Recent content by Tesaje

Yeah that bugs me even more. It's more like a 7 day guess. We don't really have that kind of skill but several years ago, they decided to throw it out there. The NWS started it.:whistling:

No, anybody can do anything they like with the NWS data and forecasts. They even can take them wholesale and claim it as their own giving zero credit to the NWS. The media can do whatever they like with the data and forecasts as they report it. The only thing they agree to do is to put out...

Yep, being retired means it doesn't matter. When I was working, it did. A lot at 4:30 in the morning. If DST was year around, we might as well use solar time and just have everything run an hour earlier.

Low 200ks here. I joined in 1971 when a junior in high school.

I have a propane tank and it works well. I really like it for the cook top. It has gotten very expensive in the last few years. But then so has electric so I don't know whether it would be any better. I've had it for 18 years. My water heater died a few years ago and I replaced it with a...

From what I have read, the 2 most cost effective and efficient solar energy captures are water heating and passive solar heating. The south windows in my very non-solar house still significantly heat the rooms in the dead of winter on sunny days with below zero temps. A house designed for it...

I got mine done 1/31 because I messed up the state estimated tax payments. They said if I filed by the end of Jan., I wouldn't owe the penalty. Hope that's true. I also sprung for the state tax program since this 1st year of retirement + Roth conversions is more complicated than usual. I...

My pets looked at me as if to say "What are you doing here?" for several weeks after I retired. They snoozed all day and if I disturbed them, they weren't happy about it. I wasn't supposed to be there during the day. At my normal come home time, they acted like they always did. They got over...

Mine came with a tuner as a media PC. I replaced the analog tuner with a Hauppage digital. was supposed to be good. One would think. ergo my blaming the tuner. Did you look at the age of the returns on that search? Not to mention most of the items are analog - useless in our all digital...

Ha ha ha. Let's see. Where I am about 20 miles outside of a huge metro area, my broadband options to be able to stream video are cell with a 5gb cap & not fast enuf to do it and a satellite dish - very expensive & not real great either. That's it in 2011. There are a lot of people in my...

Did you really think the astrology assignments had anything to do with actual astronomy? lol

Using a community garden patch?

One of the things I stopped doing is reading Dilbert now that I'm retired and no longer living in the Dilbert documentary. It is very nice not to have to put up with all those sociopaths in the workplace. :crazy::yuk:

I've got 9 months into my retirement and I agree with W2R. Retirement is nothing but wonderful. And no, I don't miss any of things associated with work. If a large porportion of those surved were forced into retirement, that would color the results. Those people are really among the unemployed.

Whoo hoo! Congrats.