Aha! Then PIO is the culprit who stole our star!

I am leaving out tonight, still brushing my teeth very thoroughly, but better rested than I was.

CC happy vacation, SS beautiful vacation, B nice to hear from you, Cinders poor you what were they thinking?, AW happy Remembrance/Veteran's Day you are so brave, Mom so that's what happened but I fell asleep too early to ask, and I'd better get ready for church.

Neaksis says none of the children has beat up on anybody else this morning so far (a rare lapse of peace on their parts!), "but it's still early." Honestly! That girl's cup is always half empty! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I wish Neak's kids had the same option for release of their negative emotions, but since their molesters were Val and her brothers, there's no culpable adult to dump this on, in the same way that we were able to do last night. Maybe someday, though, Biodad can apologize to Neak and her family for the way his parental failure to his own kids has affected them. Neak would have to decide if she thought it would help. I can't see any benefit for the kids to all get together and hash things out, though! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

The guy who was to give me an estimate on a heat pump Tuesday evening left when I was 15 minutes late.

The guy who was to give me an estimate yesterday at 4 p.m. never showed up. I sent company an email at 5:30.

I called this morning. They apologized for the no-show and asked when I would like to reschedule. I told them I can not make another appt requiring that I leave work before the end of the month. I offered them one time......this coming Thursday at 4:30. Gently said I thought it unfair that the estimator thought a 15 minute wait was long enough for him while I was usually given a 2-4 hour window during which service people or estimators could be expected. Gently told them I was planning to replace the unit and that this was my 3rd attempt to get an estimate from them. (They won't miss my business but I thought I would get my plug in.)

I am supposed to go to a ladies' luncheon at church right now. Not feeling like it - emotionally.

We'll whoop 'em for you. They'd just better fix your heater thingy, or else.

The two girls sang the cutest little song for special music today. They did excellently, once I positioned them firmly to each side of the mic, and strictly forbade them to continue to jostle for the center area.

A vignette:

Picture Val, who is an incorrigible (so far) snoop and klepto, singing (belting) along to the Curious George theme song, "...I find the things that just can't be found..."

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cenicienta,

You remind me of the Seinfeld where the cable guy chases Kramer all over the city to get him to pay for his pirated cable. He catches him and Kramer complains about having to wait hours on end for the guy to show up. The cable guy feels remorse and swears never again to give appointments like "sometime between 9:00 and 12:00".

Are you getting the type of heat pump where the lines are buried deep in the ground? Having studied thermodynamics, those are my favorites. I used to have "air" heat pumps and was not impressed.

Hi Neak and all..tl we really did miss you!

Is it brave when you don't have a choice ?? .. not sure

But many thanks Neak, encourage ment is always welcomed <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We had a quiet Remembrance Day being that Aussie drank the pub dry the night before with his mates <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
The pub even set aside an entire room for them, but somehow they ended up getting the entire place into singing rude Army songs and even got the bar staff drunk. Meanwhile I waited for 3 hours to pick him up <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
I hear the irish pub is closed for renovations <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

The Remembrance Day ceremony was short and simple, hardly any tears until I saw Andrews kids place some flowers for their dad. Got a few wet eyes then I do admit.

During the service the minister told us that he had been told of a particular incident recently after a pretty nasty bloodbath, a Sergeant Fraser spent three days bringing in the wounded.

Exhausted, a voice rose through the fog from that no man’s land, “Don’t forget me, mate.”

He didn’t. We won’t. We never will.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:4

Thanks be to God for those brave members of the armed forces who strive to bring peace to the world.

One of the most memorable and moving buildings I was ever in was the World War II memorial in Sydney. I will never forget it. Never.

Okay t&l promised me the answer but has let me down. So I need your help. Everyone please go and rate the TKO thread with zero stars. That should drive me down. Thanks.

Pio - I would love to go with a geothermal system however that is not within my budgetary constraints. I have an all electric house. Only in the last 15 years have they run natural gas lines in my neighborhood. Given the volatility of gas prices and the cost of having a line run to my house, I do not find a gas heat/electric air system fiscally possible. I am going with an all electric side-by-side 2.5 ton/13 or 14 seer heatpump. It is the most economical choice given my budget. It will be more efficient than my 20 year old system which is a 2.5 ton/6 or 8 seer system.

The SEER index has to do with energy efficiency.

The electric heat pump is ok - unless it gets really cold....in which case your emergency heat comes on and it costs more to operate the system. There is an dual fuel heat pump in which you have a gas-assisted heating system - gas heat kicks on if the temperature drops below a previously determined temperature or you decide to turn it on. Again, that would cost me an extra 3 thousand or so for the connection to the gas line and the installation of the required pipes and stuff.

So, the electric will have to do.

t&l was busy laboring with the laborers, thank you. I've done 75% of tonight's deliveries all by myself, so was justifiably (as far as I'm concerned) delayed from this burning issue Pio has with his stars. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />


Why on earth do you want to be driven down anyway? You're the happening thread on MB right now, so enjoy yourself in the moment--before you, too, turn into one of yethterday'th duckieth! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

For a long time, the stars were a complete mystery to me. I didn't know that posters could rate them--just noticed that Idiotville had 5 stars and most people didn't have any. I think Neak is the one who told me the threads could be rated, so one day...long, long ago...I gave myself a single star so that it would be easy to find my thread when I wanted to read what had happened while I was sleeping.

Neak and her husband decided this was funny, and they rated it, too, and all of a sudden my star got goosed, metaphorically speaking. Then Idiotville got some prankster, or disgruntled so-and-so, who downgraded them, and suddenly they were a 3-star thread instead of 5. Robby was NOT flattered. This thread bumped along at 3 threads for months--maybe even a year--before it dropped to 2 stars just a few weeks ago. Never could figure out who felt strongly enough about it to rate it down, but it was 2 for awhile and then just in the last few days, it's been bumped back up to 3. It's a mystery to me why all this activity is occurring, but based on my experience, you've got no control at all about how many stars you have. If you want to hit up your friends to give you a bunch of ones (I did one yesterday, just for you, but as only one of 32 ratings, it didn't do any good and you stayed 3--so sorry <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />), it will eventually at least get it to be a 2...but that's a lot of work to go to to adjust the number of your stars. Why don't you just continue on as you already are--to scintillate, shimmer, gleam, twinkle, sparkle, and shine?

Beats being a black hole!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Good grief T&L, I missed you. Why did you think I kept asking about you?

Hi Everyone. MY daughter, her H, and my GD just came to visit. I'll be back................ sometime.

Anyway, If you like the photos, I can do a few more. AD said I could post some of him too.

Cinders, I just had a new unit put in here. Seer 13. Oh well, it's only money.

Ahhh, GD is pulling on my leg. See ya.

SS

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Hey, if life gets too laborious, we can just go see TNL and she will nurse us through it! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

So what you are saying is that I can't control the stars of others. I can only control my own stars. That sounds familiar for some reason I can't quite put my finger on...

I started a campaign to get TKO to 3 stars t&l and now here you are thwarting me!!

so bk is being thwarted,

tl is thwarting..

and after reading that I snorted diet coke all over the key board!! its sticky now

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A star anyone? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Diet coke isn't sticky. It's the sugar that makes it sticky. Caught in a lie.

Pio you are bad!

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As I have diabetes I can't drink those sugar things....but it was diet coke - I am keeping to my diet!! except for the walking I admit - and it is sticky ...though I'm not sure it was the diet coke that made it sticky. But its sticky to touch .. and the right shift key won't work properly.

Stop naggin; thats my mums job hehehehe

Why do people pick at a scab? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

P.S. More pictures!!!!!!!!!!! I have satellite internet now and can download photos without giving up a year of my life to get them.