Text 35886, 219 rader
Skriven 2006-08-04 13:33:36 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
Kommentar till text 35835 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
Ärende: Re: IQ Test
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*** Quoting Roy Witt from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***
CS> Thats sweet <g>.
RW> Heh, I suppose it made a great impression on her when on our second or
RW> third date, I re-wired her stereo before we went out.
I did fix a record player once for a friend. Impressed their parents. Just
needed a new needle and some manual adjustment.
CS> Seriously, Don wont take just 'any job'. He wants to look at it and
CS> be sure it's something he knows how to do right first.
RW> Of course.
Sane way to handle things. That way you never upset a customer (ora freindly
neighbor who's hiring you at the price of a 6pack and some pizza for small
stuff).
RW> Heh. And I have to open every can that Nancy wants opened...she's not
RW> good with can openers, but she's a great housekeeper and good cook. Oh
RW> and she gets more paint on herself than she does the walls. :o)
Ohh, I could almost paint in my 'sunday best' at this stage as long as it's not
rolling out a ceiling. I hate painting ceilings.
CS> there are lots of cut-ins to make but the wallpaper wont take more
CS> than 1/2 a day including the time to take the old stuff off (never
CS> skip that, the new stuff will get all funny after a mere 4 years if
CS> you do).
RW> Not many people do wallpaper these days. I've done some but it's a job
RW> wouldn't enjoy doing for very long.
True but it's worth it if you can find the right pattern for the house. In
this case, the one wall is the only one I have to paper and it's got no
windows or anything. Just 2 outlets to make a cutout around (then you paper
the outlet cover or get a fancy one to match the looks of the room. I often
just skip that and paint them with a complementary color). The current paper
is rather 'antique' looking but it was old and had spots you just couldnt
clean away from where pictures had hung for years. The tennants painted it
(with permission) as they didnt have matching pictures and it was ugly without
covering those. I'll have to rent a steamer to get the old off, but once
that's done it's an easy fix.
RW>> up because of ground movement didn't pass up my house. I had someone
RW>> come
CS> Yeah, had to have the underfloor heating vents sealed and install
CS> ceiling ones then rework the entire house AC/Heat to use them.
CS> Expensive. Even in Virginia, you get that over time due to
CS> frost/thaw issues.
RW> In the old days of coal fired furnaces, you didn't have to worry about
RW> that, unless the house didn't have a basement. Those furnaces will kee
RW> even a non-heated basement warm enough.
Yes, but this is a slab construction so these things happen over time.
CS> enough for them. Don generally got about 20$ an hour worth stuff
CS> that were frills to the side of a main job.
RW> Money under the table. I've always liked cash customers when it comes
RW> paying for labor.
Yes, he did that type too <g>. Some week's he have no work at all, others he
might work 20 hours. Standard would be 4-5 hours a week. Often alone but
sometimes combined with another for a small job that required '2 people' if
the owner wasnt wanting or able to be the 2nd 'people'.
CS> roof jobs but never a toilet!
RW> Well, I've got one rocking on the base seal now. I'm told that I need
RW> permit to fix it, but I'll do it without one.
Yup. Nancy can help steady it like I do for Don and it's a snap job if the
bolts arent rusted out. Best not to wait til that happens or it can take
hours and a drilling job.
RW> In a house, it's easy. All of the white wires connect to each other, a
RW> of the black wires connect to each other and the green wire, if you ha
RW> one, goes to a ground.
We have that but the house is older and I'm not sure how to snake wires through
walls right. Attic part is easy but the other, I'm a little grey on. One
thing about my house is the origional owner (we are the 3rd one) had a major
electrical upgrade around 1990 and it's got major excess capacity as well as
outlets out the jing-yang (19 of them on the back porch) in many spots but
lacks them in some other spots (only 1 in the garage other than the
washer/dryer unit). Backyard is wired heavily for external lights all about
the roof rim so you can play badmitton at midnight if you want to. No outlets
in the bathrooms but 7 in the kitchen and 9 in the livingroom, I think it was.
Few are 3 prong except 3 in kitchen (one of which we had added in a spot we
needed an outlet due to our use of that spot for the breadmaker) and the ones
along the back porch.
RW> circuit. All I have to remember is not to use both at the same time, j
RW> in case the breaker can't handle both. Although I believ it will. Nanc
RW> has instructions to see that the compressor switch is off before she
RW> starts the dryer.
Something like that is why we added an outlet in the kitchen. It wasnt just
'location' driven. We needed something to run a microwave and a breadmaker at
the same time. I think that cost 250$ or so but there were other minor jobs
done at same time as a package deal so not recalling it in detail now, 9 years
later.
RW>> gate o
CS> I think I've heard of it but never been there. I do recall fondly
CS> the outstanding 'SOS' at Post 460 (American Legion).
RW> I dont' think she serves SOS, but you'll find the food there to be gre
RW> Where is that Post 460? I recall something like that on Balboa, just w
RW> of I-15.
Sorry, been a really long time for me to recall in that level of detail now. I
havent been in San Diego for 12 years (left something like 1 Feb 1995 so I
dont count that year and say it's been 1994-2006 now). I seem to recall it as
near a big computer store, very popular major outlet for parts and things. I
recall a long sweeping upwards road off a main highway but not 'directions' or
what road I may have been on at the time.
RW>> make one th liked, but it's a green ranchero sauce, not red.
CS> See?
RW> Here, they don't put any tortillas under the eggs...I've found out why
RW> they do put them there in western Mexico, or wherever the dish came fr
RW> The egg whites are usually not done when they put them on the plate
RW> (tortilla) and the very hot (heat) rancheo sauce finishes cooking the
RW> white before or while the dish is served. I made mine that way and the
RW> eggs were just right. Sunny-side up, of course. (gotta watch it so tha
RW> you don't get sauce on the yolks)
One of my favorite things here, quite different, uses a trick a bit like that
in cooking the eggs. Rice Porridge is the local name. It's a very Japanese
version of what you may know of as Juk or Congee. I'll post the recipe where
it's more topical but in gist you have boiling broth with lots of rice (1 cup
cooked rice with 1 or a bit more cups boiling broth added), bits of seafood
chopped tiny, and a raw egg. The egg cooks almost 'poached' style in the
broth while you eat around it then mix it in when it's the level you like. To
make it properly, you have some 20 'bits of different type things' besides the
rice, egg, and broth but it's actually not complex to make. They are 1TB
amounts of chopped up leftover seafoods and veggies with mild (normally)
spices.
CS> I kinda upset Don slightly. He's always made the spagetti here then
CS> one day, not having his recipe, I made some. Bad Mommie! Bad! They
CS> liked it better and now they bug me every 2 months to make it again
CS> <g>. Worst of it is I like Don's better!
RW> Do like we do...Nancy made a very tasty 'bean pot' but I didn't like i
RW> with the pork fat in it. I suggested to her to use Vegetarian beans in
RW> and it's better than ever.
I've been making beanpots since 1978 and while i sometimes add meat, normally I
do not bother. I dont use anything but dried beans for them so my beans at
least are vegetarian (grin). You'll find I'm sorta the 'crockpot Mama'.
RW> My mom used TV dinner trays to save leftovers from big meals. When the
RW> wanted something different, both worked, they'd pull out a TV dinner t
RW> filled with last Thanksgiving's turkey, stuffing and gravy, or the reu
RW> picnic left overs. Nobody ever wants to take home the food the brought
RW> a reunion, so she collected every bit of it.
Have to have a goodly chest freezer for that but yes, works fine or so it
sounds. I have some (few) keeper units for meals preset but never thought to
try filling my own leftover TV Dinner sets.
CS> He's the one who I've heard of and it's almost a chemistry class with
CS> his cooking right? Sounds neat.
RW> Yeup...he's the best I've seen.
(Alton) I havent seen him out here. Then again, you've got huge gaps in TV
here which is to be expected. I dont live in an English speaking country and
for my first 3 years here, lived out in town (not base housing) so only had
access to Japan cable. I hear of all sorts of interesting shows that I've
never seen here. There's one, 'Dark Angel' I think it is that is obviously
USA stuff and looks interesting, but i can only get it in Japanese.
CS> much of it is all in Japanese which leaves you guessing what the item
CS> is they are adding (salt, msg, sugar, humm...)
RW> Hmmm. Maybe I should be recording these shows. I have a DVD recorder t
RW> I could put an entire season on.
Might be worth it if you want to watch them over and over! I miss having the
VCR able to record all I wanted. I have a huge VCR tape library here, brought
from the states and a sanity saver when we were out in the Cho (town). Lots
of DVD's too.
CS> hot dry areas is to cut up old bluejeans and line the bottom of the
CS> pot with them before filling with dirt.
RW> This one hanging pot (not ceramic) I used has a water retention 'rag'
RW> around it and that's all that holds the dirt in...leaks like a sieve i
RW> you overwater.
Tomatoes need you to hold that water in for a bit so the soil truely 'soaks' or
you get just water running off too fast as it beads up then runs past the dry
balls of dirt-lits.
CS> above. I hate listening to others walking on my ceiling so get top
CS> floor when possible.
RW> Ahhhh. I can't remember the last time I lived in an apartment.
I've had little choice since i moved out from home. Some of the places were
really nice, and some just a place to stay til we moved on.
xxcarol
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