Remember to turn your clocks ahead tonight.
This is a good time to check your smoke detector too.
Also just pushing the button to test you smoke alarm doesn’t tell you if it will detect smoke or not, all pushing the button does is test the circuit. You need to find a product called Smoke Test made by a company named CRC industries. It is a spray product that you spray at your smoke detector to set it off. Of course you can use something smoking to test the smoke detector too.
I have 62 smoke detectors that I test twice a year this way. I have many times checked the circuit & it worked fine but the detector wouldn’t go off when sprayed with the Smoke Test.
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Never heard of the test product, but it sounds interesting. As a good safety measure, I simply replace batteries in mine (which are backups for electric) in the spring (forward) and in the fall (back). It's cheap and the easy to remember. Believe it or not, my company gives us all a 9v battery as a reminder to do this. This year I plan on adding a carbon monoxide detectors as well. Just last week we had a news story of a family (Wife & two kids 4 & 3 months) killed. There was no fire damage, but a improper furnace killed all three. Sad.
62 smoke detectors?????? You live in a hotel?? Thnx for the daylight reminder.
We manage 1 16 unit family apartment complex & 1 40 unit elderly, handicapped & disabled apartment complex next door to each other.Sucking.......Whoosh.......Yowl........Whoosh.........Thrump puttytat up the DC..
Can someone remind me again why we go through this daylight savings idiocy twice a year?
Steve
David Brinkley on NBC, yers ago, told a story about Daylight Saving Time. The makers of charcoal and charcoal grills lobbied congress in the mid-late forties to estabilish the change to daylight hours. The rationale: longer evening hours would induce more people to increase the use of charcoa and of the grill for backyard barbecues. Maybe they did not anticipate that soon most of use would use propane.
You don't have to turn you clock ahead just leave it where it is & use the sun. Heck if you've been on the same schedule for awhile you should be able to get up & get to work on time & your stomach will tell you when its hungry. As far as taking a shower shaving washing your clothes you don't need a clock to do that either its a daily thing. If its not then sniff if your nose runs & your eyes water its time for a shower & washing your clothes.
If the above doesn't tell you why you need a time piece & need to keep it matched with whats going on around you with the rest of the fast paced world with ulcers, cancer etc. Well then you need to boil everything down to the simplest form like the above.
Things are just to complicated now days. Its to bad we have to live by the clock instead of being able to really live.
This all came out because I'm watching Out of the woods right now & would really love to just take some time & camping gear & fishing gear & disappear.Sucking.......Whoosh.......Yowl........Whoosh.........Thrump putty tat up the DC..
Good article in the boston globe yesterday. A guy wrote a book about DST. Whatever story you've heard, it's probably wrong.http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2005/04/02/man_of_the_hour/Enjoy,
Mark
Measure it with a micrometer, mark it with chalk, cut it with an ax.
I'm with you, Dirt-stirrer, this craziness has gone on long enough! Why can't we just leave the clocks alone? If saving daylight is so important in summer (when we have lots of it), it should be even more valuable in winter (when there is a shortage), so why not just leave DST on all year long?Arizona has the right idea. Of course, they have no shortage of sunlight...
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They did try leaving the clocks ahead but the kids were having to go to school in the dark and it wasn't safe.
It goes back some time but started with WWI officially...
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/e.html
Wouldn't it be easier to adjust the school schedule, rather than change all the clocks?None of this makes much sense to me. The whole planet ought to have one time zone, and we all just adjust our schedules to use daylight however we want.
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I just have to pop a slice of bread in the toaster to check the smoke alarm
I throw a dull blade in the saw and go at a piece of hard maple.
TDF
I just wish they'd change the time in the middle of the afternoon. I hate getting up at 2 AM to do it.
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