Charging...

[susandennis]

My phone, my watch and my swimming music player were all out of juice this morning so everyone is now charging. The phone has the fastest charging in the world so it's winning the charging race. But the watch is quickly grabbing the number 2 slot.

Oh, I just got an email from my real estate search that the condo, downstairs, of my friend, the realtor, has a pending offer. At last. Her unit is really beautifully done and she's such a nice woman. There have been 3 units for sale now for a while after a year of these things being fought over and bought at ridiculous prices. One of those for sale is decorated in a weird gothic style and priced way way way too high. One has no style and priced too high and then there is my friend's. She dropped the price once but then has held open houses every single Saturday and Sunday now for weeks. She must be whipped. She's moving out to the burbs to be closer to grandchildren. I do hope she got a good offer. But, at least now she has one anyway. Oh and another one of these units went on sale just last week.

I finally got to the end of my yarn on my afghan and finished it off. I'm quite pleased with it and, turns out, it's works really nicely on my orange chair!



Now I need to find something else to knit or crochet. I could pick up one of the several projects I have abandoned. Or start something new... Oh, Inspiration? Where art thou?

The painters are supposed to be here this morning to paint my terrace ceiling where they patched the hole that they cut out to see where the leak was coming from. The leak that I first reported to the HOA in the Summer of 2016. Yes, finally. Of course, they said they would be here at 8. It's now 8:45 and I haven't heard a peep so far. Shocking. Yeah. nope.

However, once they get that done, then, finally, I'll be able to get out there and do a really good cleaning and set everything back up again so it looks nice instead of neglected. I have indoor/outdoor carpet out there - it hides much of the city grime and feels good on my feet and looks nice. I was thinking I'd replace it with new but I think now I'll give it a good vacuum and see if I can get another year out of it.

The weather peops say it's going to get above 70 degrees today (21 c) which is way too hot for March but then we've already had way to cold and snowy this March so why the fuck not. I'm trying to get a feel for Celsius. So many folks I read every day are Celsius people and when they discuss their weather, I never know if they are freezing or frying. So I'm trying to learn. I need to find a weather widget for my phone that shows both.

I'm also learning mm's and cm's, thanks to my tiny room work. All of the instructions and measurements for them are in centimeters. I finally got a good little meter ruler that has helped enormously. Bits of meters make so much more sense than bits of inches, feet or yards.

One last thing charging. Time to go hang up my suit.

Comments

[coercedbynutmeg.livejournal.com]

Learn the Celsius by 5s. 40C=104F, 35C=95F 30C=86F 25C=77F, 20C=68F, 15C=59F, and it never got below that in Bahrain. It got higher, but anything above 40 was a great reason to stay inside. "Room temperature" is anything from 20-23C.

[susandennis]

old brain. cannot compute. BUT I did find the perfect app. It is now 55 F/13 C - see? I'm already in the swim.

[coercedbynutmeg.livejournal.com]

What app does both?

[susandennis]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.gelin.android.weather.notification

Weather Notification

[maju01.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest learning Celsius by 10s and just guesstimating the figures in between, but much more convenient to have an app do it for you. I had an advantage converting in the other direction, because I grew up with Fahrenheit and we didn't change to Celsius until I was in my early 20s.

[egg-shell.livejournal.com]

The edging on the afghan looks great!

[susandennis]

Thanks!

[howeird]

Of course nothing beats learning C more than living in a country for a while which uses it.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

I was in the Canadian Rockies in August of 1975, and was taken aback by a weather forecast posted at some site that predicted a high of 14, and I thought "Well, yes, I expected it to be colder here, but really?" And then I realized that it was not talking about sub-freezing temperatures.

[susandennis]

Those whacky Canadians!

[ozswede.livejournal.com]

On my posts I always put both Fahrenheit and Celsius, even though both Australia and Sweden use Celsius. It's just an easy way for everyone to understand straight away without having to google it.

I don't have a problem switching between the two systems, (and the same with metric vs imperial measures) but that's because I grew up with Fahrenheit , ounces, pounds and stones. Australia changed to metric when I was 17, so I know both very well.

[susandennis]

I love it when people give both... also it helps teach me!

I have always been in awe of people who speak more than one language - it's beyond my capacity but maybe I can master at least weather or maybe linear measurement!

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

A quick rough conversion for temperature if you don't have an app handy, going from F to C, is to take off 30 and divide it in half. It gets a bit squirrelly around 0 degrees C, but for temperatures higher than that it works surprisingly well.

Please disregard my complaint about my watery balcony! You're clearly more than familiar with such:).

[coffeeguy777.livejournal.com]

Can you apeese my interest and give me a Ballpark figure $ on these condos?..The Avg. price in Asheville would be 400,500 but that includes the 150,000 ones and the Downtown lofts at 1,500,000 depends on where you wanna live

[susandennis]

The address is 526 1st ave s. seattle 98104 if you want to look them up on redfin or zillow but mainly these days they are going for about $550.

[opakele.livejournal.com]

I heard it got to 80F in Seattle today.

Tacoma was 74F. I was roasting!

Nooooo!

[susandennis]

yes. i avoided finding out how hot it was here... it was hot enough. i did check and it looks like it should get back to reasonable in a few days, tho.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

it's so beautiful and looks great on that seat. Feel free to leave it to me in your will ;0)

[susandennis]

deal!