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Our van has a huge tank too. I think it is 35 gal. and it has the best MPG I've ever seen. I think it is because it loves to roll so not pushing on gas that much.
What's everybody doing today?
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Our van has a huge tank too. I think it is 35 gal. and it has the best MPG I've ever seen. I think it is because it loves to roll so not pushing on gas that much.
I wish ours was like that. 12mpg. In town. On the highway. With air conditioning on or off. Dropped out of an airplane with the engine off. Doesn't matter. 12 mpg. Period.
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In town ours isn't as good either but still better than hubbys little Nissan XE Hard Body 4cy. pickup.
I can go from N.Florida to Cartersvilles Ga. and still have between `/4 to 1/3 left.
Studying for my Amateur Radio license.
Found a free "flip card" software program (hamexam.org) that tests me on the 454 possible test questions.
Also learned that the local Radio Club will be a test location March 12th.
Study until my eyes cross, do a odd chore or two around the house then back to studying.
Goal is to be ready by the March 12th date, before the new knowledge leaks out.
Found a free "flip card" software program (hamexam.org) that tests me on the 454 possible test questions.
Also learned that the local Radio Club will be a test location March 12th.
Study until my eyes cross, do a odd chore or two around the house then back to studying.
Goal is to be ready by the March 12th date, before the new knowledge leaks out.
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Good luck LazyL.
"What are the stable operating points for a bipolar transistor used as a switch in a logic circuit?"
A. Its active region (between the cutoff and situation regions).
B. Its peak and valley current points.
C. Its enhancement and depletion modes.
D. Its situation and cutoff regions.
A. Its active region (between the cutoff and situation regions).
B. Its peak and valley current points.
C. Its enhancement and depletion modes.
D. Its situation and cutoff regions.
D
[edit]The above contains a typo, it should say the "saturation" not "situation" region[/edit]
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Making some sort of pasta salad.
Going to vote in Missouri Primary Elections today.
Will be walking to polling place as it 's just up the street.
Got eggs boiling for said pasta salad.
Resting, did,'t sleep well last night.
Going to vote in Missouri Primary Elections today.
Will be walking to polling place as it 's just up the street.
Got eggs boiling for said pasta salad.
Resting, did,'t sleep well last night.
Lazy L -
For studying flashcards, there is a wonderful website "hamstudy.org". Free. They also make an app for your smartphone/tablet with the flashcards (same content as the website). That app sells for $3 IIRC. The one thing that may be problematic with the flash cards if you are trying to study, say, only one chapter in the ARRL book and you haven't read the other chapters yet - you cannot tell hamstudy.org to ONLY ask you questions from a specific chapter. You CAN tell hamstudy.org to ask you only questions from only a single "Topic", but "Topics" do not match up to "Chapters". When you're reading a book, generally you read it by chapters, you don't jump all over the place trying to follow a topic.
However, this "Questions by Chapter" deficiency has been rectified by a third party website that provides links into hamstudy.org where you CAN tell it to ask you questions only from one chapter. That third party website is:
AFØW / WØUM Amateur Radio Resources
Since it looks like you're studying for the General Exam (I recognize your transistor question above as being on the general test), then from the "gobgk" website above, choose "HamStudy.org General Flashcards". On the resulting webpage, the choices should be fairly obvious. On the right side of the page are "Flashcards by Chapter", on the left side are "Flashcards by Module". A "Module" is basically a subheading in a "Chapter". e.g., you are looking at, say, Chapter 4. Within Chapter 4 there are sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc. Each of those is a "Module".
These websites above cover all the questions for the current license levels - Technician, General, and Amateur Extra
Note: The flashcards will loop back to the beginning when you finish a chapter, module, topic, etc. This may get confusing on the very first chapter of the first license level - Technician. Because there is only ONE question from that first chapter. So it keeps looping back to itself after you answer it, leading you to think that hamstudy.org is broken. It's not, this is just an anomaly that presents itself if there is only one question available for the requested chapter (I think the only case of that happening is the first chapter of the first license level).
Note: On the flashcards, IAFTER you answer the question, there is a little clickable part on the upper right of the card (looks like a dog-eared corner of a paper page). If you click on that it shows you additional information about the question and answer to the flashcard.
For studying flashcards, there is a wonderful website "hamstudy.org". Free. They also make an app for your smartphone/tablet with the flashcards (same content as the website). That app sells for $3 IIRC. The one thing that may be problematic with the flash cards if you are trying to study, say, only one chapter in the ARRL book and you haven't read the other chapters yet - you cannot tell hamstudy.org to ONLY ask you questions from a specific chapter. You CAN tell hamstudy.org to ask you only questions from only a single "Topic", but "Topics" do not match up to "Chapters". When you're reading a book, generally you read it by chapters, you don't jump all over the place trying to follow a topic.
However, this "Questions by Chapter" deficiency has been rectified by a third party website that provides links into hamstudy.org where you CAN tell it to ask you questions only from one chapter. That third party website is:
AFØW / WØUM Amateur Radio Resources
Since it looks like you're studying for the General Exam (I recognize your transistor question above as being on the general test), then from the "gobgk" website above, choose "HamStudy.org General Flashcards". On the resulting webpage, the choices should be fairly obvious. On the right side of the page are "Flashcards by Chapter", on the left side are "Flashcards by Module". A "Module" is basically a subheading in a "Chapter". e.g., you are looking at, say, Chapter 4. Within Chapter 4 there are sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, etc. Each of those is a "Module".
These websites above cover all the questions for the current license levels - Technician, General, and Amateur Extra
Note: The flashcards will loop back to the beginning when you finish a chapter, module, topic, etc. This may get confusing on the very first chapter of the first license level - Technician. Because there is only ONE question from that first chapter. So it keeps looping back to itself after you answer it, leading you to think that hamstudy.org is broken. It's not, this is just an anomaly that presents itself if there is only one question available for the requested chapter (I think the only case of that happening is the first chapter of the first license level).
Note: On the flashcards, IAFTER you answer the question, there is a little clickable part on the upper right of the card (looks like a dog-eared corner of a paper page). If you click on that it shows you additional information about the question and answer to the flashcard.
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First time in almost 5 weeks I slept all night long last night. Hope its contagious MoBook and you sleep better tonight.
Today I changed proch decor to beach scene. Already had some but bought a table vlothe and place mats for a change from white. I'd prefere brighter colors than the sea shells,sea horses etc,etc,etc,. on it that look more like the brilliant undrwater colors but will do for now.
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Finished with the animals and the chores. Scrubbed out the fridge. Had a painting accident yesterday, took me an hour to clean up. Spilt white semi gloss all over the tile....4 ft area splat at least. Not in the mood to paint today. Got my shop list together for tomorrow's early morning shop. Daughter just called and said she'll be going back to Barrow, Alaska for a 6 week stint and leaving this weekend, so getting together with her at some point before she goes again. She loved the people there; although the hospital was tiny, and the medical equipment was antique. They offer very good pay and good furnished apartments and a driver. But the weather is not so fun right now. Whenever they have someone out, they call her to come back. Son is feeling better, and disinfecting the trailer he lives in. He's done about 6 loads of laundry already today. Is wearing a mask for our sakes. It appears he had the flu. He had the swine flu in 2009...caught it in the UNM dorms. One student died from it. Husband was remembering the Hong Kong flu he had when he was young. It put him in the hospital for a week. He was in Denver at the time, going to school there at a special hospital for children with lung issues. Some didn't make it. Very sad.
Popping a little rock today.
Whoa ...brother that's up my alley.
That wasnt tannerite either.
Cool
That's what they did to my heart Sunday, to get it to flatten out.
Jim
I have a massive amount of blasting coming up!
My sheppard keeps digging a hole to lay in against the east wall of my house (nice and cool in the afternoon)... but he’s digging up my patch of yarrow I’m trying to grow there. 
Last summer I filled in the hole and put a metal bee hive stand and a cinderblock on top…
He just moved over a few inches and kept digging. I noticed today he was about to dig up the support post for a window ac. I filled the hole again and covered it with broken bits of cinderblock and old bricks. He can lay there if he wants but it’ll be darned uncomfortable.
Last summer I filled in the hole and put a metal bee hive stand and a cinderblock on top…He just moved over a few inches and kept digging. I noticed today he was about to dig up the support post for a window ac. I filled the hole again and covered it with broken bits of cinderblock and old bricks. He can lay there if he wants but it’ll be darned uncomfortable.
Man, I wish I was close by, I would camp out at that sight.
I got a tree I been trying to blow over for 2 years with tannerite..even 10lbers.
Jim
My sheppard keeps digging a hole to lay in against the east wall of my house (nice and cool in the afternoon)... but he’s digging up my patch of yarrow I’m trying to grow there.
He just moved over a few inches and kept digging. I noticed today he was about to dig up the support post for a window ac. I filled the hole again and covered it with broken bits of cinderblock and old bricks. He can lay there if he wants but it’ll be darned uncomfortable.
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Sprinkle that area real heavy with black pepper.
Jim
Neighbors shot 50lbs of tannerite off last winter it made quite a boom!
My 10 lders got the sheriff out once to see what I was doing.
He stayed and watched.
He enjoyed the fun.
Man , I'm a skeered to go much bigger. I might try a 15 lbder , that tree ain't gonna win.
Jim
That was an appropriate amount of blasting oil touched of with a hint of dynamite.
@The Lazy L Stable operating points for bipolar circuit? I'd say somewhere between bacon and chocolate should be neutral 
@Amish Heart Oh bummer! That doesn't sound like a fun way to celebrate new tile. Hubby had H1N1 a few years when it went through. Neither of us wore masks, but I was a clean freak there for a while.
@Meerkat A beach scene sounds kinda nice about now - even if it's just on a porch
@hashbrown I wanna try. Can I help? Huh? Pick me, pick me. That is soooo cool. Maybe I was Wyle E Coyote in a former life. I love it!
@Amish Heart Oh bummer! That doesn't sound like a fun way to celebrate new tile. Hubby had H1N1 a few years when it went through. Neither of us wore masks, but I was a clean freak there for a while.
@Meerkat A beach scene sounds kinda nice about now - even if it's just on a porch
@hashbrown I wanna try. Can I help? Huh? Pick me, pick me. That is soooo cool. Maybe I was Wyle E Coyote in a former life. I love it!
@The Lazy L Stable operating points for bipolar circuit? I'd say somewhere between bacon and chocolate should be neutral
@Amish Heart Oh bummer! That doesn't sound like a fun way to celebrate new tile. Hubby had H1N1 a few years when it went through. Neither of us wore masks, but I was a clean freak there for a while.
@Meerkat A beach scene sounds kinda nice about now - even if it's just on a porch
@hashbrown I wanna try. Can I help? Huh? Pick me, pick me. That is soooo cool. Maybe I was Wyle E Coyote in a former life. I love it!
You can damn sure come and watch!
Sleep tight Meerkat!
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My cousin had a guy come out on his 50th birthday to blow an anvil up in the air.
Geez. You don't even have a hard name to spell.....
Told hubby I wanted to order more canning lids. He said sure, go ahead, get a couple hundred . So I did, 200 wide mouth and 100 regulars.... Tattlers.
I think the TP panic is starting to affect this hotel. The stuff they got in here is a bit rough. Ouch!
I think the TP panic is starting to affect this hotel. The stuff they got in here is a bit rough. Ouch!
If you're in the midwest that rough stuff is call corn cob!
Yesterday we went to a large town for an eye appointment with an opthamologist for DH and they say he has a rare condition of latticing which only affects about 6 - 8 % of the population. There is no cure but they can do laser surgery if his eyes get tears in the retina. Fortunately he hasn't got those yet but it explains why he sees nine of everything without his glasses and they said he was also chronically short sighted and the latticing ( is more apparent in Asian populations). DH's great great grandfather was Chinese. The appointment was paid for by DVA so free to us.
While there we did a little shopping and managed to get some reasonably priced bug spray to spray our house screens with to stop the midges getting in the screens. It seems all but the expensive brands are sold out everywhere else.
Today we woke up late but did get a bit done being that we finished deep cleaning the last cupboard in the kitchen and cleaned the oven. DH cleaned the front doors of all the fridges and freezers too so now the kitchen sparkles and are dust and clutter free again.
I watered all the potted fruit trees this afternoon. Dinner tonight was a sausage and tinned vegetable stir fry with tinned vegetables that needed using from our stockpile.
While there we did a little shopping and managed to get some reasonably priced bug spray to spray our house screens with to stop the midges getting in the screens. It seems all but the expensive brands are sold out everywhere else.
Today we woke up late but did get a bit done being that we finished deep cleaning the last cupboard in the kitchen and cleaned the oven. DH cleaned the front doors of all the fridges and freezers too so now the kitchen sparkles and are dust and clutter free again.
I watered all the potted fruit trees this afternoon. Dinner tonight was a sausage and tinned vegetable stir fry with tinned vegetables that needed using from our stockpile.
