When are you guys coming to Alberta?
What R you doing today?
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Boatboy24
No longer a newbie, but still clueless.
That would be a serious road trip. I have a friend in Calgary and according to GMaps, it's a 39 hour drive. For the guys in DC (5 hours north of me) the trip would be similar to mine.
I assume you want grapes?
If I was driving all that way, I'd bring grapes!He wants FWKs!!
No, I just like to be included.
It's also 39 hours going south, so get going!!!No, I just like to be included.
That I can guarantee. We are still in the 70's right now, but one day very soon it's going to change drastically overnight. This is unheard of. We haven't even had a killing frost yet. We just got the garden pulled this weekend and tomatoes are still in the greenhouse.Maybe after baseball season. But then it'll probably be too cold.
I am not complaining... Just to be clear.
He's going south so it will be downhill all the way.
Gas mileage will be terrible on the way home!He's going south so it will be downhill all the way.
Get a Tesla. Spend $60-$70 K to save $500 in fuel .....
Geek... Look away!Get a Tesla. Spend $60-$70 K to save $500 in fuel .....
I am not opposed to EV's. I think they could be great for tooling around in the city. In Alberta.. Especially rural Alberta, where I am 30km from town and 2 hours from the city, they are not even a little bit practical. Add in -40! Batteries decrease 30% in capacity in the cold.. Even with heated seats and steering wheels you need 20 minutes warm up time not to freeze when you get in the truck. In an EV heat drains the batteries. Both our trucks combined are getting close to 200,000km on them in 2 years, that's double the expected battery life, and therefore 2 new batteries for 20k. I could go on!
I don't care how fast they charge, I'm not waiting for it in -40.
I'm not either; EV are a nice idea.
But I do the math -- while buying an EV to save money may make sense in some situations, in the use cases I considered, it doesn't. YMMV
As a working stiff, some days I should just stay in bed... Came into work today, was carrying a bunch of stuff and since I'm getting old took the elevator up to the 2nd floor. Waited for the door to open, hmmm, didn't open. Texted my boss that I was in the elevator at the second floor but the door wouldn't open, and after he got done laughing he and a co-worker of mine worked on the outside of the door as I jumped up and down inside. I think the sensors aren't aligning for some reason. After about 3 minutes the door did eventually open.
Someone asked if I was freaking out in there, I said no, had some food and some cold tea, was just worried if I was in there too much longer that I had forgotten my depends and would have made a puddle on the floor. I was actually calmer that I thought I'd be. I think I was still partially asleep....I'm awake now!
Someone asked if I was freaking out in there, I said no, had some food and some cold tea, was just worried if I was in there too much longer that I had forgotten my depends and would have made a puddle on the floor. I was actually calmer that I thought I'd be. I think I was still partially asleep....I'm awake now!
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That will learn you to take the stairs! HA!
Moving on up!
Lookin good!
Bread and butters and pickled jalapeños. We usually don't see red jalapeños, but its late in the season and warmer ( until today) so they ripened before they even got picked this year.
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One of the strangest things I have ever seen. Was working today (computer programming kinda guy, no manual labor) looked down at my finger and my tungsten wedding band, 12 years old. Saw this gap. Who knows why. Internal stress of some kind I would guess. Thankfully my wife said, let's go get a new ring, they aren't that expensive and we can't have you running around town without my mark on you.
That is kinda bizarre! But tungsten is known to be brittle
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