A blonde and her husband are lying in bed listening to the next door neighbor's dog. It has been in the backyard barking for hours and hours. The blonde jumps up out of bed and says, "I've had enough of this." She goes downstairs. The blonde finally comes back up to bed and her husband says, "The dog is still barking. What have you been doing?" The blonde answers, "I put the dog in our backyard, let's see how THEY like it!" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Two Blondes With Hammers... Lynn and Judy were doing some carpenter work on a Habitat for Humanity House. Lynn , nailing down house siding, wouldreach into her nail pouch, pull out a nail and either toss it over her shoulder or nail it in. Judy, figuring this was worth looking into, asked, "Why are you throwing those nails away?" Lynn explained, "When I pull a nail out of my pouch, about half of them have the head on the wrong end and I throw them away." Judy got completely upset and yelled, "You moron! Those nails aren't defective! They're for the other side of the house!" ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A blonde was driving home after a game and got caught in a really bad hailstorm. Her car was covered with dents, so the next day she took it to a repair shop. The shop owner saw that she was a blonde, so he decided to have some fun. He told her to go home and blow into the tail pipe really hard, and all the dents would pop out. So, the blonde went home, got down on her hands and knees and started blowing into her tailpipe. Nothing happened. So she blew a little harder, and still nothing happened. Her blonde roommate saw her and asked, "What are you doing?" The first blonde told her how the repairman had instructed her to blow into the tail pipe in order to get all the dents to pop out. The roommate rolled her eyes and said, "Uh, like hello! You need to roll up the windows first." +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ A blonde was shopping at Target and came across a shiny silver thermos. She was quite fascinated by it, so she picked it up and took it to the clerk to ask what it was. The clerk said, "Why, that's a thermos..... It keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold." "Wow!", said the blonde, "That's amazing.....I'm going to buy it!" So she bought the thermos and took it to work the next day. Her boss saw it on her desk. "What's that?" he asked. "Why, that's a thermos..... It keeps hot things hot and cold things cold," she replied. Her boss inquired, "What do you have in it?" The blond replied..... ..."Two popsicles and some coffee." +++++++++++++ A blonde goes into work one morning crying her eyes out. Her boss asked sympathetically, "What's the matter?" The blonde replies, "Early this morning I got a phone call saying that my mother had passed away." The boss, feeling sorry for her, says, "Why don't you go home for the day? Take the day off to relax and rest." "Thanks, but I'd be better off here. I need to keep my mind off it and I have the best chance of doing that here." The boss agrees and allows the blonde to work as usual. A couple of hours pass and the boss decides to check on the blonde. He looks out from his office and sees the blonde crying hysterically. "What's so bad now? Are you gonna be okay?" he asks. "No!" exclaims the blonde. "I just received a horrible call from my sister. Her mother died, too!"

I apologize for not answering sooner. I had eye surgery yesterday for Entropion and had an eye bandage on until this aM and now with the nedications my vision is still not very good. The cube relationship - double the flow for a compressor requiring eight times the input power has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with moto efficiency. Overall heat pump efficiency IS affected by motor efficiencies and thus a lower compressor motor efficiency will have a effect on HP Overall Efficiency. However, when comparing overall HP efficiency at two differing compressor loads, the motor efficiency differences are second order effects. Let's imagine a 100% efficient power source for a compressor - be it a motor, a steam turbine, or a pneumatic motor. Double the mass flow rate requires eight times the input power. Nothing to do with driver efficiency. In the real world of not 100% devices, to increase power by a factor of eight might require, say, nine times as much electical or steam or air input to the motor. (Just an example.) An electrical analogy where a resistor is put acros a ideal source battery's output. The resisitor is by nature frequently regarded as 100% efficient in converting electrical energy to heat energy. In this case there is not a cubed relationship, but rather a squared relationship between current and power. 12 volt battery with a 12 ohm resistor across the terminals. One amp of current. The resistor dissipates 1X1 X12 - 12 Watts.(One amp squared times 12 ohms = 12 Watts.) Add a second battery in series with the first. We now have 24 Volt battery source across 12 ohms. Now have 2 amps. (Each battery is providing one amp of the two amps) The resistor now dissipates 2 X 2 X12 = 48 Watts. (2 amps squared times 12 ohms equals 48 Watts.) NO change in the resistor's efficiency but doubling the voltage doubles the current and yields FOUR times the power. To complete the analogy, you could add a small resistor in series with the battery that might represent internal resistence and/or other reall losses in battery performance. This would tweak thye result away from a actual squared law... similarly, differences in pump efficiencies can be modeled in compressor and pump model studies. This is done all the time in ship design and other commercial applications. Mike. re your example of motor power... some humor (?) If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs does nine hens lay in nine days. Nope, not nie. :-).

Jasdip, These were the other threads. The cookalongs. I know I said tried and true, but this is what I was thinking of...

Not wearing liquid makeup everyday, closing my office that is $2000 a month and looking for a new one that is less money, foregoing 1/2 my workout as not having nautilus machines at the gym makes working out harder, eating far more ice cream and homemade bread than I did before, missing my outings with friends. We have gone to Arizona and will again for Labor Day Weekend for haircuts :) I’ve never been so meticulous about wiping down my keys, doorknob of the car, credit card than ever before. We’ve not been sick and I’m grateful.