Yeah, I’m not sure where that is. It’s not immediately obvious based on the location of anything.
Yes, water is wet.
If I’m wet, it means I am immediately adjacent to a water (or other liquid) molecule. Since all water that we are ever going to come across in nature is more than one single water molecule, then water is the wettest substance.
I suppose that if you could isolate a single H-2-O molecule, and it isn’t adjacent to any other H-2-O molecule, then that single molecule would not be wet. But any other item or molecule that the single H-2-O molecule touches is, in fact, wet. But I don’t think that this is practical in the everyday world.
My gas meter is above ground, on the side of my house. Not sure if someone actually comes around and records the numbers or what.
Ok then by that definition, the human body is always wet.
My gas meter is above ground on one side of my house. The electric meter was in the back well away from the gas meter and was moved to the opposite side when we got solar. I’m pretty sure all of my read meters are now read electronically either wirelessly or through some wire. Some have to drive around the neighborhood others, I think are able to get it from their home office.
New e-meter that was installed several years ago. In 22 years in this home, I’ve never seen anyone read any of the three meters. They do it at night?
Huh, the internet tells me that someone drives by and a low-range monitor is read. Checked my meter and yes, it has a new-looking dial panel.
mmmm I didn’t intend to think so. Maybe I mean “externally adjacent”?
A water balloon, if dry on the outside, is dry not wet.
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They would usually come during the day. Back in the day, they came around with a notepad and pencil. Park at one end of the street and walk up one side and back the other going into where the meter was and read it and write down the numbers. Some utilities, like the water department, would only come every other or 3rd month during the spring/fall/winter but every month May-Sept. They would bill an estimate for the months they didn’t actually read and then balance out on the months they did read. For water they read every month when usage was highest (and most volatile). And if your toilet was running or you had some other type of leak in the winter time you could get a pretty huge shock because it might be 2 to 3 months worth of that running.
The water and gas were almost always in the front yards but often, like mine prior to being moved, were in the back yard and they would enter the back yard and read it. If you had a scary dog loose in the back yard during the day (think Ferris Bueller) they might contact you to tell you when they were planning to read the meter and to make sure your dog was contained or arrange to be there when they came by or you might get and estimate, on the high side, until they could get an actual reading.
That bottom part of the gas meter was replaced by something 1/3 its size when they changed to the electronic device. I assumed that was more mechanic in nature and would still be needed. I guess not.
Back in the day, this was one of the lessons in math(?) class - how to read a meter. :heynow:
People would probably pay to be spared the conversation
Thursday shoes came in
I like how they look
A little stiff - I am assuming they’ll break in
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Is this the haiku thread?
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They stopped making our
Amaretto hot chocolate.
Torani syrup.
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Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max … four of em.
…cuz my Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max doesn’t hold a charge…and in a couple of days we’ll all be in the same room together so the logistics of it all will work, too.
I need to order some reusable ice cubes for my aunt. She left some at my house and I figured it would be cheaper to buy her new ones than to mail these to her.
Ugh!!! Want
I got the last portion of my bonus today, so it looks like my wife is getting new tires installed on Saturday. Kind of wanted the CrossClimate, but I got a great price on the Goodyear equivalent. I had the prior version on my Volt and loved them, so I hope the newer version doesn’t disappoint. They are 3PMSF tires, excellent in the cold months.
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My ridiculous non-work mid-life-crisis / pandemic-lockdown-insanity computer is sick.
I had been planning to replace it after next bonus, theoretically with something more sensible, in the spring, since I tend to replace my computers every 4-5 years.
But over the weekend, it decided it could only use one core of its CPU, and it has an attitude when trying to boot. I spent time doing the stuff the Internet suggested to resolve (or improve) the situation…but no joy.
I just put in the order for a successor machine to be built.
It’s only slightly less ridiculous.
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Did i mention my pandemic-era self-build randomly shorts out, so I slap it like Fonzi and it comes back on? I probably should fix that.
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