In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Seems like you're really an extrovert, SIX. Being alone in your house doesn't seem to suit you. On top of that, you're a neighborly neighbor. Going over and helping a neighbor and staying for dinner and shooting the breeze... well, word gets around, yanno?
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Went over to my neighbor's house and to say he was not prepared to move the appliances was an understatement.
They lucked out... The water to the ice maker turned out not to be a standard copper line and was a rubber coated metal hose that was fed from a water softener unit under the sink through the basement and up to the fridge. I was able to turn of about 98% of the water pressure by turning off that softener that only fed the fridge and some "water stick" thing on the sink that they never use, and we were able to pull the hose through the floor and get make it dump the leaky water into the slop sink until his dad comes over and fixes that plumbing issue. Jack don't do plumbing.
The valve on the stove gas doesn't seem to shut fully either, and I could detect an ever so faint gas smell that was pretty strong if you stuck your nose down on it. I told him if it were just me I probably would have let it go for the night and see what it was like in the morning, but he's got a family to worry about and I went to the hardware store with him and got a cap so we could close it off with some teflon tape for some cheap insurance.
The move went pretty smooth, although that fridge was bigger and heavier than the two I helped my friend move a few weeks back. Nobody got hurt and nothing was damaged though.
They fed me dinner and I actually hung around a few hours to bullshit. We don't do that very often. It was a good time. It's hard to believe how long I've lived here. Their oldest daughter was just a baby when I moved in and she'll be going to high school next year. Both daughters were very proud to tell me about how they got all A's and B's.
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"Hey, that guy SIX. You know the one that really started fixing up his house a few years back that we didn't see for a long time? He's a good guy! He knows how to do a lot of things and he helped me out."
From a purely mercenary POV, you're building up good karma and helping your neighborhood becoming real... yanno, a place where people get together for fun and help each other when something goes wrong. My sis lives in that kind of neighborhood. And it's real handy when the SHTF, either individally or collectively. Good on you, SIX! May your neighborhood blossom, and may you never have raccoons in your attic!
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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
I don't know about being an extrovert... but whenever I've told people that I prefer to be alone rather than be in the company of other people and that I am shy and not very talkative they don't agree with me. Maybe it's all just in my head.
I'm glad I know how to do things like I do though. Maybe I should stop being a jerk and looking at it like people owe me things all the time though. I mean, I should have asked one of my neighbors to give me a ride to pick up my car instead of walking two miles to get it from the mechanic when he took so long and my sure ride wasn't there anymore. I've actually never called in a favor from my next door neighbor and that didn't stop him from asking for help again... not that I'd want them not to ask me, but it seems rather foolish that I didn't ask for a ride in retrospect. I'm always doing things on my own unless it's absolutely necessary to get somebody else involved. Never been much of a team player.
I should have probably introduced myself to my new neighbors. Two houses on my block were so
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What's a "life vest"?
That's what he calls it. I don't know what the official name is. I call it the device that insurance companies came up with so they can send people home that should still be in the hospital and not get sued as often.
It looks like one of those old tape decks you could sling over your shoulder. I guess it's got the ability to shock him if he goes into cardiac arrest, and it comes equipped with GPS tracking and the ability to automatically put a call out to an ambulance.
Never seen such a thing. But there's a good reason not to be in hospital (besides saving money): hospital-acquired infections tend to be nasty, since hospital germs are usually multi-drug resistant.
I didn't consider that. I just assumed that it was insurance related. I forgot how nasty hospitals have become. I do my best to avoid them.
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Stenting is relatively easy: they just thread what is basically a coiled spring up the femoral artery (up from the groin) and when it reaches its destination they (somehow) release the coiled stent and it springs open and opens up the blood vessel. Possibly the blocked area(s) are too numerous and/or too large and marginal for stenting, but then they have to go to open-heart surgery which is considerably riskier.
But they prolly wouldn't consider surgery until his lung issue is resolved. Some surgeries are a Big Deal and a huge stress on the body, and they like to see people as healthy and fit for surgery as possible before they begin.
Yeah. They're sure taking their time about everything. He's in good spirits though.
Yeah. He was up on a scaffold installing missing trim on the front of my friend's house for 4 hours today. He won't be stopped.
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I know what you mean about wishing someone would take it easier. Hubby keeps trying to do stuff that he shouldn't. I just hope he doesn't screw up the surgery nd need to have it re-done. Once was enough of an ordeal.
Yeah. I'm sure I'll see him tomorrow and half my job is going to make sure he's not doing anything he shouldn't be doing.
Yeah. He's not going to let me tell him no about coming over to help me finish the porch. He says he's coming this week and we're going to install the jambs and get thos parting stops fabricated so I can paint them and start putting casing up. So I guess we're doing that.
Me? I think I'm taking a break for a few days. Not much I want to be doing when it's 40 degrees out, and except for sleeping all day when I got sick, I haven't really had a day off of working in about 2 months.
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Oh yeah... I did get my wall plates and my new light for the porch.
I'll be installing those tomorrow no matter how cold it is.
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Out for my walk in a bit. There was so much smoke in the air last night that the moon was orange because of it.
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit. There was so much smoke in the air last night that the moon was orange because of it.
How's your fire season been overall so far this year?
I haven't heard of hundreds of fires burning in BC, so I hope better than average?
we've been lucky so far. Despite the longest, hottest hot spell in CA white-man recorded history, we haven't had any major fires, yet. And we got a spattering of rain about 5 days ago and another spattering a couple days ago, and except for the next two days around 90 the weather seems to have cooled down quite a bit. Still short of water, but cool/cloudy weather does help keep fires at bay.
I wonder if Canada has changed its fire suppression policies in addition to changing it's mascot. Smokey Bear was all about stopping each and every fire, which built up a huge fuel load. The under Reagan (IIRC) they switched to "let it burn" and clear-cutting, which were different kinds of catastrophes. One of these days, they'll settle on a reasonable management approach.
Ember the Fox hasn't been adopted in the USA, but it's really a cute mascot. with the orange-ish fur the name really fits. And most people (except chicken-ranchers) think foxes are kinda cute, so ... good choice!
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SIX, when I tell people I'm an introvert they don't believe me either. Having supervised a very large group (in a professional setting, the usual span of control is is 1 to 6 -8 staff, my group was as large as 14) I had to compensate, but it's not something I feel comfortable with.
I think what you really hate is feeling dependent. Because once you depend on someone for something - or even ask someone for something- they can always turn you down, and that generates all knds of negative feelings. and who wants to go thru that?
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SIX, when I tell people I'm an introvert they don't believe me either. Having supervised a very large group (in a professional setting, the usual span of control is is 1 to 6 -8 staff, my group was as large as 14) I had to compensate, but it's not something I feel comfortable with.
I hear you loud and clear there and can empathize. When I'm forced to be social I don't (at least outwardly) have any problems doing it. Maybe it's just out of my comfort zone and something I could work on though. My days of caring what other people think are almost entirely over. It would probably be a lot easier to adjust to that now than it would have in my 20's.
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I think what you really hate is feeling dependent. Because once you depend on someone for something - or even ask someone for something- they can always turn you down, and that generates all knds of negative feelings. and who wants to go thru that?
You're not wrong.
On top of that, I have an aversion to obligations. I don't like owing. Not money and not favors. I prefer to build my credit up first and let other people pay it back later than vice versa. That probably goes back to what you were saying though. If somebody is obliged to you because you've done one or several favors for them first, they're much less likely to tell you no when you ask for something.
They've done studies on that. Hell... The Hare Krisna's whole ritual of giving away flowers at the airport before asking for donations is based entirely on that concept. Even by accepting a dumb little flower that you never wanted in the first place will make you feel like you owe that person something in return. At least most people feel that way, and then throw out the flower at the nearest trashcan after giving a few bucks (where the girls are sent to pick the flowers out of trash cans so they can re-gift them for new donations).
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I got my wall plates and the new porch lantern up, and I LOVE it all.
Unfortunately, the GFCI that my friend's dad gave me to save me a few bucks is going to have to be replaced with a new one. I can't believe I didn't think of that when I put it up there. I had to remove it from a metal cover (for garages or anywhere that finished walls aren't going to be put), and the only way you can get an outlet to fit in those is to break off 3 metal tabs off each side. Two of the tabs are meant to hug the wall so you don't push the outlet in the hole when plugging something in, and that could be remediated, but the third tab on each side is where the outlet covers screw into the outlet. I'm not going to glue the cover to the wall to save some cash after all the work that's gone into this. I need 2 more for my bathrooms whenever I get to them anyhow, so I'll just buy another 3-pack and hope the price hasn't doubled since I bought the last 3 pack over a year ago.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Wow, that's bad.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit. There was so much smoke in the air last night that the moon was orange because of it.
How's your fire season been overall so far this year?
I haven't heard of hundreds of fires burning in BC, so I hope better than average?
we've been lucky so far. Despite the longest, hottest hot spell in CA white-man recorded history, we haven't had any major fires, yet. And we got a spattering of rain about 5 days ago and another spattering a couple days ago, and except for the next two days around 90 the weather seems to have cooled down quite a bit. Still short of water, but cool/cloudy weather does help keep fires at bay.
I wonder if Canada has changed its fire suppression policies in addition to changing it's mascot. Smokey Bear was all about stopping each and every fire, which built up a huge fuel load. The under Reagan (IIRC) they switched to "let it burn" and clear-cutting, which were different kinds of catastrophes. One of these days, they'll settle on a reasonable management approach.
Ember the Fox hasn't been adopted in the USA, but it's really a cute mascot. with the orange-ish fur the name really fits. And most people (except chicken-ranchers) think foxes are kinda cute, so ... good choice!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake
It hasn't been as bad as last year but it is lasting longer than last year because it was a late start to fire season. We had a very wet Spring and start to Summer, so that has helped. We've had over 100 fires burning at one point but I think right now we are well below that number.
Cool weather definitely does keep the fires at bay and that is great for California.
Not sure but Fire Safety Canada has apparently changed their messaging to go along with the new mascot.
Not every province in Canada is ready to ditch Smokey. BC has and the others will over time. It is a cute mascot.
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