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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 911307)

... Sneakily the phone company puts a 1 year warranty on these batteries and so you will eventually have to pay that $50 for voltage these assholes used to provide gratis. ...

Yeahbut, they gave you an acoustic field rotator for free!

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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 911307)

In the olden days, the phone company had batteries in their central offices which would provide voltage to your phone. If your phone could ring, it had power coming to it.

But they moved on to power coming from a transformer on the pole instead of those wimpy batteries. I ran into phone lines carrying 110VDC in Texas. What a surprise arcing that sumbitch to the aluminum trainer. :eek:

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Sneakily the phone company puts a 1 year warranty on these batteries and so you will eventually have to pay that $50 for voltage these assholes used to provide gratis.

Tons of cheaper options on the net, and with clodfobble's link you can get a nice one from Amazon.
I bought one and then realized nobody calls me anyway, so it didn't get installed.;)

Eva is going through issues with bedtime the last couple of nights. Not really sure why, but she's really starting to irritate me.

No nap for her today. Let's see how she likes them apples at bed time!

Good luck Ali. Hope it works.

Mildly irritating me this morning is that pop-up ads have made the transition to meat space. And there's no effective ad blocker. Clicking doesn't even get rid of them. You have to scrape and peel.
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Fuckin' Bezos.

I can see that would be irritating.

I don't read the newspaper very often, but, yeah, I hate that shit.

No problem at bedtime last night. Thank goodness.

Yes, it would have been terrible to have to call the police on myself. lol

My knee. Old basketball injury (not football injury as my nephew joked.) I had the meniscus cartilage removed my freshman year of college. I was informed I might have issues later with arthritis. Well, it ain't so much it's been hurting, it's just that it 'gives out' while I'm walking normally. And it sounds and feels crunchy inside, I can make it crunch by straightening it out or by pushing on my kneecap area. I think I did something while I was doing some intensive cleaning and moving furniture around (by myself, natch.)

So I bought a good stabilizer today. I'm hoping that the problem will work itself out. It's not like I haven't had some issues over the past 30 years, but it usually works itself out. I'm trying to avoid the doctor who will probably recommend some sort of surgery and I just don't want to do that. Imma DIY for a while.

The brace is helping though. I can walk around carefully and not be afraid of that 'giving out' feeling.

I need to get a job. That job is looking more and more like factory. I don't mind that. But I can't do it if I am hobbling around like some post-Annie James Caan.

Old. Old I am. And I need to drop some poundage. Maybe I should get back on the hormones.

ugh...

One of my fencing buddies, who is carrying a lot of extra weight tore his meniscus. He had some kind of procedure but the swelling is still pretty bad. Looks like he'll end up getting an MRI despite all the PT. Non-functional knees are the suck.