I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Speaking of adds... there is a commercial on tv which shows a lady with a bright yellow shirt on just bouncing and singing away in her car and basically all pepped up and happy all day.... it's for a new Vitamin called "Alive". Doesn't work. Just sayin....
Come to think about it, I'm sick of all the ads that have disclaimers longer than the ad in that happy, peppy voice.
Then I went into the basement and opened up furnace as I remember the tech telling me if such an such happens you can do this or that. Well I stared at the computer board and all the wires, saw a red light blinking, and my mind couldn't remember what to do.
In the mean time I was upset with sig other as he was just standing around with his hands in his pockets expecting me to take care of everything house or yard related. His guy has his master's degree, why can't he learn some of these things, too, why is it always my job? I am under enough stress... geeze.
Then I checked the furnace filter... oops, it was pretty clogged... so I put in a new one... messed with the thermostat a couple times more, and eventually I heard those wonderful *clicking sounds* from the gas furnace... WE GOT HEAT :)
Hope that your furnace does not fault again tonight! When ours did, the tech would have had to replace the fault switch to be able to try to find out what caused the problem in the first place.
Maybe you should run off to Home Depot to get one of those oil filled radiator looking heaters, just in case.
i dont imagine a dirty filter shutting a furnace down . its possible but doesnt sound right to me . probably gonna cost you a service call at some point . id google the problem up and check the online troubleshooting guides . several companies like to sell furnace parts and have quite nice troubleshooting guides , sometimes with videos . every little relay or switch that you can replace yourself only gets you closer to the problem and leaves nice new parts in your wake . you dont want to screw with gas fittings but little sensors and relays are safe to replace yourself .
my family had hens when we were younger but after working for an organic hen farmer a couple years ago i wondered how i ever put up with the racket of all those clucking friggin animals laying eggs . it is so quiet up here id rather just eat flat cornbread . well the renter upstairs is hackin her guts out . she must have bought some weed this month . lol
its colder'n a b*tch here for the last 3 days . i aint stickin my nose out the door till the warm up on sunday .
i dont know what troll ads you guys are referring to . i use a free chrome adblocker and with a few clicks you can even knock specific ads or video ads in the head .
i hope france catches those two jihadi thugs alive . prison would be much more fitting than the cop out of a quick death , sef inflicted or otherwise .
Cap, the troll adds I was referring to are the ones that are started on this website specifically as advertisement on their so called miracle products. Not pop ups.
Why does stuff like this happen late at night? Like a smoke alarm chirping. Or a garage door won't close :P
its a pretty b*tchin coffee maker . hamilton beech and it doesnt have a glass carrafe ( sp ) . the dam thing dispenses a cup with the push of a lever . i think it will tolerate my bizaar habit of rerunning yesterdays coffee . im gonna toss a big pinch of tobacco in it some morning . everybody knows caffein and nicotene create the perfect legal speedball . probly be able to drive to work without a vehicle .
I help property manage a small office building.... now that I think about it we had two cases of a clogged filter stopping two of our electric heat pumps [not my favorite mode of heating]... first time called out service, they reported back to me about the filter... winter rolled around again and my own office I couldn't get the heat pump thermostat to listen to my request of wanting heat, then it dawned on me to check the filter... oh my gosh, what a mess... I bought new filters and voilà I got the heat pump to come back to life :)
I need to put a note on my own furnace "check the filter"... I keep forgetting about it from one winter season to the next.... [sigh].
If I wasn't scared they'd toss me out, I'd take that dog a nice fluffy quilt ... if it's too cold outside for YOU, it is too cold for a pet. Period.
Our dog and 3 cats came in from the weather last night and tonight also.
Are there enough homeless shelters for the number of homeless in society?
As much as I'd love to debate how much shelter there is available for our homeless, it's so hard to actually determine whom is actually homeless by choice or by circumstances. There is a difference. I won't even go into how many foreclosed and abandoned houses sit empty and rotting.
Whenever there is a natural disaster, cold spell, hurricane, tornado... shelters open up for everyone. Now... those who choose to live homeless... that's another topic.
Pet's, unwanted tossed away pets, unwanted puppies, kitties, starving horses, cows, sheep, goats, lions, tigers ( oh yeah, lions n tigers are skin n bones in awful places) well, they do not have an option. They do not have voices.
Thankfully your pets had a nice warm loving place with food to go :)
I would turn the heat down after she goes to bed, but it doesn't do any good. She gets up several times a night and puts the heat back on 80, so right now I'm being left with a choice of baking or freezing, since it is so cold out. But I do guess it is better than being on a park bench. :-/
Well, sigh, not as if she can really complain anymore... so I just do it, and close my vents and open my windows.
A tiring thing about it all is she battles at me so much, then blames me for being the one doing it. I get weary always being the bad guy.
In her defense, I have to say that I know she is getting cold now. She is getting near the end of her life. My father was always freezing the last few years of his life. He would push the thermostat all the way up anytime he went past it. I've been going through the thermostat wars for 5 years now. Maybe we should have a ribbon "I'm a thermostat war survivor."
How about a "dummy" thermostat? Like you can turn it on the outside but inside it's locked and stays where you put it and she can dial it on high all she wants too! Or... now this is a long shot, you can put your heater chord inside a chew proof tubing so the bunnies won't electrify their life :) and be safe n warm in your haven.
If nothing else, I've learned to adapt to the inside weather changes here... and we won't mention the h*ll of menopause my first year... thank GOD that's over.
Stay warm tonight... you and the bunnies!
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A&E waiting times would improve if you weren’t such idiots, say experts
06-01-15
ACCIDENT and emergency waiting times have worsened because Britain is so full of cretins, experts have confirmed.
Researchers found the key issue affecting hospital A&E provision was not funding or organisation, but the sheer heft of Britain’s collective stupidity.
Martin Bishop, a 33 year-old man who is currently sitting in an A&E department in Stevenage, said: “I’ve got a bit of a sore throat.”
Professor Henry Brubaker, from the Institute for Studies, added: “For f**k’s sake.”
According to the Institute, A&E waiting times have increased as Britain’s educational standards have plummeted.
Professor Brubaker said: “We experts call that ‘correlation’. Don’t look it up in a dictionary, because you’ll probably end up setting fire to yourself.
“In fact, don’t do anything or go anywhere. Just sit in the corner and shut your idiotic face.”
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Many a true word spoken in jest!