TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

[Ca++]

My combi microwave has died. It's my only survival tool, and has left an empty hole on my worktop, and in my stomach. In fairness, using the grill part would trip the house. The spiny knob was uncommunicative, and the burnt smell getting a bit much. The plate went though, which is terminal. I have made it 4 days now, using it as just a fan oven. Unable to get my act together, and choose another one.
Then yesterday, I power up the cuttings area, and the heatsink fans don't spin up. Then today, I find out I torched my oven 25 years ago, doing an experiment that was destined to fail anyway.

Should I just go back to bed. Order takeaway and want till spring. My automation is on hold, as while I could complete, I have decided to order some tidying parts.
I wish it was 'my' automation. Though in fairness, I have already reduced my workload immeasurably. No cooking. No taking cuttings. I should bust some more things.

 

[moose eater]

My combi microwave has died. It's my only survival tool, and has left an empty hole on my worktop, and in my stomach. In fairness, using the grill part would trip the house. The spiny knob was uncommunicative, and the burnt smell getting a bit much. The plate went though, which is terminal. I have made it 4 days now, using it as just a fan oven. Unable to get my act together, and choose another one.
Then yesterday, I power up the cuttings area, and the heatsink fans don't spin up. Then today, I find out I torched my oven 25 years ago, doing an experiment that was destined to fail anyway.

Should I just go back to bed. Order takeaway and want till spring. My automation is on hold, as while I could complete, I have decided to order some tidying parts.
I wish it was 'my' automation. Though in fairness, I have already reduced my workload immeasurably. No cooking. No taking cuttings. I should bust some more things.

One vote for going back to bed and waiting for Spring.

 

[moose eater]

The last load of heating fuel oil until about November 19 (when we do the classic annual minor top-off) is on the trailer next to the barn and has been since a couple days ago, when a trip to town with the trailer and my wife in the truck with me to assist included some asshat passing me when I was doing 62 in a 55, and he passed me on a curve on the 2-lane, passing on the paved shoulder (right hand side of my truck and trailer) with loose gravel spraying off of his vehicle at the entrance to a weigh scale going at what I estimated to be 75+ mph.

I flipped him off for the longest time, and intended to gradually catch up to the asshat when he might get stuck behind traffic on the 2-lane up the road a short distance, but he passed many of them in equally unsafe manner.

I considered how many people there are on the planet that simply don't really need to be here and based on their behaviors involving others they have no acquaintance with, they probably wouldn't be missed all that much. Just a guess.

Then, the other day I was in Walmart, a place I rarely go to, and in 2 separate instances, 2 middle aged ignorant redneck men were clearly mocking my mask without having a clue as to why we wear P100s with surgery masks over them at our house when in public. I walked past each of them in the 2 separate instances, in relatively close proximity and audibly said, "FUCK YOU!!" No reactions. Rude, ignorant, cowards and pussies... As usual. Thinking their parents could've done a much better job but failed to.

My tolerance for boundary-challenged assholes is definitely on the low side.

 

[Dime]

Every day going to work I meet the same moron,brightest led headlights made and has them on brights as well, I know when I flick him to shut his brights off his fog lights come on and they are the brightest led you can buy as well but it is a bit less bright so then I have to watch the shoulder or I can't see whatsoever. It's like staring into a 1000w halide.Some people are hopeless.

 

[moose eater]

Every day going to work I meet the same moron,brightest led headlights made and has them on brights as well, I know when I flick him to shut his brights off his fog lights come on and they are the brightest led you can buy as well but it is a bit less bright so then I have to watch the shoulder or I can't see whatsoever. It's like staring into a 1000w halide.Some people are hopeless.

I have 4 Light Force overheads on my truck. People really don't want me to remind them their brights are on. Which I have been known to do when required.,

Even though I've considered that there's a bit of a self-destruction component built into my flicking the Light Force overheads into their retinas. They're still coming at me, and now they're 'blinded by the light'.

But life's been losing its appeal for a long time, anyway. Best to vanish from the planet while removing an asshole. Part of my own personal 'Beautify America' program.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Some people are hopeless.

sounds like the guy i pass every damn day on my way to work. dickhead has a big dually, bright white LED lights (which cannot be dimmed, apparently) and two sets of white LED fog lights which don't have an off/on switch either. i'm thinking about straddling the centerline next time and just fucking park for a while...or, hook up my spotlight and blind the cretin when he's almost to my truck. that might be more fun.

 

[Ca++]

Reminds me.. the playing card I have extending one side of my sun visor, is due for renewal. As a trial, I put it there so with my head up high, it would block my view of oncoming traffic, but still let me see my lane. It was a win. Now I need to swap it for a red filter. Thus blocking the blue, which is the real problem with night blindness. I will likely put 40mm of filter the full width of my visor. Extending to 80mm deep, the side where headlights tend to be. I don't wear my belt, and treat my seat like a bench. So raising and lowering my head is very easy. This filter idea wouldn't suit those in a more fixed seating position. Though perhaps if you have no hills, it could work.
Just putting it out there, for those with some red film to play with. I have not tried sun strips on my glasses, but they to, could be useful. Just one side of the lens, so you can look around the sun strip, while keeping it over the other lane.

Hmm.. glasses sound good actually. A lot better than them orange one's that don't work.

 

[Ca++]

Right hand drive glasses.

Just tip your head down a bit, to get the filter into play, and turn your head so it's only over the oncoming idiots.

 

[Ca++]

My Savlon cream says use sparingly. 15/01/96

I may of taken it too literally

 

[Ca++]

It's just a pic, because it makes me happy.

 

[moose eater]

 

[Ca++]

It's taken 4 large bowls, and a full 10 minutes staring at the wall for this one. The moment of realisation, that you finally get it.

Air pumps. They send pulsating air noise down the tube. I have been ignoring the other side of the diaphragm though. However, this deep and meaningful thought, isn't without reason

The keen eyed will notice straight away, that my woodwork cold be better. I had barely put my spliff out by the time I had made it though. The sides are from a continuous strip, I jigsawed off the edge of a larger board. Keeping the bad sides upward, so the rubber crumb gasket can deal with the imperfections. The pump sits upon crumb also, as it's feet would sink through foam, and the pump gets it's air from underneath.

At this point, I realise the airline should really be 'straight lining it' out through the box wall. Perhaps by cutting a hole, I fill with soft foam. To bring the pipe through the center of the soft foam. Keeping the pipe from touching the box. The same foam can serve as in air inlet, so it doesn't look like a pet carrier.
I think this is going to see some more work, before it gets some tie-off points (see: screws) to enable it to be hung by elastic cord. The 18mm mdf box will dampen the noise, and offer some weight to counter the pumps vibration. It's the hanging that really isolates the pump from the building though.

There is more to this noise reduction project, but this is already long..

 

[moose eater]

 

[tobedetermined]

I ignored a critical shopping rule. Never, ever buy that last item that is in inventory of the thing that you need. Never ever. I battled 15 minutes of traffic, with construction and a lane restriction and a blocked entrance and a long, tedious wait just to turn into the parking lot. And then, just like their online inventory said, there was only one on the shelf. A ‘1-ton hoist puller’ is the official name, but I know it as a comealong. Of course, I may be wrong about that name since I have never owned one. It is a simple ratchet affair for moving something heavy. And I have this project . . . Anyways . . . the carton was an obvious repack. It was all taped up and nicely sealed and it didn’t invite inspection. And it was the last one. I should have opened it. I didn’t. I trusted. What a dumb fuck. Never ever buy the last one in a repack box. It is broken. Or missing parts. Or jammed. Or it will fail prematurely screwing something else up. Walk away. Be smart. Consider this a public service notice from someone that has been duped again.

 

[moose eater]

I ignored a critical shopping rule. Never, ever buy that last item that is in inventory of the thing that you need. Never ever. I battled 15 minutes of traffic, with construction and a lane restriction and a blocked entrance and a long, tedious wait just to turn into the parking lot. And then, just like their online inventory said, there was only one on the shelf. A ‘1-ton hoist puller’ is the official name, but I know it as a comealong. Of course, I may be wrong about that name since I have never owned one. It is a simple ratchet affair for moving something heavy. And I have this project . . . Anyways . . . the carton was an obvious repack. It was all taped up and nicely sealed and it didn’t invite inspection. And it was the last one. I should have opened it. I didn’t. I trusted. What a dumb fuck. Never ever buy the last one in a repack box. It is broken. Or missing parts. Or jammed. Or it will fail prematurely screwing something else up. Walk away. Be smart. Consider this a public service notice from someone that has been duped again.

I have similar policies I sometimes violate. Sometimes it bites me in the ass, and other times I skate away with no troubles.

Another good policy is to never buy an item that is somewhat of a new concept and is in the first year or 2 of manufacture. Or Rx drugs in similar status, is another one.

Anyway, I checked with our local Costco in Fairbanks, and they have 3 brands of hearing aids, all priced near the $1,500 USD mark, and include those that fit into the ear journal or canal, and those that hang primarily on the back, which I was surprised to learn are allegedly the ones that are more frequently falling out if a person is active.

They seem to all have a manual switch for public settings or you can join them to a smart phone/blue tooth and have them be adjustable through your phone. I don't carry an actual 'smart phone', but rather a somewhat remedial phone that rode the short bus to phone school, so I'd opt for the manual switch in the set-up phase... if I even bought a pair of these things.

Meanwhile, my wife rescued two trays of various peppers from the greenhouse as we were approaching freezing temperatures and brought them into the living room to rest on the south-facing windowsill.

Anyway, today, especially in light of the fact that they're in relatively small pots, I fed them a hefty dose of hydrolyzed fish fertilizer/emulsion. Stuff called 'Fish On'.

Not much K in there, but I can add a variety of K sources later, to include a stout Maxi-Crop Seaweed extract substance to be diluted/liquified in water, with a value of 17 on the K..

Might be the early winter of many peppers?

 

[tobedetermined]

Yes there are a number of different styles of HAs. The one that I trialed was a RIC, so the HA is behind the ear with a stiff(ish) wire that terminated in tiny ventilated tulip-shaped receiver that you stick into your ear a ways. My low frequency hearing is good so the idea was to use that and boost the upper midrange – above 2K.

I have a real concern about them falling out. I took my wife for a hospital app’t and taking off a face mask is deadly for expensive behind the ear HAs. I almost flung one across the hospital’s underground parking lot. You also have to be cautious swapping eyeglasses etc etc. I think the wisest thing would be to not wear them when you are being really active and if you are being noise-making active you probably won't want a sonic boost anyway.

 

[armedoldhippy]

I have a real concern about them falling out.

mine fit exactly as you describe, and they have never come close to falling out. that said, if i was still young enough to play an active sport (BBall etc) i wouldn't have them on anyway. my biggest problem is getting in the shower & THEN discover you have them in. done that 3 (THREE!) times now... apparently, i'm a slow learner...

 

[tobedetermined]

So the reason I needed the hoist puller (come-along) was to move a badly built trellis under the wisteria at the side of our house. It has been in place for 20+ years and the tree twisted it, making it more and more precarious and slamming it against the fence. I needed to pull it but there was nothing to attach to and it is crazy heavy. So I made this . . .

I lagged 2 x 4 board into the brick wall of the house (a double course of cement brick btw - not just a facing) and drilled in a hook point. I added a hook point to the trellis structure and cranked it until it straightened (mostly).

I will replaced the come-along with a guy wire and bang the 4 x4 uprights back into place. Not bad for a semi-cripple . . .

 

[Dime]

 

[Ca++]

I'm still in the cupboard

The air at the res is smooth and quiet, but the cupboard walls are thin and it's resonating. There is no physical vibration. Very little even on the first run of bungee from the box. They are so decoupled, the box is almost weightless, so you can see it dancing around. It might be acting like a sound board, but I can't hear that, for the clatter doing a straight line from the pump outlet, through the foam wall, and down the pipe. This new hole was a bad move. I need to turn the pump I think, and use some elbows I have lost, to get a short pipe run formed. Maybe loop the box a couple of times. Put another end over the box to muffle it better. The airstone only had an opening like 1.5mm round. The tank was boiling (to the eye) so I don't need them 9 holes.

It's proper loud, even with carpets hung. It must be a bad combination. The sound carried well through the drywall to a hall of similar width. Building resonance there, that was I had no cupboard or box.
I may try my spare pump, just to check

Now do I foam the cavity to toughen the walls. Empty the cupboard to put some dense boards in. Build a box for the box and bottle together. Weight the box. Put sound proofing outside the box, so it can't be a sound board. Build a muffler for a 4mm. Roll one.