Recent content by greenjp

4 pages in an no mention of Volbeat?!?! Danish.

Ours is set to drop the set temp a couple degrees around 1 AM to provide that little extra bit of cooling overnight.

Our place has the 2nd floor system in the attic and this is the very reason I don't run the fan in continuous on mode in the summer. Despite the soffits and ridge vent it's hot as hell up there so the air running through the (insulated) ducts is going to pick up some heat energy and despite my...

If low brow is OK the local hot dog chain Yocco's is great. Get a few chili dogs with everything and some pierogies. First started going there when I worked in Allentown during a summer in college (1998), married a girl from there so go back from time to time and it's always fun to go to a...

Dredd with Karl Urban is great. The Raid and The Raid 2 are amazing, do not be troubled by the subtitles :)

$6 here, I'll buy a few boxes of Samoas one at a time during the season when they're set up outside of the grocery store. Somebody mentioned the insane pricing for the popcorn the Boy Scouts sell, it's true. I'm a Eagle Scout so very supportive of the cause, but usually just give them a $5...

Spent a fair bit of time aboard the bridge of a variety of vessels, AIS on or off the radars still see the ships around and generate tracks. Between that and the ECDIS the crew has excellent situational awareness. AIS on or off almost irrelevant for avoiding collisions. jeff

Not at the moment, but last night I saw Jerry Cantrell at the Fillmore here in MD:

Tore my meniscus by hyperextending my knee while on the job. My work is mostly desk job engineering but I work on ships/facilities from time to time. Treatment was covered and it's been fine in the 10 years since it happened. jeff

My own little update, not long after my post the old Craftsman lighter-powered one bit the dust so I got the cordless Makita. It is excellent! Faster than the 12v Craftsman and gets a lot of run time from the typical 4 amp-hr battery. One odd/bad "feature" is that you can't lock the trigger...

Always liked these guys. I am the announcer/DJ for my kids' summer swim team, have a lengthy playlist of tunes of many genres, Soul Man's on there. Gotta educate those kids about good music 😁

I've got the same Makita blower, works great and as you've discovered is good for a fairly short run time on those typical 4 amp-hr batteries but I find it very useful. I use it to blow off the solid surfaces around the house (driveway, sidewalks, deck) and the garage but I do not use it for...

Nerf guns. It helps to have a part of the house you don't mind having filled with the darts all over the place but it's lots of fun to have a bunch of guns lying around and have a John Wick battle with the kids lol. jeff

I picked up my first pairs of glasses today at Costco. I'm 47 and while my vision is still pretty OK I definitely have some issues with fine print and my right eye is pretty blurry compared to the left. Primary care doc sent me to an ophthalmologist to get them checked out. Left with...

Don't smoke too frequently anymore but when I did, Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur was my go-to! jeff