Stijn!!

[RKDinOKC]

Good Morning?

Just getting up. Been asleep since 7pm last night. That's 15 hours!

Today is the last day of my unintended unpaid vacation.

Due to my current situation my interaction with any woman is going to be very short and guarded and avoided if at all possible. This will not be easy as I am generally a talkative outgoing person. Won't be making ANY comments before or after going to the restroom besides politely excusing myself and then only if necessary.


They have a garage door lock that is supposed to work automatically with any door opener for $100 at Lowes and Home Depot. They claim it is stronger than the metal door so someone would have to tear up the door to get in.

I have a couple of windows that the sensors they could not get to work. One is beside the back door and the other a small bathroom window. Didn't think it was worth paying $80 to replace those sensors. If someone comes in thru the window next to the back it will set off a motion alarm just coming in the window. And if someone crawls in the bathroom window when they exit the bathroom it will set off a motion alarm.

Think the biggest deterrent is the alarm company sign in the front beside the garage and the stickers on the back windows.

Noticed on the web and iPhone apps if I open a door or window whether the alarm is on or off it shows up that the door or window has opened in less than a second. That's pretty impressive.

Used the medical alert several times in the past. Hope I never need the alarm.

[GH85Carrera]

Your best alarm feature is a big fuzzy dog named Pepper. She will lick them into submission.

My dad worked at Protection Alarm Co here is OKC after he retired as something to do. He said the alarm industry long ago did studies on the best alarm systems. In the end, a large dog that barks was the best. Of course a dog can't call the cops.

[Porsche-poor]

my large dog can be turned off by throwing a ball.

[Jim Richards]

I might be willing to rent out the attack schnauzer.

[Porsche-poor]

no thanks I also have a kick me dog. A Boston who thinks she is a greatdane.

[RKDinOKC]

Usually take Pepper with me. May make a mistake or two setting or disarming the alarm to see how quick the response really is. If too slow, will complain and turn the monitoring off.

[GH85Carrera]

My alarm company urges me to "test them" once a month. Set the alarm and open a door or window and let it alert. I get a text message and email in seconds. The phone call is just 20 or 30 seconds after that. Tell them the pass-code and that is was just a test.

Did you get the Alarm Permit from the city?

The permit allows you to have some false alarms and have the cops show up without getting a ticket. Without it if they roll a cop car they can write a ticket to you for wasting their time. It is like $10 so it is cheap.

[RKDinOKC]

Ought to have an alarm permit, but didn't check if they stuck anything on the windows or anything.

[RKDinOKC]

Looked and have an old permit stuck on my window next to the door. Numbers are a little sun faded.

[GH85Carrera]

Ya gotta renew the permit every year.

[Outback Porsche]

Watching the missus get red in the face

[GH85Carrera]

We made it to Friday! Friday Friday!

It is gonna be a purdy day here. Low to mid 70s for the high. Mrs Carrera has big plans. Yet another large chunk of grass that I have been mowing will become a garden area. Less for me to mow but a LOT of work to make the change. Today I am borrowing a real pick-em-up work truck from a buddy and going to get a load of compost. When we get it home gotta get it all out of the pickup and onto a temporary spot on a different garden area.

The fun is gonna be removing a triangular shaped chunk of lawn 25 feet wide at the bottom and 15 feet tall. It is on a slope so we need to terrace it or build a retaining wall at the bottom that will be 18 to 24 inches tall. Right now it is part of the yard irrigation. Spray heads are not allowed on the new plants so I 'get" to convert that area and all the other garden areas to drip irrigation.

Drip irrigation is like 5 gallons per HOUR, and the well puts out 18 gallons per minute. We don't have a pressure tank. I will likely have to convert that garden section to run off of city water.

It will look nice when finished but I am not sure I will still be alive after all that.

[RKDinOKC]

At least you don't have to get your compost where I did growing up. Had to shovel the poop out of horse and sheep barns then spread THAT all over the garden shoveling it out of the back of a pickup. At least Dad had a guy with a regular tractor plow and disc the garden to turn it over and mix it in. Would have been even less fun trying to turn it all over with a rototiller. Nobody has ever said anything so think the smell does wash off.

We did have the garden sectioned in sevenths rotating crops. Every year a different section was left unplanted. That's where we put clippings, kitchen compost waste, leaves, dead crops stalks, etc. and I had to keep it tilled in with the rototiller.

For several years we also plowed in cotton seed hulls. Don't know where we got those. A guy showed up with a pickup full at a time.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, a vegetable garden is far different than a flower garden. We are getting compost from a source that has actual composted organic product, not fresh manure.

My grandad had a veggie garden on his property that was almost an acre. After several years of his work the soil was so fertile that he just threw down a seen and you had to jump back because it was growing so fast. He had many worm beds. One Christmas he announced that what he wanted for Christmas was horse manure. My brother and I spent all day shoveling out a horse barn and filled a pickup. He said a load of crap was the best present he ever received. I think grandpa was telling us kids that to see us smile.

[GH85Carrera]

Here is grandpa in his corn patch with "Corn as high as an elephant's eye" as the song says. He raised enough veggies to feed most of that neighborhood.

[Porsche-poor]

morning all. Got the MRI done this morning now to wait till Tuesday to find out the plan.

[RKDinOKC]

Have a friend with some kind of cyst on the back of his knee associated with mild arthritis or something. Doctors don't want to try to drain the cyst without an MRI to tell where it is at. His insurance won't pay for the MRI. Has been off work for over a week as doc says no work, stay off it.

I don't understand what his med insurance expects him to do.

[Porsche-poor]

they have no real clue. my medical ins has a 7 day wait for an MRI. Seven days from the time the doc orders it and you get it. I only have a 5 day wait to buy a gun. Go figure.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Outback Porsche

Watching the missus get red in the face

What did you do?

[RKDinOKC]

Interesting. The HR Manager told the IT Director to turn off my access until Monday. Told me when I left her office Thruday at 5pm that my 5 days started when I left her office. He said he even asked her specifically because he thought 5 days meant 5 days not 6. Guess I got 5 days without pay followed by a day off with pay without burning any vacation.