The Awkward Silence

6:54 AM

Morning!

(Although, afternoon for me)

Hahaha good afternoon to you then. And morning! :)

2 hours later…

8:53 AM

@ExtrovertedMainMan I had a funny answer but could be in poor taste. Man it takes some self control.

@Criggie cross-eyed? Yeah.... :P

Heard something about earth quakes and tsunami's over there, was that near you?

Not really - we had quakes starting just over 10 years ago, and they slowly stopped over about 8 years - haven't felt one near me for a year or so.
But theres a lot of faults in the ground - the latest ones were pretty big, 7.1 magnitude. Fortunately they were out to sea, and 90 km deep compared to the 2-5 km deep of earlier ones.

geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2021p169083

the main risk was tsunamis, which did happen but were barely more than a big wave. Nothing at all like the Japan one.

I saw this one of the Japan tsunami - its horrifyingly slow.

9:09 AM

We're seeing fires in the hill area for some months.

Japan Tsunami 2011

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yeah - no fires here lately, thankfully.

it was a delayed start to summer, so the potatoes and corn really didn't grow well. Tomatos are loving it,

@AJ did you page me earlier ? I see the alert but the message was removed

Yeah, I did. It was about a question I asked on Home Improvement. Needed to confirm if it's suitable there.

Probably not a home improvements question - it looks more like a lifehacks.SE question.
Remotely maybe https://crafts.stackexchange.com/

If it were about the machine itself, would still probably be off topic. It only gets on topic there if it were about wiring the machine, or venting, or something more related to the home

That'd be my guess anyway

9:20 AM

No activitiy yet

There's a chatroom for DIY too, though its pretty quiet. chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/111/home-improvement

The DIY question is likely quiet because its a fairly US heavy site - sooo many of the questions are about US wiring.
I find it terrifying how so many people can get so deep into things they don't understand.
Here in NZ I cannot touch my distribution board, other than to reset/change fuses.

Yeah.

Speaking of that wiring I asked, I used the tape to close all open-ended wires and then put them in a plastic bag.

ok - as long as you're happy wiht it.

Personally I find the most valuable thing to be accurate labelling.

Although we have managed to cut the connection to those wires from the main supply, We just used the tape as a caution.

something that says this wire goes to "bedroom #2, south wall" or something

yeah good idea - there really is nothing wrong with a little extra safety

9:23 AM

Labelling will be hard. We don't even label the switches.

Although, you can deduce that by turning on and off MCB's switches.

That's what we did in our case.

mmmm later-you may end up grumpy at past-you :)

I tend to overlabel, but its saved me in the past

My coworkers get annoyed when I add notes to /etc/motd on servers.... I keep it terse and relevant, but things like "if you restart redis here then must restart the blah service on mas1 through 12 - 2020-04-04 CF" has helped avoid problems.

anyway - 22:30 here and I'm for bed. Good night all!

Yeah, it should help. Good night!

As for the buttons - did you buy the same kind, or better ones ?

cos if something fails me, i generally don't buy the same thing again.

bone or antler or plain modern plastic buttons should survive any normal washing machine.

right - gone !

@Criggie I replaced them with those plastic ones.

9:44 AM

@Criggie Oh, that's good :D

CaldeiraG

10:13 AM

morning

morning! :)

1 hour later…

11:15 AM

Well, I just ordered something, and since I live near a physical shop, they should come by this afternoon already to deliver it. Fingers crossed!

CaldeiraG

12:03 PM

nice :)

2 hours later…

1:35 PM

<rant> I'm taking another company training... I just answered a question wrong and all I got was a popup... I got the next one right, and now I'm sitting through a scene where this annoying lisping voice slooooooowly talks me through my correct answer again?! </rant>

M.A.R.

2:03 PM

> Shut up Velma

Exactly.

I'm finally done though. 1 hour for a bunch of stuff I could've read in 10 minutes, and 15 for a 'game' with 6 multiple choice questions or so.

2:54 PM

@CaldeiraG Nothing yet, so I'm going to give up hope. I think this means it will arrive by mail, tomorrow.

CaldeiraG

@Tinkeringbell yea, most likely

i'm used to waiting XD

I'm disappointed. Empty promises disappoint me XD

Sid

@Tinkeringbell damn. That must be frustrating.