Our public school has had dozens of cases and is still open.
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I haven't done anything but take out from Domino's. Last sit down at a restaurant was probably 6 months ago.
Eateries are closed for eat in traffic here since Nov I think. Maybe will open the middle of next month. We used to go to Applebys every Monday night for the last 6-7 years so miss that and our favorite waiter Johnny.
Time to think of it I haven't even stopped at McDonald's since all this started. I don't think Wendy's or Burger King either.
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Transfer by contacting surfaces is relatively safe in restaurants because all surfaces cleaned with disinfectant have lingering cleaners left. And COVID-19 needs to be inhaled. But people need to remove masks to eat. So we visit only restaurants that are taking measures. Most of the major chains are requiring steps. Here, Texas Roadhouse requires use of call ahead via their app. You text them when you arrive and sit in the car until they say the table is ready
Business is so slow at our Burger King they let the Girl Scouts use their dining room for a meeting.
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I heard the nfl is giving free tickets to the pro bowl to 7500 medical and grocery store workers
I read that 1.4% of covid comes from restaurants and bars..... .4% from restaurants. It's a tough competitive business. Shame they can't stay open with precautions.
Got a carpet job done today. It was three bedrooms in a new house. Actually started on Monday. put tarps down and unroll the carpet outside so I could notch it out into the shapes to get the longest fill pieces. That ate up a lot of time up on Monday. Seems I've been putting in 5-hour days more than anything else lately. Total of 63 ft of seams in those three rooms. All of the rooms ended with metal in the doorways so no seams in the doorways. Why does someone build a house with rooms that are 12 ft 7 in wide?
I squeezed the job in because the guy was moving in. He knew I had another job scheduled and bent the rules and fit him in.
He was pretty thankful. Handed me a piece of paper with thank you for fitting me in and doing a top notch job. Inside the paper was $250. My second biggest thank you. I was a wee bit surprised.
I squeezed the job in because the guy was moving in. He knew I had another job scheduled and bent the rules and fit him in.
He was pretty thankful. Handed me a piece of paper with thank you for fitting me in and doing a top notch job. Inside the paper was $250. My second biggest thank you. I was a wee bit surprised.
Thats good highup
So can eat for a couple of days
So can eat for a couple of days
My Acurite brand thermometer/weather station has shown outside temperatures way off for a couple of months now. The batteries on the outdoor sensor were good. It was reading 40° when there was ice on some cups of water outside.
The indoor display on my old unit shows the moon phase, barometer and attempts to tell you the weather forecast with images of sun, clouds, rain, snow or whatever..
I stopped at Walmart and bought a cheaper AcuRite thermometer with a sensor for outdoor temperatures. Even though my old unit is 5 or 6 years old, this new unit has an identical looking sensor.
When I set the new sensor up to my old unit the humidity reading was 1%.
That seems really strange as a starting point before it starts sensing the actual humidity. After 10 minutes the reading didn't change.
This new AcuRite indoor outdoor thermometer has the exact same sensor, however the display on the unit does not show or display humidity.
I took the defective sensor unit apart, the one with the bad temperature readings. Then I took apart the new unit.
I discovered the new unit had virtually the same circuit board, but with the humidity sensor missing.
What the heck I've got a great big Weller soldering gun. Every once in awhile I wish I had a small handheld pencil point unit for small tasks like this.
The new circuit board had the same holes as my defective one. I desoldered the humidity sensor from the old unit and soldered it into the new unit, the one that had inaccurate temperature readings.
Results........ It's ALIVE!
Now I have an accurate thermometer and humidity sensor.
Glad to find that I didn't have to replace the entire unit. The new inner outdoor thermometer was 20 bucks. I'm guessing I paid $45 for the old unit with all the additional information that provides. Nice I didn't have to replace that unit.
As a side benefit the new indoor outdoor thermometer now allows me to put the second thermometer in another location so I can read the outdoor temperatures from two places. I'll put this one in my bedroom.
I don't think you can buy just a single replacement sensor anyway... Not locally anyway.
The photo shows where I removed the sensor and put it in the other circuit board. The yellow V points at the humidity sensor. The sensor used two of those three holes that you see in the red circles.
I can't change the weather but I can change how I visualize it on an LCD screen.
The indoor display on my old unit shows the moon phase, barometer and attempts to tell you the weather forecast with images of sun, clouds, rain, snow or whatever..
I stopped at Walmart and bought a cheaper AcuRite thermometer with a sensor for outdoor temperatures. Even though my old unit is 5 or 6 years old, this new unit has an identical looking sensor.
When I set the new sensor up to my old unit the humidity reading was 1%.
That seems really strange as a starting point before it starts sensing the actual humidity. After 10 minutes the reading didn't change.
This new AcuRite indoor outdoor thermometer has the exact same sensor, however the display on the unit does not show or display humidity.
I took the defective sensor unit apart, the one with the bad temperature readings. Then I took apart the new unit.
I discovered the new unit had virtually the same circuit board, but with the humidity sensor missing.
What the heck I've got a great big Weller soldering gun. Every once in awhile I wish I had a small handheld pencil point unit for small tasks like this.
The new circuit board had the same holes as my defective one. I desoldered the humidity sensor from the old unit and soldered it into the new unit, the one that had inaccurate temperature readings.
Results........ It's ALIVE!
Now I have an accurate thermometer and humidity sensor.
Glad to find that I didn't have to replace the entire unit. The new inner outdoor thermometer was 20 bucks. I'm guessing I paid $45 for the old unit with all the additional information that provides. Nice I didn't have to replace that unit.
As a side benefit the new indoor outdoor thermometer now allows me to put the second thermometer in another location so I can read the outdoor temperatures from two places. I'll put this one in my bedroom.
I don't think you can buy just a single replacement sensor anyway... Not locally anyway.
The photo shows where I removed the sensor and put it in the other circuit board. The yellow V points at the humidity sensor. The sensor used two of those three holes that you see in the red circles.
I can't change the weather but I can change how I visualize it on an LCD screen.
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At $6 per square yard the entire job was worth $550. I used up a roll of seam tape and that's 20 bucksThats good highup
So can eat for a couple of days
And tack strip probably came to about 20 bucks. The job was nearby, so the gas was only about $15.
But even at 5 hours a day for 6 days that sucks. I'd be better off doing 6 2-hour repairs for 6 days straight. I would have made twice as much money and added on any materials used.
I tried to get started on a carpet job day before yesterday. There's a bedroom and office and a 27-ft long hallway. At the end of that hallway there's a step up to a second part of the hallway that's 15 ft long. It has those big orange terracotta tiles that are very uneven. There's almost half an inch difference in thickness to portions of some of these tiles. The carpet is an expensive low profile carpet. I came prepared to pour self leveling concrete on this area but only got as far as testing a primer that I've never used before and removing the baseboards. The way it's ending up I'm going to do that part today.
Since it wasn't raining yesterday I decided to unroll some tarps and split the fill pieces and hallway outside. Soon after unrolling the 30-ft piece I noticed small coppery brown spots on the carpet. The carpet is light green. The lady has been waiting for me to do this job since late November and now we have to wait for a week and a half for new carpet.
How did your day go?
Since it wasn't raining yesterday I decided to unroll some tarps and split the fill pieces and hallway outside. Soon after unrolling the 30-ft piece I noticed small coppery brown spots on the carpet. The carpet is light green. The lady has been waiting for me to do this job since late November and now we have to wait for a week and a half for new carpet.
How did your day go?
My friend's 1st ex's father has Covid. Not good chances of survival because he has Lupus. He exposed his daughter (who has cancer) and grandkids. So my friend can't see his daughter for awhile.
Thursday is the day he's getting more teeth pulled. I'll be going in for an assessment to see what needs to be done on my teeth. Probably need some fillings. The cap/crown they want to put on is over $1k so forget that!
Yesterday I took Mom for her regular checkup. Doctor griped about how the legislators for our state can't do math or follow simple logic. They slated x number of vaccines to be sent out to be distributed on week 1 and same amount for week 2. But then they didn't up the units available for week 3 when they would have week 1 people coming back for 2nd dose as well as new doses being given out. So only people who were getting 2nd dose were able to get their shots for weeks 3 and 4. Halfway through week 5 they realized they needed to roll out more vaccines. Also found that whoever was responsible for putting my mom's name on the vaccine list forgot to put her down. She's been added now though.
Her blood results were better than mine. She takes all sorts of vitamins and supplements but she also was lucky that the heart disease from her family skipped her generation. She genetically had good teeth and heart. I inherited my dad's teeth and heart issues. Got strokes and heart attack on both sides of the family.
I felt like being productive today so I forced myself to clean the kitchen sink. I lacked the mental fortitude to do it before bc it was so bad. My brother had piled literal garbage in it. I found some dishes in there among the hair, wet lint, cheese wrappers, soaked cardboard, etc. It was nasty. It has some black stains in it that won't go away but I got stuff out of it and it's as clean as I could get it before my back gave out. I stuffed stuff in the dishwasher. I'll pull it out and clean it better later since the dishwasher we have is only good as a drying rack. Next step is cleaning counters and then the floor.
One of my favorite singers came out with a version of a song my family used to sing in the car on long trips.
I've been a fan of bass singers ever since Bowzer from Sha Na Na was on TV. My parents like(d) bass singers too. My mom's current favorite is Tim Foust. I wish he had more solo songs. He and Geoff Castelluci are my current favorites.
Thursday is the day he's getting more teeth pulled. I'll be going in for an assessment to see what needs to be done on my teeth. Probably need some fillings. The cap/crown they want to put on is over $1k so forget that!
Yesterday I took Mom for her regular checkup. Doctor griped about how the legislators for our state can't do math or follow simple logic. They slated x number of vaccines to be sent out to be distributed on week 1 and same amount for week 2. But then they didn't up the units available for week 3 when they would have week 1 people coming back for 2nd dose as well as new doses being given out. So only people who were getting 2nd dose were able to get their shots for weeks 3 and 4. Halfway through week 5 they realized they needed to roll out more vaccines. Also found that whoever was responsible for putting my mom's name on the vaccine list forgot to put her down. She's been added now though.
Her blood results were better than mine. She takes all sorts of vitamins and supplements but she also was lucky that the heart disease from her family skipped her generation. She genetically had good teeth and heart. I inherited my dad's teeth and heart issues. Got strokes and heart attack on both sides of the family.
I felt like being productive today so I forced myself to clean the kitchen sink. I lacked the mental fortitude to do it before bc it was so bad. My brother had piled literal garbage in it. I found some dishes in there among the hair, wet lint, cheese wrappers, soaked cardboard, etc. It was nasty. It has some black stains in it that won't go away but I got stuff out of it and it's as clean as I could get it before my back gave out. I stuffed stuff in the dishwasher. I'll pull it out and clean it better later since the dishwasher we have is only good as a drying rack. Next step is cleaning counters and then the floor.
One of my favorite singers came out with a version of a song my family used to sing in the car on long trips.
I've been a fan of bass singers ever since Bowzer from Sha Na Na was on TV. My parents like(d) bass singers too. My mom's current favorite is Tim Foust. I wish he had more solo songs. He and Geoff Castelluci are my current favorites.
Where the heck are people getting Covid from? Does anyone watch the news? For approaching a year they drove in your head 50 times per day to take precautions. Do people that get covid wear masks and use hand sanitizer and wash their hands? I just have a hard time feeling this is like radioactivity from a nuclear bomb. If you don't get near it you're not going to get it. Frustrating.
Yes I'm also one of those people that also think it was dumb for people to have traveled for Thanksgiving and Christmas this year. How do you get covid if you stay away from people and take precautions?
Well my day today went fairly well, I got done what I needed to. I installed some self-leveling concrete in the hallway to cover up some very irregular terracotta tiles. The correct primer was not available so I used another primer made by Latacrete. It says to apply primer, mixed one to one with water then pour it on, ...then sprinkle the self-leveling powder onto the wet surface and scrub it in to make a slurry.
The manufacturer for the leveler I used has a one component product that you roll on, then wait for it to dry. Simple and quick.
The method by laticrete means you have to scrub the material you poured onto the floor with powder and it's kind of messy creating the slurry that way.
Though it's a slow process scrubbing it in to the surface mixing the powder and slurry mix probably helps bond it to the surface better by scuffing it up as we scrub the floor mixing the slurry.
It dried faster than I expected and that was a good thing.
So today I made a really nice looking terracotta hallway quite ugly.
I didn't take any pictures but I also put 80 lb of self-leveling concrete over the floor to flatten it out. it turned out pretty nice. These tiles are really tall in the center and inconsistent in thickness. I'm installing a low profile carpet and there is no way in hell I would have installed it without doing this first. The lady questioned why I needed to do this. I would have simply refused to do the job because I knew my stretched-in carpet job would fail if I didn't flatten the floor.
It also would have been dangerous for people to walk on. The carpet would have looked flat. However walking on it would have felt like walking on mountains and mole hills. People would easily have tripped on this hallway. The people users house is a bed and breakfast so safety is more of a concern than a regular house.
The manufacturer for the leveler I used has a one component product that you roll on, then wait for it to dry. Simple and quick.
The method by laticrete means you have to scrub the material you poured onto the floor with powder and it's kind of messy creating the slurry that way.
Though it's a slow process scrubbing it in to the surface mixing the powder and slurry mix probably helps bond it to the surface better by scuffing it up as we scrub the floor mixing the slurry.
It dried faster than I expected and that was a good thing.
So today I made a really nice looking terracotta hallway quite ugly.
I didn't take any pictures but I also put 80 lb of self-leveling concrete over the floor to flatten it out. it turned out pretty nice. These tiles are really tall in the center and inconsistent in thickness. I'm installing a low profile carpet and there is no way in hell I would have installed it without doing this first. The lady questioned why I needed to do this. I would have simply refused to do the job because I knew my stretched-in carpet job would fail if I didn't flatten the floor.
It also would have been dangerous for people to walk on. The carpet would have looked flat. However walking on it would have felt like walking on mountains and mole hills. People would easily have tripped on this hallway. The people users house is a bed and breakfast so safety is more of a concern than a regular house.
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They're going to quarantine me.
Is a challenge this mom and dad need to get an award. What a really neat family.
Is a challenge this mom and dad need to get an award. What a really neat family.
My first cousin that died from it got it from his daughter. She thought that wearing a mask violated her freedom.
