Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

Internet was moving right along this morning, 70 up, 8 down. Boy I bet some of you out in the country would like those speeds. It would be like "shazaam!"

Indeed it would, Drew. But I learned long ago that the pipes upstream at the servers are the ones with the biggest clogs, and often times it's the sites doling out the data that can't keep up with demand for it. I'd much rather have a reliable connection with unlimited data caps than one so fast that no data source can take full advantage of it. So far I've tried Hughes, Wild Blue, and now Excede, and ignoring a moment the latency problems inherent in any satellite connection, all were faster than most of the sites to which I was attempting to connect. But unless you want to stay up into the wee hours to download the latest map update for your GPS or watch the latest episode of "Orange Is The New Black", you'll find yourself chewing through your monthly data allowance in the first week or so. You can purchase a plan with a higher data cap, but compared to the cost of "lowly" DSL, it gets out of hand rather quickly.

Good luck with your surgery. Enjoy the first hour or so after awakening from the anesthesia when nothing will hurt.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! A balmy 46F @ 5:30 AM. Cloudy skies. Slight chance of a rain shower. High 54F. Winds light and variable.

Lake Oroville is up all of 20 feet since it started raining again last month. If it keeps up at this rate it'll rise another 80 feet before it stops raining in mid May, and that's still 145 feet below the top of the Oroville dam. But as the water rises the canyon gets wider and it takes progressively more rain to raise the level each additional foot. Unless we get significantly wetter storms over the coming months, this winter isn't even going to make a dent in Northern California's drought. It would appear that The Blob is winning in the competition with El Nino to determine California's weather.

CDEC - Data Application

In fact, the level is coming up slower than in either of the two previous years, which were among the driest on record.

Hope everyone's week gets off to a great start!

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking second cup of coffee. 43° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 58° with lots of sun. Shopping today with wife.
Good Morning All.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Indeed it would, Drew. But I learned long ago that the pipes upstream at the servers are the ones with the biggest clogs, and often times it's the sites doling out the data that can't keep up with demand for it. I'd much rather have a reliable connection with unlimited data caps than one so fast that no data source can take full advantage of it. So far I've tried Hughes, Wild Blue, and now Excede, and ignoring a moment the latency problems inherent in any satellite connection, all were faster than most of the sites to which I was attempting to connect. But unless you want to stay up into the wee hours to download the latest map update for your GPS or watch the latest episode of "Orange Is The New Black", you'll find yourself chewing through your monthly data allowance in the first week or so. You can purchase a plan with a higher data cap, but compared to the cost of "lowly" DSL, it gets out of hand rather quickly. Good luck with your surgery. Enjoy the first hour or so after awakening from the anesthesia when nothing will hurt.

I updated my new iPad from the backup of old iPad via iCloud and it used my entire 10 gB of "anytime" data on first day of my service month. I have no idea why I didn't have the brains to do it during the overnight data time. Duh!





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[MossflowerWoods]

...I have heard some say the best time to clean out a woodstove is while it is still hot, then the heat pulls any disturbed fine ash away up the chimney flue, instead of it spreading out into the room. When I can find a metal bucket I will give this a try.

Eric,

My stove is in the basement, one big 1428 square foot room, and my fear would be it will fill up with smoke while shoveling it out... I do have a nice metal bucket with a lid for the ash.

Good news is yesterday it was 60 degrees so with plenty of stirring the ashes just burned out quietly, and I shoveled them out.

I relit the fire last night after the Green Bay game... it was 25 degrees overnight... House is toasty warm.

Good Playoff football Sunday, cut a bunch of wood for a friend and myself Saturday, hung out at the Moose Friday night with my wife it was a great weekend all in all.

Gotta get 2016 rolling now...

Be well all!

David

 

[Eric Salop]

Now that I think about it, I think I ran into the same thing over here and ended up ordering one if these instead from Amazon:

Amazon.com - Minuteman International AB-01 No Mess Ash Box - Fireplace Accessories

For forty bux I couldn't make one as well or as inexpensively.

That looks good too, shame that's not even recognised on our Amazon site. Someone must make something similar, I will have a search tonight.

 

[toppop52]

29° going to 40°.
Had cancer removed from my arm Monday, stitches are itching, don't come out until next Monday. I'm going to call and see if they can get them out this week. Plus I'm waiting on the pathology report.

 

[Eric Salop]

Eric you must really have some good disco moves to snatch up Julie that quick. Good thing I did not have to depend on my moves. Whenever I discoed in the 70'S I was just an embarrassment to my future wife. Our song was a slow dance - "Colour my World" by Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL2prMmPmQ4

Ha ha, whatever she saw in me, it certainly wasn't the dance moves. In those days though the flares on my trousers were so wide, I doubt anyone could see my feet moving.

 

[daugen]

Enjoy the first hour or so after awakening from the anesthesia when nothing will hurt.

well, I am, thank you, and luckily there were no complications. so I'm home with a mouth full of gauze and drooling. Ok.

 

[Eric Salop]

29° going to 40°.
Had cancer removed from my arm Monday, stitches are itching, don't come out until next Monday. I'm going to call and see if they can get them out this week. Plus I'm waiting on the pathology report.

Good luck with the report. If you have to leave the stiches in, ask if they can recommend a lotion to stop it itching.

 

[Eric Salop]

Drooling Drew - is it the tooth, or are you reading the machinery catalogues again ?

 

[farmer2009]

Weather station in backyard said 1 during the night. Officially it only got to 10 here last night. Headed to 36 today. Had flurries most of the day yesterday but no more significant accumulation. Weather station and official reports usually run closer than that.

For today it's a check chicken and cows day. Cows need hay and see if water thawed out. I have a heated garden hose going to an automatic valve and a tank heater. Old tank heater while working yesterday couldn't keep up and allowed tank to start freezing. I replaced the heater but it didn't thaw out the valve before cows drank water level down. So sun should do that today. Then spend time with wife and son as its a snow day here.

Drew good news on tooth. It'll never cause you any more trouble after it heals. .

Our DSL is about $50/month and unlimited. I checked that during a slow time. I'll have to check it during a lower usage time to see if it speeds up any. Sometimes it's super fast and other times the same as dial up. Won't be today as everyone will be on the Internet being a snow day.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 30F this morning and overcast, light wind. Forecast for 49F some clearing and light wind all day. TMA are dog sitting (for several weeks)bike ride, clean up fireplace (done).

 

[mostly_gas]

Don 5+mps down, 1 up which are my contract speeds with Nortex cable. My BIL had some issues with using using wireless connections as part of his managed buildings and never did get them sorted out, he wanted to get away from buried cable because of frequency of lightning strikes on the cable.

Drew, good luck with your tooth extraction. I had like 60 or 100Mbs at the Missouri house, don't notice the lack of speed until it's time to update the Garmin Nuvi map, or remote logins which have been rare.

 

[sodamo]

66°F and .10 inches rain last 24 hours.

Be safe
Have a great day

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[sodamo]

Via AT&T test 6.8 down, 3.5 up this morning

David Sent from my iPad Air using TractorByNet

 

[daugen]

29° going to 40°.
Had cancer removed from my arm Monday, stitches are itching, don't come out until next Monday. I'm going to call and see if they can get them out this week. Plus I'm waiting on the pathology report.

They've done that to me twice, and for sure a worrisome time until the reports come back with clean margins.
Sure does make you want to put that hat on and slobber on that gucky sunscreen doesn't it?...
I hope you heal fully soon.

 

[KevT]

29ｰ going to 40ｰ.
Had cancer removed from my arm Monday, stitches are itching, don't come out until next Monday. I'm going to call and see if they can get them out this week. Plus I'm waiting on the pathology report.

I wish you better luck than me. My Dermatologist would send a sample out as insurance required and then in 10 days when the stiches were ready to come out she would get approval to remove it, so a bigger cut and more stiches. I finally convinced her to get it all the first time, and just bill the insurance twice. Don't know if she billed twice, but she started making it a 1 cut visit. Of course she was a LSU fan and I am a Gator...

Don, good news on the calf and your Dad!

 

[Larro Darro]

My Dermatologist would send a sample out as insurance required and then in 10 days when the stiches were ready to come out she would get approval to remove it, so a bigger cut and more stiches. I finally convinced her to get it all the first time, and just bill the insurance twice. Don't know if she billed twice, but she started making it a 1 cut visit. Of course she was a LSU fan and I am a Gator...

She may be making a purse as well as filling it

 

[Larro Darro]

Had cancer removed from my arm Monday, stitches are itching, don't come out until next Monday. I'm going to call and see if they can get them out this week. Plus I'm waiting on the pathology report.

Hope you heal quickly and have a good report. I've had a cut or two myself. Mine have been on my back and chest. I never used to wear a shirt. Now those chickens are coming home to roost.