"Amanda" <amanda772008@yahoo.com> hath wroth:

>He single-handely managed to lose every tools in the house while
>growing up back in *SE Asia*.

My electric train set, Erector set, and collection of tools all
evaporated over the years. You can demonstrate the effect by leaving
a jar full of candies or chocolate in a high traffic area. Over a
period of a few days, everything in the jar will evaporate without
anyone claiming they took some. Sorry, but your brother is normal.

>> House cleaning was interrupted today by a local customer demanding
>> that I get their DirecWay/Hughesnet dish realigned after they tried
>> unsuccessfully to move the dish to another location (to avoid moving
>> trees). Since there are a large number of people sharing the system,
>> this was deemed a priority.

>Nice of you.

It was the usual problem of True North versus Magnetic North. Also, a
rather bad job of setting the mounting pipe to vertical. They didn't
realize how critical that was. However, I shouldn't have gone as I'm
trying to sell them on the idea of getting rid of the
DirecWay/Hughesnet satellite link and going to terrestrial wireless or
FTTF (fiber through the forest).

>Rather the opposite. I do very well in the forest. I don't do well
>with indoor pollution. Eithgty percent of household dust is dead skin
>from human. That needs to be removed constantly along with dust via
>regular but thorough vacuuming.

I thought that dust mites eat the dead skin. What most people react
to is the excretement from the dust mites. I've looked at house and
office dust under a microscope and find it mostly a mixture of road
dust and carpet fiber. I found plenty of dead skin, but not 80%. In
one office, the dust was overwhelmingly fiberglass insulation that had
gotten sucked into the HVAC ducting. I also check the remains from
what computer fans collect. It's almost all carpet fiber.

>I am new to this state and have heard about Palm Srping but don't know
>exactly where that is.

Welcome to the bankrupt state of California.
http://www.treasurer.ca.gov
Only $23.5 billion in the hole and climbing. Sigh.

Palm Springs is a vacation spot and tourist trap east of Smog Angeles.
The main attraction is the weather. It's hot, but the humidity is
very low, so you don't really feel the heat too much. Basically
desert.
http://www.psview.com/weather/Default.aspx
94F and 30% humidity at 8PM in the evening. Ugh. My friends claim
that it will be good for their asthma. Dunno.

>> Yeah, I know. Topic drift...
>
>Back to topic then..

Naw. I'm bored. Ummmm.... what was the topic?


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