The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[donaldtoo]

But . . . but . . . it's paradise!!

Nah.
We'll have paradise tomorrow and Saturday with predicted highs of 104 and 105 respectively...!!!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

I don't know about testing the water sprinkler system. The way the story was reported on the local TV news, neither the sprinkler system nor the smoke alarm systems had been installed (yet)? From the report, that didn't sound unusual during the construction phase, as (I guess) these systems go in later on--but I don't know at what point in the construction process it happens.

Here's a link to a more in-depth news story about wooden frame construction, and issues. (Skip the brief video--it's just a static picture of the fire.) But the full article (2 pages) goes deep into what sounds like an ongoing problem.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...own-waltham/B8YMiHrDfM0V7l1uhH3MmJ/story.html

Yep, sounds typical.
All those fire-prevention systems and construction techniques are spec'd and provided for and totally operational/functional when the CoO (Certificate of Occupancy) is issued. But, there's that time between when it's totally framed out and final completion that is a potential disaster window.

 

[DryerLintFan]

The surgery went well. I've been up early making bread pudding with fresh blueberry's, and thanksgiving casserole. I took over mac and cheese and sweet potato casserole. Next day it's pizza. That's what the boy's like. Tomorrow, Friday I'm going to sleep in, and hopefully nothing. But, I'm ready to take over burgers and fries. All the boy's favorite's.

They're lucky to have you glad the surgery went well!!

 

[donaldtoo]

When we were kids my aunt made us a slip n slide at her house out of some garbage bags and tent stakes. Worst. Idea. Ever. Half the time we'd be sliding down one bag and somehow end up underneath the next bag instead of on top of it And it took a good twenty minutes before she had the bright idea to cover the tent stakes with tennis balls. By then everyone was bloody and battered. Somehow, it was still a blast. I'd never go down it now, as an adult!

Is this the same aunt that also made y'all a slide of razor blades that dumped y'all into a pool of rubbing alcohol at the bottom...?!

 

[DryerLintFan]

Is this the same aunt that also made y'all a slide of razor blades that dumped y'all into a pool of rubbing alcohol at the bottom...?!

Well....... She *DID* pierce our ears with a potato, a safety pin, and some ice.

And when we were kids we went to a Pink Floyd concert with her and she stuffed her marijuana in our socks to get it through security.

She wasn't exactly the most responsible person around children

 

[donaldtoo]

It is! That is what happens to solid water when it gets waaaaaarrrrrmmmmmm.....

Wait...
I thought solid water was ice, not snow...?

But, then again, what do I know from that solid water stuff way down here.

 

[donaldtoo]

Well....... She *DID* pierce our ears with a potato, a safety pin, and some ice.

And when we were kids we went to a Pink Floyd concert with her and she stuffed her marijuana in our socks to get it through security.

She wasn't exactly the most responsible person around children

Dear Lord.
Pleeeeeaaaaassse tell me she never had any children of her own...

 

[donaldtoo]

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[donaldtoo]

I'm not an adult then. But I loves me some iced tea!

Spoiler

I drink about a half gallon a day. Plain, no sugar, sweetener or lemon.

Just change that to beer quality (broccoli and Brussels sprouts beer included ) for me...!!!

 

[donaldtoo]

We had one of these sprinklers when we were younger and I have one now.

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Yep, ran through more than one sprinkler in my day...!

 

[donaldtoo]

I just burst out laughing over this! Hubs came upstairs to find out what was so funny. He read it too, and he got a big laugh out of it.

I mean, isn't it amazing that any of us survived our "dangerous" childhood?!!

Posted before, but, bears repeating...!

 

[donaldtoo]

I went to a Walmart (about 30 miles from where I live). Wasn't impressed in the least. I have a Target within 10 miles, and I like that much better.

Both just minutes down the road.
Plus, Lowe's, Home Depot, etc., etc., etc., etc......

 

[Gabe1]

It can be pretty bad here too.
We had a 42C thermal feeling yesterday..
opening doors felt like this:

Ewe!

 

[donaldtoo]

OK gang, I'm all ketchuped and I'm out...!
Tomorrow's Half-day Friday...!!!
Y'all be cool...!!!!!
Laterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...!!!!!!!

 

[Cesar R M]

I just burst out laughing over this! Hubs came upstairs to find out what was so funny. He read it too, and he got a big laugh out of it.

I mean, isn't it amazing that any of us survived our "dangerous" childhood?!!

What does not kill you, makes you stronger

 

[Gabe1]

Oh absolutely. My heart goes out to you. So much fallout after a major storm like that. I often take for granted what I have, and forget how easily it can be taken away by mother nature.

Understood.

They cleared some trees off a main side road that my DD building faces today. First time I've been able to walk that way since Friday. These are 100+ years old homes, flats and businesses on this one city block. There is also 55 feet of open space between the homes and flats. As I walked this evening in one such grass open area there was a massive tree-it would take three or four people holding hands to go around it. It was reduced to about a 5 foot stump and it was easily 3 stories tall, likely the age of the buildings. I could now see through the deep property, across the barn accesses and through the next blocks property. All of this has greatly changed our sight lines. I have not seen much of this side of our town. Everything is roped off still with caution tape.

Today the path to the pool was opened again. 7 out of 10 fun umbrellas gone tangled messes. There were 8, there is one that somehow survived. (this happened where my DD works as a manager part time in her waterpark a couple years ago. A huge gust, broke the bolts and the thing landed in the pool. Nobody hurt. Wasn't even raining) These are beyond heavy and expensive. Generally takes 2 people to crank it up and down. Here is one similar-ours have much wider diameter poles.

 

[Cesar R M]

We don't have a water tower either. This is what we call the reservoir here and one of our water sources.

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Then you have strong pumps putting water pressure right?

When I was thinking water reservoirs, I imagined the water towers that are everywhere in Florida, Houston, Pittsburgh, etc..

 

[Gabe1]

YUCK! Why would you ruin perfectly good broccoli?

^^^
This

 

[Cesar R M]

Hey, @Cesar R M , have you heard anything on your news down there about tainted alcohol? I saw a report about this on the news this morning. Please be careful and only buy liquor from companies that you're familiar with in Mexico.

Here's a link from CNN-
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/us/mexico-state-department-alcohol-warning/index.html

I don't think the tainted alcohol is a problem with bottled liquor bought in stores.
The hotels probably are diluting the product to rake profits (usually a crime lord shoves these on companies to earn more money).

Don't worry, we almost never drink anything alcoholic here. I never do (only in soups or food I put some beer or wine)

As for intoxications. I have no idea why this row of intoxications reminds me of also how Coca cola once used a wrong formula of Carbon Bioxide for their drinks and ended intoxicating a few hundreds of bottled soda before a recall.

In the most extreme and most sadistic version I can think of. Is some crime lord buying craploads of original liquor, proceed to dilute the bottles and repackage them and then resell the tampered bottles for a bit cheaper than the originals. A lot of hotels bought that thing fast and disregarded the dangers.


The article mentions something disturbing as well.

This claim:

Extortion? In at least three cases, travelers reported that local hospitals, part of the Hospiten chain, appeared to be gouging them, demanding large sums of cash. One man was told to take a cab to an ATM. The vacationers suspected Iberostar might be in cahoots with the medical company. The resort contracts with Hospiten and refers sick and injured guests to Hospiten's facilities. Abbey Conner's family paid about $17,000 to a small medical clinic south of Playa del Carmen and within several hours paid tens of thousands more to a hospital in Cancun, north of the resort, where Abbey and her brother were transferred.

This is definitively abnormal and could be that some employees are colluding with a crime lord.

As for me, I'm in the opposite side of Mexico and things arent that bad here.. (yet).

 

[Cesar R M]

Get ready for more headaches in the airport lines

Well, You bet they are making it as awful as possible to extort passengers to cough up more money for TSApre.

After all, its a fake security theatre. I still remember the 95% rate of failure of TSA in many studies..

 

[Gabe1]

Sounds like the guy who did the engineering for our office building. He is known for over-engineering everything. Definitely adds to the overall cost, but, it ain't fallin' down anytime soon...!

All of our structural beams in our house are I-beams and the house is far from new. The roofs are 12 x 2 wood, no plywood or skimpy lumber. Where there is wood it is solid cedar. The old man who built my block on my road one by one over 10 year span didn't skimp, he also put the same thing inside of every home. The floor plans and shape of the homes are all different but we have the same windows, sashes, hardwood floors, (original) cabinets, counters, tubs, sinks, tile in baths and so forth. Right down to the interior and exterior doors. Most of us have updated but when we bought the home years ago inside it was like deja vu inside.