Wonderer67
Optimistic nihilist
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The boiling should work. Or use distilled water.Here, we don't have chlorine in our water.
Unless I pour some in, if the well needed service.
My favorite was: It's running, but too slow. Now speed it up!One time we had a two week project on a line and halfway thru the first week they took away the second week! We got it done!
Our water companies in the UK are pouring raw sewage into the rivers and our seas, polluting the environment and damaging the tourism business at seaside towns.To avoid amebas, boil the hopefully chlorinated tap water for 2 minutes and let cool. You can do this ahead of time and heat up in a microwave. The heat and chlorine should knock out any amebas.
Water quality and public health was my profession before I retired. What you described is against the law in the USA. But during a rain burst it’s acceptableOur water companies in the UK are pouring raw sewage into the rivers and our seas, polluting the environment and damaging the tourism business at seaside towns.
We used to drive to the coast to swim in the English Channel most weekends in the summer, but we haven't done so for the past two years.
As per house rules, I will avoid delving into the political aspect, but needless to say all the directors of these privatised water companies are paying themselves huge bonuses for poisoning our waters.
Being in the middle of nowhere, you'd think it would be better. But a hundred years of hard rock mining left it's mark in our water systems. While that industry is gone, the heavy metals that were part of the rock have leached from the stampings dumped into lakes and along the shoreline have become a problem. Think EPA Superfund site level of problems.Water quality and public health was my profession before I retired. What you described is against the law in the USA. But during a rain burst it’s acceptable. Many of the beaches in the summer are shut down because of excessive bacteria. After serving in the profession since my 20s for over 40 years it’s very disturbing and disheartening to read how much pollution continues.
Air and water are two basic necessities for human life, yet our species is constantly polluting both of them.Water quality and public health was my profession before I retired. What you described is against the law in the USA. But during a rain burst it’s acceptable. Many of the beaches in the summer are shut down because of excessive bacteria. After serving in the profession since my 20s for over 40 years it’s very disturbing and disheartening to read how much pollution continues.
So much to unpack...Home. Finally. Tooken long enough for the drive.
Ten more days to getting lighter again. That always is a milestone.
The Xmas thingie sucked about like I expectitated.
Could have been worse.
They didn't can Toothless, they transferred him. What a fuck-up that was/is.
There was the little receipts/expense reports/info gatekeeper woman there. Wat is terrified of her. She came over and demanded a hug. We visited for a few minutes as Wat was leaving, and we seem to have similar interests.
They're all too fucking young . . . .
TruthAir and water are two basic necessities for human life, yet our species is constantly polluting both of them.
So much to unpack...
first - Welcome Back!! Very glad you arrived safely.
Lighter days? Win Column![]()
Don't work Holiday Events suck by definition? Did I miss a memo? OMG - it's the 12th and I've heard nothing about a holiday event at my work.
Christmas Miracle 2025 - Likes dropped off the invite list
(If I figure out the how, I'll share the recipe for success)
Don't tempt the Universe!! Yes, it always can be. No, we don't always want it to be.
Why is it that weasels like Toothless skate by moving from department to department or gig to gig without consequence? Is there a Patron Saint of Weasels looking out for them? *stamps foot* I mean, really!
An office vixen demanding physical contact? @Wat_Tyler ... sounds like you might be the Office Stud
That's where all my siblings help me out without even knowing.
Oh, you're the same age as my youngest sibling?Hell No!
Ahh, you the same age as that sibling? It all makes sense now. Buh-bye
What's your formula, @Wat_Tyler ?
@B2fromA2looking4U B2 if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a question. I failed state and federal guidelines for PFOA/PFOS. I've had a dual filtration system as well as two brine tanks installed filtering water from the well. Would that also filter sediment?And everything else or are those filters Just geared for those forever chemicals?Water quality and public health was my profession before I retired. What you described is against the law in the USA. But during a rain burst it’s acceptable. Many of the beaches in the summer are shut down because of excessive bacteria. After serving in the profession since my 20s for over 40 years it’s very disturbing and disheartening to read how much pollution continues.
Saint Marten of HadrenSo much to unpack...
first - Welcome Back!! Very glad you arrived safely.
Lighter days? Win Column![]()
Don't work Holiday Events suck by definition? Did I miss a memo? OMG - it's the 12th and I've heard nothing about a holiday event at my work.
Christmas Miracle 2025 - Likes dropped off the invite list
(If I figure out the how, I'll share the recipe for success)
Don't tempt the Universe!! Yes, it always can be. No, we don't always want it to be.
Why is it that weasels like Toothless skate by moving from department to department or gig to gig without consequence? Is there a Patron Saint of Weasels looking out for them? *stamps foot* I mean, really!
An office vixen demanding physical contact? @Wat_Tyler ... sounds like you might be the Office Stud
That's where all my siblings help me out without even knowing.
Oh, you're the same age as my youngest sibling?Hell No!
Ahh, you the same age as that sibling? It all makes sense now. Buh-bye
What's your formula, @Wat_Tyler ?

Technical question mister wat. I have 23 windows in my house.Home. Finally. Tooken long enough for the drive. The Google brought me home on the US routes, so I reckon there was Some Shiznit on the Interstates. No matter. Of course, most of it was in the dark. Ten more days to getting lighter again. That always is a milestone. The Xmas thingie sucked about like I expectitated. Could have been worse. They didn't can Toothless, they transferred him. What a fuck-up that was/is. There was the little receipts/expense reports/info gatekeeper woman there. Wat is terrified of her. She came over and demanded a hug. We visited for a few minutes as Wat was leaving, and we seem to have similar interests.
They're all too fucking young . . . .
Anyone else have a Star Trek flashback?We're still on Weasel Watch for Toofless.
Nope - too cute
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bettererThat was my thing, I was a control system engineer and did a ton of PLC programming.My favorite was: It's running, but too slow. Now speed it up!
It's not like you can just tell 250 welding robots and a bazillion lines of ladder logic to run faster.
I can still hear the sizzle of the MIG robots in my ears, eating up those thousand pound plus spools of wire.
This explains SO. MUCH.Saint Marten of HadrenView attachment 2583141
It is not the first belly button attack i have had. My hysterectony was laprascopic assisted. This time felt more violent. I am not sure but site looks a llttle angryDon't you feel so violated when they go through your belly button!
It seems worse than a colonoscopy even...![]()
No good deed bud...... You tried to help friends. Sometimes thats a bite in the ass.....Just venting…
The kid who leased space at my farm is as reliable as a rain dance and is as disorganized as the three stooges without the comedic effect.
He hasn’t paid me since June so in August, I terminated the lease and gave him 90 days notice, per the lease. This was after 3 years of him not paying rent on time and me noodging him for rent on a monthly basis. And his house clean out business just filling up our old stone mill…
He says he’ll be out in October anyway, but I say he technically has till November 15 per the lease. Cuz I’m too nice.
Beginning of November, he says he’ll need an extra week. I say OK, because I don’t want to be stuck with all of his house clean out shit which is basically just junk. Cuz I’m too nice.
Then he says he needs one more week. I tell him December 1. He’s obviously yes -ing me to death, the last week of November most of this shit is still there.
He keeps on going on, but I have a contractor who is moving his shit in on Monday… and more than anything I don’t want to be stuck moving HIS shit out. Now he says he needs till Tuesday or Wednesday and he needs to hire a dumpster. (No shit!) this probably means Thursday.
To complicate things he’s the son of one of my best friends. I am so done w this guy. He has fucked me over since day one and I will be glad when he’s fucking gone and all of his junk with him.
Just venting. First world problems. It will be over soon. New tenant says waiting till next week to move in is fine for him to move stuff in…