Gradual failure of gas grill regulator

I can just see you now, wearing your aviator sunglasses and leather helmet on your back porch. The Hawaiian shirt, short skirt, and blinding white legs overpowering the brilliance of the exotic drink, complete with straw and umbrella in it, wobbling on the 4" heels...

Except the helmet isn't leather, it's tin foil!

WHAT? I took you for a leather kind of girl.

Tell us something that we don't already know! ;-)

The fridge is on the other end of the house, so I have to get up and walk there an back. It cuts down on snacking by 70% or more. I had a fridge in my room at several different places, when I was healthy. I go to bed hungry, quite often, to keep my blood sugar where it belongs.

I worked outside at -20 in a tee shirt and fatigue pants, after a winter that was rarely above -40. My metabolism was running wide open.

:)

And out? ;-)

Yes, and I also remember one of their large, air cooled power transformers catching on fire at my high school. We went most of the school year while waiting for them to build a replacement. We had to run temporary lines to the older part of the building, and that left us with just lights. Anything else would trip the 400A, three phase thermal breakers.

That transformer was only a couple years old, and under warranty. Westinghouse finally admitted they had screwed up the transformer, when they built it. Luckily, the school used steam for heat and passive radiators.

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 4 Sep 2016

15:42:57 -0400 typed >> >>>> "Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 3 Sep 2016

Isn't that what they mean by "Middle Aged" - you've stopped growing up, and now are growing "out"?

tschus pyotr

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Larry Jaques on Sat, 03 Sep 2016

20:13:49 -0700 typed >>pyotr filipivich wrote:

I's an adult - I can act like a child anytime I want.

Worse - I have my own money.

tschus pyotr

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 3 Sep 2016

16:19:57 -0400 typed >> "Michael A. Terrell" on Sat, 3 Sep 2016

Retreaded, eh? I don't know how one survives being treaded in the first place.

Well, maybe it depends on what they were treaded for in the first place, nicht wahr?

-- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone."

Not finding it on Youtube or with a Google search... Bugs Bunny! Elmer Fudd opens the refrigerator and Bugs says the line. Could probably find it if I could remember the exact quote.

Remember my Vo Tech welding instructor warning us to never buy a Westinghouse welder. "They don't care, sell you a crappy welder this year and a crappy (appliance) next year". Could have said air conditioner, washing machine or refrigerator. About 1977 so my memory has faded a bit...

He did *not* mention Bugs Bunny;-)

A bit. I graduated high school weighing 192 and am now 215. You?

Bueno, bwana.

Ooh, ooh! Me want!

70+ years ago we went swimming May 1st whether there was ice in the lake or not, just so long as the water was open at our swimming hole near the outlet.

How about Elmer Fudd? He was the head of Westinghouse Quality Control, after all. They couldn't get self proclaimed genius Whyle Coyote. ;-)

That would burn some calories, as well. :)

Actually, they just glued some old inner tubes on him, so he still doesn't get a lot of traction on cold days. ;-)

Maybe for some people, but we are talking about Larry. ;-).