burning in Canada. 6 in my province of BC and 5 in Alberta.
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We've been ordering pizza, eating out or scrounging the kitchen the past four days. I have to say I like home-cooking better!
Today we had a long-delayed chicken and dumplings. tomorrow its going to be turkey half-breast with asparagus (on sale) and yam (on sale).
*****
I broke down and set up a humidifier in our room bc my nose is infernally stuffed with thsi dry air! Wunderground says Thu Fri and Sat still drier than normal, but Sat will be halfway back to normal so I hope my nose starts unstuffing soon.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
We'll be back to rain in BC by Sunday. This afternoon you could see the clouds starting to roll in. Fog due tomorrow night for Halloween.
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Nothing but solid rain here for 3 days straight, into snow tonight. Those poor kids. I don't think they're going to get any trick or treating done this year :(
Had another 1.5 inches in the last 48 hours, so it was a pretty decent test so far after the re-grading and filling in the sump pipe. Haven't been outside this morning to get another look at everything, but it looked fine yesterday.
I shortened the float mechanism so it's not going off when the water gets so high, but because of the nature of the corded floats that also means that it doesn't stay on as long either (about 21 seconds per cycle as opposed to 29 seconds before). The right way to do this is going to be to tear everything up to the check valve out, clean out the well and possibly dig it down further, cut all new pipes for the new length and try to get that pump at least 8" lower than it is right now.
No way I can even think to try that with the rain right now. Going to try to do that once everything is frozen outside and I don't have a steady flow of water to the basement.
In the mean time, it's never gone off for more than around 6+ minutes at a time whenever I've been paying attention. Not sure if that means anything though since this is 1.5 inches in around 48 hours this time compared to 2 inches in only 20 or so hours last time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Things to do then work. Later peeps.
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Trivial compared to basement flooding and fire season but ... I shoulda set up that humidifier a month ago! For a change I managed to sleep for 5 hours straight without waking up bc I couldn't breathe.
You have to realize that I decongest my nose and rinse it with specially-compounded solution of mupirocin antibiotic plus budenoside steroid before bed, PLUS I use a nose strip, AND I use a HEPA filter in the bedroom AND we changed out carpets for hardwood AND I'm giving myself allergy shots, AND I had two sinuse surgeries! I'm doing everything I know to reduce my nasal congestion because it has been ruining my sleep for years. I STILL can't smell much of anything. Maybe the humidifier for Santa Ana conditions is the very last thing I need to finally get a reasonable night's sleep.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Glad to see you found something that might work. I don't know how you live with it.
Jeez... it's COLD today. Only a high of 34 here, and the snow was already started when I woke up. Certainly didn't see that in the forecast leading up to today.
Unfortunately, my friend hasn't made it back here this week to install the door, and I was waiting on him to help me get the plastic over the louvers as well. Didn't think that would be a problem, but we've had 2 days of rain and now snow.
I've been through quite a few heavy rains and thunderstorms with zero windows behind those louvers, but just as I suspected, snow has been where the damage was done on the front side of that porch. The wall is wet now. Not drenched, but it's taking on water. I put a little plastic solution from the inside at the bottom that negates most of that as a temporary measure, but it's not waterproof. There's no way I'm going to be able to make it waterproof until I do a solution from the outside, and there's no way I'm doing it in the snow and wind and 30 degree temps.
Not a good day here. :(
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Quote:I'm so happy for you!!! !!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Trivial compared to basement flooding and fire season but ... I shoulda set up that humidifier a month ago! For a change I managed to sleep for 5 hours straight without waking up bc I couldn't breathe.
You have to realize that I decongest my nose and rinse it with specially-compounded solution of mupirocin antibiotic plus budenoside steroid before bed, PLUS I use a nose strip, AND I use a HEPA filter in the bedroom AND we changed out carpets for hardwood AND I'm giving myself allergy shots, AND I had two sinus surgeries! I'm doing everything I know to reduce my nasal congestion because it has been ruining my sleep for years. I STILL can't smell much of anything. Maybe the humidifier for Santa Ana conditions is the very last thing I need to finally get a reasonable night's sleep.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
!!But that makes me think your nose isn't responding to some allergen blowing in with the Santa Anas, it's actually responding to the dryness itself ... ?
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Quote:Well ... crap.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Glad to see you found something that might work. I don't know how you live with it.
Jeez... it's COLD today. Only a high of 34 here, and the snow was already started when I woke up. Certainly didn't see that in the forecast leading up to today.
Unfortunately, my friend hasn't made it back here this week to install the door, and I was waiting on him to help me get the plastic over the louvers as well. Didn't think that would be a problem, but we've had 2 days of rain and now snow.
I've been through quite a few heavy rains and thunderstorms with zero windows behind those louvers, but just as I suspected, snow has been where the damage was done on the front side of that porch. The wall is wet now. Not drenched, but it's taking on water. I put a little plastic solution from the inside at the bottom that negates most of that as a temporary measure, but it's not waterproof. There's no way I'm going to be able to make it waterproof until I do a solution from the outside, and there's no way I'm doing it in the snow and wind and 30 degree temps.
Not a good day here. :(
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I can only hope that this is WAAYYY too early for the start of winter, which by my recollection starts after Thanksgiving, and the weather moderates a bit in the next few weeks. I'd guess the primary goal would be to put plastic up on the porch? Since it seems the sump pump / grading / pipe situation is good enough for now?
Though I was thinking about your sump pump a little while back and wondering if it's at the very bottom of the hole. If not, perhaps you could get a bit of extra water removal out of it by lowering the pump or inlet so it doesn't suck air, and readjusting the float to match, without doing anything else?
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Back from work a bit ago. Right foot tried to cramp while I was at work. Not fun.
Flipside my shirt smells like onions.:(
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The saga continues...
Power went out for no damn reason at all for two hours around 5PM. Went outside to pull my cans in while I had my last cigarette, because I knew this was going to be terrible...
I am so grateful that I didn't throw away the two large heavy duty plastic sump wells I had purchased years ago and never did anything with. They are the only reason I didn't flood.
By the time I had gotten down there, which had only been about 10 minutes after the power went out, the well was already overflowing and getting the dirt wet in the crawl space.
At first, I emptied filled up the 3 gallon bucket by hand a few times, crab walked it to the toilet, and realized that this was a losing battle. Then I remembered the plastic wells.
I dragged both of them down there and I filled both of them up by hand with the drinking glass to the top. I'm guessing they're around 30 to 35 gallons each... maybe more. I couldn't find any markings.
Water level in the pit was about 1" to 1 1/2" below the top afterward.
I then proceeded to carry out another 44 buckets worth of water to the toilet while trying to be quick about it while also maintaining a pace that wouldn't make my heart explode. In the middle of it, I had to get my flashlights and put them at various places, because other than the faint glow of 4 LED flashlights, I was in complete blackness for the last 20 or so minutes.
After a while, I just kind of resigned myself to the task. It's not as if there was anything else worth doing. I wouldn't have been able to sleep, knowing my basement was flooding. I was wet. I wouldn't be able to really take a shower in the dark. I would be without heat in the house for as long as the power was out with the low dropping to 25 tonight, possibly forcing me to figure out how to use my stove for heat while my basement flooded...
I figured I'd just keep bailing out water until A) the power came back on, B) my legs gave out or my heart exploded, or C) the flashlights died and I was left in complete darkness.
By around quarter to 7 it came on, and I can't even begin to tell you what a relief it was.
I re-bailed the water from the wells back into the sump, tried to clean up as best I could, verified everything is still working with the pump and was thankful to call it a night.
I'm so fucking done with this house.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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So...
My step dad says, you have a generator, why were you bailing water.
He's right. He gave it to me. I really don't have any excuse other than I was completely unprepared. 6 years without a power outage and I either thought I'd never get another one, or I thought it was magically going to just work in an emergency situation without any plan or the proper setup.
I've got extension cords, although I had always assumed that none of them would be up to the task. They're either low gauge and short, or high gauge and long. I'm pretty sure that doubling up on cords is a big no-no as well.
I'm going to spend some money I don't have and buy one that's up to the task after planning some things out and taking measurements. I'm really hoping that I can run it from my garage and get away with a 100" cord. I see a highly rated 20 AMP 100' cord that's $35 off that I could get for around 65 bucks right now. If I need to get a 150' cord though, I don't even want to think about how much that's going to run me.
I figure I'll get some brackets, hang the female end somewhere right by the sump, hang it through the ceiling in the crawl to the door and keep it rolled up somewhere near the entrance.
If I have my generator set somewhere in the garage ready to go with a can of gas that's full, all I'll have to do next time is go down, plug the sump into the cord, unravel it out to the garage and plug it in the generator, fill her up and get her started and be done with it.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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SIX: Jeez, What a trial!
Seems like the storm went from west to east, as usual. Sis texted that after a day of rain she had water coming up from the floor drain in the basement. That's not storm water, that's sanitary sewer water, so today she has to swab the decks with bleach. That used to be such a big problem ... like, 1 foot deep problem ...that we set up a bunch of storage shelves for her to get everything up off the floor.
In her neighborhood there is a small group of a half-dozen houses where the power ALWAYS went out with the slightest wind, or sometimes for no reason at all. It took NYSG&E over a dozen years, and a call to one of the local TV complaint resolution shows, to fix the problem, which turned out to be an untrimmed tree, if you can believe it!
Anyway, her neighbor let her run a power cord from their house to hers. She used it to keep the furnace and frig running. Maybe you can use your generator to keep your sump and/or furnace going, that way you can be warm AND dry!
Sorry to hear about your friend not coming over. I hope he does at soonest possible, your three-month forecast is colder and wetter than usual.
BTW, I know the floor was a big headache when it wasn't done and a big relief when it was but ... what kind of floor are you talking about? 4X8 3/4 plywood, right? Just curious.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Bright sunny day but it will be cold.
On the flipside I don't know why my boss's husband is so surprised that I watch my diet so close. I said as per usual if I don't I run the risk of making myself sick. He then said, "Most people don't care and eat things anyway."
Well, I don't want to deal with the consequences of making myself sick.
Also because my seizure meds are so sensitive to fruit acids, he again made the comment that I should ask for them to be changed. Had to explain to him that that is not how they work. I am stuck with these things until they stop working or they can't go any higher on the dose.
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Just a brief weather update - the official red-flag warning has been dropped, even though the temps are a little warmer and the air is still dry, dry, dry. For example, the relative humidity at the moment is 4%. I think they consider wind, temps, and humidity in their red-flag estimation?/ calculation? and the winds are down. The low humidity and higher temps will continue through saturday, by sunday the humidity'll be up over 15% and hold there through the forecast, while the temps will be the same as now.
Jack - I feel for you! I have also pushed myself at times in my life to the feeling like my heart would explode. It's an extremely uncomfortable situation. I'm really glad you have some wiggle room with having a generator on hand even though it'll cost some money, time, and effort to get it all set up.
But jeeze louise, no wonder you're so done with that house!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX: Jeez, What a trial!
Sorry to hear about your friend not coming over. I hope he does at soonest possible, your three-month forecast is colder and wetter than usual.
BTW, I know the floor was a big headache when it wasn't done and a big relief when it was but ... what kind of floor are you talking about? 4X8 3/4 plywood, right? Just curious.
Wasn't his fault for not coming. It's been raining like crazy the last 3 days until it turned to show. I really couldn't work on it in those conditions so I didn't even bother calling him. Tentatively, we're planning on Monday. It's got to be done by Wednesday at the latest though because the bottom really drops out on Thursday.
Yes. The floor is 4x8 3/4" plywood (non-green). The floor itself wasn't really getting wet... It was the stuff leaking in the crappy aluminum down the inside walls, no doubt getting our new joists and sills (green) all wet. It's what's been going on for years now behind the scenes, I just now had the displeasure of actually witnessing it firsthand.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Jack - I feel for you! I have also pushed myself at times in my life to the feeling like my heart would explode. It's an extremely uncomfortable situation. I'm really glad you have some wiggle room with having a generator on hand even though it'll cost some money, time, and effort to get it all set up.
But jeeze louise, no wonder you're so done with that house!
Yeah. I think the worst part about last night though was the not knowing. Without anything better to do I figured I'd just push on until an outside circumstance prevented me from doing it anymore. Once I got in the rhythm and stopped being in full panic mode, I was able to get a pace going that was probably maintainable for a few more hours while also seeing a very slight noticible improvement in the water level in the well say every 15 minutes of bailing or so.
That being said though, I knew it was only a matter of time until something gave out, and although I was hoping the power was going to come back on I figured I was just postponing the inevitable.
Glad I didn't give in to that doom and gloom in the back of my head and kept pressing on though. The power came back on and the basement was bone dry because of the work I did.
Just got back from the hardware store. I was wrong about the sale price I saw. (That was for a 50 footer).
The one I bought is 10GA, 15A, 100FT industrial, rated for outdoor use. About $120 with tax and a few hooks to install it in my crawlspace. Amazon has the exact same cord for $200, and I saw it on another site for $220. Didn't know if that was a mistake or not, but I wasn't going to wait and find out so I ran up there right away and bought it for an insanely low price.
When I told my step dad the one I got he laughed and said that I'm not going to have any problems running the pump off of that cord and he thinks I went overboard.
Better safe than sorry, I figure. I don't want to have to worry about this bullshit anymore and it's not worth worrying just to save $40 bucks.
My plan is to install everything tomorrow and do a live field test with the generator and sump pump. No sense in waiting until the next emergency to figure out if it's going to work right.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The rain is going to be missing us but there is an air quality awareness out. Particulate matter in the air and so people with breathing problems are being told to be aware.
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Perfecto!
Everything works great. I let the generator run for an hour straight. I immediately forced a near full well to pump out off the generator, and followed that up with a full load of laundry. I'm still getting enough water in through the inlet for it to go off by itself every 10 minutes or so, so it went off at least another 4 times on its own before I shut everything down and put it back on the main.
The hooks I bought were perfect for the application too, but my cheap ass didn't buy enough of them. I don't think I really had any idea how thick and heavy this cord was going to be until I got down there with it. Going to pick up a half dozen of them later today or tomorrow, get them installed and also figure out if the shelf support I was planning on using is going to be durable enough for the job or if I'm going to need to buy something better. The support I have is probably good enough, but I'm going to be hanging about 80 feet of the heaviest damn extension cord I've ever owned on it, so I need to make absolutely sure it will work for the long haul.
While I was at it, I also did a test on my snow blower and fired up my leaf blower for good measure. Went to fill the air in the snowblower tires and wouldn't you know it... One of them are flat. :( I'm not sure why that always happens with small tires in my garage like that. This is my third flat since I've owned the house. I'm sure those tires aren't cheap to replace and/or fix either. Going to want to take care of that ASAP either way though.
Won't let that bring my mood down though. It's been a great day. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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