When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

That’s awesome. I had a second floor Mitsubishi mini split installed and it was about $8k. The electrical was probably the most time consuming. Nice work!

Is it MRCOOL or does another brand make pre-charged?

Is it really quiet? How do you like it so far?

Is it possible to connect it to WiFi or is it just a remote?

If you need less than the 25 feet do you just have the extra line coiled up?

If you factor in your time at $100 per hour, what’s the all-in cost?

I have a donut spare, and the well has room for a full one. I haven’t bothered upgrading because in over 20 years of driving I’ve never needed one. However, I would feel a bit insecure with nothing, especially when venturing into wilderness.

Facts are overrated

And when it’s sunny on the snow it’s about 4-5 C warmer.

Do you live near a 5g tower?

I’ve been pretty good at sleeping most of my life until the past few years. Now I have bipolar. Lithium helps but sleep is the most important thing. I spent 6 nights away from the city in May and all of them I slept solidly.

Sorry to hear about your current condition. I have recently stopped drinking coffee, and cut down on the beer, so I’ve been conscious to replace that fluid.

As gout symptoms are very diet related, if I was in your position I would do some sort of fast or juice cleanse for a week or two. Not only does it reset your body, but it also resets your taste buds, making it easier to maintain a healthful diet.

Keep in mind you can also get a lot of water from foods. Not just salad but smoothies or yogurt bowl or steamed vegetables.

I don’t like drinking water because the fact is you don’t need that much of it. When I was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, walking 12 hours per day, I drank at most 3 liters, plus a pint for breakfast and a pint for dinner. So that’s 1 gallon total for extreme physical activity. In such a day I would pee maybe 3 or 4 times.

In normal life in an arid climate my water needs are about 1-1.5 liters. But this can entirely be covered by coffee or tea, a fizzy water, and maybe a beer or bedtime tea.

The only reason for the hydration obsession is excessive salt intake. Because salt and water are always a balancing act, excessive hydration will likely lead to salty snack cravings. If it didn’t we’d have a lot more cases of hyponatremia. The only serious side effect of being in the yellow pee club is kidney stones, but those are better prevented by lemon water and avoidance of spinach than excess hydration. I have no complaints of constipation or dry skin.

Drink when you’re thirsty. Eat when you’re hungry. Rest when you’re tired.

So what’s left to differentiate them? That they don’t serve food other than pretzels? That’s a big selling point?

We will soon find out with Southwest. They are moving to assigned seats because they think many travelers are avoiding them due to their open seating. However they may find that their most loyal customers no longer have a good reason to choose Southwest. Time will tell.

I’d like to see some airline adopt a seat + weight pricing. You pay a base fee and then you’re weighed with your luggage.

It’s been super reliable. Perhaps at 10 years old they’re extrapolating the failure curve and worried about many more fires.

Different use case. I used this one for hiking the pacific crest trail in 2016, and a few other hikes since. Amazingly, the power banks haven’t even gotten much lighter than this model, and those that are lighter are less reliable. It would be nice is NiMH could match the energy density of lithium, but it’s hard to compete with the lightest solid element.

Um, Yellowstone is not in California.

No, I had plenty of doctors checking in asking about my perception.

I’ve been awake for 8 days, no drugs, and I did not hallucinate. I did not feel close to death and I actually had tons of athletic energy. The main detrimental effect was a loss of logging short term to long term memory, like the movie memento I had to write notes.

What about the Costco credit card? Not only does it have a photo but it requires an official credit check.

You and I have different definitions of upper class.

This video helped me a lot.

https://youtu.be/mzIgrFwhjPc

Basically your lower back near the spine doesn’t get a ton of blood to heal itself. I’ve been doing back bends once or twice a week and my low back pain went away after about 6 months.

Yoga was the start of my wife’s back problems. Too much flexibility and not enough strength.