Belated good morning John, Evan, Tim and those to follow.

 

Or the Hatfields...........

 

Way TOO Much trouble................

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Wet and rainy most of the day.


Gun show was great. Lots and lots of toys to look at. I was a really good boy and didn't buy a gun. Tom might be in beg trouble when he gets home though....
Prices weren't too bad, but not all that great either. Did find a couple of 10 round PMags LR/SR 7.62 NATO SR25/M110 and a 3 pack of mag limiter so I can convert them to 5 rounders legal for hunting. Mags really weren't any cheaper than you can find them for on the internet. The limiters were about $4.00 cheaper and there is no shipping and handling to pay.

 

Good evening Oregon FTE and visitors.
Hurting after spending a few hours in the attic today.
Jim, good thing to stay out of trouble..

 

Good grief Charlie Brown, that make life so boring!

 

Goodnight all. Looks like Mason has a bad cough and low grade fever, so he'll be staying home from school tomorrow.

 

Time for more ibuprofen.
It helps with the Wardens temperament.

Speedy recover for Mason!

 

Don't know about the Wardens temperament, but it could possibly help with the amount of time I've been spending in solitary.

 

Good luck and hope he gets to feeling better in a big hurry.


Is tomorrow a "daddy day" or a "mommy day"?

 

Morning. Busy day.

 

Good morning Oregon FTE and visitors.

 

Good morning everyone.

It's a daddy day. Mommy isn't feeling great either, but headed to work at 6:30. Mason's fever is gone, but he's still coughing quite a bit.

None of us slept well except for little Owen. Our smoke detectors are on the fritz. They are hard wired and have battery backup, so when one goes off, all 5 in the house go off. Lately one will randomly alert, but then stop again. It happened three times last night. I'm cleaning them all today per manufacturer instructions, but they've only been installed for 6 months.

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Woke up to sunshine and blue sky. Not sure what to make of it. We have even moved from 33 at midnight to 0915 up to a whopping 40!



I can't remember what we did when we had hardwired detectors in the house down in Winchester, but I know we had to clean them every 2 or 3 months and disconnect them when ever you cooked more than a piece of toast. If you burned the toast you were screwed. Steam from a pot boiling on the stove would set them off too. A total PIA. Finally jerked them out an put in battery operated ones. They weren't much better.
We have battery operated ones now with the use once throw away "permanent" 10 year battery.

Do you know if your detectors are optical or Ionic - Ionization type? Ionization types seem to be more sensitive to environmental factors and cause more false alarms than the optical in addition to having some type of radio active isotope in them.
The optical have a light source, either visible spectrum or IR invisible and a photodiode. If one of those gets weak, or the photodiode gets over sensitive, or something interferes with the diode "seeing" the light as prescribed, then the detector will trigger. And that just about sums up everything I don't know or learned about them from rubbing elbows with the Fire Marshall on co-investigations and hanging out around the FD when pulling my EMT volunteer shifts. Since I'm an antique now, so most likely is everything I know about them.

 

They are the ionization type. We don't have problems when cooking, but they seem to like going off at night. Two of them are combo smoke/CO detectors.

While Owen was napping and Mason was vegging on the couch, I got my muffler in. I haven't been able to test drive yet. Probably tomorrow.

It's a 34"x8.5" body, perforated 4" core, and has s resonation chamber built in. Basically it's a high flowing semi-truck muffler.