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[MisterDNA]

Sun goes behind the Wellsville Mountains at 4:30, sets at 5PM and we're in darkness at 5:30 this time of year with DST to blame. This calls for a little help:

That should do it.

I put the conduit together temporarily as a jig. Good thing because I was off a bit and had to square the sides.

The shovel is in place to show the final grade after backfill and gravel. 24" from the bottom of the shovel handle to the top of the pipe. That's six inches more than I need, but that's because I need sand under the pipes. Sand is used for several reasons:

1. Serves as a potential warning to backhoe operators.
2. No rocks to damage the pipe (or direct-burial cable).
3. Doesn't self-compact as much over time as standard soil does so your pipe stays straight over the, hopefully, many years it's in service.

I will have to cut the soil back at the elbow to allow for the sand since I want to keep the data lines as far from the power line as possible.

 

[Jesse B]

Looks great. Man did you ever do a lot of digging; the previous pictures didn't quite do it justice.

 

[MisterDNA]

Looks great. Man did you ever do a lot of digging; the previous pictures didn't quite do it justice.

Thanks. In hindsight, I could have used a backhoe or ditch witch, but I decided I could use the workout. I gained a lot of weight during this project and that kind of sacrifice/neglect is on borrowed time.

I'd rather do real work than pedal away on the trainer bike anyway. I started out last year at 225, dropped to 197, slowly went up to 215 and now I'm 212. My health is the next project. I was prediabetic at my last physical. I'm waiting on the results for the most recent one.

 

[Jesse B]

Thanks. In hindsight, I could have used a backhoe or ditch witch, but I decided I could use the workout. I gained a lot of weight during this project and that kind of sacrifice/neglect is on borrowed time.

I'd rather do real work than pedal away on the trainer bike anyway. I started out last year at 225, dropped to 197, slowly went up to 215 and now I'm 212. My health is the next project. I was prediabetic at my last physical. I'm waiting on the results for the most recent one.

Hopefully all is well! Wouldn't want anything holding you back on your work now would we?

 

[dalearyous]

Thanks. In hindsight, I could have used a backhoe or ditch witch, but I decided I could use the workout. I gained a lot of weight during this project and that kind of sacrifice/neglect is on borrowed time.

I'd rather do real work than pedal away on the trainer bike anyway. I started out last year at 225, dropped to 197, slowly went up to 215 and now I'm 212. My health is the next project. I was prediabetic at my last physical. I'm waiting on the results for the most recent one.

that doesn't sound too bad, how tall are u?

 

[MisterDNA]

that doesn't sound too bad, how tall are u?

just over 5'10" tall.

But there's a catch: Ritalin I was forced to take as a kid stunted my growth. My siblings are all over 6', as are most of the males in my family. Most are over 6'2".

Not that height matters here so much. My case for weight loss comes from the 4" of fat on the front of my stomach, not a BMI chart.

 

[MisterDNA]

Blood work results are in. Triglycerides and blood glucose were out of whack last time. This time, my triglycerides were normal while my LDLs were elevated (they're saying it may be genetic for me since triglycerides were normal). Most importantly, the 101 glucose reading from last time has been replaced by a 91. Normal.

Exercise is the key. My blood was taken Monday after busting my ass with the trenches over the weekend.

 

[dalearyous]

good to hear and yeah thats a fair amount for your height. im 5'9" @ 165, couldn't imagine an extra 30lbs, let alone another 40-50lbs. exercise is always key. keep up the good work, i may need some advice later for my cluster that is in the works.

 

[Jesse B]

Blood work results are in. Triglycerides and blood glucose were out of whack last time. This time, my triglycerides were normal while my LDLs were elevated (they're saying it may be genetic for me since triglycerides were normal). Most importantly, the 101 glucose reading from last time has been replaced by a 91. Normal.

Exercise is the key. My blood was taken Monday after busting my ass with the trenches over the weekend.

Good to hear that all is back to normal

good to hear and yeah thats a fair amount for your height. im 5'9" @ 165, couldn't imagine an extra 30lbs, let alone another 40-50lbs. exercise is always key. keep up the good work, i may need some advice later for my cluster that is in the works.

You people are all tiny

 

[MisterDNA]

You people are all tiny

Actually I'm a Cylon.

And drunk. I've had a bit of that Underground stuff I posted earlier in the thread. One shot was taken Finland style with a Fisherman's Friend cough drop crushed and mixed into it. Oh yeah. I feel better. I'm celebrating because I sold another SGI machine. The shed project is paid for at this point.

I just bought the processors I need for the Housecat cluster project. There will be a few left when I'm done, really.

88 cores total... yeah. too much for me so far.

 

[Jesse B]

Actually I'm a Cylon.

Damn toasters...

And drunk. I've had a bit of that Underground stuff I posted earlier in the thread. One shot was taken Finland style with a Fisherman's Friend cough drop crushed and mixed into it. Oh yeah. I feel better. I'm celebrating because I sold another SGI machine. The shed project is paid for at this point.

That sounds bloody fantastic

I just bought the processors I need for the Housecat cluster project. There will be a few left when I'm done, really.

88 cores total... yeah. too much for me so far.

One can never have too many cores.

 

[dalearyous]

tiny? or incredibly efficient?

 

[MisterDNA]

Update: I survived wisdom teeth removal. The project is still on.

 

[starhawk]

I'm 5'3", 217lbs (hey, at least that's not in kg's!) + psoriasis, Asperger's in my brain, long hair, no job, and no money. My doc thinks I might have "metabolic syndrome", W/ETF that is.

And I live with my parents.

IMADERP

 

[MisterDNA]

I'm 5'3", 217lbs (hey, at least that's not in kg's!) + psoriasis, Asperger's in my brain, long hair, no job, and no money. My doc thinks I might have "metabolic syndrome", W/ETF that is.

And I live with my parents.

IMADERP

Metabolic syndrome is mentioned in the same breath as insulin resistance and prediabetes. I saw it mentioned here and there when I was doing my homework on prediabetes.

pasted:

Metabolic syndrome is defined as the presence of any three of the following conditions:

* waist measurement of 40 inches or more for men and 35 inches or more for women
* triglyceride levels of 150 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) or above, or taking medication for elevated triglyceride levels
* HDL, or “good,” cholesterol level below 40 mg/dL for men and below 50 mg/dL for women, or taking medication for low HDL levels
* blood pressure levels of 130/85 or above, or taking medication for elevated blood pressure levels
* fasting blood glucose levels of 100 mg/dL or above, or taking medication for elevated blood glucose levels

Actually, except for the cholesterol one, those all applied to me last year. Now only blood pressure does and that's getting under control, too.

Be careful, dude. We aren't built for this. I felt like ass back then.

 

[starhawk]

I know... I feel like cr*p most of the time... wish I could get up the oomph to do something about it.

The problem, of course, with having so little E in yer life is that you don't have enough MC^2 to do anything about it! At least, that's my problem...

 

[Jesse B]

I know... I feel like cr*p most of the time... wish I could get up the oomph to do something about it.

The problem, of course, with having so little E in yer life is that you don't have enough MC^2 to do anything about it! At least, that's my problem...

I just had a breakthrough. Fat people should have more energy than skinny people according to said equation. PREPOSTEROUS!

 

[starhawk]

...only when you accelerate them to the speed of C^2 Trust me, at normal daily speeds/velocities, blubber slows you down a LOT.

Source: my fat gut.

 

[MisterDNA]

I know... I feel like cr*p most of the time... wish I could get up the oomph to do something about it.

The problem, of course, with having so little E in yer life is that you don't have enough MC^2 to do anything about it! At least, that's my problem...

At my worst, I ultimately just decided to live for the fight against the downward spiral I was in. When your body goes into that kind of feedback cycle, nothing good can come of it.

In my case, I started drawing energy from anywhere I could grab onto it. The rush of listening to a song that pumps you up, for example. Sometimes even imagining situations where I had to do a particular thing where failure had dire consequences. No different from a game, really. That was enough to get me moving.

The infomercial tards who talk about making time to exercise are actually right to some extent. If you put in the time to exercise, you find that you get it back (and way more) in stuff like needing less sleep, being able to do things more quickly and all that motivational checklist stuff. What they don't tell you is that you don't need to buy their bundahoo product in order to do it.

 

[starhawk]

Call me a tard, but last time I exercised it just made me feel *more* tired and cr*ppy.

Honest disclosure: I used to hike. A lot. Then we moved, I stopped walking, and I started eating Chef Boyardee.

Hey, at least I'm not on the pasta party wagon anymore... stopped that stuff about a year or so after I started. But if you go to the local Wal*Mart and look in the doggy food aisle... the bag of Iams Small Chunks that costs $35 is about what I'm carrying on my belly.

To quote Weird Al, "...and my shadow weighs forty-two pounds, lemme tell you once again, who's fat?"

 

[MisterDNA]

Call me a tard, but last time I exercised it just made me feel *more* tired and cr*ppy.

Honest disclosure: I used to hike. A lot. Then we moved, I stopped walking, and I started eating Chef Boyardee.

Hey, at least I'm not on the pasta party wagon anymore... stopped that stuff about a year or so after I started. But if you go to the local Wal*Mart and look in the doggy food aisle... the bag of Iams Small Chunks that costs $35 is about what I'm carrying on my belly.

To quote Weird Al, "...and my shadow weighs forty-two pounds, lemme tell you once again, who's fat?"

Earlier this year, I was training for the LOTOJA bike race (stopped after I found I couldn't get a spot in the race and decided to focus on finishing Dashcat). That race is 206 miles from Logan, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. To be able to finish at all is an amazing feat of athleticism, much like Ironman.

For the first two weeks of training, it hurt. A lot. My knees became so loose I thought I was damaging them (they were adapting to the new strain) and I thought I was going to pass out sometimes. That trite "no pain no gain" axiom is no less true. It was in the third and fourth week that I found the knee problems and everything else resolved themselves and I was feeling better each day. I could hardly believe it.

For the record, my training consisted of using a recumbent (sitting down with legs out in front; way more comfortable for long periods of time) exercise bike in front of my 42" LCD, with me pedaling away while watching movies, surfing the web, playing WoW or playing any of the several consoles I own. My heart rate monitor would sound an alarm to warn me if my heart rate was too low and I needed to pedal faster. During boss fights, this was crucial.

The heart rate monitor is possibly the most important fitness tool technology has given us and they're actually quite cheap now. The Fox-Haskell training zone table may not be gospel, but it's a damn fine guideline. I set my lower limit to 130BPM and made it a point to avoid the warning beeps. I lost almost 30lbs that way in like three months.

 

[starhawk]

One of my head problems is that I have a maximum patience limit of about three days.

If I don't see *something* in about three days, then whatever activity I was expecting to get results from disappears from my routine.

What I do like to do is... go for a walk. But I can't seem to "just" go for a walk, it's got to have a practical purpose (like getting to my lunch, or to a place I need to go...) It's really quite strange -- it's the one thing in my life where I won't do it unless it's extremely practical. Everything else I do is fun daydreamy type cr*p. These things all combine so that I don't walk very often... hey, at least I *know* I'm a piece o' work...

BTW, if I'm hijacking your thread, LMK and I'll shut my yap. I don't want to be rude. To anyone.

 

[Jesse B]

One of my head problems is that I have a maximum patience limit of about three days.

If I don't see *something* in about three days, then whatever activity I was expecting to get results from disappears from my routine.

What I do like to do is... go for a walk. But I can't seem to "just" go for a walk, it's got to have a practical purpose (like getting to my lunch, or to a place I need to go...) It's really quite strange -- it's the one thing in my life where I won't do it unless it's extremely practical. Everything else I do is fun daydreamy type cr*p. These things all combine so that I don't walk very often... hey, at least I *know* I'm a piece o' work...

I'm the EXACT same way. I thought I was weird, but now that there's two us, I don't any longer

 

[pwrusr]

One of my head problems is that I have a maximum patience limit of about three days.

If I don't see *something* in about three days, then whatever activity I was expecting to get results from disappears from my routine.

What I do like to do is... go for a walk. But I can't seem to "just" go for a walk, it's got to have a practical purpose (like getting to my lunch, or to a place I need to go...) It's really quite strange -- it's the one thing in my life where I won't do it unless it's extremely practical. Everything else I do is fun daydreamy type cr*p. These things all combine so that I don't walk very often... hey, at least I *know* I'm a piece o' work...

BTW, if I'm hijacking your thread, LMK and I'll shut my yap. I don't want to be rude. To anyone.

Maybe get a dog so you can take him out for nice long walks once or twice a day

 

[starhawk]

baaaaaaaaawwww... you just made me sad

For seven years, Mom and I had a purebred Scottish Deerhound named "Gracie". She died last fall... we don't know what of because we couldn't afford a vet. She just kept hurling bile... we finally decided that we didn't care how much the vet cost, it would be worth it.

The vet came about three minutes too late.

RIP Gracie, we really miss you.

 

[MisterDNA]

One of my head problems is that I have a maximum patience limit of about three days.

If I don't see *something* in about three days, then whatever activity I was expecting to get results from disappears from my routine.

What I do like to do is... go for a walk. But I can't seem to "just" go for a walk, it's got to have a practical purpose (like getting to my lunch, or to a place I need to go...) It's really quite strange -- it's the one thing in my life where I won't do it unless it's extremely practical. Everything else I do is fun daydreamy type cr*p. These things all combine so that I don't walk very often... hey, at least I *know* I'm a piece o' work...

BTW, if I'm hijacking your thread, LMK and I'll shut my yap. I don't want to be rude. To anyone.

First off, you're not hijacking. I like when my threads seed deep stuff like this.

The three day thing is something you'd have to resist if you took any approach with real results. The "want it now!" mindset is at the heart of a lot of things going wrong in the USA these days, really.

It took me a week before the real weight started dropping (the first five pounds is basically shit and water). Depending on the person, it may actually take longer if said person is building muscle from the fitness activity (and this is a very good thing, especially in the long run because muscle requires a bit of energy just to stay alive, leading to more fat loss).

You'd have to put in an honest-to-FSM effort for a month at one hour a day with your heart rate in the 130s consistently to see results. Sadly, walking rarely gets the heart rate up that high. And, actually, you might not like the initial results because fat, to the eye, appears to burn off from the inside-out. Hanging skin is the result of this. And if you're burning a lot of fat, your skin's elasticity will need time to catch up. People who get that stomach stapling thing get it.

Same happened with my wife when she was 255 after giving birth to our daughter, held there for three years and then dropped to 210 very quickly this summer. Her skin has only just caught up to her this past couple of weeks, but she's ready for another round now.

Skin is really only about 1/16" thick (wrist where a watch sits). Holocaust victims are a good, but extremely sad example of human skin elasticity. Surgery is not needed for excess skin after weight loss. All it takes is time and persistence.

When I was doing my training, the first thing I noticed was my quadriceps muscles (essential for cycling) always felt firm, almost like a numbness really. Soon, I found I was waking up a lot more quickly and didn't sleep through my alarm anymore, even if I hurt from an especially tough workout the previous night.

Pushing yourself is always encouraged. Not meaning one should go hell-bent right out of the gate, but after easing in with steady 130BPM workouts it's good to mix it up by holding at higher pulse rates for five or ten minutes at a time during the hour. After a month of that pattern, surges to maximum heart rate (they call it VO2max; 200bpm for me) for two minutes a couple times a week will strengthen the heart muscle and get it to start building new muscle fibers to replace old and tired ones.

By all means, though, don't get into it too quickly. And since this kind of thing puts different strains on the body, supplements are a huge help. It's not even Monkey Gland Extract or Predigested albumin protein sludge type stuff I'm talking about. I had my "-ine" drink every night after my workout and before bed. Ovaltine with 5 grams of Glutamine powder and 5 grams of Creatine mixed in. Ovaltine because I like it and it's like a multivitamin you can drink. Glutamine because it's required for body tissue repair and the human body doesn't synthesize enough of it internally. Creatine for the fact it puts water in the muscles allowing a longer workout before the "burn" becomes too much to bear and helps keep pH in control.

Later on, I found that Ovaltine was best replaced with a protein shake mix you can get at Sam's Club for about half the per-serving price of Ovaltine. And it actually has the Glutamine already in it. It's an EAS product and I grudgingly use it because it works (plenty of good protein and doesn't taste like genocide), even though I think Bill Phillips is a me-too poser douchebag. The vitamin gap was made up with a standard $10 for 500 multivitamin.

For the first three weeks, Ibuprofen and Naproxen Sodium (generic for Aleve) were my best allies. They are classified as Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) Fancy way to say they take down swelling while not being steroids. I was taking 800mg of Ibuprofen or 440mg (two tablets) of Naproxen four times a day just to keep my knee from stopping my workouts.

I hope I managed to stay coherent. I missed my painkiller dose by an hour so I'm kind of loopy.

 

[MisterDNA]

baaaaaaaaawwww... you just made me sad

For seven years, Mom and I had a purebred Scottish Deerhound named "Gracie". She died last fall... we don't know what of because we couldn't afford a vet. She just kept hurling bile... we finally decided that we didn't care how much the vet cost, it would be worth it.

The vet came about three minutes too late.

RIP Gracie, we really miss you.

My grandparents had a smallish poodle dog named Pepper who did that toward the end. Poor buddy. This was when I was about five or six. He was something like 17 years old at that point.

 

[starhawk]

(1) Thanks for the long post... I read it all (I *hate* people who say tl;dr and then ask dumb questions, so I read an entire post before replying) and it was quite coherent and illuminating.

(2) I'm sorry about Pepper... it's always sad when a beloved member of one's family dies... no matter who, what, or where.

(3) Pardon the ignorance, but I actually don't know what Ovaltine is. I'm probably a very rare dude for that...

EDIT:
(4) FSM = ???

(5) My mother lost a lot of weight by walking. Just walking. Her family growing up was nuttier than a can of Planters, and she'd go out for a walk just to clear her head. Soon, she was the sanest person in the family, not to mention the thinnest. My grandmother (her mother) used to say that Mom "was the one we don't feed". (She was, of course, joking. This was in the time before eating disorders were widely known and discussed.) BTW, this was during a time when exercise was considered a waste of time by health professionals (!) because it was believed that one would simply (over) compensate by eating more.

 

[MisterDNA]

FSM = Flying Spaghetti Monster (tongue-in-cheek meme)
Ovaltine is a breakfast chocolate milk mix type of drink with vitamins and no protein. It's been around for ages and it's semi-famous for being part of a subplot in the Xmas classic "A Christmas Story" (The "You'll shoot your eye out, Ralphie!" movie).

The overcompensation by consumption thing was my own mother's mindset, actually. Prone to oversimplification of basically everything. She pissed and moaned when I got some cases of Myoplex shake mixes for free a decade ago, whining that they were basically a milkshake with a vitamin pill while treating her own Slimfast shakes like God in a can despite the ultimately pointless nutrient profile of her chosen shakes. Six grams of protein in Slimfast, which was supposed to be a meal replacement shake, versus the 42 grams in the mixes I was using that were just meant for a protein source. Of course, mommy dearest was the one who whined when I refused Ritalin in favor of Omega 3 Fatty Acid supplements and ended up cured. We don't talk much anymore, basically.

I found John Walker's The Hacker's Diet http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdiet.html made way more sense than anything else. That, and the associated Eat Watch program for my Palm devices made it even better. Better still now that Palm devices are basically free on the used market. I've run it on a Treo 90, Treo 650 and Centro.

 

[starhawk]

Looks interesting at first glance -- especially since, being a computer nerd with ASD, I tell a *lot* of people that my brain works much like a computer (i.e. give it specific directions and it does what you want; give it anything else, and it's rather like Bill Gates plugging in a scanner ).

However, it's 1:30AM where I live, and I don't have a full set of brain cells at my beck and call at this hour of the night. So I will look at it in more detail later.

That said, I do have a Palm Z22... aka the Palm $99 Wonder. I'd love to know if his programs will work on it... and if so, where to get them (the link you posted says that there's only *.xls sheets, which will work on my netbook, but IIRC, not on my little-used Palm). If they do, my Palm might just spend less time sitting in a drawer being lonely.

 

[MisterDNA]

Looks interesting at first glance -- especially since, being a computer nerd with ASD, I tell a *lot* of people that my brain works much like a computer (i.e. give it specific directions and it does what you want; give it anything else, and it's rather like Bill Gates plugging in a scanner ).

However, it's 1:30AM where I live, and I don't have a full set of brain cells at my beck and call at this hour of the night. So I will look at it in more detail later.

That said, I do have a Palm Z22... aka the Palm $99 Wonder. I'd love to know if his programs will work on it... and if so, where to get them (the link you posted says that there's only *.xls sheets, which will work on my netbook, but IIRC, not on my little-used Palm). If they do, my Palm might just spend less time sitting in a drawer being lonely.

I'll have to look for the Palm files another time since I'm getting tired as well. I remember all I had to do was drop them in the Installer queue box for the sync software and when I Hotsynced my devices, the app was there, ready for use.

I showed signs of ASD until I was about 25 and this was five years after I got rid of the Ritalin that I still had that. Holy cow I need to sleep.

 

[starhawk]

So go to bed!

I was diagnosed by TEACCH a very long time ago... IIRC I was the fourth person in NC to be diagnosed Asperger's. I also have Sensory Integration Disorder (= edgy, nervous when in loud areas, e.g. state fair, extremely noisy restaurant, etc.), a lot of anxiety issues, and -oh by the way- my short-term memory is basically not there.

Thank Heavens for therapy after years and years of the stuff, I can actually cope with life, more or less. I'll be the first to admit that I've got many issues still to be dealt with (e.g. I'm 24 and I don't drive or have a job, much to my parents' chagrin), but I'm a lot better off than I was when I started. Group therapy, occupational therapy, and a little bit of physical therapy... and a lot (10+ years) of talk therapy.

I'm on a couple of meds right now, but hey, it keeps me from doing dumb stuff. I'm too poor for insurance proper, but the local hospital (UNC Chapel Hill) gives me my pills for $4 (per medication, per 30days -- I actually pay them about $12 a month). I still see a talk therapist, too. I can't say his name, but suffice to say that he's a really cool dude.

Hey, I'm an alright guy

 

[MisterDNA]

Going back to the project, I have to figure out the connection for my new chunk of conduit. Since I'm running the conduit all the way up to the house load center, I've got to have a knockout of the right size. The only one available is on the right side of the load center while the hole the previous owner drilled from the underbelly of the trailer house is on the left side. This part is going to require a lot more work than I had anticipated.

The correct knockout has two pieces of #14 Romex fed through it already. Since the current location of the 30/20 quad breaker I was going to use only supports 50A per stab (heat dissipation limit from being directly across from the 100A Main) and I'm going 60A, I need to have the big breaker for the workshop panel on the right side with the main breaker.

Close-up shot of the knockout I'm talking about.

As luck would have it, the Romex running through the knockout I need connects to a pair of 15A breakers that run the light in the laundry room where the breaker panel is located (top) and the wall receptacle my desktop computer is connected to in the living room (bottom).

To make things more difficult, moving the 15A breakers means dropping power to my workshop because the Romex that leads to the receptacles I have the temporary extension cords plugged into isn't long enough to reach the spot where the quad would go on the load center while I take care of the knockout and conduit. I'd have to run the extension cords to different sockets. Not a big deal, really, but I don't have an outdoor socket that's weatherproof while in use.

If I cut the belly of the trailer, I will be able to see where the Romex bundle goes and if I have to re-route any of it to drill my hole for the big conduit. For a straight shot, the area I need is clear. I'd just have to angle the conduit out of the way of the Romex pieces that are stapled to the inside of the wall. That, and I will need to dig a small trench under the house in order to feed a big enough length of conduit up inside without having to couple it or drill the hole larger to take the bell end from too short a piece. I need just short of four feet. Based on the way the belly of the house is set up, I need to trench out 18-24" in one spot. Looks like I need a military trenching shovel.

 

[MisterDNA]

The plan has received another revision.

The electrical conduit run between the workshop and computer shed will be sized down to 3/4" since that's the largest I can fit on the workshop load center without punching a custom knockout. This size will take a #10 30A circuit if that's what I decide to do for the computer rack. While I was planning to have both the 240V 20/30A and 120V 15A lines for the computer shed in the same conduit, that's no longer possible with the smaller conduit. I'll have to run 2 3/4" conduits with the #10 in one and the #12 Romex in the other.

The data conduits should be able to stay 1 1/4".

I bought a PVC pipe reamer/de-burring tool today so I don't have to use my pocket knife. I also picked up a roll of red Warning/Peligro tape to lay over top of the conduit work to warn future stoned backhoe operators. For the bonus round, I got a pair of threaded adapters for my 1-1/4" conduit. I cement those to the PVC and put the threads up through the bottoms of the load centers and tighten a nut down to hold the conduit in place.

 

[starhawk]

LMAO @ "stoned backhoe operators"!!

 

[DogChainX]

I almost want to stop by to take a look at this thing. How's it going with the crap weather today? Slushy, cold wet snow. Ug.

 

[MisterDNA]

I almost want to stop by to take a look at this thing. How's it going with the crap weather today? Slushy, cold wet snow. Ug.

I'm hoping I'll be able to do the conduit during Thanksgiving weekend. I've been stuck indoors today mostly because I'm drugged off my rocker. I delayed a Vicodin dose so I could hit Home Depot for research and small parts. I'm not sure it was worth it. "Stay ahead of the pain" isn't just good advice.

I was actually surprised when the snow started to "stick". Made me uncomfortable.

 

[Jesse B]

I was actually surprised when the snow started to "stick". Made me uncomfortable.

Got our first snowfall of the year last night, about 6 inches stuck. Wasn't too thrilled about it. It's mostly melted now though, so I can't complain

 

[MisterDNA]

I've prepared the house load center for the upgrade. The 15A circuits have had the romex moved temporarily to the other side of the box to open up the big knockout for the feeder to my workshop and shed.

A close-up of the new conduit end.

Now that the Romex is out of the way, I can get a good shot to the bottom of the wall cavity. Maybe I should have done a 90deg clockwise rotation to show the real orientation of it? The spot where I need to drill is centered 3" to the left (toward the bottom, with this orientation of the photo) of that stud. The drywall dust is from the chunk I had to saw out for access to the staple that was holding the Romex for the 15A circuits in.

 

[MisterDNA]

Wow. I'm not going to be doing any work on the rig for a bit. Utah is about to get pwnt by a full on blizzard and they're telling _Utahns_ not to travel in the snow. Utah, where we wear shorts above 40F outside and play golf while doing so.