One CrockPot, (6 Quarts), of HOT Chilli coming up Mikey!!!!! :-)
Ooooo. Can I have some too. It was chilly here this morning. Lows near freezing. Heat went on once again. We even had some snow the other day. I guess this is the price we pay for having Spring in December.
One CrockPot, (6 Quarts), of HOT Chilli coming up Mikey!!!!! :-)
Ooooo. Can I have some too. It was chilly here this morning. Lows near freezing. Heat went on once again. We even had some snow the other day. I guess this is the price we pay for having Spring in December.
Chicago is having autumn in May, and sick and tired of it. Last Friday night, I was out late. As I headed for home, I connected to my wi-fi thermostat and found that the house was about 70. I changed it from heat to cool and cranked it down to 68. When I got home 30 minutes later, it had dehumidified nicely (it was raining out, had been for hours) and I changed it back to heat again, knowing the overnight heat setting is only 66 and it wasn't likely to kick in for a while.
And then over the weekend, it was durned cold! at the museum. Saturday was Scout Day (too many trains for me to dispatch), but I was conductor on a Chicago Aurora & Elgin car (can you guess what cities it ran between? amazing how many people only said Chicago and Elgin, leaving out Aurora). Got to run it for the last trip of the day, and then into the barn. 700 screaming Cub Scouts. Trains were running pretty constantly.
Sunday I was dispatcher again. I only wrote down the orders for the mainline trips, and I don't seem to have my notebook with me, so I won't bore you with it all. The streetcar, in my opinion, tracks the wire better since I wyed it last week (i.e. the other pole is in better condition). The controller is a bit more finicky at that end, though, and the seat is more of PITA (literally). The usual switching going on, but not too much of a disruption. At one point they shoved a cut of cars out to the west end of the railroad and left them there. Also pulled the Centennial out of the barn. I learned where the Zephyr is hiding while its usual spot in Barn 9 is being renovated; it's in Barn 14.
In other news, our new turntable arrived at Proviso Yard outside of Chicago on Saturday. Supposedly, it was moved past the museum to Belvidere early Sunday morning, but I didn't investigate. The highly technical plan now allegedly calls for the local freight to take it all the way back to Proviso and then deliver it to us on the way back to Belvidere again. Dunno if this is what will actually happen.
Oh, by the by, I have been offered a spot as a car host on the NKP 765 trip from North Glenview to Janesville and return on June 12. Waiting to hear details. There is now talk about it also running from Galesburg down the Peoria Sub, probably turning on the wye at Yates City. This would be during Galesburg Railroad Days. Don't think I'll be on that, though. Well, maybe I'll see if I can buy a ticket. Not too often you get a chance for that particular bit of rare mileage.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
From the 18th century until 1 January 1980, the UK measured alcohol content in terms of "proof spirit", which was defined as spirit with a gravity of 12â„13 that of water, or 923 kg/m3, and equivalent to 57.15% ABV. Thus pure, 100% alcohol will be 175° proof, and a spirit containing 40% ABV will be 70° proof. The proof system in the United States was established around 1848 and was based on percent alcohol rather than specific gravity. 50% alcohol was defined as 100 proof.
That gin at 58.8 ABV would be 105% proof (calculator)
And a little postscript to Richards post.
Quote:
The proof of a vodka listed on the label is simply double the percentage alcohol content. Proofing dates back to the British Royal Navy and the 18th century, when gunpowder was tossed into distilled spirits and ignited. A blue flame indicated that the alcohol level was in the optimal level of 114 proof, whereas too little alcohol would fail to light the gunpowder and usually hinted that the spirit had been watered down. Later, the U.S. Federal Government decided that quality spirits be bonded at 100 proof.
But cop this !!
Quote:
Polish-made Spirytus vodka tops the lot at 192 proof and should remain, since the highest possible distillation for an ethanol-water mix is 94.68 percent. A higher ethanol level cannot be achieved by distillation, no matter how many times the vodka is distilled. Rubbing alcohol, by comparison, is 91 percent alcohol.
And we thought we were really naughty putting 1/2 bottle of surgical spirit into the fruit punch at parties :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Dr. Dictionary Word of the Day from a couple months ago:
catawampus
\kat-uh-WOM-puh s\
adjective
1. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. askew; awry.
2. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. positioned diagonally; cater-cornered.
Quotes
Dear me, everything has gone catawampus with me this week. I spoiled the bread, as you know too well--and I scorched the doctor's best shirt bosom--and I broke your big platter.
-- L. M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 1917
Origin
Catawampus is of uncertain origin, though its first element, cata- likely derives from the adverb cater meaning "diagonally." The second element may be related to the Scottish term wampish meaning "to wave about or flop to and fro." It entered English in the mid-1800s.
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What most interested me, actually, was the end of definition 2: cater-cornered. I have never heard that exact term. All my life, it's been kitty corner.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
And we thought we were really naughty putting 1/2 bottle of surgical spirit into the fruit punch at parties :-))
Sometimes the surgical spirit was imbibed by surgeons !
Surgical spirit is no longer used in operating theatres, what with diathermy/lasers/de-fibs/etc.
Cyclopentane was used around WWII for anaesthesia, but use waned after several very eventful incidents : it is highly unstable. You just looks sideways at it and ka-boom.
Nitrous oxide is an oxidiser that can be very dangerous and usually so in the hands of 'really clever' people* that mainly employ the justification of precedent : it hasn't blown me up yet, I've done the calculations, I've done it plenty of times, I read/wrote the book, it was only a little bit of petrol, I saw it on YouTube/MythBusters/Reddit, I've got the Diploma/Degree** etc. { These sayings are carved over the entry door of the Burns Unit at Royal Melbourne Hospital }.
A bottle of oxygen is a bomb !
Oddly it is only in recent decades that operating procedures have routinely included volatile gas scavenging from the theatre. What the patient breathes in will also come out. So it is best to suck that away somewhere else, mainly to preserve the good judgment of other participants for the duration.
Cheers, Mike.
* This is almost exclusively a male dominated pursuit, generally young too ( there are old idiots and bold idiots, but no old & bold idiots ). The best way to deal with such people is :
(a) not at all, but failing that
(b) from the another district entirely via, say, semaphore, the postal service or the electric telephone.
** .... generally in Interpretive Dance eg. what important message am I trying to express toward society while running around on fire ?
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: Good morning
6-Quarts go A LOOOONG way; so, sure - dig in! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: RE: Good morning
Chicago is having autumn in May, and sick and tired of it. Last Friday night, I was out late. As I headed for home, I connected to my wi-fi thermostat and found that the house was about 70. I changed it from heat to cool and cranked it down to 68. When I got home 30 minutes later, it had dehumidified nicely (it was raining out, had been for hours) and I changed it back to heat again, knowing the overnight heat setting is only 66 and it wasn't likely to kick in for a while.
And then over the weekend, it was durned cold! at the museum. Saturday was Scout Day (too many trains for me to dispatch), but I was conductor on a Chicago Aurora & Elgin car (can you guess what cities it ran between? amazing how many people only said Chicago and Elgin, leaving out Aurora). Got to run it for the last trip of the day, and then into the barn. 700 screaming Cub Scouts. Trains were running pretty constantly.
Sunday I was dispatcher again. I only wrote down the orders for the mainline trips, and I don't seem to have my notebook with me, so I won't bore you with it all. The streetcar, in my opinion, tracks the wire better since I wyed it last week (i.e. the other pole is in better condition). The controller is a bit more finicky at that end, though, and the seat is more of PITA (literally). The usual switching going on, but not too much of a disruption. At one point they shoved a cut of cars out to the west end of the railroad and left them there. Also pulled the Centennial out of the barn. I learned where the Zephyr is hiding while its usual spot in Barn 9 is being renovated; it's in Barn 14.
In other news, our new turntable arrived at Proviso Yard outside of Chicago on Saturday. Supposedly, it was moved past the museum to Belvidere early Sunday morning, but I didn't investigate. The highly technical plan now allegedly calls for the local freight to take it all the way back to Proviso and then deliver it to us on the way back to Belvidere again. Dunno if this is what will actually happen.
Oh, by the by, I have been offered a spot as a car host on the NKP 765 trip from North Glenview to Janesville and return on June 12. Waiting to hear details. There is now talk about it also running from Galesburg down the Peoria Sub, probably turning on the wye at Yates City. This would be during Galesburg Railroad Days. Don't think I'll be on that, though. Well, maybe I'll see if I can buy a ticket. Not too often you get a chance for that particular bit of rare mileage.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
From the 18th century until 1
From the 18th century until 1 January 1980, the UK measured alcohol content in terms of "proof spirit", which was defined as spirit with a gravity of 12â„13 that of water, or 923 kg/m3, and equivalent to 57.15% ABV. Thus pure, 100% alcohol will be 175° proof, and a spirit containing 40% ABV will be 70° proof. The proof system in the United States was established around 1848 and was based on percent alcohol rather than specific gravity. 50% alcohol was defined as 100 proof.
That gin at 58.8 ABV would be 105% proof (calculator)
And a little postscript to Richards post.
But cop this !!
And we thought we were really naughty putting 1/2 bottle of surgical spirit into the fruit punch at parties :-))
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
Dr. Dictionary Word of the
Dr. Dictionary Word of the Day from a couple months ago:
catawampus
\kat-uh-WOM-puh s\
adjective
1. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. askew; awry.
2. Chiefly Midland and Southern U.S. positioned diagonally; cater-cornered.
Quotes
Dear me, everything has gone catawampus with me this week. I spoiled the bread, as you know too well--and I scorched the doctor's best shirt bosom--and I broke your big platter.
-- L. M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams, 1917
Origin
Catawampus is of uncertain origin, though its first element, cata- likely derives from the adverb cater meaning "diagonally." The second element may be related to the Scottish term wampish meaning "to wave about or flop to and fro." It entered English in the mid-1800s.
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What most interested me, actually, was the end of definition 2: cater-cornered. I have never heard that exact term. All my life, it's been kitty corner.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Back at the top, and
Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: Back at the top, and
That's what you think.
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
Not...
Not...
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
I'm not quite sure...
I'm not quite sure...
Annie minion :)
Einstein@Home Verified Contributor (I think?)
Back at the top, and
Back at the top, and WINNING!!!!! :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: And we thought we were
Sometimes the surgical spirit was imbibed by surgeons !
Surgical spirit is no longer used in operating theatres, what with diathermy/lasers/de-fibs/etc.
Cyclopentane was used around WWII for anaesthesia, but use waned after several very eventful incidents : it is highly unstable. You just looks sideways at it and ka-boom.
Nitrous oxide is an oxidiser that can be very dangerous and usually so in the hands of 'really clever' people* that mainly employ the justification of precedent : it hasn't blown me up yet, I've done the calculations, I've done it plenty of times, I read/wrote the book, it was only a little bit of petrol, I saw it on YouTube/MythBusters/Reddit, I've got the Diploma/Degree** etc. { These sayings are carved over the entry door of the Burns Unit at Royal Melbourne Hospital }.
A bottle of oxygen is a bomb !
Oddly it is only in recent decades that operating procedures have routinely included volatile gas scavenging from the theatre. What the patient breathes in will also come out. So it is best to suck that away somewhere else, mainly to preserve the good judgment of other participants for the duration.
Cheers, Mike.
* This is almost exclusively a male dominated pursuit, generally young too ( there are old idiots and bold idiots, but no old & bold idiots ). The best way to deal with such people is :
(a) not at all, but failing that
(b) from the another district entirely via, say, semaphore, the postal service or the electric telephone.
** .... generally in Interpretive Dance eg. what important message am I trying to express toward society while running around on fire ?
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal