Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
I got a Christmas ham for really cheap and I burnt it 😅
Still tastes good though.
That’s hardly burnt, looks great to me! Did it taste good?
It tastes good. I set the bread rolls on fire in the oven because I forgot about them.
Haha OK, now that sounds burnt 😆
Interesting… We’ve been struggling with our new cat not drinking water for the last couple of days (though a lot of reading seems to suggest they will get a lot of the water they need from wet food) putting water bowls everywhere, buying her a water fountain… Just noticed now that shes drinking the water on the shower floor lol.
So we put a water bowl in the bathroom, and no she won’t drink from that. Put that bowl inside the shower booth, and she will!
Cats love shower water! I have no idea why.
People soup
Mmmm. What’s it called when my dog licks my feet?
dunno, but surely there is a name for it
Hahaha. I’d heard about it on the interweb, but never seen it in person. Annoyed that I didn’t think about it before lol
One thing I’ve neglected/forgotten about is getting Smoke Detectors for our house.
Anyone got any recommendations on brand / Sealed 10 Year vs the regular 9V Battery ones?
I’ve read some good things about the Cavius 10 Year Smoke Alarms, but they are quite expensive. Was wondering if people have found them (or other 10 Year ones) worth it compared to the regular 9V ones?
Yes I’ve had a good experience with the Cavius ones.
I’ve also bought a bunch of Orca ones - would not buy again. They have removable batteries, but I couldn’t find replacement ones after the 10 year battery died a couple of years in. Plus they go off all the time for no reason. I one bought one and when I got it home once activated it just went off continuously until I pulled out the battery.
If you get a 3 pack of Cavius ones, one is a heat alarm. It’s for the kitchen where you don’t want a smoke alarm because of burnt toast but the heat one only goes off when it senses a quick increase in temperature or if it senses a temperature above a certain level (don’t put directly above your oven).
Disclaimer: we haven’t had a fire. This comes to mind.
Edit: they are expensive, and only because they are small. You can get larger ones with 10 year batteries for cheaper. If money is a concern, I’d suggest prioritising more smoke alarms over getting these fancy small ones. One in every bedroom, living area, and connecting space (e.g. hallway) is the aim. Legal minimum has much less than the recommended number.
Yeah - the starter pack with the Heat Alarm did make it more attractive - was thinking of getting two starter packs which I think should be enough to cover our house pretty good.
Do you by any chance have any recommendations for some 10 year larger ones? (wanted to do a quick comparison to see if they would be worthwhile)
I was initially planning to just get the normal large 9V ones, but then I started reading reviews around the many false alarms, and many of them not working, which made me lean towards the Cavius ones.
Haha that xkcd does seem pretty inline with a lot of the product reviews I’ve read (though alot of them are more negative than positive for the many smoke alarms out there).
The 9v ones need batteries replaced every few years, say every 3 well that’s about $15-20 for 3 9v batteries. I think the (cheaper) 10 year ones make more sense financially if they live up to their name.
I was thinking something like this $22 one, but the reviews are terrible so maybe not. The equivalent priced ones in bunnings have equally bad reviews!
Even the $10 ones that have 9v batteries have a bunch of bad reviews, but at least there are a bunch of good reviews too? I like the idea of 10 year ones because you don’t have to change the battery, but if the battery only lasts a year or two then the 9v one would have been better. Maybe just get the 9v $10 ones, it seems cheaper and less risky.
Actually that’s a good point re/ price of 9V batteries. I had just assumed they were cheap enough that they wouldn’t factor into the equation.
You can now get interlinked wireless ones, I think from Cavius as well. They’re $75+gst at our wholesaler though, so not cheap. Ten year battery still.
Yeah saw some of those interlinked type ones when I was at Bunnings/Mitre 10, was intrigued but unfortunately put off by the cost haha.
Ugh… work
Day 2 here for me. Sent out a few emails yesterday, not getting mush in the way of replies. Hard to tell if people are still on leave (there seems to be a chronic issue of not updating calendars etc), or if people are catching up/using the first couple of days as a ramp up.
Day 2 as well - yesterday was just emails and trying to get my head back in the game. Neither went well.
Definitely still half holiday mode - some back 8th, some back 15th, some starting again tomorrow. Weird, very unproductive time.
Yeah same. Not very productive, but I sort of sensed that I wouldnt be in the first ~30 minutes, so I set myself some really (really really) modest goals for the day, and atleast I hit those lol
I came back to about an hours worth of email processing yesterday.
It wasn’t too bad.
Actually wasn’t too bad for me on the email front this time around. Most of my recent work has been either by myself, or with one or two others, and I’m not involved in anything operational so there hasn’t been a ton of emails
My fist day back. Most people came back yesterday, and I have dozens of emails to catch up on (none of them important).
