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BoomerD

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Power went out last night around 7 pm. Just my street and part of the next one. :/

Took the PUD till after mid-night to get it restored...and it was chilly...low 30's outside.
 
highland145

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,973
6,338
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BoomerD said:
Power went out last night around 7 pm. Just my street and part of the next one. :/

Took the PUD till after mid-night to get it restored...and it was chilly...low 30's outside.
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About your bedtime anyway...

The gas logs we put in ~2013 have been wonderful. Plus the generator. 4 days in 2014 and iirc a couple of days last year (wind) were just a nuisance instead of a bitch and food loss.
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
66,279
14,699
146
highland145 said:
About your bedtime anyway...

The gas logs we put in ~2013 have been wonderful. Plus the generator. 4 days in 2014 and iirc a couple of days last year (wind) were just a nuisance instead of a bitch and food loss.
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No natural gas available here...propane only. (well...except what I generate...)

I've looked into a whole-house generator...the size we would need for out all-electric house...installed cost would be close to $10K.:eek:
 
highland145

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
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BoomerD said:
No natural gas available here...propane only. (well...except what I generate...)

I've looked into a whole-house generator...the size we would need for out all-electric house...installed cost would be close to $10K.:eek:
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Only if you have a lot of outages. Like every week...
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
70,579
13,804
126
www.anyf.ca
How long are the outages? Inverter-charger with a bunch of lead acid batteries might be cheaper. We don't get outages here often but now and then they happen. My server rack is good for around 4 hours if we get an outage here.

Won't help for heat if you heat with hydro, but you could at least run the basic stuff like lights, computers, TV, etc.
 
clamum

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
26,256
406
126
AMD64Blondie said:
Some bastard set off my apartment building's fire alarm...at 2 AM this morning.
(and with outside temps of 31 degrees F,a wind chill of 19 degrees F,and light snow falling..that was unpleasant.)

This has been happening way too often over the last few months.(the random fire alarms going off..)

Probably won't happen,but I'm hoping I can take a vacation day from work..stay home and catch up on my sleep.

If I do have to go into work this morning,I'm going to fall back into bed,for a nap.. soon after I get home and have lunch.

(I work half-days..8 AM PST to 11:30 AM PST.)
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I sometimes take a nap after getting home from work (usually work from 9 AM - 5:30 PM), for like an hour or hour and a quarter. It's glorious. I shouldn't need it, but I can't seem to get enough sleep each night (stay up too late).
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
60,046
10,535
126
Get back from a job, and the boss left a sheet of paper on my desk, and said enter these coordinates(basically X,Y,Z data). The sheet's space deliminated, and I need comma. Look at the top, and it's file.txt. So there's an electronic version! Ask the boss, and he says that sheet's it. I say "WTF do you mean "This sheet's it"? Someone just dropped a piece of paper in your lap?! Where'd the fuckin' file come from?" He goes in and asks the engineer. It was in an email to him. Ask if he can get me an electronic file, and he says yes. We agree he'll put it on the server, and I'll fetch it from there. Go look on the server, and it's a pdf of a text file...

I don't know whose fuckery this is a product of, but that's some draftsman level shit... Since I'm a magician, I copy/paste the text from the pdf, enter it in a text editor, and since the columns were all fucked up, copy/pasted them into a spreadsheet, exported them to a csv file, and then added my fucking commas... People really try my patience some days... :^S
 
Chaotic42

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
34,790
1,970
126
lxskllr said:
Get back from a job, and the boss left a sheet of paper on my desk, and said enter these coordinates(basically X,Y,Z data). The sheet's space deliminated, and I need comma. Look at the top, and it's file.txt. So there's an electronic version! Ask the boss, and he says that sheet's it. I say "WTF do you mean "This sheet's it"? Someone just dropped a piece of paper in your lap?! Where'd the fuckin' file come from?" He goes in and asks the engineer. It was in an email to him. Ask if he can get me an electronic file, and he says yes. We agree he'll put it on the server, and I'll fetch it from there. Go look on the server, and it's a pdf of a text file...

I don't know whose fuckery this is a product of, but that's some draftsman level shit... Since I'm a magician, I copy/paste the text from the pdf, enter it in a text editor, and since the columns were all fucked up, copy/pasted them into a spreadsheet, exported them to a csv file, and then added my fucking commas... People really try my patience some days... :^S
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CAD people like to jerk GIS people around, I think. Either that or they can't imagine that any software outside of CAD could possibly exist.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
60,046
10,535
126
Chaotic42 said:
CAD people like to jerk GIS people around, I think. Either that or they can't imagine that any software outside of CAD could possibly exist.
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Yea, I don't get it. The draftsman's an idiot, but I expect better from other people. How do you improve on ascii?! That's my first choice for anything it's suitable for. It's the ultimate cross platform format, and you can do anything you want with it using 40 year old tools if desired.

Almost seems like a deliberate troll, like when lavabit handed the cryptokeys to the government on 11 pages of 4 point type :^D
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
70,579
13,804
126
www.anyf.ca
On similar note, I hate that photocopiers produce a PDF when you scan stuff. You can't do shit with a PDF. It's so proprietary and overly convoluted format it's not even funny. Why can't it produce a jpeg or something at least?

Usually if I need to modify it I'll just screen cap it, but depending on the resolution of the monitor you lose a lot of info doing that, unless you zoom in and do it in multiple sections. Thankfully this is not exactly something I run into very often where I have to scan something and then modify it.
 
sdifox

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
100,264
17,901
126
Red Squirrel said:
On similar note, I hate that photocopiers produce a PDF when you scan stuff. You can't do shit with a PDF. It's so proprietary and overly convoluted format it's not even funny. Why can't it produce a jpeg or something at least?

Usually if I need to modify it I'll just screen cap it, but depending on the resolution of the monitor you lose a lot of info doing that, unless you zoom in and do it in multiple sections. Thankfully this is not exactly something I run into very often where I have to scan something and then modify it.
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Cuz it is not meant to be modified...
 
sdifox

sdifox

No Lifer
Sep 30, 2005
100,264
17,901
126
Red Squirrel said:
But sometimes it is. Depends what you're scanning. Ex: pictures. Want to be able to crop etc. Not that something like that comes up often in an office environment though, but it happens.
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Then you do not scan to pdf. You scan to png or so something, option shows up when you scan to email
 
highland145

highland145

Lifer
Oct 12, 2009
43,973
6,338
136
Having the HVAC and duct replaced. I know there wasn't a vapor barrier under the old duct so my intent was to fix that after they pulled the old duct out and before the new went in. Buy a roll of 6 mil plastic, tyvek suit, dust mask, landscape staples. Work the project over in my mind waiting for the old to be ripped out. Crawl under the house after work and....those fuckers had already put down plastic.:rolleyes:
 
clamum

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
26,256
406
126
IronWing said:
Actual call this morning…

Caller: Hi, I'm Steve and I understand that you own the lot down at the corner of X and Y roads. I'm looking for a place to train my horses. Would it be okay to run my horses on your lot?

Me: I don't own that lot.

Caller: I really need a place to run my horses and the lot looks like a great place for it.

Me: You'll have to talk to the owner.

Caller: Do you think it would okay to run my horses there?

Me: I have no idea; it's not my lot.

Caller: I thought you were the owner?

Me: No, it's not my lot.

Caller: I really want to run my horses there.

Me: You'll have to talk to the owner.

Caller: Do have their number?

Me: I have no idea who the owner is.

Caller: Do you think they'd let me run my horses?

Me: I'm gonna have to let you go now, goodbye.
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Red Squirrel said:
If there was such option I would not be complaining in first place. :p Never seen a machine that gives an option.
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It should have that option, if its not a piece of feces. LOL. I've had cheapie printer/copier/scanners before and they all could scan to png/jpg (or pdf, of course). Not sure what the big one at my work does but I'd bet it scans to image. :smileycat:
 
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