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prevalence of balanitis (inflammation of head of penis): 12% of uncircumcised males, 2% of circumcised males.

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[quote=earlyretirement][quote=ocrenter][quote=earlyretirement]

It said about $57 for the base fee and Water used was $185.

Sewer base fee was $30 and Sewer service charge was $76.

I wouldn’t be bothered if not for the fact that no one was home at all for almost the entire time!

PS Besides the base fees above it says:

14.00 HCF @ $3.6121= $50.57
14.00 HCF @ $3.9171 = $54.84
18.00 HCF @ $4.3978 = $79.16

Again, my biggest complaint is no one was home except for one week of that time. And I don’t exactly live in the sort of neighborhood where my neighbor would be stealing my water while we were in Europe. LOL.

But that could be the only explanation right? If the meter matches up? That my neighbor filled up his pool with my water?? Just seems odd.[/quote]

here’s my stat:

4700 sqft, 13000 sqft lot, 3 people, plus 35×15 pool, everything by drip, 1300 sqft of artificial turf.

Water Base Fee 56.92 (same as yours)
Water Used 06-13-12 08-13-12 127.40 (April to June was $66)
14.00 HCF @ $3.6121 = $50.57 (same)
14.00 HCF @ $3.9171 = $54.84 (same)
5.00 HCF @ $4.3980 = $21.99

Sewer Base Fee 30.66 (same as yours)
Sewer Service Charge 53.09 (slightly lower)
Storm Drain 1.90

the water use is progressive and you get significantly punished past 28 HCF. that extra 3 minutes your gardener added on were all at premium pricing, causing significant increase in your bill. compared to 2 months prior, we also saw an increase by about $60 during the summer months.[/quote]

I still have a tough time believing that the bill would be more just from that 2 minutes more at each station.

I mean both my wife and I take long showers. I installed an almost $2,900 Grohe double shower head in my shower. It puts out a LOT of water and I usually shower with both of them on.

My wife also does the same thing and we give our kids a bath typically twice a day and we have one of those huge bathtubs in our master bath.

I just always assumed that took the majority of the water use. And not the watering in the yard.

I can see the water spraying out of the sprinkler head and it doesn’t look like anything too major. Certainly much less than the amount of water in our double head rainfall shower.

I just was surprised being gone all but 1 week of the 2 month cycle and having a higher bill.

I guess the upside is not to worry about taking the LONG showers. LOL.[/quote]

come to think of it, we were actually gone on two trips during the June-August cycle, total of about 3 weeks during the 8 week cycle, and the bill was $60 more than the April-June cycle when we were around, but needed reduced watering schedule because of cooler weather.

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[quote=earlyretirement]

It said about $57 for the base fee and Water used was $185.

Sewer base fee was $30 and Sewer service charge was $76.

I wouldn’t be bothered if not for the fact that no one was home at all for almost the entire time!

PS Besides the base fees above it says:

14.00 HCF @ $3.6121= $50.57
14.00 HCF @ $3.9171 = $54.84
18.00 HCF @ $4.3978 = $79.16

Again, my biggest complaint is no one was home except for one week of that time. And I don’t exactly live in the sort of neighborhood where my neighbor would be stealing my water while we were in Europe. LOL.

But that could be the only explanation right? If the meter matches up? That my neighbor filled up his pool with my water?? Just seems odd.[/quote]

here’s my stat:

4700 sqft, 13000 sqft lot, 3 people, plus 35×15 pool, everything by drip, 1300 sqft of artificial turf.

Water Base Fee 56.92 (same as yours)
Water Used 06-13-12 08-13-12 127.40 (April to June was $66)
14.00 HCF @ $3.6121 = $50.57 (same)
14.00 HCF @ $3.9171 = $54.84 (same)
5.00 HCF @ $4.3980 = $21.99

Sewer Base Fee 30.66 (same as yours)
Sewer Service Charge 53.09 (slightly lower)
Storm Drain 1.90

the water use is progressive and you get significantly punished past 28 HCF. that extra 3 minutes your gardener added on were all at premium pricing, causing significant increase in your bill. compared to 2 months prior, we also saw an increase by about $60 during the summer months.

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[quote=flu][quote=ocrenter][quote=El Jefe]A friend of mine decided on artificial grass during his remodel after a long, involved process of pushing beans around in little piles, calculating theoretical savings based on reduced water usage, reduced gardening cost, opportunity cost of reclaimed time spent watering and gardening… etc.

Now for the reality… his lawnmower was only worth $20 on craigslist, his fake lawn uses more water than his real lawn as his kids spray it down to cool it down 10 times a day during the summer to play on it, and all that time savings is now spent walking the dumb dog around the neighborhood to get it to poop in other peoples grass as it won’t set foot on the plastigrass.

Sometimes I wonder if the people pushing the plastigrass have ever actually used plastigrass.[/quote]

What’s wrong with walking the dog around the neighborhood, you make it sound like its a bad thing.

And do you realize how much water you really need to keep the lawn green with the heat wave we just had?[/quote]

Plastic grass isn’t exactly environmentally friendly either.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2008-05-07-artificial-turf-cover_N.htm%5B/quote%5D

I dont like AstroTurf and the old crushed rubber infill either.

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[quote=El Jefe]A friend of mine decided on artificial grass during his remodel after a long, involved process of pushing beans around in little piles, calculating theoretical savings based on reduced water usage, reduced gardening cost, opportunity cost of reclaimed time spent watering and gardening… etc.

Now for the reality… his lawnmower was only worth $20 on craigslist, his fake lawn uses more water than his real lawn as his kids spray it down to cool it down 10 times a day during the summer to play on it, and all that time savings is now spent walking the dumb dog around the neighborhood to get it to poop in other peoples grass as it won’t set foot on the plastigrass.

Sometimes I wonder if the people pushing the plastigrass have ever actually used plastigrass.[/quote]

What’s wrong with walking the dog around the neighborhood, you make it sound like its a bad thing.

And do you realize how much water you really need to keep the lawn green with the heat wave we just had?

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the Romneys are really nice people. my friend is personal friends with his sons. they are very down to earth.

but I really doubt he’s going to make much difference in the economy.

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another front page treatment for the movie in today’s UT.

Doug Manchester REALLY need you to see this movie.

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[quote=sdsurfer]Thanks for sharing. I’ll look into the St. Augustine/ Buffalo varieties.

It sounds like I’ll get sick of whatever grass I plant eventually from the comments above:)

Thanks![/quote]

if at all possible get your wife to reconsider on the artificial grass. return on investment is only 5 years (counting water and gardener). just make sure you get the good stuff, the difference is quite significant.

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Dinesh D’Souza was given front page treatment by UT a few weeks ago, nuff said.

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[quote=SD Realtor]Damn FLU you figured it out.

Quit pushing your child to do well. You are screwing it up for the rest of us!!!

Soon you will be asked to distribute the intelligence.[/quote]

already done, it’s called affirmative action

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[quote=EconProf]We put in a whole house fan a few months ago and it is the smartest thing I ever did. The reason is physics: San Diego is blessed on most hot days with a late-afternoon/early evening offshore breeze. Yet your house heats up from radiant heat and by about 6:00 is actually warmer than the newly cool outside. Solution, open the windows and let that cooler air whoosh through your house and exit into the attic and then out of the attic through standard attic vents. Your house and attic will both be cooler.
This works on all but the hottest of San Diego days. We haven’t had the AC on all summer until a couple of days ago. If this is a normal summer then we expect to use AC only 10 – 15 days, and get by with the whole house fan the rest of the days.
The fan costs $200 – $300 and can be installed by a competent carpenter. Ours is acceptably quiet, but check the reviews first, as some are indeed noisy. A 24″ one is plenty adequate…perhaps the noisy ones cited above were the 30″ fans.[/quote]

So how much cooler are we looking at? For example, during this heat wave, our upstairs has been between 83-85, does the attic fan bring it down to 79-80?

As for if this is typical, not sure. This is the hottest its been in the last 6 years we’re in SD, last couple of years we prob had the AC on max of 10 times per year. This year we’ve about double that already.

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[quote=bearishgurl]I have one and don’t use it due to the it being too loud to sleep. It was installed almost 20 yrs ago, though. Maybe they’re quieter now.[/quote]

when you do use it, does it actually work? and by how much?

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[quote=harvey][quote=dumbrenter]Harvey,
Those who can’t do math will eventually have to go to work for those who can.[/quote]

I like that quote. Even though I don’t know if it’s true in general, it’s sorta worked for me. I’ve actually managed to do well in my (now former) career of “doing the math.” Never had more than a few people working for me though, and they all could do the math better than me…

[quote]This is a very good deal that PUSD has gotten into.

[…][/quote]

There’s the old saying: “If you owe the bank $100, it’s your problem, if you owe then $1 million it’s their problem.” This is has some characteristics of one of those situations. Even if they can’t pay, full-on bankruptcy may not be the only alternative, debt can often be renegotiated without BK.[/quote]

The same justifications used for this loan is the same type of arguments used to justify the zero down zero doc loans. It was essentially free money.

I suppose at the end of the day it was a very good deal for the zero down, zero doc borrower, some of them are still sitting pretty rent free in a home near you.

If that’s the type of argument, that essentially this loan is so bad that it is good, aka Poway will just BK out of it if property tax doesnt increase five fold, who can argue with that?!

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[quote=The-Shoveler]Was not trying to comment on SDUSD in particular really.

Just pointing out it’s not just the newer suburbs that are running into this type of thing[/quote]

sorry, that was a poor attempt at a joke.

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[quote=barnaby33]On the one hand it seems irresponsible period. Borrowing to pay for consumption. Where has that meme come about before?

On the other hand oh wait, there is only one hand. The district doesn’t have the money and needs to either raise taxes or cut services.
Josh[/quote]

I still think the biggest issue at hand is how the district can blow $150 million on just a high school. why does the high school need to be state of the art? I think most parents would be perfectly happy having a well constructed new school without all of the state of the art gimmicks.

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