Rob Hall Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 (edited) 30 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said: And there are those of us with snow on the ground who are happy it's just rain this time! 😁 I had about 6-8 inches of snow over the weekend, but a couple days of freezing rain since then and rising to 50F tonight...so lots of slush and melting going on... Edited January 24 by Rob Hall 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsuperdan Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Last week: -40 Celcius temps -53 Celcius windchill 8-10 inches of snow Currently: 0 degrees Celcius sunny blue skies Next week: Welcome to a typical January/February in Alberta. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColonelKrypton Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 So far, just over three weeks into January, we have had November weather, December weather, January weather, February weather, and March weather this month. Mix of snow, sun, cloud, cold and comfortably warm ( for winter ) temperatures; last night freezing rain with a bit more than 1/4" of ice accretion on everything. Not quite a week to go and we might see some April weather this month. Still, could always be worse I swear, I just looked out the front door and then the back, the weather was different in both places cheers, Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 A quiet day, working in my home office. After lunch noticed my internet was out. Rebooted the modem, nothing. Checking around, went outside to get the mail and noticed a cable hanging down and in the road. A tall truck must have snagged my internet cable. Called Spectrum, they will have someone out tomorrow. Ugh. Going to have limp along on my mobile hotspot. Slow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 In my neighborhood everything is underground. Even my Fios fiber is below surface from the box to my house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 A very few days back it was 10deg F. Today it's in the upper 60s, has been raining for two days, and is forecast to rain two more...then get cold again. I could really go for just a little snow right about now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted January 25 Share Posted January 25 39 minutes ago, Tom Geiger said: In my neighborhood everything is underground. Even my Fios fiber is below surface from the box to my house Everything was underground at my previous house...they were putting in fiber last summer when I moved to another suburb. Love my new house on almost 2 acres, but some things aren't perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 2 hours ago, Rob Hall said: ...some things aren't perfect. I've yet to encounter anything that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peteski Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 5 hours ago, Tom Geiger said: In my neighborhood everything is underground. Even my Fios fiber is below surface from the box to my house Sure, it is underground in your development, but that is just last several hundred feet. Outside of your development the utilities come back up to regular utility poles and subjected to a typical damage by the weather or careless drivers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 On 1/24/2024 at 1:19 PM, iamsuperdan said: Last week: -40 Celcius temps -53 Celcius windchill 8-10 inches of snow Are you sure it wasn’t -40 Fahrenheit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 it’s warm and wet here but I would like to see the sun an sky"… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A modeler named mike Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 Having to function with minimal sleep, 5:50am to 7:15am was all I was able to get thanks to my dementia riddled dad. He was a basket case last night with confusion like I've never seen in him before. Very uncooperative and almost combative at times. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamsuperdan Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 9 hours ago, Thom said: Are you sure it wasn’t -40 Fahrenheit? I'm in Canada, so definitely not. And -40 is where Celcius and Farenheit are the same. Numerically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 4 hours ago, iamsuperdan said: And -40 is where Celcius and Farenheit are the same. Numerically. My point, the only time they match up, redundant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 (edited) Wah wah wah...but hobby-item resellers who find garage-sale models with a few loose parts and decide to "fix" them prior to listing, and whose phone photos don't really show the gloo-obliterated details and finger-smears and blobs, or the 40-grit sanding scratches...they just drive me nuts. There are some really sweet deals to be had buying models from non-modelers, but it's always a roll of the dice. If you have the skills of a 5-year old, PLEASE just leave things alone. And try to think through that a heavy die-cast model with tiny wire and lost-wax and plastic details won't ship damage-free if all you do is bubble-wrap it and shove it loosely in a box where it can bang around as the PO chimps play soccer with it. Edited January 27 by Ace-Garageguy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engine 51 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said: the PO chimps play soccer with it LOL…the truth for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSheep214 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Rain here for the last 3 - 4 days after a spell of snow earlier in the week. Some minor localize flooding but nothing too damaging. The biggest irk I see from folks they panic over a potential upcoming “snowstorm” in the forcast and they rush to the grocery store to stock up on bread, eggs, bananas, and TP. Aftr all was said and done, we ended up with about 4 - 5 inches of snow. That’s nothing for Central NY. I always tell my wife, it’s winter for heaven’s sake! I never panic over an impending snowstorm….ever. It is what it is, just deal with it after it passes. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 I posted in the "what non-car model didja get?" thread I'd recently acquired a "1/88 scale" model of a Beech 18, based on what the seller and MULTIPLE interdwerb sites quoted as the scale being...which I checked PRIOR to buying the thing. A friend who's very knowledgeable about aircraft models contacted me, to let me know THERE IS NO 1/88 SCALE BEECH 18. And he's correct. I dry-assembled the model and measured the wingspan at roughly 10". The REAL Beech 18 wingspan is 47' 8", or 572". Elementary-school arithmetic shows the actual scale to be approximately 1/57. So what I get for believing info that's apparently mindlessly rebleated widely on the interdwerbs is an expensive model I have no use for. I DID check multiple sources, as the interdwerbs also repeat endlessly that the old Pyro / Lindberg Gee Bee is 1/32, when in fact it's about 1/26, by measuring the wingspan...though the little pilot figure is indeed about 1/32. Endlessly repeated WRONG information is still WRONG. Simple math and measuring have been too hard for the general populace for decades it seems, and it's just getting worse daily. Thanks fer letting me know, old friend. Now that I've assembled it and put it next to an HO locomotive, it's very obviously huge. Looks like I won't need to fab landing gear after all. It'll get built as a desk model, on its pylon, as it was intended. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMiles Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 we got the ring camera. it is supposed to have a long battery life, but what they dont tell you is that in reality it only lasts about a month if you keep the motion detectors on and get any decent amount of foot traffic, say 10 people walking by per day. last night at 4:45 am the ring starts ringing my phone because the battery is low again. apparently there is not a way to turn off this notification either. of course, with it waking me up like that, i had a hard time falling asleep again. i have since turned on bedtime mode on my phone, which is supposed to suppress all messages, but lets see if it works for the ring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Hall Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 18 minutes ago, MrMiles said: we got the ring camera. it is supposed to have a long battery life, but what they dont tell you is that in reality it only lasts about a month if you keep the motion detectors on and get any decent amount of foot traffic, say 10 people walking by per day. last night at 4:45 am the ring starts ringing my phone because the battery is low again. apparently there is not a way to turn off this notification either. of course, with it waking me up like that, i had a hard time falling asleep again. i have since turned on bedtime mode on my phone, which is supposed to suppress all messages, but lets see if it works for the ring When I had Ring cameras, I usually got about 6 weeks to a charge out of them. You can adjust the zones for motion detection and the sensitivity to get longer battery life. At my new house I have 2 of the Google Nest wired door bells and six Nest battery cameras, I'm getting about 6 weeks out of them also. But the Nest cameras are a newer generation than the Ring cameras I had and have much clearer images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMiles Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 mailman once again tossed a package and once again, i got a broken item. this time a 150 dollar slot car. im really mad because its not fixable, the chassis is broken, the body pieces are broken off. im saving the ring video of the mailman tossing it and seeing if they will refund me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyK Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Idiot. What's a few more steps to do the job right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMiles Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 well my day got worse. went to kohls today to return stuff to amazon, and someone hit my truck when it was parked and didnt leave a not or anything. i contacted insurance company and i have to pay my deductible. i guess next time i will just keep the stuff from amazon, now im out 500 dollars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 1/22/2024 at 12:01 PM, Rob Hall said: Two thermostats... two A/C systems also. I had it all checked out before I moved in, ducts cleaned, etc. May need more insulation in places. The house is unusual, it is a 1950s vintage 1500 sq ft ranch that had a 1800 sq ft addition added in the 1990s by the previous owner. So the original part has it's own HVAC and the addition has it's own. I would guess that the original heat was no better before the addition was put on. Some times the size of the ducts are not correct is what one person said to me about uneven heat or cooling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 On 1/26/2024 at 9:27 AM, A modeler named mike said: Having to function with minimal sleep, 5:50am to 7:15am was all I was able to get thanks to my dementia riddled dad. He was a basket case last night with confusion like I've never seen in him before. Very uncooperative and almost combative at times. Prayers for you Mike. You have your hands full. Visiting Angels are not bad here. If you can afford it for your sanity. My father only had a stroke and he was bad enough. When watching him he would make noise like a toddler when walking or qhat ever he was doing. Leave the room and just like a toddler he would zip like greased lightning down the basement steps to put wood in the wood stove. Keep in your head the house had a basement dug after the house was built in the 1800's. The steps were steep not standard size and rather short for your feet. Most adults refuses ro go up and down them. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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