Lawn equipment

[elizilla]

One hazard of living in the suburbs and working from home, is that you get to sit and listen to the lawn care equipment that never, ever stops. Come ON, can't you finish and go away? Sheesh.

Comments

[rikhei.livejournal.com]

Preach. Our lawn care guys always seem to come by - like, weed-whacking right beneath my window - when I'm trying to do a training session. Argh!!

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

The worst of it is the damned leaf-blowers. I'm not sure they save any time over a rake or a broom, and they make a helluva lot more noise.

[lyudatwa.livejournal.com]

Feel your pain.
Also annoying are the external AC fans that are not properly lubricated and are left running all day (why? no one is home!). Ironically, the repair folks come out for them at least once a year (after a blissful week of silence when the fan finally dies), lubricate it, but never seem to give proper instructions to the owners about lubrication needed for the bearings.

[(Anonymous)]

They're left running because it's more efficient to "step back" a little than to completely shut down. With heat pumps it's more efficient to stay at a constant temp than to have to have it ramp up from being down all day.

You could be listening to live TT racing commentary over the internet, though...

[khaylock]

...well, if you had a soundcard (bugger!!).

http://ttlive.iomtt.com/index.htm


On the other hand, if you have an iPhone/iPod/iPad...

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/manx-radio-tt-365/id525003470?mt=8

[elizilla]

I do have a soundcard. But I work from home and can't run sounds while working, so I leave them turned off. I don't think of turning on the sound for weeks at a time. Then when I do want it, it doesn't work because since the last time I used them, I've pulled a speaker cable out with my feet, or something like that, so it needs troubleshooting, and I just don't care that much so I put it off. Now and then onefaller nags me until I get it working again, but it always gets lost again because I'm lazy and I so rarely use it. This is my general experience of any sort of gadget, any software... they are all "use or lose" even if all you're losing is the recollection of how to operate them. I'm the same way about sound, that other people are about their motorcycles. Leave it gathering dust for too long, and it becomes hard to get it out again.

[(Anonymous)]

I HEARD THAT!

-B

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Hehe... :)

[(Anonymous)]

I guess it's either that or snow blowers. - SS - HondoTX