The Happy News thread

[Alelou]

Okay, I don't even know what a mail client is. (I have a steep learning curve here, clearly.) If there's something associated with bluehost that I can use, I probably should, since I'm setting up a web site there.

Jamieson, I did go researching through Gmail and found the same answer you gave, so I'll try that. I'm just annoyed because I thought I had researched on google that I could do both BEFORE I did it and apparently whatever I had read on that score was wrong. It might be a limitation of my operating system, I suppose. I'm thinking it might be time to go for a newer computer and pass this one down to my kid.

[Weeble]

Hey nice lady,

I am not a plumber I am however an engineer that drove past a couple of Holiday Inn Expresses in the last few days.

Leaky valve.
Its either shot or the connections to the valve are leaking. Best hope is that it is the connections to and/or from the valve. In any case it is fixable. Are the connections soldered or threaded (praying for threads here) let me know. We'll go from there.

It is easy to clean out a dryer vent. There is a tool you can use

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-2771880011 ... 8_31982611

but essentially you are just snaking out the vent pipe. Mine runs about 15 feet through the wall after the (much hated by me) flexible tinfoil with wire flex-vent tube. If you want to do the surgery from the outside and its a straight shot, you can duct tape a wire clothes hanger to a long rod of some sort ( I have a 10' aluminum pole but you can use the extendo pole of a tree trimmer or whatever. Just bend the hanger so that it fits in the hole and insert the apparatus a little at a time and give it a slow turn and extract lint. Repeat as necessary. Once you are fairly sure you've got it all and you have someone you wish to play a joke on ..... Borrow an air compressor, have a cocktail, and tell the volunteer to verify air flow from the outside. Put the spray attachment on the end of the compressor line and place in the hole FROM THE DRYER END. I find that 60-70 psi is appropriate for good distribution and spray pattern. Let fly. Sip cocktail. Results should be available momentarily and noisily.

[Cogito]

It sounds as if you're used to reading email in your web browser, and that's usually easy and convenient, but you'll be limited to whatever features your email provider's web site gives you. An email client is an application that you'd need to download and install, and then configure it with details of the email accounts you wanted to access. Once you've done that, it will collect emails from all your accounts for you to read. Usually they will also have features like letting you create folders to keep your old messages in, and set up rules to save emails in the right place based on who sent them and what the subject was and so on - but you don't need to use any of that if you don't want to.

Microsoft used to include a free email client called Outlook Express with every copy of Windows. A few years ago they retied Outlook Express and replaced it with Windows Live Mail, which is no longer included with windows but is a free download from microsoft.com: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download ... x?id=29224

[Alelou]

Thank you all for the helpful suggestions. I will come back and digest them as soon as I finish grading! (It's the last week of classes.)

I did hire a plumber to fix the leak tomorrow, which I think is just coming from the pin that moves the shut-off valve on and off, but I could be wrong. Not worth risking two floors of house for a stupid little leak. The vent and the pan we can handle ourselves (thank you so much for the procedure, Weeble).

And email I'll figure out, too. Thanks, Cogito. Windows Live used to annoy me when I had hotmail but perhaps I wasn't using its full capabilities or even understanding what it was there for. Time to remedy that situation, especially since I have email accounts sprouting like toadstools right now.

My list of projects for this summer just keeps getting longer and longer!

[Cogito]

Windows Live used to annoy me ...

Yeah, that sounds about right. Have fun with the grading!

[Weeble]

let's not talk about the list of summer projects.....mine keeps getting longer and longer and longer.......

[Alelou]

Happy Mother's Day, mothers (and any who mother)!

[Asso]

Yes, Happy Mother's Day!

Admin warning: This link NSFW. Although not sexual in nature, it contains nudity.

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd217/Asso_02/cSurprisesoflove-egravelamiglioreultimissima_zpsc70dd17f.jpg?t=1368377009

[Asso]

Admin warning: This link NSFW. Although not sexual in nature, it contains nudity.

Certainly, just so. Admittedly though - let me - It is an absolutely chaste nudity and very beautiful, joyful.
After all, we are born naked, nudity is not a bad thing, I think.
But all in all, it matters little.
Okay so. The administrator has done his job.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Well, in Sweden we don't have Mother's Day until May the 26th.

Still, happy Mother's Day!

[Alelou]

Waiting for the frost-free date? (What is it in Sweden?)

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Heh! Actually spring took a quantum leap here just a few weeks ago, and now there's talk of summer just around the corner...

Go figure, I saw snow and ice not long ago...

[Alelou]

Well, we thought we were there too -- it got pretty hot for a little while -- but there's a frost warning for the next two nights. I just put blankets over my nanking cherry bushes because they're already in fruit, and pulled the peppers out of the cold frame and back into the house.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Well, tomorrow I fly to the very north of Sweden, Kiruna, to attend the Arctic Council meeting (with, among others, John Kerry and Sergei Lavrov). Ans this morning it snowed there...

[Alelou]

Eh, it snowed an hour north of here, too, today.

I had to run around covering tender plants with blankets before the sun went down tonight. It is really cold out there and we have a freeze warning instead of just a frost warning.

Happy Arctic Council meeting. I suppose they're all jockeying furiously for any oil or gas that might be found up there.