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More Electric Outlets, Pretty Please

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If someone asked me if I could have one wish for my home, I would reply, “More outlets please, and more easily accessed.”

I don’t know what it would cost, but I would have to say at least 3,000 dollars to rewire my home. So, if the house needs to be rewired, may as do it right. All the aluminum would need to come out. If I knew they used aluminum, the house would have remained vacant.

Every place where there is a double outlet, I want four. I no longer have cable. However, when I had AT&T cable, each of the following had to be plugged into an extension chord. The TV, The gateway, the DVD player, and the adapter for the TV. I’m really not sure. I just might have left something out. At any rate, the extension chord was plugged into one side of the double outlet.

Moreover, every time I needed to access one or more plugs, it was no fun. Actually, it was a neusance.

The kitchen has got at least twice as many appliances as outlets and only two are accessible. The outlet for the stove is behind it and the thing keeps coming unplugged. Every time it does, I must pull the stove out. My wife actually likes that. It does gives her a chance to clean behind it.

If I were so fortunate to have a house built for me, I would have far more outlets and they would all be accessible, even if behind the bed or couch. They don’t have to show. Covers could be designed to cover it all. Then they could be flipped out of the way to gain accessed.

My current house was built in the early 70s. It was a different time without computers or fridges with ice makers. I must watch the balance of my load or I’ll trip a breaker. When I used my central air conditioner, it tripped one of the main breakers every few weeks anyway. I had an electrician look at it and he basically said I need to rewire my house, which I already knew.

Here’s a thought right off the top of my head. How about a switch to control 3 or 4 sets of outlets. I would like a switch on each one. that way, if I need to open that individual outlet box, I could turn it off right next to the outlet and connect the ground wire the builder neglected to connect. Also, the switch could double as a circuit breaker as on the modern extension chords. That can’t be that expensive.

Hydro Mousse

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New idea on how to grow a really nice lawn, maybe perfect.

  1. start out by pouring about 1 to 2 inches of concrete in the area where you want the lawn.
  2. After the concrete is well set, spray some of that Hydro Mousse all over the concrete.
  3. Water regularly.
  4. In a few weeks, you’ll have a nice beautiful green lawn.

You doubt it? You see the advertisement on TV? They grew the stuff on concrete blocks… upside down. Ought to grow even better right side up. The neat part is that there will be no weeds. If there were any, they wouldn’t be able to grow in the concrete.

Sorry. Might be a little expensive.

Do You Like This Idea

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Maybe, if you like the idea, if you know the right people or you have enough money, you just might want to try it.  Mind you, I don’t know if it will work.  My wife is always telling me that I think too much.

It just is, I use this shortcut that I borrowed from others.  It makes things easier and faster.  Whenever I get a new trash bag out, I get four.  I put three in the bottom of the trash can and put one in, in the usual way.  That way, next time I take out the trash, I’ll need not go back to the cupboard.  I simply pull one off the bottom of the container.

I would suspect I am not the only one doing this.  Indeed, it is possible that some, when they buy 30 bags, they put all thirty in the bottoms of the container.  It would take a while, but it saves time later.  Moreover, if like me, it saves me chasing down where I put the unused bags.

Then, as my wife says, the gears in my brain keep going.  I thought, why not sell them in stacks instead of in a rolls.  Maybe the stacks could contain 10 or 12 bags.  I don’t know how many would be best.

However, when the bags run out, you just put another stack in.  Well, I suppose you might need to go out and get some more.  Might want to make sure you keep and extra stack or two, maybe three.

Just a dumb idea.  I assure you that it is worth every cent you are paying for it.

Incidentally, the bags would not take up as much space in storage if they are folded.

We All Should Know

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However, so very few do. First, common sense. Second, courage. Third honesty. Finally, and most importantly, a good sense of humor. Sometimes, it helps to be able to laugh when the world starts falling down around you. Otherwise, it just might drive a person to madness.

Some might call it madness to laugh in the face of adversity. Then again, we are all entitled to an opinion. Personally, I consider a coping mechanism and I try to use it regularly.

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“News Can Make a Person’s Life Better”

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They keep saying this on News, Channel 3, WREG in Memphis.

I can’t say I disagree. I don’t even dislike it. It just is that the opposite is also true and most of us know it after a little thought. I mean as long is the news is accurate, it’s a good thing. However, spreading lies is never good. Nightly, I see lies being told regularly as if absolute truth.

I guess I can’t say they’re alone. I would give examples. However, with a little thought, I am sure most folks can easily come up with a list.

It’s not just wrong to bear false witness, it can destroy lives instead of helping. Moreover, it is wrong, very wrong to call evil good and evil good. It makes me wonder why a person would want to do it, especially after calling themselves church going truth seekers.

Free Food!

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Just saw a news headline on the news, Free Food. No such thing. Someone is paying for it. Just shows to go how much you can believe the news media.

I didn’t hear who was actually paying for the food, but I would guess state and local governments, which means the taxpayers.

If that is the case, they should say it that way. The concept of free food is simply a uphamism for openly picking our pockets.

I’ve Had a Few

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This won’t be new to some, perhaps most of you. I have already written about them, though not at once. I started in a fast food restaurant for about 2 years. I spent 9 years in the Marines where I learned a lot, including that I am a poor leader.

For a short time after my discharge we had problems for a while. It proved you can learn from just about any job. during my time as a security guard I learned a lot about people that I carry with me to this day.

I went from there to repairing computers. I repaired the little ones and the big ones. I repaired big monster printers and huge disk drives that weighed 900 pounds. Years ago, I told a humorous true story of something that happened to me while working on a thousand pound tape machine. Won’t repeat it here. it would take too long. Maybe one day I should go back and make a list so those who want can go back and read them. On the other hand, maybe I can just put them all in a book. Open to suggestions.

One day computers, printers, disks and tape drives stopped breaking. In fact, I don’t even know if anyone even makes tape machines anymore. No need for them.

That put me in the unemployment line again. Well, I taught for 3 years while in the Marines, so I figured I might try to go back to teaching. I had hoped to get into teaching the basics at the Navy base at Millington, but they put me to work teaching radar instead, for three years.

I thought I had a secure position until peace broke out. They started tearing down the Berlin Wall and about half of us instructors were sent job hunting again. It’s sort of one of those things where really good new was not so good for some of us. Sometimes it happens that way. If you haven’t already seen it you will.

I found a bank that used the a computer I used to repair and went to work there. Wow. Did I learn a lot about banking by running that computer. You know, it’s the sort stuff you thought you knew but didn’t

Regardless, it was hard work and I was getting old. When I saw an easier one that paid more, I jumped at it, operating a computer but far easier. I guess I worked there close to 20 years. And by the way, the folks I worked for there were just the best. Sort of made me look forward to going to work.

When I first started repairing computers the processors were 1800 pounds. The input output processors were 800 pounds. Altogether, the computer weighed about 30 thousand pounds. The all-in-one I just bought which weighs about 20 pounds; if it existed back then, I could have replaced the entire computer and all that was in the room. Well, that would not have included the printers and three huge air conditioners. They each had two compressors that I don’t think two of me and a small boy could have lifted, even if I were in the shape I was in right out of boot camp.

My suggestion, don’t look into computer repair as a secure way of making a living. It has turned into the genuine Maytag repairman job.

I haven’t made a fortune, but I had some good times and raised a couple of sons on the way. By the way, I have 4 pretty good grand kids too.

Now my job is spoiling my wife for just as long as I can. She deserves it, really she does. I’m not just saying it.

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