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August

Metanoia
My sleep cycles are totally out of whack.

We have some out of town friends in the area. They want to stop by here and then proceed to another mutual friend's house for dinner. They already got the covid shots for themselves but would you believe I had to have that talk with them about safety?

I'm beginning to think I should have isolated one more week. My wife's about three days behind me and is is still not doing all that well. We both have residual congestion and runny noses. I know we are past the really tough parts and that this might even just be a cold - but the idea of coming here and all sitting around catching up at the table and then he and his wife traveling over to another house for dinner with two friends who have not had to shot or had covid, noooooo Bad idea.

This is why they have to put warnings like 'do not drink' on paint and 'be careful this coffee is hot' on cups.

We're going to have a socially distanced driveway howdy instead

If you still have symptoms I would tell them to stay away.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I went out yesterday afternoon to get propane for my heaters and got into a car accident...I'm fine, had my dog with me too, he's fine, the car is totaled...First time Kobi has ever been in a wreck, he was a little freaked out...Coming up to a stop light with vehicles in front of me I was slowing down to a stop when the vehicle behind me wasn't paying attention and hit my car propelling me forward enough I couldn't prevent hitting the SUV in front of me...The passenger airbag went off but not the driver airbag on my side, had 2 full propane tanks in the trunk, glad those didn't go off lol...The road was a 35mph zone so none of us were going too fast to begin with...The guy that hit me said he glanced away for a few seconds and didn't realize how close he was, he might have been on his cell phone for all I know, but whatever his insurance doesn't cover mine will...Going to get a rental car in a couple days, last night I felt like a ragdoll that's been tossed around but feeling good this morning after resting overnight...

I'll be looking for another vehicle by the weekend, will have a rental for 30 days covered by insurance so I can get around and find one...Maybe a Jeep Cherokee this time, always liked those vehicles but never had one, it needs to have a 4x4 option for my mountain excursions lol...

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I went out yesterday afternoon to get propane for my heaters and got into a car accident...I'm fine, had my dog with me too, he's fine, the car is totaled...First time Kobi has ever been in a wreck, he was a little freaked out...Coming up to a stop light with vehicles in front of me I was slowing down to a stop when the vehicle behind me wasn't paying attention and hit my car propelling me forward enough I couldn't prevent hitting the SUV in front of me...The passenger airbag went off but not the driver airbag on my side, had 2 full propane tanks in the trunk, glad those didn't go off lol...The road was a 35mph zone so none of us were going too fast to begin with...The guy that hit me said he glanced away for a few seconds and didn't realize how close he was, he might have been on his cell phone for all I know, but whatever his insurance doesn't cover mine will...Going to get a rental car in a couple days, last night I felt like a ragdoll that's been tossed around but feeling good this morning after resting overnight...

I'll be looking for another vehicle by the weekend, will have a rental for 30 days covered by insurance so I can get around and find one...Maybe a Jeep Cherokee this time, always liked those vehicles but never had one, it needs to have a 4x4 option for my mountain excursions lol...

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Thank God you are both OK.
 
Here's something funny for you. I was looking at a scholarly article on the Elamites, as
part of my research.

The article was in this journal:
Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology
June 2014, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 129 - 140
Published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development.

Sounds legit, right?

However, in a comment that I found on an accredited scholar's website, he furnishes
the information that "the journal’s publisher has published a machine-generated article that was submitted by someone checking to see whether the publisher would accept and publish a totally bogus article. The paper’s 'authors' were named as I.P. Freely, Oliver Clothesoff, Jacques Strap, Hugh Jazz and Amanda Huginkiss. "

So, at least somebody is having fun during Corona-time; publishing machine generated articles
and having the guts to list those names as the authors.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I have a gigantic scary-ass tree out back I call the 'Tree of Souls' just because it's so Halloweeny all the time and I just know it wants to grab at my soul. It's Evil. . Got to be a hundred years old. We had a big wind storm the other night and a huge piece of Evil broke off. Big tree sized limb maybe a foot in diameter and thirty feet long or so. Got to go fire up the Husky in a day or two and get that thing outta there, it's blocking the dog's poopy trail. Can't have that.
 
I have a gigantic scary-ass tree out back I call the 'Tree of Souls' just because it's so Halloweeny all the time and I just know it wants to grab at my soul. It's Evil. . Got to be a hundred years old. We had a big wind storm the other night and a huge piece of Evil broke off. Big tree sized limb maybe a foot in diameter and thirty feet long or so. Got to go fire up the Husky in a day or two and get that thing outta there, it's blocking the dog's poopy trail. Can't have that.

BBQ Time.
 

coubob

Celestial
Well apparently my 4 year old grandson has my insight as my wife puts it. My daughter and her husband were talking about her mom that just passed when the boy said I know nana is dead, but she is ok. Than later that day she was looking at pictures and he pics one up and said look its me. the pic which he never seen before was a x ray of his lungs when he was born.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
I went out yesterday afternoon to get propane for my heaters and got into a car accident...I'm fine, had my dog with me too, he's fine, the car is totaled...First time Kobi has ever been in a wreck, he was a little freaked out...Coming up to a stop light with vehicles in front of me I was slowing down to a stop when the vehicle behind me wasn't paying attention and hit my car propelling me forward enough I couldn't prevent hitting the SUV in front of me...The passenger airbag went off but not the driver airbag on my side, had 2 full propane tanks in the trunk, glad those didn't go off lol...The road was a 35mph zone so none of us were going too fast to begin with...The guy that hit me said he glanced away for a few seconds and didn't realize how close he was, he might have been on his cell phone for all I know, but whatever his insurance doesn't cover mine will...Going to get a rental car in a couple days, last night I felt like a ragdoll that's been tossed around but feeling good this morning after resting overnight...

I'll be looking for another vehicle by the weekend, will have a rental for 30 days covered by insurance so I can get around and find one...Maybe a Jeep Cherokee this time, always liked those vehicles but never had one, it needs to have a 4x4 option for my mountain excursions lol...

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Picked up the rental car, a 2021 Hyundai Sonata, it drives okay, good enough for a rental car...Still waiting to hear from the insurance company on how much they're giving me for my car...

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Picked up the rental car, a 2021 Hyundai Sonata, it drives okay, good enough for a rental car...Still waiting to hear from the insurance company on how much they're giving me for my car...

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The other guy's insurance is who should be paying for your car. When they make their offer,
you can easily say - I don't think that is fair - I need at least another $500. They won't argue
over that type of amount, and will settle it by paying you this extra. . I worked in risk management and insurance for 26 years.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
The other guy's insurance is who should be paying for your car.

Yep, his insurance paying for my car and my insurance paying the repairs for the car I hit in front of me...My insurance is also paying for the rental car I now drive...

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coubob

Celestial
My crazy grandson 4 years old, well they live in the country and they caught him pooping outside, he said well i pee pee outside.
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
In that range I'd look to make sure the generator provides a 4 prong twist lock outlet unless you're going to just run extension cords. If that's all you need something much smaller and quieter like a Honda portable inverter type might not be a bad choice. Haven't seen any multi-fuel but would not doubt they make them for certain markets.

If you want to actually connect it to your house's panel then make sure the generator has a 30 amp 250/125v L14-30 outlet on it. I have seen hundreds and hundreds of generators fly out the door and what I wrote below is something I have been through fifty zillion times, so if you know how to do it skip it. The multi-fuel ones, even the Fords, I have seen pass through as special orders but are not generally available in store. They were all pretty big. Some might have been 50 amp. I know you don't want to power much but when you start to compare the materials using what's most common is usually easiest and at least around here a 30A inlet is common. 4 wire connections lets you connect it safely to the panel. Mine's a 20amp output I wired as a 30 because it's old and when it goes a 30 will replace it - and even finding the right stuff to make it 20amp only would have been a p.i.t.a . Even at 20amps I have heat, hot water, lights, maybe one burner on the stove, refrigerator, all the tv, internet and gadgets.

A really common hookup is a weather resistant inlet flange on the side of the structure you want to provide power to. In dry locations just run 10/3 with ground NM-B cable from the service panel to the flange. Wet locations use 10/3 with ground UF cable. The cable is terminated in the main service panel on a double pole 30 amp breaker. Ideally with a lockout that requires the main breaker to be off before the generator breaker can be on so your new genny doesn't shock the hell of the utility worker out on the pole. Use a female-male generator cord to hook it up. The premade ones are 25' and weathertight. You want to DIY and make the cord with long SO or SJ rubber cord then with the plug there is a suffix letter. P is a male plug, R can be an in wall receptacle or a cylindrical socket cap. Use the socket cap on one end.

When the power goes out I just plug in the generator and fire it up. Then go to the main panel and go click, click. Then everything in the house works. Ask for more from the circuit than it can give and it'll likely pop the faceplate breaker on the generator itself first. Having farted around with cords and plugs and actual work to hook things up for years this is easy peasy.
My dad was an electrician and sometimes he would have moments like this.
 

Sheltie

Fratty and out of touch.
Picked up the rental car, a 2021 Hyundai Sonata, it drives okay, good enough for a rental car...Still waiting to hear from the insurance company on how much they're giving me for my car...

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So sorry to hear someone ran into you, Nivek. Glad you and Kobi are OK!
 
Well, lost a day of work yesterday.
We had a minor earthquake, which we get about every three months. Unless we forget
to drop our sacrifice in the Volcano, in which case it comes more often.
Anyway, a shelf fell in the bathroom - which, being wood, was easy to fix, but
it dropped and broke the toilet. Water all over.
Took me the whole day to replace it, and reminded me that my muscles need more exercise.
 

The shadow

The shadow knows!
A day filled with my kids frustrated misbehaving and fighting ended the only way it could.
I'm going to bed .
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