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I never met mp3, but has it really been that long?

Actually, it has, I recall sending Noah a card and some geld for his bar mitzvah. Now I saw he's going to law school

8trackdisco
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4 years ago

#223

I never met mp3, but has it really been that long?

Actually, it has, I recall sending Noah a card and some geld for his bar mitzvah. Now I saw he's going to law school

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

Yep. MP3 is now 20.

8trackdisco
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4 years ago

#224

Whoa... the brother was playing with friggin' legos when we first met. Now he's playing with ta-ta's?

Attaboy!

MACS wrote:

Yessir.

BuckyB93
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4 years ago

#225

depending on its temperature, water weighs about 8.3lbs per gallon.
Also weighs more than ice.
Bet you're not surprised.

frankj1 wrote:

Technically it weighs the same no matter what phase of matter it's in (solid, liquid, gas). It's the density that changes.

Water has a neat, but rather basic, phase diagram with a triple point (where solid, liquid, and gas are in equilibrium) right around the freezing point. If you freeze it and pull a vacuum on it, it will sublime - go straight from ice to vapor without going through the liquid phase. When things are freeze dried, this is what they are talking about.

Water is an amazing material. Luckily the solid state is less dense than the liquid state (ice floats) otherwise all of our lakes, streams, rivers, ponds and oceans in the in the northern and southern latitudes would likely be absence of life as we know it.

If ice sank, all bodies of water in the northern and southern latitudes would freeze solid in the winter and likely wouldn't thaw out during the summer.

All hail the water Gods!

frankj1
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4 years ago

#226

I never met mp3, but has it really been that long?

Actually, it has, I recall sending Noah a card and some geld for his bar mitzvah. Now I saw he's going to law school

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

a gelding?
that's some franked up chit right there

Thunder.Gerbil
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4 years ago

#227

Frank, show me on the doll where the bad man touched you.

MACS
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4 years ago

#228

Frank, show me on the doll where the bad man touched you.

Thunder.Gerbil wrote:

We're talking about Frankie-T here... where'd you get THAT doll? Nevermind... nevermind... I don't wanna know...

danmdevries
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4 years ago

#229

about half way through the unplanned remodel of two bathrooms and a hallway.
Not the same joy as if planned.

frankj1 wrote:

I'm glad I got hit with an unplanned near-emergency remodel of our "old" bathroom last year. If not, it still wouldn't have been done.

I actually preferred that it happened that way because my planned projects take me forever. Urgent repairs I tend to see through start to finish. Non urgent things like that I lose interest, plans are open and constantly change. I spent 5 years building our 2nd bathroom. This one took me about 3 months.

I need to do the kitchen, but that really needs to be fully planned out with cabinets, flooring, sink, etc in hand before I start doing any demo. It's the last room in the house with no exterior insulation.

frankj1
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4 years ago

#230

danmdevries wrote:

sink, stove, fridge...make a triangle...step one.

Sunoverbeach
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4 years ago

#231

I'm no designer nor geometrical wizard, but using three points in one room, isn't it nigh impossible to avoid making a triangle?

Sunoverbeach
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4 years ago

#232

Oh, yeah. Straight line. Definitely don't do that

danmdevries
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4 years ago

#233

sink, stove, fridge...make a triangle...step one.

frankj1 wrote:

Our current layout for the size of the room will not change much, that's already established, measured, and written down. The only change is I'm taking out a built-in pantry to replace with a cabinet pantry so everything faces into the work area. But location of the stink stove fridge are set. Sink is fixed in place due to window location and the room isn't big enough for an island sink.

We can't decide on cabinet or countertop style or color. She's picked out the flooring though. I don't want to be the one that picks the permanent fixtures without her input. She hasn't granted me the "you pick" yet. I like what we have, it's all custom Amish handmade hardwood and has a nice radius by the back door. But it's early 1950's and does need to be updated. My preferences are not ideal for resale is what I've been told. But.. I don't plan to move anytime soon

Step one is done. I blew all my bonus money on vacations so step 2 - funding is gonna be the next thing to work on. I told the wife a few days ago when she mentioned doing the kitchen that she needs to work on picking out cabinets so I can get drawings and quotes so maybe it'll happen next winter. I was/am hoping it can be done for $10k. There's nothing in there I can't or won't do myself except taping drywall and that's not very expensive to pay for so it's straight material costs. Can move appliances into the climate controlled garage and still cook/function just fine even have a laundry tub sink in the garage so that's easy.

danmdevries
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4 years ago

#234

Oh, yeah. Straight line. Definitely don't do that

Sunoverbeach wrote:

I see what you did, but that was the only alternate suggestion made to us by a friends wife who does kitchen/cabinet sales. She designs layouts and said there's two ways she'd suggest. Fridge up against the wall to the left, then stove, then sink all in a straight line. But that would require moving the dishwasher to the other side, and extra plumbing work for really no benefit

The other option is keeping the same layout. The room is small, 11x13 if I remember right. So not many options for rearranging the furniture.

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Sunoverbeach
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4 years ago

#235

With solid hardwood cabinets, any chance you could get away with just changing the doors and countertops to upgrade the look? Didn't fly when we did ours, but thought I'd ask

Sunoverbeach
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4 years ago

#236

Happy start o' the week to ya, my fellow race rats

Ram27
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4 years ago

#237

Welcome to the start of a new week folks.🙄

deadeyedick
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4 years ago

#238

Is Prescott nice? A visit to Phoenix is on our list for this year as part of the “Leaving California Adventure.”

HockeyDad wrote:

Nice areas and not so nice. Small town atmosphere with 50K in the city and about 130K altogether. A mix of modern and rustic. Town square, courthouse park and Whiskey Row are scenic. Lots of view properties in the hills at 5300 ft. And four seasons with very little snow. Worth a look.

And if you are coming to Phx...bring your own water.

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