When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their
tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up;
what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning....
Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways... yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was
no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids
about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that I'm
over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice
the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how
good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we
wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it
up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter
- with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and
put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there!
Stamps were 10 cents!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us.
As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission
to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe!
There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to
steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it
yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and
the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There
were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd play our
favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come
undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby!
Dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the
phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it!
There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the
house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had
to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the
horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's
TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you
are.
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang,
you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your
boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just
didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with
high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like
'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square!
You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple
levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could
never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and
faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what
was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to
get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO
REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons
on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL
WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!
And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something
up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that!
And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day
long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came
back inside... you were doing chores!
And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and
you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the
chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head
hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in
the first place!
See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have
got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted
five minutes back in 1980 or any time before!
Regards,
The Over 30 Crowd
(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile)
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3/16/2010 11:21:27 AM by
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....this make me sad. I have been to the new stadium and it is unbelievable, but I will surely miss "The House That Ruth Built".
Goodbye Old Friend
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By Jeffrey Young, Climatec Advanced Heating Technologies
And Todd Waterman, Carlisle Restoration Lumber
There is quite a bit of misinformation about wood flooring, particularly, wide plank flooring over radiant floor heating. We would like to emphasize that you not be tentative about radiant floor heating beneath wide plank wood flooring and that it is an ideal marriage.
For natural wood flooring, it is important that the wood be well seasoned, with a moisture content of eight percent for pines and seven percent for hardwoods. Your flooring supplier or contractor should be able to tell you the moisture level of the wood prior to installation.
According to Jeffrey Young, owner of Climatec Advanced Heating Technologies, natural wood products are not a problem for installing over radiant heat. Climatec Advanced Heating Technologies (www.climatecadvanced.com) is a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania firm that exclusively specializes in radiant floor heating systems. "You need to have a contractor who understands the physics of radiant." explains Young. "And you should not be afraid of using a wood floor over a radiant heating system." Young points out some key components that lead to a problem-free radiant heat/wood flooring experience:
It is imperative the radiant floor heating system be designed correctly: “You need to have a accurately designed and installed system.” Radiant designs should include the kind of heat distribution systems that utilize the lowest possible water temperatures. Which means, using as much radiant tubing as feasible. This, in turn, will keep from over heating the flooring. “This is one area where it pays to be conservative on my design.” Young emphasizes.
Weather responsive controls: "Weather responsive controls, also known as reset controls, constantly modulate the water temperature according to indoor/outdoor temperature demands. There are a number of companies that manufacturer this kind of control and they are well worth the investment. Not only do they protect your floors, they dramatically increase comfort while reducing energy consumption. Constant water circulation is the ideal application for wood floors. Think of it as cruise control for your heating system since reset systems make incremental changes to the water temperature (accelerator), depending on demand (road changes) allowing the wood floor to acclimate. Set point controls, on the other hand, which maintain a single water temperature, turn the system on and off to make adjustments to room temperature," Young explains. "It's this sudden starting and stopping where potential problems can occur”.
Humidity control: “This is, in my opinion, the one thing that will help keep the floor from drying out and shrinking in the Winter or swell up in the humid months of Summer. On the East Coast, where I’m from, a steady humidity level of 45% to 55% is ideal.”
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