With my continued gas savings I bought this! (1999 Accord LX)

[redpoint5]

Sun's out today. Went on a 40min drive with the girls which is all the energy I had, and we listened to mostly classic rock.

Last weekend I spent several hours working on the lights for 2 fake Christmas trees and got both 100% working. I think I paid 40 bucks for both, so my time wasn't worth it, except I like competently completing a project. Probably have the best looking house in the neighborhood now.

My experience is that troubleshooting incandescent lights is easier, but they consume 6x more power. LED strings are the devil to diagnose. Usually the metal leads rust away, so even if you find a bad bulb, and happen to be able to replace the LED, the others are not far behind in needing replacement. I bet if they had dipped each LED in dielectric grease, the string would last 80 years. That would add 10% to the cost though, so just throw them away.

[Xist]

How do you make icicle lights hang straight?

I only put up one strand. I got the rest from storage, but I have focused my limited time and energy elsewhere.

Has anyone heard that there is a new WoW expansion? I saw some post indicating that, but nothing since.

Of course, I just happened to see that post. Why would I check my Facebook news feed?

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Sun's out today. Went on a 40min drive with the girls which is all the energy I had, and we listened to mostly classic rock.

Christmas In Prison -- John Prine?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by Xist

How do you make icicle lights hang straight?

I only put up one strand. I got the rest from storage, but I have focused my limited time and energy elsewhere.

Has anyone heard that there is a new WoW expansion? I saw some post indicating that, but nothing since.

Of course, I just happened to see that post. Why would I check my Facebook news feed?

Icicle light aren't meant to hang strait. Those specifically are the horrible LED strands I've got where when the strands start to die, you just have to replace every LED. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Didn't realize WOW servers were still going. That game goes back to my first job, which was a long time ago now. My buddy tried to get me hooked on it, but I wisely resisted. He even left the installer CD in my computer knowing I could hardly resist.

No, I don't waste my time with that nonsense, instead I've revisited the Command & Conquer series where I waste my limited time with that.

[Xist]

Supposedly the hard drive died and Dell told me to buy another, but it has been running fine since I reinstalled Windows, although I am still reinstalling my programs.

It said that it would keep my documents, but I am finding old versions of them.

That wasted an entire day--except for dropping it to run to Mom's dentist to drive her home after she had a tooth pulled--and driving her to another appointment.

Yesterday was a busy and frustrating day. I'll explain.

No time.

Let me sum up.

I saw 3 clients who are scheduled for other days, commuted 3 hours, went to multiple stores and checked various sites for another cookie tray, bought a 5-gallon paint bucket grid, and strained the rest of the pine needles, glitter, and leaves out of my old motor oil and ATF, but there is water in there, and you can't recycle oil or ATF with water, so I bought another hot plate to boil it.

Mom had me order her an iPhone Excess, yelled at me for doing what she said, and it arrived yesterday, so I set it up even though the new one kept telling me to move it close to the old one.

Side-by-side, with the little one on top of the big one, and with the big one on top clearly weren't close enough.

The only way to get them closer would be to disassemble them!

My brother asked to go to Dollar Tree and Mom asked me to take her along, except she wanted me to drop her off at Walmart, and while I was there I wanted to buy her a case, but while they have ones for i6s, i7s, and i8s, they don't have any for i9s or i10s!

Right.

Summing up.

My brother had us buy him a bunch of stuff, still wanted to stop at Dollar Tree, then Sonic, and Mom had me get gas.

We didn't get home until 2030.

[freebeard]

...there is water in there, and you can't recycle oil or ATF with water, so I bought another hot plate to boil it.

Once you do your due diligence, the recycler will do what with it? Burn it? Pour it into a river?

Heaters and Burners -- Robert Murray-Smith

BTUs, man.

[redpoint5]

I don't use spinning disks in anything but stationary bulk storage, and I have that in RAID1 so that recovering a failed disk is simple.

SSDs are so darn cheap these days. There's a 1TB m.2 SSD for $60.

[freebeard]

I still have stacks of 'rotating storage' with forgotten passwords.

Curently everything is on a 32G microSD card, 26% used.

[Xist]

I believe that due diligence means the rest isn't my responsibility.

If I do two oil changes a year I will have two gallons of waste oil a year?

I replaced the original hard drive with a Samsung 970 EVO SSD in 2018.

I believe the original is still there, just disconnected.

I don't think it wanted to boot off an SSD with a Winchester connected.

Well, the watery ATF is dripping into my Pot of Science. I held it for 30 seconds and it was still dripping. I banged it for 30 seconds and it was still dripping. I kept trying to wipe the edge and it was still dripping.

Am I going to ever finish anyth

[freebeard]

I used 'rotating storage' because Winchester is technically specific.

pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/winchester-disk

Introduced in 1973 as the model 3340, the drive had one permanent and one removable spindle, each holding 30MB. The "30-30" storage capacities led to the Winchester nickname after the Winchester 30-30 rifle. The term later referred to all fixed hard disks because the heads and platters are always encased in the same, sealed unit

The Winchester Disk
IBM's Winchester disk was a removable cartridge, but the heads and platters were built in a sealed unit and were not separable.

Originally Posted by DDG

https://wisdomanswer.com › what-is-the-btu-rating-for-a-us-gallon-of-oil
What is the BTU rating for a US gallon of oil? - WisdomAnswer
1 gallon of finished motor gasoline (containing about 10% fuel ethanol by volume) = 120,286 Btu 1 gallon of diesel fuel or heating oil (with sulfur content less than 15 parts per million) = 137,381 Btu 1 gallon of heating oil (with sulfur content at 15 to 500 parts per million) = 138,500

The Heaters and Burners playlist tells how to make a rocket stove from empty tin cans.