The New Year Arrived And I Was Cooking Burritos Complaint Thread
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...interesting that the vents of the unit must be clear to avoid CO buildup when heating the structure with the furnace if it is primarily used for central air conditioning.
Again we just had a forced air gas furnace with no external system and never were in danger of CO poisoning.
Before that we had a coal fired furnace in the cellar, and nobody in the house ever felt any ill effects from it either
It is not primarily for central air conditioning. That was a secondary unit. It is for heat and air conditioning. I don't pretend to know exactly how it all works. I know that there's a thing in the back yard, near the house on the patio, that I think is a condeser. It's sort of a cube, with radiator-like fins inside and a fan facing down on top, and a couple of copper tubes/pipes that go inside the house into the furnace, where I think there are cooling coils or something and the air is forced over them to cool the house. But the unit is first a heating furnace. Without that thing outside it would still be a heating furnace. As I understand it, not all the units in this development originally had the central a/c. I'm not sure of that, though. A few (very few from what I can see) have fireplaces and chimneys, we don't.
How long ago was that furnace built? They started putting the intake and exhaust vents through the wall to the outside for safety reasons. You may think you were never in danger, but you were. They change the way things are done to improve safety. I'm not sure when they started doing that, really. This house was built in 1998. We bought it in 2001, it was 3.5 years old. Gas naturally burns clean, but with a furnace there's always the possibility of something being just a little off and you get CO. Even if it's just when it initially ignites. Like I said earlier, the exhaust vent is pretty high. If we had snow that deep, we'd have a lot more troubles.
I remember when I was young we had a gas space heater. it was this big thing in the kitchen with a couple of little vents in front near the bottom that had fans in them, and you could pull out the face and turn it and let it go back to change the direction of the fan's wind. But that was just a little extra boost, the heat mostly came off the top through vent holes. Nearly the whole top was like a sheet of metal with holes, like a screen but thicker and a bigger grid. I might not be explaining it well. Anyway, that didn't seem to have an intake but it did have an exhaust going into the refitted chimney port. I guess it used our air inside. But houses also weren't as airtight in those days as they are now.
If I had lots of money, I'd look into getting a geothermal heating system. No more fuel, except electricity for the pump and the heat distribution system. That tech is really cool. The fluid used reacts to pressure. The tubing goes into the ground at a certain depth, getting the ambient temperature from the ground. Then it is pumped through a choice of two tubing systems. The fluid reacts to pressure, with less pressure it cools down, with more pressure it heats up. So, for cooling wider tubing is used. For heating, narrower tubing is used. It's initially not inexpensive, but the savings in fuel cost over several years probably pay for it.
Dana
...yeah the house I lived in was over 50 years old and drafty, particularly by the exterior side door/cellar steps and in the attic bedrooms ('energy efficient" was not part of the common vocabulary when the house was originally built). All windows were double hung wood frame with single pane glass requiring full frame storm windows to be hung in autumn which were replaced in late spring by full framed screens. Naturally this made for lots of air leaks all over the house and in winter, the storm windows would frequently frost up completely, particularly in the upstairs bedrooms . Thank heaven's for the old German "Federbetten" we had.
The gas furnace vented exhaust gases to the central chimney which the old coal one used. In the kitchen there was cover plate on the wall shrouding the chimney which used to be the where the flue pipe from the the old wood fired range vented as well..
Yeah it was definitely "old school" living. The house even had an external rain barrel (which was filled in and turned into a flower bed before i could remember) which was connected to a hand pump next to the cellar laundry sinks.
With all the environmental sealing in more modern homes today, I can understand that the risk of CO buildup is a bigger concern. What it sounds like you have is what is called a "dual fuel" setup where you have both an external central air unit and a furnace hooked together. If your place does not have a roof vent or chimney, than I can see the heat exchanger portion of the unit being needed to bring in fresh air and vent potentially harmful exhaust gases from the furnace outside.
Rain barrels have become a popular thing again. They are used for watering lawns and gardens. It makes sense in some areas. They're not cheap, though. There are also "gray water" systems that reclaim water from sinks, washers, to use for watering a garden or lawn. Also not cheap I guess.
Dana
iz too cold out to go to work tomorrow, dontya think?
plus other associated hardships with snow overdose
holey cannoli RealFeel® -5° :bug:
yep, better to stay home and render and find out if any hardy souls are delivering pepperoni pizza
i luv my pinky pie mug. she's friendly, and smooth feeling, holds a delish cuppa breakfast tea.
...believe it or not, some places actually have very strict rules about rainwater collection. Here in Oregon rainwater can only be collected off of a roof, not in an external reservoir open to the sky or fed by other runoff systems. One fellow in the state who had constructed several reservoirs holding some 13 million US Gallons was recently fined and jailed for collecting rainwater illegally without a water right permit as in Oregon, water is considered a public resource (unfortunately that argument doesn't...ahem...hold water with the Portland Water Bureau when you complain about your bill being so high).
We call them rainwater tanks, are everywhere here for obvious reasons, not that expensive either so I guess necessity invents cheap ways to do stuff :?
...believe it or not, some places actually have very strict rules about rainwater collection. Here in Oregon rainwater can only be collected off of a roof, not in an external reservoir open to the sky or fed by other runoff systems. One fellow in the state who had constructed several reservoirs holding some 13 million US Gallons was recently fined and jailed for collecting rainwater illegally without a water right permit as in Oregon, water is considered a public resource (unfortunately that argument doesn't...ahem...hold water with the Portland Water Bureau when you complain about your bill being so high).
Some here need to pay tax for collecting water in a dam instead of letting it run off into a river, think it depends upon whether it is considered fair use :)
Flurries soundz cute but I guess it isn't :)
We call them rainwater tanks, are everywhere here for obvious reasons, not that expensive either so I guess necessity invents cheap ways to do stuff :?
Well, I've seen some at Home Depot that are around $50 or so. To me, that's expensive. I suppose in the grande scheme of things, it's not so much.
Dana
10:59 pm...and it's still snowing here. It's not as hard as earlier, and the winds have calmed down a bit, but still...
Dana
Except I didn't play it that day D:
If it was going to pick a game that I've played it would have had a dozen others to pick from, and it's never suggested a game before for unknown file types.
Mmm, I just wont post computer-related stuff here anymore, jokes/humor or not, then if it's just going to cause propblems...
*Edit to add* Sorry if I'm jumping to conclusions or just sounding overall grouchy... Has been a really *****ty week for me, almost every day's been plagued with bad to horrible anxiety and lumps of depression and just..... Not a very good week x__x
Except I didn't play it that day D:
If it was going to pick a game that I've played it would have had a dozen others to pick from, and it's never suggested a game before for unknown file types.
Mmm, I just wont post computer-related stuff here anymore, jokes/humor or not, then if it's just going to cause propblems...
*Edit to add* Sorry if I'm jumping to conclusions or just sounding overall grouchy... Has been a really *****ty week for me, almost every day's been plagued with bad to horrible anxiety and lumps of depression and just..... Not a very good week x__x
It's not that it caused a problem. I just ran out of ideas and figured it wasn't that important, since you were simply seeing humor in it anyway. I should have just laughed with you. But it seemed you were sincerely curious about why it offered those suggestions.
Dana
wow asteriod with a moon looks amazing, hmmm can't get the gif to post but
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4459
Was somewhat curious, though one thing I pointed out on my DA/FA submission (but not here IIRC) was that I told a friend about it and he asked if the text file had any keywords that might have tipped Windows off or not. While I didn't have any reference to the game's name perse, I did have 'Axis' and 'Velociraptor' both in the text, which both are heavily referenced in the game and its files, so Windows may have picked up on that.
Was somewhat curious, though one thing I pointed out on my DA/FA submission (but not here IIRC) was that I told a friend about it and he asked if the text file had any keywords that might have tipped Windows off or not. While I didn't have any reference to the game's name perse, I did have 'Axis' and 'Velociraptor' both in the text, which both are heavily referenced in the game and its files, so Windows may have picked up on that.
There is possibly some setting in windows to prevent the desktop search engine feeding results to Bing, which is probably the culprit there. I noticed today I was seeing ads in an (electronic version of) a newspaper for the very fridge I wanted to buy last week. Days later some Google algorithm decided that is what I'm interested in :lol: I got my ipad set to duckduckgo but it isn't very local so I used google to search, they don't have very much on me cos of my settings but phew, half a chance is all they need :lol:
Don't think I have anything like that on my computer ^^;
Though it's all we could really think of, beyond Windows somehow reading my mind and knowing the character I was writing about was from that game and somehow felt that trying to open a text file with it would be the most logical thing to do :P
Still, coincidence or not, I found it amusing enough to draw something about it - and motivation doesn't come easily to me so yey x)
Don't think I have anything like that on my computer ^^;
Though it's all we could really think of, beyond Windows somehow reading my mind and knowing the character I was writing about was from that game and somehow felt that trying to open a text file with it would be the most logical thing to do :P
Still, coincidence or not, I found it amusing enough to draw something about it - and motivation doesn't come easily to me so yey x)
Is good to let the light shine when and where it can, and of course it will be brighter just when things are getting inky dark :)
My neck hurts but more so when I turn my head. Took a pain killer but it is not helping yet.
...you sure you want to go to Florida...?
...in the Great Beer Wasteland?
...where they have Hurricanes and frequent lightning storms?
...where there's lots of heat and humidity and annoying bugs?
...where they have poor public transit (and many who live there admit they have the nation's worst drivers)?
I know it rains a lot up here, but we usually don't get much in the way of "real" winter, and we have much better beer as well as food and the music scene. I am sure there are a lot of C#/.NET positions in the Portland/Seattle area and even though our transit system here in Portland has it's faults, it's still better than you would probably find there.
Well, I was born in Florida (Titusville), have lived in Naples, Ft. Meyers, and Pensacola, so I know what I'm getting into. It'd only be for a year or so, not a forever thing (ugh). I miss the fishing... :down:
I recommend you spend a nice day communing with your mug... ;-)
Hump Dayyyyyyyyyyyy! KISS A CAMEL :P
Complaints:
- Sneezy, coughy, feels like allergies
- Going to hit mid-70 today, likely making allergies worse
- Visiting big-wig today, have to act all nice
- Office coffee tastes HORRIBLE, need to go out and get some REAL coffee
- Hungry so will need to buy food as well
- Generally crabbity
Non-complaints:
- Powered USB hub should arrive Friday
- Bluetooth 4.0 dongle should arrive Monday
- Going to hit Rib Crib for RIBSSSSSSS on the way home
- Even with allergies, mid-70s should be glorious
Hopefully today will be a semi-productive day, unless Mr. Bigwig spends a lot of time back here in Engineering.. maybe I can scare hiom off.. :vampire: :snake:
I recommend you spend a nice day communing with your mug... ;-)
right nao she's holding some of seattle's best coffee :lol:
i'm thinking of getting a pinky pie tattoo, thats how much i luv her.
anyone know whats the least painful place on human body to get a tatt?
guessing my wrist would be too painful.
Flurries soundz cute but I guess it isn't :)
i stayed home :cheese:
really wanna stay home all month, when i called in, said he'd drive me tomorrow morning.
really need to win some lotto :lol:
right nao she's holding some of seattle's best coffee :lol:
i'm thinking of getting a pinky pie tattoo, thats how much i luv her.
anyone know whats the least painful place on human body to get a tatt?
guessing my wrist would be too painful.
The less flesh there is between needle and bone, the more it's going to hurt. :ahhh:
I *think* it'll be the bicep, that's what I've heard, but while most of the people I hang out with have ink, I'm too afraid of needles to have a tatt myself.. :red: Not to mention, being diabetic, it would take weeks to heal.. so no go for me.
Pinky pie tatt.. how cute it would be! :coolsmile:
when you look at the moon, does it look flat to you?
gahhh took out trash, unholey cold out.
do you have a heating pad?
might help muscles relax
right nao she's holding some of seattle's best coffee :lol:
i'm thinking of getting a pinky pie tattoo, thats how much i luv her.
anyone know whats the least painful place on human body to get a tatt?
guessing my wrist would be too painful.
The less flesh there is between needle and bone, the more it's going to hurt. :ahhh:
I *think* it'll be the bicep, that's what I've heard, but while most of the people I hang out with have ink, I'm too afraid of needles to have a tatt myself.. :red: Not to mention, being diabetic, it would take weeks to heal.. so no go for me.
Pinky pie tatt.. how cute it would be! :coolsmile:
the diabetic think cramps my lifestyle.
maybe like halfway between wrist and elbow, on the inside.
orrr :lol: could start a tramp stamp and eventually add rainbow dash and twilight sparkle
That is cool. I didn't see it, nor the comet that went by a week or so back. Clouds! >:(
Dana