THE LAST PERSON TO POST HERE WINS - 24

Just 111 away from a winner on the slot machine.  Coincidence?

See the nutz are busy flappin the yap 'bout who is king of the sewage heap over on [distributed software board].  Someone who couldn't stand the odor at Seti has stank that place up worse than a bunch of Trumpettes.  Perhaps he should take a bath, but that would kill a lot of fish.  Coincidence?

Oh.

Thank you.

I wish I'd known :) I had an awful weekend. I also managed to make everyone else have an awful weekend too *blink slowly round thread* yes, it is an awesome talent I appear to have developed of late.

It all started with *flick eyes at Mike* going to the doctors. 

Y-e-e-e-e-s. It was an appointment that took an interminable time to get, and for which I was so grateful for too... *sigh*. and was only made because the receptionist  said I couldn't request a flu vaccination because I wasn't on their "list" of vulnerables.

Then things went horribly wrong when I got in to see him and I ended up saying nothing, except some sorrys and an: I will-okay-bye.

And I then went to the chemist with the prescription he gave me and then went home, carrying at least two bugs back there with me. Yes. The one that gave me flu, and the one that gave everyone else except my mother, a version of norovirus that I managed not to give them when I had it last year.

My mother wavered between not remembering anyone was ill, then asking if anyone was and saying no one had told her... to not caring anyone was ill at all, which didn't really help. 

And my prescription has made me feel even worse *roll eyes* I know! You all thought I'd finished moaning :)

@the bells and map pins

I like them :)

you know when I first discovered the new site and had a query about continually going to the opening post of a thread and some einsteinians helped me work out what I was doing wrong so that I went to the first post I hadn't read...?  :) Well - I'm now having a problem where I keep going to the last post. It's not important, just slowish but if there is any help out there it would be greatly appreciated :) 

edit: I forgot to ask about your cough, David? I hope it's getting better

I also forgot to say hello to everyone , which I'll do here where I say bye :) hello! :)

Bloody doctors !

They worry about nothing and check everything. Ah. It's the old saying : do you want the carefree doctor or the obsessive one ? You need to have some of each. When will people realise that I order brain scans so that I don't get the headache ! As for specialist specialists, here's a laugh :

- my registration renewal has a new twist. I am a specialist now. My specialty is general practice. No joke. I'm a special generalist. I think they re-classified me to cover for the fact they charge me more .... there is no general category any more. Not even general generalist. It's so reassuring to know we have competent and focused bureaucrats running the Department Of Tick-a-boxes. 

{ Our clinic also does have a buy one get two free policy. We use the air conditioning for that .... I mean there is business, and then there is repeat business. Go on, guess which we chose. It is so important to come back to discuss the side effects of what we first gave you. :-)) }

As for my weekend, well I had my 3.6 KVA the generator running the house for most of it. Winds came through and dropped trees, and thus the local grid, something awful. Spent the time cutting and stacking tree fragments.

Cheers, Mike.

Hi Bill ! I'm looking at getting a 7 to 8 KVA, diesel probably with sound damping & push button start. Properly mount it on a concrete plinth at the side of the house and run a cable to an isolation switch ( grid/off-grid ) at the house's main board. Obviously get a pro to install it all. So next power outage just flick to off-grid and press the start button. Saves running power cords throughout the house as it comes through the normal power points.

Now if I had a 700 KVA for a mere $150K AUD I could be the neighborhood's energy tsar ..... actually there is more than a few such megawatty modules about the district now. About the size of a shipping container. Our local pharmacist is still waiting to be reconnected, he's using a dribble of solar at present.

I have looked at Elon's Powerwall stuff, it won't be fully available until early next year here. In any case it is price competitive but only, as usual, depending on one's choice of solar panel type. While they've come a long way since plain amorphous silicon, what I really want is the ones that they run satellites on, great efficiency, but worth megabucks.

Cheers, Mike.