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No reason to apologize Pierre! I've spent most of my life working in and around death. It just happened to be Valentines Day when I responded, which has always been a hard day for me, due to old memories. I'm also our family genealogist, so entering the dates of those relatives who have gone beyond ...

Most of the stores here that do sell on-line for customer pick-up, will bring it out to your car and even load it for you. There is a cheaper way of shipping via UPS that most folks don't know about. You won't find it on their website though. It is great if you are in a commercial pick-up area, like...

I've done one heck of a lot of work with fluorescent lighting, both in structure lighting, as well as in gaming machines and over aquariums. Nearly all fluorescent lamps used to use an inductance coil along with a starter, either push button or starter tube. These are the cheapest to operate because...

I can't say many of my jobs caused much stress at the time I was doing them. That seemed to come later after a particular project was completed. When they called us in to make last minute emergency changes. Or in the case of MRTC when I had to fly down to a pipeline repair and do the drawings in the...

Being twice a widower, and going through a lot with both, I think I'll sit this one out if you don't mind.

Yes, a lot of switching power supplies used in LED lighting are actually running around 30k cycles. I had a few fluorescent shop lights in my growing area in my crawl space under the house, and rather than the normal ballasts they had switching power supplies, running at around 15k cycles. This cut ...

North Knoxville was one of the hardest hit in the latter part of the pandemic. So we had tons of new rules that hit ALL of Knoxville. Just since the pandemic started, we have two large malls that are completely closed and one is boarded up now. The only thing still open is a detached movie theater, ...

Makes sense to me, hi hi. I used to work with a guy down at Sverdrup & Parcel, who was a cracker jack engineer. But he had a few mental issues. Right in the middle of working, he would like freeze up for about 5 to 15 seconds, and not move a muscle. Then he would look up, glance around, and mumb...

The restaurant I eat at when I do go out to eat, which is rare these days, has never been closed. He has enough pull with the city that they left him alone, hi hi. That being said, he only allows a few people to eat inside, and the tables are now far apart. All the rest are stacked on top of the boo...

And LED is a Diode, the job of a normal Diode is to convert AC electric into pulsing DC output. Most LED lamps are only 3 to 5 volts. You can replace the Diodes in a square wave bridge rectifier with LEDs thus give the ability to use a 12 volt AC power source to 12 volt DC output. A single LED on an...

I think I mentioned once in the past that my aunt's doctor had the ceiling panels removed from the room in which he had pronounced my aunt dead, just to see if what she claimed she saw was even possible. To his amazement, the things she described up there, even the things written on the tops of the ...

I wish I could find that study of the college kids who were in the lead lined rooms again. It was an interesting read, even though it didn't prove what they hoped it would, it did shed light on a few other things of interest they were going to pursue, but I never saw anything else after that article...

FWIW: The backup dynamo for our greenhouses also had a wet cell battery that was huge, like train battery. However, it had these glass tube that rose up from the cap holes to large brown glass bottles. The whole liquid system was airtight, and you could not replace one of the brown bottles until all...

I do know the spirit does leave the body, and this has been proven many times over already. Even my aunt who pronounced dead four different times told what she saw that would be impossible to see unless her spirit left her body. There are many stories out there that were deemed valid, and/or proven ...

Union Electric is a fairly stable electric company. Most areas are wired on a grid system, so even if one line is knocked out, another line takes over the load. It was very rare for us to be without electric, and if so, it was usually repaired in under an hour. Not like down here where if a single p...

I had the opportunity to use Kirlian Photography at one of the colleges up in Canada. It's not actually photography in the sense of taking a picture, but does use photographic film and an electromagnetic plate. We used it with leaves from a few trees. If you cut a leaf in half, and quickly place it ...

I have all LED lights in my office. About once a month, one of them will begin to flicker off and on, either at 30, 60, 90, or 120 cycles per second. So far, when each one has started doing this, each has flashed at a different rate. Normally not at the 60 cycle power line rate, it is usually very s...

The old saying of "Use it or Lose it" is very apropos, whether the storage is in our head, or floating around our head, hi hi. I do think a LOT of what we know, things we use every day, is stored in the old gray matter for instant recall, like an SSD. Not to change topics, but sorta along ...

Down south here, we have no snow plows to clear the roads, but they do put down liquid calcium chloride if the really believe it will snow. Most of the time we get snow they didn't think would accumulate, hi hi. When I lived in Ballwin, we got a snow you wouldn't believe, the wind caused the dry sno...

Take a tissue and roll it up, then affix it inside the top of the mask where the metal piece is located. Double faced tape works well to do this. It seals the top so your glasses don't steam up. I go down to the house for lunch, dinner, and bedtime, hi hi. Otherwise I'm in my office all alone, safe ...