Afternoon, everyone.
Rex, I'm sorry to hear about your MIL, but glad that Hospice did a good job for her. Hospice was a real lifesaver for me when Jean was dying, and they have my never ending gratitude.
Don, I never really thought about the dryer or washer outlets. My rig is wired for 50 amps, and it supposedly takes each leg of a 50 amp, 240 volt circuit and puts it through the inverter as a two legged 25 amp, 110 volt circuit. However, as Terry said, I'm not sure I can just hook it up to a 240 volt outlet that's not set up to service an RV, even though the adapter I have will fit. I've also hear stories of guys who did this and fried a $2000 inverter and all the electric appliances, so I'm a little wary of this. I just checked the washer breaker and it's only 20 amps, just like the outdoor plugs.
If I was a real electrician kind of guy, I'd probably know what I was talking about.
I don't have a 26 foot long space blanket kind of tarp, but that's not a bad idea, if I can find one at a reasonable price.
Tom, your poor wife must think she makes cars break now. I feel for you with those projects. I worked on a dam and fish screen project for an 8 megawatt hydro plant, one of the smallest we had in our system. The plant was fed by a water diversion from the Eel River, and the outlet went to the Russian River. That water was used by most of the vineyards in Sonoma County, and the Russian River would go dry in summer without our diversion water. Our idiot vice-president wanted to just shut down the plant rather than build a $20 million fish screen. I tried to explain to him, since I actually lived in Sonoma County, that many of those vineyards were owned by the rich and famous, and having us cut off their water would cost us more grief than building the fish screen. After the story hit the papers and the phone calls started coming in, we went ahead and built the fish screen.
Congrats on the win, Andy. I played softball last year but had to quit halfway through the season. My old rotator cuff injury in my right shoulder in now arthritic, and I went from being able to throw from third to first to barely being able to make it to the pitcher. Getting old isn't fun sometimes.
Karl, that looks like a heck of a movie. Not too realistic, but at least it has lots of trains. Any idea what railroad it was shot on?
Chris, I'll keep praying you get that second job. Maybe you'll make enough money to get a lawyer, and not have to be at the mercy of what your wife and her family want for your son.
Jeffrey, there's on an old saying that, if you flip a coin 49 times and it comes up heads, to expect it to come up tails the 50th is the definition of insanity. Sounds like you need to be less insane about your expectations for your nephew.
Sandy, long time, no see. How are things out there in Colorful Colorado?
Matt, I used to have to dive in kelp, which was bad enough, but pond weeds must be a real ball. Do you just rip these weeds out by the roots our what? What do you do with them once you've dislodged them? Sounds like hard work, but even harder underwater. Still, if there's a demand, sounds like pretty good money. You need to get certified though. There's little things like liability insurance if you're really running a business, and you won't get insurance without being a certified diver.
It's another long, hot, humid summer day at the old ranchette. High of 103 and low last night of 77. It finally went below 85 about 0300.
The NWS is still trying to juice up a disorganized mess of clouds and thunderstorms off the southeast coast of Florida into a tropical storm. None of the models are even bringing it above tropical depression status, and I can't see how it can develop further unless it stalls somewhere in the Gulf. There are tons of dry air being pulled into the system and the wind shear is still up around 20 knots. If we're lucky, it will get more organized, make landfall somewhere near the Louisiana-Texas border, and give us at least some rain. My guess is that it will never organize and just stay south in the Gulf as a tropical wave, probably just far enough south so we get almost no rain out if it. I hope I'm wrong.
I've heard of deep fried twinkies, but butter is a new one on me. I don't think we have anything that unhealthy down here, and we have just about every unhealthy thing ever made.
