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Isn’t This a Little Early?

For POTHOLES I mean? For most of February the potholes have been getting worse. This is unusual for the middle of winter. Fairly normal for spring in this area. For like the end of March or April. Potholes reveal how inferior our roadways are to ordinary rock.
Potholes are simple erosion. Water enters a crack in the roadway sometime when the temp is above freezing. Then the temp goes below 32 and the water freezes. As you know water increases in size when it changes from liquid to solid (just ask anyone whose pipes have frozen and split!). Well the same thing happens to the paving. The water expands into ice, and the road splits. The ice holds everything in position, usually supporting the traffic as well. That is until the weather turns warmer. Water is not as supportive as ice. The road surface comes apart. Vehicles destroy it and push the debris out of the hole. Viola! A pothole.
So anyway this is early, but I guess just a part of this snowy, long, cold, real winter.
Too bad our roads aren’t made of granite. The key is remembering where the road has blown up and navigating around the craters.

Wood is Good 01

Lets talk about wood. Specifically firewood. About heating with firewood. First of all, this is a good thing. Its good for you. Great exercise, helps keep u connected to reality, (usually) saves money. Its good for the environment. When u burn wood, u r not adding to your ‘carbon footprint’ becuz when a tree grows it pulls carbon out of thin air (co2 actually) to use and convert into what it needs. A tree is really a pollution removal factory (no wonder they r called plants! Like i work at a yogurt plant u kno?) Hey sorry but remember i’m trying to entertain u remember?

So anyway heating with firewood is awesome! We will develop why, and how best to do it in some future installments.

Till later – Have a great day!

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Keys in the snow

Got a call from my son. – u have a metal detector dont u? He was on a snow removal chore & realized he dropped a pair of keys. We just got about 16″ of snow. Brought over the detector then had to call my friend who had given it to me. Well we weren’t too sure about what we were doing, but in like five minutes we had the keys found. Big shout out “Thanks!” to Wayne for the tech support.

4:52 am

Why am i up bloging at 4:52 am you ask? Well i’m at work, and the workday is winding down. U may recall i work 6 pm to 6 am. This schedule affects my days off as well. Sometimes on a day off i wake up at say 2:30 am. My body has gotten some rest but due to my night shift it thinks it should b awake. Usually not worth trying to force myself back to sleep. Such is my life currently. Would like to find a job on days, near my home (remember my hour commute?)

Real Winter NG

Hey!  Enough already!  this winter weather stinks.  I much prefer fake winter to real winter.  Snow is work.  yeah it can be fun but that’s mostly if you’re a kid or going skiing/riding.  i’m not either.  we just survived a 1 foot snowfall, now we may b infor another one tomorrow.

Please hurry spring.  PLEASE     .     .     .     .    p.s.  about 10 below this morning

New Phone

Hurray! I can see my contacts again!
My previous phone had lost the display. So over 200 contacts – inaccessible.
Phone still worked, and luckily my family was still accessible via the one key speed dials. Also they all had a different ring so i could tell it was one of them calling.
But how many people do you know who keep a printout of their contact list, so they can manually enter the numbers? Yeah, i thought so.
Fortunately my new phone waiting period was up just 2 weeks after this occurred. So this morning, a little bleary eyed, i went to the phone store and picked up a new LG Chocolate 3. So far this is a really cool phone – and – i can see my contacts again!
It’s just pathetic we rely on these gizmos so much. Why, back when i was a boy . . . . well you know. Let’s face it we all love (more or less) our phones, and especially the convenience.
Hopefully my next post will be more useful. I just wanted to let someone know of my relief of having a new, cool WORKING phone.
Maybe i should get the insurance – but it just seems way overpriced to me.

Long Dark Winter / Over

Hello. It’s been way too long. Nearly a year. No way to run a blog, i know.
But i been really busy. Remember my 12 hour job w/ the hour commute? Still there.
Also helping remodel apartments w/ my son-in-law. That takes care of all my free time. And just in case, my job is at night, remember? So on all those “free” days (read: everyday) many times i sleep them away. Truly, there ain’t no free lunch.
In other words, my body clock is so screwy that its hard to use the days, because i am now a nocturnal creature. I have always been somewhat like that – easy for me to stay up at night. But now, it’s often hard to stay up at day. And to sleep during the day is pretty weird too. You must have dark or it’s no good. If the room is light you can only sleep for a short time, then the light wakes you. The dark blue blanket over the window gets me there.
Well enough about that. I have news – just added three categories: HVAC, Food and Gluten. Strange combo you say? True enough. For those who may not know – Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning = HVAC. My life of employment has been here. I will write more on this.
Food – one of my good friends at work is a food guy. He attended a really good chef school and ran a deli business for a number of years. He has a great talent with food, and love for it. It’s really funny, often we speak of food, and he will always say his mouth is starting to water. So hopefully my blog will incorporate food items and recipes from the “Mystery Chef”.
Gluten? What is that you may ask. Well it’s a sticky substance that naturally is in wheat and some other grains. So what? So my wife is allergic to it. There are degrees of intolerance to the stuff. Some folks are bothered by it enough that it is almost like a poison to them. Most are less so. And the medical community and society at large are relatively ignorant on the subject. Although many restaurants are starting to get with the program. Yup, attach dollars signs and people take notice – good old American commerce is still alive and well. I will attempt to get my wife to write on this issue, or help me with it. She is somewhat of a local expert (had to become one of necessity). Many who have this issue may not know it, and wonder about their health issues – why can’t the doctors figure out what’s wrong? Listen, don’t get me going on that one! But just imagine if you couldn’t eat anything with wheat – no bread, no bagels, cookies, no pasta – sounds a little impossible doesn’t it? Well once you get the hang of it, it’s not so bad. There are substitutes for wheat flour (rice flour combinations) and other ways to go. But enough for now – just hopefully you will see some pieces on that subject here.
I will start using my “can’t sleep at night on my day off” time to blog more. The long dark winter of no writing has (hopefully) turned to spring. Wish me luck.