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06-11-20, 06:59 PM
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06-11-20, 07:02 PM
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We had to get a new AC yesterday, and the crane had to park partially on our NE lawn. Repairs are underway.
06-11-20, 07:04 PM
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cut my house today, took 45 mins. Have to cut my parents tomorrow, prolly will take an hour ish.
06-11-20, 07:04 PM
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06-11-20, 07:04 PM
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06-11-20, 07:07 PM
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06-11-20, 07:11 PM
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06-11-20, 07:33 PM
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I don't know. The main (tractor) mowing takes about 2.5 hours. Today I spend about an hour picking up sticks and stuff, 2.25 hours weed eating, 0.75 hours push mowing, 0.5 hours with the blower.
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06-11-20, 07:34 PM
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Speakers are all in the ceiling. They're sad little ones which may at some point be replaced, or not. Music is almost non-existent through them; it's 99% for TV. Don't really give a crap about directional at all; the thing that gets me is when cheap built-in speakers get a vibration on certain frequencies. My TV in Boulder did it for Ron Swanson's voice, and my next one did it... I forget what that one buzzed for. Right now we're using a basic Yamaha soundbar from Costco and it's fine, but it seems a shame to not use the speakers if they're there.
The wall has a mess of wires coming out. There are two sets of four colored wire pairs (white, red, blue, green), a set of some plugs labelled "master bath" (for piping in Kenny G to your bubble bath I guess?), and then more wires labeled for the directions (such as the LF I'm holding in the pic).
This house is rather a lot for a simple farmboy. The house I grew up in was wired for electricity by my grandfather, with lamp wire.
The wall has a mess of wires coming out. There are two sets of four colored wire pairs (white, red, blue, green), a set of some plugs labelled "master bath" (for piping in Kenny G to your bubble bath I guess?), and then more wires labeled for the directions (such as the LF I'm holding in the pic).
This house is rather a lot for a simple farmboy. The house I grew up in was wired for electricity by my grandfather, with lamp wire.
I would expect that the five sets of wires coming out of the wall are for surround, and the others are for the bath and another zone (kitchen? den?). You'll have to test them out. There's obviously four conductors coming out of each jacketed bundle. You can run a pair of speakers with each of these runs (+ and - for L & R), though the positive leads and the negative leads are sometimes doubled up so that each run is for a single speaker. The usual wiring is for a pair of speakers is: Red (+) and Black (-) for the Right channel and White (+) and Green (-) for the Left channel. If they're using each run for a single speaker, it's just the Red/White twisted together is your + and the Black/Green twisted together is your -. If there are no labels, you can test them out pretty easily with a battery - just hold one conductor to one battery terminal and tap the other wire to the other terminal - you'll hear a pop coming from the speaker and then you can label each appropriately.
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06-11-20, 07:47 PM
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06-11-20, 07:51 PM
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that would be a terrible tragedy. and not a good start to the day.
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06-11-20, 07:54 PM
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You'll still need a lawnmower. The goats will probably ignore the grass and go for ring barking the trees and eating any decorative plant that you want first. They'll move onto the vege garden next. They'll mow the lawn as a last resort.
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06-11-20, 07:56 PM
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Depends on your privacy settings. possibly. don't worry: I won't point and laugh if you fail.
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06-11-20, 08:03 PM
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Do goats eat poison ivy?
06-11-20, 08:13 PM
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06-11-20, 08:16 PM
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06-11-20, 08:19 PM
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06-11-20, 08:20 PM
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06-11-20, 08:22 PM
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06-11-20, 08:23 PM
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Hmm? There's definitely a "global" world and a not-global world. It's like the website I work on for work. We have clients in Hong Kong, but fortunately we don't need to translate into Cantonese or any other Chinese dialect because all of our clients there speak English better than we could do Cantonese. However, when I visit with AG's family, there are huge numbers of people there who don't speak English at all, or very little. Two Hong Kongs.
I'd believe Mexico City is very international. Of course, here in America there's a world of difference between the glittering city of wonders I live in and the quiet desperation that would be an easy bike ride away without traffic.
I'd believe Mexico City is very international. Of course, here in America there's a world of difference between the glittering city of wonders I live in and the quiet desperation that would be an easy bike ride away without traffic.
06-11-20, 08:33 PM
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06-11-20, 08:35 PM
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06-11-20, 08:45 PM
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I was speaking to my inability to get the global elite card. My bank is in the US, but my address and phone number are here. It's only global if you live in the USA. There are dozens of examples. They need a street address and our system doesn't fit. They need a phone number and no place to out a country code. Glaring hypocrisy.
