09:27 – The weather forecast is glorious for the next several days: cool, cloudy, gray, and drizzling. The high today is forecast to be 71F (22C), and our lows for the next several days are to be around 60F (~15C). Not traditional August weather for around here.
Barbara spent most of yesterday helping her sister move stuff out of storage and into the new room that Frances and Al have just built onto their house. She’s cleaning house right now, and then we’ll get started on more science kit stuff.
Lucky you. We saw 98 F driving down I-69 (the southwest freeway). Now a monster thunderstorm is coming in and the temperature just dropped by 10 F.
Does anyone here know of a water resistant am/fm/cd stereo boombox that I can place on my back patio? Something that the rain will not ruin?
You might look at the various work site radios that Milwaukee and the other portable power took outfits offer. Many claim weather resistance. The batteries also operate drills and such so if you have such tools start with the same brand and you might not need to buy a battery and charger. (They mostly offer a 110 transformer feature that could suffice.)
Does anyone here know of a water resistant am/fm/cd stereo boombox…
http://www.amazon.com/ECOXGEAR-Rugged-Waterproof-Boombox-GDI-AQ2SI60/dp/B004YI6N00/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1ZHAGGXG38G0R069G31H
If you do not have to have portable, you can wire up some waterproof speakers to the indoor stereo. Over the years, I did that on the decks of 2 of our houses. Lots of choices for that, but at the time Polk speakers were my choice.
Boy, Facebook seems to have shot themselves again. I am not a Facebook fan, and spend maybe 10 minutes once a week — or less. But I am getting a ton of posts on my News Feed where people are notifying everyone that they are giving up Android and iOS messaging on Facebook.
I never used it myself, but apparently people my kids’ age used it a lot. Problem seems to be that a few days ago, Facebook disabled their messenger app, and require that you download a new one that is incredibly invasive, demanding that it hook into everything on your phone, including GPS, email, and nearly all else you do with your phone.
Facebook usage has been falling about as fast as Rush Limbaugh’s ratings, but they continue down the path of pissing off users.
http://www.amazon.com/ECOXGEAR-Rugged-Waterproof-Boombox-GDI-AQ2SI60/dp/B004YI6N00/ref=pd_sim_sbs_e_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=1ZHAGGXG38G0R069G31H
That model does not have the built-in tuner. It uses an iphone for the signal generator.
Hey Miles, here is Hillary at the beach in a …:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2720212/A-straw-visor-muumuu-Hillary-SoulCycle-shorts-Bill-Relaxed-Clintons-enjoy-downtime-beach-dogs.html
You might look at the various work site radios that Milwaukee and the other portable power took outfits offer. Many claim weather resistance. The batteries also operate drills and such so if you have such tools start with the same brand and you might not need to buy a battery and charger. (They mostly offer a 110 transformer feature that could suffice.)
http://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DC012-Worksite-Charger-Radio/dp/B002S56S5Q/
This bad boy costs $149. I’ve seen them at construction sites, usually wailing out something in Spanish. My last outside boombox lasted about a year and a half before it fried itself so I will probably just buy another cheapie sony:
http://www.amazon.com/Sony-CFDS50-Portable-Cassette-Boombox/dp/B00INEG8W4/
If you do not have to have portable, you can wire up some waterproof speakers to the indoor stereo. Over the years, I did that on the decks of 2 of our houses. Lots of choices for that, but at the time Polk speakers were my choice.
I’ve thought about doing this but my roof is direct coupled to my eaves and to the attic joists about three feet in. Gonna be tough to run some speaker wires through that non-existent space.
That’s the ticket – re-program myself to see cloudy, rainy weather as “glorious”!
It just started raining here again – we’re going on six weeks of rainy weather, with very few hours of sunshine thrown in. Lots of flooding, above “century flood” levels in many places.
Also lots of landslides in the Alps and in hilly regions. Hills in the Swiss lowlands are really just piles of dirt left behind by the glaciers – get that dirt saturated with water, which six weeks of rain will do, and it flows downhill…along with any buildings that happen to be sitting on it.
Sure would be nice to have some summer weather…
Well, I admit that I am surprised by the Hillary-n-Bill photo. That implies that they actually are still together. I had long since assumed that they had gone their separate ways, and were only married in name.
I going to assume that high fidelity is really not needed on an outdoor patio. Put the thing in a plastic bag. Actually I built a wood box for the one out by my pool. Not really waterproof but close to 120v GFI connection and I put a bag over it when not in use.
I going to assume that high fidelity is really not needed on an outdoor patio. Put the thing in a plastic bag. Actually I built a wood box for the one out by my pool. Not really waterproof but close to 120v GFI connection and I put a bag over it when not in use.
Hah, with my 54 year old ears! I’m lucky when I can hear the highs. I just crank it up louder. About half of neighbors have pools and/or hot tubs, they crank up their stereos also.
The bag idea is a very good idea. Maybe one of those grocery store canvas bags they are trying to sell us all the time so the wind will not blow it away.
BTW, the boombox is on top of the half size fridge on the back patio. That fridge has been wet multitudinous times with our driving rains and never skipped a beat. And yes, they are plugged into a GFI circuit.