Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

we has the wet stuff to. I'll be spending the weekend cutting up old fence sections. All the junk haulers wanted close to 1000 to come get it and take 13 panels away. I already pay for yard waste every month so I just have to cut them up into 12" sections or less.

[GH85Carrera]

Wow, a grand???

We have a large trash pickup day every other month. We can put old stockade fence panels out and they get hauled away for free. Same for old furniture, water heaters, appliances, and tree limbs.

Usually when we trim a tree we just cut the limbs up into 3 foot pieces or smaller, and stuff them into the trash bin. We almost never do the large trash pickup thing because I hate a pile of trash sitting in the front yard.

We have a compost for the grass clippings. I only bag the grass close to the sidewalks then mulch the rest of the yard. Just the outside edge of the yard, along the sidewalks is one full bag of grass for the mower. If I mulch it all, I get grass all over the sidewalks, and then have to use the blower to blow it back on the yard, and off the sidewalks.

In the fall when the leaves are on the ground and I bag them up I do have to pile those in bags on the curb, but they will pick those up with regular trash pickup.

[RKDinOKC]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I only bag the grass close to the sidewalks then mulch the rest of the yard. Just the outside edge of the yard, along the sidewalks is one full bag of grass for the mower. If I mulch it all, I get grass all over the sidewalks, and then have to use the blower to blow it back on the yard, and off the sidewalks.

Did similar thing for years when mowing yards. Only would go around the edges throwing the grass to the inside instead of catching it. Would also edge first and used going around the edges to pickup and throw the clippings to the inside. Then Muich.

It helped because I would only mow yards that people would let me mow every week whether they thought it needed it or not. Charged half the going rate so it was the same money for them. That way not only did mulching work and look better, it would only take me 20 minutes to mow most yards instead of over an hour.

Took care of 45 yards. At $7 to $10 a lawn, $400 was a great weekly income for back then. I also worked 2 part time jobs at $2.50 an hour and installed sound systems for $25 an hour (whole house/office sound systems with speakers and controls in every room). Did the sound systems in a bank and several restaurants. One restaurant even made a big deal about it's sound system and used a reel to reel.

Did all that so I did NOT have to get a student loan for college.

[Porsche-poor]

They cut way back on what they are willing to haul away. If its not in the recycle bin, yard waste bin or the trash can its still there when I get home. They will not even get out of the truck anymore.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Our network is supposed to be on generator backups, but they didn't work so it all crashed when the power went off. IT director just used it as an excuse that everything needs to me moved to the cloud.

Thought it is interesting that AWS, a cloud provider is talking about backing up cloud services locally now.

So, how do the local guys access the cloud with no power?

Cloud, hate it I do!

AWS is Sid's company.

[GH85Carrera]

The city was smart enough to figure out if they don't pick up the large trash items a lot of people are just too cheap to pay to to go to the dump, and they will do the as5hole thing and just take a pickup load of trash "out to the country" and dump it in a ditch along the road. Then more people dump there and soon the city has to send a crew out and great expense to clean it up. It saves a lot of money and time to just pick it up at the curb.

We also have a free household hazardous disposal site. I can take old paint, brake fluid, insecticide, florescent bulbs, mercury vapor bulbs, or whatever to them and they accept it for free as long as I show them my city water bill to prove I live in the city. It keeps people from dumping the crap into the sewer or in their back yard and contaminating the ground water and drainage ditches.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by flipper35

So, how do the local guys access the cloud with no power?

Cloud, hate it I do!

AWS is Sid's company.

For years computing was a terminal hooked to a mainframe. Then PCs came out and we did local computing and it was great. Now everything is going back to the giant network. I hate it. I can't really buy software and just use it for years. Now I have to buy a subscription and it has to call home to check in before I can run the software. Oh yea, now it is suddenly called an app for whatever reason.

So if the internet is down, I can't even work on some programs, er apps.

[flipper35]

When we have limbs down form the storms or trim the trees we toss them in a pile and light them on fire. If it is from the maple trees we cook stuff in it. Cheddarworst, venison, marshmallow, hot dogs. All our pine trees dies so that wood is all gone. We do have some Spruce from then that died. It is good for getting the hardwoods to start burning. We have some ash but mostly maple. The kids think we should get our syrup from them but I don't think they are good ones for syrup.

[flipper35]

Back then the mainframe was still local. Like using terminal server these days. I learned FORTRAN on a IBM 3090.

We called non-game programs applications or apps since forever here in the midwest. Then it got popular with the smart phones.

Subscriptions suck, and I blame Adobe for that, but some games require an internet connection even though you bought the software. That would suck. How would the kids play during a car ride? (We don't have any of those, I guess we are too technically challenged)

On a side note, I have reverted back to my old bedtime building Paul Allen's huge airplane in Kerbal to see how large of a satellite you can actually get into orbit with it. I am going through a lot of coffee today!

[RKDinOKC]

Since the company I work for is a manufacturing facility nobody works when the power is down.

The plans for a new facility do not include a powerplant. I think it should have generators that run off the grid that can switch over to diesil or coal etc, if the grid goes down. Also climate control. When manufacturing tolerances can be managed much easier with a controled climate.

When I was in charge of the internet we had two completely different profiders that had their own lines. My DNS was setup so if one ISP went down incoming traiffic automatically switched to the other. My router was setup so I ganged both connections for surfing etc, so it looked like the bandwidth was faster than either connection on it's own.

[flipper35]

We have redundant internet and the firewall takes care of everything for us.

If no one works when the power is down, why bother with the cloud then? Other than the "cloud" is the buzzword for the decade. Those contracts need to be read pretty thoroughly because uptime, backups, ransomware are all over the place in regards to responsibility.

But, the cloud is the trendy thing to so, like Starbucks.

[GH85Carrera]

At my old job many years ago I always showed up first and opened up. As I pulled in the parking lot I saw a water line had ruptured under the street and was right in front of our building. I got the coffee going, and and made some signs for the toilets, "If it is yellow let it mellow, if it is brown flush it down.

A few minutes later the water department guy came in and said they had to shut down our water as I figured. I shut off all the processors, and that stopped all the water use. The boss came in and we were all in the kitchen chatting. He was pissed we were goofing off, but I pointed to the big trucks digging up the street and said we have no water. For a photolab water is part of every step of production. The boss though for a few seconds and said if we can't be productive we can clean the place up! And I replied "with what" and he was silent. He just sent everyone home.

At my last job we had a 3 phase electrical feed. One leg had died and the power company replace the transformer and a few hours. Then they said the pole will have to be replaced soon, and they wanted to schedule a day for us to be down. Of course the weekend was out for them. So we said how about a Friday afternoon. They showed up at 1:00 PM and said it would 4 or 5 hours. We went home for the day.

[Jim Richards]

We used to get days off for hurricane evacuations. Of course, power outages from hits/near misses also kept us home. Too bad it didn’t happen more often.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, I was thinking how happy I am that Parade was not this coming week. Boca Raton may not be the bulls eye, but it ain't gonna be fun down there next week. It is sorta like hearing the Jaw's theme music, something bad is gonna happen.

[GH85Carrera]

The pilot we hire as a contractor to fly projects for us just came over. He was gone out of state for almost all of August on a project. He got home and 4 hours later that big storm hit the metro and he lots electricity. He still has no electricity at home. He needed to print a few forms for his aviation insurance on his airplanes. So I was happy to print them for him. So he has the dirty clothes from his out of state project, and now he still can't do laundry.

We offered to have him come over here and do laundry, and even spend the night in air conditioned comfort. The power company is claiming this afternoon is when they get power back. I hope so for his sake.

[Porsche-poor]

yeah maybe that's why they hold it in the hottest part of the year.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

yeah maybe that's why they hold it in the hottest part of the year.

The reality is they try to do it when school is out for summer. The kids can come and not miss school. Our local school are back to school for a while already.

Back in the stone ages of 1996 for the Oklahoma Parade, we did it in September to be a bit cooler weather. That was back when the regions did 99% of the work, and national just handled the insurance and the money. Now national does 99% of the work and get 1% of the help from the regions. The Oklahoma Parade is known as the Parade without kids.

I was the registrar for the 96 parade. We had a guy walk up that was still in uniform. He had been on an airplane coming back from the Iraq, serving the country in a war. He lived in the area, and has a Porsche, and is a member of PCA and wanted to sign up on the spot. I said sure, I signed him up, and took his check.

PCA national was furious. They said that has never been done before. I pointed at my name badge and said see that, It says registrar. I registered him. Here is the his check, he has a name badge and he is participating. Get over it.

[Porsche-poor]

yeah i'd tell them to get over it as well.

[RKDinOKC]

The cayenne swap it done. The bodyshop guy gave me my deductable plus some storage that insurance didn't pay for the wrecked one after I got the wheels, grilll, and a few other trim parts off the old one. Not allowed to drive yet anyway, but now Cayenne Turbo is a year newer and 1/2 the miles.

[GH85Carrera]

Finally, F1 is back on. Just practice right now, but Qualifying later today, and racing tomorrow.