Update Update

[tbn.al]

Insulation is a wonderful thing. My laundry room is on the outside wall. I had the opportunity to do a bit of temperature analysis Tuesday. The air in the room was 65 degrees. The room side of the wall was 62. Inside the wall next to the insulation was 57. Up against the inside of the outside wall it was 42. The outside of the outside wall was 14. The outside temperature was 8. A lot of houses in Georgia are not well insulated and I see a bunch of water pipe freeze claims every time we get a cold snap. So far I've had 6 this week. Insulation is a wonderful thing.

[Dan Schultz]

...so I took my 3-year-old daughter underneath the house along with a plug-into-an-outlet "heat tape" and an extension cord. (Conveniently, there was actually a 110 outlet under there mounted to a floor joist.) She crawled through that hole, wrapped the heat tape around those pipes, secured it, and plugged it in to the extension cord. It was very dark, very cold, very cramped, very dirty, and very spider webby under there. To this day, I am very proud of her for doing that.

Joe... they put parents in jail for stuff like that today!

[bort]

Mrs. Bort asked him to fix a few things on her old Mac laptop. If there's one thing in this world that can drive me to insanity, it's trying to fix things on a Mac. I really don't understand how Mac users can handle this stuff!

[MartyNeilan]

Mrs. Bort asked him to fix a few things on her old Mac laptop. If there's one thing in this world that can drive me to insanity, it's trying to fix things on a Mac. I really don't understand how Mac users can handle this stuff!

They don't. They ask PC people to fix them.

Marty "who sees about as many hardware and software problems with the Macs at work as with the Win 7 PC's"

[bort]

[bisontuba]

I suspect you are correct. Perhaps, it would have been nice to have lived my entire life in pre-social-insanity America...but (having to take the bad with the good) knowing my luck, I probably would have been sent off to die in one of Wilson's, FDR's, Truman's, or Johnson's wars.

Uhhh, let's see...one of Eisenhower's wars, one of Bush's wars (both)..... need I go on.....damn Confederate Jeff Davis' war.....
Mark

[MartyNeilan]

I suspect you are correct. Perhaps, it would have been nice to have lived my entire life in pre-social-insanity America...but (having to take the bad with the good) knowing my luck, I probably would have been sent off to die in one of Wilson's, FDR's, Truman's, or Johnson's wars.

Uhhh, let's see...one of Eisenhower's wars, one of Bush's wars (both)..... need I go on.....damn Confederate Jeff Davis' war.....
Mark

Never mind the biggest warmonger of them all, the Original George W 1

[TubaRay]

WARNING: Possible offensive material to follow.

Politics is entirely too important to meet the purpose for which this thread was originally intended.

On the other hand, if you have a new pimple in the middle of your back....

[tbn.al]

I see our uber moderators are on the job and the right topic got deleted. Excellent!

[Dan Schultz]

I made it past 4000 posts! Time for some coffee!

OK. Now summarize what you said in those 4,000 posts!

[sousaphone68]

Miserable wet day here today so I am taking a leaf from my children's play book and have decided to have a pyjama day.
you have been updated

[Dubby]

Our quintet-3 trombones, euphonium, tuba-played/acted Stars and Stripes at a community concert last night with the lead trombone playing the piccolo solo and a trigger "trill". Standing ovation. Also, my first jazz performance at the same concert. It was a blast!

[tofu]

I recently changed insurance companies for my auto coverage. Today I received notice that the cars would not be covered for any nuclear explosions or radiation. I'll have to live with the glow in the dark paint. They would also not be covered in the event of being blown up by a missile or if I was involved in any war.

I'll have to call the agent and find out if somebody throws a hand grenade at it or fires a shoulder rocket at it during peace time if I'm covered. I assume I'm covered since they did not specifically exclude or mention rockets while I'm not involved in a war.

So please if you must blow up my car I would request that you NOT use a missle or nuclear bomb. A rocket or hand grenade look to be OK at this point unless I find out differently. Thanks!

[tbn.al]

Trust me, your old policy didn't cover that stuff either. Those seven exclusions are written into all policies.

[Tubaryan12]

Had to work on the furnace today. Both cars in hit and run accidents. 2014 is not starting off well.

[tbn.al]

Had to work on the furnace today. Both cars in hit and run accidents. 2014 is not starting off well.

Were you the "hit" or the "run"?

[Rick F]

I'm "ELEPHANT ROOM READY"

Me too!

[Tubaryan12]

Had to work on the furnace today. Both cars in hit and run accidents. 2014 is not starting off well.

Were you the "hit" or the "run"?

[TubaRay]

Sorry to hear of your difficulties, Ryan.

[Tubaryan12]

Sorry to hear of your difficulties, Ryan.

yes.

I guess we all assume that Ryan-The-Capable will land on his feet.

lol..thanks bloke. One car in the shop and one on the way Feb.3. Funace fixed. It must be that time of year. While I was purchasing the part for my furnace, another guy was buying the same part. Yesterday, my brother in law had his furnace die. You guessed it....same part.