Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all.
Chilly morning at 17 going up to mid thirties today, with 1-3 inches of snow coming in tonight.

My sister had given me a nice toaster oven for Christmas. Unfortunately I already had the exact same model...
Williams and Sonoma would not allow free exchange, after paying out something close to 30 bucks for restocking, they sent me a
merchandise credit card for balance. I ordered as much as I could from them to use up the certificate; W&S is no bargain place to shop but
has nice things. So I ordered a waffle maker and it came in yesterday. I hope to make some home made blueberry waffles this weekend.

ran out of decaf coffee. Will pick some up today when I run a few errands.

I have until mid March to cancel my cruise reservations with 100 percent refunded. So I have a month to see what the future holds.
No matter what one gets a 100% credit towards another cruise and since I like to cruise, that works for me.
I don't go to cruise floor shows or mix in large groups at dinner. Spend most of my time on room balcony watching the water go by.
No need for masks then. But yes definitely a higher risk environment. First thing I would do, and have always done actually, is wipe the stateroom
touch points down with antiseptic wipes. Always carried a container of them with us.

I started going on cruises 30 years ago winning insurance sales contests. They gave out horrible cheap inside rooms next to the engine.
Sure learned that paying more for a nice balcony room was worth it.

hope you all have a nice day.

 

[workinonit]

Morning. 48 here and rain yet again today. Supposed to rain the remainder of this week and most of next. It's been awful this year. I have to head down to the Myrtle Beach area today to work on the regulators on 2 - 300 megawatt generators.

 

[daugen]

welcome workingonit, just think you could have all snow like we have...
are those coal fired or nuclear steam generators?

 

[workinonit]

Thanks. They are coal. I installed the regulators on them 6 or 7 years ago. They need some tuning parameters changed so they can run very low VARS at night when they need to. I don't mind going there to work. It's 45 minutes from me. I've been watching all the snow. I think I would prefer snow over the feet of rain we have this year.

 

[wngsprd]

35 going to 42 and mostly cloudy.

Ron, thank for taking some snow in the boots for that great pic.

Rich, quite the testimonial from your boss. :thumbsup:

Buppies, you might have to catch rain water in buckets for your toilet. When we have a power outage, we use water we've caught in rain barrels, and any we've stored in anticipation. I heard another neighbor running his generator yesterday afternoon...wife brought home lots of groceries and birdfood...so we are ready for whatever falls from the sky...most recent forecast said up to 8" and a sheen of ice...at least no penitentes.

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. Slightly chilly yet beautifully sunny here. A strong wind has been keeping our big pond free of ice these last few days, making it an attractive place for ducks and swans. Last night the wind dropped and at -5C/23F, it was no surprise to see it had iced over this morning, only the hardiest pair swans have stayed.

She is British and what Brit doesn't put a lot of salt on their fries.

This Brit , no salt on my chips for many years.

I thought the Brits ate chips.

You are right, although a few places like McDonalds sell some skinny things they call "fries". Guess that sounds better than "anorexic chips" :laughing:


workinonit :welcome:

 

[daugen]

Thanks. They are coal. I installed the regulators on them 6 or 7 years ago. They need some tuning parameters changed so they can run very low VARS at night when they need to. I don't mind going there to work. It's 45 minutes from me. I've been watching all the snow. I think I would prefer snow over the feet of rain we have this year.

You sure live in a pretty area, Lake Marion so close by. Am a longtime boater and read my boating articles on how pretty that Lake is. I bet shore homes are pricey.
For two years I helped in the marketing of a small company that installed Schlumberger measurement pods on power production turbines. Have been in many of the East Coast plants, nuke,
coal and hydroelectric. Plus all of NJ's gas turbines running on jet fuel, what polluters they were.
I liked the hydros the best, walking out on Conowingo dam in PA was memorable. My boss was a GE gas turbine specialist who made most of his money selling spare parts
into the industry, but also liked to keep busy with a few installs. He was the EE, I was the gopher and guy with a suit. Fascinating couple of years. Some of the world's
largest machines. Are you working on emission controls or electric generation controls? Just curious what you are "regulating".

I don't think coal plants are going to be around in 20 years, but until they start building nukes again, not sure wind and solar will cut it.
Needs to be a huge retraining effort to get coal workers into other parts of power generation industry. We owe it to those people.
They have kept the lights on for a long, long time...

 

[Thomas]

Morning. 48 here and rain yet again today. Supposed to rain the remainder of this week and most of next. It's been awful this year. I have to head down to the Myrtle Beach area today to work on the regulators on 2 - 300 megawatt generators.

Kick back jump on in at anytime workinonit....and we'll leave the light on.

 

[Thomas]

11F sun cloud mix low 20's for high...4" snow from yesterday storm.

Outside chores done toast time.
Plans today...clean snow from deck paths plow driveway etc.,critter food run,refill all feeders again,than some lay back puttering.

Enjoy the day all.

 

[workinonit]

Voltage regulators. Or the technical term generator controls. AVRs are a niche that few people understand and work on. I've made most of my career out of them. All of my career has been devoted to power generation. I've worked on every AVR in every nuke in the US. most of the GE and Westinghouse coal units as well.

Gotta take off so I'll catch you guys tomorrow.

 

[Buppies]

Great idea wngsprd thanks

If that plant belongs to Santee Cooper they are in bad financial shape left customers on hook to pay huge bill for nuclear plant that will never work lots of articles on it

Even when it rains still beautiful and this time of year peace and serenity

workinonit welcome

 

[Popgadget]

Good Morning
It 16 and going to 32 today. Snow forecast tonight, but less than 4 inches., maybe just a dusting.

No pop up repair projects yesterday, except for my wife tearing the the power jack out of an Ethernet switch. We have been going through my mom’s old photos, and she was digging in the cubby between the dormers wher they had been stored like a bull in a china shop. She wasn’t aware that she did it at the time. My son came over to the shop and asked for an Ethernet tester because his computer lost connectivity. When he came back with the tester and told me that the problem was before his computer, I quickly put 2 and 2 together. I told him where the switch was and that hopefully it just needed to be plugged back in. He brought the damaged unit over, and while I likely could have connected directly to the board, bypassing the jack, I had another switch on the shelf and just gave him that.

Went to the Kubota dealer for a pail of hydro oil, and a filter, then spent the majority of the day scanning photos and wood shedding with a bass.

I wonder what today will bring.

Workinonit, I look forward to hearing more about power plants, other than a tour of Hoover Dam, I’ve never been in one, and know little about them.

Still no vaccine

 

[LouNY]

Morning all;
A nice balmy 10F to start the day, the sun is shinning and got most of the snow plowing done yesterday on our 5".
A bit more cleaning up around the shop and sand pile and clean of the tarp on the sand pile.
Still pretty much a cluster jerk on covid vaccinations around here, if I care to drive 2-3 hours each way could get one scheduled, not going to happen.
No news from the VA as to a time line for it.
Had a tella health doc visit yesterday, what a circus now waiting to hear when the followup office visit will be for a minor procedure.

Everyone stay safe, get well
Lou

 

[Looking4new]

Good morning, the temperature is +4°F and going to a high of 16. Wind ESE 5 mph. Mostly cloudy with 40% chance of flurries.

I might have to go to North Bay today and get DIL from hospital. Won't know for sure until about 10 or so.
There is nothing else planned for today except that run.


Have a safe day all

 

[kenmbz]

Good morning, 19 going up to 34, grey.

Got snow banks cleaned up and space made for this weekends snow.
Calling for snow on and off for the next week or so. Tractor is doing well, used bucket for cleanup. Love SSQA . Save so much time.

Randy - pie currency , can't argue with that
TXDon - nice clean cut ditch
L4N - herding kittens ? Safe trip to DIL
Wheres Mostly ??
Rich - good to be missed at work
workinonit - those genny's must use some big fuel storage


Stay safe and be well, work calling. Surprise meeting with the bosses

 

[PJSprog]

16°F and snowing this morning, only going up to 19° again today. We had about an additional 1/2" this morning. On the bright side, drivers had greatly slowed their roll this morning. I averaged about 45mph all the way to work (much less than that on our country roads). We're expecting more snow tonight and tomorrow, and single digit highs for Sunday. February is typically our hardest Winter month, and here it is in all it's glory.

We definitely need to look into the Starlink possibility, David. Thanks for the link.

Welcome to the GM thread, Workinonit.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 48F @ 6:15AM. Mostly sunny. High 67F. Winds light and variable.
Yesterday was warm as well, and spent a good part of the afternoon running errands in Chico with no jacket at all. Quite a change from Klamath Falls, where I wore several layers, even to bed!

A friend in northern Washington started StarLink service late last year. Sent him an email this morning asking if he's still happy with it. I see I can now sign up for it, whereas before, all I could do was volunteer for the beta program. In the mean time, my satellite modem is being restarted automatically a half dozen times a day, whenever the link goes down.

Got voicemail yesterday morning before I left that the new boxblade was ready for pickup, and since I was dead heading south with the trailer, swung by the freight terminal as one of my errands. Bozo on the forklift made kindling out of the pallet, blaming the machine all the way. Left me just enough to fork it out when I got home, with a lot less drama.

Stopped by the Kubota dealer in Klamath Falls on the way out of town and picked up a bucket of Super UDT oil. Not sure the price was any less than locally, but Oregon doesn't charge a sales tax. :thumbsup:

No issues on the trip home, other than stupid people that can't seem to figure out how to yield when they're using a freeway on ramp. Was forced out of the slow lane multiple times as I passed through Redding, the next fair sized city to the north of Chico.

This morning I'll see if I can't get a new gate opener ordered, then get the decoupler installed on the van so the tranaxel will be closed up for this weekend's rain. If there's time left, I'll try the new quick hitch out on the new boxblade.

Hope everyone enjoys their Hump Day!

 

[Looking4new]

Ken, I couldn't find the little ninjas to herd them.:laughing:
When I rattle the Temptations can all the cats usually come a runnin' even if they are asleep, EXCEPT for those two.
I will try a different tactic next week on Tuesday at 1 p.m.

I find it funny that we that live out of town can run at 60 mph on snow covered back roads/gravel roads, yet people in the city can't seem to negotiate wet pavement at the limit.

 

[daugen]

deer came through last night, ignored my hot pepper dust, ate every last bit of the seed and cleaned out both bird feeders.
Found one bird feeder under picnic bench, upside down and hatch wide open, looked like it had been vacuumed out. But not clawed.
So, after a full restock, the birds were back and chowing down again.
There's usually about 30 birds out there after I fling seed around.
hope that deer woke up with a stomach ache and his two squirrel accomplices too

 

[Looking4new]

The young lad dug this up for me;
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