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MACS Offline
#351 Posted:
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Gene363 wrote:
^^^

You do know fire detectors have a limited lifetime?


Well... they all still work.
8trackdisco Offline
#352 Posted:
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Fire departments sometimes provide replacements for free.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#353 Posted:
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Mine work perfectly. Haven't heard a peep from them Not talking
Stogie1020 Offline
#354 Posted:
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The new ones have dual sensors, better at screaming when I burn stuff in the kitchen.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#355 Posted:
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I let Mrs. Beach do the screaming when I burn stuff in the kitchen
Gene363 Offline
#356 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
Well... they all still work.



Fire marshall Bill says, "Don't screw with fire safety."
Stogie1020 Offline
#357 Posted:
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
I let Mrs. Beach do the screaming when I burn stuff in the kitchen

Touche!

My kids go ape **** when the detectors go off, usually when I am re-seasoning a carbon steel pan. They both cover their ears and try to blow on the detector that is 20 feet up on the ceiling...
Sunoverbeach Offline
#358 Posted:
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Here's hoping they stick to that and don't start throwing coffee mugs at it
danmdevries Offline
#359 Posted:
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I had to throw out my carbon monoxide detector.

All that beeping was giving me a headache.
MACS Offline
#360 Posted:
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^You sure it wasn't the...

Nevermind.
BuckyB93 Offline
#361 Posted:
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Smoke detectors are inexpensive. Like $10 or $15 per fer stand alone battery operated ones now days. Really no reason to not have them in place. I remember when they first came out for residential use (I was just a kid) they were a couple hundred bucks each, my parents had a sit down with the guy selling them and had to see if it was in the budget to buy one. Back then a couple hundred bucks was a lot of money.

The ones in my dwelling are hard wired but you can still unplug them if the go off. Like Stogie, if I sear some meat while cooking, burn something while cooking or as season a cast iron pan on the stove it sets off he smoke alarms and I have to get on a step ladder to take them down temporarily.

I like the hard wired ones, no annoying chirping when the battery goes low. It seems like the battery warning only happens in the dead of night. I'd try to ignore it and deal with it later the next day but my dog would bark at it too... so at 3:00 AM, I'd be ripping them down and pull out the battery in order to get back to sleep.

CO2 detectors, same deal
Sunoverbeach Offline
#362 Posted:
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Friday, the most hopeful of the workdays.

Morning, peoples
Ram27 Offline
#363 Posted:
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TGIF greetings all. Beer
Burner02 Offline
#364 Posted:
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Warm, wet day in LA today.
danmdevries Offline
#365 Posted:
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Snow.
corey sellers Offline
#366 Posted:
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Morning gents
MACS Offline
#367 Posted:
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Howdy folks.

Currently 42... headed to 74 today.
deadeyedick Offline
#368 Posted:
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It's 72 today and headed for low 80s for the next few days.

Out for a 4-5 miler and then to the gym. A cigar is planned for later.
DrafterX Offline
#369 Posted:
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Cool Dudes..



snowing here..... Mellow
Ram27 Offline
#370 Posted:
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X....Herfing
Ram27 Offline
#371 Posted:
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Snow due here tomorrow. Brick wall
Gene363 Offline
#372 Posted:
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Good Friday Morning! It's a rainy 57° on the way to just 58° today.
Palama Offline
#373 Posted:
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Ram27 wrote:
Snow due here tomorrow. Brick wall


I haven’t touched snow since 2006 when we were on a trip to Las Vegas to see our kids and to attend an Eric Clapton concert. I don’t miss being in the cold and getting my shoes wet but do miss watching EC live.
plinytheelder Offline
#374 Posted:
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BuckyB93 wrote:
The ones in my dwelling are hard wired but you can still unplug them if the go off.


Had an A/C added to my previous house. They removed the low voltage system when they did it so the smoke detectors, doorbell, and something else quit working... I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on since the batteries in the detectors lasted about a year before the offending chirping would start. I disconnected them, used just battery and life was good again. The doorbell was a headscratcher though. When we went to sell the house, the door bell was checked and it didn't work...Think Oh well, I'll convert it to battery as well.
Sold the house and figured out what caused it a few years later.d'oh!
Sunoverbeach Offline
#375 Posted:
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I haven't touched snow in like 8hrs
8trackdisco Offline
#376 Posted:
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Today was countertops day. Toughest choice of the remodel to date. Nothing hit the sweet spot. Leathery quartz was the final decision. Both content if not excited about where we ended up.

Tomorrow it is going to be colder than a twitches wit. Will report temp and wind chills. All edgedy OldMan Winter’s last big swing before Spring goes on the counter attack. Hope tomorrow is the last day of 2022 I feel compelled to use the term Wind Chill.
BuckyB93 Offline
#377 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
Today was countertops day. Toughest choice of the remodel to date. Nothing hit the sweet spot. Leathery quartz was the final decision. Both content if not excited about where we ended up.

Tomorrow it is going to be colder than a twitches wit. Will report temp and wind chills. All edgedy OldMan Winter’s last big swing before Spring goes on the counter attack. Hope tomorrow is the last day of 2022 I feel compelled to use the term Wind Chill.


I bet Drafter has seen them.
BuckyB93 Offline
#378 Posted:
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Calling for rain and snow mix tomorrow (Fri). Start the morning around 40° with a little rain then temps drop to right around freezing mid day for some snow, maybe. Supposed to last all day on and off. Precipitation total predicted around 1-3" of what ever form it decides to take (rain and snow).
Mike3316 Offline
#379 Posted:
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Sounds like my forecast.
deadeyedick Offline
#380 Posted:
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Happy Saturday jackalopes. Already spring time in the desert and the air is filled with citrus blooms since much of the area was once citrus orchards now converted to homes. I need to make one more pass to finish picking my lemons for the year.
rfenst Offline
#381 Posted:
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Haven't been around her for like a week or so. What's up?

77F is the high with 95RH. 72F right now so it's going to warm up just a bit, then a front will come through taking it down to 38F tonight. That's a heavy (2-3") rain followed by a 39F swing. Winter is back for the next week with highs in the low to mid 70s!!!

Traveled 500 miles round-trip to Miami and back Thursday to take my niece who lives with us (and her mother/my sister) to tour Florida International University. BEAUTIFUL, MAGNIFICANT campus with law school, medical school and a massive, stand-alone department, to which she is already pre-admitted so she will be able to take upper level classes as a freshman instead waiting until she is a sophomore or junior. She will now be certified to provide community psychotherapy for pay (work study) from real patients in a community clinical setting workshop course-after just one year. So we were able to sign her up in first place for that program/class months ahead of time.

Sadly, my sister is clueless and unable to provide any such real assistance to my niece (and anything else in real-life), and I have to pick up the pieces so my niece will get whatever she needs. We just cannot see her, an extraordinarily bright, kind, hard-working, 17 year-old student with such massive potential (1400 SAT/one take/no courses or prep whatsoever-96+th percentile SAT). She already, while in high school, has perfect test scores in AP psychology, biology, chemistry, etc., which she gets full college credit for and to skip completely on her way to medical school,- a tremendous advantage. Cannot just watch that go to waste with out "parenting" her now until August, when she goes off to school

Bottom line, it is the best school for her so far and she is certain now that she wants to go there (which approve of), even though she is still waiting to hear from two more schools. This is costing me a chit-ton of money at the same time my son will be in law school... ram27bat

On a lighter note, returning to the pool today to see if my hand/arm can take it and if so, to work-out for the first time in like 10 weeks. Lots of atrophy in the arm that had been splinted for six weeks, Pain doc said that it will not be possible to rebuild it. The hand surgeon said I can make it up. That's a simple, but b.s. dichotomy so I am going for a repeat MRI and to my neurologist for EMG/NCV to see what the real deal is...

Anyhow, things are otherwise going really well and I just needed to take a dump in writing here on Cbid to move on for this weekend. Looking forward to today/tonight's UFC card and the vherf....
Ram27 Offline
#382 Posted:
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Hello......hello y'all this Saturday morning.


Hang in Robert things will work out for you, your a good man.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#383 Posted:
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Happy Sat, all
MACS Offline
#384 Posted:
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Herrooooooo...

42 on the way to 77. Beautiful sunny day already. Time to get out there and get moving around. Soak up some of that vitamin D.
8trackdisco Offline
#385 Posted:
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7 wc -9.
Only four hours of sleep last night.
Going to invest the day in catching up on the sleep.
Brentford @ Burnley is just the ticket for that, starting in 7 minutes.
Gene363 Offline
#386 Posted:
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Good Saturday Morning! It's a very windy 43° on the way to just 47° today and a first warning for tonight.
MACS Offline
#387 Posted:
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Dog walked for over an hour in the hills... chased a ball at the dog park for another 30. Back at the house and in da recliner.
frankj1 Offline
#388 Posted:
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Robert wrote:

On a lighter note, returning to the pool today to see if my hand/arm can take it and if so, to work-out for the first time in like 10 weeks. Lots of atrophy in the arm that had been splinted for six weeks, Pain doc said that it will not be possible to rebuild it. The hand surgeon said I can make it up. That's a simple, but b.s. dichotomy so I am going for a repeat MRI and to my neurologist for EMG/NCV to see what the real deal is...


buddy, if that's the lighter note...wow!
BuckyB93 Offline
#389 Posted:
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Maybe they can cut it off and give you one of those Like Skywalker hands
RMAN4443 Offline
#390 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
Dog walked for over an hour in the hills... chased a ball at the dog park for another 30. Back at the house and in da recliner.

If it was me. I'd be telling my dog to get out of my chair...Not talking
Cheno Offline
#391 Posted:
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Birthday dinner with the father in law tonight.
MACS Offline
#392 Posted:
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RMAN4443 wrote:
If it was me. I'd be telling my dog to get out of my chair...Not talking


Clever... very clever. Tank is not allowed on the furniture and he knows this. He has plenty of doggie beds.
frankj1 Offline
#393 Posted:
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MACS wrote:
Clever... very clever. Tank is not allowed on the furniture and he knows this. He has plenty of doggie beds.

yet he got you to chase a ball for 30 minutes?
Whistlebritches Offline
#394 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
yet he got you to chase a ball for 30 minutes?



A cat would totally blow MACS brain
8trackdisco Offline
#395 Posted:
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Watching the Sopranos prequel; Many Saints of Newark.

Doesn't have that Sopranos flavor. Can see what they are trying to do. Just doesn't quite work.

The Bent Tuba Octoberfest does work. Beer
Whistlebritches Offline
#396 Posted:
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8trackdisco wrote:
Watching the Sopranos prequel; Many Saints of Newark.

Doesn't have that Sopranos flavor. Can see what they are trying to do. Just doesn't quite work.

The Bent Tuba Octoberfest does work. Beer



Agreed.............just not up to par for a Soprano's prequal
Mike3316 Offline
#397 Posted:
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Okay ...... its mid MARCH and its 22 degrees out. Where the hell is this global warming I was promised???? Think lol
MACS Offline
#398 Posted:
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frankj1 wrote:
yet he got you to chase a ball for 30 minutes?


Whoa... hey, ooohhhh, whoa.

I kick the ball. Far. Very far. So far, many people don't understand how far... very far. It's magnificent.

The dog? He chases the ball. Very fast. Super fast. Unbelievably fast. Then he gets tired.

Needs a nap. Like Joey Biden. Only he has way more energy.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#399 Posted:
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^^ Now that's some funny chit

Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! Guaranteed drywall patching with a slight chance of ceiling painting. Then should be time to chill while the interior decorator chooses the perfect shade for the walls. Guessing at least a week for that
Burner02 Offline
#400 Posted:
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A nice morning in LA.

I see thick cut, grilled pork chops in my future for this afternoon.
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