In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Well, all missions for today well and thoroughly accomplished. 
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Quote:Congrats! You persevered despite the rain!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, all missions for today well and thoroughly accomplished.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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What's the word for turning a crisis into an opportunity?
That was my day today...
I didn't get to test my drain pipe fix like I was hoping to with the thunderstorms we were supposed to get because of the goddamned winds from hell this morning. They completely destroyed my yard, and they blew out one of my porch windows (now at least I know to keep the rest of them as spares and I'm glad I haven't had room to throw them out yet).
Got all the big stuff to the curb, but I'm going to be cleaning up sticks for hours this week before it's clean again...
The wind knocked the power out for about 6 hours too.
Started that fiasco with a nearly full sump well. So I figured out that I have at least a 30 gallon well because I used a large drinking glass to fill a 3 gallon bucket 9 times, and had to crab walk my happy ass back and forth to the toilet to dump it out.
Rain wasn't nearly as heavy as expected, fortunately, so in between I had to dump out another 9 to 12 gallons (I don't remember if I did another 3 or 4 trips down there before the power went back on). Had I known when the power was going to come back on, I didn't need to manually empty any more. I actually had to do a load of laundry and it wasn't until halfway through the rinse cycle that the pump went off again. (Only did the load because I wanted to test that the pump was still working).
Knowing that the well is 30 gallons, I'm now convinced that I was severely underestimating how much was being dumped right outside of my house every time the pump went off. I think we're looking at anywhere from 15 to 25 gallons or more of water that was being left right along the foundation of my house and right back into the well. That's probably why it was going off every 3 minutes during the heavy storms. I honestly can't wait for another big storm (that doesn't knock out the power) to see how well everything works now.
Also, when the power went back on, my computer didn't work. The CPU fan, which has sounded like it was about to break for at least a year, finally took a crap. The computer knew this and wouldn't boot beyond the BIOS and automatically shut down. I could tell the fan was trying upon boot though, so there was still some hope. (It's a very expensive proprietary fan to replace, and I also didn't want to wait 7 to 10 days for it to ship either).
I took this touchscreen unit apart, piece by piece, then pulled apart the fan casing. Using some 409, I cleaned everything out really good, and I used quite a bit of canned air to further clean it out and get the fan moving both ways.
No dice...
Got out my trusty 3-in-1 oil and worked it around a bit. Had to put out a newspaper and get the fan going a few times with a few PC bootups and it finally started loading windows.
I'm hoping I got all the residual oil out and it doesn't leak, but I was afraid to keep hard booting and turning it off before Windows loaded just to air out the fan.
Everything seems good now. Fan is quieter than it's been in a year... not making a peep in fact. The computer even seems to be running better than it had before.
All in all, not a bad day. Glad that it's over though.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Congrats! You persevered despite the rain!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Well, all missions for today well and thoroughly accomplished.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
Yes, I did.
Which was something. It was nasty out there today.
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If you're going to make up quotes in my name or change the context they were posted under I'll post that post here. Guess what you did with this one.
T 
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Oh goody! You just reset the "defamation" clock!
TRUMP and his cronies??? Like ... Ivanka got a job with Energoatom (Kiev's nuclear power plant operator) for $50,000/ month and Trump got a $500,000 "speakers fee"? You mean ... something fact-free, like that?
Don't you mean Biden, his son, and a gaggle of DNC cronies and operatives have been extorting Ukraine for a long time?
You're just to stupid and dishonest to post anything with factual content comrade sig.- TUGR
Quote:FIFY
Originally posted by THUGR: Stuff completely unrelated to Ukraine or to anything
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Everything done for today in the dry.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
"You Could Fit All the Voters Who Cost Clinton the Election in a Mid-Size Football Stadium"
Shit, you could fit all the people who cost Clinton the election in one chair.
She was the one who ran such a lousy campaign it was that close over many, many states.
MEANWHILE, we still have the electoral college because GUESS WHAT!! it's written in the Constitution. Get over it ... unless you really like being anti-American.
The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.
Even the Legacy Media is turning against Hillary.
I'm starting to have my doubts that she will be a late entry into the race. It's not good when the Clinton News Network is taking jabs at her over her comments on Tulsi.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/politics/tulsi-gabbard-hillary-clinton-
russia/index.html
This is just one of quite a few articles and videos from CNN on the topic. They've gone as far as to actually say the words "conspiracy theorist" when referring to Clinton here.
And as far as I can find, none of the other Democrat candidates still in the race agree with Clinton's tweet either. Sanders and Buttigieg have both come out defending Gabbard.
But, overall, the Democrats are scared. They know they have nothing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/22/us/politics/democratic-candidates-2
020.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=curQuote:
Anxious Democratic Establishment Asks, ‘Is There Anybody Else?’
Party leaders who are fatalistic about Democrats’ chances in 2020 are musing about possible late entrants to the race. Sherrod Brown? Michelle Obama?
This has even given AOC the opportunity to make the tweet of her short political career:
https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1186633016807964673Quote:
If ~2 years and 20+ candidates aren't enough for ya, I don't know what to tell you.
Priceless.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
T
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Quote:Holy fuck, SIX. What kind of windstorm did THAT???
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
What's the word for turning a crisis into an opportunity?
That was my day today...
I didn't get to test my drain pipe fix like I was hoping to with the thunderstorms we were supposed to get because of the goddamned winds from hell this morning. They completely destroyed my yard, and they blew out one of my porch windows (now at least I know to keep the rest of them as spares and I'm glad I haven't had room to throw them out yet).
Quote:Jeezus
Got all the big stuff to the curb, but I'm going to be cleaning up sticks for hours this week before it's clean again...
The wind knocked the power out for about 6 hours too.
Quote:I can see why you're so curious. If it was me, I'd be want to know too!
Started that fiasco with a nearly full sump well. So I figured out that I have at least a 30 gallon well because I used a large drinking glass to fill a 3 gallon bucket 9 times, and had to crab walk my happy ass back and forth to the toilet to dump it out.
Rain wasn't nearly as heavy as expected, fortunately, so in between I had to dump out another 9 to 12 gallons (I don't remember if I did another 3 or 4 trips down there before the power went back on). Had I known when the power was going to come back on, I didn't need to manually empty any more. I actually had to do a load of laundry and it wasn't until halfway through the rinse cycle that the pump went off again. (Only did the load because I wanted to test that the pump was still working).
Knowing that the well is 30 gallons, I'm now convinced that I was severely underestimating how much was being dumped right outside of my house every time the pump went off. I think we're looking at anywhere from 15 to 25 gallons or more of water that was being left right along the foundation of my house and right back into the well. That's probably why it was going off every 3 minutes during the heavy storms. I honestly can't wait for another big storm (that doesn't knock out the power) to see how well everything works now.
Quote:Do you have a lot of dust in your area? I would guess probably not because you get reguar rainfall, but in the process of cleaning did you see a lot of dust coming out of the heat sink? A clogged heat sink will kill anything, according to hubby.
Also, when the power went back on, my computer didn't work. The CPU fan, which has sounded like it was about to break for at least a year, finally took a crap. The computer knew this and wouldn't boot beyond the BIOS and automatically shut down. I could tell the fan was trying upon boot though, so there was still some hope. (It's a very expensive proprietary fan to replace, and I also didn't want to wait 7 to 10 days for it to ship either).
I took this touchscreen unit apart, piece by piece, then pulled apart the fan casing. Using some 409, I cleaned everything out really good, and I used quite a bit of canned air to further clean it out and get the fan moving both ways.
No dice...
Got out my trusty 3-in-1 oil and worked it around a bit. Had to put out a newspaper and get the fan going a few times with a few PC bootups and it finally started loading windows.
I'm hoping I got all the residual oil out and it doesn't leak, but I was afraid to keep hard booting and turning it off before Windows loaded just to air out the fan.
Everything seems good now. Fan is quieter than it's been in a year... not making a peep in fact. The computer even seems to be running better than it had before.
Quote:Jeezus, no kidding!
All in all, not a bad day. Glad that it's over though.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Happy to say that at this end the big trash pickup people hauled away about 200 pounds of scrap wood. I'm VERY happy whenever something crosses the perimeter in the outbound direction! Decided to work on cleaning up the office and dear daughter's bedroom in-between helping with the bathroom. I figure that's the most productive that I can be. It's very picky work because there are so many "little things" to decide on, but at least it's not like the garage where there are (were) a million unsorted screws, bolts, nuts, and washers.
We have set aside a 33 gallon bin for scrap metal ... of which there is still a surprising amount despite the fact that DD and I trolled the backyard and garage a couple of months ago. Looks like another 50 pounds of metal.
Didn't get to take my papers to the city shredding event, nor did I manage to get to their free mulch event. Been too busy with Dr appointments and home repair and family events. But at least I can box up all of my shreddable stuff while I'm cleaning the office and see if I can find another place for them to be shredded and recycled.
Well, back to the cleanup!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Holy fuck, SIX. What kind of windstorm did THAT???
I couldn't even tell you. I've been living her over 8 years and having a window blown out is a first for me.
At least the city came around again and picked up all the large branches I'd gotten to the curb. They only come around once a week now, on different days in specific areas. Mondays are our days, so I figured I'd have that on my driveway for a whole week, but it was gone by noon on yesterday. They must have known how hard we got hit.
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I can see why you're so curious. If it was me, I'd be want to know too!
I already know that it must be working much better. There was a decent amount of rain the other day even though we missed most of it. Had I not fixed that pipe a few days before I'm sure I would have gotten a full well or two during the day just from the residual stuff that had been dumped with the broken pipe.
I'm not awake 24/7, but as far as I know, the only time it's gone off since the power was restored was when I put that load of laundry into it and the well is still not even full.
I'm hoping we get a good storm to really test it out soon though. I don't want to leave it all open very much longer now that we're going to start seeing overnights go below freezing.
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Do you have a lot of dust in your area? I would guess probably not because you get reguar rainfall, but in the process of cleaning did you see a lot of dust coming out of the heat sink? A clogged heat sink will kill anything, according to hubby.
The computer is weird. A single touch-screen unit with all the innards, including a full sized hard drive built in right behind the screen. The CPU fan is right at the top, and is only connected to the CPU via a flattened copper tube, with the filter itself right on the outside of the case. Videos showed that you had to remove the whole thing to get to the fan, but I was able to manage removing the fan casing without having to do all of that.
No dust on the board or the CPU at all. The fan was dirty as hell though.
The funny thing is that there's a second similar unit for the GPU. That fan didn't seem to want to move much at all when blowing it with the air. The computer doesn't have a problem booting up despite that though, and the (likely inaccurate) program I have to monitor temps shows the GPU at quite a lower temp than the CPU.
It's a 13 year old beast at this point. The only reason it keeps up with today's technology at all is because my brother must have paid a mint for it when it was new. I'm just going to miss it when it's gone because it's perfect for my needs. Laptops are pretty cheap these days, but I'm going to miss that big screen, so I'd have to have the laptop attached to my TV whenever I buy something new.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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