Good morning!!!!

[buckeyefarmer]

Did some more looking around on verizon this afternoon, and found out that starting next month verizon is going to increase the cost of unlimited plans $20/month. Also looked at my past phone bills, and decided I really didn't use that much data on the phone.

So tonight went to a verizon store, and decided to go ahead and get a phone upgrade, and switched to one of the shareable data plans, put my new LG 4G phone and MIFI on the new plan, and will also move my son's phone to it. In all I will be paying less for more data than what I was using on my unlimited. Also was able to get a 20% discount thru my work. Then went to Moe's and got a really good burrito.

Now if the wind would just calm down, my flag got shreaded by the wind today, it's caught on the top of the pole, and the rope is broken. will have to take the pole down to put a new rope on.

 

[Eric Salop]

Today the sky is dark, there is no spectacular sunrise, only a drab gray that refuses to get lighter, despite the clock ticking well past my normal time to get up while the radio presenter was talking in hushed tones that I did not understand until the newsreader came on and revealed what the people of France are suffering. So so sad.


I counted thirteen fence posts that storm Abigail blew over yesterday. Not her fault really, all the posts were rotten. Today we get to meet Kate. The tail end of this hurricane is expected to give some exceptional rainfall of up to 6" as it breaks over to the west of us in Wales and possibly even more to the North in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Giving names to weather events like this still seems a bit weird to me. These female ones seem quite feisty, hope the male ones will be more like wet wimps.

 

[daugen]

much cooler day, 42 out now only going to 55F today.
Successfully got a new gas furnace installed yesterday. RS, keep doing this stuff yourself; this one (the second of two gaspacks) cost $3K, Trane 95 model, like the other one. I just did not trust a 28 year old combustion chamber, plus the newer unit should use less propane. I did notice that the blower was noticeably more powerful, a little more warm air on my toes in the bathroom this morning. So now all three hvac units are relatively new and I can scratch that off the expensive list.

I know it's early but I may work on my Christmas tree this morning. Doing this by myself just takes a lot of time but I made good progress yesterday bringing decorations downstairs. Trying to remember how my late wife did this stuff...she was so good at it. I picked up one string of silver and red beads and oh no the one end was untied, and about a hundred little colored balls scattered over the entire length of the hardwood floor foyer. bing bing bing bing bing Groan.

I have a method for my madness in starting early, might enlist some female help. And if it looks nice enough when I'm done I might even get motivated to have a Christmas party, my first one. My new carpeting is just itching for some red holiday punch...

Roy, you sleeping in? Probably had a long day yesterday. I wonder when your first snow will be....

 

[daugen]

reading some of these posts I think a few of you are glad this week is done.
I was born on the 13th so for sure I can blame it all on that...
is there a government check for that?
just kidding. I think.

 

[Buppies]

38 degrees this morning and hope the wind dies down. Yesterday it blew and blew then blew some more so much so too windy to pave so graded in another job did some patch work and called it a day. Ion for today postponed till next Saturday so don't know what I will do today

Eric personally I think naming storms is stupid and sorry for the damage to your fence posts
Terrible just terrible what happened in France

 

[Buppies]

Drew you will really like the traine systems they work very well and the gas or propane work very well and efficient too

 

[daugen]

so too windy to pave

Terrible just terrible what happened in France

The headlines this morning are awful. A mini 9-11 for the French people. The Russians get their jet shot down full of kids.
beyond sad.
We really need to be careful in this country too.

as a pacifist, I struggle with the idea that a well armed citizenry possibly could have reduced the death count in Paris. Not the French way. I hope they never try it here to see if we do any better. Good thing I don't like crowded places. Nor do I like to fly. Not trying to be political, but like all of us, shocked by this. It sure could happen here.

on a brighter note, Buppies, how can it be too windy to pave? What does the wind do other than blow grit in your eyes? just curious

 

[ronjhall]

I wasn't real thrilled using paint thinner either, Irv. Besides being flammable, it easily formed bubbles that were difficult to remove from under the plexiglass. Next time I'll give antifreeze a try. Thanks! :thumbsup:

Company I worked for made levels for their balancing machines. The fluid we used was naphtha. Same as lighter fluid. Later we used Hexane. Both would have the same results that you need to measure volume.

 

[Buppies]

The wind cools the surface of the new mat rapidly so much so that getting the roller on it fast enough is not possible which causes the surface to look rough. Corners on parking lots and driveways especially

 

[rswyan]

39.8F and overcast @ 05:00 ...

Woke up @ 04:15 ...

The new kitty appears to be at least being tolerated at this point ... the male cat is mostly very much interested in watching it play, although occasionally he just gets bored and flops over on his side and closes his eyes ... almost. Sometimes they just sit and stare at eat other.

The little kitty however sometimes has other ideas ... last night he/she/it actually started to stalk the male cat, which is probably 10x its size and 20x its weight. Be real interesting to see how that will go, when it finally does an unexpected ambush.

The little kitty is into exploring and is very prone to just abruptly taking off and running 10' or 20' in some random direction. Can't think of a better way to trigger the predator response.

Female cat is still largely disinterested.