Watch batteries .....well that was rather amusing...

@ArishMell Yes the Swiss watch - an heirloom from my Grandfather who got it in 1953// lovely piece - 18K gold case. is mechanical and we have a copy of the manufactures hand written log showing the date It was made and though which dealer it was sold..but what makes it special is it was my Grandfathers.. and left t me specifically.. This year one of my Daughters gave birth to a boy...and I became a Grandfather with someone to leave that watch to...

There is a huge range of button type batteries used for all sorts of things such as hearing aids .... but yes I checked first. before ordering a quantity of them and was actually delighted to see that they were standardized on one cell... There wee a selection of movements ...perhaps three different ones....all still using the same cell across the six watches.... This made the project very simple and so I put the unused batteries into the refrigerator to preserve them...really keeping them as a matter of convenience... and economy... a good thing to keep on hand like any other battery...

For other things I am making a change.. China makes rechargeable lithium batteries with USB type C charging ports - I got some 9 volt and type D batteries and so now these things are rechargeable and not disposable - the batteries costing about what the disposable ones cost at retail stores here... so I stop being a consumer and simply charge them when and as needed... This is all round a sensible thing to do...

@pdqsailor1 yeah the 2032.. i wish i could go to shul but the ones here are odd there's a reform one where they don't even believe in God.. there's some messianic ones around but they are far and not to be a snob but they don't have the order of prayer service that my shul had growing up (which is super far now) i watch them on youtube sometimes but even they aren't what they used to be.. i used to watch youtube more but haven't so much lately .. i did notice they had a lot of kosher for passover cake and pastry recipes on there tho 😁 i watch a lot of cooking baking shows online some Israeli ones too there ☺ i know a lot of prayers and fragments of prayers by heart from going to shul every week for years when i was a kid.. as a kid i couldn't wait to get out of there and go play but as a teen i recognized the beauty of the prayers and the service and also some of the words because we had began to learn a bit of hebrew by then ☺

@GoFish I love our old and beautiful Synagogue and the dedicated congregants who attend... though I would really prefer it was packed to the rafters in terms of attendance... For us its such a treat to go there.. For my Mother its an outing ...particularly during the non-sailing months...

@pdqsailor1 ah nice i can imagine it would be lovely .. my home shul far away was an old church before my shul bought it.. it’s by the bay and not very fancy .. flooded once during the storms/hurricanes.. i haven't been there since i was 16.. i’m almost embarrassed to go there because i used to write my rabbis’ son super dumb love letters which probably horrified them and i just wanted them to answer me but they never did .. in retrospect i never should have said anything just kept my crazy thoughts to myself.. live and learn i guess.. in my dreams a few years ago they were nice to me.. they told me he got married 😂 smh .. *face palm*

@Poppies Moms house was built in 1965, ours was built in 1952...both with copper but both are on city water with no acids and minimal to no minerals (not hard water), and none of it has ever given us any trouble...

@pdqsailor1 Manufacturers and house-builders were just as capable of low quality a hundred years ago as now. It's the good stuff that's survived. Though a friend in the building trade tells me many of the houses they put up now are "rubbish".

I gather it usually takes a few days, or a week, at sea to become used to the motion, but it must be awful for sailors whose work keeps them below with no sight of the horizon.

@ArishMell Subdivision homes and most construction methods used today are of low quality...keep in mind the motivations of the builders... Make it cheap cheap cheap yet make it look good enough so their profit is high... . Before we did a project at my Mothers house I engaged a structural engineer , one who was referred to me, who did a stamped drawing complete with specifications for each component... The drawing was followed properly - it was a roof structure and this past winter the snow load on it... was massive and there were zero consequences... That is how I will proceed with a planned addition to that house.. The right engineer, a good architect.. and careful management of the construction process to ensure compliance...

Its not days or a week at one shot that seems to cure sea sickness.. its progressively exposing yourself to challenging conditions... fifteen knots and sea state for two or three hours. twenty knots - and by the time you experience forty knots ...you gradually (progressively) acclimatize to it...Yes a view of the horizon is helpful but being at the helm is even MORE helpful because for many people its a lack of control that matters.. when you learn how to steer a sailboat through waves and you have some say in how it does it and the resultant motion then your focus on how you plan on tackling that next wave - well you are in charge not a victim of it.. Eventually the motion of a pitching boat becomes something you understand and can anticipate...even below decks... every boat is also different... I prefer boats that are well powered by adequate sail area and drive through waves rather than get tossed by them... its partially physics... the more speed you have the more comfort your boat experiences in challenging conditions... Our boat has been re-configured to be more upright for a given wind strength and importantly the rudder design has been upgraded to allow for precise control .... Add to this enough sail area of the correct configuration and you have a stiletto that carves through the water not a cork that bobs in it... There is an elegance to a boat sailing powerfully in challenging conditions... Now this said there are bodies of water that are shallow that have short very steep wave patterns that are truly miserable things to be in... The right boat helps but there are limits... our boat did not evolve by accident it did so by design and intent.. It is highly "optimized"... and it makes a difference...