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yeah, been breaks of blue and actual sun here for the last hour or so.  Hardly any measurable rain overnight in the Bridgewater triangle area.  Very tropical though...76/73

Is this all rt 44 all the time crowd?

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Me, Bob and Brett (TBlizz) having a strategy session on stealing everyone's snow this winter.

I have an in-ground, and admittedly know nothing about them. do I need to pump it out if it is above the filter? i mean it is high but never really cared...or thought about it before

The filter cleans the water whether it's above the skimmer or not. But anything floating on the surface won't get picked up by the skimmer if the opening is covered. I also don't want the water to find a way behind the liner and the steel walls if it gets high enough.

At the end of the day, it's probably not the end of the world if it gets too high but that's just how I am

I’m thinking that is a fish eye lens. 
 
Our pool runeth ovah

Same here. Had to run home to put the pump in and get it down below the skimmer. What a summer!

About 2" here, but very tropical.... 72/71 and no wind at all

30 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Crushed at Naukabout Brewery in Mashapee

My son's guitar teacher is playing there from 5 to 8.  Tell Dan that I (Matt) said hi if you're still there

At York Beach for the week.  Dry all day today, just miserable cold and windy.  Lots of people without much to do

 

Pool is refreshing this afternoon....

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heat wave late next week???

Hopefully dry off the yards and basements in SEMA....

.53" from that monsoon.  Some good thunder and lightning.   Bob is about 5 miles to my south and got .02"  ()

Edit: Brett is a few miles to my north and said he got over an inch 

84/71.... Not fun working outside at all today, especially when the sun comes out

75/49......this is how it should be every day

He's baaaaaack........stay safe everyone

Very sad news.  Met him at a GTG a few years ago around the holidays.  The forum definitely won't be the same without him.  Can't wait for the first James Storm that buries Harwich, Cape Cod MA

Just got some pea sized hail here

Eric Fisher gave you a shout out at 6:15

Got to hang with C. ward, Peter Boulware and W. Dunn. Saw Deion once.. that dude was an athletic freak


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I was at UMiami from 92-94. I went to the UM/FSU game in Tallahassee in 93 when C Ward kicked out ass. That stadium was amazing. FSU seemed like an awesome place to go to school

Ray Lewis was in my geography class. I probably walked by The Rock a few times but he wasn't famous. All the football players drove brand new Mercedes. I'm sure it was because their families had tons of money

To be clear....they aren't giving journeyman electrician licenses away. It's a pretty tough, time consuming process. Definitely a huge commitment. Much harder than anything I ever had to do in college.

8000 hours/4 years working as an apprentice and 600 hours of school just to be able to take the journeyman test. Then, after I had my journeyman for a couple years I did another 150 hours of school and took my Masters test.

Hope parents wake up and start being frank and honest with their kids. A 2.4 GPA and a BA in Business from the local state school is just about worthless. Much better bet to enter a trade.

I went to a very good prep school in RI from 6-12 grade, graduated college in 4 years and tried working for awhile in my field (Communication/Journalism). I hated it. Long story short I ended up going back to school (NE Tech) and have been an electrician for about 17 years. The money is definitely better and, for me, it's just a much more enjoyable way to make a living.

It would be nice if kids went into the trades coming out of HS instead of taking on $200k in student loans only to get a job that pays $40k a year. I guess it's not very glamorous though

Oh yeah. Good point.  Shortage of demand.   Def a current shortage of people doing that work

I'm a master electrician been working for myself for about 8 years. Everytime I go for a code update class they tell us the average age of licensed electricians in MA is something like 54 or 55. They are definitely not enough kids coming into the trade and the demand will only increase as all these older folks retire

67, full sun. Beautiful Mother's Day

As a electrical contractor I've installed probably a half dozen in the last several years . Everyone I did was a 50 or 60 amp circuit.  The last one I Installed a circuit for was a couple weeks ago for a customer/ friend.  Had to run the wire through a finished basement of a large home . Approximately 120 feet total run. Had to use #4 SEU aluminum and make a junction within 6 feet of garage wall in basement to transition to copper . Copper is through the roof right now as you know I'm sure . I made 3 holes in drywall and replaced the pieces.  Took me 8 hours by myself.  I charged him $800 . 120' of #6 Copper would have made it a $1,200  job . A non friend $1500 . I think he paid around $800-900  for the Tesla charger itself w/25' cord . So he had $1,600- 1,800 wrapped up .

My level 2 charger cost me $600 from the dealer when I picked up the car. It's on a 40a circuit with #8 copper. It's not too far from the panel so I used a piece of wire I had lying around.

I do 75% of my driving in my work van. So this is more to mess around and figure out the pros and cons of owning an EV. I think the range and cost are where they need to be. If they can figure out a way to speed up the charging, then I think EVs will take off. They are fine for daily commutes, then plugging it in overnight at home. But if you want to take a long road trip, you have to really worry about where/when you can charge. Then, you may be sitting there for hours if it's not a DC fast charger. If you could recharge in 10-15 minutes from empty to full, then we will be into something. Maybe in a few years

Not sure why someone would not invest in a Level 2 charger if getting an EV.  There is some cost ($1k-5k depending...). 

I picked up a Check Bolt about 2 months ago. Pretty happy with it. The range is about 260 miles on a full charge. I installed a level 2 charger in my garage for it....but, being an electrician, it was easy.

The EVs definitely drive differently than a normal car. The acceleration is kind of nuts and they are silent.

.18" overnight and a couple very loud cracks of thunder at 3:00 that freaked out the dog.

My in-laws in Nova Scotia had their first shot a few weeks ago. Their second shot is scheduled for July 26. Canada is spreading out the doses by over 100 days.

Either they had covid 19 or some other coronavirus and the first dose triggered a reaction due to t-cell memory? I know so many people that had no reaction to the first and only some fatigue with the 2nd. I just had my first on Wednesday, this morning is the first time I have felt "normal", headache and fatigue the past couple of days. Can't wait for my second one, yuck...

My 84 year old grandmother with multiple comorbidities had no reaction to either of the doses. 

I understand the older you are, the weaker your immune system is, but you would expect some sort of reaction on the second dose...

Yeah it's strange. I'm 46 and other than a sore arm, I didn't have any noticeable reaction to either Moderna dose.