Random randomness

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:18 am

When I lived in New Orleans there was this one section of town that frequently reported gas leaks.
Turns out there was a factory there that made the smell they put in natural gas and it was leaking.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:30 pm

coopasonic wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:53 am Pro Homeowner Tip: If you smells gas, call your plumber, not the gas company. Friday afternoon my wife said she smelled gas after the HVAC guy came to add coolant to our system that has been leaking for years (only $8k to replace it!). I didn't smell up, but that's not a shock as I barely smell anything with my allergies. She called the gas company, they used their sniffer and said yup, has leak, turned off our gas, told us to call a plumber and left. This was at 4pm on Friday. It was 39 degrees overnight. Luckily our house is really well insulated and it only got down to around 60 inside.

Saturday we got the plumber out and he only saw leakage at like 35+ psi, which is not the kind of pressure you see coming into the system so not really a problem. City offices are closed/emergency only but I guess not being able to heat our home, cook our food or heat our water counts so the plumber is working on a permit to reseal a few connections to satisfy the gas company and maybe, just maybe I will be able to take a hot shower by end of day today.

Basically we are going to be about $1k out of pocket because my wife has a sensitive nose. Better safe than sorry, I guess?

It's a good idea to know where the gas shut off valve is for your house so you can self manage. Same with water of course.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:45 pm

Be careful with that lack of smell.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/ ... ay-vpx.cnn

Loss of smell and taste could be coronavirus symptoms

New Day
Loss of smell and taste could be symptoms of the novel coronavirus, according to ENT UK, a professional organization representing ear, nose and throat surgeons in the United Kingdom. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:56 pm

Im baking a cake. Chocolate on chocolate. Was my wife's favorite. I had to lick the bowl myself this time. The food bank had given me some cake mixes over the months and all I supplied was eggs and icing. Figured I might as well use it before they go bad. Figured even though im not a huge fan of this one ID do it in memory of my wife.

Think Ill have chilidogs today. The dogs are near date and the chili I should eat while I have a cup of milk left. Chili without milk is a no go usually. Doubt Ill see some of this food again for months in stores.

You only live once and cant take it with you.

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:24 pm

Not a time to be licking batter that contains raw eggs. You don't want to have to go to the hospital due to food poisoning right now.

Smoove_B · Post by **Smoove_B** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:31 pm

I've been siting here for 30+ minutes not wanting to type that (I'm a one-trick-pony, I know), so thanks.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:47 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:31 pm I've been siting here for 30+ minutes not wanting to type that (I'm a one-trick-pony, I know), so thanks.

Such self control!

Still, given his posted eating habits, I'd bet that would be the least of his worries if you were to observe him for a day.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:57 pm

So a Rocky shake is right out I take it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 12:13 pm

50 years old and I never knew this about my own area. Ive been to this cemetery many times as my mother and step father are buried there....doh.

The 1918 “Spanish” influenza arrived in March and fell many soldiers, citizens and staff in this area. Eighty-eight prisoners died from the disease and were buried together at the National Cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Combined with the few POWs who died while held here during World War II, the Chattanooga National Cemetery is the only cemetery on American soil which holds both World War I and World War II German soldiers. Their area is marked by a monument placed there by the German government and is decorated each year in November during National Day of Remembrance celebrated by the German nation.

https://www.courthousenews.com/monument ... -cemetery/

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (CN) – There’s little indication from looking at it that a pillar in a cemetery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was erected by representatives of Nazi Germany on the eve of World War II.

It bears no swastika. Its inscription in German makes no mention of the Third Reich, a master race or even a message glorifying war, as the Nazis were known to do.

Unlike monuments to the Confederacy – many of which were erected decades after the U.S. Civil War – the Nazi German government erected the monument in Chattanooga before the world knew of concentration camps, the Holocaust, blitzkriegs and fire bombings.

Members from Nazi Germany’s diplomatic mission to the United States quietly installed the pillar in 1935 to memorialize German prisoners of war who died in America during World War I.

It stands in the Chattanooga National Cemetery among the graves of the German POWs, on the side of a hill surrounded by rows of white tombstones for American veterans.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 2:54 pm

They're predicting 85 degrees here Thursday.
Good bye winter, or whatever it was.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:16 pm

Yup it will finally quit raining here after weeks of it. I have to try and mow the yard come Friday.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 3:55 pm

Had a spam phone call. Wanted to sell me memory pills. Kept telling her I couldn't remember to take them over and over until she gave up.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:32 pm

I think my blood pressure medicine has started making me seriously have to go pee a LOT. But Ive been forgetting to take them a lot over the last month or two. Many years ago...10-12 or whenever.....when I first started having to take BP meds I remembered them or my wife remembered for me. Then I quit taking them for years and found I didn't even need them. But when I lost Lil'D my BP shot sky high .Higher than before. Also I couldn't have my kidney surgery with it that high so restarted the BP meds. All last year I remembered perfectly. But this year ..this month...I keep forgetting a day here 3 days there. I notice late like 10 pm usually. I cant take them that late or Im up all night pissing. Years ago that didn't happen. Even last year I didn't notice it. Maybe its because Im missing days here and there and the fluid builds up. But wow man o man do I have to go piss after taking it now. Like every hour or so I feel like Ill bust and go pee a large amount.

Im old. Guess Im dying faster.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:26 am

I've been a loner all my life.
Now I realize that I have just been self isolating all that time.
So if anybody needs help in that area just ask me about it.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:41 am

dbt1949 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 25, 2020 8:26 am I've been a loner all my life.
Now I realize that I have just been self isolating all that time.
So if anybody needs help in that area just ask me about it.

I told my wife that I was fine with all this and she said "No, you're not."

I guess it is impossible for her to believe.

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 11:51 am

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:32 pm I think my blood pressure medicine has started making me seriously have to go pee a LOT.

What makes you pee is a diuretic, basically makes you shed water by making your kidneys dump more sodium into your urine, which sorta of decreases the amount of blood, thus lowering blood pressure. I'd just google all of your drugs and check which one's a diuretic... AND check your blood pressure level to see if your BP medicine needs tweaking.

If you're NOT taking a diuretic, talk to your doctor soonest. Could be a different problem.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:05 pm

I just switched from amlodipine to valsartan-hct last week,due to side-effects from amlodipine. The valsartan-hct includes a diuretic, which is why my pharmacist recommended taking it in the morning rather than the evening. As a bonus, the valsartin-hct seems to be noticeably more effective at lowering my BP. My systolic/diastolic pressures have dropped roughly an additional 10/5 mmHg since making the switch, which makes the difference between occasionally being in the normal range to always being there.

I tend to be absent-minded about everything, so I just set a daily alarm on my phone to remind me to take the medication at the same time every day.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:53 pm

Oh I know one is a water pill. Its the HCTZ. The Lisinopril is the BP one. I take them separately. Usually they come as one pill. My wife took Losartan HCTZ.

I thought they stopped the sartan pills of all types due to the carcinogen in them?

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:55 pm

The specific generic I'm taking (Sandoz Valsartan/HCT) was never recalled in the first place.

Sandoz Canada is recalling batches of Sandoz Valsartan Film-coated tablets at the pharmacist and wholesaler levels. Please note that the recall does not affect Sandoz Valsartan HCT in Canada or any Novartis Pharmaceuticals (Novartis) products containing valsartan, namely Diovan®, Diovan/HCT® and Entresto®. A different API source is used for the above products.

This decision was made in collaboration with Health Canada following the discovery of a substance in the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API). Sandoz is committed to ensuring that all our marketed products meet the highest quality standards and therefore has decided to proceed with the recall in collaboration with Health Canada.

As I recall (Ha!), the recalled products were outsourced to manufacturers in India and China. I'd surmise that Sandoz Valsartan/HCT is rolling off the same production line as the Novartis-branded drugs that were also not affected by the recall. It's essentially identical to Novartis Diovan/HCT, but is cheaper and is sold in bulk rather than boxed blister packs.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:16 pm

Thats lucky. I thought everything was made in China

I wish i could sleep 24/7. If so Id just stay in bed.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Wed Mar 25, 2020 2:28 pm

Sandoz had a manufacturing facility in a business park a few blocks from our house. They moved out last year, and a CBD manufacturer moved in

xwraith · Post by **xwraith** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:58 pm

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:13 pm

Impressive. I especially liked the butter contraption.

LawBeefaroni · Post by **LawBeefaroni** » Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:18 pm

I liked the butter too, new one to me. Didn't like the toddler getting crushed by the laptop though. I mean serves him right but ouch.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:16 am

Turned on my room AC today. Will probably leave it on until Saturday morning.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:21 am

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:18 pm I liked the butter too, new one to me. Didn't like the toddler getting crushed by the laptop though. I mean serves him right but ouch.

I wasn't going to watch it because I hate peas, and then you promised me a crushed toddler. Disappointing.

I do appreciate these Rube Goldberg videos when they're done in a single take (no cuts).

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:25 am

Used a fan. Tomorrow will be the hottest at 89. I have to mow

First time in 5 years. And Im fat now.

AWS260 · Post by **AWS260** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:33 am

Joseph's Machines is awesome. Basically a guy who has devoted his entire career to Rube Goldberg machines.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:55 am

My room AC died this morning. Glad it's now instead of 90 degree weather. <sigh>.
Just no rest for the wicked.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:14 pm

85 here...well will be..its like 78 now.....I have a fan on me while I cool off from mowing. I only got half done so far. My back is killing me, my legs fail me, and I got this weird nausea feeling come on me. But gotta go finish up. Fun days.

EDIT: Almost done mowing. Then I have all the weedeating to do and ditches. Feel like Ill pass out lol. Im sweating and dizzy'ish now. Its taken me two hours for this part. And the mower is a self propelled push mower. My back is killing me! Years and years ago when I was young I would actually use a simple push mower and be done with the entire yard weedeating and all in two hours. As I mow Im looking at wondering how the hell I did that.

At least supposedly Im getting in better shape if it doesn't kill me.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 2:44 pm

LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:18 pm I liked the butter too, new one to me. Didn't like the toddler getting crushed by the laptop though. I mean serves him right but ouch.

It was the hammer that got me. Rube Goldberg machines are a dime a dozen, but this one managed to work some humor into it.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:23 pm

When i signed up at McDonalds I used just my first and middle initials..BK. Still weird when I get emails from them saying "Hey BK we have a deal for you"...its like they are trying to sell to Burger King.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:50 pm

Well that took me almost 5 hours to do the yard..yeesh. When I was younger I could be done in 2 hours...2 1/2 at the most...and I pushed the mower myself back then...getting old sucks. And it was only like 75 degrees when I started. Ive mowed in 102 degrees in the past. You know..back before I was a sickly old man.

Stepped on and cut 3 fire ant hills....tossed some poison on those..they just poured out when I hit them.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:22 pm

Toynk

Spoiler:

Also available in other Geeki Tiki motifs.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:17 pm

Maw is adorable.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Fri Mar 27, 2020 11:14 pm

Its 78 degrees at 11pm. Phew.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:12 am

73 now here. Too damn warm for me.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:28 pm

Yesterday I mowed, weedeated, and used the blower for 5 hours and my seasonal allergies were fine.

Today I go out and cut maybe 6 limbs off a bush thats too close to the house and walk to the mailbox and my eyes are itching insanely bad and Im rubbing and rubbing and now they are itchy and swollen.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:53 pm

They have talked a lot about how much land we lose if all the ice on Earth melts. its happened in the past before. But they also show old cities and villages underwater now near the modern shore line. SO Im wonder just how much more shoreline we had back when ice was a mile deep in NYC and all of Canada. In the great iceages we must have had a lot more land mass right? ...well what wasn't covered in ice

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Sat Mar 28, 2020 2:14 pm

As I push 50 this is first I ever heard of this

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/hou ... th-bleach/

Everyone who has ever had me clean a thing with bleach, myself included, were wrong. Everyone. Every. One.

By using hot water instead of cold/tepid water to create a solution, you can render the active ingredients in bleach ineffective, making it totally useless.

So for bleach that works, always make sure you dilute it in cold/tepid water.

Smoove, you have failed to reach me again.