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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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See ya later then :~D
I hate driving in snow. Just hate it. It's a psychological thing. Otherwise I love watching snow fall, or looking out at a snowy evening.
It'll be seventy here again by the end of the week, we've got a while before winter really sets in.
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
Why are you grumbling? Just cuz it's Monday?
SirKit said that when he was a boy, he used to just sit and read the World Book at random. Heh, I used to do the same thing, except it was with Groliers. One thing I remember is reading the words to the song that goes "Over the river and to the woods, to Grandmother's house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifting snow". At that point, I'd never seen any more than 3" of snow in my life, so it was always fascinating to read. Didn't know the tune til I was almost an adult.
Prayers going up!! Which position is this?
Gonna get my coffee and finish the book. ;o)
Er, I slept in. Then I ran errands. Now I'm about to make some yogurt, tomato sauce, and breakfast sausage.
Bah to you people who slept in. I'm running on four and a half hours' sleep here. I hate nights where I wake up and can't sleep again.
Maybe I should have Nyquil on hand.
I love Kay Scarpetta!
My eye doc appt is today and the jedis are busting themselves to finish school in time. So we've had a busy day so far!
Ok, here's what I'm thinking of.
I'd like a small generator, for emergency use only, that stores electricity and is replenished with wind power and if there isn't any wind, bicycle-pedaled power. Heh! So if the electricity goes out, either the wind or a person on a bicycle could keep the generator running.
I want a Mr. Fusion mini nuclear reactor. Power outage? I scorn thee!
Heh! If you spend a fortune on 30lbs of hamburger meat...you think about these things!
Hehehe.... yes, I can see you would!
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
The instrument I was going to run my samples on blew a transformer and pump over the weekend. The backup machine needs cleaning. The bossman wants to know how many samples this project are left to run this year and how many next year. For the samples I've run (and all remaining) he wants the dilution factor corrected for the percent moisture in the samples (pretty sloppy sediment samples.) And Access is truncating my calculations instead of rounding.
Grumble, grumble, grumble....
I'd peddle all day on a bike if it would keep a generator going!
Heh heh !
What I'm thinking is just doing it for a while to keep the charge up...recharge the batteries, so to speak. Let the wind do it when it can and let us peddle when it can't. But I'm not talking constantly. I thinking peddle for 15 minutes, the charge lasts 2 hours or so...
I don't know if something like this even exists, just wondering.
I know there is some kind of radio/flashlight jobber that you crank and it does that. I just wondered if there was a generator that you could use the same principle. Just to use for my deep freeze!
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I think the freezer takes more power than your little legs can pump out on a bicycle.
We're lucky in that respect... our power outages usually coincide with cold snaps.... Keeping things ~cold~ is not the problem.
How very Monday.
Stupid Access. Don't you love it when dumb technology tries to be smart?
Just finished "From Potter's Field". It was a good one. I'd missed her second novel, "All That Remains", so I ordered it up on the library system's computer network. It will be delivered to our local library, I hope, within a couple of weeks.
It sounds like you have ambitous goals for your backup electrical energy. You'd need a lot of battery storage for that. You might want to in smaller increments, like a hand-crank radio, and indoor-safe propane catalytic heater.
The cheapest survival gear is several cases of bottled water. Plan on two cases per person. You should be drinking lots of water anyway, and this water won't require boiling in an emergency. That's just that much less energy you'll need.
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