Very nice, that was a great idea! Congrats on everything!

That’s so cool, and will be a great picture for them to have when they are adults

It is a good question. It is also true regarding both spinal disc herniation on nerve roots, and disc herniation on the spinal cord itself, that sensory pathways are involved far, far, earlier than motor pathways. And in fact, motor involvement is considered much more severe and is often what leads to surgical repair

By locating the storage tank just ahead of the far bath.

Any time anybody runs hot water in the house, the recirculating loop warms up and fill the storage tank with hot water

The examples I saw the tankless would only be heating water when a faucet was running

I can’t believe this wasn’t said sooner. A recirculating pump makes NO sense whatsoever with a tankless heater.

EDIT: I should have looked into this before that comment. It looks that a recirculating pump and water return circuit can be used to return hot water into either an insulated storage tank, small tank water heater, or even another tankless; which in turn feeds the warm/re-heated water in series back into the hot water supply.

This would reduce the time needed to get newly heated water from the primary tankless to the fixtures, not a bad idea

Yes, but in general, warming will not eliminate niches, but rather shift them about, and not overnight neither.

Regarding whether the tropics will become more bio diverse, didn’t insect diversity peak during the Cretaceous, when the Earth was considerably warmer? So I think it is reasonable to think that this might actually happen.

No, I don’t think so. I’ve read that “article” before, but admittedly have not pursued the primary studies.

The meta-analyses they quote range from:

“In 2020, three large metaanalyses appeared, two of which focused on insects. The first, van Klink et al. (17, 18), examined 166 studies with demographic data spanning 9 to 80 y. Their assessment, driven largely by European and North American datasets, suggested terrestrial insects were declining at a rate close to 1% per year, while aquatic insects appeared to be increasing in abundance, again by about 1% per year.”

To:

“Crossley et al.’s (51) metaanalysis of insect demographic data (spanning 4 to 36 y) for 15 long-term ecological research sites across the United States, reported no evidence of a continent-wide decline of insect abundance.”

They repeatedly mention loss of habitat, while conveniently leaving out that the vast, vast surface area of the planet remains unaffected by humans. Of course human encroachment and loss of habitat have and will continue to cause populations to geographically shift, but I can see no reasonable mechanism by which it will cause insect species to become extinct, let alone cause mass extinctions.

Nonsense, warmer climate = higher biodiversity, not lower. This is not debatable

Pesticides yes, pollution debatable; habitat loss not a problem, there is plenty of planet surface left; insect populations can and will shift easily, they won’t just stay in place and become extinct; and these obviously aren’t climate issues.

There are plenty more real problems to worry about

Not my field either, but it seems fairly obvious that insect numbers and diversity are considerably higher in warmer areas compared with colder regions, and are highest in the tropics.

Therefore it would seem that if anything, the insect population will increase

We have ceiling fans in several bathrooms, they keep the air moving and help the showers dry faster. I don’t see why they would circulate air around the rest of the house

It really depends what color was going on what color, and how decent of a job you did.

I just did a first coat today (light color over white), in a closet actually. I’m not planning on doing a complete second coat tomorrow, and just doing some spot touch ups; unless there turns out to be a lot of missed spots.

I’m some cases you can do spot touch-ups, in others a second coat is the way to go.

You will learn with experience. I know that sounds dumb, but it really is true.

Agree that these studies using collagen-derived small peptides do show multiple measures of clinical improvement, and that it is difficult to show collagen peptides in = collagen created = clinical improvement.

Ideally such trials would be controlled with similar small peptides but distinct from the amino acid content of the experimental peptides; and unfortunately the trials I’ve looked at so far are controlled with starch-based materials.

However, as much as I laughed at this topic 20 years ago, I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that there might be something here. More time will tell

Are you not bothering to read some of the links that others have provided, that demonstrate that collagen may not be completely digested as most proteins are, and collagen derived polypeptides can indeed enter the circulation and are measurable? And that there is accumulating evidence from clinical trials that oral collagen supplementation likely indeed has objectively measured affects on skin and wound healing?

How is your attic below freezing temperature? Is it completely sealed off from the rest of your house? Do something to allow air from the conditioned spaces to warm your attic a bit

Is that a corner? The same paint can look different on perpendicular walls, depending on light and shadows. I bet it will look fine when finished. That grey is much nicer than that brown IMO

There are definitely wall mounts that will work with 8 pound speakers, but your shelf will work and look good too. Maybe you could include a full-width block underneath where you could screw “up” into the back, and down through the shelf into the block.

Consider a small lip around the shelf too, or another method to keep the speakers from falling off. Eight pound speakers could really hurt if they fell on somebody’s head.

I don’t usually worry about stuff like this, but years ago we were on vacation visiting relatives, and one one of their surround speakers rattled off and landed square on one of our kid’s head, resulting in a trip to the ER and many stitches.

Satellite speakers usually have provisions for wall mounts. If yours do, that might be easier than building shelves from “scratch”. Plus most mounts allow you to position the speakers, and point them directionally.

I’ve never seen a projector mounted in a ceiling, other than lifts to conceal when not using.

How many inches of throw do you think you will gain by doing this? I can’t imagine much, if any.

And how does this get you the height you need? Most modern projectors can project from just up any position at all, ceiling, wall, table, etc…?

Can you just use a taller baseboard?