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Hard place to find though.

Does he smoke a pipe?

If it's a Thai affair I would have thought a keg of Coke and a keg of "Roy Pipe" would be what's required. Roy Pipe

A bit more in vehicle CO2 monitoring. Prior to starting each leg had the monitor in fresh air to purge. First leg, AC on, fan on, recirc on. 23/02/2024 19:43 431 23/02/2024 19:44 953 23/02/2024 19:45 1216 23/02/2024 19:46 1316 23/02/2024 19:47 1561 23/02/2024 19:48 1680 23/02/2024 19:49 1763 23/02/2024 19:50 1837 23/02/2024 19:51 1924 23/02/2024 19:52 1985 23/02/2024 19:53 2056 23/02/2024 19:54 2105 23/02/2024 19:55 2224 Second leg, AC on, fan on, recirc off. 23/02/2024 20:09 436 23/02/2024 20:10 829 23/02/2024 20:11 751 23/02/2024 20:12 706 23/02/2024 20:13 623 23/02/2024 20:14 581 23/02/2024 20:15 509 23/02/2024 20:16 474 23/02/2024 20:17 507 23/02/2024 20:18 497 23/02/2024 20:19 533 23/02/2024 20:20 523 23/02/2024 20:21 642 The 497 reading was immediately after I pulled off the road into the driveway. The following three readings were when I was parking the car and sitting in the cool using my phone to turn off the house security alarms. I guess the takeaway is to keep the fresh air vents open.

These work a treat. Not sure about which direction you need to rotate a tick Tick mouthparts Tick mouthparts, coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM). The mouthparts of a tick consist of three visible components. The two outer jointed parts are highly mobile palps. Between the palps, at centre, is a rod-shaped structure, the hypostome. The palps do not enter the skin of the host while the tick is feeding, while the hypostome is inserted into the hosts skin. The backward-pointing projections prevent easy removal of the tick.

It is called a SCAN. Senior Citizen Afternoon Nap.

So what are the readings? Hanging slack - ok Horizontal - monitor Poke your eye out - time to do something

Tourist stabbed during massive brawl with Thai sex workers A group of male tourists ended up in a massive brawl with Thai prostitutes over a money dispute during a sex party. A sex party with Thai prostitutes and British tourists turned into ‘World War Three’ when the men refused to pay, police said. The tourists allegedly called the five transgender escorts to their villa for sex along with two other women on the island of Phuket, southern Thailand, in the early hours of Thursday morning. But midway through the party there was allegedly a disagreement over prices, sparking chaotic scenes that woke up the whole street. Shocking footage shows naked sex workers running into the street as the two groups hurled glasses and garden pots at each other over the garden wall. Inside the property, broken glass littered the floor and blood was splattered across the walls — among empty bottles and cigarettes. A terrified neighbour watching from his balcony can be heard in the video saying: “My god, they’re killing each other in there.” “It was like World War Three. Everything was being thrown around. I wanted to get a helmet for my own safety.” Police who arrived at the scene treated Joseph Abadi-Johns, 23, from Bristol, for a stab wound to his stomach before he was bandaged up and rushed to hospital. Officers said the other men in the group were also British. In the video police lieutenant Phuwadech Rodthongdee can be heard asking the tourist if he is OK. “No, not really, my stomach hurts, my core area, I’ve got no power, I need stitches,” Mr Abadi-Johns responds. The fight is said to have erupted when one of the disgruntled prostitutes grabbed a wallet belonging to one of the Brits because they felt short-changed. One of the tourists was then allegedly stabbed with a kitchen knife when a prostitute grabbed items from the drawers during the fracas. Police arrived shortly after 4am questioning those involved in the mass brawl that took place in the Kata district of the popular holiday island. “We received a report of an incident at the Kata Ocean View residence at 4am,” Police Captain Surasak Sudmuang said. “When we arrived we learned that the foreign tourists had reached out to three transgender prostitutes to come to their villa and agreed to pay them 4,000 Baht each ($170). “After this, there was a disagreement and the altercation began. We are also interviewing the property owner who rented it to the tourists.” Police said that during the party, two of the sex workers were asked to leave and the group then only paid the remaining sex worker 2,000 Baht ($85), which was half the rate of 4,000 Baht that is said to have been agreed upon. One of the tourists was taken to hospital for a stab wound and the other two were treated for minor injuries at the island’s Dibuk Hospital. Additionally, one prostitute sustained injuries to her head and arm and was taken to Chalong Hospital. Two other prostitutes sustained minor injuries and were taken to Karon Police Station for further questioning and legal proceedings. Police captain Surasak Sudmuang added: “We do not have the details of everybody involved in the case and we have not charged anybody yet”. “We are still waiting for all of the tourists to return from the hospital to give statements at the police station. “The prostitutes told us that the tourists started the fight. We must check both sides of the dispute. “We want to protect tourists from being involved in dangerous situations but they also must take extra care themselves to avoid trouble.” https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/tourist-stabbed-during-massive-brawl-with-thai-sex-workers/news-story/0949dd296bdd507108611d7463fab548

I had been thinking about making a post on "How do you take your blood pressure". Maybe now is the time. Usual caveats. This should not be taken as medical advice blah, blah, blah. My thoughts. Use a blood pressure monitor that has been validated against one of the recognised protocols. BIHS, British and Irish Hypertension Society in the UK or AAMI, Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation in the US. There are some other protocols. BHIS validated monitors can be found here https://bihsoc.org/bp-monitors/for-home-use/ This site is more for the US. https://www.stridebp.org/bp-monitors/ Make sure you check the validation against the list suitable for the market you're buying in. Omron, for one, uses different model numbers for the US compared to Australia so it's pointless trying to check a model available in Australia against the US list. Validation is a statistical exercise where the monitor under evaluation is almost correct most of the time when compared to a mercury or aneroid sphygmomanometer. It's not like a tyre pressure gauge or a volt meter where you would expect the same result each time. Follow the instructions that came with the monitor for taking a reading. Do not try to take a reading while having a wank, after a stimulating beverage like coffee, after a meal or exercise etc. Use a cuff suitable for your arm circumference. Fit the cuff according to directions, usually 2 finger should fit comfortably under the cuff when deflated. Too loose or too tight a cuff can give incorrect readings. An abnormally slow or fast heart rate can give an incorrect reading. Unless otherwise specified, center the tube down the middle of your arm, palm facing upwards. Some cuffs may have a mark indicating the cuff to be lined up with the brachial artery. The brachial artery can be located towards the inside of the elbow, palm facing up. How many readings? I've seen various recommendations. One reading , just like your doctors office, and that it. Three readings 1-2 minutes apart and average the results. Three readings 1-2 minutes apart and take the best one. The one that works for me at the moment. 3 readings 1-2 minutes apart. Discard the first reading, it was seating the cuff. Average the second and third readings. I use the Samsung health app on my Samsung phone, it averages however many readings entered so I have a record of the individual readings and the average. The various validation protocols I have read all discard the first reading and only take note of subsequent readings. On the website of a company that manufactures both home and clinical blood pressure monitoring equipment they said that lab testing indicated 15 seconds between successive readings was sufficient. That's my thoughts. What do you do?

That's the big brother of the AX5500 I have. Good for 90 square metres. I was going to get one until I saw the size of the unit. Settled for the AX5500.

They're called PVCs and are almost as common as arseholes. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/premature-ventricular-contractions/symptoms-causes/syc-20376757 I was having an ECG once and I asked the technician "how long a strip do you take". She said the usual 30 seconds. I said "make it 2 minutes and we'll probably catch a PVC". She did and we did.

A while ago and in another thread I mentioned I had acquired one of these. A CO2 monitor. Not being able to stop at one, I then got basically so I could compare results. They have sensors from different manufacturers. The good news is that, once stabilized, they agree with each other. Difference usually less than 10 ppm, quite often only 2-3 ppm. Anyway, today I thought I'd take the latest acquisition, an Aranet4, on a little road trip down to the shops. I first placed the unit outside to get a baseline reading and then we were off. 21/02/2024 11:28 430 21/02/2024 11:29 502 21/02/2024 11:30 872 21/02/2024 11:31 1017 21/02/2024 11:32 1093 21/02/2024 11:33 1233 21/02/2024 11:34 1395 21/02/2024 11:35 1490 21/02/2024 11:36 1547 21/02/2024 11:37 1658 21/02/2024 11:38 1806 Doesn't take long for the CO2 to start rising. It's a "family size" car, AC was on but with recirc, no fresh air vents open. The unit and associated app can export the data to a CSV file. After that it was a bit of stop and shop but then time for the return journey. 21/02/2024 12:04 1243 21/02/2024 12:05 1678 21/02/2024 12:06 1572 21/02/2024 12:07 1690 21/02/2024 12:08 1813 21/02/2024 12:09 1891 21/02/2024 12:10 1972 21/02/2024 12:11 2004 21/02/2024 12:12 2119 21/02/2024 12:13 2105 21/02/2024 12:14 2182 21/02/2024 12:15 2237 21/02/2024 12:16 2302 21/02/2024 12:17 2264 21/02/2024 12:18 2330 21/02/2024 12:19 2318 21/02/2024 12:20 2430 21/02/2024 12:21 2496 21/02/2024 12:22 2564 21/02/2024 12:23 2578 Ok. This trip was starting from a higher reading. It takes about 3-4 minutes for the unit to stabilize to the ambient conditions and I wasn't going to stand in the shopping centre carpark holding the unit above my head. You can get arrested for behaviour like that in some places. Why is this important. The levels of CO2 in the air and potential health problems are: 400 ppm: average outdoor air level. 400–1,000 ppm: typical level found in occupied spaces with good air exchange. 1,000–2,000 ppm: level associated with complaints of drowsiness and poor air. 2,000–5,000 ppm: level associated with headaches, sleepiness, and stagnant, stale, stuffy air. Poor concentration, loss of attention, increased heart rate and slight nausea may also be present. 5,000 ppm: this indicates unusual air conditions where high levels of other gases could also be present. Toxicity or oxygen deprivation could occur. This is the permissible exposure limit for daily workplace exposures. 40,000 ppm: this level is immediately harmful due to oxygen deprivation. When the weather cools down I might take a longer trip. Perhaps see how long it takes to get to 5,000 ppm and then see how much difference occurs with the fresh air vents open. Other readings. 430 ppm. Indoors, windows and doors open, a couple of fans moving the air around. 550-650 ppm. Indoors, windows and doors closed. 800 ppm. Bedroom when I wake up, windows and doors closed. Life is just a science experiment.

Don't worry, we got ya covered.

Serbia, Siberia, close enough.

Do you buy a dozen eggs by gram weight?

No point in starting a new topic. The effect of a short runway takeoff attempt.

I don't live in Pattaya, I don't even live in Thailand. Where I do live has pretty good air quality. Recent air quality from a monitoring station near where I live. The peak value is AQI 36. Of course we do have the occasional summer bushfire, the spring and autumn hazard reduction burns and the odd winter inversion. I do have an air purifier, a Samsung AX5500 although I believe that it has been superseded by the AX46. https://www.samsung.com/au/air-care/air-purifier/ax5500-air-purifier-with-3-way-air-flow-ax46bg5000gssa/ The specs are identical just some unnecessary changes to the appearance. These are expensive, not for Cheap Charlies. As Tommy Dee once posted "it's just a box, a fan and a filter element and can cost more than an air conditioner." This model is good for 60 square metres. Samsung do have other models. The more important spec as far as I'm concerned is that it can process 467 cubic metres of air per hour. I just use it in the bedroom which is probably a bit of overkill but I do breath clear fresh mountain air when I sleep. The filter system. The carbon and dust filter are bonded together and cannot be serviced. Replace when indicated on the control panel. The pre-filter collects lint and fluff and can be cleaned with a light vacuuming. I use it nightly and am still on the original filter after 3 years. In the interest of science and this post I measured the dust collecting filter. It has 105 pleats, 38mm deep and 175mm wide which by my calculations is a filtering area of just under 1.4 square metres. PS. Might be worthwhile on informing yourself on what a HEPA filter actually is and more importantly be aware that some people who don't recognise copyright might be producing fake filters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEPA The purifier has indicators on the control panel for PM10, PM2.5 and PM1 as well as "gas". I believe the main gas found in the urban home is formaldehyde which is give off by carpets and furnishings. On the other hand a good healthy fart in the near vicinity to the unit can turn the gas indicator from blue to red for a few minutes. The unit is certainly quiet enough to use in a bedroom and being on wheels can be moved about to where it's required. Anything else you want to know just ask.

Sorry, missed you post. Yes, Perth. Same again today, currently 43.3. Roll on winter.

"Stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake"

http://cf.datawrapper.de/dduui/2/

The machine does it. Hail to the machine.

Down to 30°C tomorrow then back to the 40s for the weekend and beyond. Last rain 28th November last year.

Standard work "boots" in some parts of rural Australia.