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I may it slow it up once I hit 50,000 posts.. :icon17::icon17:

On the serious tip, i do need to go Premium.

so like next week then? :confused: :icon17:

hahaha.... maybe.

im out fellas, headed home!!!!!

so it's been like a couple of weeks since i got my ipod touch 5th gen. :D

thing is awesome. :tup:

laterz, EW! :hello:

i dont do any surfing or camera taking or anything on it. just listen to music. pandora, itunes, my mp3's. my dedicaded music player. :p

battery lasts a long time too, and i dont drain my droid (mobile phone) battery at all so this is great.

so i want to buy some donuts on the way home after work on v-day for the wife...

but then that will only get her fat.
i want to be nice, but i dont like my wife fat.

such a dilemma.... :shakes head:

wife's probably thinking the same thing...

i want to get kensan something fun for his car...
but then he would not come back from the garage.

such a dilemma. :shakes head:

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i think wife and i should get something cool for the kids.
then kids will be in their rooms playing with their new toys and wont come bother us for a few hours.

kids get new toys, wife and i get alone time. that sounds like a win win to me. :tup: :ugh:

all this brain storming makes my head hurt...

95 miles north, 95 miles south whoop hook travel day

did you remember that you forgot to shut off the stove 95 miles out, or? :confused:

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would suck if you're on an international flight and just as you cross anchorage you remembered that you forgot to shut off the damn ventilation fan in your bathroom. :icon17: hahaha.

do to the business I'm in ;) , my house is pretty automated. things shut off even when i don't want them too LOL:icon18:

:bowrofl: hahaha!!

my electricity plays games with me some times as well.

think im going to stop by my local strip mall tonight to pickup the card and gift wrap. one less thing to think about. :D

i was thinking of celebrating this hallmark holiday this year. need to pick something up for the lil lady

the j-version is that girls give guys chocolates and stuff on v-day.
then come march, there is white day where the guys give back to the girls.

not sure why they call it white day? maybe comes from white chocolate opposed to the dark chocolate guys receive? :confused: :ugh:

I have recently dipped my toes into the automated systems. We have a Nest thermostat and love it. Auto-away plus I can change the temperature from my phone or tablet in bed! :tup:

its like all the bs holidays they come up with throughout the year for no reason. :ugh:

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that's cool. i was thinking about doing the ip thermostat myself. is that ip or is that BT? :confused: i keep forgetting. :D

Nest is Wi-Fi (so IP, I guess?) :tup:

cool :tup: yah, ip. i should look into that. my current pre-wifi programmable thermostat has problems with swing anyway.

its too sensitive where it's located on the wall. ive even added a box over the thermostat to isolate it a little and to give some air insulation to keep it from over reacting.

i should just swap out the whole thing. :D

Our old thermostat couldn't even program a separate weekend schedule :ugh2:

The Nest is nice, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem of a poorly designed system. We have a two story house but the stairs are open to the living room. The upstairs is generally scalding and the downstairs is typically freezing :eekdance:

I'm not sure we plan to live there long enough to justify ripping it out for a whole new dual zone system with separate upstairs and downstairs supply. I am, however, beginning to consider putting some dampers in the existing ducts to better control the airflow. The poor access to the ducts will probably make that an expensive endeavor, unfortunately.

February 2014 Holidays, Bizarre, Unique, and Special Days

Today is Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day, Make A Friend Day, and White T-Shirt Day.

Thursday is Get A Different Name Day.

yah, our house is like that too and i took a good week or two to mechanically set the vent registers in each of the rooms, and was able to get it pretty balanced. i also found that if you jam a screw into the register's pivot you can make them lock in place.

i dont know in texas do you still have the registers on the ceiling? in my area we have the registers on the floors, so each frikken time i vac'ed over the registers the vent setting would all get messed up. :ugh: with my little screw trick, no more issue with vents moving. :D

i also adjust the intake vents using magnetic vent covers or even just a slip of papertowel taped. works great. :D


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Honeywell makes one similar to Nest that is half the price, that does not learn, but can be set to certain parameters. we have it in our shop and is great for raising the heat before we get there.

for television and lighting I recommend getting a logitec remote and ir switches for a cheap way of controlling your lighting.

yah, i think ive seen that. been looking around for thermostats.

i have a very old 4 channel wireless switch in my garage that controls 3 lights and my fan mounted up high on the wall. :D

come to think of it, ive not changed the lithium battery on that thing even once... :ugh: it's at least 10yrs old. :ugh:

why is my electronics in my garage so damn old... :wtf2:

Im glad you like it dude..

i should get a needle in there and listen to LP's.... :ugh: like a time machine in there...

yah, one of my :tup: purchases thus far. thanks for the recommendation. :D

spotify ftw!

no problem dude.:tup:

I'd tell you if you're looking for a new notebook, take a look at the macbook air, i have one, and fricken love it!

I miss my mac book, but I'm typing this on my iMac so things aren't that bad LOL

yah? im kinda of a hardcore pandora listener. my pioneer HU's have pandora built-in so i can listen to my stations right off the HU's. :p