Sure was nice to come home from work last night and have some daylight left. If only I didn’t have to worry about my sump pump running every 5 minutes. Doing the math, I’m guessing it’s pumping something like 3,600 gallons of water a day. Seems like an awful lot, and I’m not convinced that at least some of it isn’t short-cycling and coming back in. So, weekend project is to pipe it out the wall and as far toward the cornfield as I can get it, to see if that slows things down. At least on a temporary basis. This whole thing is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. Speaking if which…
Yes, it’s a dental day today. He called me yesterday, and said he missed me, hasn’t seen me in a couple weeks, and what with spring coming, he’s got some boat expenses coming up. So that’s how I’ll be starting my day. First, permanent crown on on tooth, and then start to work on the other crown replacement. And then that’ll be it, damn it.
Otherwise, I’m not really missing the Macbook. I found some alternative touchpad drivers that give me 2-finger scroll (about the only thing I didn’t have), and actually some other things that the Mac didn’t do. The Dell I’m using has the same size screen but a smaller footprint. So the touchpad is a lot smaller, as is the keyboard. I;d forgotten that typing on this thing is kind of painful, but for most of what I do, that isn’t really an issue. It also doesn’t have a lighted keyboard, which I miss a bit. Otherwise, for the computer equivalent of a dinosaur, you can’t beat it. Time to give the Macbook back to work (as soon as I clean it of anything subversive, of course).
Well, only 190 gallons of water before I have to leave for the dentist, so I guess I better make a fresh pot of joe. Have a good one.
I don’t have to work today, do I thought I’d sleep a bit later. This, unfortunately, did not fit the cats’ agenda. 3 of them decided it was time for breakfast. One decided yowling was as good as an alarm and Clifford and his sister Rosie took turns walking on me. I could only stand it for about 5 minutes. Now they are fed and I am up.
Gotta :love: the :cat: :cat: :cat: , SueP.
When they are cute, they are VERY cute and decorative. They can definitely get very annoying when they start up with the yammering & pestiness, though. :billcat:
Sue, you should lock them in a cold, 42 degree room where they can’t bother you, the way Granny did last night. If she’d have put in a litter box, I would’ve left the little whiner locked in there.
You lost the game.
It’s a game I always lose. I wonder if locking them in a cold room would produce more amenable cats or more determined ones. I fear the latter would be the result.
Just when you thought you had seen it all in New York special elections, Ian Murphy has emerged as a likely, though long-shot, candidate in the race to replace Rep. Chris Lee (R).
Don’t know who Murphy is? You know his work.
The editor of the satirical news website Buffalo Beast, Murphy was behind the prank phone call to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) late last month that made national headlines. Murphy pretended to be billionaire conservative activist David Koch.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/Walker-Crank-Caller-Ian-Murphy-Runs-in-NY26-204156-1.html
Wow. It’s starting to sound like Japan is really, really fucked. I mean, way worse than they are already.
Oh, and two of the nuke plants that are 36 miles from me – Nine Mile 1, and James J. Fitzpatrick in Oswego, NY – are GE Mark I reactors. Same as the ones in Fukushima. And ones that should have been retired years ago, but were both granted a 20-year license extension by the NRC.
They are a crap design, criticized by nuclear experts (and Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff) for decades as being susceptible to explosion and containment failure.
Quite comforting.
:billcat:
The GOOD news from some expert on with Rachel is that there wouldn’t be a hydrogen explosion due to the zirconium encasing rods deteriorating because there’s so much ventilation at reactor #4 since the walls of the containment pool have blown off :dancers: …………,
on the other hand……….,
the lack of power is not a factor as far as cooling the rods off since the containing walls are blown apart and wouldn’t hold water. 👿
#8. That would be Big Dick & Little Dick.
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If you think that the gods are sending messages via earthquake, you can sound as idiotic as Rush, who thinks Greek earth goddess, Gaia is opining, by tsunami, the Prius:
“It’s like Gaia hit the Prius in [inaudible]. It’s like they were in the crosshairs, if we can use that word, it does. What is Gaia trying to tell us here? What is the mother of environmentalism trying to say with this hit? …”
http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/03/16/rush-limbaugh-japan/
No, Big Dick and Little Dick aren’t nuke plants.They’re oil fired steam plants. The Nuke plants are Nine Mile 1 & 2 (owned by Entergy), and Fitzpatrick (owned by Constellation). Oswego is also lobbying for a fourth plant (they need the money).