Random Unthreadworthy Questions

[liv2ski]

I am certain IGNORE is a beautiful thing...

[byates1]

Ignoring ski season to freak out about politics on a ski forum: doing it wrong.

[old goat]

Curious, maybe OG knows the answer. My MD prescribed me 3mg Doxepin 3 weeks ago and while my insomnia is greatly reduced/improved, I have noticed I am even more easily triggered and aggressive. I like to sleep, but don't annoy me.

I don't know anything about doxepin, sorry. I do know that 50-50 THC-CBD helps me sleep if I wake in the middle of the night. It's good for about 4 hours so I don't usually use it to fall asleep at bedtime. I am easily triggered but that apparently started when I was two.

[dan_pdx]

Concur that gummies have been great for helping me sleep. I tried a number of different products and settled on Wyld Elderberry as being the most effective for me. I agree they wear off after 4 or 5 hours, so I do still sometimes wake up at inappropriately early times, but at least I got 4 or 5 hours of sleep in before that

[riser4]

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

[The AD]

Has anyone else noticed that the older you get the more often you're typing along and later go back and realize you typed in a completely different word than you intended to type? Like your brain and fingers aren't quite synchronized? What the heck is that about? Maybe I have a worm in my brain.

[dan_pdx]

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Ah, a fellow scholar of the classics

[Buzzworthy]

Has anyone else noticed that the older you get the more often you're typing along and later go back and realize you typed in a completely different word than you intended to type? Like your brain and fingers aren't quite synchronized? What the heck is that about?

Yes, in the last year or so. I’m proofreading more than normal these days.

[BCMtnHound]

I blame predictive text.

[riser4]

I blame worms in the brain.

[The AD]

Predictive text isn't helping, but this happens when I'm typing on a normal keyboard, so worms it is.

[Thaleia]

Any welders here?

How bad is seeing the flash of (I think it's a ) MIG welder in action with out eye protection?

[easyrdr]

Hey KQ,
I had a similar issue with lights in my barn and it all linked to a single GFI outlet that when that outlet tripped all sorts of things went bonkers. Now resetting that outlet is my step one whenever other lights aren’t working that should be.

[RShea]

Yes.

All lights work since I initially flipped the breaker on and off but I've been keeping it in the off position because I don't know what's wrong and barn fires scare the crap out of me.

It seems so odd that it's one breaker for three areas but it only effected two while the other one worked fine.

There is one thing I didn't mention and I'm not sure if it makes a difference, the tack room has two on/off switches whereas the hayloft and shedrow have only one. The pic I posted of the switch was where the 3 meet and yes the tackroom switch worked but the other 2 didn't (the other tackroom switch worked too).

I'm having bad electrical juju.

Had a brand new stock tank heater (installed it last week) trip the gfci outlet it was plugged into. Tested it on another outlet and it tripped that too (unrelated outlet). Both outlets worked fine when I tested them with a shop vac.

<shudder>

Don't like to think about my animals getting burned or electrocuted.

KQ
Any update- did you get an electrician in there to do some troubleshooting?

[J. Barron DeJong]

Any welders here?

How bad is seeing the flash of (I think it's a ) MIG welder in action with out eye protection?

Not a welder, but I did work around welders 15-20 years ago and saw flashes several times. No issues for me (either short or long term).

Did spots in your eyes disappear quickly? Are they feeling itchy/scratchy?

I’d guess that if everything was back to normal quickly you’re probably fine, but I’m not a doctor either.

[old goat]

Hey KQ,
I had a similar issue with lights in my barn and it all linked to a single GFI outlet that when that outlet tripped all sorts of things went bonkers. Now resetting that outlet is my step one whenever other lights aren’t working that should be.

GFCI's don't reset themselves. KQ's lights came back on after flipping the switch a few times. I blame the switch.

[easyrdr]

GFCI's don't reset themselves. KQ's lights came back on after flipping the switch a few times. I blame the switch.

Well then I guess I blame my reading comprehension for missing that part

[Djongo Unchained]

ahem. A gfci receptacle has a test button and a reset button.

And as I've stated twice and easyrdr once. If you have a line of them and one in the middle gets tripped, the ones in line prior work and those after do not.

[Thaleia]

Not a welder, but I did work around welders 15-20 years ago and saw flashes several times. No issues for me (either short or long term).

Did spots in your eyes disappear quickly? Are they feeling itchy/scratchy?

I’d guess that if everything was back to normal quickly you’re probably fine, but I’m not a doctor either.

Haven't experienced spots in the eyes at all, and not itchy or scratchy either. Have been planning to talk to my doctor about this on my next visit but that is comforting to hear in the meantime, thank you.

[old goat]

ahem. A gfci receptacle has a test button and a reset button.

And as I've stated twice and easyrdr once. If you have a line of them and one in the middle gets tripped, the ones in line prior work and those after do not.

And whatever fixtures and outlets are off when the GFCI trips will stay off until the GFCI is reset, which KQ did not do, and yet the lights came back on.

[Djongo Unchained]

I didn't cull that from the original explanation and admittedly haven't looked much closer.

My money is on some simple action to remedy.

And it occurred to me last eve. that we may both be addressing 2 different potential probs but with the same symptom. Hence 2 paths to remedy.

[jono]

A simple/not simple path: two circuits feed two switches. Between them, the three-ways have four positions but only one position gets juice from a different pipe.

Or so she says. (Generic she, not KQ--although maybe she said it, too?)

If that's the scenario there's a 50/50 chance of the one three-way working with the breaker off, depending on the position of the other switch. To test that: flip the breaker off and try flipping the "main" switch with the other switch in both positions.

[east or bust]

My car got parked for 10ish days under a tree that was dropping some sort of berry thing and the residue is stuck on there good...

Yesterday I spent about 2hrs trying to get it off the hood with Dawn dish soap and scrubbing with a towel and it didn't really work, had to use a stiffer brush that I'll surely have to buff out come spring time, and it didn't even remove all of it. So, have to revisit the hood and do the roof now. This picture is after a car wash but before any of my elbow grease.



In the past I've used WD40 to get tar off, is this another situation to pull that trick out? What about rubbing alcohol?

[dan_pdx]

I've used Goo Gone to remove pine sap from our car. It works great for that and was paint safe on our Subie

[BmillsSkier]

Please don't use dish soap on your car.

Turtle wax bug and tar foaming spray works wonders and won't damage the clearcoat.