Friday, September 23, 2022

The 1 Secret to Becoming the Best Version of Yourself - Jordan Peterson

Drain openers

I have heard that bleach can be a better drain opener than regular drain openers. I have used it successfully on slow drains. Bleach is so caustic that it can denature organ matter. In theory, so can chemical drain openers, which are part bleach, part lye, and mostly soap to make the clogs slippery to help clear the drain.

The four bottles of $1 drain openers that I bought at Walmart didn't help my stopped up disposal. They seem worthless. Yesterday I poured a gallon of cheap bleach that I got at Menards into my stopped-up sink. This morning I tried running the disposal. At first, it seemed to be still blocked, but then the drain cleared.

I'm very pleased that this worked. The last time this happened I paid a plumber to clear the drain. All he used was a plunger, although he had to work pretty hard at it.

Maybe the combination of bleach and drain opener is what worked.

My old plunger which is made out of plastic broke. So I ordered a "professional" plunger which just barely arrived.

Best wishes,

John Coffey

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Dutch people - Wikipedia

The labels Dutch, Netherlands, and Holland overlap making it pretty confusing to me.

About halfway down the page is a video of a girl speaking Dutch with translation.  What she has to say is interesting.  Besides, I think that she is hot.

There is also a chart about how the west germanic language evolved into other languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_people

Friday, September 16, 2022

🔢 How to count to 10 in Latin

https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Latin/Vocabulary/Count-from-1-to-10

I find this interesting because the numbers 1 to 6 are close to Spanish numbers.

The numbers 7 to 10 resemble our months 9 to 12.  This made me speculate that maybe the ancient Romans only had a 10-month calendar, although this was cited only in legend and the Roman Republic adopted a different 12.5-month calendar.  Later reforms would be done by Julius Ceaser and August Ceasar, from whose names we get July and August.