Just the usual stuff from Bill, Steve and Scott…you know…crocs and bombers.
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Steve’s years in the bowels of San Francisco’s tenderloin district was obvious with his sneaky 1 word comment……..
See what I did there?
Some years ago in my county, several partying teenagers died in a fire while the parents were away. It was an awful tragedy. They had left burning candles when they went to bed/passed out. As a result the county required automatic sprinkler systems in all new construction and major renovations, adding the cost to new construction by at least $15,000 — even for a one story house with multiple exits. This case was heartbreaking, but it should not have been a reason to make housing less affordable. This is your government at work to save you from yourself.
Outliers of any type should not be used to pass laws. This is the elected official general need of “We should do SOMETHING”.
I am surprised they didn’t ban candles.
Sarcasm follows:
Candles! Wax is petrochemical based! Climate change people! The world is at stake!
Ban candles!! Or do you hate the Earth?
CALIFORNIA’S Man-Child Manditorian Newsome just introduced a bill to mandate all wax candles must be retroactively fitted with wind powered l.e.d.’s.
Includes all candles sold since 1995. There will be fines ass-essed.
Someone should do a meme based on the Disney show “Mandalorian” but with Gavin ol’ buddy as the “Manditorian”.
During the California forest fires of a couple years ago (?), I had worked on such a meme, trying to composite Newsome into the classic stance of the Mandalorian, standing in a forest ablaze with flames. Little tougher than I thought to make it look right. I think I did a better job of recreating the “New Trifecta”.
BTW and as Green likes to say, “completely off topic”, but while I was doing that meme work, I kept channeling Gilda Radner’s Emily Latella, and hearing her say “What’s all this I hear about the man Delorean? I mean, he’s dead, and his car wasn’t very good”
Newsome as the Manditorian
Weighing in on Crocs. Yes, they are ugly. They have zero arch or foot support, and therefore not a good choice for children’s growing feet. HOWEVER…I wore them for years working as a sous chef, with socks and an arch insert. The beauty of them is that they (1) are very light weight when wearing them for hours on tile/concrete kitchen floors; and (2) can be degreased in the dishwasher. You have no idea how gross shoes get in the “back of the house.” The standard used to be Dansko’s clogs. But they are very heavy and made of leather that just absorbs grease. Just saying….
That is more information than I wanted to know about back of house.
I had the same problem as Bill with so many of the History Channel shows that my wife told me I should stop yelling at the TV and offer my services to the History Channel as a proof reader/consultant.
As to smoke detectors going off due to low battery:
Nuke it from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.😏
Question: did Scot get arrested and booked? What county/state? Or did he get arrested like our Presidentish Biden did in South Africa trying to see Mandela?
Mandela was not available, so my arrest was for nought.
Well, at least you have your arrest on YOUR PERMANENT RECORD! So you have THAT going for you…which is nice.
Double secret probation!
Wrong movie!
Ron…..I straddled both Animal House AND Caddyshack in the same comment. Point to Scott for getting one of the two obscure cultural references!
I stand corrected. I should have known better that Scott would get 70s film references.
TBH – I only read the CS reference. Skipped the first line. I blame being on a call with 10 of my closest friends in China and trying to multitask while sort of listening to people blather and complain. For 90 minutes. About nothing. Incessently. And with no inkling that they may have actually installed something wrong which caused a problem. 😉
As one who’s been on those calls…..a gentle cleanser should do the trick. I suggest bourbon.
Ha – my wife came down about an hour in and in way of greeting I held up my empty wine glass. Less than a minute later I had a full wine glass! I do love that woman.
She keeps me in line by watching Dateline and making notes about what doesn’t work and how people get caught 😉
Culturally so different, the Chinese are. Nothing is ever their fault, even remotely.
But I think you know that much better than I do.
Double Super Secret Probation!
Like Scott, my adolescent to teenage years meant climbing trees. Taller the better….as in 70′ Monterrey pines. In my 20’s, it was jumping off cliffs hang gliding…. Sometime near my 40th birthday, something happened to my inner ears (old age?) and now when on top of a 10′ ladder and I get vertigo…ey. Really weird.
that happens to me when I get to the top of the third step.
That is because you are too tall. If you were as vertically challenged as I am you could easily get to the 4th step. On a good day the 5th step! 😉
Five-five…..AND A HALF! I’d always say, when it actually mattered to me in my younger days.
My method of cleaning my gutters for years was to climb onto the roof from my deck with a leaf blower and walk around the perimeter of the roof. Back of the house is a 28 ft off the concrete patio. Did this for years Including climbing over the peak. So ascending and descending the slope twice.
Sometime shortly after turning 50, it lost its appeal in a big way. Just won’t do it anymore.
Just discovered your leaf blower for gutters right before the “ATMOSPHERIC RIVER / BOMB CYCLONE” hit California! No more kneeling over the gutters with the risk of falling!
BTW, do you think the weather channels took a tip from Fauci? Slightly overdramatic, don’t you think?
And just to add some reality, it really happened and it really did some destruction. Photo above is a stock photo taken during the summertime a few years ago. Photo below I just took last Thursday. I’ve lived in Santa Cruz all my life, and in my teens and twenties, had surfed this stretch of ocean for 20 years. I’ve never seen this much wave activity , miles out to sea. Pretty humbling . The cement ship was called the SS Palo Alto, towed here from San Francisco in the 30’s and parked as an amusement park/dance hall/tourist attraction. Went bankrupt almost immediately, then abandoned, and fell into disrepair, finally adopted by the CA state parks, although it was closed off to viewers in the 90’s after repeated winter storms broke the ship apart.
I do volunteer storm spotting (not the same thing as storm chasing, only an idiot would chase a deadly storm around) for the National Weather Service. In that capacity I have access to all the same stuff the weather service uses including CAVE /AWIPS II radar and climate data.
The weather broadcasts on TV and various weather sites is so sensationalized and overblown that I never even bother to look at them anymore. People close to me depend on me to give them usable information about weather, that sadly can no longer be counted upon from commercial sources.
I don’t know if I can get access to CAVE but I’ll try! Thanks! Over the last year, I’ve been going to C.O.D. NexLab’s radar page. (College of Dupage). Great loops, here’s a snip of the page. Like that I can switch between visible and LWIR or Water Vapor at different levels. And different zoom selections from various global down to local.
I also use RadarScope’s app for a portable. It’s a great help when out spotting storms. I pay the $10 a year for a Tier 1 subscription and that gets me an installation of the software on everything I need it to be on including Android and Windows. I think, the Windows install might be separate and another $10, I can’t remember right off hand.
I have two tablet displays on my nightstand by my bed, one for my weather station and one for RadarScope. I just use cheap, refurbished Amazon Kindle Fire tablets solely dedicated to those displays.
RadarScope is very versatile, all us SkyWarn guys use it. It has vertical integrated moisture and a lot of other settings besides just a high res precipitation display. It has a split screen function that I use to see precip radar and wind velocity side-by-side. That’s a big help when looking for velocity couplets that might indicate a TVS (Tornado Vortex Signature). Very often I or someone in my team spots those couplets before the local WFO (Weather Forecast Office) sees them and they are no slouches, they’re watching very closely during hazardous weather events.
It has a bunch of other useful tools too, like distance calculator and range rings, center on GPS location, etc. The NWS also uses RadarScope and have published online classes regarding how to use it. I can’t recall where to view those at the moment.
I have a 10 inch RCA Delta android tablet mounted in my Jeep for using RadarScope and a 10 inch RCA Cambio Windows 10 tablet for anything else I need including email to the NWS. One of my buddies lives two doors down and he loves to ride along on spotting excursions. I usually text him when I’m going out and snag him as I go by his house.
If you’re interested, SkyWarn has some really good training for storm spotters. You can find it online (search SkyWarn Spotter classes on YouTube) or join SkyWarn and get a Spotter ID that tells the NWS you’re trained and reliable in your reporting. They take spotter reports just as seriously as they do their own salaried employees. I’ve been an Advanced Spotter for over a decade. The weather nerds at the local WFO know me well.
There’s also an amateur radio (most people say ‘ham’) component. I use that too but you don’t have to be a ham operator to be in SkyWarn. I can either call in on the phone or mobile phone, or use my mobile ham dual band to make reports. Truth be told, I probably make more reports on my cell phone and avoid all the other dicks on ham radio.
If you’re interested let me know and I’ll post some links here to get you started.
For CAVE/AWIPS if you’re using a linux machine it’s pretty simple to install. For Windows, which I use, you have to jump through a few hoops to get it working right. It’s freeware published by Unidata and Raytheon so it doesn’t cost anything. Here’s a link to the download page for everything. Be sure to follow the instructions. It’s not for the faint-of-heart casual computer grannie.
also heard last week that Weather Channel has decided to name individual clouds…..
RME I began to hate them when they started naming winter storms just so they could make a big deal out of them. Like they do hurricanes and such. Their tornado forecasts are also way past silly now. This cloud naming thing is just another reason to hate them. I know all the cloud types that are relevant to weather so I’m assuming you mean actual names like “Hurricane Ida” sort of thing.
yeah, I was being typically sarcastic when it comes to the Weather Channel. They are presently not naming individual clouds, but seriously would not put it passed them if they thought it would bring more eyeballs to their channel. They totally lost me years ago over their obvious and coordinated push for global warming. I think they began naming storms to push their narrative on how climate change has brought more violent weather to the US.
Plus, being on the west coast of CA, the worst we usually got was the occasional rain storm, like every 3 years or so. So actually watching the WC other than as background noise was pretty much useless.
SkyWarn sounds really quite interesting. Something for me to do in retirement. I’d be into it.
Yeah, it’s a fun hobby and it also serves the community. Many of the watches and warnings issued by the NWS come from Spotter input, Eyeball MK-1 is still the best tool for real time weather observation. It gives me an excuse to get out of the house and go tearing around the countryside watching interesting weather. You can put as much time into it as you want, or not, whatever works for your particular tastes.
Actually strike that. I live on the coast of California. Nothing ever happens except for blue sky or fog. I don’t think my constant reporting of ‘fog’ or ‘clear’ would be of any help, ACTS! Love the idea of being a part of something important like Skywarn, I just live in the wrong place.
We only activate and report during severe weather so yeah … For you that might be every ten years or more.
We didn’t have a single activation last year. The year before we had 5 including two hurricanes. The weather is much more interesting here. When I lived in CA everyone raved about the weather but I found it dull and uninteresting. In California if there was a little wind and some rain it was an OMG! ‘storm’.
Not only was the weather uninteresting, I absolutely hated ‘June Gloom’.
Californians are weather wimps. I’d love to take a few out on my little boat during a stiff breeze in a rain squall just to watch them turn greener than the trees they love so much to hug. 😉
Just discovered your leaf blower for gutters right before the “ATMOSPHERIC RIVER / BOMB CYCLONE” hit California! No more kneeling over the gutters with the risk of falling!
My method now is getting 2 of the 20 somethings from church to come by and jackass my enormous extension ladder to all 4 corners of the house and clean them for me. They work for a 12 pack so pretty cheap. (they drink it after they get done!!)
When I built a small studio apartment above my garage so my oldest daughter could have a safe place to live, the contractor and the electrician both said California building code now states any new construction/addition to an existing home must retrofit all rooms with HARDWIRED smoke detectors and they are all linked together. Good news, no more batteries. Bad news, you must test 1 of them monthly, or at the least opportune time, ALL will go on for 10 or so brain spitting beeps throughout the entire house. Goodish news, if my daughter overcooks the bacon in her apartment kitchen, everyone in the main house below knows it, because all rooms in the house start beeping.
Yeah … the fundamental design flaw inherent in these breaker-box-powered detectors is they don’t work when the power is off — like in an electrical fire at the panel. Batteries are good.
Plus the fact that with the whole house systems you don’t actually know where the fire/smoke event is taking place. They ALL go off at the same time so you have to go room-to-room to find out where the problem is AND that delays evacuation in the event of a real threat. Unless you’re going to run outside and stay there every time a damned smoke detector goes off. Most of the time those things are a false positive like overcooking bacon and it’s more of a nuisance than a valid warning.
I agree, batteries are better. In my place I have redundant detectors in every room. I swap the batteries every six months on a rotation so each has a battery for one year. (I.E. the “A” detectors get new batteries in June or July and the “B” detectors get new batteries in December or January.) If a detector goes bad I can just chuck it and order a new one with no gap in coverage.
We’re also subject to bad weather here so I have a generator shack outside beside the building I’m in. I have an additional smoke detector and Carbon Monoxide detector at the head of my bed. CO tends to settle so I don’t want that one up on the ceiling and if there’s a problem with the generator putting out CO that enters the building that will wake me up before I die. Hopefully. I haven’t had to rely on that yet, CO has never come inside.
The generator supplies enough electrical power to run everything in the building except the water heater. During power outages my air conditioning and home theater get very popular with my neighbors. This is fine with me, the price of admission is bring booze. Cold showers are not nearly so annoying if you ingest enough ethanol.
A generator is one of the next items on my list. We went almost 22 years with no outages (one of the features of my neighborhood that aided in selection was underground power lines not susceptible to ice storms. Though that did not include the idiot with the ditch witch that I really thought had killed himself. AEP actually had us back up in four hours) But the way the circuits have gotten, any issue hits a broader group than it used to and we have had three of more than a day in the last three years.
I am sure that you did due diligence on this selection. Any recommendations either a big pro or a hell no stay away from that brand?
You have to take into consideration what’s going to be fed by the generator and how you’re going to feed it from the generator.
One of the big things you want to look for is something that says the generator is safe for supplying electronic equipment. Even then, some line conditioning is a good idea. Unless of course you’re not intending to listen to music or watch TV while the power is out.
I got lucky and snagged some military electrical conditioning equipment (MPCs or Military Power Conditioners) and surge suppressors (EFI MPS-6’s) that are rated for shipboard use. Which means generators rather than grid power. I don’t know if you can buy that kind of thing on the open market. I got mine on an auction locally and considering my proximity to Norfolk (not real close but not undoable far either) who knows if they’re surplus or someone’s unauthorized bonus.
There are three big portable gas generators on the property, one rated 7500 watts and two 9800 watts. Every electrical service box on the property has its own generator. Plus suitable fuel storage and conditioning. Most people don’t go to that sort of lengths but our goal was to have all the functionality that we would have if the grid was up even when it’s not. We decided we could live with cold showers … Water heaters take a ton of juice that can be better used elsewhere.
We also have a well and are not on municipal water. Redundant generators guarantee we’ll have water. That’s something to take into consideration too.
The point here is what you want to be able to do when the power is out. If running the fridge and a full sized freezer and maybe a little TV is your goal, then that dictates what you’re going to use for a generator.
Add air conditioning to that and the requirement jumps. Add electric winter heat (we have propane backup and a good supply of firewood for the converted fireplace in the house. Most of the house heat all winter is from wood and heat pump, propane is expensive.) and it really jumps up.
You can buy the less expensive but still very good Predator generators from Harbor Freight IF you use some sort of line conditioning on your electronics. You can buy a standard generator to run the house on and an inverter generator to run your electronics. You can buy a big inverter generator and run everything but they’re more expensive. Or you can shell out a bunch of cash and get a Generac and hook it up to a big propane tank.
Any of the major name brand generators are about as good as any other. Most of them have the same components, more or less. I.E. The 7500 watt generator that runs my shop, office, radio shack, man cave, computers, home theater and human dog house where I spend the bulk of my time is a Ridgid brand but it has a Yamaha engine and is rated for electronics supply. That shop is pretty high tech so I still use power conditioners even more so there than in the house.
You can buy Ridgid generators at Home Depot. Watch for sales. I’ve had mine for 10 years and it still works like the day I put it in my generator shack. Except for things that were my own fault that is.
You have to maintain a generator fairly regularly. It has to run with a load at least every three months. The magnetic field that makes the darn thing work will leak away over time. To keep that magnetic field strong enough to renew itself when the generator is needed it has to be worked. I found this out the hard way so heads up.
The good thing about that is if you find a generator that the motor works but doesn’t generate electricity or generates but at a low voltage — That’s probably the problem and you can pick it up cheap. That problem can be fixed fairly easily without tearing the machine apart so if that happens let me know and I’ll tell you how to do it. Or you can look it up on the internet like I did.
I use synthetic oil in all our generators. I change the oil once a year whether it needs it or not. I change the oil after 200 hours of service run. Change the spark plug every 3 years whether you think it needs it or not. Don’t skip engine maintenance.
You can buy a Generac whole house generator but they’re pretty spendy. I compared all the costs of both portables and Generacs and the Generac would be about 10x with installation and all. It’s a great system, runs off a propane tank, fires itself up, takes a load and does diagnostics once a month. It will let you know when it wants an oil change. But it’s pricey for something you may not use but a day or two a year so I opted to go the cheaper route.
I wouldn’t even consider a Generac unless I intended to never move again. I don’t intend to ever move again and for my money they still cost too much. They don’t add much to the resale value of a house.
There are tons of decent generators for sale on Amazon. People that buy and use generators leave reviews so read them whether you buy from Amazon or somewhere else. Figure out what you want to power, how long you want to be able to run without grid power and how many watts you need to run the things you want to run. Then add 15%.
If you have any other specific questions let me know.
Scott; my builder put the smoke alarm near the top of my 23-foot ceiling in the bedroom. It was the first to beep needing a battery change. My outside ladder didn’t reach.
Bill; the smoke alarm tells me when to flip the steak on my iron skillet (when it’s too cold to grill).
Props to Bill, as my loyalty to the brand stems from “What We Stand For” and shows like it. Of course you should have billing under the title.
It takes high temps to get a good seer on a good steak. The smoke alarm does a fine job of confirming the excellence of the crust.
Though, now that I purchased a Blackstone, I go outside with a cigar at much colder temps to “grill” than I used to. That sucker does a nice job and keeps me warm.
Of course the whiskey helps, too. My wife thinks I grill so that I have an excuse to smoke and drink.
Yep!
RSAE, I have a little 16′ travel trailer. Is that Blackstone worth it? Would love to buy one and take that sucker “glamping”…
The Blackstone is worth it if you insist on a gas grill. It’s not really portable though. I only ever use charcoal and you can get the same effect from a small Weber “Smokey Joe” or any other sealed kettle-type charcoal grill on the market. A full sized Weber works good on the back porch or deck and a little “Smokey Joe” is great to take along for outings.
With a charcoal grill you have to lug around charcoal and there’s a learning curve. The Blackstone works good if you don’t want to do that and is easier to get a great result. With any gas grill you still have to lug around a gas bottle of some size so that’s a wash.
I never, ever order beef or pork (except maybe things like BBQ ribs or something ethnic) when I go out to eat. I can fix better stuff much tastier at home on my grill so … I usually end up ordering seafood or something that isn’t easier, better and cheaper to fix at home.
The trick to using a charcoal grill is to get the grill HOT as possible to start with. That sears and seals the meat so it stays moist and juicy. The grill will naturally cool down due to evaporative cooling after you start cooking.
Country Style Ribs —
Get a good sized package of Country Style Ribs from your store or butcher. They’re great as leftovers so it doesn’t hurt to get a bunch of them.
Pre-season the meat with pepper, seasoned salt and Wright’s liquid hickory smoke. Go easy on the Wright’s, a drop on each side of the individual pieces rubbed out evenly with your fingers is plenty. Use Wright’s, everything else is less flavorful and I’ve learned this by experience.
Set up and light the grill. Get the grill HOT. Use plenty of charcoal. You can shut the grill down after cooking by closing the vents and save charcoal for next time you grill. After the coals are going good and the lighter fluid is burned off put the grate on the grill so it gets real hot too. That makes those pretty charred lines on your food.
Put the meat on the grill. Leave it for about 5 minutes to sear side 1 real good. Flip the meat once and continue to cook for about 20 minutes. When you can stab the meat with a grill fork and the liquid that comes out is clear, it’s done. Don’t over cook it but don’t go stabbing it until at least 15 minutes have passed since you put the meat on the grill. You don’t want to let all those tasty juices out any more than you have to.
When the food is done, remove from grill and serve hot and sizzling.
That’s my Dad’s personal recipe for Country Style ribs. Once he taught me how to do it he never cooked them while I was around again. He made me do it while he stood there supervising with a drink in his hand. Good ol’ Dad.
Do steaks the same way. You’ll be amazed at how good steaks turn out. Don’t overcook them either or you ruin a great steak.
Lamb is also really good fixed this way. I got a taste for lamb when I was in Australia. The cut is different there and for my opinion is better.
Use the ‘fingers’ test for steaks to determine how well done they are. Hold your index finger to your thumb and gently poke the meaty part under your thumb with the grill fork. Then do the same and gently poke the meat with the grill fork. You can determine the level of doneness by using different fingers. Index to thumb, rare. Middle finger to thumb, medium rare. Ring finger to thumb, medium. Little finger to thumb, well done.
This works amazingly well. If I’m not as clear as I should be about how to do this, ask. Learning this technique is well worth the effort and it can be used on any grill, gas or charcoal.
That keeps you from having to stab or cut the steak as it cooks which would let the juices out and the heat in.
A tip about using a charcoal grill: Put a lot less starting fluid on it than you think you need. That way it will all burn off and won’t flavor the meat with petroleum. 1/4 cup is more than enough for a full sized grill. If you do it right and don’t get crazy with the lighter fluid you get both smoking and cooking with none of the objectionable flavors that some people complain about with charcoal grills.
I’ve used both charcoal and gas extensively and charcoal, done right, yields a significantly better flavor so now I only use charcoal grills. If ease and convenience are more appealing to you than peak flavor then go ahead and use a gas grill. It will still be great, just not as great as it had the potential for.
One of my smoke detectors was installed at a height where I need to use my extension ladder. If I happen to have my nephew around (he is 6’3″) he can reach if standing on the top step of a 6′ ladder, just barely.
Crocs are an abomination.
However, the Jibbitz thing is a quintessential American Success story. https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/big-ideas-big-bucks/all
From the article (so you don’t have to go to the link) Originally published in 2007, I believe. For years, Sheri, a busy mother of three, stayed at home and cared for her children Lexie, Julian and Riley. Like many others, Sheri’s children were crazy about the latest craze in footwear—Crocs. Sheri says every member of her family had a few pairs of these colorful rubber clogs. Then, one day while Sheri and her children were having fun with arts and crafts at home, Sheri stuck a silk flower through a hole in a pair of Crocs. “[I] said, ‘Oh, look, how cute,'” she says. “Then, we found all this other stuff, and we were sticking them in holes.” When Rich, Sheri’s husband, came home and saw his family accessorizing their shoes with buttons and baubles they found in the sewing kit, Sheri says a lightbulb went on over his head. Sheri and Rich ran with the idea and realized there were a lot of Crocs roaming the streets with no accessories. From that first flower, Jibbitz were born. “It was such an obvious idea,” Rich says. “My kids were playing with [them], and I thought, ‘If my kids like it, every kid’s going to like it.'” {SKIP A BIT} One day at the local pool, a man approached Lexie and asked her about the Jibbitz on her shoes. Lexie explained to him that her mother made them. Then, the man handed the 7-year-old his business card and said, “Have your mommy call me.” That man was Duke Hanson, the founder of Crocs. A little over a year after making her first Jibbit, Sheri and Rich sold their business to the Croc Company for $10 million, with an extra $10 million if they meet sales goals.
Love this story. Crocks…..eh….
I thought the new format was that we would see the backstage stuff (without describing individual segments), then you’d continue with the individual segments without any of us knowing what the subject would be. That would then be cut up and released as individual shows. So if we watched the entire backstage show we would have already seen all the segments. I liked it that way.
I’ve got a mixed response. I see it your way, but this latest method may be cleaner when it comes to comment threads. Each segment will once again have all of its member comment threads instead of comments for each segment potentially split between the backstage and the separately-published segment. There will be less video duplication, so the overall storage requirements will also be reduced.
So when will the “actual” RA’s drop? Thursdays? Or dribbled out? Either way is fine for me..but the sudden stop to today’s Backstage caught me off guard.
Thanks for the entertaining ramble through many topics without discussing them quite a feat.
A noise canceling face mask telephone?
That sounds like the Cone of Silence, which didn’t work very well for Max.
….Sorry about that, Chief!
Missed it by that much.
“Jack on. Jack … uh never mind.” 😀
You are on roll today. HAHAHAHAHA!
“Like a woman …” 😀
You had me rolling on the floor and laughing with that one; however, I picked myself up very quickly when my wife asked, “Whatcha doin’?”
I sheepishly replied, “Nothin’.”
“Release the hamsters of Hell!”
I laughed so hard and long at that.
Still laugh when I think about it.
My membership money is well spent.
I imagine the Monty Python Knights of the Round Table screaming, “Run away! Run Away!”
“That hamster’s a killer! Look at those pointy pointy teeth!”
What’s that blinking behind you Bill? And how did I not notice that before?
You could dial back the very higher end frequencies a wee bit Bill. But otherwise, a noticeably better set up.
Bill is now cooking with sound. Great rig suggestion Scott.
I think I have 3 smoke detectors total in my apartment. That contractor might only charge $3000.00 for that…lol.
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Steve’s years in the bowels of San Francisco’s tenderloin district was obvious with his sneaky 1 word comment……..
See what I did there?
Some years ago in my county, several partying teenagers died in a fire while the parents were away. It was an awful tragedy. They had left burning candles when they went to bed/passed out. As a result the county required automatic sprinkler systems in all new construction and major renovations, adding the cost to new construction by at least $15,000 — even for a one story house with multiple exits. This case was heartbreaking, but it should not have been a reason to make housing less affordable. This is your government at work to save you from yourself.
Outliers of any type should not be used to pass laws. This is the elected official general need of “We should do SOMETHING”.
I am surprised they didn’t ban candles.
Sarcasm follows:
Candles! Wax is petrochemical based! Climate change people! The world is at stake!
Ban candles!! Or do you hate the Earth?
CALIFORNIA’S Man-Child Manditorian Newsome just introduced a bill to mandate all wax candles must be retroactively fitted with wind powered l.e.d.’s.
Includes all candles sold since 1995. There will be fines ass-essed.
Someone should do a meme based on the Disney show “Mandalorian” but with Gavin ol’ buddy as the “Manditorian”.
During the California forest fires of a couple years ago (?), I had worked on such a meme, trying to composite Newsome into the classic stance of the Mandalorian, standing in a forest ablaze with flames. Little tougher than I thought to make it look right. I think I did a better job of recreating the “New Trifecta”.
BTW and as Green likes to say, “completely off topic”, but while I was doing that meme work, I kept channeling Gilda Radner’s Emily Latella, and hearing her say “What’s all this I hear about the man Delorean? I mean, he’s dead, and his car wasn’t very good”
Newsome as the Manditorian
Weighing in on Crocs. Yes, they are ugly. They have zero arch or foot support, and therefore not a good choice for children’s growing feet. HOWEVER…I wore them for years working as a sous chef, with socks and an arch insert. The beauty of them is that they (1) are very light weight when wearing them for hours on tile/concrete kitchen floors; and (2) can be degreased in the dishwasher. You have no idea how gross shoes get in the “back of the house.” The standard used to be Dansko’s clogs. But they are very heavy and made of leather that just absorbs grease. Just saying….
That is more information than I wanted to know about back of house.
I had the same problem as Bill with so many of the History Channel shows that my wife told me I should stop yelling at the TV and offer my services to the History Channel as a proof reader/consultant.
As to smoke detectors going off due to low battery:
Nuke it from orbit. Its the only way to be sure.😏
Question: did Scot get arrested and booked? What county/state? Or did he get arrested like our Presidentish Biden did in South Africa trying to see Mandela?
Mandela was not available, so my arrest was for nought.
Well, at least you have your arrest on YOUR PERMANENT RECORD! So you have THAT going for you…which is nice.
Double secret probation!
Wrong movie!
Ron…..I straddled both Animal House AND Caddyshack in the same comment. Point to Scott for getting one of the two obscure cultural references!
I stand corrected. I should have known better that Scott would get 70s film references.
TBH – I only read the CS reference. Skipped the first line. I blame being on a call with 10 of my closest friends in China and trying to multitask while sort of listening to people blather and complain. For 90 minutes. About nothing. Incessently. And with no inkling that they may have actually installed something wrong which caused a problem. 😉
As one who’s been on those calls…..a gentle cleanser should do the trick. I suggest bourbon.
Ha – my wife came down about an hour in and in way of greeting I held up my empty wine glass. Less than a minute later I had a full wine glass! I do love that woman.
She keeps me in line by watching Dateline and making notes about what doesn’t work and how people get caught 😉
Culturally so different, the Chinese are. Nothing is ever their fault, even remotely.
But I think you know that much better than I do.
Double Super Secret Probation!
Like Scott, my adolescent to teenage years meant climbing trees. Taller the better….as in 70′ Monterrey pines. In my 20’s, it was jumping off cliffs hang gliding…. Sometime near my 40th birthday, something happened to my inner ears (old age?) and now when on top of a 10′ ladder and I get vertigo…ey. Really weird.
that happens to me when I get to the top of the third step.
That is because you are too tall. If you were as vertically challenged as I am you could easily get to the 4th step. On a good day the 5th step! 😉
Five-five…..AND A HALF! I’d always say, when it actually mattered to me in my younger days.
My method of cleaning my gutters for years was to climb onto the roof from my deck with a leaf blower and walk around the perimeter of the roof. Back of the house is a 28 ft off the concrete patio. Did this for years Including climbing over the peak. So ascending and descending the slope twice.
Sometime shortly after turning 50, it lost its appeal in a big way. Just won’t do it anymore.
Just discovered your leaf blower for gutters right before the “ATMOSPHERIC RIVER / BOMB CYCLONE” hit California! No more kneeling over the gutters with the risk of falling!
BTW, do you think the weather channels took a tip from Fauci? Slightly overdramatic, don’t you think?
And just to add some reality, it really happened and it really did some destruction. Photo above is a stock photo taken during the summertime a few years ago. Photo below I just took last Thursday. I’ve lived in Santa Cruz all my life, and in my teens and twenties, had surfed this stretch of ocean for 20 years. I’ve never seen this much wave activity , miles out to sea. Pretty humbling . The cement ship was called the SS Palo Alto, towed here from San Francisco in the 30’s and parked as an amusement park/dance hall/tourist attraction. Went bankrupt almost immediately, then abandoned, and fell into disrepair, finally adopted by the CA state parks, although it was closed off to viewers in the 90’s after repeated winter storms broke the ship apart.
I do volunteer storm spotting (not the same thing as storm chasing, only an idiot would chase a deadly storm around) for the National Weather Service. In that capacity I have access to all the same stuff the weather service uses including CAVE /AWIPS II radar and climate data.
The weather broadcasts on TV and various weather sites is so sensationalized and overblown that I never even bother to look at them anymore. People close to me depend on me to give them usable information about weather, that sadly can no longer be counted upon from commercial sources.
I don’t know if I can get access to CAVE but I’ll try! Thanks! Over the last year, I’ve been going to C.O.D. NexLab’s radar page. (College of Dupage). Great loops, here’s a snip of the page. Like that I can switch between visible and LWIR or Water Vapor at different levels. And different zoom selections from various global down to local.
I also use RadarScope’s app for a portable. It’s a great help when out spotting storms. I pay the $10 a year for a Tier 1 subscription and that gets me an installation of the software on everything I need it to be on including Android and Windows. I think, the Windows install might be separate and another $10, I can’t remember right off hand.
I have two tablet displays on my nightstand by my bed, one for my weather station and one for RadarScope. I just use cheap, refurbished Amazon Kindle Fire tablets solely dedicated to those displays.
RadarScope is very versatile, all us SkyWarn guys use it. It has vertical integrated moisture and a lot of other settings besides just a high res precipitation display. It has a split screen function that I use to see precip radar and wind velocity side-by-side. That’s a big help when looking for velocity couplets that might indicate a TVS (Tornado Vortex Signature). Very often I or someone in my team spots those couplets before the local WFO (Weather Forecast Office) sees them and they are no slouches, they’re watching very closely during hazardous weather events.
It has a bunch of other useful tools too, like distance calculator and range rings, center on GPS location, etc. The NWS also uses RadarScope and have published online classes regarding how to use it. I can’t recall where to view those at the moment.
I have a 10 inch RCA Delta android tablet mounted in my Jeep for using RadarScope and a 10 inch RCA Cambio Windows 10 tablet for anything else I need including email to the NWS. One of my buddies lives two doors down and he loves to ride along on spotting excursions. I usually text him when I’m going out and snag him as I go by his house.
If you’re interested, SkyWarn has some really good training for storm spotters. You can find it online (search SkyWarn Spotter classes on YouTube) or join SkyWarn and get a Spotter ID that tells the NWS you’re trained and reliable in your reporting. They take spotter reports just as seriously as they do their own salaried employees. I’ve been an Advanced Spotter for over a decade. The weather nerds at the local WFO know me well.
There’s also an amateur radio (most people say ‘ham’) component. I use that too but you don’t have to be a ham operator to be in SkyWarn. I can either call in on the phone or mobile phone, or use my mobile ham dual band to make reports. Truth be told, I probably make more reports on my cell phone and avoid all the other dicks on ham radio.
If you’re interested let me know and I’ll post some links here to get you started.
For CAVE/AWIPS if you’re using a linux machine it’s pretty simple to install. For Windows, which I use, you have to jump through a few hoops to get it working right. It’s freeware published by Unidata and Raytheon so it doesn’t cost anything. Here’s a link to the download page for everything. Be sure to follow the instructions. It’s not for the faint-of-heart casual computer grannie.
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/awips-18-2-1-software
also heard last week that Weather Channel has decided to name individual clouds…..
RME I began to hate them when they started naming winter storms just so they could make a big deal out of them. Like they do hurricanes and such. Their tornado forecasts are also way past silly now. This cloud naming thing is just another reason to hate them. I know all the cloud types that are relevant to weather so I’m assuming you mean actual names like “Hurricane Ida” sort of thing.
yeah, I was being typically sarcastic when it comes to the Weather Channel. They are presently not naming individual clouds, but seriously would not put it passed them if they thought it would bring more eyeballs to their channel. They totally lost me years ago over their obvious and coordinated push for global warming. I think they began naming storms to push their narrative on how climate change has brought more violent weather to the US.
Plus, being on the west coast of CA, the worst we usually got was the occasional rain storm, like every 3 years or so. So actually watching the WC other than as background noise was pretty much useless.
SkyWarn sounds really quite interesting. Something for me to do in retirement. I’d be into it.
Yeah, it’s a fun hobby and it also serves the community. Many of the watches and warnings issued by the NWS come from Spotter input, Eyeball MK-1 is still the best tool for real time weather observation. It gives me an excuse to get out of the house and go tearing around the countryside watching interesting weather. You can put as much time into it as you want, or not, whatever works for your particular tastes.
Actually strike that. I live on the coast of California. Nothing ever happens except for blue sky or fog. I don’t think my constant reporting of ‘fog’ or ‘clear’ would be of any help, ACTS! Love the idea of being a part of something important like Skywarn, I just live in the wrong place.
We only activate and report during severe weather so yeah … For you that might be every ten years or more.
We didn’t have a single activation last year. The year before we had 5 including two hurricanes. The weather is much more interesting here. When I lived in CA everyone raved about the weather but I found it dull and uninteresting. In California if there was a little wind and some rain it was an OMG! ‘storm’.
Not only was the weather uninteresting, I absolutely hated ‘June Gloom’.
Californians are weather wimps. I’d love to take a few out on my little boat during a stiff breeze in a rain squall just to watch them turn greener than the trees they love so much to hug. 😉
My method now is getting 2 of the 20 somethings from church to come by and jackass my enormous extension ladder to all 4 corners of the house and clean them for me. They work for a 12 pack so pretty cheap. (they drink it after they get done!!)
When I built a small studio apartment above my garage so my oldest daughter could have a safe place to live, the contractor and the electrician both said California building code now states any new construction/addition to an existing home must retrofit all rooms with HARDWIRED smoke detectors and they are all linked together.
Good news, no more batteries.
Bad news, you must test 1 of them monthly, or at the least opportune time, ALL will go on for 10 or so brain spitting beeps throughout the entire house.
Goodish news, if my daughter overcooks the bacon in her apartment kitchen, everyone in the main house below knows it, because all rooms in the house start beeping.
Yeah … the fundamental design flaw inherent in these breaker-box-powered detectors is they don’t work when the power is off — like in an electrical fire at the panel. Batteries are good.
Plus the fact that with the whole house systems you don’t actually know where the fire/smoke event is taking place. They ALL go off at the same time so you have to go room-to-room to find out where the problem is AND that delays evacuation in the event of a real threat. Unless you’re going to run outside and stay there every time a damned smoke detector goes off. Most of the time those things are a false positive like overcooking bacon and it’s more of a nuisance than a valid warning.
I agree, batteries are better. In my place I have redundant detectors in every room. I swap the batteries every six months on a rotation so each has a battery for one year. (I.E. the “A” detectors get new batteries in June or July and the “B” detectors get new batteries in December or January.) If a detector goes bad I can just chuck it and order a new one with no gap in coverage.
We’re also subject to bad weather here so I have a generator shack outside beside the building I’m in. I have an additional smoke detector and Carbon Monoxide detector at the head of my bed. CO tends to settle so I don’t want that one up on the ceiling and if there’s a problem with the generator putting out CO that enters the building that will wake me up before I die. Hopefully. I haven’t had to rely on that yet, CO has never come inside.
The generator supplies enough electrical power to run everything in the building except the water heater. During power outages my air conditioning and home theater get very popular with my neighbors. This is fine with me, the price of admission is bring booze. Cold showers are not nearly so annoying if you ingest enough ethanol.
A generator is one of the next items on my list. We went almost 22 years with no outages (one of the features of my neighborhood that aided in selection was underground power lines not susceptible to ice storms. Though that did not include the idiot with the ditch witch that I really thought had killed himself. AEP actually had us back up in four hours) But the way the circuits have gotten, any issue hits a broader group than it used to and we have had three of more than a day in the last three years.
I am sure that you did due diligence on this selection. Any recommendations either a big pro or a hell no stay away from that brand?
You have to take into consideration what’s going to be fed by the generator and how you’re going to feed it from the generator.
One of the big things you want to look for is something that says the generator is safe for supplying electronic equipment. Even then, some line conditioning is a good idea. Unless of course you’re not intending to listen to music or watch TV while the power is out.
I got lucky and snagged some military electrical conditioning equipment (MPCs or Military Power Conditioners) and surge suppressors (EFI MPS-6’s) that are rated for shipboard use. Which means generators rather than grid power. I don’t know if you can buy that kind of thing on the open market. I got mine on an auction locally and considering my proximity to Norfolk (not real close but not undoable far either) who knows if they’re surplus or someone’s unauthorized bonus.
There are three big portable gas generators on the property, one rated 7500 watts and two 9800 watts. Every electrical service box on the property has its own generator. Plus suitable fuel storage and conditioning. Most people don’t go to that sort of lengths but our goal was to have all the functionality that we would have if the grid was up even when it’s not. We decided we could live with cold showers … Water heaters take a ton of juice that can be better used elsewhere.
We also have a well and are not on municipal water. Redundant generators guarantee we’ll have water. That’s something to take into consideration too.
The point here is what you want to be able to do when the power is out. If running the fridge and a full sized freezer and maybe a little TV is your goal, then that dictates what you’re going to use for a generator.
Add air conditioning to that and the requirement jumps. Add electric winter heat (we have propane backup and a good supply of firewood for the converted fireplace in the house. Most of the house heat all winter is from wood and heat pump, propane is expensive.) and it really jumps up.
You can buy the less expensive but still very good Predator generators from Harbor Freight IF you use some sort of line conditioning on your electronics. You can buy a standard generator to run the house on and an inverter generator to run your electronics. You can buy a big inverter generator and run everything but they’re more expensive. Or you can shell out a bunch of cash and get a Generac and hook it up to a big propane tank.
Any of the major name brand generators are about as good as any other. Most of them have the same components, more or less. I.E. The 7500 watt generator that runs my shop, office, radio shack, man cave, computers, home theater and human dog house where I spend the bulk of my time is a Ridgid brand but it has a Yamaha engine and is rated for electronics supply. That shop is pretty high tech so I still use power conditioners even more so there than in the house.
You can buy Ridgid generators at Home Depot. Watch for sales. I’ve had mine for 10 years and it still works like the day I put it in my generator shack. Except for things that were my own fault that is.
You have to maintain a generator fairly regularly. It has to run with a load at least every three months. The magnetic field that makes the darn thing work will leak away over time. To keep that magnetic field strong enough to renew itself when the generator is needed it has to be worked. I found this out the hard way so heads up.
The good thing about that is if you find a generator that the motor works but doesn’t generate electricity or generates but at a low voltage — That’s probably the problem and you can pick it up cheap. That problem can be fixed fairly easily without tearing the machine apart so if that happens let me know and I’ll tell you how to do it. Or you can look it up on the internet like I did.
I use synthetic oil in all our generators. I change the oil once a year whether it needs it or not. I change the oil after 200 hours of service run. Change the spark plug every 3 years whether you think it needs it or not. Don’t skip engine maintenance.
You can buy a Generac whole house generator but they’re pretty spendy. I compared all the costs of both portables and Generacs and the Generac would be about 10x with installation and all. It’s a great system, runs off a propane tank, fires itself up, takes a load and does diagnostics once a month. It will let you know when it wants an oil change. But it’s pricey for something you may not use but a day or two a year so I opted to go the cheaper route.
I wouldn’t even consider a Generac unless I intended to never move again. I don’t intend to ever move again and for my money they still cost too much. They don’t add much to the resale value of a house.
There are tons of decent generators for sale on Amazon. People that buy and use generators leave reviews so read them whether you buy from Amazon or somewhere else. Figure out what you want to power, how long you want to be able to run without grid power and how many watts you need to run the things you want to run. Then add 15%.
If you have any other specific questions let me know.
Scott; my builder put the smoke alarm near the top of my 23-foot ceiling in the bedroom. It was the first to beep needing a battery change. My outside ladder didn’t reach.
Bill; the smoke alarm tells me when to flip the steak on my iron skillet (when it’s too cold to grill).
Props to Bill, as my loyalty to the brand stems from “What We Stand For” and shows like it. Of course you should have billing under the title.
It takes high temps to get a good seer on a good steak. The smoke alarm does a fine job of confirming the excellence of the crust.
Though, now that I purchased a Blackstone, I go outside with a cigar at much colder temps to “grill” than I used to. That sucker does a nice job and keeps me warm.
Of course the whiskey helps, too. My wife thinks I grill so that I have an excuse to smoke and drink.
Yep!
RSAE, I have a little 16′ travel trailer. Is that Blackstone worth it? Would love to buy one and take that sucker “glamping”…
The Blackstone is worth it if you insist on a gas grill. It’s not really portable though. I only ever use charcoal and you can get the same effect from a small Weber “Smokey Joe” or any other sealed kettle-type charcoal grill on the market. A full sized Weber works good on the back porch or deck and a little “Smokey Joe” is great to take along for outings.
With a charcoal grill you have to lug around charcoal and there’s a learning curve. The Blackstone works good if you don’t want to do that and is easier to get a great result. With any gas grill you still have to lug around a gas bottle of some size so that’s a wash.
I never, ever order beef or pork (except maybe things like BBQ ribs or something ethnic) when I go out to eat. I can fix better stuff much tastier at home on my grill so … I usually end up ordering seafood or something that isn’t easier, better and cheaper to fix at home.
The trick to using a charcoal grill is to get the grill HOT as possible to start with. That sears and seals the meat so it stays moist and juicy. The grill will naturally cool down due to evaporative cooling after you start cooking.
Country Style Ribs —
Get a good sized package of Country Style Ribs from your store or butcher. They’re great as leftovers so it doesn’t hurt to get a bunch of them.
Pre-season the meat with pepper, seasoned salt and Wright’s liquid hickory smoke. Go easy on the Wright’s, a drop on each side of the individual pieces rubbed out evenly with your fingers is plenty. Use Wright’s, everything else is less flavorful and I’ve learned this by experience.
Set up and light the grill. Get the grill HOT. Use plenty of charcoal. You can shut the grill down after cooking by closing the vents and save charcoal for next time you grill. After the coals are going good and the lighter fluid is burned off put the grate on the grill so it gets real hot too. That makes those pretty charred lines on your food.
Put the meat on the grill. Leave it for about 5 minutes to sear side 1 real good. Flip the meat once and continue to cook for about 20 minutes. When you can stab the meat with a grill fork and the liquid that comes out is clear, it’s done. Don’t over cook it but don’t go stabbing it until at least 15 minutes have passed since you put the meat on the grill. You don’t want to let all those tasty juices out any more than you have to.
When the food is done, remove from grill and serve hot and sizzling.
That’s my Dad’s personal recipe for Country Style ribs. Once he taught me how to do it he never cooked them while I was around again. He made me do it while he stood there supervising with a drink in his hand. Good ol’ Dad.
Do steaks the same way. You’ll be amazed at how good steaks turn out. Don’t overcook them either or you ruin a great steak.
Lamb is also really good fixed this way. I got a taste for lamb when I was in Australia. The cut is different there and for my opinion is better.
Use the ‘fingers’ test for steaks to determine how well done they are. Hold your index finger to your thumb and gently poke the meaty part under your thumb with the grill fork. Then do the same and gently poke the meat with the grill fork. You can determine the level of doneness by using different fingers. Index to thumb, rare. Middle finger to thumb, medium rare. Ring finger to thumb, medium. Little finger to thumb, well done.
This works amazingly well. If I’m not as clear as I should be about how to do this, ask. Learning this technique is well worth the effort and it can be used on any grill, gas or charcoal.
That keeps you from having to stab or cut the steak as it cooks which would let the juices out and the heat in.
A tip about using a charcoal grill: Put a lot less starting fluid on it than you think you need. That way it will all burn off and won’t flavor the meat with petroleum. 1/4 cup is more than enough for a full sized grill. If you do it right and don’t get crazy with the lighter fluid you get both smoking and cooking with none of the objectionable flavors that some people complain about with charcoal grills.
I’ve used both charcoal and gas extensively and charcoal, done right, yields a significantly better flavor so now I only use charcoal grills. If ease and convenience are more appealing to you than peak flavor then go ahead and use a gas grill. It will still be great, just not as great as it had the potential for.
One of my smoke detectors was installed at a height where I need to use my extension ladder. If I happen to have my nephew around (he is 6’3″) he can reach if standing on the top step of a 6′ ladder, just barely.
Crocs are an abomination.
However, the Jibbitz thing is a quintessential American Success story.
https://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/big-ideas-big-bucks/all
From the article (so you don’t have to go to the link) Originally published in 2007, I believe.
For years, Sheri, a busy mother of three, stayed at home and cared for her children Lexie, Julian and Riley. Like many others, Sheri’s children were crazy about the latest craze in footwear—Crocs.
Sheri says every member of her family had a few pairs of these colorful rubber clogs. Then, one day while Sheri and her children were having fun with arts and crafts at home, Sheri stuck a silk flower through a hole in a pair of Crocs. “[I] said, ‘Oh, look, how cute,'” she says. “Then, we found all this other stuff, and we were sticking them in holes.”
When Rich, Sheri’s husband, came home and saw his family accessorizing their shoes with buttons and baubles they found in the sewing kit, Sheri says a lightbulb went on over his head.
Sheri and Rich ran with the idea and realized there were a lot of Crocs roaming the streets with no accessories. From that first flower, Jibbitz were born. “It was such an obvious idea,” Rich says. “My kids were playing with [them], and I thought, ‘If my kids like it, every kid’s going to like it.'”
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One day at the local pool, a man approached Lexie and asked her about the Jibbitz on her shoes. Lexie explained to him that her mother made them. Then, the man handed the 7-year-old his business card and said, “Have your mommy call me.”
That man was Duke Hanson, the founder of Crocs. A little over a year after making her first Jibbit, Sheri and Rich sold their business to the Croc Company for $10 million, with an extra $10 million if they meet sales goals.
Love this story. Crocks…..eh….
I thought the new format was that we would see the backstage stuff (without describing individual segments), then you’d continue with the individual segments without any of us knowing what the subject would be. That would then be cut up and released as individual shows. So if we watched the entire backstage show we would have already seen all the segments. I liked it that way.
I’ve got a mixed response. I see it your way, but this latest method may be cleaner when it comes to comment threads. Each segment will once again have all of its member comment threads instead of comments for each segment potentially split between the backstage and the separately-published segment. There will be less video duplication, so the overall storage requirements will also be reduced.
So when will the “actual” RA’s drop? Thursdays? Or dribbled out? Either way is fine for me..but the sudden stop to today’s Backstage caught me off guard.
Thanks for the entertaining ramble through many topics without discussing them quite a feat.
A noise canceling face mask telephone?
That sounds like the Cone of Silence, which didn’t work very well for Max.
….Sorry about that, Chief!
Missed it by that much.
“Jack on. Jack … uh never mind.” 😀
You are on roll today. HAHAHAHAHA!
“Like a woman …” 😀
You had me rolling on the floor and laughing with that one; however, I picked myself up very quickly when my wife asked, “Whatcha doin’?”
I sheepishly replied, “Nothin’.”
“Release the hamsters of Hell!”
I laughed so hard and long at that.
Still laugh when I think about it.
My membership money is well spent.
I imagine the Monty Python Knights of the Round Table screaming, “Run away! Run Away!”
“That hamster’s a killer! Look at those pointy pointy teeth!”
What’s that blinking behind you Bill? And how did I not notice that before?
You could dial back the very higher end frequencies a wee bit Bill. But otherwise, a noticeably better set up.
Bill is now cooking with sound. Great rig suggestion Scott.
I think I have 3 smoke detectors total in my apartment. That contractor might only charge $3000.00 for that…lol.
Scott…you hooligan you…lol.