So we will be getting winds around 35mph today and it will drop down in temp over the next day or so (28° day time and 9° at nights.) Calling for 30% chance of snow. I don't think we will get snow as we need about 50% chance or more before we get snow.
Sooooooooo good luck, the wind is coming from the North and going South. :o :o The Blue Mountains will be hit big time again. 8)
I just got word, we will get about 2+ feet Thursday night.
I hate this shit!!!
Quote from: Solar on February 22, 2011, 06:55:46 PM
I just got word, we will get about 2+ feet Thursday night.
I hate this shit!!!
Yes they say the Mountains will be measured in feet not inchs. They have moved the % up from 20% now all the way up around 70% + so me may see snow yet over the next 2 days. Sounds like ST needs a book or two. :o
She has her Kindle and I showed her how to download games.
I just hope it will keep her out of my hair, she gets cabin fever really bad.
ST...go clean your room, if you're bored....
Quote from: Solar on February 22, 2011, 07:46:29 PM
She has her Kindle and I showed her how to download games.
I just hope it will keep her out of my hair, she gets cabin fever really bad.
ST...go clean your room, if you're bored....
Hmmmm......Is that Kindle good, ok, or so so. The good wife has about 1000 + she had not even look at yet. Don't know a thing about them. Would that stop her for bring books home. LOL
Quote from: Solar on February 22, 2011, 07:46:29 PM
She has her Kindle and I showed her how to download games.
I just hope it will keep her out of my hair, she gets cabin fever really bad.
ST...go clean your room, if you're bored....
How is it like to read on that? Is it like reading a monitor? Is it easier on the eyes?
Quote from: taxed on February 22, 2011, 09:08:26 PM
How is it like to read on that? Is it like reading a monitor? Is it easier on the eyes?
This would be nice to know, as my wife can read 6 to 8 hrs at a time.
Quote from: walkstall on February 22, 2011, 09:21:54 PM
This would be nice to know, as my wife can read 6 to 8 hrs at a time.
Walkstall, your lady sounds like me. Mr. Mouse has forbidden anymore additions to my library until I go through it and purge. That's going to be very hard, since if I actually spend money on a book, it means a lot to me. Usually I go to my library. I've had a Kindle recommended to me, but I love the feel of a book in my hands, and am not sure if it's for me.
Quote from: Mighty_Mouse on February 23, 2011, 09:19:51 AM
Walkstall, your lady sounds like me. Mr. Mouse has forbidden anymore additions to my library until I go through it and purge. That's going to be very hard, since if I actually spend money on a book, it means a lot to me. Usually I go to my library. I've had a Kindle recommended to me, but I love the feel of a book in my hands, and am not sure if it's for me.
LOL Sorry, I would not forbid my wife her Library or Quilting. The books alone would tip the house on it side. The Quilting keeps it from tipping over. LOL For every book she takes out, she bring home 5 more. But then I do have my computer room. ;D ;D
Quote from: walkstall on February 23, 2011, 09:34:36 AM
LOL Sorry, I would not forbid my wife her Library or Quilting. The books alone would tip the house on it side. The Quilting keeps it from tipping over. LOL For every book she takes out, she bring home 5 more. But then I do have my computer room. ;D ;D
The reason he put a halt on me buying anymore is because it fills three rooms in our house, also my DIL has some at their place, and my MIL some at hers. My library dates back to before Mr. Mouse and I were married, and contains some real classics that I found at yard sales and such. I really do have to go through and purge, he is right (he usually is), because I want to add to my WWII collection, and my Tudor/Stuart one. I don't quilt, but my MIL does, and she loves it. I garden, and hook rugs.
(that's the reason my DIL recommended Kindle to me, BTW) :))
Since ST is busy, I will answer.
The print is fantastic, you can adjust the text to any size you like, and it's clarity is that of a laser printer.
Buy one, and you have literally thousands of books to download for free, many classics, and many out of print.
if you get the 3G model, you can download anywhere.
Quote from: Solar on February 23, 2011, 01:15:17 PM
Since ST is busy, I will answer.
The print is fantastic, you can adjust the text to any size you like, and it's clarity is that of a laser printer.
Buy one, and you have literally thousands of books to download for free, many classics, and many out of print.
if you get the 3G model, you can download anywhere.
Hmmmmm.....What no copyright like with CD.
Now is ST's a Kindle 3G or 3G/Wi-Fi???
Quote from: walkstall on February 23, 2011, 02:37:42 PM
Hmmmmm.....What no copyright like with CD.
Now is ST's a Kindle 3G or 3G/Wi-Fi???
She just has the Wi-Fi, but the 3G unit is basically a cellphone.
ST has to go to the library to download, for some reason it doesn't recognize our wireless router.
Up here, all she has to do is pull into the parking lot, and within seconds, downloads 5 or 6 books, it really is that fast.
Quote from: Solar on February 23, 2011, 02:42:18 PM
She just has the Wi-Fi, but the 3G unit is basically a cellphone.
ST has to go to the library to download, for some reason it doesn't recognize our wireless router.Up here, all she has to do is pull into the parking lot, and within seconds, downloads 5 or 6 books, it really is that fast.
Hmmm is it password protected. I have Wi-Fi also and a cellphone. So if you get the 3G unit you would be paying for a cellphone also just so you could use it right?
I live out in the boonies, what my kids call a "dead zone"; cell phones don't work at my home, we don't have wifi. From what I've been reading, Kindles sound great, but if I have to go to the library to download, I might just as well get the books.....For ST, a question, or Solar if you can answer: when biographies or other nonfiction books are downloaded, do you also get the pictures/portraits/maps that are in the books themselves? I'm asking because some of my books are illustrated, and are treasures to me (such as a bio of Henry VIII or Charles II).
Quote from: Mighty_Mouse on February 23, 2011, 05:22:51 PM
I live out in the boonies, what my kids call a "dead zone"; cell phones don't work at my home, we don't have wifi. From what I've been reading, Kindles sound great, but if I have to go to the library to download, I might just as well get the books.....For ST, a question, or Solar if you can answer: when biographies or other nonfiction books are downloaded, do you also get the pictures/portraits/maps that are in the books themselves? I'm asking because some of my books are illustrated, and are treasures to me (such as a bio of Henry VIII or Charles II).
Quote from: walkstall on February 23, 2011, 03:04:47 PM
Hmmm is it password protected. I have Wi-Fi also and a cellphone. So if you get the 3G unit you would be paying for a cellphone also just so you could use it right?
Your account is with Amazon, so yes, it is protected.
It will work with a wireless, I just don't want to mess with ours, they said we need to make some changes to make it work, but we had such a problem setting it up, that we don't want to risk losing our Internet for a day or so.
Besides, ST works right next door to the library.
Quote from: Mighty_Mouse on February 23, 2011, 05:22:51 PM
I live out in the boonies, what my kids call a "dead zone"; cell phones don't work at my home, we don't have wifi. From what I've been reading, Kindles sound great, but if I have to go to the library to download, I might just as well get the books.....For ST, a question, or Solar if you can answer: when biographies or other nonfiction books are downloaded, do you also get the pictures/portraits/maps that are in the books themselves? I'm asking because some of my books are illustrated, and are treasures to me (such as a bio of Henry VIII or Charles II).
I think so, I've seen some on her Kindle.
You can also hit any hot spot, like Starbucks to download.
What about the copyright.
And if it free why have a account with Amazon??
Is this old man missing something lol
Remember I am cheap. ;D
Sorry I have been busy at work and exhausted at home... But to try and answer some of the questions.
With the 3G you do not pay any monthly fee or anything to download the books, it is part of the deal of it being a few bucks more.
MM - Some illustrations/diagrams come through but probably not the ones you mentioned. It really is pretty much for reading.
I do a lot of reading of my favorite novels, health books, and even cookbooks. They also have a ton of free books or books for 99 cents. My daughter and Solar have both gotten me kindle cards that put money on my Amazon account so I can just go order what I want. I have found some very interesting older books in the free section. Some with print date in the 1800's. I also downloaded and read Little women for free and have Anna Karenina on for when I am ready.
Since I can download and keep up to 3500 books on this thing I don't think I will run out any time soon. Oh and you can also set up categories and such to sort your books in groups.
Hope this helps answer some of the questions and MM I still collect my old cookbooks etc....that I can't give up.
And BTW Solar I am not going to clean "our" room. :) :)
Quote from: Solars Toy on February 23, 2011, 07:09:08 PM
Sorry I have been busy at work and exhausted at home... But to try and answer some of the questions.
With the 3G you do not pay any monthly fee or anything to download the books, it is part of the deal of it being a few bucks more.
MM - Some illustrations/diagrams come through but probably not the ones you mentioned. It really is pretty much for reading.
I do a lot of reading of my favorite novels, health books, and even cookbooks. They also have a ton of free books or books for 99 cents. My daughter and Solar have both gotten me kindle cards that put money on my Amazon account so I can just go order what I want. I have found some very interesting older books in the free section. Some with print date in the 1800's. I also downloaded and read Little women for free and have Anna Karenina on for when I am ready.
Since I can download and keep up to 3500 books on this thing I don't think I will run out any time soon. Oh and you can also set up categories and such to sort your books in groups.
Hope this helps answer some of the questions and MM I still collect my old cookbooks etc....that I can't give up.
And BTW Solar I am not going to clean "our" room. :) :)
Thanks Solar and ST.
Solar, now you can go into the room and know where you put something and it will be there yet.. ;)
Quote from: Solars Toy on February 23, 2011, 07:09:08 PM
And BTW Solar I am not going to clean "our" room. :) :)
You say that now, but when there is more than a foot of snow on the ground this weekend, you know you'll be pulling out the vacuum.
Quote from: walkstall on February 23, 2011, 07:36:46 PM
Thanks Solar and ST.
Solar, now you can go into the room and know where you put something and it will be there yet.. ;)
ROFL!!!!!!
:P No snow for us, well we did have some wed about 3:PM for 15 min then it was gone. 7:AM and 14º out the dog look at me when I open the door and look at me as to say he not going out just yet. LOL The sun is all red coming up over the Blue Mt. Not a cloud in the sky for about 80 mil around. (yet LOL) The ground and deck all look like 1000's of little diamonds. You can feel the sun coming throught the very cold window's over looking the Columbia River. The sun will be glistening off the river water for the next 2 hrs. or so.
Look like your getting hit big time ST and Solar along with Elfie and q.
Yep WT we are getting hit good. Woke up to a good 6-8 inches and it is still falling steady and heavy. I just try to take it a day at a time. At least my boss is being very understanding. He seems to be taking it better than me. LOL :) :)
Quote from: Solars Toy on February 25, 2011, 07:26:46 AM
Yep WT we are getting hit good. Woke up to a good 6-8 inches and it is still falling steady and heavy. I just try to take it a day at a time. At least my boss is being very understanding. He seems to be taking it better than me. LOL :) :)
Can you work from home? I know my girls can go on line (and cell phone) and work for home on days like this.
Quote from: walkstall on February 25, 2011, 07:34:56 AM
Can you work from home? I know my girls can go on line (and cell phone) and work for home on days like this.
Some things I can do from home...others I have to be there for - like meetings.
Quote from: walkstall on February 25, 2011, 07:22:29 AM
Look like your getting hit big time ST and Solar along with Elfie and q.
We were without electricity and natural gas for three days, and there is still a slab of sidewalk ice that hours of determined chopping cannot get rid of, more than a few inches a day. My sainted frau put up with my whining only one night, and then we went motel-shopping. By the time we found one, 40 miles away, it had become a regional nightmare. Three counties were largely without power, about 190,000 customers of just our power company alone.
Inside it was about 42 at the coldest, but outside it was thousands of downed tree limbs and three outside tree-service contractors from three states, working 24/7 to get roads clear and room for the power companies to restore downed lines. Two trees on our property took massive losses from the ice, but our house was undamaged as far as I know.
I was
NOT fit company for this board until today. Even the one night of actual heat didn't help that much, because outside our motel room it was never more than freezing (and usually much worse).
As overnight temps fell below 19 degrees, our car wouldn't start without an hour of a heat lamp directly over the engine. To get that lamp in a strange town and STILL have enough time to get the car started BEFORE check-out was an adventure in itself, and a 2-mile hike for Milady.
Tomorrow we go back up there. I left my wallet in my haste to leap into that newly-started car. Just in time to enjoy the $3.39/gallon gas prices that are now common to our area. I think I already know who's driving back home.
Quote from: Mighty_Mouse on February 23, 2011, 12:37:54 PM
The reason he put a halt on me buying anymore is because it fills three rooms in our house, also my DIL has some at their place, and my MIL some at hers. My library dates back to before Mr. Mouse and I were married, and contains some real classics that I found at yard sales and such. I really do have to go through and purge, he is right (he usually is), because I want to add to my WWII collection, and my Tudor/Stuart one. I don't quilt, but my MIL does, and she loves it. I garden, and hook rugs.
(that's the reason my DIL recommended Kindle to me, BTW) :))
Here's a suggestion that might pick off more than one bird for you, MM. Try a website called Bookmooch -- www.bookmooch.com
I was a member until I had to move twice in about six months... I need to get signed up again. Anyhow, if you can bear to part with some books, this is a good way to do it while gaining access to a TREMENDOUS source of free reading material. Unless they've changed things, membership is free; the only thing you pay for is postage when YOU mail a book TO someone.
Keep in mind that most of the titles available are softcover (naturally), but if it's the actual content you're after -- along with that priceless feel of bound paper in your hands -- who cares?
Now that does not sound for a happy week.
Hope thing change for you and n.
Quote from: walkstall on February 26, 2011, 08:29:16 PM
Now that does not sound for a happy week.
Hope thing change for you and n.
The power was back on when we got home Wednesday. A good thing, as power was back on at work, too, and I had to go to work. It's much better now, even though the television set seems to have fried something during the extreme brownout we had. Not quite no power, but not enough to run a light bulb at more than night light brightness. I told him to start shopping for a new TV if he wants to watch his movies on the big screen. ;)
Quote from: quiller on February 26, 2011, 05:16:33 PM
We were without electricity and natural gas for three days, and there is still a slab of sidewalk ice that hours of determined chopping cannot get rid of, more than a few inches a day. My sainted frau put up with my whining only one night, and then we went motel-shopping. By the time we found one, 40 miles away, it had become a regional nightmare. Three counties were largely without power, about 190,000 customers of just our power company alone.
Inside it was about 42 at the coldest, but outside it was thousands of downed tree limbs and three outside tree-service contractors from three states, working 24/7 to get roads clear and room for the power companies to restore downed lines. Two trees on our property took massive losses from the ice, but our house was undamaged as far as I know.
I was NOT fit company for this board until today. Even the one night of actual heat didn't help that much, because outside our motel room it was never more than freezing (and usually much worse).
As overnight temps fell below 19 degrees, our car wouldn't start without an hour of a heat lamp directly over the engine. To get that lamp in a strange town and STILL have enough time to get the car started BEFORE check-out was an adventure in itself, and a 2-mile hike for Milady.
Tomorrow we go back up there. I left my wallet in my haste to leap into that newly-started car. Just in time to enjoy the $3.39/gallon gas prices that are now common to our area. I think I already know who's driving back home.
Damn!!!
Q and Naleta......I will never complain again. :o At least with the solar we are never without power and the propane and woodstove keep the house comfortable. (Although Solar and I do not always agree as to what "comfortable" should be.)
I am glad you got power back and things are now looking better. Hopefully it will all melt soon and life can return to normal. Q good luck on the new TV. :) :)
Quote from: Solars Toy on February 27, 2011, 09:59:38 AM
Q and Naleta......I will never complain again. :o At least with the solar we are never without power and the propane and woodstove keep the house comfortable. (Although Solar and I do not always agree as to what "comfortable" should be.)
I am glad you got power back and things are now looking better. Hopefully it will all melt soon and life can return to normal. Q good luck on the new TV. :) :)
I'm thinking about a 40" LED model with a fast refresh rate. And a new DVD/Blu-Ray playback unit (for the inevitable time new issues will only come in the Blu-Ray format). Maybe $600 to $700 range, if I get lucky.
The old TV had been acting up, anyway, with brief vertical flashes a few pixels wide, just for a few seconds every hour or so of use. So this wasn't totally unexpected---just one more irritation in a week that
DEFINITELY could have gone a lot better.
Quote from: quiller on February 27, 2011, 12:55:07 PM
I'm thinking about a 40" LED model with a fast refresh rate. And a new DVD/Blu-Ray playback unit (for the inevitable time new issues will only come in the Blu-Ray format). Maybe $600 to $700 range, if I get lucky.
The old TV had been acting up, anyway, with brief vertical flashes a few pixels wide, just for a few seconds every hour or so of use. So this wasn't totally unexpected---just one more irritation in a week that DEFINITELY could have gone a lot better.
Look for a unit that plays both Blu-ray and regular DVDs, we have one of each, such a pain in the ass switching back and forth.
Quote from: Solar on February 27, 2011, 01:08:33 PM
Look for a unit that plays both Blu-ray and regular DVDs, we have one of each, such a pain in the ass switching back and forth.
I have ask around for them for the good wife. They look at me like what you talking about old man. LOL
Quote from: walkstall on February 27, 2011, 01:13:45 PM
I have ask around for them for the good wife. They look at me like what you talking about old man. LOL
We had one, but it failed, couldn't seem to find another, but then, we only looked at Bes Buy and Sam's.
Heres one at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-UP5000-HD-DVD-Blu-Ray-Player/dp/B000VDG0UK
It was a Sony Blu-ray player. It would also play regular DVD's :)
Quote from: Solar on February 27, 2011, 01:27:22 PM
Heres one at Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-UP5000-HD-DVD-Blu-Ray-Player/dp/B000VDG0UK (http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-UP5000-HD-DVD-Blu-Ray-Player/dp/B000VDG0UK)
:o :o :o
Okey-dokey! At
that price I'll pay $35/each at Wally World for a pair of regular DVD players --- and have something new to grouse about when (and if) I ever do buy an affordable Blu-Ray player, and have to switch back and forth.
Or I could just buy a switcher box of some sort. I'm sure there must be someone out there making one for the collectors not wanting to get caught out in the cold (as I was with reel to reel audio).
Quote from: quiller on February 27, 2011, 05:31:05 PM
:o :o :o Okey-dokey! At that price I'll pay $35/each at Wally World for a pair of regular DVD players --- and have something new to grouse about when (and if) I ever do buy an affordable Blu-Ray player, and have to switch back and forth.
Or I could just buy a switcher box of some sort. I'm sure there must be someone out there making one for the collectors not wanting to get caught out in the cold (as I was with reel to reel audio).
Personally, I think Blu-Ray is over stated, yes, there is a difference, but not so much that it takes away from the movie if you don't have it.
I too have an Akai 4 channel reel to reel, its all I have left out of a complete set, Pioneer tuner, 15" Kenwood 6 way speakers and two Sansui somethings, I still have the Sansuis' though.
But the reel to reel will be someones collector item when I'm dead and long, long gone.
I bet I couldn't even give it away now. :'(
To my knowledge, consumer-grade open-reel decks were last made in the late 1980s, and professional-model units not much longer than that. Hobbyists in Old Time Radio circles do buy non-working models for parts, and the Akai (aka Roberts) units sold at places like Radio Shack ARE valued for parts.
http://reviews.ebay.com/AKAI-Reel-to-Reel-Tape-Decks-Guide_W0QQugidZ10000000000835946 (http://reviews.ebay.com/AKAI-Reel-to-Reel-Tape-Decks-Guide_W0QQugidZ10000000000835946)
Also of note, this repair site, in New Mexico....
http://fieldengineer.homestead.com/ (http://fieldengineer.homestead.com/)
Quote from: tbone0106 on February 26, 2011, 08:22:17 PM
Here's a suggestion that might pick off more than one bird for you, MM. Try a website called Bookmooch -- www.bookmooch.com (http://www.bookmooch.com/)
I was a member until I had to move twice in about six months... I need to get signed up again. Anyhow, if you can bear to part with some books, this is a good way to do it while gaining access to a TREMENDOUS source of free reading material. Unless they've changed things, membership is free; the only thing you pay for is postage when YOU mail a book TO someone.
Keep in mind that most of the titles available are softcover (naturally), but if it's the actual content you're after -- along with that priceless feel of bound paper in your hands -- who cares?
Thank you for the suggestion, Tbone, I didn't read this until just now, and have already donated stuff to our library (in return, I get to use the geneology library for free!). We also have a really great secondhand bookstore here that I love, I just trade in books for other books, or an amount "on account", they don't pay for the trade-ins, but allow one to get more books. I kept one Stephen King, "Salem's Lot", my favorite of his (I'm very disappointed with his stuff over the last 20 years or so) and one Dean Koontz, "Strangers", my favorite of his.
It's getting harder to hold a book and turn the pages (I have RA), and so Mr. Mouse is going to buy me a Kindle if I want one. It's why I'm asking about pictures, etc. I love my biographies, especially of England's monarchs, and others, and of course pictures, portraits, maps, etc are included in those. I'm also looking at Barnes and Noble's Nook, it has a touch screen and looks really nice. From what ST has been kind enough to share, I think I can download most everything to read on one of those, and I can still buy a biography or history book, so I'd get the best of both worlds! Little Women for free....wow....
To Naleta: your sig pic is very pretty! :)