Stephen Ward, post: 419265, member: 1206 wrote: Don't be shocked when it starts talking to you. That's what happened when mine reached its end of life. It would beep then a female voice would tell me that the detector needed replacement. At two in the morning I was very freaked out.
That's what I'm saying...10 years from now, Dave, I'm afraid you're going to have to replace me now.
What? Who? What the...?
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Dave Karoly, post: 419297, member: 94 wrote: That's what I'm saying...10 years from now, Dave, I'm afraid you're going to have to replace me now.
What? Who? What the...?
LOL
I was freaked out enough that I performed an armed sweep of the house in an alarming state of undress. My sweep awoke my wife (she didn't hear the voice) so she thought I'd lost my mind. About the time my wife was ready to have me committed, the alarm finally spoke again. It's funny now but not so much at the time.
When told the reason for daylight savings time, the Old Indian said, "Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
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I woke up, clock: 5:30 am, okay not too early to get up.?ÿ
go downstairs, 4:30 am on microwave what the heck? Oh yea, forgot about that?ÿ
Well, if we just spring forward 12 hours instead of one hour in the spring, day would be night and we would save all of the daylight for our outdoor activities.
Come to think of it, if we spring forward 12 hours in the spring and then spring FORWARD again 12 hours in the fall to undo DST, after a few years, Christmas would be back in sync with Christmas ads and commercials.
It's Daylight Saving Time, not savings.
Is it a driver license or a drivers license or a driver's license?
Split the difference and hold that all year.?ÿ
When I was considering the move I thought AZ doesn't do daylight savings, so how do I know when to change my smoke detector batteries. On a side note (I can't believe this, but it's true) Sun City, at least, has no code requiring smoke or CO detectors for the sale of a house. I will be installing at least smoke detectors once we close and move in to our pending house though.
I don't know, but you left one out and here in NC, it's plural.?ÿ
Where's your drivin' license? I don't know, I lost 'em.
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Somehow it seems that midday, the sun's highest point, was important to the time and clock studiers. Now it seems that sunset is the driving force, so, in the summer, midday comes at approximately 1 o'clock instead of approximately 12 o'clock.
I'm a morning person and I judge morning by facing south and seeing if the sun is on my left. DST screws that up and runs counter to the concept of noon.
So, I say eliminate it altogether. Don't screw up noon forever and keep the kiddies safe while they wait for the bus.
@richard-germiller we got a permit to replace the sewer lateral (via pipe bursting) outside and the inspector had to come inside to make sure we had all the required smoke alarms installed and 1 CO2 on each floor.
??Christmas would be back in sync with Christmas ads and commercials.?
Ain??t gonna happen in Fl, Christmas decorations go up the day after Valentines Day period. ?????ÿ
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One of my teaching colleagues had his Christmas tree on his front porch. One April morning he came in and told us that some birds had built a nest in his Christmas tree. After much derision, he said, "Well, it's really okay. We haven't plugged it in since New Years Day."
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Christmas would be back in sync with Christmas ads and commercials.
Nope.?ÿ The commercials would move with it.?ÿ
I had to place CO detectors and replace one smoke alarm before I could sell my house in AK, had been code for years but for some reason the inspector that I paid seven years ago didn't say anything about it (he also said a sump pump wasn't needed for water in the crawlspace, but the new buyers inspector made me put one in. My inspector also missed that there were no earthquake straps on the water heater. wonder what the heck I paid for now.
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But I've been told by my realtor and the inspection for the house we are buying doesn't mention them, that they are not code. I'd have thought they'd be national code by now.
We have gone back to Central Standard Time, but our cat thinks CST means Cat Stomach Time, which she hasn't adapted yet from Daylight time, so is very impatient.?ÿ We have been splitting the difference for her.
