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Too hot for mosquitos. Later.
How's the weather?
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Lestraveled
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105 deg F in my shop and today, I choose to organize/clean up my steel rack. I have white salt rings on my t-shirt. Yup, I'm nuts, but I do have an ice cold beer in my hand.
Looks like I beat you to it... it's 41°C (106°F) here and it doesn't look like it will get any better soon...105 deg F in my shop and today, I choose to organize/clean up my steel rack. I have white salt rings on my t-shirt. Yup, I'm nuts, but I do have an ice cold beer in my hand.
Do you really think it necessary to do the conversion for us? Musn't we do our own homework?
Actually... I do the conversion for myself
When you're born and raised in the metric system (especially regarding temperature units) there's almost no need to get acquainted with any other system of units. Even today, I have a hard time "feeling" the fahrenheit scale, and have to convert it back to celsius in my head. That's something I don't have to do with inches or feet, for instance, because those are units I use every day.
I am units agnostic. I've got a good feel for almost any commonly used units, and many not commonly used. In my work, I deal mainly with metric, but all of my products do their own conversion depending on user preferences.Actually... I do the conversion for myself
When you're born and raised in the metric system (especially regarding temperature units) there's almost no need to get acquainted with any other system of units. Even today, I have a hard time "feeling" the fahrenheit scale, and have to convert it back to celsius in my head. That's something I don't have to do with inches or feet, for instance, because those are units I use every day.
Good to know... temperature here is now 313.15°K
A comfortable 566.67°Ra here in Pennsylvania.
Both work fine for me...
What's the big deal? Both are absolute scales.
Edit: In fact, unless I am concerned about some physical process, I'd rather use subjective 'warm', 'hot', 'cold', 'burn the logo into my finger', etc. These are far more meaningful than, i.e., 123.5°C.
Yes, I lived in your neck of the woods for a number of years. Here in the southeast, we get torrential rainfall often, but at least the water has somewhere to go. Back in Oldsmar, where I lived, we'd go swimming in the streets after a rain like that. Oh! And catching crawfish in the gutters along the street!
No, but it's perfectly normal around here. An hour after the rain stops, the water is gone. It drains through the sand like coffee in a paper filter.
This scene could happen tomorrow. It's that, "normal".
ps, (bragging) I planted that tree.
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Lestraveled
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@#12
Is that the demonically possessed mini-van you have mentioned occasionally?
Is that the demonically possessed mini-van you have mentioned occasionally?
No, the old Aerostar is not a Ford Explorer and a Ford Explorer is not a minivan.
Life shaped me, pretty much against my will. I was a scrawny little kid until I was 4'8" and fat. Two years later, I was 5 ft 10 inches and skinny. I think that's called, "puberty". I stayed about 5'10" and 165 pounds until I started college...on a bicycle. The bicycle caused my legs to grow so muscular that it was difficult to get my pants over my thighs. Then, along comes a drunk driver and I was allowed to build my upper body by using crutches. Now, it's legs like tree trunks, and upper body like a weight lifter. Using crutches was like doing 50 sets of 50 repetitions of lifting my whole body weight, every day, for 25 years. The reason I squished a disk in my back two years ago is that I found no muscular difficulty in lifting one end of a large couch over my head to get it into a house. It was the leaning backwards over a retaining wall that distorted my spinal column.that looks like a good, sturdy, 'ol rough and ready tree
I'm guessing that's how you look too
I didn't mind breaking a bone every once in a while, but when the penalty changes to spinal cord injury, that game is over! I don't lift furniture or appliances now, I use a 2 wheel dolly.Now, I'm 65 years old, most of it in Florida, and my face is beginning to resemble tree bark.
The tree in the back yard is a camphor tree. It's about 30 feet tall now, and 60 feet wide. I chose that dual trunk so it would grow wide enough to shade my whole house from the west side. It worked! I have central air conditioning in my house, and my electric bill for June was less than $100. I don't know how that translates to Mexican money, but it's a very low price around here. Of course, having 30 years to tune up my house is a luxury few people have, and a job few people will do. In the end, I'm comfortable and my house is a blessing. I still have a wooden leg, and arthritis to match, but there is no way that makes me a cripple. I still mow my own lawn, trim my own trees, and fix my own car. I installed a 40 gallon water heater 3 weeks ago, but I used a wheeled dolly to move it.
The Explorer is an SUV. The Aerostar is a minivan.
Repeat slowly...SUV, minivan...SUV, minivan.
Got it?
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