60+ year old thread.

MAYBE, might depend on which state you are in !!!!

 

After owning a Ring Camera mounted on a deck overlooking my front door and driveway for the last 2-3 years, I can offer the following observation(s). I am not 100% head over heals about the consistent function of the Ring Camera (I have a solar panel option to keep the single battery charged) I did trade messages with Ring about inconsistent recordings of activity and they sent me a booster for free. Haven't activated that yet to be fully honest. The good thing about purchasing thru Amazon is that you can return your system if you are not fully satisfied. ALSO, make sure you have an adequate wireless system that can reach where you have your camera mounted. This will make a difference. Good Luck!

 

@Oldie2007 hope everything went well with you’re wife’s surgery Kurt.

Good advice on the cameras. I’ve actually been checking out other brands as well. One thing I’m settled on is that any cameras I mount outside are hardwired powered. I’ve already checked my wifi signal at the front door and it’s good for my phone and hope it’s good for the doorbell camera. Doorbell camera will use the existing doorbell wires for power and I’ve already replaced the 16.5v transformer 10VA that ring says is inadequate. I pulled off the old open style transformer plate and installed a new 120V receptacle, and plugged in a new plug in style 16.5v 40VA transformer, mounted and plugged in my new Ring base station to the second outlet. Also will use my existing mechanical doorbell (only more expensive Ring models can do this), I don’t care for the chime you can plug in, being set in my ways and want it to sound like the real doorbell we’re used to lol.

 

Here’s Chris’s Vette coming out of the oval and on to the back section of the road course.

 

And appears like it's pulling the passenger side wheel, awesome!

 

62 here and a 07 owner.

 

Welcome to the porch @THEZMAN . Pull up a spot and enjoy the thread. Folks will be along shortly to welcome you as well.

 

YO...

History?

 

After fighting with my router's QoS and Traffic Monitoring settings, factory resetting, and restoring the config file. For you techies, I'm more excited and notice decrease lag time with the 1ms ping rate!

 

Welcome

 

Impressive!

 

Old school front sway bar made of neverbendium. Classic 60's pose. Still awesome.

 

Never been a Burger King fan, but couldn’t resist the grand opening of one in my local shopping center today. Was actually going to pass it up, but wifey insisted on french fries. OK, we’ll go through the drive-thru for your fries.
Stopped at the microphone and ordered one large French fries please. $4.28 at the window. Nobody at the first window. Honk honk. Guy at the second window told me he SAID second window. Already in a bad mood, I asked for salt. He gave me sauce, no salt. Wait! I held up a minuscule cardboard container, half full. This is what I get for $4 ? He said $4.28. I asked for a large French fries. What I got was the smallest portion of fries I’d ever seen. Really? Got my money back. I also got the silent treatment from wifey all the way home.

 

I was out and stopped by Wendy’s today, got burgers and a large fry. Fries were about 3/4 what I’ve gotten int the past, the box wasn’t even pushed out. I wonder if that’s how they’re compensating for cost increases?
$4.28 they charged you is ridiculous for a large fry

 

I think BK just screwed up. Grand opening, new poorly trained personnel or untrained personnel. I’m not defending BK but such service at a brand new opening isn’t unusual. Thats why I stay away from grand openings and other new businesses. Again I’m not defending them. If that happened to me they would probably be taking me away in cuff’s.
There’s also something in economics called shrinkflation which is brands selling smaller amounts of products for the same price as before. Example - 20oz of shampoo cost $5. With shrinkflation the same shampoo is now sold in 16oz bottles for the same price of $5. This happens during times of high inflation. You can go to any store and find examples of this now a days. Sorry that happened Alan but definitely find a way to keep wifey happy. Happy wife happy life.

 

I will no longer buy a Frosty at Wendy's. The sizes have all changed until the large is now the size of a small... or smaller.

All of these outfits are losing business and when they do they get "beancounter syndrome". They get some accountant to tell them how they can make up for lost sales by reducing sizes and cutting costs other ways. The problem being that loyal customers have expectations and some will take offense and reject the new business model. Look at Radio Shack, Toys R Us, KMart/Sears... and all the other businesses that cut quality to save money and lost their customer base.

 

But... But... But it was ridiculously small and tiny and besides that, it was little!

 

Evening all:
Welcome to the porch THEZMAN, first fill up the cooler and then pull up a chair on the porch and join in.

 

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!!!

Yesterday, I spent a few hours behind my chainsaw and pole saw cutting limbs and stumps. Lowe's also delivered the countertops and flooring for the basement bar we're going to build so I carried all that down to the basement. Of course, then it was pool time!! We had Margueritas by the pool and topped it all off with Mexican food on the back porch for dinner.

Today I'm playing my round for the 9 hole golf league at 8 before the 90 F heat and humidity hits and then it will be another pool day.

Be safe out there!! And, welcome to the porch @THEZMAN !

 

Good Morning Mark, Enjoy the golf and stay hydrated. By any chance are you crewing at the balloon festival in Chester County this weekend? They have been talking about it on the news here all morning.

Have a good round and stay safe .