@hazardwarning My 2012 Mazda2 has done 230,000 km - I bought it used with 135,000km up. Still going strong, burns or leaks no oil, no signs of rust.
// @variablepulserate
Today, for the first time since March 2nd, I was able to shower while standing. I did not need the shower chair.
@matigo I'll be lucky to get 18 months out of them. And by then they'll be quite tired.
How to Avoid Mixing Your Metaphors:
It's not rocket surgery.
First, get all your ducks on the same page.
After all, you can't make an omelette
without breaking stride.
Be sure to watch what you write
with a fine-tuned comb.
Check and re-check until the cows turn blue.
It's as easy as falling off a piece of cake.
Don't worry about opening up
a whole hill of beans:
you can burn that bridge when you come to it,
if you follow where I'm coming from.
Concentrate! Keep your door closed
and your enemies closer.
Finally, don't take the moral high horse:
If the metaphor fits, walk a mile in it.
--Brian Bilston
I had the 55 Ah batteries on my mobility scooter replaced yesterday. There are two battery replacement stores in the suburb, neither had that size of battery available although one did say if I wanted greater range I could upgrade to 75 Ah batteries that would fit. I enquired about price and was told $505 each. The alternative supplier didn't have any of the 75s in stock but could get them in for $399 each.
I mentioned this cheaper price at the first store (the one that had then in stock) and he matched the lower price of his competition. I knew they'd be pricy, they are a sealed, deep cycle gel-electrolyte lead-acid traction battery, vastly different to the regular vehicle flooded lead-acid unit.
I cooked a big batch of mostly vegetable soup tonight. The non-veg components are chicken stock and diced bacon. After the rest was cooked I added about 350 grams of rinsed and drained sauerkraut with the excess moisture squeezed out of it. Just tastes like shredded cabbage. One ingredient lacking is diced or shredded chicken meat, that will be added tomorrow, after I buy what’s colloquially known as a “bachelor’s handbag,” a roasted whole chicken in a plastic bag with a wooden handle across the top.
I spotted a height-adjustable armchair on a disability access retailer’s website. That company has a local store so I paid a visit there today. I left empty-handed as the only ones in store and to the alleged knowledge of the person behind the counter were priced at between $700 and $1400 apiece, quite unacceptable given the website had the ideal one at $352. So when I returned to the car and put away my rollator walker I got back onto the website on my iPhone and bought the one I’d seen at the lower price.
@variablepulserate Bottom mount and top mount refer to the relative position of the freezer compartment. With the state of my lower back and general poor mobility at present it's good that I don't have to bend down to access stuff in the fridge. instead, the bottom of the cooler compartmentt is at waist height.
At the start of the day I was using three freezers: one at the top of a refrigerator, a small stand-alone upright freezer and a 15-litre 12 volt portable (use in the car, for example) fridge or freezer. Today my new bottom mount fridge arrived, that has a 70 litre freezer with three drawers at the bottom of thee device and a 161-litre fridge above it. This one has 20 litres more freezer capacity than the old fridge, so I was able to turn off the portable unit, thus freeing up space in the laundry where it had been located.