Cash, radon is an extremely easy fix. Basically you just need to vent the space.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sparky1 - Oct 19, 2007 9:32:34 am PDT #7540 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Susan W. - Oct 19, 2007 9:32:40 am PDT #7541 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Not exactly annotating, but one part of my former conservative religious background that I don't regret is the time my InterVarsity Christian Fellowship chapter spent doing a manuscript study of the Gospel of Mark. We had double-spaced manuscript printouts with all chapter and verse indicators removed, boxes of highlighters and colored pencils for marking up the text, and stacks of reference materials--although since Mark is supposed to be one of if not the earliest New Testament book, we weren't allowed to reference anything else in the NT--the goal was to insofar as possible not use anything to interpret the text that wouldn't have existed for the original readers. Except, you know, highlighters and colored pencils. Anyway, I can't remember ever being more excited to delve into a text--taking something very familiar and unpacking it in such a way that it was like reading it for the first time.
Still can't bring myself to write in my books, though! It just feels like a sacrilege.
Stephanie - Oct 19, 2007 9:37:31 am PDT #7542 of 10001
Trust my rage
Radon is just in the ground, right? It was a big deal when I lived in MN, but not so much elsewhere. I thought it was sort of like CO2, in that it could build up and poison you, but like Sparky said, easily dissipated.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 9:39:41 am PDT #7543 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think radon has been more of a problem in recent years because houses are so well insulated now. In a poorly-insulated house, the radon can escape easier, but it tends to build up in a well-insulated house.
That, or the men in black are burying radon in the yards of people they have an... interest in....
Sparky1 - Oct 19, 2007 9:40:35 am PDT #7544 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Here's the EPA's radon links: [link]
Radon is in the ground. The fix is venting the basement/lowest level of the house. We were told this usually costs about $1000-2000 around here because they sometimes have to break up the slab to install a pipe or two.
Scrappy - Oct 19, 2007 9:41:39 am PDT #7545 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Anyone have a special celebratory treat on Friday? or reward yourselves for making it to Friday by having some treat?
I always play CDs in my office, as I can't work without tunage. Friday afternoons, I break out my "Best of the Monkees" CD as well as Rhino's "Teen Idols of the 70s." Pop Heaven.
Tom Scola - Oct 19, 2007 9:43:02 am PDT #7546 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I finally got my cookie.
Theodosia - Oct 19, 2007 9:46:27 am PDT #7547 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Oooh -- Rhino has a Teen Idols cd/set? I need to investigate us, because I am a definite latecomer to the great(cheesy)ness that is Bobby Sherman.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 19, 2007 9:52:26 am PDT #7548 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Anyone have a special celebratory treat on Friday? or reward yourselves for making it to Friday by having some treat?
Normally I treat myself to Fish Fry at the cafeteria, but today I am having stomach "issues" and am reduced to mint tea and bread.
beth b - Oct 19, 2007 9:56:02 am PDT #7549 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Friday is one of my days off ( I only work part time) but Friday is also the day that if I don't want to do anything, I don't.