Home Handyman

The snowblower is still in top shape and we had a mild, nearly snowless winter.
I am assuming that the ninja sabotage was badly botched and, as a result, the wrong machine was targeted.

That and we had some other more important missions for the ninja cat. He's also getting a but older and needs a break., He's 15 years old.

Yeah well if he breaks any of my machines again I'm gonna douse him with carb cleaner.

Isn't he skinny enough? Now you want to lessen his carbs?

You'd need a large shipment of that stuff for IG's cats.

Our cats are big but I don't know if either of them are 23 pounds. The bigger one is around 20, I think. They're a bit overweight but they're also simply *large* cats.

IG - Weigh yourself. Then pick up cat and weigh yourself again. That's if you don't pull a muscle picking up the cat.

That method of weighing an animal is a good one, but we don't own a people scale either.

You need a scale that hooks to your computer. Don't go for any of those cheap models. Need x10 functionality as well.

My in-laws were staying with us for a while. They had two dogs and a cat they brought with them. It was a very common occurrence to see the cat eating dog food and the dogs eating cat food. :P

When it comes to LED lighting, the old adage holds true: the good ones aren't cheap, and the cheap ones aren't any good. I tried three different brands in my kitchen. The first set of bulbs were CheapChinese(tm) that I bought for USD$5 each on eBay. They were, as you described, too dim and the light color was awful. It felt like we were inside an aquarium.

The next bulbs we tried were eco-something-or-other brand, which were about USD$20 at Home Depot. These provided a much whiter light, but they were noisy.
There was an actual hum coming from the bulbs, and there was no way I was going to tolerate that.

I finally got my hands on Philips AmbientLED in the form factor I needed (GU10). These have a warm, rich, incandescent-like glow. They were expensive -- about USD$25 each. I'm really happy with them, and will continue to be happy with them *if* they last. So far it's been about two months. The advertised lifespan is 20 years. I'm sure it'll be somewhere in between, and I'm holding on to the warranty info just in case it isn't.

As far as the ordinary screw-in E27 type bulbs, Philips is the only way to go. The bulbs look really weird but they're the only ones that have a color which is indistinguishable from an incandescent. Of course these are expensive too.

I don't care about the environment (well I do, but not in this context; if the eco-terrorists really cared then they'd let the world continue manufacturing incandescents, whose manufacture is clean). I care about energy consumption, and I'm willing to pay more up front if it saves more later.

Admittedly I'm taking a gamble; I don't know whether those USD$25 bulbs are going to last 20 years.