migalyto
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This reminds me of one of the more cool things I saw in Germany when I lived in Germany 91-93. At church, I was in charge of the young men's program. We only had a couple young men (12-18) but I was in charge. This included the Sunday instruction for a 50 min block as well as activities during the week. We made an RC glider, did a campout, and that sort of thing.
Our congregation was part of a larger regional unit called a "Stake", which is an organizational unit composed of all the local congregations on a given area. There was also a Stake Young Men's President (Presidency -- President and 2 counselors). They organized things at the regional level and helped the local congregations with their programs. I worked in Munich but lived about 50 miles outside of Munich (yes I commuted that 50 miles each way every day -- the majority of which was Autobahn). Our Stake, or regional church group was the Munich Stake and the Stake Young Men's President was an active Bundeswehr officer. I think he was in a Panzer unit but I don't remember. I actually knew the guy from when I was a missionary in Würzburg about 5 years earlier. He was a Panzer office (Major) at that time and was what was called the "Ward Mission Leader" or the member of the local congregation who was the liaison between the local congregation and the full time missionaries, so I had worked a lot with this guy back then and he had invited us back then to a Bundeswehr torchlight assembly at an old amphitheater. That was pretty cool.
Anyway, now in Munich, he'd been promoted and was probably some sort of Colonel equivalent -- I don't remember -- and was acting as the Stake Young Men's President, and I as the local Young Men's President for our congregation technically reported to him. He asked me to come by his office at work so we could sit down and go over how our local young men were doing, upcoming regional activities, etc. So he gave me the address ad I drove to this Bundeswehr base, parked somewhere on the street since e were in the city, and walked to the main gate. I talked to the guards and said that I was there for Col Whatever his name was. They took my passport, had me fill in a log, made some calls, etc. I don't remember all that happened. However, what I do remember, is that the guards all had actual G3 rifles on their shoulders. Not a picture in a book or an H&K 91 hanging up as unobtanium in a gun store (expensive $$$ to a guy like me). But right there in front of me. I didn't say anything and obviously didn't get a close look or get to handle one, but was mesmerized by having a couple actual G3 rifles right in front of me. Needles to say it was pretty cool. It was also pretty cool to be escorted [by a guard with a G3] to the guy's office once the permission finally came for me to enter the base and he had a big office with fancy couch or chairs, table etc and an attendant who brought some sort of cake or finger food, fizzy water, etc. That was pretty cool too.
As a missionary (87) in the same town I was now living nearby and going to church in while working in Munich, there was a German Panzer base on the outskirts of town, and I guess a maneuver range a few miles down the road. One day we road our bikes by the Panzer base and there was a big lineup of Leopard tanks with engines running just sitting at the gate. We drove down the road on our bikes to visit a guy from the local congregation who was a student there at the time and while we were talking to him all this noise started passing by. We looked and right there a long line of Leopards was driving down through road. That was cool.
I also saw Tornado jets a few times doing low level flying and a few times we saw original M1 Abrams tanks of the US Army on flat cars in a German train station. Germany was an interesting place in the Cold War times.
(in our church the positions are all lay positions -- no paid clergy and you are asked to hold a position as a volunteer for a few years and then you are released and called to another position)
Sorry for the long story based on the mention of a G3 rifle. It just reminded me of being at the Bundeswehr base and seeing real G3 rifles on the guards there and then remembering other things I saw whille there as well.
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Blood pressure! Got have it, seems it’s a requirement. I read mine in the morning at wake up and around 10pm. My clinic would not test my wrist monitor I had used for years, so I did the Amazon thing and purchased a cuff machine in April. It will now get calibrated by the clinic 2 times a year and there is no co-pay by my insurance.
I just read am email from my supplemental insurance provider. I’ve been way behind! I’ve been in a program for my diabetes I guess for 3 years 10/1 and I am getting removed. They paid for all my supplies, automatically sent based on my daily readings. My Metformin was at no co-pay and automatically sent every 90 days. They also had a daily report in that I religiously followed for food, weight, carbs, calories eaten , calories burned and so forth. I will miss the accountability.
Had Chinese take out for dinner. It was ok. I texted Terry to remove it from the list. The place we normally use was closed for Labor Day. #2 on the Chinese list has been removed as the last time we had food from there it also was just ok. There are enough very good places in the area that we won’t miss the former #2. #1 on the list is just so good it’s rare we need to go elsewhere…
I just read am email from my supplemental insurance provider. I’ve been way behind! I’ve been in a program for my diabetes I guess for 3 years 10/1 and I am getting removed. They paid for all my supplies, automatically sent based on my daily readings. My Metformin was at no co-pay and automatically sent every 90 days. They also had a daily report in that I religiously followed for food, weight, carbs, calories eaten , calories burned and so forth. I will miss the accountability.
Had Chinese take out for dinner. It was ok. I texted Terry to remove it from the list. The place we normally use was closed for Labor Day. #2 on the Chinese list has been removed as the last time we had food from there it also was just ok. There are enough very good places in the area that we won’t miss the former #2. #1 on the list is just so good it’s rare we need to go elsewhere…
RhB Michael
RhB Lokführer
I'm a landlubber or a flyboy. You'd never catch me in a boat.
chadbag
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You’ll catch me on whatever my neighbors or friends have. Boats and planes are one of those things you want your neighbor or BIL to own. Not yourself.I'm a landlubber or a flyboy. You'd never catch me in a boat.
Kusojiji
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Sounds like you are on the way to comatose!
chadbag
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This reminds me of one of the more cool things I saw in Germany when I lived in Germany 91-93. At church, I was in charge of the young men's program. We only had a couple young men (12-18) but I was in charge. This included the Sunday instruction for a 50 min block as well as activities during the week. We made an RC glider, did a campout, and that sort of thing.
Our congregation was part of a larger regional unit called a "Stake", which is an organizational unit composed of all the local congregations on a given area. There was also a Stake Young Men's President (Presidency -- President and 2 counselors). They organized things at the regional level and helped the local congregations with their programs. I worked in Munich but lived about 50 miles outside of Munich (yes I commuted that 50 miles each way every day -- the majority of which was Autobahn). Our Stake, or regional church group was the Munich Stake and the Stake Young Men's President was an active Bundeswehr officer. I think he was in a Panzer unit but I don't remember. I actually knew the guy from when I was a missionary in Würzburg about 5 years earlier. He was a Panzer office (Major) at that time and was what was called the "Ward Mission Leader" or the member of the local congregation who was the liaison between the local congregation and the full time missionaries, so I had worked a lot with this guy back then and he had invited us back then to a Bundeswehr torchlight assembly at an old amphitheater. That was pretty cool.
Anyway, now in Munich, he'd been promoted and was probably some sort of Colonel equivalent -- I don't remember -- and was acting as the Stake Young Men's President, and I as the local Young Men's President for our congregation technically reported to him. He asked me to come by his office at work so we could sit down and go over how our local young men were doing, upcoming regional activities, etc. So he gave me the address ad I drove to this Bundeswehr base, parked somewhere on the street since e were in the city, and walked to the main gate. I talked to the guards and said that I was there for Col Whatever his name was. They took my passport, had me fill in a log, made some calls, etc. I don't remember all that happened. However, what I do remember, is that the guards all had actual G3 rifles on their shoulders. Not a picture in a book or an H&K 91 hanging up as unobtanium in a gun store (expensive $$$ to a guy like me). But right there in front of me. I didn't say anything and obviously didn't get a close look or get to handle one, but was mesmerized by having a couple actual G3 rifles right in front of me. Needles to say it was pretty cool. It was also pretty cool to be escorted [by a guard with a G3] to the guy's office once the permission finally came for me to enter the base and he had a big office with fancy couch or chairs, table etc and an attendant who brought some sort of cake or finger food, fizzy water, etc. That was pretty cool too.
As a missionary (87) in the same town I was now living nearby and going to church in while working in Munich, there was a German Panzer base on the outskirts of town, and I guess a maneuver range a few miles down the road. One day we road our bikes by the Panzer base and there was a big lineup of Leopard tanks with engines running just sitting at the gate. We drove down the road on our bikes to visit a guy from the local congregation who was a student there at the time and while we were talking to him all this noise started passing by. We looked and right there a long line of Leopards was driving down through road. That was cool.
I also saw Tornado jets a few times doing low level flying and a few times we saw original M1 Abrams tanks of the US Army on flat cars in a German train station. Germany was an interesting place in the Cold War times.
(in our church the positions are all lay positions -- no paid clergy and you are asked to hold a position as a volunteer for a few years and then you are released and called to another position)
Sorry for the long story based on the mention of a G3 rifle. It just reminded me of being at the Bundeswehr base and seeing real G3 rifles on the guards there and then remembering other things I saw whille there as well.
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chadbag
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Minor disaster tonight. I went down to the basement to find more 18ga brad nails to finish attaching the baseboards (which I did get done as I did fine the nails, wonder of all wonders).
After getting the nails and going back to the stairs to go finish the baseboards I heard what sounded like water dripping. Sometimes you can hear the water going down pipes in the unfinished basement when someone above turns on water or flushes a toilet or whatever and it kind of sounded like that, but it also kind of sounded different. So I went and looked and there was indeed water on the floor and water dripping down from the ceiling in the storeroom next to the mechanical room. (And the store room has my networking equipment in it, the fancy Kohler digital valve system for the shower, and the Zehnder ERV in it so is kind of an aux mechanical room). I ran up and told my daughter, who was showering, to hurry up and finish since there was some sort of leak.
Anyway, there was a ladder there under where the water was dripping with some network connection tools and some connectors and stuff on top of it and water everywhere. Luckily my expensive Linksys router just had some splashes on it from water hitting the ladder and the water did not hit the router directly or else we'd be down right now. After asking teh daughter to finish, I then cleaned up the network connectors and tools and got everything away from the drips.
Anyway, above that room is our "Japanese Bath", which is basically a large wet room, with a half wall (8' tall but the room is vaulted so above that wall it is open to the ceiling) in it dividing the shower/soaking tub part from the sink and changing room part. The walls and floor of the shower and tub part are tiled with large format tile on the walls and 12" x 12" on the floor. There is an inset tub along one wall and it is tiled from the top of the tub down to the floor. At the bottom of the tub tile is a slit with an infinity drain. A one piece infinity drain goes all along the bottom of the tub and is tiled down to about 3/8"? or something above the floor tile. Anyway, the larger cavity part of the drain where the bottom drain pipe goes and which has a small door on top so you can one it and clean it is in the middle of the drain, and both wings slope down to this middle piece.
The water was leaking from where the drain pipe comes through the sub floor. Unfortunately underneath it is a whole bunch of parallel 3 1/4" flexible ducts for the ERV system so you have to pull those aside to get a peak at the drain. I went back up and asked my daughter to use the handheld shower bit to spray some water at the drain for a minute and I went down to see where it was leaking from. Luckily it was not leaking from the actual drain pipe connection to the infinity drain. It was coming down from the hole in the subfloor. You'd think that was worse because that would mean there was some sort of leak in the actual drain, which would mean taking tile up etc. But I don't think that is what happened. Since I helped my nephew in law install it, I know how it went in. I'll see tomorrow once it's all dried up and I go in with a flashlight and check out the whole drain etc, but what I think it is is that the back side of the drain piece was up against the wood or the tile backer and we probably filed in the gap with mortar when tiling. We probably forgot to put the Semco liquid membrane on the mortar and I know I have not yet stuck the trip up on the top side of the drain slit under the raw tile so the water over time has probably soaked through the mortar there and made a leak.
I'll be able to see tomorrow when I take the top lid off the main drain cavity. I'll silicone the crap out of any gaps or anything I see on the backside of the drain, and then try and us the Semco liquid membrane to try and seal the whole backside of the drain piece as best I can (thin brush stuck in the gap) and then I'll try and silicone in the metal trip part underneath the side tile at the top of the drain slit.
We'll see. For now I told the daughter she can use our shower (as I have not finished her shower yet) and I'll try and get this fixed tomorrow. 24 hour cure on the silicone etc and we should be good. Her shower is done except I need to silicone caulk the bottom of the tile where it meets the shower pan. I did one first layer where it was wider and deeper with a white silicone a while back and now have the grout matching one I want to use to make the final nice finish line. And then I need to install the shower door.
Since we have the master bath shower and the Japanese Bath shower, I was not that concerned about finishing her shower. It was actually on my todo list for the day today but I did not get that far. I'll finish the silicon bit tomorrow and get the door in this week, when I have someone to provide extra hands.
The Japanese Bath is, as I said, a tiled room with a wall mounted shower panel, and an infinity drain along one wall, with a tub (with fancy jets etc) for soaking. There is no toilet at all in this room. And you are not allowed into the tub until you've showered and are clean. In Japan, and we follow this, the tub is for after you are clean, for soaking and relaxing. It's too expensive to re-fill the tub with hot water for each person, so generally if one person uses the soaking tub, everyone takes a turn if they want as the water is "clean", since you just took a cleansing shower before getting into it. I need to find an insulated cover for the tub so that the water stays warm between people. It has a water heater in it but just to keep it to the same temperature -- you can't set a temperature -- and it only runs when the jets are on. So it won't keep it warm between folks.
After getting the nails and going back to the stairs to go finish the baseboards I heard what sounded like water dripping. Sometimes you can hear the water going down pipes in the unfinished basement when someone above turns on water or flushes a toilet or whatever and it kind of sounded like that, but it also kind of sounded different. So I went and looked and there was indeed water on the floor and water dripping down from the ceiling in the storeroom next to the mechanical room. (And the store room has my networking equipment in it, the fancy Kohler digital valve system for the shower, and the Zehnder ERV in it so is kind of an aux mechanical room). I ran up and told my daughter, who was showering, to hurry up and finish since there was some sort of leak.
Anyway, there was a ladder there under where the water was dripping with some network connection tools and some connectors and stuff on top of it and water everywhere. Luckily my expensive Linksys router just had some splashes on it from water hitting the ladder and the water did not hit the router directly or else we'd be down right now. After asking teh daughter to finish, I then cleaned up the network connectors and tools and got everything away from the drips.
Anyway, above that room is our "Japanese Bath", which is basically a large wet room, with a half wall (8' tall but the room is vaulted so above that wall it is open to the ceiling) in it dividing the shower/soaking tub part from the sink and changing room part. The walls and floor of the shower and tub part are tiled with large format tile on the walls and 12" x 12" on the floor. There is an inset tub along one wall and it is tiled from the top of the tub down to the floor. At the bottom of the tub tile is a slit with an infinity drain. A one piece infinity drain goes all along the bottom of the tub and is tiled down to about 3/8"? or something above the floor tile. Anyway, the larger cavity part of the drain where the bottom drain pipe goes and which has a small door on top so you can one it and clean it is in the middle of the drain, and both wings slope down to this middle piece.
The water was leaking from where the drain pipe comes through the sub floor. Unfortunately underneath it is a whole bunch of parallel 3 1/4" flexible ducts for the ERV system so you have to pull those aside to get a peak at the drain. I went back up and asked my daughter to use the handheld shower bit to spray some water at the drain for a minute and I went down to see where it was leaking from. Luckily it was not leaking from the actual drain pipe connection to the infinity drain. It was coming down from the hole in the subfloor. You'd think that was worse because that would mean there was some sort of leak in the actual drain, which would mean taking tile up etc. But I don't think that is what happened. Since I helped my nephew in law install it, I know how it went in. I'll see tomorrow once it's all dried up and I go in with a flashlight and check out the whole drain etc, but what I think it is is that the back side of the drain piece was up against the wood or the tile backer and we probably filed in the gap with mortar when tiling. We probably forgot to put the Semco liquid membrane on the mortar and I know I have not yet stuck the trip up on the top side of the drain slit under the raw tile so the water over time has probably soaked through the mortar there and made a leak.
I'll be able to see tomorrow when I take the top lid off the main drain cavity. I'll silicone the crap out of any gaps or anything I see on the backside of the drain, and then try and us the Semco liquid membrane to try and seal the whole backside of the drain piece as best I can (thin brush stuck in the gap) and then I'll try and silicone in the metal trip part underneath the side tile at the top of the drain slit.
We'll see. For now I told the daughter she can use our shower (as I have not finished her shower yet) and I'll try and get this fixed tomorrow. 24 hour cure on the silicone etc and we should be good. Her shower is done except I need to silicone caulk the bottom of the tile where it meets the shower pan. I did one first layer where it was wider and deeper with a white silicone a while back and now have the grout matching one I want to use to make the final nice finish line. And then I need to install the shower door.
Since we have the master bath shower and the Japanese Bath shower, I was not that concerned about finishing her shower. It was actually on my todo list for the day today but I did not get that far. I'll finish the silicon bit tomorrow and get the door in this week, when I have someone to provide extra hands.
The Japanese Bath is, as I said, a tiled room with a wall mounted shower panel, and an infinity drain along one wall, with a tub (with fancy jets etc) for soaking. There is no toilet at all in this room. And you are not allowed into the tub until you've showered and are clean. In Japan, and we follow this, the tub is for after you are clean, for soaking and relaxing. It's too expensive to re-fill the tub with hot water for each person, so generally if one person uses the soaking tub, everyone takes a turn if they want as the water is "clean", since you just took a cleansing shower before getting into it. I need to find an insulated cover for the tub so that the water stays warm between people. It has a water heater in it but just to keep it to the same temperature -- you can't set a temperature -- and it only runs when the jets are on. So it won't keep it warm between folks.
Kusojiji
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Yeah, that has kept me from starting many projects. My little diorama for one...
NorthBrit
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Do not let the demons win. Get started. Do not quit.
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
Good Tuesday morning! It's 55°F and clear.
I just tried two other browsers for my credit card issue. I tried them with ad and content blockers on and off. The little "amount due by" on them is missing in all cases. So,unless I manually go in to each one, I have no way of knowing if a payment is due, and when.
kbkchooch
Verified Human
Good morning gang!
Clear and 54° this morning heading for a high of 76° under the sun skies.
Hope everyone had a great Labor Day. After a morning visit from the grandkids who had come up from North Carolina for the weekend, the rest of the day was spent sitting on my butt. As my way to celebrate Labor Day, don’t do no labor.
Speaking of which it’s back to the grind.
BBL
Clear and 54° this morning heading for a high of 76° under the sun skies.
Hope everyone had a great Labor Day. After a morning visit from the grandkids who had come up from North Carolina for the weekend, the rest of the day was spent sitting on my butt. As my way to celebrate Labor Day, don’t do no labor.
Speaking of which it’s back to the grind.
BBL
troyphoto
Snarky Old Fart (in training)
I'm up. Cookies were consumed as part of breakfast.
been chatting with the AI overlord about the new book. Got some good ideas. I may work on those today.
Our portable (freestanding) Air Condition for the upstairs bedrooms is working well this summer, but wife and I both wish it were in the master bedroom instead of the guest bed. We use fans to blow the cool air around the small 2nd floor (each floor is about 700 sq ft).
I thought I could take the time to make a new window set-up for the AC and move it to the front window. We'll have a couple more weeks where I'll turn the AC unit on to keep it cooler and dryer in the upstairs through the night. We're in that zone of weather in which it's either too hot, or cooling so it gets muggy.
So, I'll need to make a filler sheet of PVC board (1/4 inch), with the hole cut, and the mounting bracket for the exhaust port to go in the casement (crank-out vertical swinging) window.
But, I measured the front window. They are larger than the back window. 26 by 40ish inches.... Crap. One 2x4 sheet of PVC board from the hardware won't be enough.
Maybe I'll move this project to a winter one. I either need to find a 4x4 sheet of the pvc board, or build it with two sections stacked.
been chatting with the AI overlord about the new book. Got some good ideas. I may work on those today.
Our portable (freestanding) Air Condition for the upstairs bedrooms is working well this summer, but wife and I both wish it were in the master bedroom instead of the guest bed. We use fans to blow the cool air around the small 2nd floor (each floor is about 700 sq ft).
I thought I could take the time to make a new window set-up for the AC and move it to the front window. We'll have a couple more weeks where I'll turn the AC unit on to keep it cooler and dryer in the upstairs through the night. We're in that zone of weather in which it's either too hot, or cooling so it gets muggy.
So, I'll need to make a filler sheet of PVC board (1/4 inch), with the hole cut, and the mounting bracket for the exhaust port to go in the casement (crank-out vertical swinging) window.
But, I measured the front window. They are larger than the back window. 26 by 40ish inches.... Crap. One 2x4 sheet of PVC board from the hardware won't be enough.
Maybe I'll move this project to a winter one. I either need to find a 4x4 sheet of the pvc board, or build it with two sections stacked.
Patrick
What, me worry?
Morning all,
In by myself these early mornings this week. My early tech has decided to run off and get herself married and thinks she needs a week off. I can't imagine such a thing!
In all seriousness, she's a good kid and I wish her and her young man all the best.
What a weekend. Doing laundry Sunday, I go downstairs to get the wash and I hear something knocking the the utility closet (Laundry and Utility are unfinished and connected as one open room under the stairs. Seems the sewer lift pump is running a dry hole. I get the thing unplugged, wires were pretty hot. Seems the Float switch failed, so I went and got one and waited until yesterday to "fix" the problem. After a couple of lift outs and put backs, Looked like I had the switch adjusted, kicked it self on and back off, so I buttoned everything back up and ran another test. It kicked on when it was supposed to, but never kicked off. I was so peeved, I just unplugged it and said, I'll look at it another time. Fortunately, we don't use the basement bathroom or laundry during the week. I did have the forethought to get rubber clamp style connectors as I knew The pump would fail at another time and it would probably be me who'd be going back in.
I did get some train time yesterday, I lubed up the 0-6-0 Mantua loco as I had cleaned and oiled it when I put it back together, but didn't have the lube at the time. Runs a bit smoother and quieter. I also finished the water tank I had been working on.
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Not yet sure where I'm going to put it.
In by myself these early mornings this week. My early tech has decided to run off and get herself married and thinks she needs a week off. I can't imagine such a thing!
In all seriousness, she's a good kid and I wish her and her young man all the best.What a weekend. Doing laundry Sunday, I go downstairs to get the wash and I hear something knocking the the utility closet (Laundry and Utility are unfinished and connected as one open room under the stairs. Seems the sewer lift pump is running a dry hole. I get the thing unplugged, wires were pretty hot. Seems the Float switch failed, so I went and got one and waited until yesterday to "fix" the problem. After a couple of lift outs and put backs, Looked like I had the switch adjusted, kicked it self on and back off, so I buttoned everything back up and ran another test. It kicked on when it was supposed to, but never kicked off. I was so peeved, I just unplugged it and said, I'll look at it another time. Fortunately, we don't use the basement bathroom or laundry during the week. I did have the forethought to get rubber clamp style connectors as I knew The pump would fail at another time and it would probably be me who'd be going back in.
I did get some train time yesterday, I lubed up the 0-6-0 Mantua loco as I had cleaned and oiled it when I put it back together, but didn't have the lube at the time. Runs a bit smoother and quieter. I also finished the water tank I had been working on.
Not yet sure where I'm going to put it.
Kusojiji
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One of these days, I'll just grab a handful and take the plunge. Hell or high water. I've been staring at the kit for a few weeks now. I better check the expiration date of the clay...
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