Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

The forecast was right, we have a light dusting of snow. Just enough to make the roads a bit slick. I have a simple solution., I will stay home and not even open the garage doors.

[Porsche-poor]

good plan. We have wind and power outages.

[GH85Carrera]

We have a great power grid. My over the back fence neighbor has an automatic generator that runs on natural gas. In the last 8 years it has run for 12 minutes of power loss. It does start up and run for a while each month as a self test. He admits that 12 minutes of power was rather expensive.

There is a large retirement-assisted living facility just a few blocks from us. They have lots of old folks on equipment to keep them alive. They get top priority for power restoration, and I bet we are on the same leg of electricity.

In 24 years of living here we have had very few power outages.

[Porsche-poor]

WE have had a few but they usually only last few hours. We had one years ago that lasted days. I have a gas generator so if all fails I have lights and heat.

[GH85Carrera]

Every-time the generator threads pop up on Pelican, I read the replies, and get a hankering for a backup generator. It starts off with a small cheap unit, the the better and expensive Honda invert type, and moves up to the expensive natural gas powered Generac anad equivalents. Then I step back and think of my neighbor that spent a big pile of money and got 12 minutes of backup power at great expense. Then I just say screw it, and rely on the energy pros to provide me with electricity.

[flipper35]

Ugh. 12 to 14 inches of crystalline precipitation forecast here. Daughter made it 1/2 mile to the main road and turned around to wfh. Heavy wet stuff.

We looked a few times at generators when those threads come up too. We have a UPS on the important things like the NAS and router and access points and . . .

Once in the 17 years we did go 4 hours with no power in the summer after severe storms. Hard to justify a 14k generator for that.

[Porsche-poor]

WE just have 5000watt gen no frills noisy sucker but it powers the micro, fridge, freezer in the garage and the downstairs lights as well as the furnace.

[GH85Carrera]

I was very close to buying one of the larger Honda inverter units. Then I started thinking, how do we use it to power the central heat, or the fridge. I would have to run an extension cord into the house through a door or window. That or hire an electrician to put in a panel to hook the generator to, and it just got to the point of saying screw it. We are living life on the edge!

[Porsche-poor]

Yeah we have a gen/trans panel next to the main panel in the garage.

[flipper35]

We have gas for the stove so we could tie into that and do a transfer switch for the geothermal and fridge/freezer well pump etc.

[GH85Carrera]

We are forecast to have a really COLD weekend and 5 days below freezing. Yuck. Even worse is talk of the white crap accumulation.

[Porsche-poor]

Looks like ours has changed to just cold no snow.

[flipper35]

Another 2-4 tonight and 10 on friday.

[Porsche-poor]

Well I don't know if this sucks or is a good thing. Went to the doc. Its not covid or the flu. Just a really bad cold. If its the one everyone seems to have the doc said 10 days to 2 weeks to start feeling better.

[flipper35]

Took our son that long to get over it.

[GH85Carrera]

That sounds like a BAD cold. Yuck. My sympathies. I was sick once, and I really did not like it.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I said Blood sugar be dammed I'm taking some cough med at bed time. Once the buzz work off in about an hour I slept thru the night. Still feel like crap and coughing this am but I'm on the mend!

[GH85Carrera]

Most OTC cough meds are of little real value, but some. My doctor will prescribe a cough med with codeine in it. It is gritty and has to be shaken up before getting a spoonful before bed. You will sleep like a rock, and the cough is gone. It requires an analog paper prescription, handed to the pharmacist as it has codeine in it. I have not had it in many years, but it flat works.

We had nice weather yesterday and even better today with highs to almost 60. We have a few chores to get the Koi pond ready for tonight and the next 5 days of sub freezing weather. Mrs. Carrera bought a new pond heater, and aerator. She will "let me" install them this afternoon.

[GH85Carrera]

Weeee! Having fun with Photoshop.

One of our clients wants a 60x90 print mounted and laminated for the wall in the command center. Of course the only way to move that around is with a huge truck. So we have to split it into 4 equal pieces that are 30x45 each, and trimming the four separate prints to butt up perfectly is tricky. So I made tick marks for the service bureau we use. They did it before, so it should be OK this time.

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

Morning all. I said Blood sugar be dammed I'm taking some cough med at bed time. Once the buzz work off in about an hour I slept thru the night. Still feel like crap and coughing this am but I'm on the mend!

Last time I had a really bad cough we had run out of cough medicine so I had some brandy. Slept like a worn out dog and sugars were just fine.