Yeah, every other year. If your car fails, you have to spend a certain amount of money at a mechanic shop trying to fix the problem. You then have to go through emissions again. If your car fails again, you get a waiver and then get your license tags. After your car reaches a certain age, it is exempt from having to go through emissions
Ah! Governmental confiscation of capital in the name of environmental purity when all you have to do is make sure the problem is bad enough so that you get a waiver... Like being found guilty of DUI if you have 3 drinks in an hour, but you get a pass if you get the 4th drink...
It's quite the difference; that is, knowing what it's like, and experiencing it, knowing that there's a (possibly large) segment of people who don't see the issue, and / or want to preserve the now fading status-quo. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sounds good. Haven't had ham and beans for a long time. Do you have a good recipe that you could share?
The alternate of that that I learned is "Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you....
Turn on crock pot Put 2 cups water in crock pot that is turned on Put 6 cups,chicken broth The 2 cups of water in crock pot that is turned on Put beans in 6 cups of chicken broth in the two cups of water that is in the crock pot that mis turned on Put ham bone in the beans that are in the sic cups of chicken broth that are in the 2 cups of water that are in the crock pot that is turned on Wait Eat
Still in the wrecking phase. It's not as simple as just wrecking because I want to preserve some of the older woodwork, which means I have to be a little careful around windows. Finding all sorts of surprises, some positive although most less so. Things like hideous wiring botches, shortcuts all over the place, and many things I'm going to have to do properly. My wife already sleeps better knowing some of the worst of the wiring is disconnected. It will be reconnected one day, just has to wait until I've worked out just how I want to run it all.
Welcome to the wonderful world or remodeling old houses. I watch This Old House and have seen them go through it many times. Keep us informed how things are going. If you were closer I'd offer to help you. (Though I don't really know what I'm doing).
At present I'm doing more wrecking than anything else, with a periodic bout of tracing electrical cables and ripping them out. It's always fun to find cables that are just cut off at the ends, while still being live. Tomorrow's job is to figure out how the porch light is wired (i.e. just how badly it's done) and rejig it to introduce newfangled electrical concepts, like grounding it. Pulling cables through stone walls is always good for a giggle...
Good luck. I once started work at a new job and found that someone had wired the porch lights so that they were only on when the hot tub jets were running, which was on a timer.
I haven't found anything quite that bizarre just yet. Where the house was divided into two it had two electrical supplies. For some curious reason they were crossed, so for example the socket the tenant used for her hairdryer was on our meter, and the sockets in our bathroom (where my wife used her hairdryer) were on the tenant's meter. The way the live and "neutral" cables were routed for two circuits truly beggared belief. One is cut off, the other is still live and will be until I can figure out how to replace enough of it in one hit that I don't find half my house disconnected.