OhmsLawn

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If you ever worked shifts and transitioned to a 9 to 5 job, how difficult was the change?

I’m a nurse working shifts and sometimes 5 days without a pause and I still don’t know if I’m gonna take one of the 2 9 to 5 jobs my hospital system has offered. I’d earn less money, but I’m already 45 years old and I don’t know if I should call it quits and settle for a regular job 5 days a week and free weekends...

OhmsLawn ,

Even if you like it less (dislike it more?) it's healthier.

Shift workers have shorter lives, higher incidents of diabetes, etc.

OhmsLawn ,

It's also easier to push privatization when public schools are failing.

OhmsLawn ,

It was big news about a decade ago when gravitational waves were first detected by LIGO

A decade ago. That kills me. I still think of this as a recent event. Let's not talk about how long we've known about dark energy...

OhmsLawn ,

I'm not a contractor.

I'd poke around for rot and mark the edges to make sure it isn't spreading. Maybe try to get up there and check after a storm.

It could absolutely be an old problem that stained the wood. I might make a 1-year calendar reminder if I didn't see anything after a rain.

OhmsLawn ,

It's pretty bulletproof.

Unless I have a damn good reason, things usually end up on the thirds lines in some way.

OhmsLawn ,

We are two people and run the dishwasher every 2-3 days, but it’s really nice to go lazy and throw a pot or pan in there, along with a few plates. You’re not gonna get away with that if you go with the little dishwasher.

Also, you’re basically using the same amount of energy and water either way. Probably less for the larger one if you compare them full.

OhmsLawn ,

In a forty-year career, that would work out to about 2000 extra days off, more than 5 1/2 cumulative years of work-free days.

OhmsLawn ,

There’s something to be said for very early supernovae. I’m sure they’d all be giddy for something beyond 13 billion light-years (or whatever that works out to in red shift).

OhmsLawn ,

“video not loading”

It’s such an intriguing thumbnail. I guess I’ll embrace the suspense.

Why do many microwave ovens hum in an interval of a minor 7th?

Something that I’ve noticed across most of the microwave ovens that I’ve used is that when they hum while cooking food, I can pick out 2 distinct tones. One of them is pretty clearly 60 120 hz, the 2nd harmonic of the AC power frequency. The other is consistently a minor 7th above that (which would be somewhere around...

OhmsLawn ,

Reheating, generally.

OhmsLawn ,

They make instant recirculation pumps that cycle the water through the tankless in a loop and stop when the hot water gets back to the pump. We have one. If you don’t already have the return pipes for it, you’d need some additional plumbing work. (Either way, it should be professionally installed).

It’s the same system you’d have for a tank, but it can’t run all the time, or it burns up the heater. You have to trigger it. They make flow switches, but mine (new construction) was cheesed. I just set up a zigbee switch with a 1 minute timer to trigger the pump.

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