I have set the new heat pump reverse cycle A/C unit to 20ºC. According to the temperature sensors in. the stereo pair of HomePods in the same room, the temperature is between 19.6º and 20.5º. The 10-year-old model that was changed over early yesterday morning struggled to get with 4 to 5º of the selected setting.
The new one is maintaining those temperatures on the lowest fan setting with the quiet setting also active; the quiet setting reduces airflow noise.
The old unit needed to have its fan on a higher setting in order to achieve any useful heating effect.
We had a family reunion about ten years ago in the rural city where our grandparents lived all their married lives. We tried to get a date closest to Feb 28, their wedding anniversary, settling on Feb 8th. The temperature was 42ºC on the Saturday and 43ºC the following day. But because the humidity was around 8% all we needed was shade to be mostly comfortable. The initial meeting place was the park across the road from where their house used to be but after about six travellers joined the group we adjourned to the pub that the grandparents visited every Friday.
I had to hurry home on the Sunday because a crew was coming the following day to install a reverse cycle air conditioner.
Lately that device has been giving trouble, taking too long to heat or cool the room so in a couple of days another crew will replace it with a newer version. I had the old one serviced and was told it had lost some of its refrigerant over time.
The current outside unit is mounted to the concrete slab beside the garage door, the new one will be on a wall bracket and the condensate will be directed to a stormwater downpipe instead of just slopping about on the pavement.
If the person who named walkie talkies named everything:
Stamps - Lickie Stickie.
Defibrillators - Hearty Starty.
Bumble Bees - Fuzzy Buzzy.
Pregnancy Test - Maybe Baby.
Bra - Breastie Nestie.
Fork - Stabby Grabby.
Socks - Feetie Heatie.
Hippo - Floatie Bloatie.
@variablepulserate Wrong. He was slightly injured in the collision and sought medical assistance. He also made a police report of the incident as the injured party, quite within his rights. He wasn't even aware of the court case, didn't even know there was one.
Feeling a lot better now. The court case I was involved in is over, I was facing a charge of careless driving following an incident in January this year involving my next door neighbour and his 17-month-old daughter. She was uninjured but very distressed, actually went under the back of my car while I was slowly reversing.
I had a lot of trouble getting the recommended legal advice, eventually found a great barrister through a website. Essentially, I paid him to do all the worrying. The case was scheduled for 11am today, it was all over 20 minutes before that time.
No conviction was recorded, I had to make a small donation to a road trauma charity and am on a 6-month good behaviour order. That should not be too difficult, my driving record for the last 5 years is completely clear.
I was told I could expect some side effects of yesterday's COVID number 6 injection. One such problem encountered was upper arm pain late last night and today. What I didn't expect was to encounter similar pain in the other arm.
I was given a small pack (20) of Tapentadol painkillers when I left the rehab hospital 7.5 weeks ago. Until tonight I had used nine of them, 5 in the first 6 days. What's really neat about this medication is it's less addictive than Oxycondone while offering near-identical pain relief within 25 minutes of ingestion. I'm feeling a whole lot better now.
@matigo It's a precaution: I bought a pair of the originals, one died after two years and was replaced by a refurbished one because it was $150 cheaper. Then, a couple of months ago while I was in hospital the other original failed in the same way. The aforementioned replacement is still going strong but can't be made into a stereo pair with one of the new ones.
I have just added the two Apple Refurbished 2nd generation apple HomePods to AppleCare+, giving me two years of coverage on these devices. The complimentary 7 days of appleCare+ coverage expired yesterday, 16 days after their purchase and 15 days after their first use.
AppleCare+ for two HomePods plus the refurbished purchase price was still less than the new price of the two HomePods.
Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius died in 1744 aged 43 though his rival Fahrenheit was convinced he was 109.