Poor lighting but best pic I have right now. The old tank is to the left. The clearance is about 42 inches there, and about 48 inches where I tool the pix and the farther off drain line is probably like 36 or so. Isay it levels off to about 2 ft. at the end of it
Weekend activities! (old thread reanimated)
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My microwave had a door sensor switch fail twice - $7 and an hour of work to keep it running fine each time. But there is rust in the bottom that will eventually mean disposal. Our main washer was 20+ years old, repaired many times before the main clutch failed.
So many things can be fixed if you can trace an electrical circuit or adjust a mechanical part. And it feels good to fix something and keep it running. But it doesnât last forever. And getting a tech out costs more than most appliances are worth for most people once the warranty is over.
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The most funniest thing happend with âold Willyâ my famous 11S RoboVac.
From one day to the next he showed strange behavior :
1 m straight ahead then
turning around a while (dancing) then again 1 m straight ahead and dancing.
Even there were no barriers.
I took out the battery to create a reset.
Nothing happened.
OK, I thought, this is dementia.
Could happen to an old boy like him. 
And because he was still working, I didnât care about.
But now, a miracle, he is fine again, recovered.
Drives in the known ways.
He now remembers what to do!
No more amnesia.
My daughter said, because I was talking to him and told him he should do what I expect him to do, he now obeyed and remembered . 
Self repairing! 
Are there still the other 11S alive : Duchesse etc.?
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Getting phantom notifications here now - reminds me of this post (and this reply specifically) as if I had never seen if before.
Sad. The little red number should indicate something new.
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There are two well known âghostsâ around.
Duaneâs and Neilâs.
They are the most active members here.
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I am trying to do better over here⌠
but we are the most active ghost here thoughâŚ
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As far there are no bots, Its OK.
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I havenât had the ghosts in a while but Iâm sure they are still on here somewhere
BooâŚ
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Neil looks somewhat different that what I expectedâŚ
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Neil is an old brewer., we know.
But who ever knows what he is âbrewingâ meanwhile!
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Thankfully that message hasnât haunted me maybe Iâm finally free of the ghosts
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May be the ghosts are afraid of the toughness of young ladies!
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Hope everyone has a nice weekend itâs below freezing where I am so hope all are staying warm. Iâm beyond bundled up for the cold 
I heard
Iâm nearly halfway through an undergrad Immunology course. Fascinating. Things I half understood for years now makes perfect sense.
This last 4 years I did a Cosmology course, but didnât understand the gauge theory part (Higgs mechanism) so had to do a particle physics course, then a quantum mechanics course, then redid the cosmology course and understood it. Took electromagnetics course twice as I was getting rusty.
Now doing immunology as Iâm finding so many âI read that âŚâ nonsense I needed to knowledge-up.
Bought a new bike, the one Iâm using getting too old for me to keep repairing it. This next one should last me until Iâm about Franzâs age.
Walking regularly around 12 miles/day. Iâll watch some lectures at night then listen to them while walking to drum it in.
I know people in China and have been tracking the happenings there. Quite a lot of state based untruths but I think they had a bad December and itâs better now. I feel 2023 may be the year of the Normal. Thereâs quite an interesting topic on demographics Iâll not link to but many places, particularly Russia and China has a problem they probably canât, or wonât, solve looming.
Currently reading on MHC and how in-breeding causes issues, the example of the Tasmania Devil, and it doesnât bode well for Pakistan.
I do know why itâs cold in NA , itâs the heating causing turbulence, so the cold air usually kept in the north goes south. Yes it doesnât make sense to the non-science types of warming = colder but the average temps are higher but the turbulence makes brief unusually cold further south than normal. Wait til the methane released from permafrost kicks in. Quite the rollercoaster for the 21st century to come. Go North. Or, even better, very south (New Zealand, southern Chile) to ride out what is going to happen.
If anyone has the option to, recommend watching âThe Last of Usâ not what youâd think it was about, itâs more âhumanâ.
So it should last for an eternity!
I bought an âoldâ bike at the flea.
Its really like new.
Think the âgrandmaâ was never using it and it was stored save in the basement for 50 years.
Now we are using it for short rides here.
And note the name âBAVARIAâ. Thatâs the best
I own two Kettler Alu bikes : One I use for longer rides and the other is vintage .
The Ladies own two modern ones.
So we are well equipped.
I use to say :
One needs 3 bikes!
One for use, the other is defective and the third is stolen.
MY neighbor owns a bike : value ca 4000 Euros.
But he donât dare to use in the city. 
I have to go to âstealâ fire wood.
They were cutting rotten branches in our park here and I will take these âhomeâ.
Crisis!
We need free combustibles. 
I read about!
Keep warm and safe!
2023 being the year of the Normal seems optimistic, except on the pandemic front. Still a war on. Inflation messing with everything. Supply chain issues are still substantial in the manufacturing industry, probably until at least next year. I would include Iran, but chaos in the middle east is normal. And I donât think we are much closer to AGI, but LLMs like ChatGPT are going to change a lot of things that have been stable for a while.
And maybe the western US water crisis will come to a head too. Water rights that have nothing to do with reservoir levels or available flows, and that arenât priced in any way, leading to obvious craziness like growing alfalfa in the desert for export.
Ahh the good 'ole days when our species numbered a few million, we farmed locally and nothing to fear but a bad harvest.
Now 7 Billion so the virus of the past which killed a village and vanished now is around the planet in a day, weâre poisoning the water, half our food is from 5 plant species (who donât have an adaptive immune system like jawed vertebrates we got 500M years ago).
When youâre a small species your only way is up, when youâre a large species the only way is down.
Not always the good old days were those good old days.
Same as usual : Wars, naturals catastrophes, pestilences, famines.
Hasnât changed that much, only the number of mankind has increased.
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