Are we just getting lazy with the Friday threads?Follow

Second weekend of having to work. PT test Saturday morning, and PT grading Sunday. I'd rather complete it with everyone else just for bragging rights, but whatever. Someone has to keep score, and in my field of work apparently only a few people can count past ten.

Who's on twitter? I finally joined the rest of the modern world on it (though I'm not on FB; I google+).

People should send me their info.

BBQ at a husband's colleague's house.

Then extensive laundry.

Is it - is this a weekday?

I've made three posts in three years on Twitter. Never really found the appeal.

Weekend plans are up in the air, but I suspect I will be cutting up quite a lot of downed trees. Might actually get started on that now since I don't have any work for this afternoon.

The friday update threads tend to go in cycles. I don't know why. I suspect it has to do with the allignment of neptune and galactic cluster 428-sigma 3.

I've got a wedding to attend later today. Took the day off for the heck of it too, which has been nice. Gave me time to finish installing this little gem:



Which is a honeywell Prestige 2.0 programmable thermostat. It also has a remote control, so i can actually change the stupid thermostat settings from upstaris on those nights when the stupid thermostat insists on going on and off a billion times, keeping me up when it isn't rrealy needed.

Also this weekend i'll be finishing the Z axis for the limit switch mounting for the mill. I think I know what I am going to do now, which should make it easier. I also aquirewd a small sheet metal brake so I can make some enclosure panels for some of the exposed machinery that would be difficult to cover with bellows.

Splitting wood, playing piano, potting the banana trees I have in the basement, jogging at the park, probably cook a pot of cornbeef and cabbage.

My mother is making duck this weekend. And has a pot of ox tail soup for me.

So I'll be spending the weekend eating delicious food the rest of my family won't touch

That's vancouver for you. It always rains everywhere here, especially indoors. You get used to it. Thats why people from vancouver all grow gills and webbed feet.

There is a module to attach the unit to my computer and phone. It's called the Redlink ternet Gateway, and costs $98. I don't own that piece of it yet, but its on the list to aquire. There is also a USB port on the bottom of the thing for backing up the internal configuration, and for uploading an installer logo if I wanted to do such a thing.

edit: Here's the remote:


and here's the outdoor temperature and humidity sensor


They also have additional indoor sensorss I can add if I wanted to average out the house temperature in different rooms, a humidifier control module if I wanted to install a humidifier (not that I need one with the huge ass fish tank in the house) and a few other toys. Installation was actually really easy. The only problem i had was the origional thermostat wasn't actually wired correctly, which given what I know about the history of the wiring in this house so far doesn't exactly suprise me. They never wired up the actual power lead to the old thermometer, so it was running constantly on the backup battery, which meant that the batteries were failing way faster than they should have been. I just figured the old design was an energy hog.

Once I do have the internet gateway part, I'll be able to control the temperature, in addition to the lighting and electronic controls I can already control via the smarthome modules I have installed. I can't open the door locks or anything yet though, mainly because I balk at paying brinks a monthly fee.

Edited, Nov 4th 2011 10:56am by Kaolian

Party tomorrow, I've got people staying over for that as well so that'll fill my weekend nicely.
I may go and swim a bit on Sunday, if I can be arsed to do so anyway.

No plans this weekend as of right now. My step-daughter is coming over, so we'll probably just hang out and watch movies.

I also don't Twitter. I use FB and Google+. I have a Twitter account, but I think I may have logged in 2 or 3 times.

According to lolWiki, there's five different types of oxtail soup. Also, according to loWiki, it's "oxtail", not "ox tail".

The stuff we make is the beastly looking image on the top (no, not the "personal appeal" photo).

Google plus is like a better designed Facebook with nobody on it.

I'm on it for the sole purpose of tracking our businesses. I tried signing up to Jim Irsay for updates on Manning earlier in the year for FF purposes, but he fucking tweets crap all day and it got annoying so I untwittered him.

I follow @God_Damn_Batman, which in itself is worth having an account.

I also follow friends, family, @Marvel, and people I stalk comic artist/writers.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

I don't participate in these threads too much because I don't have much of a life. But last night, our office paid for tickets to see Wicked. It was just as good as when I saw it last year. I cry at "Defying Gravity" every time, I'm such a sap.

Today, I ran some errands, mailed some books, bought some dog food. Next I'll drink some whiskey and play some WoW. Tomorrow and Sunday I'll sit around my house and think of things that I could do that are more productive while I watch A&E and TLC.

Apparently, I got volunteered to help a friend move on Saturday, so that's what I'm doing. Hopefully, the rain will let up by then, or it will such. Either way, will probably spend that evening recovering with a vodka beverage.

Sunday will probably involve yelling at the Chargers to some degree, then game night. Apparently, there are some trolls, and they've been very bad.

I picked up Uncharted 3, so that's more or less my weekend. I may stop to sleep at some point, I haven't decided yet.

The dry side.

Usually the usher will seat you, but I'm not sure it matters so much anymore. However, the bride stands at the left side (as you're facing the alter) so I would assume the left side. I honestly am not sure...

I've had Data phones for longer than most people have had cell phones. You get used to calling them PDA phones after a few years and its a hard habit to break.

Turns out the correct answer was "the left side" I of course managed to sit on the right side.

You won a bunch of rateups! and a free invisible chicken!

Oh, I'm not doing much this weekend, but this week, I got a promotion at work. It's a sh*t-ton more responsibility, about 2 bucks more an hour, and kinda more fun. I am absolutely psyched!

So the programmable ones don't need special wires or anything?

And thank you for the grats on the promotion. TBH, I'm nervous, but rationally, I think I'll do fine.

Nope, it's pretty easy. In a two-wire system, you'll just connect the red wire to R or RH and the white to W. If you have AC running off it too, it depends on how your system is set up, but typically you'll do green to G, red to RH (jumped to RC), white to W, yellow to Y.

Yeah, apperently in houses built after 1970, the wiring for thermostats is all standardized. This particular thermostat also requires a wire to C to deliver power to the display itself. Without the wiring snafu I ran into it took me about 2 minutes to install the first time, then another 3 minutes to fix the wiring. Installation and setup was really easy. I have a fairly simple heater setup, 1 heating stage, one cooling stage, so i was able to use pretty much all the default settings. Higher efficiency multi-stage units would have a bit more setup, but its basically a matter of looking up whatever heater and AC unit you own and determining if you have different heat zones, etc. Even if you get those settings wrong, the thing still works and they are easy to change. I do know that other honewell and other manufacturer thermostats are a bit more complicated to set up without the GUI. On those you would typically have to look up setting codes out of a manual and input them.

In the event you are interested in the installation and setup process, here's a video that shows most of the interesting bits. The first minute of the video is relevant, the rest of it is customization and accessories setup.