Cooler today...only 100 heat index,
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Cooler today...only 100 heat index,
Nick
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Hump out there today ..
It's 11 am here and approaching 69 degrees and no clouds in the sky.......... it's gonna be a scorcher.
Already 93 here at 1 30
I just looked at my thermometers One says 92 under my carport and the other was reading 100 on the north side of the house. Humidity is atrocious though, like walking on the air. glasses steam over going out of the house.
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Highup, that Lamerdown 2018 looks good! Clever solution.
Floorist, sorry to hear about the tree branch breaking the windshield. Hopefully it was just the glass and no other damage-- but that glass can be a pain to clean out. I've been there before. One of these days I'll post some pics of the tree damage to my vehicles over the years.
Went to hang out with my friend the past couple of days. Day before yesterday we were visiting him at work and he had a very chatty customer. Nice guy with a pretty motorcycle. Says he refurbishes/repairs guitars. He said he used to be a contractor and he talked about some of the late contractors that used to be in town. He overheard my friend lamenting that his grandfather paid a plumber $300 to do the plumbing and instead of hooking the sink and washing machine to existing vents, he put holes in the walls to the outside and then slapped AAVs on the vents outside. Up until 2016, AAVs were actually banned here. Even if they are allowed now, they shouldn't be put on washing machines. He didn't even seal around the holes where he took brick out of the wall on the outside. My friend had already dug the trenches for the pipe to go on the outside but the guy didn't even put the pipe deep enough in the trenches to be buried and didn't do any digging himself. He wanted to use 2" for the entire run, but my friend had bought 3" pipe (my friend provided all of the pipe but the plumber just glued stuff & slapped the cheap ABS AAVs on).
The chatty customer overheard us talking about what a sham job the plumbing was and started talking about plumbing. He was claiming that you can't put a P-trap on a kitchen sink and started arguing with me about it-- saying it clogs to much. I told him that current plumbing code requires a P-trap. When I mentioned that state code had been repealed in 2016 and reverted to IPC 2012 he conceded that I knew more about the current plumbing code than he did. Now, I don't know if P-traps were ever banned or if he misunderstood what P-traps were or if he was just BSing bc he thought I wouldn't know... LOL.
The store closed at 9pm and one of the employees asked my friend (who was the supervisor) to tell the chatty guy it was time to close, but it is against store policy to do so. The lights automatically shut off at 9:05pm, so I told the guy that it was closing time and the lights were about to shut off, so he decided to stop chatting and check out.
My old dog is doing better-- she is refusing to keep her diapers on, but she peed on some puppy pads and has been walking around, standing, etc and not having too much trouble with mobility. Weather has been far too hot to let her back outside though.
George Carlin always cracked me up. I have waaaay too much stuff. I need to go through and get rid of stuff. I have stuff in boxes that haven't been opened since they were first packed up in 1992. I really need to clear off my porch as well. Got some junk we meant to haul off that is still out there-- old TVs and junk.
I read the Jurassic Park novel years before it was made in to a movie and then watched the movie in the theater. I really enjoyed the original (although I nitpicked the differences in the book). We all loved dinosaurs so we got a bunch of the mdse related to the movies. Our favorite was a spray bottle with the head of the spitter dinosaur. My father pointed the spitter at my sister's then-boyfriend and said "John, in the next 3 seconds your life depends on your knowledge of paleo-biology". John said "Paleo-what?" So Dad sprayed him right in the face. Velociraptors were my father's favorite. I haven't seen any of the new movies yet.
The heat here has been abysmal. I've been waiting until the evening when it started to cool down to go outside. Now that all of the dogs are inside, there isn't a need to go out unless I am going into town to go to the store.
Floorist, sorry to hear about the tree branch breaking the windshield. Hopefully it was just the glass and no other damage-- but that glass can be a pain to clean out. I've been there before. One of these days I'll post some pics of the tree damage to my vehicles over the years.
Went to hang out with my friend the past couple of days. Day before yesterday we were visiting him at work and he had a very chatty customer. Nice guy with a pretty motorcycle. Says he refurbishes/repairs guitars. He said he used to be a contractor and he talked about some of the late contractors that used to be in town. He overheard my friend lamenting that his grandfather paid a plumber $300 to do the plumbing and instead of hooking the sink and washing machine to existing vents, he put holes in the walls to the outside and then slapped AAVs on the vents outside. Up until 2016, AAVs were actually banned here. Even if they are allowed now, they shouldn't be put on washing machines. He didn't even seal around the holes where he took brick out of the wall on the outside. My friend had already dug the trenches for the pipe to go on the outside but the guy didn't even put the pipe deep enough in the trenches to be buried and didn't do any digging himself. He wanted to use 2" for the entire run, but my friend had bought 3" pipe (my friend provided all of the pipe but the plumber just glued stuff & slapped the cheap ABS AAVs on).
The chatty customer overheard us talking about what a sham job the plumbing was and started talking about plumbing. He was claiming that you can't put a P-trap on a kitchen sink and started arguing with me about it-- saying it clogs to much. I told him that current plumbing code requires a P-trap. When I mentioned that state code had been repealed in 2016 and reverted to IPC 2012 he conceded that I knew more about the current plumbing code than he did. Now, I don't know if P-traps were ever banned or if he misunderstood what P-traps were or if he was just BSing bc he thought I wouldn't know... LOL.
The store closed at 9pm and one of the employees asked my friend (who was the supervisor) to tell the chatty guy it was time to close, but it is against store policy to do so. The lights automatically shut off at 9:05pm, so I told the guy that it was closing time and the lights were about to shut off, so he decided to stop chatting and check out.
My old dog is doing better-- she is refusing to keep her diapers on, but she peed on some puppy pads and has been walking around, standing, etc and not having too much trouble with mobility. Weather has been far too hot to let her back outside though.
George Carlin always cracked me up. I have waaaay too much stuff. I need to go through and get rid of stuff. I have stuff in boxes that haven't been opened since they were first packed up in 1992. I really need to clear off my porch as well. Got some junk we meant to haul off that is still out there-- old TVs and junk.
I read the Jurassic Park novel years before it was made in to a movie and then watched the movie in the theater. I really enjoyed the original (although I nitpicked the differences in the book). We all loved dinosaurs so we got a bunch of the mdse related to the movies. Our favorite was a spray bottle with the head of the spitter dinosaur. My father pointed the spitter at my sister's then-boyfriend and said "John, in the next 3 seconds your life depends on your knowledge of paleo-biology". John said "Paleo-what?" So Dad sprayed him right in the face. Velociraptors were my father's favorite. I haven't seen any of the new movies yet.
The heat here has been abysmal. I've been waiting until the evening when it started to cool down to go outside. Now that all of the dogs are inside, there isn't a need to go out unless I am going into town to go to the store.
The Lamerdown works pretty good and cost nothing.
About that 3" pipe, size is important. I don't know all the details, and I also don't know what code says about that particular run of pipe and what it eventually connects to. A smaller pipe has more velocity so the pipe doesn't clog up like it might with one that's too large. 2" might be better if the washer is the only thing that uses it.
Wow, that's bad news. I've been so lucky over the years not having accidents and getting hurt bad.
his pickup is sitting at home, but his wife doesn't have a license. None of their family would take her to see him.
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That's strange. Any of them live nearby?
20-30 miles.
Nick
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Sorry to hear that .. That's not a family !!
Since he doesn't have insurance, they are sending him home tomorrow with his brain still bleeding.
Isn't there a county hospital anywhere near that would take him?
No. Our hospital sends you elsewhere for anything serious. That is how he ended up 60 miles from here. You know a hospital in California got caught loading patients in a cab and dumping them on the curb in front of other hospitals. That is health care in the US,
Highup, good point on the pipe size thing. I vaguely recall reading that it was supposed to be 3". Maybe 2" would be ok though-- but the plumber lost some trust for me by putting AAVs on outside vents instead of tying in to the existing vent stack. He had been the one who did the plumbing before and it was so bad that the washing machine water kept backing up in to the sink so my friend's grandmother had just said "F- it" and put the washing machine hose out the window when it was in use so it just dumped water outside. For some reason the plumber refused to come back and fix things until she passed away.
Floorist, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. Our healthcare system can really suck sometimes. This whole for-profit thing just doesn't work (but I've ranted about that in a different thread). It really is sad that people are left to die if they don't have $ or insurance (or don't have the $ to get insurance). I can't even imagine how his wife and family feel right now, but I know it must suck.
Our local hospital is pretty bad so if someone has something serious they have to be transferred an hour away as well. Not surprised to hear about people being sent out in cabs. Our local hospital once called to ask us to come pick up someone to drive him to another hospital while his wife was transferred in an ambulance. Only, when we got there, it turns out they hadn't even called for an ambulance and they wanted us to drive her to the other hospital so they could wash their hands of the situation and blame us for any problems. Since they were refusing to transfer her once we got there, we ended up having to take her (it was an 80-year old woman with a broken arm/wrist). They didn't even stabilize her injury with splints-- they just told her to hold her arm still and sent her out. It's a good thing it wasn't something life-threatening.
Floorist, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. Our healthcare system can really suck sometimes. This whole for-profit thing just doesn't work (but I've ranted about that in a different thread). It really is sad that people are left to die if they don't have $ or insurance (or don't have the $ to get insurance). I can't even imagine how his wife and family feel right now, but I know it must suck.
Our local hospital is pretty bad so if someone has something serious they have to be transferred an hour away as well. Not surprised to hear about people being sent out in cabs. Our local hospital once called to ask us to come pick up someone to drive him to another hospital while his wife was transferred in an ambulance. Only, when we got there, it turns out they hadn't even called for an ambulance and they wanted us to drive her to the other hospital so they could wash their hands of the situation and blame us for any problems. Since they were refusing to transfer her once we got there, we ended up having to take her (it was an 80-year old woman with a broken arm/wrist). They didn't even stabilize her injury with splints-- they just told her to hold her arm still and sent her out. It's a good thing it wasn't something life-threatening.
Nick
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I had a colon bust on me a few years back .. Was walking around with it for a few days till i passed out .. Got Sepis from it .. They kicked me out early and told me to buy these $80.00 pills 4 times a day for two weeks .. there is only one antibiotic that fights the big S .. Sister in law works at a Hospital says they make a lot of money on check in's ..
Nick
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