Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spcmafia

Reminds on how Mrs Mafia wants to move to WA and then I see the temps. She nearly passed out yesterday with 80+ degree weather 70+ humidity.

Oh, she would be OK out here ...... iffen she didn't listen to the locals that say we don't need AC -

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by soundman98

unless you stick it in a doorway and seal the front and back apart from each other, thermodynamics don't work that way

I know that - I just don't have the heart to tell Bubba that .....

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

We are putting it in this evening. I should be okay if I survived last night with my place being closed up all weekend.

Let's hope so - if not, you can always lay on the floor with a wet sheet over you -

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well hell, stick that puppy in a doorway, cover the top space with cardboard and plug it in -

OR

your call

My hiring manager at Boston Scientific asked me this very question. I thought it was ridiculous at the time but after asking a few colleagues over the years, I realized how effective the question is. SMH

[Capt Spaulding]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

It's a dry heat but still frighteningly out of the norm.

I've lived in blisteringly hot places all my life and while I understand the physics behind the "dry heat" comments - it's bullshit. Heat is fucking hot 115 in Riverside CA at 15% RH or 100 at 85% rh in Houston. It is fucking hot.

Back before TBRMSAO I used to ride the VFR (or KLR) from deep south Texas to the Bandera area several times a year. Even geared up it usually wasn't horrible. If you get hot, twist the wrist and add some airspeed. But, there are times when the faster you go the hotter you get. When the wind turns hot - it's fucking hot. Humid or dry - the turkey gets cooked regardless.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

I've lived in blisteringly hot places all my life and while I understand the physics behind the "dry heat" comments - it's bullshit. Heat is fucking hot 115 in Riverside CA at 15% RH or 100 at 85% rh in Houston. It is fucking hot.

Back before TBRMSAO I used to ride the VFR (or KLR) from deep south Texas to the Bandera area several times a year. Even geared up it usually wasn't horrible. If you get hot, twist the wrist and add some airspeed. But, there are times when the faster you go the hotter you get. When the wind turns hot - it's fucking hot. Humid or dry - the turkey gets cooked regardless.

Oh, for sure! Dry heat is actually dangerous because the naïve don't realize how much water they are losing to sweat.

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Meantime, thanks to recent and continuing storms, it's uncharacteristically pleasant in Georgia....

I suspect we'll make up for it in August, we always do....

Send some of that rain up here. My lawn needs it... Also, it's like 95 here.

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Send some of that rain up here. My lawn needs it... Also, it's like 95 here.

I did just upgrade my sprinkler control system to one of those fancy online ones that has all kind of things you can do with it, maybe that's an option, let me check....

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I did just upgrade my sprinkler control system to one of those fancy online ones that has all kind of things you can do with it, maybe that's an option, let me check....

I set up some guerilla drip irrigation so now I have four little patches of green around my fruit trees. Even have clover springing up and the bees are loving it.

[spike021]

Almost time finally for the witness deposition. I've got Haru napping in the bedroom in his crate but he's already been there for a little over an hour. So hopefully he can last another hour or so.

I'm just giving my witness testimony over a Zoom but it's stressing me the F out. I hope this is the end of it once and for all.

3 mins to go...

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I did just upgrade my sprinkler control system to one of those fancy online ones that has all kind of things you can do with it, maybe that's an option, let me check....

check the import/export tab.

or it might be under convert.

or file-save as? just change the .ga filetype to .md

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

I did just upgrade my sprinkler control system to one of those fancy online ones that has all kind of things you can do with it, maybe that's an option, let me check....

Oh, I know what I need to do now. I don't have a sprinkler system, so I just need to install one and then we will get a monsoon.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by spike021

Almost time finally for the witness deposition. I've got Haru napping in the bedroom in his crate but he's already been there for a little over an hour. So hopefully he can last another hour or so.

I'm just giving my witness testimony over a Zoom but it's stressing me the F out. I hope this is the end of it once and for all.

3 mins to go...

This was the worst thing ever and honestly I don't think I'll ever report an accident again.

Might be up there with one of my worst life experiences ever.

Probably a hundred questions. Some repeated later in the interview. Then they pulled up my statement from that week of when a CHP detective interviewed me by phone.

Then they never took my statement off the screen, so I basically had to keep reading it line by line as they confirmed correctness and stuff, so I felt like I kept re-living the event. Meanwhile both parties lawyers kept bickering on and off, objecting and saying questions were attempting to mislead me, blah blah, and how it's against California penal code and shit and if they keep on it they'll stop the deposition and redo it.

Terrible experience. And to top it off, after 75 minutes of grilling me they say "let's take a ten minute break and come back for more", which stressed me out even more and then I come back only for them to both say "no more questions, thanks".

You think movies and tv over exaggerate court appearances with lawyers getting all pissed at each other but it actually happens in real life.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spike021

This was the worst thing ever and honestly I don't think I'll ever report an accident again.

Might be up there with one of my worst life experiences ever...........

But, thanks for doing your civic duty -