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Post by CampKohler on Jan 17, 2016 23:06:37 GMT
Out back a Goodwill, I found a dandy full-size microwave oven with turntable glass. It was packed up in the box for another microwave, so someone got a new one and packed up their old one in the same box and dumped it. Luckily I got to it before the homeless did, so the cord had not been amputated. Now I have to find out if it works, and if not, why not. (Sometimes it is as simple as a blown diode or fuse.) Halfway down the shopping center, someone had dumped a bunch of bags of household detritus as if they had just cleaned out their place before moving. The homeless had slit them all open looking for something to sell or wear or smoke and spread all the bits and bobs all over the place, and then, just for good measure, discharged two perfectly-good powder-type fire extinguishers over it all. I got a stick and started poking through everything like the bobbies do at a crime scene on TV. I found a Dell PC, many wall-warts, PC boards, nuts and bolt, wires and cables, telephones, TV remotes and three CD-ROM drives, so it was worth the time. And, of course, two fire extinguishers that will require paying to have recharged. (But then, the four pennies I found will help with that somewhat.) Anyway, I had a fun treasure hunt. ---- I spent the afternoon typing into Word my handwritten copy of the metes and bounds of the 1840s Norris Spanish land grant given in a U.S. land patent (which is how this* came to be). All the numbers were fully spelled out, and after copying pages and pages of "Thence north forty degrees and fifteen minutes east twenty-two chains and thirteen links to station" and the like, it all becomes a sea of the same words. If you lose your place, it takes several minutes to get back in synch. This land grant underlies all my friend's properties (as well as my own house), so I am doing it just to be complete. Unfortunately, the map that was supposed to be a part of the patent was not recorded with it, so unless I can get a copy from the feds, I will have to try to make sense of all those metes and bounds. ---- *If you go down Norris three mouseclicks and look to your left, you will see a couple of magnificent examples of my favorite tree, Cedrus Deodora (or Marsha, as I like to call her): Click to enlarge; click Back to return.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 17, 2016 23:52:58 GMT
I got 1 kilo of Vitamin C powder ("crystals") from Amazon. I had actually ordered it a month ago, when it was $20, then cancelled the order when I thought I'd want to get a second one for a present. That was silly, I should have just placed a second order, since it was free delivery. I didn't place the double order because the $6 credit coupon they had included when I first ordered it wasn't still being offered, and a couple days later the price had gone up from $20 to $24. Even at $24, though, it's 2 to 4 times better price per volume than you'll find anywhere else for vitamin C. Aside from the health uses of the vitamin C, I've found a couple other alternate uses it might be good for. One homemade rust cleaner I found said I think baking soda and lime juice is supposed to work. So I thought I'd try mixing baking soda with vitamin C, since that's probably the ingredient in the lime juice that works on the rust. I also saw a video that said vitamin C powder, mixed with a skin cream, gets absorbed through your skin and does good things. The househunting carousel keeps going round and round, and where it will stop nobody knows. Another church in New Hampshire, closer to me, which I've been watching for 3 years as they list it, remove it, relist it at lower price, and remove it again, etc. just got relisted. The problem with this one is they don't want to truly sell it, they want to retain rights to determine what you can and can't do with the property, through a restrictive deed to be enforced forever and ever down through all future buyers. Some of the wording of the restrictions is so general that it could apply to just about anything. But they had two pending sales in 2015 that both were cancelled, and maybe in 2016 it will start to dawn on them that nobody is going to buy the building with all those prohibitive restrictions. I mean, they won't even allow the church to be used as a religious meetinghouse for any denomination other than Roman Catholic, and no other religion than Christianity. That's half the fun of buying a church building gone right there, if you can't even daydream about being able to use it as a church. www.zillow.com/homedetails/9-Greenfield-Rd-Bennington-NH-03442/120666563_zpid/The "rare opportunity to apply vision and creativity to this beautiful former church property" is severely limited by the prohibitive restrictions imposed by the "protective covenants". Like, if your creativity and vision includes opening an eating establishment which serves alcohol, "nuh uh, Cardinal Richelieu wouldn't like that." Or if you have an art gallery that displayed a painting depicting nudes, you're walking on thin ice too. I mean, I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 18, 2016 0:02:11 GMT
NOBODY expects the Spanish Land Grant!
I seriously doubt it's the homeless people cutting the cords from the microwaves. It's most likely the homeowners who cut the cords of the appliances they throw out, to discourage anyone from picking through their trash by giving the impression that there's nothing usable there.
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 18, 2016 23:34:55 GMT
Oh, I will have to disagree with that cord business. They even cut the grounding conductors off utility poles for the copper. I have seen it too many times. One guy I know collects the dust from the big vacuums at car washes and sift through it for coins and other valuables. Of course it is always possible that the "donor" wants to keep the cord for his own purposes, but I would think that that kind of person would just fix up whatever the problem is with the appliance and soldier on.
re rust: What gets rust off is acid, which lime juice certainly has. However, baking soda neutralizes it, so there is not much point in using it. Vinegar (5% acetic acid) works well for dissolving rust, but beware not to try it on shiny, plated stuff with rust spots, because the plating is the first thing to go. It works fine on saw blades and other bare-steel items. If an item has deep rust pits, it will leave clean, deep pits; surface rust just washes off as a very black coating in soap and water. You can make a cheap, disposable tank out of a plastic-sheet-lined cardboard box as small as necessary to just accommodate the item. Fill it with vinegar and drop your rusty thing in there. The acid gets used up in time, so you may have to renew it or add more if there is still some rust left.
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Wow! That is a lot of building for 99K! However, I can see how any future buyers would be put off by the covenants, making it hard to sell. And it must cost a fortune to heat/cool the place.
Speaking of generalized restrictions, I saw a trust document last Friday where the son would inherit a list of cars, boats, etc. if he had a blood test to determine that he had "no substances of any nature" in him. So, he had better not partake of any water, food, etc. The parents must not have been paying attention in high school chemistry.
How do zoning ordinances treat churches? Can they be used as residences without special variances? I guess you could always claim that your religion requires you to sleep on the altar.
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I hit all my favorite Goodwills today for the MLK one-half-off sale. I saw a like-new GE deep-fat fryer in the box last night for 20 USD, which is a little too steep for the usual crowd, so that is where I got in the door at 7:30 AM and grabbed for it 10 USD. Also a complete milkshake machine for 2.50 USD and a couple of camera tripods. I was told about one store I never knew existed, but was not too far away, so I went. There I found the usual crapola, but then I found 13 really juicy electrical and electronic books that I had never seen the likes of at the other stores. A whole book on nothing but grounding—I can tell you are all excited—of electrical systems. All for less than 14 USD total.
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It was raining this morning while I was running around, but then tapered off and the sun is out, so I will have to do some car de-cluttering in preparation of picking up a filing cabinet and a set of speakers tomorrow morning, after which it is back to the Recorder's office to pick up the trail now that I have found that missing deed.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 19, 2016 22:25:11 GMT
Yesterday I got fed up with my Dollar Store can opener, which has served me well enough for about 5 years, but it's not really working now. So I ordered a new one, which should arrive tomorrow, because I think it will be a superior product and worth it as a present to myself for 2016. Shown below. In my trash-picking experience I have encountered these situations where I find perfectly good looking appliances whose cords have been cut, and it's before anybody else has come picking through them. I think it's wrong to assume it's "homeless" people doing that. Similarly, the people who cut the copper bits from utility poles are unlikely to be the "homeless". Much more likely to be the "professional" scrap scavengers, guys with trucks who operate very efficiently and discreetly and have the means to transport the copper to scrap dealing yards. These people also get into many of the vacant houses for sale whose listings I look at, some of the most reduce-priced properties have these disclaimers that the copper has been removed. Usually by professional vandals. Real "homeless" people are rarely interested in things like severed electrical cords. Even the most crazed homeless people are rarely crazy enough to spend their energy on something so useless to them as those would be. I think the default zoning for churches is generally commercial or residential, or both, depending largely on the nature of the neighborhood they're situated in. I don't believe there's any zoning requiring them to be used as churches, and to the contrary, in the exceptional case above the seller's own deed is doing everything possible to prohibit its reuse as a church. Which strikes me as rather odd, since it was built for that express purpose and has always been used that way. But most churches don't seem to be that fussy about the potential uses of the buildings after they have sold them. This one, as an example, was just relisted today: www.zillow.com/homedetails/921-Main-Street-Berlin-NH-03570/2099953801_zpid/Who knows, maybe when they reduce the price again I might reconsider it as being worth it. But I'm holding off trying to make any immediate decisions for the winter. At least they don't try to dictate what you can do with it once you buy it: "This great property could still be used as a church, business location or office space. Opportunity is knocking..." (Also, presumably, residential, since Zillow doesn't seem to list properties that are solely commercial) Your new reading should be keeping you well-grounded. The camera tripods sound like a good item, and the milkshake machine sounds very nice. It will be interesting to see how many boys it brings to your yard.
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 21, 2016 2:12:57 GMT
"How many boys?" Ulp! (What's that about?) ---- Homeless, tweakers, whatever you want to call them, they are heavily into copper because of the high price it brings. ---- I asked about the zoning, because you can't live in a building that is not in some way zoned for some sort of residential. I have seen some people do it on the sly (makeshift shower installed, etc.), but you don't want to attract unwanted attention. Notice that the proposed uses in the ad do not include a residence. And there's that scary National Register of Historic Places thing. I wonder what is in such rough shape that it comes with $45K of BandAid money. At least you would have a big belfry to house your bat collection. I would hate to have to paint the place with a ladder and a paint brush! Looking on SV, there is a garage in back. Is that part of the property or does it belong to the house up Maple St? Currently one SV pix shows a huge yard sale in front and clicking to the next pix up main street, the sale is all wrapped up for the night. I wonder how it got captured that way? Poking around Berlin, there are many buildings which seem to be a bit weather beaten and distressed. I guess they call that rustic charm. On the other hand, there are some spiffy ones, too. This appears to be the former school on School St, which they are now gutting for a senior living place, so you will have somewhere to go when you can't manage in your dotage. ---- I never got to the Recorder's today. I remembered that I had a 2:30 appointment at the VA oncology clinic to review the latest annual labs. It's all good numbers and the word "cured"* was actually used (which I knew). Recorder tomorrow for sure. ---- Earlier I picked up a typical gummint-quality 5-drawer filing cabinet with padlocking bar. Once owned by the State of California, I bought it on MLK day at Goodwill for 15 USD. It is built like steel outhouse, has ball-bearing steel wheel slides, and will never wear out. Weighs a ton, though. ---- *Still gotta do those colonoscopies every few years, though. I have the procedure done under sedation and so it is a non event memory-wise, but the night before you have to drink a gallon of the yukiest, hard-to-stomach Roto-rooter liquid resembling dishwater. I just hate that! But colon cancer is entirely preventable, and if I had it to do all over again, I would have saved myself 50K USD and a lot of bother. When you get up in years, get your colonoscopies without fail!
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 21, 2016 6:16:21 GMT
The red garage in the back of the church belongs to the red house just after. This is the church I took the bus to see two months ago, and yeah it's one of those towns in a general state of decline, I think because their main employer was a large mill that cut down operations. That's part of why I kind of gave up on the idea of buying that building. Not that it felt like a really bad town, and there are a lot of worse places I could end up, but 200 miles for me is a big move, if it were only 50 miles away I'd probably be considering it more seriously. So, with all that in mind, I think the town is perhaps impatient to see this building get a buyer, to have it occupied rather than sitting vacant adding to the abandoned feeling of the town. The side parts of the building I'm pretty sure have a kitchen, and a bathroom, the only thing possibly missing might be a shower. But gosh, as long as there's running water (and this is not one of those buildings with copper missing, in fact it seems to be a well maintained building that has been operating as a church, uninterrupted, for 125 years), a workable shower tub could be easily installed by a single person living there. I don't think the historic registry stuff would be very strict on the parts of the building aside from the chapel and the tower. It appears that what happened with Street View is the googlemobile came around Maple Street looping from north to south, in the morning, then went north up Main Street. This was when the yard sale stuff was under the blue tarp. Then later in the day it came back south on Main Street in the other direction, and coming that way you can see the yard sale going on as you approach and pass the church on the right side of the street. So, if you jiggle with the street arrows, you can see yourself travelling north in the morning (blue tarp in view), and travelling south in the afternoon with the yard sale in progress. Milkshake parodies: www.memecenter.com/search/milkshakeOriginal reference:
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 21, 2016 21:30:48 GMT
Well, I guess I missed that meme (and I judge that to be a good thing!). ---- re the church: Have you talked to the zoning people to see what they think? How do you heat and cool (if necessary) a huge building like that? I suppose you could build a temporary shell inside the church that would have rooms with 9' ceilings, well insulated and arranged in a more residential manner. That also would deaden the sound from the state highway out front and the nearby train tracks. In good weather, you could have some areas outside the shell that would act as a patio. If you ever want to sell, you remove the inner shell. I don't know your situation, existence-wise, that would allow you to just pick up and move. Most people are tied down by something: work, school, relatives, hobbies, nostalgia, probation officer, etc. ---- This morning I started walking and I sounded like a clown flip-flopping along. I have a pair of work boots that looks like you could climb Mount Everest in them, but the 1/2"-thick super-rugged sole on one practically fell off. I had to duct tape it across the toe, so it really looked like clown shoes. I bought another pair of shoes at GW until I can get some ShoeGoo to fix them up. I picked up a nice 4'-high oak bookcase that I bought at GW last night for 10 USD. Nearby the GW door, there is a Dumpster where people get rid of all the stuff GW doesn't want. This morning there were four new Xerox toner cartridges (to what I don't know yet) and a box of a couple of dozen shrink-wrapped MS software packages that had been out in the rain, so a little squishy. And, as always, a bunch of cloth goods, which I wash and reuse (or give to relatives, friends or a Ukrainian aid charity). I haven't bought a towel, sheet, blanket, etc. in decades. I know all the washing secrets to get out stains, cat pee and mildew smell, tire marks, etc.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 22, 2016 3:33:34 GMT
I think Google maps and Street View are among the truly fantastic tools of the 21st century, overlooked by being taken for granted. I've been able to virtual-visit so many different places, and look at the buildings without ever leaving my room. But I've found that while you can often get a very good idea of what a place looks like, it's still wisest to visit it in person to get a real feeling for what it's like. In the same way that you wouldn't (usually) want to agree to marry someone that you only knew from their photographs. You can tell what they basically look like from photographs, but not how you would get along with them, as well as the fact that people, or places, can look not quite the same in person as in their photos. While from the map of Berlin it does appear that it's sitting on a state highway with train tracks just behind, the reality is that Route 16 a.k.a. Main Street is just that normal looking street you can see the yard sale taking place on, I really don't believe it's a heavy traffic or exceptionally noisy road. And the train tracks appear to be just a freight line that ends right about the same spot as where the church is, and I doubt it's used very much or makes much noise. If you look at the second photo on the Zillow listing, you can see the section of the church to the right of the main chapel. That's where the kitchen, bathrooms, and other ordinary rooms are, and there's plenty of room to make that your normal residence, without having to put up shells inside the chapel. Probably more space than in many whole houses, in those rooms alone. If I were to buy a building like that, the whole point would be to set up my residence in the normal room area, and preserve the chapel as a performance/recording/gallery etc. space. If I were just planning to divide it up into cubicles for living space, that would pretty much defeat the reason I find such buildings desirable. That is in fact what the prospective buyers of the Natick church are planning to do to it, which is slightly depressing to me. And of course they needed to get special permits from the town to allow them to do that, because the Natick church is also on the historic registry. In fact, these two churches were both built around 1880-1881, 200 miles apart. Most of what's keeping me from picking up and moving right now is just the physical effort of having to pick up and to move. If I could fit all my possessions in a suitcase, I could easily get on the bus to New Hampshire and not look back. Also, that might be easier to do if my name were Gus, according to Paul Simon. I'm currently done with work, school, relatives, and probation officers. My interest in finding a creative space, such as a nice church or so, is as a place to indulge my hobbies and nostalgia. Which brings us to what happened today: it appears my video camera's touch screen has stopped working, or at least it seemed to this morning. This may be my cue to buy a new one. This one looks like it may be a good deal, it had high reviews and low price: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01738H3SS?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=A1NZ7IEFV816B1Yesterday my new smooth edge can opener arrived, and I used it today, I'm glad I got it, really works nicely. Well, now if anybody asks, perhaps your nephews/nieces or their children, about your milkshake machine, you can tell them how it brings boys to your yard, and they'll think you're a hep cat, daddyo!
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 24, 2016 23:13:59 GMT
Wow, that is a cheap price! What make and model of camera do you have now? Does the screen pivot or is it fixed to the body? What do you mean by "stopped working," no pix or does it just not respond to touches? ---- The question is, will Berlin let you live in the place? ---- I agree about GE & SV. I remember when the aerial stuff first came out in the '90s, with no street labels, searching or anything and I was thrilled. You had to navigate from some known point to another as though you were looking out an airplane window. I thought it was the cat's knees even back then in that crippled state. Later, SV was a huge step forward, allowing one to get up close and personal. I have often taken "trips" to murder scenes that I have seen on TV. Sometimes they will repaint or otherwise modify a place, but maybe that was just the next owner (who had not been murdered yet) doing their thing. After reading the book about the murder of Kitty Genovese, I toured the murder scene and even where the murderer worked at one time. She was attacked in the front of this building and was later killed in a stairwell around the side when the murderer returned after there was no response to her screams from the neighbors. (It's the next best thing to actually being stabbed, he said in absolutely poor taste. ) It is fun to go back to childhood places and see how huge spaces of land are in fact just postage stamps. While I was in the 3rd grade, I watched a guy who owned a tiny neighborhood convenience store build a bigger one adjacent to it. (He could drive a 3" nail into a 4 x 4 with one blow of a hammer.) When SV came out, I went back and looked at it. The bigger store was a tiny thing and you could still see the footprint of the original store next to it; it was about the size of a Volkswagen! Then they built a new house in the lot next to the store that was so close by that I wondered why the city would allow it. No sooner than the house was finished, the store was demolished (which obviously was part of the deal). You can see where the store was by the extension of the pavement that was in front of it here. The new house is on the left. Too bad SV doesn't go back further than 2007. ---- At GW, I bought a honking tripod for 6 USD that looks something like this: Click to enlarge; click Back to return.Mine has legs made of aluminum (vs. the wood shown) and no spreader shelf, but the construction is otherwise the same. It has a huge platform on top, unlike photographic tripods that are typically less than two inches square or smaller. It is way overkill for any camera except maybe an 8 x 10" (unless you just want to show off), but I can use it for my old-fashioned (not automatically-leveling) dumpy level. (Some day I will spring for the $300 to get an automatically-leveling version that is a lot easier to use.) ---- Last Friday as I was leaving the Recorder's office, I spied a blue tarp-ish thing fluttering in the wind in the vacant lot to the north just to the right of this tree. I walked over to investigate and found a homeless "nest," by which I mean a place where one was and didn't pick up their trash when they left. Notice how the lot itself is otherwise spotless. There was a milk crate and big carrying bag full of clothes, a blanket, a Semper Fi marines door mat, an 8" ceramic bowl, a big yoke-type bicycle lock, and some other stuff, which I scooped up and put in the car. I'll take a trash bag and some latex gloves with me tomorrow, and if all the garbage that was there is still there, I'll clean it up and stuff it in the Recorder's can. I hate the way they think everyone else should do their dirty work and, if they leave anything useful behind, I will disappear it just to make sure they get the point. ---- re Paul Simon: Up around the arctic circle it gets cold at night, They sit around the campfire and discuss their frozen plight, But if there's one thing that they know and have finally got it right, There must be fifty ways to cook your blubber.
Fry it in a pan, Jan, Cook it on a stick, Dick, Barby on the que, Lou, etc. Yes, I wrote that, and I'm danged proud of it.
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 27, 2016 3:00:38 GMT
When I came out of the Recorder's office to move my car, I couldn't get the fob to unlock the door, so I used the key for the first time in years. I turned the key and got NOTHING! It seems I left the parking lights on and I thought the batt was dead. So I get out my humongous jumper cables, hook them up to the batt and stand there on the side of the street like a guy with one of those hand-made cardboard signs. Just then a SMUD worker pulled up in his husky pickup and asked if I need a jump. What luck! He said he gives a jump at least a couple of times a week. After about five minutes—he was doing his paperwork and using his computer in the truck—not a click was heard from my car. Ten minutes in and still no click. Then it dawned on me! It has an intermittent problem wherein the alarm relay contacts don't send power to the starter solenoid. I click the alarm on and off twice, and away she goes. This means that the initial failure to start was due to the relay, not necessarily a discharged batt (although that may have been a problem before the SMUD guy arrived on his white horse uh, I mean white pickup). It probably would have been too weak after two hours to turn over, but I'll never know now. Whew! Driving snatched right out of the jaws of towing. I have this spiffy electronic 18 amp batt charger that is small and light that I got at GW for $10. I carry it in a padded bag along with a small 12 V air compressor, but yesterday, no bag! I must have taken it out of the car and hidden it from myself, so finding it is another project. Plus I have to make up a 100' foot cord from some 18 gauge zip cord, because it doesn't do any good to carry around a batt charger if you don't have any way to reach a nearby outlet, say by running a cord through someone's window. ---- Tomorrow I start five days of dog sitting while my sis and the bro-in-law go up to their vacation place in Grass Valley. The dog loves it up there, so I don't know why she is staying down here this time, but that is the price of free cable with Netflix and a huge LED screen. Last time I took her on our normal walk across this vacant lot and wound up two inches taller. With the rains last week, the clay in that lot is like epoxy and takes a good half hour to scrape off the soles of my shoes with a screwdriver. We will walk around. ---- I ran across this cutesy street street today.
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 27, 2016 21:48:50 GMT
I was supposed to fix up a charger (which she misplaced) for my sis' Bluetooth speaker/patio table:
What a dumb, dull subject for video! It barely moved at all! A stoic performance if there ever was one.
I have a charger that should work fine if fitted with the right connector. But this morning she texted she didn't need to take it back up the hill Thursday after all. So I won't go a day early to fix it, and my dog sitting starts a day later.
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Someone tossed a nice cassette tape deck and a VHS VCR player in the Dumpster behind a GW. Why they didn't just donate it, I don't know, but I'm not complaining.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 28, 2016 7:03:27 GMT
The drama is in the music. You just know there are some vikings ready to pounce on this illuminated wicker patio table, and Xena ready to defend the wicker table to the death! The restrained performance by the table only adds to the dramatic tension through the element of suspense. Hitchcock would be jealous.
Are you really truly sure it's not Goodwill themselves tossing items they think won't sell? Like my library tossing out barrels full of some fairly worthwhile books each week.
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Post by CampKohler on Jan 29, 2016 9:46:13 GMT
Yes, I am sure. GW generates no local trash. Everything goes back to the outlet store as salvage, including wastebasket leavings. They have a huge compactor for anything that they can't recycle. BTW, the Sacramento Public Library tosses all the donated books they don't want into the recycle Dumpster and the whole thing goes back to a similar operation, where they sort it out into books they will put out in the yearly sale or send to paper recycling.
At the same Dumpster two days ago I got a 700 W microwave with the cord missing (gee, I wonder who got that!!!). A homeless couple also grabbed a 3'-tall GE minifridge and slept with it all night. Yesterday morning when I checked back, they were gone, but the fridge (with cord) was still there, so I gave it a new home. I haven't tested it yet. There was also an aluminum engine block, but I've got all the paperweights I need.
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Also two nights ago I thought I pushed the Unlock button on my car door, but pushed the Lock button instead. I found this out when I tried the back door and it was still locked. Then I tried the front door and it was locked, too. And of course the keys were in the ignition. I scrambled all around the shopping center for a wire coat hanger, but no joy. GW said they were impossible to find in their store (they use only plastic). The dry cleaners was long closed. The 99¢ store sold only plastic. Then I trolled nearby homes and someone gave me one. I snaked it in the front door and reached back to where the locking pushrod was exposed due to the inner panel being removed for a window-greasing project. I missed the pushrod by less than an inch, but then the hook on the end got caught in the door metalwork and I couldn't get it free. Rats. Back to another house and got another hanger. This time I managed to hook the pushrod and unlock the door. Phew! It only took me two hours to recover. If the door panel had been in place, I would have had to call a locksmith or break a window. The moral is never, ever do that again! I think I will connect a wire to the Unlock button circuit and let it hang down beneath the car where I can ground it to unlock the doors.
I'm getting sick of these car emergencies. Oh, and I found the bag with the batt charger and air compressor just inside my house front door. (I don't remember doing that.)
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I bought two gorgeous black 6'-tall curved-glass-front audio cabinets with adjustable shelves—they're not racks—at a GW yesterday morning for $12 each! These are consumer grade made from crapical board, but look slick nevertheless. This morning I have to go pick them up (two trips). I'll post pix.
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Post by floppycatlovingbunny on Jan 30, 2016 1:06:17 GMT
I suppose you could also get a duplicate car key made and carry that separately, even if it meant rigging some attachment inside your belt, for just such an emergency. Come to think of it, that's a pretty great idea for any kind of keys, especially house keys. Why didn't I think of that? Well, ok, I did think of it, but then, why didn't I think of it years and years ago? Probably because I only recently saw this: www.listotic.com/25-brilliant-clothing-items-didnt-know-buy/26/Speaking of good ideas, yesterday I ordered a new shower spray that should arrive tomorrow. It has a fixed regular spray, plus a handheld hose spray, which has a pause on/off button built in. That seems to be a good idea to me, that could potentially save lots of water. This might be especially useful in California, where I understand you have restrictions on how much you use? www.amazon.com/dp/B00SCALZSG/?ref=cm_sw_r_pi_dp_FNOQwb0G336T4And this to go with it: www.amazon.com/dp/B00X0LKJMA/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_=3A7GBPQ38WSZ9
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