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It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
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From: Central Mexico.
At work and just popping in to say Hi. Anything interesting happening? No time to go back and read all the drivel, oops, sorry, I mean, all the 'fascinating' comments from all and sundry.
My wife is en route and is overnighting in Toronto. She leaves there tomorrow and sort of flies over the north pole to get to me by tomorrow evening. Her route is Mexico City - Toronto - Beijing - Shenyang. On Friday we leave for a 10 day on vacation in Thailand, sort of like a second honeymoon.
My wife is en route and is overnighting in Toronto. She leaves there tomorrow and sort of flies over the north pole to get to me by tomorrow evening. Her route is Mexico City - Toronto - Beijing - Shenyang. On Friday we leave for a 10 day on vacation in Thailand, sort of like a second honeymoon.
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From: Whitehorse, cultural hub of the universe..
Bark,
Thanks for the tip, but I'll skip the shrew of the loom underwear, and stick with my wolverine fur thong for now.
Didn't warm up a whole lot today, but that's alright, went back indoors to continue the reno job. That is turning out to be more fun than an open casket funeral....
Back to normal form tomorrow, or as normal as I can be, given the circumstance. ( Yeah, I looked in a mirror recently ) Fun listening to buildings/trees/other objects snap crackle and pop in the cold weather. Hard to believe that 40 hours ago, we were above 0C. Oh well, its all good.
The best part about living in the north, is actually the cold weather. If you work outside, NOBODY cares enough about what you're doing to come and bother you. Real peaceful for sure.
Marc, hopefully it warms up a bit over there before too long. We've had it wwaayyyy too good here this winter, only grief is the avalanche season has started early down toward Skagway. The slide zones are actually enforced this year, and absolutely NO stopping between bove island and skagway at night.
Have a good one folks
Thanks for the tip, but I'll skip the shrew of the loom underwear, and stick with my wolverine fur thong for now.
Didn't warm up a whole lot today, but that's alright, went back indoors to continue the reno job. That is turning out to be more fun than an open casket funeral....
Back to normal form tomorrow, or as normal as I can be, given the circumstance. ( Yeah, I looked in a mirror recently ) Fun listening to buildings/trees/other objects snap crackle and pop in the cold weather. Hard to believe that 40 hours ago, we were above 0C. Oh well, its all good.
The best part about living in the north, is actually the cold weather. If you work outside, NOBODY cares enough about what you're doing to come and bother you. Real peaceful for sure.
Marc, hopefully it warms up a bit over there before too long. We've had it wwaayyyy too good here this winter, only grief is the avalanche season has started early down toward Skagway. The slide zones are actually enforced this year, and absolutely NO stopping between bove island and skagway at night.
Have a good one folks
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From: Kenai Alaska
Couldn't remember why Bove Island sounded familier. Had to Google it. Had to say Duhhhhh
after I did. That is beautiful country around there. In the summer its hard to imagine slides.
Hmmm, a Wolverine fur thong. That would really take a bite out of winter.
I have never seen one (or a Badger) in the wild but have heard that if you are able to, uh, get intimate with one, its a sign of being a true full blooded Canadian or Alaskan.
I will stick to shrews.
after I did. That is beautiful country around there. In the summer its hard to imagine slides.Hmmm, a Wolverine fur thong. That would really take a bite out of winter.
I have never seen one (or a Badger) in the wild but have heard that if you are able to, uh, get intimate with one, its a sign of being a true full blooded Canadian or Alaskan.
I will stick to shrews.
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From: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Or you could shove... nevermind.
Morning all.
Got power back around 0200, went and collected the 4 generators so some lowlife wouldn't steal them, and now I get to service all of them. Yay.
MONDAY, JANUARY 16th:
1883 - The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect.
1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
1925 - Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.
1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1970 - Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome, was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
1979 - The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1998 - Researchers announce that an altered gene helped to defend against HIV.
1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1997 - Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire on a dark road in Los Angeles, CA.
1998 - The first woman to enroll at Virginia Military Institute withdrew from the school.
1998 - NASA officially announced that John Glenn would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October.
2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorist organizations, and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban of Afghanistan.
2002 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network and the remnants of the Taliban. The sanctions required that all nations impose arms embargoes and freeze their finances.
2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million applications downloaded.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Coffee's ready.
Morning all.
Got power back around 0200, went and collected the 4 generators so some lowlife wouldn't steal them, and now I get to service all of them. Yay.
MONDAY, JANUARY 16th:
1883 - The United States Civil Service Commission was established as the Pendleton Act went into effect.
1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.
1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.
1925 - Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.
1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.
1970 - Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome, was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
1979 - The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.
1988 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired as a CBS sports commentator one day after telling a TV station in Washington, DC, that, during the era of slavery, blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring.
1998 - Researchers announce that an altered gene helped to defend against HIV.
1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
1997 - Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire on a dark road in Los Angeles, CA.
1998 - The first woman to enroll at Virginia Military Institute withdrew from the school.
1998 - NASA officially announced that John Glenn would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October.
2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorist organizations, and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban of Afghanistan.
2002 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network and the remnants of the Taliban. The sanctions required that all nations impose arms embargoes and freeze their finances.
2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million applications downloaded.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.
Coffee's ready.
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From: Birmingham, Alabama
Catching up
Stan, glad your wife will be arriving soon.
Bark.........you do know that after just 30 years even automobiles are considered an antique.
I can help you here. I think I'm late therefore I am.
Oh, you've got one like ours. You've got a bark-a-vac.
I don't know why but I thought of this. I'll be the dog won't be fooled.
Hahahaha, that's good.
I'm starting to think the shrews are at your house by invitation.
Crap Scott, they just can't seem to get it right.
Since when is 1976 Vintage????
My door bell is apparently broken. A couple of weeks ago a neighbor who had stopped by reported me to the troopers because he assumed I was dead (i think he wants my snowblower).
A young Trooper who I don’t know got my attention by throwing snowballs and rocks at my windows.
I asked him if he would help me battle shrews but he didn’t have the time.
He did offer to help test my door bell and we discovered that there is about 19 volts AC at the outside button.
Under the cover of the four gong door bell chime mechanism is labeled SYNCHRON mfg 1976.
The polite Trooper said he was born in 1986 and that maybe it was time to get a new door bell.
When I try and find repair instructions for it all I get is Vintage Door Bells!!!
1976 aint that old. I had just gotten out of High School a few years before that and my plow truck is the same age, runs just fine and isn’t vintage.
Do doorbells age at a different rate than humans? Are Shrews really going to rule the world instead of cockroaches?
Is Up Down, Left Right, Right Wrong, what the heck is going on!!!!
Why won’t my door bell ring.
As you might be able to tell, I have gotten done shoveling and plowing for the night and have nothing better to do than listen to the ringing in my ears (muffler has fallen off the plow truck).
My door bell is apparently broken. A couple of weeks ago a neighbor who had stopped by reported me to the troopers because he assumed I was dead (i think he wants my snowblower).
A young Trooper who I don’t know got my attention by throwing snowballs and rocks at my windows.
I asked him if he would help me battle shrews but he didn’t have the time.
He did offer to help test my door bell and we discovered that there is about 19 volts AC at the outside button.
Under the cover of the four gong door bell chime mechanism is labeled SYNCHRON mfg 1976.
The polite Trooper said he was born in 1986 and that maybe it was time to get a new door bell.
When I try and find repair instructions for it all I get is Vintage Door Bells!!!
1976 aint that old. I had just gotten out of High School a few years before that and my plow truck is the same age, runs just fine and isn’t vintage.
Do doorbells age at a different rate than humans? Are Shrews really going to rule the world instead of cockroaches?
Is Up Down, Left Right, Right Wrong, what the heck is going on!!!!
Why won’t my door bell ring.
As you might be able to tell, I have gotten done shoveling and plowing for the night and have nothing better to do than listen to the ringing in my ears (muffler has fallen off the plow truck).
Not actually through his nose. Snorted is the only thing I can think of. What happens is he eats fast and it seems like a piece of food ends up going in the sinus somewhere in the back of the throat as he breathes and chows down. Inhales, literally.
I don't know dog sinuses but do they have a drainage point n the back of he throat like humans? That's the only thing I can think of is the access point for the food.
I don't know dog sinuses but do they have a drainage point n the back of he throat like humans? That's the only thing I can think of is the access point for the food.
One thing you can do to slow them down when they eat is to put a couple of large rocks in their food bowl with their food. Large enough at least so that they cannot swallow them if they get them in their mouth. The rocks make them have to pick around to get the kibble and tends to at least slow them down a little.
An old man walks into the barbershop for a shave and a haircut, but he tells the barber he can't get all his whiskers off because his cheeks are wrinkled from age.
The barber gets a little wooden ball from a cup on the shelf and tells him to put it inside his cheek to spread out the skin.
When he's finished, the old man tells the barber that was the cleanest shave he's had in years, but he wanted to know what would have happened if he had swallowed the little ball.
The barber replied, "I would have told you to just bring it back tomorrow like everyone else does."
The barber gets a little wooden ball from a cup on the shelf and tells him to put it inside his cheek to spread out the skin.
When he's finished, the old man tells the barber that was the cleanest shave he's had in years, but he wanted to know what would have happened if he had swallowed the little ball.
The barber replied, "I would have told you to just bring it back tomorrow like everyone else does."
Hahahaha, that's good.
Evening all.
Got home from teaching an all day class today and thought the lights looked a little dim. Refrigerators and anything else with a motor was humming or making other strange noises. Unplugged everything then checked voltage... 52.2 volts.
5 years ago it was just the opposite; 190 volts at the outlets. So here we sit on generator power, probably for another week long outage.
Got home from teaching an all day class today and thought the lights looked a little dim. Refrigerators and anything else with a motor was humming or making other strange noises. Unplugged everything then checked voltage... 52.2 volts.
5 years ago it was just the opposite; 190 volts at the outlets. So here we sit on generator power, probably for another week long outage. 
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From: alaska
Trouble with living in a canyon, you never get to see the sun in the winter on those rare clear days. It hides just below the mountain tops and torments you. Spent the day yesterday trying to move snow piles back with a shovel. I'm too old for this kind of work, but gotta be done. I need a bucket loader or something.
There is no G. There is no G. Repeat after me, THERE IS NO G!
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From: Texas
Trouble with living in a canyon, you never get to see the sun in the winter on those rare clear days. It hides just below the mountain tops and torments you. Spent the day yesterday trying to move snow piles back with a shovel. I'm too old for this kind of work, but gotta be done. I need a bucket loader or something.
I remember thinking that as I shoveled big snow mounds in front of our 2story house in Japan. The front was north facing and never got any sunlight on the street in front of our place because the house blocked it. The back deck melted nice, the front, not so much.
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From: Kenai Alaska
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What're ya trying to do, kill him?
Afternoon all.
Got all the generators serviced, re-fueled and ready for the next goat rodeo. $225 in fuel for last night's little go-around. I am so disgusted with this electric co-op here it's beyond words. It used to be we'd just get a little wind and lose power. NOW we've progressed to clear weather losses. Took them over 5 years to trim the trees in the horse paddock where the lines passed thru the trees, and they only did that because they replaced the 2 poles out there and the contractor refused to do the work until they were trimmed. We've reported arcing wires in that area since I moved here in 2002, even filed reports with the Michigan Public Service Commission, all to no avail. Now they're finally doing upgrades and we lose power MORE often.
Ok, I'm done now. Carry on.
Afternoon all.
Got all the generators serviced, re-fueled and ready for the next goat rodeo. $225 in fuel for last night's little go-around.
I am so disgusted with this electric co-op here it's beyond words. It used to be we'd just get a little wind and lose power. NOW we've progressed to clear weather losses. Took them over 5 years to trim the trees in the horse paddock where the lines passed thru the trees, and they only did that because they replaced the 2 poles out there and the contractor refused to do the work until they were trimmed. We've reported arcing wires in that area since I moved here in 2002, even filed reports with the Michigan Public Service Commission, all to no avail. Now they're finally doing upgrades and we lose power MORE often. Ok, I'm done now. Carry on.
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From: Birmingham, Alabama
Thank you very much. I was just trying to help him out.
What's the name of this co-op?
Afternoon all.
Got all the generators serviced, re-fueled and ready for the next goat rodeo. $225 in fuel for last night's little go-around. I am so disgusted with this electric co-op here it's beyond words. It used to be we'd just get a little wind and lose power. NOW we've progressed to clear weather losses. Took them over 5 years to trim the trees in the horse paddock where the lines passed thru the trees, and they only did that because they replaced the 2 poles out there and the contractor refused to do the work until they were trimmed. We've reported arcing wires in that area since I moved here in 2002, even filed reports with the Michigan Public Service Commission, all to no avail. Now they're finally doing upgrades and we lose power MORE often.
Ok, I'm done now. Carry on.
Got all the generators serviced, re-fueled and ready for the next goat rodeo. $225 in fuel for last night's little go-around.
I am so disgusted with this electric co-op here it's beyond words. It used to be we'd just get a little wind and lose power. NOW we've progressed to clear weather losses. Took them over 5 years to trim the trees in the horse paddock where the lines passed thru the trees, and they only did that because they replaced the 2 poles out there and the contractor refused to do the work until they were trimmed. We've reported arcing wires in that area since I moved here in 2002, even filed reports with the Michigan Public Service Commission, all to no avail. Now they're finally doing upgrades and we lose power MORE often. Ok, I'm done now. Carry on.
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Well here's your problem, you're getting all your savings on prescriptions so wire maintenance is suffering.
Not to mention....
Sounds like you're suppose to trim your own trees listening to them.
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CONTACT: Deb Borton, Public Relations Manager
Consumers Energy
Office: 641-754-1641
Email: dborton@consumersenergy.coop
Consumers Energy’s Touchstone Energy® Co-op Connections® Program
Adds Pharmacy Discounts
Marshalltown, Iowa. (December 4, 2008) Consumers Energy has launched a program which
offers further proof being a member of an energy cooperative has its advantages. The Co-op
Connections program benefits cooperative members by offering 10% to 60% savings on most
prescriptions at over 48,000 independent pharmacies like Hy-Vee and Hy-Vee DrugStore and
national chains including CVS, K-Mart, Walgreens, Wal-Mart, Target, and more.
Consumers Energy is a local, member-owned energy solutions cooperative
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From: Kenai Alaska
Maybe they figure if he has trees to burn he doesnt need their electricity.
Got the synchron motor on my door bell working again. Unfortunately now it wont stop.
Got the synchron motor on my door bell working again. Unfortunately now it wont stop.