Good morning!!!!

[WinterDeere]

Here in PA the emissions inspection consists of connecting the “machine” to the OBD2 port and it basically just checks that all monitors are set and there are no faults.

Is that true? In the 1990's, there was a tailpipe sniffer involved. Then when they re-did the testing standards ca.2000, they divided vehicles at 1984 model year, with the older ones still getting a parked/idling tailpipe sniffer, and the newer ones going on a dyno with a tailpipe sniffer at highway speed. I'm sure you remember some of the early accidents that occured with those dyno's, one most famously at the Thompson dealership in Doylestown.

When did they ditch the tailpipe sniffers?

 

[ronjhall]

Another losartan taker here 100mg, not aware of any side effects.

I took it for 10 months. Had lots of nausea. Seems that if a meds has a side effect. It attacks me.

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
Overnight low was 38°, forecast highs in the middle 50’s.
Grey sky at the moment, forecast says partly cloudy with slight chance of rain this afternoon.

Yesterday was a series of small chores, started with setting up a dolly for the “Brute” trash can I put in the garage to keep firewood in. It works great, but set me up for the next chore.

When I rolled it over the ABS floor drain that I 3D printed, it cracked it. So I decided to make a new one out of stainless steel. I was able to go into the 3D CAD drawing for the printed one and get the geometry that I needed to plasma cut a stainless one.

The challenge was that I didn’t have a piece of tubing or pipe the right size for the part that makes the trap, so I had to cut a strip and roll it into one. Of course my slip roller was not happy about the thickness of the material, so I resorted to a hammer and anvil. Not perfectly round, but close enough. Got it all done and TIG welded together, it fits nicely.

Next task was to dig up some old aircraft instruments and test them for a friend in Texas that was getting a plane together for his neighbor that has advanced Alzheimer’s. He had several old projects that he is trying to finish for him so his friends wife can sell them rather than be burdened with unfinished projects.

I was able to come up with a working altimeter and turn coordinator for him out of my pile of “stuff”

This was after a quick visit to Drew’s to provide a non GFI outlet for his garage door opener. When I was done, he asked me what I had planned for the rest of the day. I told him that I’m not sure, but something will come up.

Finished the day with a wonderful time at the birthday party, which was over before 9, because we were all old……

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Here in PA the emissions inspection consists of connecting the “machine” to the OBD2 port and it basically just checks that all monitors are set and there are no faults.

The state doesn’t really get any money out of it, I think they charge the independent inspection station like $8 for the sticker, and the station charges the consumer what they want, but they had to buy the equipment, training and maintenance on their own.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a huge waste of my money, but here it doesn’t go to the state, as a matter of fact, I bet they lose money administering the program.

That’s all they do here, but it’s ran by the state. They built huge testing stations to do it, after demolishing the prior huge testing stations that tested at the tailpipe. Huge waste of money and time

 

[ponytug]

I took it for 10 months. Had lots of nausea. Seems that if a meds has a side effect. It attacks me.

We all have different variations in our DNA, and one way that surfaces is in how our liver enzymes metabolize drugs, toxins, food (lipids).

Deep dive:
Losartan is (mainly) processed in the liver by a family enzymes called cytochrome P450, (CYP for short), and specifically the one responsible for turning losartan into the active chemical that helps reduce blood pressure is CYP2C9. The metabolite is 10-40 times more potent than the drug itself. So...if you look at a table of drugs processed by that enzyme, and your body has issues with one, you are likely to have issues with others.
Full table here:

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drug-interactions.medicine.iu.edu

FWIW: DNA testing for drug sensitivity can be done pretty easily and cheaply these days (pharmacogenomic testing), and can be helpful to doctors when trying to choose between several different drugs in the same family, as the drugs often go through different enzymes.

Personally, I don't like to be a guinea pig, if I don't have to be one, and the testing can save time/money/lifespan...

All the best,

Peter

 

[kenmbz]

Morning all, 43 going to 61 and cloudy, rain later?
Got most of the Halloween decorations down and in the house.
Spent a few hours on the corn garden, turning the soil. Found another 5x3" root a little further down.
Also got 2 of the T-Posts in for the sides, much easier when ground is a little wet!

Day job followed by darkness, oh well, maybe get something done today besides day job.

Be well,

 

[txdon]

no matter what the politicians say they are going to do
our health insurance costs keep skyrocketing.
15-30 percent increases next year?

Consumers in the 30 states that use the federal exchange, healthcare.gov, can now get a preview of what they’ll pay for 2026 coverage. The site opened for so-called window shopping on Tuesday.

The monthly premium for the benchmark plan on healthcare.gov will soar 30%, on average, according to the KFF analysis, which is based on data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. In states that run their own exchanges, the benchmark plan premium will rise by an average of 17%.

I switched from Aetna Premier to Humana Premier coverage and mine went down $5 a month. Same Doctors.

 

[WinterDeere]

My jet heater is running under my trailer in the driveway now, as I try to thaw some frost off it to start paint prep for today.

Happy to say the paint job came out great, no clouding overnight due to freezing, thanks in parts to warmer weather, use of catalyst hardner, and getting started earlier in the day. Only had one spot where some surprise dirt shot out of a corner and got a few nibs in the paint.

I skipped on painting the full body, knowing any fresh paint on the upper sides would never get hard enough for use this season, in the current weather. I only painted the undercarriage, since that will soon be hidden below new decking, the new mod's, and anything that was too bad to ignore another year (e.g. under fenders). The rest of the body can be easily be sanded out and re-painted in the spring and left to cure hard in next summer's warm sun.

 

[FriendwithTractor]

Good Morning to All Who Celebrate! Currently 59° heading to a high of 64°, sunny and clear until rain forecast on Friday.

Spent the weekend processing firewood, have most of it done (Think it will be just shy of half a cord of wood all said and done.), but don't need to be in a particular hurry. Getting the splitter set up is the time consuming part, and I'm not in a hurry to take it down again. Need to fell the other tree and bring it over to the splitter instead of taking splitter to tree like I did this time. Good thing I have a grapple. If I don't finish by Friday I'll leave the splitter where it is and throw the cover back over it in the tree line, no one will know it's there.

Still need to reach out to Messick's about the snowblower, maybe that will be after next paycheck. Ordered replacement Sawhaul scabbard.

Parents came back from seeing nephew out west, apparently he was a very cute fluffy cow this year for Halloween (Last year he was Charlie Brown) . No trick or treaters here either. Grandma came out on Sunday for a good walk, glad she's finally cleared to go back to full walking duty before it gets cold here.

Girlfriend and her family are currently hunkering down. A powerful typhoon is bearing down on PH as we speak. Fortunately they're not directly in the path, but this one sounds like it could be quite the wallop. I'm praying for them and a bundle of nerves.

Goals for this week: Fell the remaining tree, process it all up, find additional pallets and extend the woodpile. Other than that, just getting through the week will be enough.

Riptides, Glad you made it through! Speedy recovery!
Looks like quite the attendance at the car show, last one before the season ends?
PopG: Don't think that stainless one will have the same problem at all.

All not specified, stay safe out there and be well!
Prayers for all Ailing and Recovering!

 

[ronjhall]

We all have different variations in our DNA, and one way that surfaces is in how our liver enzymes metabolize drugs, toxins, food (lipids).

Deep dive:
Losartan is (mainly) processed in the liver by a family enzymes called cytochrome P450, (CYP for short), and specifically the one responsible for turning losartan into the active chemical that helps reduce blood pressure is CYP2C9. The metabolite is 10-40 times more potent than the drug itself. So...if you look at a table of drugs processed by that enzyme, and your body has issues with one, you are likely to have issues with others.
Full table here:

Loading…

drug-interactions.medicine.iu.edu

FWIW: DNA testing for drug sensitivity can be done pretty easily and cheaply these days (pharmacogenomic testing), and can be helpful to doctors when trying to choose between several different drugs in the same family, as the drugs often go through different enzymes.

Personally, I don't like to be a guinea pig, if I don't have to be one, and the testing can save time/money/lifespan...

All the best,

Peter

About 1 year after taking Losartan I got a new Dr. With his help i am not taking any prescription meds. At 83 years i am hoping to keep it that way.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

smoky was on fire

 

[sodamo]

70°F and no rain

Got the sprayer pretty much put together for Sophie’s EGO

Proved to be a bit more challenging than anticipated. Need to wire the battery and do a test run.

Happy Hour in town this afternoon.

Prayers for all
Be safe
Have a great tractor day

 

[buckeyefarmer]

got the notBucks in a row.....

 

[rswyan]

47F and partly cloudy @ 11:00, heading up to around 54F for the day's high. 1% chance of precip. Low this morning was 30.2F.

Got the top platform all welded up after tacking miscue. Top:

Bottom:

Found that piece of 1" angle and brought it inside the shop and trimmed off a couple of pieces for the ramp.

Got the rest of the steel cut for the ramp and got it all tacked up. Top:

Bottom:

He'll need to do some clean up and a little trimming.

Friend will come by sometime after noon and we'll head over to his place to check the fit on the ramp and if good head back over here and I'll finish welding it up.

After I finished tacking things up yesterday I came back down to the house and got back to working on insulation/plumbing in the basement.

Got two more pieces of 2" foam board trimmed and dry fit around the pipe coming from the well. The one required some additional trimming for a window.

These can't be glued in place just yet as I need to sweat another piece of 1" copper pipe onto the 1" pipe coming from the well and there isn't enough distance to avoid smoking the foam board.

Also trimmed a 1" polyiso panel to length for the north wall where I got a set of metal shelves moved out of the way the other day.

After that I cleaned behind some HVAC ducting and used a bunch of scrap 1 1/2" foam board to insulate behind that as there wasn't enough clearance between the concrete wall and the duct work to use 2" foam board.

Then glued a piece of 2" foam board below the duct to more or less complete the foam board on the south wall. Just have to piece in a little area where some round duct goes to a register up in the dining room.

Noticed a big difference in surface temp on the foam board vs. the bare concrete wall.

After I finish the welding today, I may do a little leaf blowing if the sun is still out. It's supposed to be windy this afternoon so that may get put off until tomorrow when it's warmer with less wind.

Otherwise it will be back down into the utility room. Probably start trimming 2 x 4's for the studs and maybe get some sections of wall put up.

Need to check pre-charge in the pressure tank as I noticed the well pump is short cycling.

Otherwise just see what comes up.

Hope everyone is having a decent day ...

 

[Looking4new]

A very uneventful trip for us today. 2 ambulances were busy on side roads, didn't bother us at all.
Pissed down rain most of the day, stopped raining in NB but still raining at home.
Got the block heater wire fished out of its' summer hiding spot. I just have to put the zip ties away tomorrow. I WILL be outside tomorrow mucking out the cats.
Knees are NOT liking all this dampness.

I will NEVER drive big truck again, that part of my career is over and done with. I only did it for 50 years.

 

[Looking4new]

My electric (Hydro) bill just came in...475 kwh for the past 30 days. = 15.8 kwh/day. $103.88 Total all in. I pay 9.3 cents per kwh as long as I don't go over the tier 1 limit of 600 kwh in summer and 1,000 kwh in winter. IF I DO GO OVER then it costs me 11.5 cents/kwh for the overage. That is easy to take. I haven't paid a hydro bill in 4 years, mainly because when I was working I double paid. At one point they were sitting on $4000.oo of my money. We just flipped over to 'winter rates', I now get 1,000 kw hours to play with per month before I have to pay through the nose.

 

[daugen]

really didn't want to dig holes for mums so decided to wax front of rv
so that looks nice for trip. hands smell like carnauba wax now, which I find pleasant.

went foodshopping earlier and got some cheese and other munchies for trip.
now time to put feet up

on this day a few years back the two smaller Masseys were posing for this
picture I guess. Older 27hp hydro vs much newer full manual 50hp.
Well it did have power steering. I restored the small one, the medium one came looking like new

 

[buckeyefarmer]

those are 2 nice looking tractors there Drew.

installed a new Cell Game camera, different brand, paid little extra for HD pics which are real nice. Trying it out here, but it will go to the farm to replace one of the cams there. Should get their recharge battery and solar panel. THis cam allows on demand pics and quicker sending of pics.

Took another 5 gal of used oil to recycle, down to only around 7 gal left here, should have taken a few more, no one checked on me today.
Got the emission ripoff test done, Price went from $10 to $26 for the self service.
lunch at mission bbq.
sams club, walked out $255 poorer, then another $155 poorer at Costco. several item on sale, so some preemptive purchases. Asked the guy checking the card at costco, You know what's the best thing about Sams Club? You don't have to show your card to get in. Actually, the best part is the self checkout with no lines, and walking out without them having to inspect everything. don't know how that scanner works, but they just wave you on.
And scratched my truck with the cart at costco, was watching to make sure I didn't get the one beside me, and got mine real good... Another nice thing about sams club, more parking... But they didn't have everything so had to go to costco also.

beautiful day out today, little breezy now.

 

[LouNY]

The New York State inspection is a total farce, I don't know how much the state gets for each one but the inspection cost is somewhat fixed;

If the shop does everything they are supposed to, it's a money looser for them. As if will take over a half hour and the charge for most vehicles ends up being about $21.

My truck was done last month and my wifes car is due this month, it will be interesting to see what we get charged for her's being electric a tad bit difficult to do an commission test, so it should only be $10.

 

[wngsprd]

I switched from Aetna Premier to Humana Premier coverage and mine went down $5 a month. Same Doctors.

Kept same plan...same doctors, no premium increase (but co-pay increased).

Still shopping for a Part D plan for my wife since her provider quit offering.