Bark

Kryptonite!!!! Haven’t seen a single shrew, so I know some joker has hidden Kryptonite in the breakroom.
Can’t be the flue, because this currently contracted exposure to Kryptonite make me me want to hurl snot filled Kleenex wrapped around old cell phones. at passing cars.
Nothing but kryptonite could wipe me out this bad.
And whats with the Manatee. It used to glide around looking for handouts. Now it just sits in the corner with that embarrased look that the sheep used to give us.

Oh Well: I feel bad, the manatee feels bad and I am going to bed as soon as it stops moving. This doesnt even feel like my house but the bed is comfortable

Totallyrad

You're welcome! And You're correct.

Evening folks.

Bark

Evening.
Hmmm, got a few hours of good sleep. Kinda makes me wonder what I was talking about earlier.
Oh well. Probably better off not knowing.
At least I dont have anything important to do for a few days.

Wife just walked by with a box of Kleenex in one hand and a bottle of NyQuil in the other.
Told her that her red nose made her look cute.
I probably should have just kept my mouth shut.

Mexstan

No time to go back many pages and read the rest of the story. Actually, still looking for the story. Just on this short read I read about confused people (sorry, make that an individual) learned a new word (must have an old dictionary, because it does not list shrewlicious), Barks's chlamydia (was going to ask how you got that, but then remembered that this is a family site and that would be too much information anyway). This Dodge site also covered antelopes, hyena's, crud, moron's, manatee, hallucinatins, Kryptonite cures and last but not least, gargling with coffee or ph00. Not a bad assortment of "stuff" for just two pages on a Dodge site.

Can't help but wonder what a shrink would have to say about the people of DTR if he or she read this list. Could this be the diesel sniffer version of the people of Walmart?

At lunch time today we had a 5.1 earthquake. No damage, but it went on for a while and swayed everything around a lot. Found out later that it was centered about 5 kilometers from where I was sitting. I am in Shenyang and a bit later still, read the following. Not too happy about this.


ZHANG Hong (Shenyang Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Shenyang 110032, China)

Shenyang-Fushun area is a potential area where probably can occur strong earthquakes.The reasons are in the following. 1.Shenyang-Fushun area locates in Tan-Lu fault system(TLS),TLS is an active fault system in China,where several strong earthquakes have happened,such as Tangshan earthquake(1976),Haicheng earthquake(1975), Bohai bay earthquake(1922,1969),which have cause tremendous losses. 2.Shenyang-Fushun area locates at the crossing point of the main branches and at a turning points of the northern Tan-Lu Fault system(TLS).A great deal of fact has proven that the region of crossing point and/or turning point of an active fault has close relationships with earthquakes, esp. strong earthquakes. 3.The slip rate in TLS is 0.6～0.024 mm/a,largely lower than that in Sandness Fault(25 mm/a) in the U.S.A. It is related with its evolution history: in Mesozoic, the TLS is sinistral strike slipping, while in Cenozoic, it is dextral strike slipping,therefore the Mesozoic tectonic frame restrictly resists the dextral strike slipping of the fault system in Cenozoic and at present,and largely lowers its slip rate. So,tremendous stress has been concentrated and probably will be relieved in a form of strong earthquakes. 4.Shenyang-Fushun area locates in the northeastern part of the Lower Liaohe Depression.Many strong earthquakes have occurred in high angle faults with strike slip character in fault basins. The characteristics of TLS and the tectonic location of Shenyang-Fushun area show that Shenyang-Fushun area is a potential area of strong earthquakes.If a strong earthquake happens,it would cause huge losses. Therefore,it is very necessary and essential to strengthen the studies on the potentiality,prediction and forecasting of strong earthquakes in the area.

It's too early to make coffee, ph00 or whatever, so the next person who wonders in here has the honors. Bring some good oatbran cookies please.

chaikwa

And? AND??? We need the rest of the story! How does it end?

I will limit my 'wondering' so I don't hafta make coffee! And why do you need oatbran? That Chinese food got you stopped up?



Morning all. Final day in wonderful Jackson Michigan... Thank you God!

The wood boiler we want to get can't come soon enough. We got another fuel oil delivery yesterday... $1800 in the house alone. That works out to $30 a day, and we've had a mild winter too.

Today is Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013, and in 1556 on this date an earthquake in Shanxi Province, China, was thought to have killed about 830,000 people. Strange how it's the same date. I wonder if Shanxi is near Stan?

1789 - Georgetown College was established as the first Catholic college in the U.S. The school is in Washington, DC.

1845 - The U.S. Congress decided all national elections would be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

1849 - English-born Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman in America to receive medical degree. It was from the Medical Institution of Geneva, NY.

1907 - Charles Curtis, of Kansas, began serving in the United States Senate. He was the first American Indian to become a U.S. Senator. He resigned in March of 1929 to become U.S. President Herbert Hoover’s Vice President.

1937 - In Moscow, seventeen people went on trial during Josef Stalin's "Great Purge."

1943 - The British captured Tripoli from the Germans.

1960 - The U.S. Navy bathyscaphe Trieste descended to a record depth of 35,820 feet (10,750 meters) in the Pacific Ocean.

1964 - Ratification of the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was completed. This amendment eliminated the poll tax in federal elections.

1968 - North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation's territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.

1971 - In Prospect Creek Camp, AK, the lowest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was reported as minus 80 degrees.

1973 - U.S. President Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.

1989 - Surrealist artist Salvador Dali died in Spain at age 84.

1997 - A judge in Fairfax, VA, sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack outside the CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three other people.

2001 - A van used by the remaining two fugitives of the "Texas 7" was recovered in Colorado Springs, CO. A few hours later police surrounded a hotel where the convicts were hiding. Patrick Murphy Jr. and Donald Newbury were taken into custody the next morning without incident.

2002 - John Walker Lindh returned to the U.S. under FBI custody. Lindh was charge with conspiring to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorists and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban while a member of the al-Quaida terrorist organization in Afghanistan.



Today's thought: If someone can't see, they're blind and if someone cant hear, they're deaf, so what do you call people who can't smell?

Waiting for someone to start coffee because Stan said I don't have to!

FiverBob

It's the flu. It's everywhere. You should run around with a mask and naked in the snow and do a flu dance. .....................And leave the manatee alone - - it is waiting for me - - we have a manatee dance together, then he goes back to sleep. ..................Hey, seriously, sorry about the crud - - it is all around. All three of my children are down along with their kids. Nasty stuff - - and it comes back and goes into double petunia.


YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING - $30 A DAY FOR FUEL OIL. Golly sakes that is horrible. Go solar. Oh yeh, 5' of snow on top of it doesn't make for an efficient system. OUCH, Scott. That hurts. And, since you are soooo lazy, I will make coffee, ph00 and hardest of all, hot water for Claude who might drift thru.

STAN - - COME HOME. Does not sound nice. It was always exciting in California when the San Andreas fault was acting up. Not fun at all.

OK, off to doc to see how the ticker is doing. See ya later,

Bob

chaikwa

I wish I WAS kidding. It's getting insane. If we'd have put in the boiler 5 years ago like I wanted to, we wouldn't be spending the extra money now. What would have cost us 10 grand then, is going to cost us 15 to 18 now. It'll still pay for itself in a few years if oil prices don't go down, and I don't expect they will.

Must be ok, you're still here!

chaikwa

Slow day in the ol' breakroom today.

jhenson

Slow indeed.....kinda like last night......no action for 8 hrs!!! Obviously everyone is busy living.....and that's a good thing I reckon. Bobby, hope the ticker is in ticker-topper shape.....chickiwa.....ouch to say the least on what your paying and/or going to be paying for.....talk about a real getchadowner!! It's bad for everyone be it your fuel oil or the price of fuel in general....absolutey no need in it but since the oil companies got a taste of all that money back when prices shot through the roof there's no way they'll ever let the prices of oil go back down. Makes me sick to think of the greed in the world....you think they're aware of the seven deadly sins??

j_martin

$33/decatherm in an 80% appliance....... I'd burn scrap cardboard in a barrel stove before I paid that.

Hardwood will give you 11 decatherm/cord in a 50% appliance. You'd have to pay $360 a cord to spend as much money on fuel wood.

If it takes you 6 hours to put up a cord of wood, you could say yer paying yerself $60/hr.

BTW, if fracking goes forward, oil prices should drop like natural gas did. It'll still be worth it, though. Residential natural gas didn't come down near as much as it should have, so I don't think oil will either.

chaikwa

I'm hoping to be able to do 1 1/2 to 2 cords an hour after I build my processor.

The wood boilers are supposed to be a little better than 50% efficient, and I have an unlimited supply of free wood, so in theory, this thing should pay for itself and the cost of the processor build in no more than 5 years.

The stories I could tell about natural gas! I know nothing about how they get it outta the ground, but I remember driving an oil truck to the gas storage and distribution facility to dump 2000 gallons of diesel fuel into their 4 giant diesel powered Ingersal Rand air compressors. Once the temps dropped below 30 degrees, we'd be there twice a day filling them up. Then we'd read all the complaints each night in the paper about how much yellow flame people would have on their gas stoves and how their gas furnaces would be running non-stop. The gas company used the excuse that the gas acted differently in cold weather but still retained its' "excellent BTU value". Yeah, right. All those people that switched from fuel oil to gas were still buying fuel oil... they just didn't know it!

FiverBob

Back from ticker man and errands. Doc says I might have another day or two. In fact, he calls me his poster boy after what I went thru. My cholesterol is in the sewer (meaning really low on LDL (L=lousy) and high on HDL (H= healthy). So, he took me off another pill - - wow, down to 113 a day now. LOL

Gorgeous day here, cool (68) and bright blue sky. Nice for winter. Yeh.

Bob

jhenson

Bob, glad to hear the heart's alright!!! Gotcha beat on temp today.....a nice 75* here in central Texas......almost makes me wish Spring was here. Supposed to hit 80* tomorrow then back down into the 60's with rain chances for a few days.

Good (warm) weather + bad(cold) weather = misery for us allergy and sinus sufferers!!! Better get my Nyquil ready.

FiverBob

Thanks for the kudus - - I work at it hard. Allergy - - YEH. My flowers are blooming everywhere - - Bouganvillea is almost solid purple, gardenias are blooming (daughter holds her nose and runs for the door when she comes over - - has to pass by three big bushes), Ixora all blooming - - pretty. Heading back to 44 tonight, but back up to 70 tomorrow. Orchids are still enjoying the indoors tonight - - back out tomorrow except a couple that are blooming so pretty.

jhenson

Most of the really bad allergies around here are cedar and pollen.....and sometimes what the weather man just calls "trees", whatever that's supposed to be. When the temps change here like they do it really causes a mess.