In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Turn the blower off. Leave everything else on. Check again in 2 hours. Still high? UNPLUG the blower. Leave everything else on. Check again in 2 hours.
Also, grab the wire some ways BEHIND the blower plug (but not anywhere over it, in the interests of personal safety). Is it warm? If so, it's drawing far more than it should.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Hooray Brenda! for getting all moved in. And thanks for the update on your brother. I hope his progress has been consistently forward and will be so in the future. And that he's able to get home soon.
Yes, it is great Kiki. It really feels like home now. Well, he's gone from a walker to a cane so that is major progress. If he gets home over the weekend or next Monday, I am sure he will have a long list of does and don'ts and things he will need.
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"Mushroom"??
I meant MUDROOM!
That's what happens with autocomplete and no glasses. Hey! It looked sort of okay from where I was sitting!!! In any case, it's working out GREAT. Now we have a place for shoes, purses, shopping bags, umbrellas, hats, dog leashes, outgoing mail etc etc etc Everything we might need to grab on the way out or dump off on the way in. I was told by my very smart sister that the first part of "A place for everything and everything in its place" is a place for everything. If you don't have that place, you'll always have a mess. Wise words from sis!
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I have a suggestion SIX: How about trying a B complex vitamin to see if it helps with your gums? Maybe the real issue is collagen production or something; anyway it can't hurt. Try Super B Complex by Nature's Bounty (NOT Nature Made, which also makes a Super B Complex, according to Consumer Lab Nature Made had a hiccup in their QC and put too much folate in their pills.) If you try is out, let me know what happens.
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Congrats on being officially moved in BRENDA! I'm so happy for you! nd that's good news aout your brother's progress. If you stay in touch tell him that one of your inet friends is nagging him to keep up with his rehab so that he heals with more functionality! Stretching keeps scar tissue from stiffening up.
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Yes, I wonder about that late pain KIKI. It almost feels like a sinus infection. Fortunately my follow-up is on the Aug 1 (Wow, hard to believe it's almost August! Where has the time gone??) and since I'm on antibiotics most likely the issue is that I have a blood clot in my sinus, which doctor will suction out. I've been faithfuly rinsing my nose and sinuses, MOSTLY have stopped bleeding but once in a while will rinse out a clot of blood. Also I have a piece of plastic (nose splint) lightly stitched in place, that fucker is such an annoyance I'm tempted to rip the damn thing out myself!
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lol mushroom.
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Originally posted by 1kiki:
Turn the blower off. Leave everything else on. Check again in 2 hours. Still high? UNPLUG the blower. Leave everything else on. Check again in 2 hours.
Also, grab the wire some ways BEHIND the blower plug (but not anywhere over it, in the interests of personal safety). Is it warm? If so, it's drawing far more than it should.
Yanno. I meant to check that, a few times, but somehow I've always forgotten to touch the wires for heat. Stupid of me since it could be a safety issue as well. I will have to do that at some point when I turn it back on.
So.... Yikes! is all I have to say after some "mathing" here.
Between the hours of 10PM and 2AM, I used 8 kwh, give or take a kwh.
At 2AM I shut the blower off. I also shut this computer off (which I know is an energy hog itself).
At 9:15AM I checked the meter again and in 7.25 hours it was only 2 more kwh.
.28kwh per hour, as opposed to 2kwh with the blower and computer on.
I used roughly 7 times as much energy between 10PM and 2AM than I did between 2AM and 9AM.
At 2kwh per hour, that's about 25 cents per hour. If the blower is on for 12 hours a night, that's $3.00 per 12 hour night cycle while it's on compared to around $0.41 per 12 hour day cycle while it's off. (Or $90 for half of the month and $12.30 for the other half of the month).
At $102 for 30 days of electricity, that would be about $44 more than last month's bill if I ran it 12 hours every night. And last month's bill was already around $18 more than previous months after the furnace stopped kicking off.
Granted, those numbers are all wrong, since I'm incorrectly blaming 100% of the extra power consumption on the blower when my computer and monitor are energy hogs and were also on those 4 hours and also off the following 7 hours as well. (I also unplugged the XBox 360 my brother gave me because I heard that it has a huge draw in standby mode, but I didn't realize that standby mode and "off" are two separate things. I had it in "off" and it draws no more than 2watts per hour, so that's negligible).
Other than that, nothing was different than when the blower was on. The two offenders here are my ancient beast of a PC and that blower.
Okay... so did some more figuring.
2 months ago, back when I wasn't home so much and way before the blower, I used 325kwh in 30 days. That's an average of .45kwh per hour (or $1.32 per day; $39.77 for 30 days).
Last month, conveniently, the days were pretty much all after I was laid off. There were also 4 nights where I used the blower for around 12 hours per night. I used 478kwh in 33 days. That's an average of .60kwh per hour (or $1.75 per day; 53.17 adjusted for 30 days down from 33 on the bill).
So, just figuring a half/half math of 2kwh per hour 12 hours of the day and .28kwh per hour the other 12, that would come out to 27.36kwh per day, or 1.14kwh per hour. (or $3.33 per day; $99.90 for 30 days)
Again, my computer isn't accounted for here, and it's never on 12 hours overnight since I always put it in sleep mode when I'm not using it and I shut the monitor off. So the situation probably isn't nearly that bad. There's no way that I'm paying $2.00 per night to run that blower for 12 hours. It would have to be using up 16.6kwh in a 12 hour period, and I don't think it's even remotely possible that a 1/2 HP motor could be running at 1.38kw in any scenario.
I'm considering buying a gauge called a Kill A Watt that you can plug things into and see what the power draw is. My only concern is that, just like a plug in timer, it might not survive the initial startup of the blower motor. It's rated for 15amps, so it probably should be safe. I would be right there and it would only be on for a few minutes while I checked on it, so I'm not worried about burning the house down, but it
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Thanks SIG. It feels really good to know officially what is what with all my stuff. My brother seems to be making good progress. I just hope that when he gets home his wife doesn't let him get too lazy or on the flip side reinjure himself. Being stubborn is a wonderful family trait. Which I have exhibited here with injurying myself moving boxes around.
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Out and about in a bit on a gorgeous sunny day here.
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My brother posted today on FB that he thinks he should be home on Wednesday next week.
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Oh, I was so troubld by the sinus pain and last-minute congestion that I asked to see the surgeon today and she squeezd me in at the end of her day. She was in a different clinic (in La Canada/Flintridge) so it was over a one-hour grind thru traffic getting ehre and a two-hour grind getting home, but SOOO worth it!
a) She removed the internal nose splint from my left nostril. That itself was a huge improvement,
b) She suctioned the crust offa the opening to my right maxillary sinus. Then she reached into my sinus with LOOOOONG curvy forceps and dragged out a giant gob of (bioabsorbable) packing along with a clot of blood.
c) And then she got out her little vacuum wand and sucked all the sinus cavity nooks and crannies. Did you ever clean couch cushions by jamming a hose wand behind them? Yeah, kinda like that.
d) Then she repeated b) and c) with my left maxillary sinus!!
Oh sure, I was joking (in between tugs and yanks) but I was also doing a lot of deep breathing, grimacing, and a little tear trickled from the corner of my eye because it was, if nothing else, an eye-watering experience.
But I feel SOOOO much better! All I have to do is keep up with my rinsing and I should be good to go. I'll see the surgeon again in a couple of weeks. All together: So far, so good.
And did I say I can breathe thru my nose again?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
"The messy American environment, where most people don't agree, is perfect for people like me. I CAN DO AS I PLEASE." - SECOND
America is an oligarchy http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=57876 .
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I'm just nosy, so to speak. Trying to sniff out what made the biggest difference, in your opinion.
But also, I'm sincerely sorry it was so painful.
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I think at this point it's safe to say that the racoon(s) is out for good.
I think the $2.00 I spent on ammonia and the tumblers I poured it into and left everywhere did the trick. One of these days I'll have to get around to putting up the pictures of how I blocked the entrances both into the house proper and the porch itself.
Why do I sound so sure?
Because I went up there yesterday while cleaning out more from my garage and although it was hot, it didn't smell like a gorram zoo anymore. Now I never went up there and scrubbed everything down with bleach yet, mind, but after pulling out anywhere from 3 lbs to 5 lbs of crap last week, it doesn't look (or smell!) as if there is any new activity up there.
I still haven't finished those steps yet since I'm still looking for the missing pieces to that countersink bit set. I might just have to bite the bullet and buy a new one. Maybe I'll order that and the Kill A Watt combined and get free shipping.
I'm going to clean up those guitars for my niece today and clean out the pantry closet that I use to store some tools so I can organize everything and put only those that I'm most likely to use in the next few months in the house. Everything else can be organized in my garage that has room for them now. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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