Good morning!!!!

[Buppies]

37 high of 68 today 70s tomorrow off to work shortly up again way too early

prayers for all our country

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, low temp 28°F and high 46. Wind NNW 6 mph. Sunny.
Now begins the ups and downs of March. We usually get two freezing rains of the season. One to start the winter and one to end it. My driving through one doesn't count.
That Dodge Journey is not a good vehicle in freezing rain. The heater on defrost doesn't keep the windshield warm enough to melt the ice as it falls. The wipers just smear the ice around and makes it impossible to see. Part of that might be the 180° thermostat, rather than a standard 190.

I priced out getting the Dodge detailed inside (steam cleaned) and out (paint protector polish), and corrosion protection applied. Better sit down fellas, $580.oo + tax. And they need it for a full day. Can't wait for it, leave it and then I gotta leave. I may leave it until I go back to work and get it done at the Chrysler dealer around the corner from work.

I may get outside today and grease the tractor. Might wash it too.


Have a safe day all

 

[ronjhall]

Drinking first cup of coffee. 25° with a few clouds this morning. Heading to 58° with morning sun. Got a some small projects done yesterday in the warm afternoon. Plan to do a few more today.
Seeing more House Finches at feeders.

Buppies, the only reason is see for my early morning wake ups. Is practice for Daylight Saving time change Sunday morning.

David, great wet weather picture.

Rick, I have been using Anker chargers for my iPhones. They work good with Otterbox cases. But do not include power supply. With $10 off coupon the RAVPower is a good deal.

Looking, detailing around here starts at $90.

Paul, they moved the age limit in MI down 50 to get vaccine. Still a lot of people over 65 wanting their shots.

RNG, maybe you need some Badgers to get rid of Squirrels.

Everyone stay healthy and safe.

Good Morning All.

 

[Buppies]

Good one Ron

clean detail wax here 60 dollars all our vehicles need it now L4N

 

[daugen]

good morning all. Lovely day today, warmest yet, going up to low 60's today.

lot of folks with too much rain, David/Sodamo glad this is not your island:

Heavy rainfall in Hawaii's Maui damaged homes, sparked evacuations and worries over possible dam failure | CNN

The mayor of Maui has asked some residents to evacuate and others to shelter in place due to flooding that threatened to cause a dam failure earlier Monday and has already damaged or destroyed at least half a dozen homes.

www.cnn.com

and I read this morning that the Ohio River has overflowed and flooded Louisville.

I have a birdhouse to build today, and my Dell pc came in yesterday afternoon, with a big hole in the box, but thankfully
no damage. Will plug it in after breakfast and set it up next to my old pc, ready for data swap.

spec on processor is interesting: 10th gen I7-10700 8 core processor, 16M cache, 2.9ghz to 4.8ghz.
Why do they show a range of speeds for the processor? 32gb RAM, 2933hz.
I expect to see a big speed jump since this old pc is really loaded down with hanger ons over the 8 years I've had it.
Video board is NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super, 8gb
Basically I tried to spec one whole level below top level gaming, pay too much for state of art spec, last years's good spec is fine
with me.

USB 2.0 and 3.1 ports provided, lots of them thankfully. Since I assume the reason for the 3.1 is to get faster throughput, if I hook a 3.1 up to a 2.0 (file transfer for example)
does it dumb down automatically? Or do I have to go 2.0 from old pc to 2.0 in new?

Once upon a time I used to sell pcs in my Radio Shack, wow what a long way we have come. I remember selling a 10mb external
hard drive for $699. It was lightning fast compared to a floppy grinding away.
So many acronyms in electronics, I have a hard time following RNG and David setting up their high tech internet.
I know some basics from building a lot of Heath kits (I bet a bunch of you built them too) but now I'm a dinosaur
watching the parade of new tech go by.

Hope you all have a lovely day. After dinner I get zoom interviewed by head of local Quaker K-8 school board, they want me back on the board and on their finance committee since I have a professional background in green investing and that's exactly what they want. School is full for next year with a waiting list, which is wonderful.
I went to Buckingham Friends School only for first grade but it was a fine way to start schooling, went to public school all the way through from 2nd grade on.
Since little New Hope HS was ranked number two school in PA, I basically got a private school education anyway, 53 in my graduating class.

Shaved off the beard yesterday, big lump of white fuzz in sink

 

[NHBX]

Good morning all

30 now highs in the upper 40’s with a mix of sun and clouds. Winds WNW 10 to 15 mph.

Not much planned for today other than a trip to town hall to vote on the town and school district elections/budget.

Stay safe and healthy
Enjoy your day everyone

 

[rswyan]

43F and clear @ 06:00, headed up to high of 64F.

Got a notice yesterday from the Health Department that The Woman drew the lucky number again and we had another shot to schedule an appointment for her first vaccine for next week. Got on the website ok and there were literally hundreds of appointments available for next Monday and Tuesday.

Checked with The Woman and found out she had been able to secure an appointment through a different provider (Cleveland Clinic) the day before for next Tuesday, one county over. So we stuck with that. I became eligible this week and it looks like a lot more vaccine doses are becoming available ... so with any luck I should be able to get hooked up fairly soon.

Friend stopped by and we got him loaded up with the PHD and the 6" auger for his project.

Both Amazon deliveries showed up, one on their truck and the other via the Post Office.

Fish tank cleaned, moved, refilled, and up to temp. Was way overdue for a good cleaning. Canister filter up and running (in a plastic tub to catch any leakage) - and does not appear to be leaking though ...

Picked up the new fish last evening around 17:00, Super Red Short Fin BNP's were released into their tank around midnight, after acclimating. Didn't get the first of bag of the Cyprichromis leptsoma utintas into the water until about a couple of hours ago ... should be able to release those here shortly, once I get done netting out the rest of the duckweed.

Gonna take a bit for the tank to fully clear as I added some new sand/coral/aragonite.

Will take even longer for them to color up, as they have a good bit of growing to do still. Basically they look like silver minnows at this point ...

Hope everyone has an enjoyable, productive, and safe day ...

 

[rswyan]

Why do they show a range of speeds for the processor?

Because it can adjust its speed on the fly according to need.

 

[toppop52]

Got to 28 overnight, 30 now and headed to 67, love it!

Mostly, I really have no idea what my son can do with that printer of his, I just know when it comes to computers, programming and electronics in general, he’s the most knowledgeable person I’ve ever met.
He keeps my stuff going, mostly by text to me, I can feel his eyes roll sometimes.

 

[rswyan]

USB 2.0 and 3.1 ports provided, lots of them thankfully. Since I assume the reason for the 3.1 is to get faster throughput, if I hook a 3.1 up to a 2.0 (file transfer for example)
does it dumb down automatically? Or do I have to go 2.0 from old pc to 2.0 in new?

See this:

What is USB 3.1 and how does it differ from USB 3.0?

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It’s 38 and headed to 59, another day of mostly clear skies. Snow is melting like crazy, more grass than snow cover now.

Yesterday was a good, but lazy day. It was my wife’s birthday, and the kids all stopped by for lunch and to visit.
After that I used my Leica laser distance meter that I got for Christmas to measure my son’s pond for a fountain. An impressive amount of water flowing out of the pond from the snow melt.

And to top the day off, a friend that’s a great musician came by with his Martin D28 guitar that he bought new 50 years ago and we played together for hours, mostly “classic country” like Hank Sr. and Merle, as well as more contemporary stuff and other genres. It’s the longest I’ve played an upright bass in decades. I had a ball, and my hands don’t feel too bad this morning.

Spent a while looking for appointments this morning, still not successful.

 

[ronjhall]

Sure hope that we get to attend some holiday parades this year. Over on my local towns FB page. I have been posting some picture I took at July 4 1976 Bicentennial parade in my hometown. Milford, Michigan.

 

[toppop52]

Last gas I bought for my Ram was $2.19, now it’s 2.79. Of course at three weeks to the gallon that’s not too big of a deal.

 

[wngsprd]

Billy I thought you put the rounds in to keep out skunks


Mostly, Sorry to be confusing, I put the rounds in the hole temporarily to keep any skunks in there from coming out while I was cutting firewood right beside the den.

 

[ronjhall]

I became eligible this week and it looks like a lot more vaccine doses are becoming available ... so with any luck I should be able to get hooked up fairly soon.

Does this mean that you are trying to sneak another round of the sun past us? Without telling the Good Morning Crew

 

[wngsprd]

32 and sun, going to 69.

Nice parade pic, Ron. Hope we're back to more normal celebrations this coming Independence Day.

Kyle, Foxes aren't a problem here. I've watched them catch field voles and rice rats, and they do poach an occasional squirrel or rabbit. Food is abundant, and we don't have chickens. We tried one time with some bantams, but they disappeared the first night.

 

[rswyan]

Does this mean that you are trying to sneak another round of the sun past us? Without telling the Good Morning Crew

LOL ... no ... just that the minimum age qualification in Ohio dropped again 4 days ago (age 60 and older)

You aren’t trying to hurry me along are you ?

 

[rswyan]

Drops to age 50 this coming Thursday.

 

[Thomas]

29F clear sky low 40's for high,next 4 days taste of spring weather.

Outside chores done E muffin time.
Plans for today...shovel snow ends from 2 culverts 1 of culverts lot digging,maybe quick trip to town for critter food.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[LouNY]

I filled my pickup yesterday, $2.999 so might as well say $3.00 a gallon.
I saw that they hi-test none-ethanal was $3.50 a gallon, I need to fill a couple of cans
they are almost empty.

Hope everyone has a good day and enjoys themselves, first non freezing night in quite awhile.
Supposed to get up to 50F today and warmer for the next couple before it goes back down to 40 days
and freezing nights.
Change the oil and filter and fuel filter in my pickup, then swap out the snow tires for the summers
later this week. May be jumping the gun on the tires but a quick trip to Jacksonville NC on the schedule
for next week, my SIL is having his retirement from the Marines next week. So a quick run down and back.