I just hope you have another money making source lined up.

It's in the works.

The new job is on hold for a couple of weeks. I haven't been a good boy with my CPAP.

However, I also have a discrepancy. When I read the SD card at home, it says my >=4 hours compliance for the last 6 months is 61%, but when I took it to the dr.'s office for an official printout yesterday it said 44%.

Anyway, I've used it every night for a week, so if I do it for another two weeks the 30-day should be over 70%, which will be good enough to start.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

...I'll send you my balaclava ;-)

I'll survive in the short term.

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I just hope you have another money making source lined up.

It's in the works.

The new job is on hold for a couple of weeks. I haven't been a good boy with my CPAP.

However, I also have a discrepancy. When I read the SD card at home, it says my >=4 hours compliance for the last 6 months is 61%, but when I took it to the dr.'s office for an official printout yesterday it said 44%.

Anyway, I've used it every night for a week, so if I do it for another two weeks the 30-day should be over 70%, which will be good enough to start.

Hope all works out well for you, David.

Meow.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Our cats barf often and we recently broke our little spot-wash carpet cleaning machine. Our new one arrived in a big box.

I opened the box.

Step 1 - Locate screw pack attached to handle.

I closed the box.

Another item for Eric's honey-do list.

I do have a problem with the breaker box, and the 2 bathroom breakers that are partly broken, the box just lets water in when it rains, the rain knocks out 2 bathroom GFCI outlets

Both bathroom outlets, 1 in each bathroom, have a GFCI outlet, 1 of which I hooked up Myself, both work as they are supposed to.

Doesn't sound like they work right.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Help wanted.
Job Title: Chief scientist
Salary $1.2 million US
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Help wanted.
Job Title: Chief scientist
Salary $1.2 million US
Requires 20 years experience managing a large-scale radio project

Eric?
Tullio

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What to do?
On our balcony there is often pigeons visiting us.
Despite that we are not feeding them.
Our dog usually make the birds to fly away.
Now it turns out that a pigeon family have made a nest and giving birth to two pigeon chickens on our balcony.
The guano smell is now awful but the chickens doesn't seem to mind sleeping in it together with their mum.

I want to get rid of them but how to do it?
I had some eye contact with the two pigeon chicken but I always chicken out when looking at them...

"Oh bother, what a mess"

Several possibilities, none pleasant:
- Ignore.
- Get a large broom and launch the whole lot over the side.
- Wait for them to go
- Get a BIG hungry domestic cat

You will probably have to evict them at some stage, Pigeons will roost at their nest site :-( Once gone clean up the mess, a grossly unpleasant task. wash and disinfect the area - up to waist height at least on the walls. Get some plants to obstruct their return, not large, stiff spiky ones are the best.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I had to demolish a building that had a pigeon nest with eggs. My biologist argued with me that we could not do it because of nesting restrictions. After months I was able to get a letter from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife saying that pigeons are not birds, they are rodents with wings. The building came down the next day.

Suggestion, a strong water hose.

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In much of the UK they are considered "pests", which means they can be evicted. Carlos' suggestion of a good sluice down with a strong hose is a good one, but it might be a bit unpleasant for anyone unfortunate enough to be walking on the ground below your balcony (but then, so too is "pigeon exhaust")

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

@Carlos and Rob.
Yes, my pigeon problem needs some none pleasant ways to evict them.
I can't say pigeons are pleasant to me either.
I have been to hen houses several times and one I have even cleaned.
That is moving out a lot of guano from it. Ca 2 cubic meter!
But the smell was nothing compared to my pigeons:(

Suggestion: A strong water hose. Pressure washers are even better:)
Problem: The balcony down below belong to our neighbors.

Suggestion: Ignore.
Problem: Guano smell(:

Suggestion: Get a large broom and launch the whole lot over the side.
Problem: The balcony down below belong to our neighbors.
Solved if collecting the guano in plastic bags.

Suggestion: Wait for them to go
Problem: Guano smell until pigeons are evicted and longer(:

Suggestion: Get a BIG hungry domestic cat
Problem: Does BIG cat's eat big fowls as a pigeon?

Suggestion: Get a BIG hungry domestic cat
Problem: Does BIG cat's eat big fowls as a pigeon?

I've watched a large "domestic" cat catch, kill and eat most of a large pigeon I would say it might solve your problem. You would probably need to borrow a few, in sequence, to do the job - so the cat was very hungry when "introduced" to its dinner.

When you do clean the place up don't forget the disinfect stage. The disinfectant (or strong bleach) removes the "this is a nice home" smell which gives you time to get the next layer of defense in.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Suggestion: Get a BIG hungry domestic cat
Problem: Does BIG cat's eat big fowls as a pigeon?

I've watched a large "domestic" cat catch, kill and eat most of a large pigeon I would say it might solve your problem. You would probably need to borrow a few, in sequence, to do the job - so the cat was very hungry when "introduced" to its dinner.
When you do clean the place up don't forget the disinfect stage. The disinfectant (or strong bleach) removes the "this is a nice home" smell which gives you time to get the next layer of defense in.

I don't know any big hungry cats...
I think I have to start removing the guano mess:(
It's a lot and very smelly:(
Maybe the pigeons will leave after that.
Or perhaps they will come back after doing that and enjoying their new clean "home";)

One simple trick to deter them is to make a mesh of fine line (fishing line) across the front of the balcony - the holes need to be about 75mm to stop pigeons - they aren't very good at seeing the stuff and once they've flown into it and bounced off a couple of times they generally get the message. It might be possible to get a pre-made mesh in a garden supplies shop (we call them "garden centres") as gardeners use this sort of stuff to protect their crops.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

One simple trick to deter them is to make a mesh of fine line (fishing line) across the front of the balcony - the holes need to be about 75mm to stop pigeons - they aren't very good at seeing the stuff and once they've flown into it and bounced off a couple of times they generally get the message. It might be possible to get a pre-made mesh in a garden supplies shop (we call them "garden centres") as gardeners use this sort of stuff to protect their crops.

Yes. I have seen some other neighbors having a fishnet in front of their balconies.
Silly me not to paying attention to that:)
Well here I am with two pigeon chickens in a nest that I now at least almost have destroyed.
Just waiting for their parents coming back and see how they behave.

My step moms first husband was from Thailand. He called pigeons "Thai Chicken" and hunted them regularly for dinner.
They do make netting for protecting fruit bearing bushes and trees. Try Amazon. Or ask a local plant nurseryman.

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Thou shalt not steal and think you will get away with it!
Construction crew wrangles thief, ties him to scaffold until police arrive

CHARLOTTE, NC A group of construction workers took matters into their own hands when dealing with an alleged thief Wednesday afternoon in uptown Charlotte.

The incident happened about 3:40 p.m. ... according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. A FOX 46 Charlotte viewer stumbled upon the scene and says the crew was working on the corner of Church Street and W. 6th Street when the man tried to break into one of their construction vehicles.

The group of workers from Baker Roofing caught the man, taped and tied him to scaffolding until officer arrived. No word yet on charges, but it's likely the man will think twice before trying to steal from this crew again.

(Video & photo also in linked article)

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Suggestion: Get a BIG hungry domestic cat
Problem: Does BIG cat's eat big fowls as a pigeon?

Help wanted.
Job Title: Chief scientist
Salary $1.2 million US
Requires 20 years experience managing a large-scale radio project

Eric?
Tullio

We have a nephew teaching English in China right now, and he is having a WONDERFUL experience, but he is 20 and we are not. I'm too old to be uprooted, for any amount of money.