Just need to vent...

Isn't it a bit too early for snow tires? Are you expecting unseasonable accumulation?

Or going to a polar expedition?


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It's Sunday afternoon. What a great time for the left side torsion spring to go 'bang !!' on the garage door. Do these things always break in the down position? Rules in SoCal prohibit stores from selling replacements due to dumb people not knowing what they're doing during replacement &managing to mess their selves up really seriously. Here in the wild Northwest it seems you do CAN replace it at your own peril. (Sigh -)
to be continued ..... not my first torsion spring rodeo
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With nearly 1,000 posts in this thread, it sounds like a candidate for a subform, @Danny and @Tideland Prius . As a subform, individual threads can maintain continuity with the original posting. Of course my suggestion might become another entry in this long thread. <GRINS>

Under 'revenge on the SPAMMER', there are pop-up 'surveys' promising 'gift cards' if you fill out the survey. They are really scraping for phone numbers and mailing addresses to sell to other thieves of the Interwebs. But I have:

• A free junk e-mail account, [email protected], that I use for these losers ... Microsoft pays for it and I occasionally login for a laugh.
• Contact list filtering phone - if your number is not in my contact list, it never rings. I take great delight deleting those entries in my call log.
• Junk mail name - if you 'screw up' your name, the junk mail comes in and easily identifies for the trash can ... and they've paid for Post Office operation. For example:

Who is 'Roberto Wilsons'? ... Don't even need to open it.

But out of curiosity:


Next time, I'll be a famous politician who is 'under audit.' You know "Don [Thumb | Cornet | Cards | Braggart | Sphincter ... ] <GRINS>

Bob Wilson

 

Just curious, how else would someone dispose of the soapy water? I guess, if you live in a city, then the soapy water down the sink drain would end up in the water treatment? But then do they remove soap chemicals effectively? And even if they did, what happens to the sewage sludge down the pipeline?

Since I don't have swage, whatever goes into the septic tank eventually enters the groundwater if not completely broken down by microorganisms and filtered by a leach field.

 

I mostly dump to dirty water onto the lawn. There the soil filters out the detergents. Dumping directly into a storm drain is no different than dumping directly into the local stream, with all the environmental negatives.

 

Here, that soapy water should go either directly onto the lawn to be filtered naturally, or put into the sanitary sewer. The later will remove car wash soap just as effectively as it removes bathing / handwashing / dishwashing / clothes washing soap.

Many places here, anything dumped into the storm sewer flows directly into Puget Sound, Lake Washington, or other fish-supporting waterways, untreated.

Some areas don't yet have separated storm- vs sanitary- sewers, so it all usually goes into water treatment. Except when heavy precipitation causes sewer overflows, which causes the surplus (including toilet waste) to spill into the above waterways untreated. There have been considerable regional efforts and projects to reduce storm overflows, some by separating the systems, some by building additional storage to retain surges and meter it out slower later at rates the treatment plants can process it.

 

I water the lawn with it.
I do wash my car in the driveway, and I don’t move it into the lawn to rinse it off, so I won’t hate on somebody for pitching the contents of their bucket into the driveway.

I usually use ‘nope’ when I wash my car, which is the same thing as ‘soap’ only with a small fraction of the cleaning power, about three times the price, and loaded with claims of being more planet friendly.
I do keep a bottle of boot-leg Dawn that I use for cleaning brass cartridge cases tho, and when nobody is looking I sometimes sneak some into my bucket or the sink.

 

OK, in that case, I wouldn't have to change anything for the wash run-off from my driveway. For the most part of rural homes, there are no storm drains that directly connect to the river and streams. I can't imagine there is much difference between water damped into my septic or to my yard from water on my 100+ yard driveway running off to the sides into the grounds around it.

 

At the DMV still taking just as long as before. But my adult pacifier, an iPhone, makes it much more tolerable.

Bob Wilson

 

My state allows you to use the iphone to skip the DMV for everything except the fingerprints and eye exam and then only when those are required.

 

Comparing that route, and a Washington State Ferry route closer to me, to an old copy of MS Streets & Trips, it seems that Google does include the water miles as you mention, while MS-S&T counts only the road miles. MS does count ferry crossing time.

MS shows a much shorter route, totaling a fraction of a mile of road distance:



In the same direction, Google shows me the same long circuitous route you illustrated. But reverse the route, and it shows the same shorter route as MS.

Who was it here that said that Google Maps is very reliable? (No, it wasn't Mendel.) (As a reminder, over the winter I found a Google-suggested route that went through a portion of Mount Rainier National Park that is closed in winter. A summer road that turns into a winter ski trail, where I used to do Nordic Ski Patrol.)

 

I love to eat oysters but:

3 Die in N.Y. Area From Infection Spread Through Seawater and Oysters
The bacteria are found in raw seafood, like oysters, and warm, brackish waters. Climate change may increase the risk of infections from the deadly bacteria farther north.​

So tonight I'll eat oysters Rockefeller or soup or fried:


Bob Wilson

 

So, today I had somebody drive through a parking space at speed while I was pushing a shopping cart through the same space, with my car next to me.

This was so they could get an outward-facing parking space in the next rank over. Except she didn't pull far enough ahead, and was blocking a part of the space behind her after she parked and left her car.

All of this, because it is supposedly safer to use a pull-through technique.

*&$%$#.

on the other hand, it was a splendid day to wash the car, work on paint chips and apply some fluidfilm...