Replaced My Home Smoke Detectors

One of the things I talk to people about in the fire service, both for fire prevention and when we go on service calls for smoke or C.O. detectors, is how they only last about 7 years. I show the homeowner the manufacture date stamped on the back, and if it is older than 7 years or is so old it doesn't have a date I recommend immediate replacement.

We built our house in 2004/2005 and it has 6 hardwired Kidde FIREX smoke detectors with 9V battery backup. I had two crap out needing replacement years ago, but the other four were original. I finally followed my own advice and replaced them all with brand new Kidde FIREX i4816AC models since every one was older than 7 years. They run on 120VAC and use 12-3 wire daisy chained to every receptacle box. The red lead in the 12-3 is a signal wire that if one goes off, they all go off. The red LED tells you which one alarmed if there is no visible fire. Of course, each one needed a new mounting plate and plug-in pigtail. Since I have an electrical background this was easy-peasy and all six were swapped out and tested in a little more than an hour. You should definitely call an electrician to do such a swap if you don't have the skills or ability to do this.

Those detectors are placed where they are per code and wake us up first. I also have an additional smoke detector on each floor tied into my home alarm system to alert the fire department in case we're not home. Those still have time to go before needing replacement.

Am I Missing Something Here?

Paywalls... they seem to be popping up more and more. First of all on media. If you're going to link to a published article in your blog, how about a warning that a paid subscription will be needed to read it so I don't waste my fucking time clicking on it just to find out I'm gonna dump the page because I AIN'T PAYIN'!!  Same thing applies to blogs requiring a subscription to read. Again, if it ain't free, it ain't for me. I just finshed scrolling through the Normal American blog list, of which a good half dozen times I clicked on a blog only to find they require payment to read. If I have to pay you to read your words of wisdom, then it isn't that important to me.

My blog is free, and ad free, and will stay that way. Without ads to annoy my readers, the evil Google won't pay attention to my "distasteful" ramblings and bother cancelling me because there is nothing to demonetize. I have a job, I don't need to try to make money here, and never have to give up my true identity in order to receive payment.

Go Ahead and Try, I'll Wait

My version of the meme that has been used around the interwebs like a million times.

In the minds of LIBTURD hoplophobes, gun ownership, possession, and use is inherently evil. It is the gun laws and only the gun laws that keep us gun toting evildoers from murderous rampage. Never mind the fact that majority of gun owners are peaceable and good people, oh no... we are no different than the criminals and murderers that disregard the laws against rape, robbery, and murder.

So I ask (rhetorically of course) what gun law(s) if they were to be repealed, would cause INCREASED violent crime? We all know the answer... not a single fucking one. But imagine a peaceful country if an individual could own every available weapon of war unfettered, and use such weapons for personal and property defense or to make sure government acts as a servant of the people.

Addendum To Previous Post

In every news story today about Sandy Hook, they tell us there was 26 victims, or they tell us it was 20 students and 6 educators that died. WRONG! There were 28 victims that day. The first victim was the shooter's mother, Nancy Lanza, who also happened to own the firearms that were STOLEN WHEN HER SON (Adam, the shooter) MURDERED HER. The final victim that day was Adam when he took his own life at the end.

If you are an anti-gun hoplophobe or SJW snowflake, you are not gonna like what follows:

I hold the State of Connecticut wholly responsible for that mass murder in a *GFDZ. Nancy Lanza pleaded for help with her mentally deficient son but was turned away or ignored. Their lack of support services for someone like Adam contributed directly to Nancy trying to help her son as best she could on her own. Unfortunately using firearms and time at the range was not a good idea and didn't work out so well. 

Only counting the 26 "innocent" victims tugs at the ol' heart strings, and attempts to garner emotional support for more intolerable/unconstitutional acts. Those acts, as well as subsequent ones have been mostly ignored with an estimated 85% armed civil disobedience of non-compliance.

SO SUCK IT, HOPLOPHOBES!

*GFDZ - Gun Free Death Zone

Keep Pickin' That Scab

The local news across the state is making a big deal about the ninth anniversary of Sandy Hook, in order to help push for more Second Amendment infringements.

I always call today FIREARMS APPRECIATION DAY and encourage the purchase of a new firearm on this day. In Kommiecticut, the state keeps a copy of every papered transaction (that's why there is an underground cash gun economy). Forcing them to file gun transfer paperwork with today's date is a finger poke in their fucking eye.

I purchased a gently used Ruger GP-161 in .357 Magnum on this date a few years back. A GP-161 is a blued GP-100 with the 6 inch full lug barrel, and is a pretty large revolver. Accurate and shoots great since I polished the trigger. There is nothing I currently desire, nor do I have spare cash for a new firearm, so I will unfortunately be sitting this one out.