Good morning!!!!

[Happy in NC]

Magnetic drills are hard on GFCI devices due to the stored energy in the magnet. It is also possible that your drill has an EMI filter and that has died. Personally, I just avoid using them on a GFCI circuit, but I'm sure one could rig up something with an EMI filter, if your doesn't have one.

Just put it on a regular outlet then? It is a 30 amp breaker. Wasn't expecting to have a problem with it.

 

[Jim Shooz]

3 We have been watching a New Zealand TV series called Brokenwood. We love the way certain words are pronounced, especially with the vowel "e"...sounds very different than Aussie English.

The Brokenwood Mysteries is one of our better homegrown shows. And I'm told we pronounce the" ë" a little different. The Ozzies get amused when we say "come out and sit on my deck"'.To them deck sounds like dick.

 

[Thomas]

now that was good exercise, at least six inches of heavy wet snow
got my place done including the big pile at the road, then went over and did another
neighbor's road pile and did the other one on the way back. Then feeling ok,
went and did the whole private driveway next to me. Six families on it, they never seem to agree
on how to get it plowed on time. So I did that and I was both tired and soaked.
pulled off all my clothes at the door and hope to rest for a bit.

snowblower ran perfectly

probably need to go check on birdfeeders but I filled them all yesterday
after lunch going to pull car out and reset my rubber wheel chocks; had to move car forward four inches
to get the snowblower out. But now the grill is an inch away from the front and position sensors set up a howl.

You'll good tonight after that.

 

[Thomas]

21F cloudy.
No snow was predicted today,walks paths driveway plus clean from 2" plus.

NY Giants same ole same ole least the Bill and Patriots was interesting.
Boss call asking if I could work tomorrow 4 hours going over plan for 2026,early to bed 6am bright eye and bushy tail for day break.

Plans for the evening....after dinner watch some football??? numb to pillow time.

Enjoy your evening all.

 

[Buppies]

Enjoy pillow time Thomas

 

[LouNY]

Bill, last service at dealer May 25
no, all it got was premium ethanol
I had the corn slow roasted for better flavor

I do believe that your snow blower is EFI? That is much more tolerant to ethanol fuels.

 

[sodamo]

34 and falling plus wet snow falling. Temps drop during the day, and wind chill tonight at 5F.

Ron, good decision.

Engineer, looks like a great Christmas train.

Buppies, beautiful tree. Hope Precious behaves around it.

Sodamo, we had a female Brittany do that, and kept our fingers crossed right up until we had puppies. Hope you have better luck.

Wag, never heard the term "rego"...does it mean license/registration? We have been watching a New Zealand TV series called Brokenwood. We love the way certain words are pronounced, especially with the vowel "e"...sounds very different than Aussie English.

Hike and Della swim and then more outdoor decorating with wife yesterday. Still have the tree to do inside, and today's weather will make that happen.

Thanks, hehe. I hear ya. My hope is Makani not showing much interest last few days other than wanting to play.

 

[two_bit_score]

ultimately we all have to be careful ourselves and get on with life.
I did find it interesting that even in certain states where the personal protection
carry percentage is much higher, that these mass shootings keep going.
We can't seem to stop this craziness in time.

A lot of the causes of these shootings was brought to this country one way or another.

 

[Buppies]

At 4:00PM our temperature was 20.4 now 15.2 and falling. Holly is sleeping precious sleeping in watching Rams Lions game with no volume had salad for dinner

 

[two_bit_score]

Good Sunday Afternoon!

Really enjoyed our church service this morning. We then stopped for some fast food and went to the grocery store.

Came home, put up purchases and washed the left over breakfast dishes. I'll be heading back to central Texas in a day or so.

Good news for a change medically! New meds I'm on have cut my cholesterol numbers down to perfect 180 with my good number way up! Can't remember number right now.
6 shots in my neck Friday seem to be doing their job. Will need to get them again before insurance will pay for permanent procedure. Need to see how long these shots last first.
Looks like our week to travel out and visit sister. At least it's not that far.

Glad to hear the good news! Prayers the shots and potential surgery go well also!

It's nap time now. Hope everyone has a great Sunday evening. Prayers for our Nation!

 

[WinterDeere]

I guess I should've grabbed something to measure with, but I'd guess we got somewhere around 6" of heavy wet stuff. Not a big deal, but it was like glue to the shovel, so every shovel full meant a series of banging it on the ground or kicking the shovel to get the snow off. Tried spraying the shovel with the spray Ariens sells for snowblower chutes, which worked for less than a dozen shovels full, until it wore off and we were back to fighting with it.

Because I have an injured shoulder, my son actually came out and did most of the shoveling for me. That left me more time to go plow the driveways of a few elderly neighbors who have more limited abilities.

I sure do love a few good snow storms each year, knowing full-well that we are fortunate to live in a part of the country that only sees a few per year.



The 3-year old Boston Terrier we adopted as a puppy has no issues withe snow, as long as she can find a shaded spot under a bush to achieve required ground clearance to do her business. But the traumatized Frenchie rescue was having none of it, with this first snow experience. She's protesting the only way she knows how, on my living room rug, and then on my back walk:



Finished the day with moving another face cord of wood up to the house, in the 2-ton wagon. This time, mostly ash and walnut.

 

[sodamo]

seems current tally is two dead, seven in critical in hospital, and two others
in shooting at Brown Univ. in providence. All students. Surprisingly little info being released.
and the guy is still on the loose which is scary.
where was campus security?

My father went there, both my oldest brother and his wife went there, when it was still
Pembroke for the ladies, and one of best friend's 102 year old mother went to Pembroke.
not sure he is going to tell her.
Personally I have no attachment to the place, my father paid full price cash, got no breaks from anyone,
and the university is very well endowed. So I've never sent them money. I'd rather support charity closer to home,
like local EMS or my church at home.

when I graduated in 1971 the whole world was nuts due to Vietnam.
Graduation was cancelled, did not get the senior parade walk, marking went to pass fail, which
in my case was wonderful since it hid a bunch of C's. I may have gotten A's in high school but this was the big
leagues and I was happy to graduate.
Having an Ivy League diploma made me a shoe in for a job at Travelers Insurance.
Those three piece suiters in Hartford were very status conscious.
and eventually to be one of their few employees ever invited to teach insurance at their training center.

I was doing data analytics long hand before we got computers, and made monthly reports on my big clients
comparing their stats to average company stats, and no one had ever done that before.
We were flooded with new data and no one had worked out how to use it all.
We were just getting rid of punch cards.
running what ifs was not a given...
but I got curious, and started doing these reports that no one else had ever seen, with trend analysis,
which impressed the big insurance agencies who were our clients, I was learning to do nice presentations,
and some of those reports got sent up to the home office.
Shortly thereafter I was brought into manager's office and told of this opportunity I was being offered.
For a guy who always wanted to teach after college, thought I'd be a professor somewhere, but with Vietnam there were
no jobs at all, so i was offered a teaching position in a very fancy training center.

today we take AI and computer generated statistics for granted.
shows you how old I am that I remember doing it all by hand, and then posted
to some early spreadsheet
you know, four lines and then a slash?
when you were so cool if you had that TI calculator
with the little red numbers

Had initial brain cramp with spreadsheets, couldn’t grasp how you could mix letter and numbers, but finally clicked, was using Apple //. When Lotus 123 came out, like WOW, took and taught it. Now if I had a dollar for every time I or fellow student/worker lost significant work not hitting save.
Even today, a spreadsheet, Apple Numbers, tends to be my goto tool.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

my drive was pretty clear by 2 pm by the wind, except for near the garage where we park, there it drifts. I had the mazda inside last night, backed out thru the drift to wait for my wife to get in (got out and stood up the snowman that blew over), by the time she came out of house, my tracks had drifted over. lots of drifts going to afternoon worship, but roads otherwise good.
Good worship, went to eat for early supper after at the italian place. I got a whole deep dish pizza, ate 1 slice and brought rest home. ate 2nd piece after getting home.
BB wanted to stay in garage when we left. right now BB and Snagglepuss is in garage to eat, so we can feed the other 2 inside. Will bring them back in later.

Very windy today.
lots of cold air blowing in around an attic access upstairs, so ran some blue painters tape on the seam to help seal it for now. Air must be coming into attic via holes for cables to go out over the porch. too tight for me to get in there to seal those, will have to remove a deck ceiling panel and get from the outside sometime when it is warmer. If I had a do over, would seal it a lot better.

Thought about re-installing the old pellet stove in the garage, that would help warm the garage, which would help the floor of the room above to be warmer. It has R30 insulation between them. Garage is insulated including the doors, but air gets in around the door seals. It still probably near 50 deg in there with it being 16 deg outside.

I keep lots of spreadsheets. Used lotus for years, now excel. At one point before turbo tax came out around late 1980s, I created spreadsheet of the tax forms, where I could enter the numbers and let it do the math.

 

[txdon]

Good evening 40˚ cold wind bowing, overcast. I know nothing compared to ya'll but cold enough for the steering wheel heater on the Tacoma and it does work well, toasty fingers.

It will be getting into the twenties tonight so I carefully put the Meyer lemon tree ins the garage. It has 20 lemons.

Got the two Christmas trees up and it looks like it's a wrap on the Christmas decorations for two.

BIL continues to recover from his accident a week ago and it's his birthday today - lousy way to spend it messed up in the hospital.

 

[txdon]

Got the two Christmas trees up and it looks like it's a wrap on the Christmas decorations for two.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

He is my wife's sister's husband. He is Christy's father, you remember, she got her fame capturing alligators when a news crew filmed her in a Home Depot parking lot riding a 14 ft. Alligator. He has 4 adult children.
He was also going 35 MPH with his headlight on, on a back country road.

Good morning! 38˚F heading to the mid 70s with a SW wind turning easterly.
Pool temp is 52˚ and the house cooled off last week and the gas central heat was finally turned on to warm the house from 67˚ to 69˚, to our comfort range.

BIL's kids and grandkids were to come to our house for Christmas and stop off at the adventure farm to play. They have canceled, of course, to be with BIL in the hospital. I ordered two pencil Christmas trees for our entry hall. They arrived last evening and I will put them up today.

Hope he is responding to treatment and prayer.

I worked in motorcycle business from 76 to 85. Know of many who died and had bad accidents. Many from bad decisions and wreckless driving. It is a risk. Try to be careful around bikers.

"Forgiven" has a price tag there....

read this is one of the coldest Decembers on record so far.

Truth.

Mental illness is hard to deal with. We have had our share of that with schizophrenia and bipolar issues and multiple children's hospitalizations. Had to get the sheriff involved multiple times to help and scort the ambulance to the hospital
But the good new is that they all survived and are in stable situations
I give a lot of credit to my wife for dealing with this in a very professional way

You and your wife deserve awards. You have done what very, very few people will do. Prayers for your wife and family.

Good morning from camp Covington! It's a brisk -10 here this morning with a very light breeze. Was outside with mutts and grabbed more wood. We got outdoor work to do today but we'll let it warm up 1st. The drive down last night was a snowy and windy adventure as we towed a trailer with a machine on it. No big deal, we run snow tries and used to it.

OK, your "brisk" and my "brisk" are about 60 degrees apart. LOL. It is "brisk" here. Strange thing, I'm looking at the Denver Bronco game, and it is warmer there than here. Also warmer in Great Falls Montana right now than Giddings Texas???

We really like the older Perry Mason shows. Older the better.

I've never got into his old shows for whatever reason. But I did notice each show has a "looker" usually.

No luck on Jeep, did get 2nd key and locksmith put his reader on and it came up with a short to ground on HVAC.
That is after I replaced the relay and the PWM controller.
Hopefully not the computer, but the wires back/forth seem fine.
Fuses all look good.
His reader picked this up and my cheap OBDII didn't.

There are some good videos on YT about how to trace a short. Maybe even one for a Jeep.

Bad news out of Australia this morning. What's going on with people?

Started snowing sometime after 530am. Will have to clear a path to the garage before 8am.

Ya'll be careful out there.

Horrible news. Time will tell. Too many now. Usually from one of a few types of aggressors.
Australia is now being called terrorism. Not sure what Brown U's perp was yet.

Sure is!
Scotchbrite and WD40 are my go to for cleaning neglected metal bits.

To help keep rust minimized on our cnc machines, I bought some Boeshield. It is pricey but works. But I will warn, it is hard on spritzer spray bottles.

Took mom to our hometown. Had a good bunch of buddies meet me for breakfast while she got her hair done. They are planning a trip to go offroad motorcycle riding in New Mexico.

Church was good today. We went for Mexican food today afterwards. It was good.

Daughter lives with some people who have an older horse that has not been broken. But she is fairly tame. Daughter is going to buy a rope and halter to try and get her to be led. Using alfalfa cubes for treats.

Still busy at work. 2 of my student worker/helpers are graduating. Have 2 new ones, maybe a 3rd if we can get a budget worked out. Only 4 days of work until a 2 week break.

You guys up in that cold stay warm.

Prayers for the sick, our team, our nation, and for peace in the world.

 

[Popgadget]

I like the trick of hanging a tennis ball from the ceiling so that when you drive to the perfect spot, the ball just touches the windshield.

I had those for decades, then I discovered these-

https://a.co/d/2pfbWFU

No more ball hanging at head level when the car is out.

 

[wngsprd]

The Brokenwood Mysteries is one of our better homegrown shows. And I'm told we pronounce the" ë" a little different. The Ozzies get amused when we say "come out and sit on my deck"'.To them deck sounds like dick.

Our other favorite TV show is Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, out of Australia TV. Phryne is a real hoot.

 

[Wagtail]

Good (Monday) morning. Overnight Low of 7C and it's presently 20.4C, fairly clear with gusting wind. The flagpole is back up, though.

---- and, I'm back from a WhatsApp call from my Aunt ----

All that's scheduled for today is a Parish Council meeting @ 1700... although it appears that the Wine Faeries have been active again.

Yeah, the Bondi Beach (Sydney) is a terrible thing. 15 dead. Investigation is, of course, ongoing.

That's about it, take care all.

Wag, never heard the term "rego"...does it mean license/registration? We have been watching a New Zealand TV series called Brokenwood. We love the way certain words are pronounced, especially with the vowel "e"...sounds very different than Aussie English.

Yeah, 'rego' = reg+o, shortened from registration.

The Kiwi accent is distinctive. Saying something like "fish & chips" would sound (to you and me) like 'fush & chups'. There are other differences, but not that much. They're good mates.

 

[Looking4new]

Good evening 40˚ cold wind bowing, overcast. I know nothing compared to ya'll but cold enough for the steering wheel heater on the Tacoma and it does work well, toasty fingers.

It will be getting into the twenties tonight so I carefully put the Meyer lemon tree ins the garage. It has 20 lemons.

Got the two Christmas trees up and it looks like it's a wrap on the Christmas decorations for two.

BIL continues to recover from his accident a week ago and it's his birthday today - lousy way to spend it messed up in the hospital.
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Messed up in the hospital is better than the alternative.

Wag, have you got mushy peas to go with the fush & chups?