In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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I edited and added as well! So I'll see you and raise you! Ha Ha!Quote:
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Signy
My interpretation was that the crack was acting as an inflow for the gutter water ... and that the hole (while recycling some water back to the foundation) was additionally mostly just a large flow ballast for the sump, filling up then draining away, filling up then draining away ... (and so not entirely defeating the sump's work to remove water from around the foundation)
Hey Jack - I guess we X-posted! This was to Signy, posted before your expl came up.
I have one quick comment off the top of my head - before I think about I too deeply - "1. I need to shorten the float and get the pump lower into the well so it goes off earlier and stays on until the level gets lower before shutting off without going too low as to make the pump suck in air." Is your pump submerged or above the well? Submerged pumps might rely on water for cooling, so if submerged, you probably shouldn't allow the water level to expose it.
You keep posting this over and over again in a thread. So, here it is again.
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How can you be fooled so many times, THUGGER?Quote:
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So, THUGGER - just to keep you honest ...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377Quote:
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I believe if they see a disaster coming, like a war or Trump being blackmailed by Putin, they themselves will be desperate to find a way to do it.Quote:
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Key word as to why they are being investigated? Russia JackQuote:http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377&p=3
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While I'll admit the press mostly dislikes Trump, reporting the truth is not considered a negative by those seeking the truth.Quote:
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the main course will be crow.Quote:
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Top U.S. officials to testify in Trump-Russia probe rebootQuote:
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Report: Russia tried to infiltrate Trump campaign through advisersQuote:
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3. Russia, is all encompassing this presidency and the presidents thinking. It is driving him up the wall.
How does this helping of crow WITH YOUR NAME ON IT and covered with extra shit taste, THUGGER?
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I edited and added as well! So I'll see you and raise you! Ha Ha!Quote:
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Signy
My interpretation was that the crack was acting as an inflow for the gutter water ... and that the hole (while recycling some water back to the foundation) was additionally mostly just a large flow ballast for the sump, filling up then draining away, filling up then draining away ... (and so not entirely defeating the sump's work to remove water from around the foundation)
Hey Jack - I guess we X-posted! This was to Signy, posted before your expl came up.
I have one quick comment off the top of my head - before I think about I too deeply - "1. I need to shorten the float and get the pump lower into the well so it goes off earlier and stays on until the level gets lower before shutting off without going too low as to make the pump suck in air." Is your pump submerged or above the well? Submerged pumps might rely on water for cooling, so if submerged, you probably shouldn't allow the water level to expose it.
You keep posting this over and over again in a thread. So, here it is again.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
How can you be fooled so many times, THUGGER?Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So, THUGGER - just to keep you honest ...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I believe if they see a disaster coming, like a war or Trump being blackmailed by Putin, they themselves will be desperate to find a way to do it.Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Key word as to why they are being investigated? Russia JackQuote:http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377&p=3
Originally posted by THGRRI:
While I'll admit the press mostly dislikes Trump, reporting the truth is not considered a negative by those seeking the truth.Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
the main course will be crow.Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Top U.S. officials to testify in Trump-Russia probe rebootQuote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Report: Russia tried to infiltrate Trump campaign through advisersQuote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
3. Russia, is all encompassing this presidency and the presidents thinking. It is driving him up the wall.
How does this helping of crow WITH YOUR NAME ON IT and covered with extra shit taste, THUGGER?
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I edited and added as well! So I'll see you and raise you! Ha Ha!Quote:
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Signy
My interpretation was that the crack was acting as an inflow for the gutter water ... and that the hole (while recycling some water back to the foundation) was additionally mostly just a large flow ballast for the sump, filling up then draining away, filling up then draining away ... (and so not entirely defeating the sump's work to remove water from around the foundation)
Hey Jack - I guess we X-posted! This was to Signy, posted before your expl came up.
I have one quick comment off the top of my head - before I think about I too deeply - "1. I need to shorten the float and get the pump lower into the well so it goes off earlier and stays on until the level gets lower before shutting off without going too low as to make the pump suck in air." Is your pump submerged or above the well? Submerged pumps might rely on water for cooling, so if submerged, you probably shouldn't allow the water level to expose it.
You keep posting this over and over again in a thread. So, here it is again.Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
How can you be fooled so many times, THUGGER?Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
So, THUGGER - just to keep you honest ...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
I believe if they see a disaster coming, like a war or Trump being blackmailed by Putin, they themselves will be desperate to find a way to do it.Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Key word as to why they are being investigated? Russia JackQuote:http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=61377&p=3
Originally posted by THGRRI:
While I'll admit the press mostly dislikes Trump, reporting the truth is not considered a negative by those seeking the truth.Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
the main course will be crow.Quote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Top U.S. officials to testify in Trump-Russia probe rebootQuote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
Report: Russia tried to infiltrate Trump campaign through advisersQuote:
Originally posted by THGRRI:
3. Russia, is all encompassing this presidency and the presidents thinking. It is driving him up the wall.
How does this helping of crow WITH YOUR NAME ON IT and covered with extra shit taste, THUGGER?
T
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Some old and dead electronics taken in to be recycled today.
3 windchimes hung up. Indoors.
But I did drop some ice cream on the floor. :(. Cleaned that up and had to get some more out of the freezer.
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Ok kiki, I can do this until you get the message. I'm sure sig is just loving this.
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Countdown Clock on Trump Going to Jail
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:18 AM
CAPTAINCRUNCH
... stay crunchy...
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Correct me if I'm wrong G but didn't you major in english literature? If I recall right you wanted to be a writer.
Good memory, T!
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:19 AM
6IXSTRINGJACK
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Correct me if I'm wrong G but didn't you major in english literature? If I recall right you wanted to be a writer.
Good memory, T!
If you can't do, then teach.
T needs your help, buddy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:24 PM
CAPTAINCRUNCH
... stay crunchy...
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If you can't do, then teach.
And if you can't do either, be 6ix.
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 1:35 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
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If you can't do, then teach.
And if you can't do either, be 6ix.
Nothing wrong with that.
I'm awesome.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:28 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
"Who is on your Deep State list"
It's in my link.
I'm sorry you don't know how to read - and I can't do your reading for you. But you have your answer. If only you knew how to read.
Sigh.
A billion flies eat shit.
How does it taste, MUSHY?
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:27 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Only 2,009 days remaining on the Trump Going To Jail Clock.
How exciting. 002780
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Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:02 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Tonight, Trump moves to Florida to avoid being caught cheating on his 2020 New York state income tax. Reelect a crook for President:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump tweeted
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House, is the place I have come to love and will stay for, hopefully, another 5 years as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, but my family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence. I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state. Few have been treated worse. I hated having to make this decision, but in the end it will be best for all concerned. As President, I will always be there to help New York and the great people of New York. It will always have a special place in my heart!
6:32 PM - 31 Oct 2019
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1190079191355670529
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/
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That's odd...
Smells like faggot in here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Rain is coming.
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Quote:You need a dog, BRENDA! S/he would have cleaned it up for you!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Some old and dead electronics taken in to be recycled today.
3 windchimes hung up. Indoors.
But I did drop some ice cream on the floor. :(. Cleaned that up and had to get some more out of the freezer.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:Just imagine, SIX! You're ready for anything man, beast. or nature has in store for you!
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Perfecto!
Everything works great. I let the generator run for an hour straight. I immediately forced a near full well to pump out off the generator, and followed that up with a full load of laundry. I'm still getting enough water in through the inlet for it to go off by itself every 10 minutes or so, so it went off at least another 4 times on its own before I shut everything down and put it back on the main.
The hooks I bought were perfect for the application too, but my cheap ass didn't buy enough of them. I don't think I really had any idea how thick and heavy this cord was going to be until I got down there with it. Going to pick up a half dozen of them later today or tomorrow, get them installed and also figure out if the shelf support I was planning on using is going to be durable enough for the job or if I'm going to need to buy something better. The support I have is probably good enough, but I'm going to be hanging about 80 feet of the heaviest damn extension cord I've ever owned on it, so I need to make absolutely sure it will work for the long haul.
While I was at it, I also did a test on my snow blower and fired up my leaf blower for good measure. Went to fill the air in the snowblower tires and wouldn't you know it... One of them are flat. :( I'm not sure why that always happens with small tires in my garage like that. This is my third flat since I've owned the house. I'm sure those tires aren't cheap to replace and/or fix either. Going to want to take care of that ASAP either way though.
Won't let that bring my mood down though. It's been a great day. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Seriously, I know that you're so done with that house, but in reality you're in better shape with it than you've ever been. I think it's just hard to see the progress that you've made and how far you've come when you're up to your ass in alligators!
When you sell it, the next owner is going to have a perfectly lovely functional family home, where everything works like it should. I hope you make beaucoup bucks on it, you sure have put in your "sweat equity"!
Enjoy the winter, being as snug in a bug in a rug.
PS: What kind of generator? We're looking at getting one.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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"When you sell it, the next owner is going to have a perfectly lovely functional family home"
Once it's all fixed up ... why sell it? (Unless you're hoping for a profit, that is.)
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So, over at this end ... not sure f I posted this but the reason why our efforts got kicked into hig gear is because we're having out-of-town visitors stopping by. And altho they're only staying a day and a half (on their way to some place else) I've always felt that they were cirtical/judgmental. And, wowuldn't you know it but it was the guest bathroom sink that we had to remove!
So. Vanity has been modified and painted, the sink is installed, the bathroom and guest bedroom have been cleaned. I also did some adventitous cleaning and dusting, changed the filters on the return air ducts, and managed to tidy up the office considerably. While that, I have 1 1/2 large boxes of giveaway stuff collected and will be adding more.
So Tuesday is D-day for us. Hubby is building a platform for the mattress (so they don't have to sleep on a matress on the floor!) and I only need to wash the comforter, mattress cover and one other large item and move the nightstand, light, etc in place and just vacuum up all of the floors around the house. (It's so dusty around here!)
Once our visitors have come and gone I'm going to cover the bathroom vent (the one that goes right thru the roof) with cardboard so we don't get leaves and dust blowing in, cover the bed with an old sheet, close the door and keep it in its more-or-less pristine state until next time, when it should only take a little dusting to make it good again.
One room DONE.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Just imagine, SIX! You're ready for anything man, beast. or nature has in store for you!
Well... Second did quote something that made sense in another thread the other day, although it didn't apply at all to the point that he was making where he put it, of course.
It was in regards to how easy Americans have it and how they don't need to use most of their brains because of that.
I might bitch a lot, and I might have the added pressure right now of overcoming a lot of crap I let pile up over the years on top of additional pile ups because of neglect, but I generally thrive in chaos. I'm learning so much here about stuff that most Americans never even think about I could probably write a book.
Maybe I will. I could call it something like "The American Handyperson's Prep Guide For The Second Great Depression"
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Seriously, I know that you're so done with that house, but in reality you're in better shape with it than you've ever been. I think it's just hard to see the progress that you've made and how far you've come when you're up to your ass in alligators!
You might be right here. It's probable that a lot of these problems were problems from day one, but I wasn't aware of what was behind the walls and under the floors.
There was a lot of damage I either directly caused or I'm responsible for from neglect though. If anything, I'd like to think that the work I've done vs the new shit that's popped up that I need to take care of comes out to a wash.
Now that the porch is back in, I really think that I could sell this house tomorrow and make back what I paid for it. Especially since it's a better market than when I bought it.
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When you sell it, the next owner is going to have a perfectly lovely functional family home, where everything works like it should. I hope you make beaucoup bucks on it, you sure have put in your "sweat equity"!
We're not there yet. Not by a long shot. But I do believe that once the screen door is installed and I get that visqueen up over the louvers this week that at least I will have taken care of any of the things that were causing the place to degrade prematurely.
Let's see....
Structural repairs and a new floor in porch. Cracked drain pipe fixed. Backup solution for the sump pump in the event of power failure. Racoon family removed and access sealed so it won't happen again. Crawl space visqueen scoured so all of my work down there wasn't gross. House de-hoarded, with most of the garage de-hoarded and organized as well. Ground re-graded all along the house. Patio pavers all pulled up and ready for grass to be planted in the spring. Heat system working at least 5 times as good as it ever has. New entry steps for front porch and pillars re-painted.
I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting at the moment. It's been a good few months.
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Enjoy the winter, being as snug in a bug in a rug.
As long as my old furnace doesn't die on me.
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PS: What kind of generator? We're looking at getting one.
It's a Dewalt. It was used and out of the box, and I didn't get the manual with it, so I couldn't tell you what the specs are.
Without measuring it, I would guess it was around 3 feet long, by 2 1/2 feet wide and 2 1/2 feet long. It's got three plug receptacles. Two standard A/C wall outlet types as well as a 4-prong 20AMP.
If I bought more plugs for it, I'm sure it would power the fridge and a light or two and maybe even a TV. I haven't really tried to research the exact specs yet since at this point I'm just thrilled to have a working backup solution in place for the next outage event.
Be sure to do your research before you buy one so you don't throw away your money. It's not something to skimp on since it will be the emergency backup a
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"When you sell it, the next owner is going to have a perfectly lovely functional family home"
Once it's all fixed up ... why sell it? (Unless you're hoping for a profit, that is.)
It's a ton of maintenance. Even when I have it fully restored and things were all in working order, there is just so much land and landscaping to take care of. Water is always going to be an issue because of the location too, so any solutions I make are only temporary measures relying on mechanical parts that will eventually fail and cost money to replace. It's way too much house for one person too. I really only live in one room and use a kitchen and bathroom like I have done for years in previous apartments. Also, my aversion for paying somebody 5 to 10 times more to do something than it would cost me to do it is fine when I'm 40 and in generally good health, but in a house that will require much more of that than most other homes, I've already decided that one way or another this is not the house I'm going to die in.
I got it for so cheap because it was a rehab/foreclosure and I bought at the rock bottom of the market. It's virtually already paid for itself since I would have thrown what I paid for it away on rent the last 8 years.
Looking at it one way, if I sold it for $25 right now I'd be making a profit. But I can't look at it that way since I wasted all that time and didn't do anything to bolster my nest egg. I figure right now I'd have to sell it for what I paid plus $10k to break even.
Now that I'm not sitting here everyday afraid that it's about to fall over, I'm not in such a huge hurry. I've still got some time and energy in me to keep making improvements. My loose plan at this point is to spend the next year or two and around $8k to $10 in repairs and upgrades and sell the house for a $50k profit when I'm done.
It would be so nice to then take that money, move into a house for half of what I sell this one for that only has 2 bedrooms and a small lawn and isn't on a floodplain and is down by my brother where things are cheaper, life is slower and people are nicer.
That's the dream.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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CONGRATULATIONS SIGNY!!!
I hope it feels as good as it sounds!
But wait - there's more! Didn't you ALSO make substantial progress on the garage and overall decluttering? And on the painting?
So CONGRATULATIONS again SIGNY!!! YAY!!!
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What a nice dream that is, Jack. I'm really glad for you that you've gotten so far, and I hope (and expect! because ... why not?) you'll get to your goal.
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Quote:Well, not "DONE" done, just at the point where we don't have to work on it anymore. At some point in the distant future we would like to replace the entire vanity, and the bathroom needs repainting. But that's for the distant future. It wouldn't have been such an issue if a copper pipe hand't ctacked and dear daughter hadn't taken it upon herself to start complulsively peeling paint, so all we've done is recover lost ground, and that not even 100%.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
CONGRATULATIONS SIGNY!!!
I hope it feels as good as it sounds!
But wait - there's more! Didn't you ALSO make substantial progress on the garage and overall decluttering? And on the painting?
So CONGRATULATIONS again SIGNY!!! YAY!!!
Made progress elsewhere but it's been scatteredt ... painting the back bedrooms, declusttering everywhere, organizing and decluttering the garage ... but since no whole rooms have been entirely done it's harder to see progress. You probably know the feeling! I CAN count the number of giveaway boxes, and bins and pounds of trash crossing the perimeter in the outbound direction ... about 200 lbs of scrap wood and 300 lbs of scrap metal and the equivalent of six large boxes of donation items ... I think the next thing is to figure out how to sell the bigger more expensive stuff.
Anyone want an entire setting of fine china?
Anyway, I'm looking foreward to the day when I can si down, look around and think to myself ... this room is DONE, and easier to keep clean!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:You need a dog, BRENDA! S/he would have cleaned it up for you!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Some old and dead electronics taken in to be recycled today.
3 windchimes hung up. Indoors.
But I did drop some ice cream on the floor. :(. Cleaned that up and had to get some more out of the freezer.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
One problem with that solution SIG. I don't like dogs. Cat person.
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Ran into my manager yesterday as I was heading out and we had a nice little chat. She asked me how I was doing and I said I was good. Still doing organizing but that was a good thing. She said, "Well, you are home now and you can do it whenever you want." I agreed and added, "I can sit down and watch tv or get up and do a couple of small things. " In my head I added ,"No rush at all."
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Off to take a nice hot shower in a minute.
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Reorganized my cassette tape cases so I can get at them easier. One is really trashed will have to find some thing else to put those tapes into.
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Brenda
I feel like you're settling in to your home.
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"Anyway, I'm looking forward to the day when I can sit down, look around and think to myself ... this room is DONE, and easier to keep clean!"
My motto completely - for fixing up / cleaning up the house, for landscaping, even for my wardrobe.
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https://www.amazon.com/PD422MHI005-Running-Starting-Portable-Generator
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Hey Sigs...
I think this would be the "new" equivalent to the generator I've got. It may be a little more powerful than mine, and has a few extra plugs on it than mine does. I'm not sure if it is actually more powerful or it's because it's just a newer model. Mine is probably a decade old or even older. Everything under the doodad panel looks pretty much identical to what I'm working with.
PRICEY. I had no idea what a great generator my step dad gave me. I'm going to have to make that up to him when money allows.
Got all of my leaves to the curb today, and I hadn't planned on even doing that. They're not all down yet, but it should be at least half of them gone when they pick them up tomorrow. I don't think I've ever been this proactive with that since I've lived here.
Before I did that though, I removed all the old and cracked caulk from those shitty louvers on the front of the porch that was letting the melting snow get into the walls and floor on Halloween. Used a few blades, then sanded it all down and washed it good and got the new caulk up there.
Probably didn't need to do that once I have the visqueen up since I plan on ripping all that shit out and putting legit windows in front next year, but can't be too safe.
Hopefully tomorrow is the day we get the screen door installed. I think I know the one I'm going to get. It's 270 bucks. Just need my friend to make sure that it's good for our needs and we'll pick it up and get her installed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Brenda
I feel like you're settling in to your home.
Kiki,
I am. And it feels so good.
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For whatever reason, my efforts have been just creeping along the last few weeks, even though the weather has cooled down about 15F. I FEEL busy, but when I look at how much I've gotten done, it's not much.
Maybe my 'busy-ness' feeling is because I have to deal with a lot of details with the things I'm doing? Still, I need to kick it up into a higher gear.
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I hope what I've gotten done recently isn't making you feel that way in comparison, Kiki.
I've had plenty of time where I've done next to nothing for days at a time since I've been unemployed. But the clock is ticking on a few fronts at once right now, particularly the weather, and I've also had to face a few near emergency situations that forced me to work that much harder.
Been in a bit of a manic state recently, fueled by a lot of cheap coffee.
It will be nice to just have a normal job and a normal life like everybody else does one day and work half as hard as I'm doing now.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Not you Jack - everyone! is getting more done than I am. But I'm also on a few timetables I have to meet, so I really do need to speed up.
I have a dental question for you ... how do you know if you have an abscessed tooth? I have a tooth that's very mildly sensitive to chewing pressure. It's not anywhere near bad, but it's not entirely normal either.
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Quote:I blow thru things but only to about the 80% level. Nothing is ever fully done; and sooner or later it needs to be re-done and/or completed. I keep thinking ... when I get more time I can get this truly finished ... but that time never seems to come. This house is too big for us. When mom lived with us it made sense, but when she passed away it got to be one or two rooms too big. But by then the prices had gone up ... hubby wanted to know if we could finda smaller place quite a few years ago, so I dipped my toes into the RE market and told him the sad truth ... that we could find one smaller, but not cheaper! So here we are, until we commit to a BIG move ... like, out of county of even out of state.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
For whatever reason, my efforts have been just creeping along the last few weeks, even though the weather has cooled down about 15F. I FEEL busy, but when I look at how much I've gotten done, it's not much.
Maybe my 'busy-ness' feeling is because I have to deal with a lot of details with the things I'm doing? Still, I need to kick it up into a higher gear.
What I would LIKE to do is to be able to check off a bunch of things that won't have to be re-addressed later. What that means, I think, it getting rid of a bunch of big useless items and also re-organizing.
I looked around the house and realized that it looks like the house is being "worked on" but it isn't "working for" us. The furniture, the setup, doesn't promote the things we want or need to do; it's just what accumulated over the years and how we managed to fit in-between things. So I need to put my thinking cap on and re-imagine what this place could do for us, and also (like I said) shut off a room or two so that it's not so hard to keep clean... this is an incredibly dusty neighborhood!
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Speaking of which... SIX, you truly do seem energized by crisis. Still, the emotional highs and lows must be tiring!
I have a question, sort of inspired by my revelation about our house .... when your home repairs and maintenance are no longer an urgent urgency, how do you plan to re-configure your home to work for you? The related question, which I already asked, was: What would you LIKE to do with your time? I think you have a game-related software project to work on, but do you have any other projects/ plans/ hobbies?
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You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Re home remodeling / reorganizing ... everything I've read said ... think about what you do day to day ...
BUT - what if, for example, you don't have a kitchen that lends itself to cooking. So you don't cook, day to day. But you would cook, if you could.
Why remodel and reproduce all the same limitations of your current space by reproducing what you now do day to day?
I've read a few really good organizing tips however and come up with a few myself:
a place for everything
store it where you used it
keep everything you use daily out in plain sight
pull-out drawers below waist level, cupboards above
wide drawers to avoid having to open a lot of them to find something
open shelves are freaking dust-catchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/t-magazine/kitchen-organization.htm
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kitchens "Bennett believes that all cookware falls under the four pillars of “prep, cook, serve, store” “PREP” includes tools like mixing bowls, her mortar and pestle, a scale and a measuring glass, while the “COOK” drawer is full of pots and pans. Items for serving — plates, bowls and glasses — are in the cupboard, her resealable containers are all stacked in a drawer of their own, and never shall the four ever meet.
keep bedrooms spare
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Have to vacuum one of these days. Inhaled some dust this morning and started coughing.
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Not you Jack - everyone! is getting more done than I am.
That's good to hear that it's not me. I'll just tell you what I told my team lead at the old job... "Do yourself a favor and don't compare anyone else to me or you're just going to frustrate yourself. Take your next best employee and stack them all up against number 2."
You'll get to it. Just stay positive. I had a major setback tonight that really puts a damper on all of the work done so far, but I'm not going to let it kill me until spring.
I'll get to that later...
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I have a dental question for you ... how do you know if you have an abscessed tooth? I have a tooth that's very mildly sensitive to chewing pressure. It's not anywhere near bad, but it's not entirely normal either.
Not sure. My dental situation is unique to the point that we didn't even know that I still hadn't had any cavities for sure until I specifically asked the dentist to look for them. My problems were so far beyond what is normal that we don't tend to look at normal things.
I've actually never heard the word "abscess" used when diagnosing any of my problems. It was just time for the teeth to go when they did. Several of them putting me in pretty bad pain 24/7 for weeks or even months before I took care of it. (Either on my own or with dental expertise).
I would think that mild pressure would be the beginnings of one, or at least something to be concerned with. In my case, that never got any better and only eventually got worse. I wouldn't wait on it if I were you. What might be a very small problem if you catch it early could end up a much larger one.
I'd be a smartass right now and say "ask me how I know", but you already know the answer to that question.
Good luck, whatever it is. I truly feel your pain.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I blow thru things but only to about the 80% level. Nothing is ever fully done; and sooner or later it needs to be re-done and/or completed. I keep thinking ... when I get more time I can get this truly finished ... but that time never seems to come. This house is too big for us. When mom lived with us it made sense, but when she passed away it got to be one or two rooms too big. But by then the prices had gone up ... hubby wanted to know if we could finda smaller place quite a few years ago, so I dipped my toes into the RE market and told him the sad truth ... that we could find one smaller, but not cheaper! So here we are, until we commit to a BIG move ... like, out of county of even out of state.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
For whatever reason, my efforts have been just creeping along the last few weeks, even though the weather has cooled down about 15F. I FEEL busy, but when I look at how much I've gotten done, it's not much.
Maybe my 'busy-ness' feeling is because I have to deal with a lot of details with the things I'm doing? Still, I need to kick it up into a higher gear.
What I would LIKE to do is to be able to check off a bunch of things that won't have to be re-addressed later. What that means, I think, it getting rid of a bunch of big useless items and also re-organizing.
I looked around the house and realized that it looks like the house is being "worked on" but it isn't "working for" us. The furniture, the setup, doesn't promote the things we want or need to do; it's just what accumulated over the years and how we managed to fit in-between things. So I need to put my thinking cap on and re-imagine what this place could do for us, and also (like I said) shut off a room or two so that it's not so hard to keep clean... this is an incredibly dusty neighborhood!
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Speaking of which... SIX, you truly do seem energized by crisis. Still, the emotional highs and lows must be tiring!
Yeah. It's all pretty tiring. Not emotions so much though... more like instinctual impulses more than anything else. I'm basically a cave man with a high vocabulary at this point.
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I have a question, sort of inspired by my revelation about our house .... when your home repairs and maintenance are no longer an urgent urgency, how do you plan to re-configure your home to work for you? The related question, which I already asked, was: What would you LIKE to do with your time? I think you have a game-related software project to work on, but do you have any other projects/ plans/ hobbies?
Well first, I should point out that you're asking yourself the right questions and thinking about making the right decisions, IMO.
Checking off things that you can do once and have a very low likelihood of having to re-do any time soon is a great idea. Especially if you don't find yourself in a position like mine where 6 out of 10 things you'd like to just snap your finger and have magically finished are emergencies.
I can say from my own experience that getting rid of shit you don't use, especially BIG SHIT is a huge plus. I do think that if you stay true to your de-cluttering efforts that over time you're going to look back and realize that it was more than clutter... especially if you have a house that is "too big" and that extra room has just become a place to store extra shit that you don't need.
Don't get me wrong... I'm sure it's nice stuff, but if you're not using it than it's just shit and needs to go. Except for a box or two of sentimental stuff and perhaps a large piece or two with real sentimental value (even better if you can incorporate them into your every day life in a useful way), I would work on getting rid of anything that you don't use regularly that you haven't even pulled out in the last 2 years for any reason. In the mean time, I'd make it a rule that if yo
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As for my house repair side of things, what I had feared with the door situation is the reality. My friend said "don't worry about it. you worry too much."
He's usually right. This time I shouldn't have listened. The opening is too small for any standard size door (goddamned Uncle Bob). There's no way to open it large enough for a standard door. I can't exactly raise the roof. Even before the settling occurred on the far side, this door opening isn't enough for an 80" door. I need a 78" door. My local store doesn't even carry them online. Home Depot has them, but you have to have them delivered to the store or your home ahead of time and can't just go there and pick them up on a whim.
It's November 4th. We ran out of time. I'm just going to have to try to seal everything up with plastic for now and put it on my spring to-do list. I may even seal it up so I can't even access the back door until the spring. This will be extremely unfortunate if we have a heavy snow season since there is no walkway to shovel from my garage to the front door.
Oh well...
Cold tomorrow, but decent on Wednesday. I've got my work cut out for me weatherproofing everything on what is likely to be the last decent day we have here in 2019.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I'm going to try the Great Stuff fix on my snowblower tire. Just found out that my only available option for replacement tires on it are a 2 pack of "maintenance free airless tires" for $115 bucks, which makes one wonder why they aren't originally installed on a goddamned unit that costs $500 in the first place and I got for $270 new. I'm not paying more than 1/3 of what I paid for the whole damned thing for new tires.
I saw a new method for doing this that makes a ton more sense than how the other guy said to do it for the spreader tire that requires pulling the stem out of the innertube. Stem tools are cheap, but apparently not easy to come by these days unless you want to order them online. Both Walmart and my local auto parts store have them for online order, but not in the store. Supposedly you can just do it with a pair of needle nose pliers. I actually know that I have one somewhere, although I didn't know what it was when it came in a huge lot of 300 tools I bought years ago on ebay. I might luck out and find it in my garage.
The guy who did it for his own snowblower did an update video 2 years later and it still works. I just got 2 cans of Great stuff for $5 the other day on sale. $2.50 sure beats $115.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick. But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
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Did you beat her badly and she's taking it out on you?
Sounds like she's the alpha dog of the group, and probably a crappy one at that.
You come off as a nice person with a lot of wit here. Maybe it's time you bump her from that seat.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-04/does-a-rain-free-o
ctober-signal-a-return-to-drought-in-california
According to the National Weather Service, it was warmer than average in most places in Southern California in October, except in the Antelope Valley. El Niño and La Niña are in neutral this year, but most of the rain in the Los Angeles region comes later in the season, and 60% to 70% of that is borne by atmospheric rivers, which stream moisture from the tropical Pacific into California like a fire hose. “And there are no good predictors for those,” Patzert said.
There are many factors in California’s water picture, and it’s too early to call the game, Patzert said, but “it’s the first quarter right now and the Santa Anas are ahead 28-0.”
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Quote:because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So she says? Do you believe her?
Originally posted by Brenda:
The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick. But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
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Quote:So, what else does she do that's so annoying?
Originally posted by Brenda:
The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick.
Quote:Confused here. How is it that she "runs" the games? Does she host them at her place? Does she maintain a schedule? Does she supply the tiles? Does she collect dues? Bring food and drinks?
But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group
I mean, I was the "coffee person" at work which meant I collected the dues and bought the supplies and bought new coffee-maker when the old one crapped out but there was a set of responsibilities along with that. I would never say I was "the Scrabble person" at work because it just depended on who dragged out the Scrabble board and rounded up another player or two or three.
Quote:How can someone play NOT "nice"? Aside from not crowing every time you win or making nasty remarks about other people's playing or being a sore loser, what else are you supposed to do? Let other people win?
because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
I guess I just don't understand the dynamics.
But now that yo have a place of your own, is there anything preventing you from hosting your own mahjong games?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:All VERY good advice! But it will be hard convincing hubby that open shelves (including bookshelves) are dust-catchers. He LOVES open shelving because he had them at work and everything was viewable (he's tall). I keep reminding him ... but it doesn't seem to stick ... that he worked in a double-HEPA filtered positive pressure room. Dust wasn't problem for him, unless it came in a very dusty computer case.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Re home remodeling / reorganizing ... everything I've read said ... think about what you do day to day ...
BUT - what if, for example, you don't have a kitchen that lends itself to cooking. So you don't cook, day to day. But you would cook, if you could.
Why remodel and reproduce all the same limitations of your current space by reproducing what you now do day to day?
I've read a few really good organizing tips however and come up with a few myself:
a place for everything
store it where you used it
keep everything you use daily out in plain sight
pull-out drawers below waist level, cupboards above
wide drawers to avoid having to open a lot of them to find something
open shelves are freaking dust-catchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/t-magazine/kitchen-organization.htm
l
kitchens "Bennett believes that all cookware falls under the four pillars of “prep, cook, serve, store” “PREP” includes tools like mixing bowls, her mortar and pestle, a scale and a measuring glass, while the “COOK” drawer is full of pots and pans. Items for serving — plates, bowls and glasses — are in the cupboard, her resealable containers are all stacked in a drawer of their own, and never shall the four ever meet.
keep bedrooms spare
Understand about not reproducing the limitations of the current place with a new setup. That kind of gets into a metaphysical projection ... what WOULD we being doing if we had the time/space? (Besides maintaining the house, I mean!) Have to take into account our interests but also our declining physical capabilities ... woud not commit to restoring an old car top to bottom unless I had a LOT of time because everything would go very slowly. So probably mostly smaller projects.
But first, I think, is de-cluttering and re-organizing. It's impossible to clean or get anything done if everything is everywhere. Think about how to make current tasks more time-efficient. Once time-pressure is reduced we can think about options.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Did you beat her badly and she's taking it out on you?
Sounds like she's the alpha dog of the group, and probably a crappy one at that.
You come off as a nice person with a lot of wit here. Maybe it's time you bump her from that seat.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I beat her three times last week. And yes she does get upset when I do.
She's the chairperson of the group and having been a school teacher, elementary. She likes being in control.
Thank you Jack. I like to think that I am a nice person and I do try not to step on anyone's toes in the group. Don't know if I want the job.
They like to talk politics sometimes and history but I usually end up correcting them on things, 1. They don't get the context of things. 2.Their facts are wrong.
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Quote:because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So she says? Do you believe her?
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick. But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
The problem is that I do and I can pretty well name a couple of the ones who are the complainers.
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Quote:How can someone play NOT "nice"? Aside from not crowing every time you win or making nasty remarks about other people's playing or being a sore loser, what else are you supposed to do? Let other people win?
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:So, what else does she do that's so annoying?
Originally posted by Brenda:
The lady who runs the mah jong group and a couple of side mah jong games is driving me nuts. Called me last night and said I'm not going in on Tuesday as I started coughing again and we all heard her. Then this morning I get a call saying that she is coming in.
It is like make up your mind but then you don't get to b&tch that you are sick.Quote:Confused here. How is it that she "runs" the games? Does she host them at her place? Does she maintain a schedule? Does she supply the tiles? Does she collect dues? Bring food and drinks?
But I can't say that as over the last couple of weeks she has threatened to throw me out of the group
I mean, I was the "coffee person" at work which meant I collected the dues and bought the supplies and bought new coffee-maker when the old one crapped out but there was a set of responsibilities along with that. I would never say I was "the Scrabble person" at work because it just depended on who dragged out the Scrabble board and rounded up another player or two or three.Quote:
because some of the others are complaining about when I play. So, I have to play NICE. Ugh!
I guess I just don't understand the dynamics.
But now that yo have a place of your own, is there anything preventing you from hosting your own mahjong games?
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
Well, I dislike being treated like I am 5years old when I am playing. And that involves a few things about her mannerisms.
She's the chairperson of the mah jong group and everyone agreed to let her lead it.
I'll admit that I get frustrated with the way that I play or the tiles and remarks might slip. They take it all personally but then when I say nothing which this lady thinks is wrong, they can make all the remarks they want and I have to sit there and take them.
Unfortunately SIG, there is. I don't own my own set of mah jong tiles. Wish that I did.
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Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Did you beat her badly and she's taking it out on you?
Sounds like she's the alpha dog of the group, and probably a crappy one at that.
You come off as a nice person with a lot of wit here. Maybe it's time you bump her from that seat.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I beat her three times last week. And yes she does get upset when I do.
She's the chairperson of the group and having been a school teacher, elementary. She likes being in control.
Thank you Jack. I like to think that I am a nice person and I do try not to step on anyone's toes in the group. Don't know if I want the job.
They like to talk politics sometimes and history but I usually end up correcting them on things, 1. They don't get the context of things. 2.Their facts are wrong.
I hope it works out. I don't really have any advise to give you beyond that. I generally just avoid situations like that because in the past I've ended up letting things just stew inside of me until one day I explode. Sometimes it ended in just a lot of yelling, but other times I've ended up beating a few people within an inch of their life. It's not something I'm proud of, and once the red clears from my eyes it's instant regret. It's part of the reason why I live the loner life is because of my anger management issues.
Maybe Sigs and Kiki have some good advice to give you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Front part of my porch is now water tight. Hard to explain how I did everything without pictures, but all the pieces fell into the right place and this solution is better than I could have ever hoped for going into it. It would probably survive the next 5 years without any further maintenance. :)
Tomorrow is the last warm day. Need to make the screen door area watertight and see if I can get the vinyl siding back up. If not, going to need to wrap the base of the back of the house with plastic too until spring. Also going to see if I can fix the flat on the snowblower tomorrow. I should have time for all of that. The front took longer than I had hoped, but I knew that wasn't going to be an easy job solo. Everything else should be a lot easier.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Did you beat her badly and she's taking it out on you?
Sounds like she's the alpha dog of the group, and probably a crappy one at that.
You come off as a nice person with a lot of wit here. Maybe it's time you bump her from that seat.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I beat her three times last week. And yes she does get upset when I do.
She's the chairperson of the group and having been a school teacher, elementary. She likes being in control.
Thank you Jack. I like to think that I am a nice person and I do try not to step on anyone's toes in the group. Don't know if I want the job.
They like to talk politics sometimes and history but I usually end up correcting them on things, 1. They don't get the context of things. 2.Their facts are wrong.
I hope it works out. I don't really have any advise to give you beyond that. I generally just avoid situations like that because in the past I've ended up letting things just stew inside of me until one day I explode. Sometimes it ended in just a lot of yelling, but other times I've ended up beating a few people within an inch of their life. It's not something I'm proud of, and once the red clears from my eyes it's instant regret. It's part of the reason why I live the loner life is because of my anger management issues.
Maybe Sigs and Kiki have some good advice to give you.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
No worries Jack. Sometimes I just need a little moan.
I just basically put them on ignore. It's not my fault I can intimidate them.
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Dying clock radio, so it will go to the electronic recycling in a day or so.
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Quote:Ok, but still confused. If what irritates you is "mannerisms" then she does the same to everyone all the time. Tho it may be incredibly annoying (example, someone pointing their finger to the sky whenever they want to emphasize a statement) it's not directed at you or anyone in particular. So if it's truly a mannerism you shouldn't feel annoyed by it because it's all "her" and not "you".
I beat her three times last week. And yes she does get upset when I do.
She's the chairperson of the group and having been a school teacher, elementary. She likes being in control.
Thank you Jack. I like to think that I am a nice person and I do try not to step on anyone's toes in the group. Don't know if I want the job.
They like to talk politics sometimes and history but I usually end up correcting them on things, 1. They don't get the context of things. 2.Their facts are wrong.
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Well, I dislike being treated like I am 5years old when I am playing. And that involves a few things about her mannerisms.
OTOH if what she's doing is directed specifically AT YOU, then it's not a "mannerism", it's an intentional comment (even a non-verbal one) and possibly an insult. In which case, it would be perfectly appropriate to feel annoyed.
So, what does she do, specifically?
Quote:everyone? You too?
She's the chairperson of the mah jong group and everyone agreed to let her lead it
Quote:That's a tellingly passive way of describing your behavior.
I'll admit that I get frustrated with the way that I play or the tiles and remarks might slip...
Quote:do you deliver it personally?
They take it all personally
Quote:Well, this all sounds pretty toxic. How did everyone seem to have gotten so far away from just having fun?
but then when I say nothing which this lady thinks is wrong, they can make all the remarks they want and I have to sit there and take them.
Quote:I just looked up the price of tiles, they're not THAT expensive. Something else is going on here. Maybe you should quit this group which seems so toxic and do something else to get out. Yanno, look around develop your options, and then join a volunteer group, take a class, or something. See how it goes, and then quit your mahjong group if you like the new group.
Unfortunately SIG, there is. I don't own my own set of mah jong tiles. Wish that I did.
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I didn't notice the part about talking politics on first read...
Yeah. I probably wouldn't do that if I were you.
I'm not going to pretend that I don't ever engage in political talk in the real world, but I'm extremely picky and choosy about where I do and with who. I never talk about it at work. I'd imagine that if I did any extracurricular activities for enjoyment that I wouldn't do it there either. Basically, if it's at a place that I have to go back to regularly or that I enjoy going back to regularly, I'm not going to make that situation uncomfortable for myself in the future by engaging in these talks.
On an individual basis, I only ever open up about my own views with people who freely talk about it and I have a good feeling that we're both on the same page already. I do not like debating differing political views with people in the real world, simply because of the ease at which it becomes a topic of hostility. Everybody in 2019 goes into these things with a lot of preconceived notions about people who disagree with them politically, even though in most cases none of them are true on an individual level.
If you're the minority opinion in your group, and you're telling them that they are wrong, they're likely taking that as a personal insult even if you didn't mean for it to be (and it is quite possible that you in fact DID mean it to be).
In you Mahjong group case, you don't even have to be the minority opinion. If this woman you're talking about is the self-made queen of the group with no opposition, it doesn't really matter what the rest of them think if they're all going to have her back.
I dunno. I guess long story short now that I realized that politics were involved I could update my previous lack of suggestions to just advise that you try to avoid the politics and maybe have other things to talk about and change the subject up on them.
If nothing else, I can't imagine that it's very fun to play a game while talking about all of that bullshit anyhow.
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Sorry... stupid double post because FFF.NET is completely broken these days.
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No worries anybody. It's life and I can't do much about it or people.
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Pretty safe to say that the porch is watertight for the season.
I re-built the screen door by removing the damaged bottom and replacing it with a piece of plywood, recovered it with the existing vinyl on the outside and sealed everything nice and tight with aluminum tape. Best damn door I've had back there since I moved in. :)
I found out why it took on water and the MDF got soaked and ruined as well. The screen door was installed after the settling had occurred because the bottom of the door had been cut to fit the same 1/2" discrepancy that exists today. I guess they figured out that they don't make doors for a rough opening that small too and took another idiot shortcut instead of doing things the right way.
Good news?
The settling occurred before I moved in.
Bad news?
The reason that door broke and all that water got in the porch from there was because the dumbasses broke the factory seal on a cheap door to saw into MDF. Because they're dumbasses.
Seriously... WTF is wrong with the previous owners of this house?
Anyhow... got all the siding back up, went nuts with the great stuff and caulk and visqueen and everything should be good for the winter. I'll be monitoring everything of course, but I don't expect there to be any issues until I can get real windows and a real door installed along with finally getting gutters up next spring.
Winter is here... :(
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MDF, OSB, particle board ... anyone who has anything but PLYWOOD (no matter how cheap it is) as a roof underlayment is in for a heap of hurt.
All the roof has to do is leak - just a little - and the /non-plywood/ roof underlayment loses all structural integrity. Nails come out like they were put into sawdust, and the slightest breeze will rip the entire roof to shreds. This is NOT from personal experience; just seeing failure analyses of houses in hurricane zones.
But from personal experience, I can say that cheap cabinetry made from particle board (the previous owners installed it) will NOT stand up to floor-washing using actual - yanno - water. And that's because the raw edges of the particle board (MDF, OSB) that sit on the floor will suck up water like the sponge it is, swell, and crumble apart from the bottom up.
There was a similar experience at work in the coffee / copy room, where the particleboard / laminate countertop failed when the top-mounted sink seal leaked.
I don't understand how anybody nowadays thinks that those three things are legitimate building materials. And how they're still allowed to be sold.
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Yeah... It's junk.
I mentioned before that I'd like to make arcade cabinets when I get everything squared away and into a more managable house with more free time. They were all built with MDF too. Mine won't be.
I didn't mean the roof was MDF though. That's all plywood.
The bottom section of the screen door under the windows was (as well as the borders around the screen/glass panels). All but the most expensive screen doors these days are built that way, unfortunatley.
Still though, it probably would have held up just fine over the years with the factory seal.
These geniuses ruined the integrity of the factory seal by taking the bottom casing off, ripping the bottom part of the screen door to fit the smaller opening, then put the bottom casing back on.
All it would have taken is one snowstorm that they weren't immediately out there shoveling the snow away and when it melted it got in and started ruining the bottom of the door.
Idiots... :0
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Yeah they were idiots - but still. Anything made of any of those materials is made to fail.
For instance - the door. Even if it hadn't been damaged by the previous owns, sheer life would have caused it to fail. So you're going in the door but your arms are just LOADED with stuff. You go up to it sideways to get a hand on the knob, and you just crack it open, then you kick it all the way open your foot so you can get through. And unbeknown to you, you flexed a tiny separation between the door's face casing and the bottom edge casing ... and before you know it, the whole door is ruined. Or like the top-mounted sink at work - sooner or later, after ordinary wiping and cleaning, some of the caulking finally rubbed off, water got into the raw cut edge put into the countertop for the sink, and literally the next day that area was swollen up to easily 5x it's normal thickness.
Failure with moisture for that kind of material is a given. And imo moisture is a fact of life for any building, inside or out. imo materials need to be able to resist at least occasional exposure, instead of instantly failing.
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Oh... I agree.
That's why I was getting pretty pissed off when I saw that screen doors over $300 still had an MDF core. I don't get it.
Makes sense when you're buying a bottom of the barrel $80 door, but I think anything above $250 should have at least plywood. Once you start getting to $300 and $400 and beyond it should be solid wood, IMO.
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Quote:Hmmm... but I get the feeling that things bother you. You shouldn't have to live your life in quiet resentment. Not only is it bad for you, it poisons your relationships. So somewhere between staying quiet and being an aggressive a-hole is a happy medium where you stick up for yourself without being a jerk. It's a hard line to find and most people spend their whole lives not finding that balance, but it's definitely something positive to work towards.
Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries anybody. It's life and I can't do much about it or people.
Just a thought.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Quote:Yeah, I haven't delved into that kind of door - yet. I may at some point. The security screen door I had put in (so my cat wouldn't rip his way out through the screen, like he did with the window) is metal-framed with heavy-duty stainless steel screening. The inner door is a solid wood door I got MANY years ago for really cheap because the bottom panel had a crack in it. And as they say - putty and paint are what a carpenter ain't. But maybe when I get around to doing some more of that kind of work, I'll run into the same kind of frustration with the same kind of built-to-be-shoddy - and yet expensive! - products.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh... I agree.
That's why I was getting pretty pissed off when I saw that screen doors over $300 still had an MDF core. I don't get it.
Makes sense when you're buying a bottom of the barrel $80 door, but I think anything above $250 should have at least plywood. Once you start getting to $300 and $400 and beyond it should be solid wood, IMO.
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Quote:Yeah, I haven't delved into that kind of door - yet. I may at some point. The security screen door I had put in (so my cat wouldn't rip his way out through the screen, like he did with the window) is metal-framed with heavy-duty stainless steel screening. The inner door is a solid wood door I got MANY years ago for really cheap because the bottom panel had a crack in it. And as they say - putty and paint are what a carpenter ain't. But maybe when I get around to doing some more of that kind of work, I'll run into the same kind of frustration with the same kind of built-to-be-shoddy - and yet expensive! - products.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh... I agree.
That's why I was getting pretty pissed off when I saw that screen doors over $300 still had an MDF core. I don't get it.
Makes sense when you're buying a bottom of the barrel $80 door, but I think anything above $250 should have at least plywood. Once you start getting to $300 and $400 and beyond it should be solid wood, IMO.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
We used to have a big hardware store nearby that sold solid fir multi-light doors that Home Depot drove out of business. Tried to get the same kind of door at Home Depot, all they had was the MDF crap. We would have to get custom-made doors to find the equivalent.
Even the plywood is crap. Hubby delegated me to buy 2x4s and plywood for the bed platforms (twinned together support a king-sized mattress, I have to say it turned out FABULOUS, and he built them in three days!) so I got the best 2x4s I could find (prime, dried ... have you ever touched the other construction lumber? It's literally wet!) ... but even in the "prime" stack it was hard to find two pieces that didn't have big knots, or bark still attached, or big cracks or huge twist/cupping/bowing or other serious flaws. I'm thinking that the "good wood" accounted for something like 5% of the stack cause we looked thru about 50 pieces to find two good ones, and we had to do that several times to get six pieces, and sometimes we didn't get any at all it was just so crappy.
Took a look at the 3/4 plywood which was just awful - full of voids - and got the "furniture grade" plywood. It looks better than construction material, but it's not even 3/4" its 19/32, and when we went to cut it the wood was so soft it broke out on cutting and sanding and was just plain furry. It could have been grown for paper-making for all I know, it was the softest wood I've even seen.
Just for kicks I looked at the 2X10s (16'), and saw only one good piece out of maybe ten, the rest had giant cracks in them that were maybe 1/8" wide at the widest and that ran at least 3'.
I dunno SIX, does the west coast have crappier lumber because we're in the middle of a housing/ renovation boom, and demand is outstripping supply? Or is this just a Home Depot problem? Or is this a nationwide phenomenon? Or am I just being picky?
Next time I go to Home Depot I'll count up the number of voids in the 3/4 plywood, and you tell me ... what's going on here?
I think I'm going to learn furniture-building like hubby did. And sewing. That way I won't be hostage to the crap that's out there.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Hmmm... but I get the feeling that things bother you. You shouldn't have to live your life in quiet resentment. Not only is it bad for you, it poisons your relationships. So somewhere between staying quiet and being an aggressive a-hole is a happy medium where you stick up for yourself without being a jerk. It's a hard line to find and most people spend their whole lives not finding that balance, but it's definitely something positive to work towards.
Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries anybody. It's life and I can't do much about it or people.
Just a thought.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
True enough. But I have one thing looming on the horizon for tomorrow. How to get to my hearing aide appointment in another city with a possible bus strike.
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Quote:Yeah, I haven't delved into that kind of door - yet. I may at some point. The security screen door I had put in (so my cat wouldn't rip his way out through the screen, like he did with the window) is metal-framed with heavy-duty stainless steel screening. The inner door is a solid wood door I got MANY years ago for really cheap because the bottom panel had a crack in it. And as they say - putty and paint are what a carpenter ain't. But maybe when I get around to doing some more of that kind of work, I'll run into the same kind of frustration with the same kind of built-to-be-shoddy - and yet expensive! - products.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Oh... I agree.
That's why I was getting pretty pissed off when I saw that screen doors over $300 still had an MDF core. I don't get it.
Makes sense when you're buying a bottom of the barrel $80 door, but I think anything above $250 should have at least plywood. Once you start getting to $300 and $400 and beyond it should be solid wood, IMO.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Well I've got until spring to figure out what I'm going to do now. I obviously can't buy it at Menards since none of them will fit, and as far as I know the only Big Box store to carry them in a size that will is Home Depot. Those doors don't seem any better than what Menards had.
It may be the same case here as it is with buying gutters. The gutters at Big Box stores aren't only crappy because you have to join all the seams, but they're smaller, of lousier construction, and they actually cost more than having a place that specializes in aluminum coming out to your house and running the exact lengths you need of high quality larger ones.
I'm going to get another quote together for the gutters soon, and when I'm talking to them I'm going to ask if they sell doors or know anybody they would recommend.
If I find a better option, I'll be sure to let you know.
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We used to have a big hardware store nearby that sold solid fir multi-light doors that Home Depot drove out of business. Tried to get the same kind of door at Home Depot, all they had was the MDF crap. We would have to get custom-made doors to find the equivalent.
Yeah... Like I said to Kiki above, I'm going to see what my options are outside of Big Box stores... if there even are any. I probably better get those gutters up before they put the little guy with the far better product out of business too.
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Even the plywood is crap. Hubby delegated me to buy 2x4s and plywood for the bed platforms (twinned together support a king-sized mattress, I have to say it turned out FABULOUS, and he built them in three days!) so I got the best 2x4s I could find (prime, dried ... have you ever touched the other construction lumber? It's literally wet!) ...
Yes. The lumber can be quite wet. Usually the regular stuff isn't, but the green stuff always was. In fact, we were going to use construction glue when we did the work, but it wasn't sticking. We thought at first it might be a VOC issue and they just didn't make it good like they used to. It turns out that you can't glue green wood. There are supposedly glues out there by companies like Gorilla that are designed for this task, but the reviews are mixed and I wasn't willing to pay 6 times as much per tube for something that likely wasn't going to do anything over the long haul.
If you're finding the non-treated lumber to be wet though, I'd look to other places to buy it, or at least try to contact a professional to see if that's normal in your climate. None of our non-treated lumber was wet to the touch.
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but even in the "prime" stack it was hard to find two pieces that didn't have big knots, or bark still attached, or big cracks or huge twist/cupping/bowing or other serious flaws. I'm thinking that the "good wood" accounted for something like 5% of the stack cause we looked thru about 50 pieces to find two good ones, and we had to do that several times to get six pieces, and sometimes we didn't get any at all it was just so crappy.
Took a look at the 3/4 plywood which was just awful - full of voids - and got the "furniture grade" plywood. It looks better than construction material, but it's not even 3/4" its 19/32, and when we went to cut it the wood was so soft it broke out on cutting and sanding and was just plain furry. It could have been grown for paper-making for all I know, it was the softest wood I've even seen.
Just for kicks I looked at the 2X10s (16'), and saw only one good piece out of maybe ten, the rest had giant cracks in them that were maybe 1/8" wide at the widest and that ran at least 3'.
I dunno SIX, does the west coast have crappier lumber because we're in the middle of a housing/ renovation boom, and demand is outstripping supply? Or is this just a Home Depot problem? Or is this a nationwide phenomenon? Or am I just being picky?
Next time I go to Home Depot I'll count up the number of voids in the 3/4 plywood, and you tell me ... what's going on here?
Our plywood had a lot of voids. My friend wasn't too happy when he saw it, but I told him that my brother and I were getting the stuff while it was raining heavily outside and even though we threw at least a dozen or two boards to the side to get the ones we got, those were the best ones we were going to find.
For sub flooring, it doesn't really matter. We just needed to be careful that we picked suitable pieces for the ones we were going to cut and that we weren't going to put any of the voids directly on a cut where they'd join to another piece.
As for counting, which I didn't, I'd guess the worst one had something like 16 to 20 of them. They are usually very uniform when you get them, almost in a grid. At least that was my experience with the on
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Quote:Well, bon chance on your trek thru the other city. I hope you get thru the trip ok without too many hassles and that your hearing aids are all properly adjusted and that they work great!
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Hmmm... but I get the feeling that things bother you. You shouldn't have to live your life in quiet resentment. Not only is it bad for you, it poisons your relationships. So somewhere between staying quiet and being an aggressive a-hole is a happy medium where you stick up for yourself without being a jerk. It's a hard line to find and most people spend their whole lives not finding that balance, but it's definitely something positive to work towards.
Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries anybody. It's life and I can't do much about it or people.
Just a thought.
True enough. But I have one thing looming on the horizon for tomorrow. How to get to my hearing aide appointment in another city with a possible bus strike.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Hey Signy (and Jack)
FWIW here's my take on "Big Box stores".
To me, of the 2 big box stores I have experience with, Lowe's is FAR superior to Home Depot. But as stores to buy from, they have their plusses and minuses. (I don't think of Ace as a big box store, and though it's expensive, I tend to go there for my home building / repair materials because they really are helpful and have the oddest things one might want, like horse-troughs. So I'm an Ace customer unless I'm in need of hard-core supplies, like sheets of drywall or lengths of crown molding.) Anyway, when I see the local contractors zip into Lowe's or Home Depot I understand why those stores carry what they do at the prices they are. AFAIK, contractors in general don't order their entire framing supply, or sill-plate anchors, or bricks, or re-roofing materials, or (...), from Lowe's or Home Depot. They'll either order them directly from the manufacturer (Weyerhaeuser plywood, Owens Corning COOL roof shingles) or from a licensed intermediary.
I think local contractors go to big box stores when they're short, or have a change order, or have a small project, or have some other need where they have to get something NOW - or their entire schedule, or job, goes off-track.
So big box stores are in between the mom-and-pop sundry stores and the larger construction suppliers. So they carry a lot of different kinds of things you won't find at a more strictly consumer-oriented mom-and-pop place, or Ace --- whole shelves of drywall, bins of Simpson strong-tie products, stacks of framing lumber, pre-hung doors and windows, PVC pipe and connectors, and you-do gutters. But that convenience comes at a cost for contractors and us consumer-type customers. Because those stores understand they have the contractors in a bind - buy here now, or wait days or weeks for a commercial supplier to come through. And I think that lends itself to carrying low-quality products. Buy this, or go without.
I THINK it might be especially true for things like framing lumber and plywood (and even doors and windows). A genuine lumber mill might have better, cheaper, and more. At least, when it was open, that was true of the lumber mill near me.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Well, bon chance on your trek thru the other city. I hope you get thru the trip ok without too many hassles and that your hearing aids are all properly adjusted and that they work great!
Originally posted by Brenda:
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
Thanks SIG. I gotta little help on my trek Friday. Someone who knows where I have to go to take me part way there which will be a BIG help.
I am so hoping that something can be done. I have to take them off because of a buzzing with the left one. Makes me not want to use them and I know I have to. Will let you know what happens.
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Hey Signy (and Jack)
FWIW here's my take on "Big Box stores".
To me, of the 2 big box stores I have experience with, Lowe's is FAR superior to Home Depot. But as stores to buy from, they have their plusses and minuses. (I don't think of Ace as a big box store, and though it's expensive, I tend to go there for my home building / repair materials because they really are helpful and have the oddest things one might want, like horse-troughs. So I'm an Ace customer unless I'm in need of hard-core supplies, like sheets of drywall or lengths of crown molding.) Anyway, when I see the local contractors zip into Lowe's or Home Depot I understand why those stores carry what they do at the prices they are. AFAIK, contractors in general don't order their entire framing supply, or sill-plate anchors, or bricks, or re-roofing materials, or (...), from Lowe's or Home Depot. They'll either order them directly from the manufacturer (Weyerhaeuser plywood, Owens Corning COOL roof shingles) or from a licensed intermediary.
I think local contractors go to big box stores when they're short, or have a change order, or have a small project, or have some other need where they have to get something NOW - or their entire schedule, or job, goes off-track.
So big box stores are in between the mom-and-pop sundry stores and the larger construction suppliers. So they carry a lot of different kinds of things you won't find at a more strictly consumer-oriented mom-and-pop place, or Ace --- whole shelves of drywall, bins of Simpson strong-tie products, stacks of framing lumber, pre-hung doors and windows, PVC pipe and connectors, and you-do gutters. But that convenience comes at a cost for contractors and us consumer-type customers. Because those stores understand they have the contractors in a bind - buy here now, or wait days or weeks for a commercial supplier to come through. And I think that lends itself to carrying low-quality products. Buy this, or go without.
I THINK it might be especially true for things like framing lumber and plywood (and even doors and windows). A genuine lumber mill might have better, cheaper, and more. At least, when it was open, that was true of the lumber mill near me.
They don't have any ACE Hardware by me. I'll bet they used to, but just like where I grew up all of them are gone. I only know of one left that I grew up with in the south suburbs by my grams house. Too far to drive when I need little things. And yeah, they are quite a bit more expensive.
I do miss ACE when I need cheap keys cut though. The locksmith by me is really expensive, and those key cutting kiosks the big box stores have simply don't work at all. The technology isn't there yet.
Recently I had to drive to a Menards that was further away from my house for one of the jacks we used. That store is monstrous. Two full stories with escalators and and elevator. I'd never seen a big box store that big by quite a margin. If I wasn't in a hurry that day I could have spent all day in heaven.
But yeah... my guess is that contractors generally get the higher quality stuff first at discount prices for buying in bulk and then the big box stores in the area get the refuse. There is quality control though, so it's not as if the lumber is shit or anything. You might have to do a bit of digging on occasion, but everything we got was fine. My friend was being nitpicky about the plywood. You're not finishing stuff with that material. It's meant for underlayment.
The door situation kind of annoys me though. Even though I now know that the door was destroyed by the elements because the idiots broke the seal and sawed off the bottom of the MDF and cobbled it back together, I don't think anything 100% free of wood core is going to hold up for decades, let alone MDF or even plywood. Honestly, I'd be much more inclined to buy something that was straight aluminum or
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Off soon to hopefully get my hearing aides straightened out.
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Well, problem with hearing aides is some me and some my ears. My ears there isn't much that can be done. With me, I have to be more careful when I am putting them into my ears and make sure that they are in secure.
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Been watching vids using scenes from the Netflix, I think show "Good Omens". It is based on a book and my library has a copy of the book. After seeing the vids, I have to read this.
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I hope that fixes the problem considerably, Brenda! And if you find the book, maybe you could let us know some more about it!
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Well, problem with hearing aides is some me and some my ears. My ears there isn't much that can be done. With me, I have to be more careful when I am putting them into my ears and make sure that they are in secure.
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I hope that fixes the problem considerably, Brenda!Quote:
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Well, problem with hearing aides is some me and some my ears. My ears there isn't much that can be done. With me, I have to be more careful when I am putting them into my ears and make sure that they are in secure.
I think so. I just have to pay more attention to what I am doing when I put them in because once they are in properly it does get rid of the feedback problem.
My library says that all copies of "Good Omens" are in use. So will have to put a hold on it.
What I know of the book is that it was written by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman. And it is about an angel named Aziraphale and a demon named Crowely who have become friends. They met in the Garden of Eden and have taken a liking to earthly things. Also they are suppose to be looking for the Antichrist to make sure that he doesn't destroy the world.
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My library has also gotten request for the DVDs. But I know it is on YouTube.
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Ah, the joys of laundry day and the errands which follow.
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Got rain.
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Got the window in the attic blocked off with some visqueen. It's a crappy old wooden window, so that should keep the house warmer this winter assuming it holds. Not too concerned since I've never done this before and I'm not worried about it taking in any water if it doesn't hold up.
Also got the leaves out to the curb for pickup two weeks in a row. I've never done that before either. Lawn looks great and almost all of my leaves are down. Hopefully the short grass aids the wind blowing off any leaves that I get from any neighbors who's haven't fallen yet if we don't get another warm weekend to do it again before the snow is here to stay.
Off to my friend's birthday party. Not sure how long I'm going to stay there since it's at a bar, but should be interesting catching up with a lot of other people I haven't seen in years.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Guests have come and guests have gone, so it's back to fixing things up at a more reasonable pace. They thought the bed was comfortable and the bedroom/bathroom convenient, which was my biggest worry, so all is well.
Aside from the various daily chores I just signed up myself and dear daughter for the various insurances we will need for the next year. Am working with dear daughter to have her set up a spreadsheet of our various medications so I can line up all of the refills to one day, and have a heads up on when we need a new Rx. Tomorrow will be cooler (we had a two-day hot spell @ 90F) so I can do some outdoor work but need to talk to hubby about next on the agenda so we're working in the same direction. There's still plenty around here to do!!
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I'm really glad I went. Caught up with a lot of old friends and acquaintances. Looks like I might have a few job leads after tonight too. One or two of them could be some serious life changing money if one of them were to work out. I'd have to work full time for the first time in a dozen or so years, so working on the house like I want to would be out of the question pretty much with all the time it takes just to do regular maintenance around here, but if I was still in a big hurry to move I could just pay somebody else to do it.
I was there for 5 1/2 hours and wasn't even tempted by the booze. Even had no problems out in the beer garden while the bowl was passed around and had to turn down a few people who were practically trying to force some edibles on me after I mentioned that I've never tried them before.
Good to know. I can trust myself in a scenario that I was fairly uncomfortable walking into, and I didn't feel the need to make up an excuse to leave early either.
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Here you go kiki. I told you if you troll my link I'll post it here. Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Re home remodeling / reorganizing ... everything I've read said ... think about what you do day to day ...
BUT - what if, for example, you don't have a kitchen that lends itself to cooking. So you don't cook, day to day. But you would cook, if you could.
Why remodel and reproduce all the same limitations of your current space by reproducing what you now do day to day?
I've read a few really good organizing tips however and come up with a few myself:
a place for everything
store it where you used it
keep everything you use daily out in plain sight
pull-out drawers below waist level, cupboards above
wide drawers to avoid having to open a lot of them to find something
open shelves are freaking dust-catchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/t-magazine/kitchen-organization.htm
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kitchens "Bennett believes that all cookware falls under the four pillars of “prep, cook, serve, store” “PREP” includes tools like mixing bowls, her mortar and pestle, a scale and a measuring glass, while the “COOK” drawer is full of pots and pans. Items for serving — plates, bowls and glasses — are in the cupboard, her resealable containers are all stacked in a drawer of their own, and never shall the four ever meet.
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No, you spouted some sort of gibberish about non-existent 'allies' about stupid extortion threats (with everyone listening in!), about Russia something or other, and so on.
You failed to answer the question - HOW IS IS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATENED?
The Less Americans Know About Ukraine, The More They Support Intervening There
Here's a map of Europe and western Russia, with the countries labeled.
I know that most people couldn't find Ukraine without those labels, even more, they probably couldn't find Europe.
But looking at this map, which countries do YOU see are on Ukraine's border that might reasonably be 'threatened'? Because I strain to see the Hungarian-US border anywhere. In fact, there's 4,864 mi between Washington DC, and Kiev.
Even more, I find no US allies on Ukraine's border. I see Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus. They're NATO members, but not US allies.
EVEN IF - and I see no reason to imagine that would happen - Russia were to take over Ukraine, I fail to see how that could pose a security risk TO THE US.
So, you STILL haven't answered the question! You know, it's an important question. Everyone says the reason why what Trump did with Zelensky was bad was because it jeopardized US national security. They weren't talking about Belarus's national security, or Moldova's national security. They claimed to be talking about the US's national security. Yanno, MY country - a country whose interests I take seriously. (I don't know which country has YOUR loyalties, but it's clearly NOT the US. The US is a tool to you. You're hoping WE will sacrifice some part of ourselves for YOUR interests.)
So here is my question again, in gold ... just so you don't miss it: - explain to me EXACTLY how US national security is threatened by anything that happens in Ukraine.
IN DETAIL.
A billion flies eat shit.
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Here you go kiki. I told you if you troll my link I'll post it here. Quote:
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Re home remodeling / reorganizing ... everything I've read said ... think about what you do day to day ...
BUT - what if, for example, you don't have a kitchen that lends itself to cooking. So you don't cook, day to day. But you would cook, if you could.
Why remodel and reproduce all the same limitations of your current space by reproducing what you now do day to day?
I've read a few really good organizing tips however and come up with a few myself:
a place for everything
store it where you used it
keep everything you use daily out in plain sight
pull-out drawers below waist level, cupboards above
wide drawers to avoid having to open a lot of them to find something
open shelves are freaking dust-catchers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/t-magazine/kitchen-organization.htm
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kitchens "Bennett believes that all cookware falls under the four pillars of “prep, cook, serve, store” “PREP” includes tools like mixing bowls, her mortar and pestle, a scale and a measuring glass, while the “COOK” drawer is full of pots and pans. Items for serving — plates, bowls and glasses — are in the cupboard, her resealable containers are all stacked in a drawer of their own, and never shall the four ever meet.
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No, you spouted some sort of gibberish about non-existent 'allies' about stupid extortion threats (with everyone listening in!), about Russia something or other, and so on.
You failed to answer the question - HOW IS IS NATIONAL SECURITY THREATENED?
The Less Americans Know About Ukraine, The More They Support Intervening There
Here's a map of Europe and western Russia, with the countries labeled.
I know that most people couldn't find Ukraine without those labels, even more, they probably couldn't find Europe.
But looking at this map, which countries do YOU see are on Ukraine's border that might reasonably be 'threatened'? Because I strain to see the Hungarian-US border anywhere. In fact, there's 4,864 mi between Washington DC, and Kiev.
Even more, I find no US allies on Ukraine's border. I see Moldova, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus. They're NATO members, but not US allies.
EVEN IF - and I see no reason to imagine that would happen - Russia were to take over Ukraine, I fail to see how that could pose a security risk TO THE US.
So, you STILL haven't answered the question! You know, it's an important question. Everyone says the reason why what Trump did with Zelensky was bad was because it jeopardized US national security. They weren't talking about Belarus's national security, or Moldova's national security. They claimed to be talking about the US's national security. Yanno, MY country - a country whose interests I take seriously. (I don't know which country has YOUR loyalties, but it's clearly NOT the US. The US is a tool to you. You're hoping WE will sacrifice some part of ourselves for YOUR interests.)
So here is my question again, in gold ... just so you don't miss it: - explain to me EXACTLY how US national security is threatened by anything that happens in Ukraine.
IN DETAIL.
A billion flies eat shit.
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Lazy Sunday and also a dry one.
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I'm really glad I went. Caught up with a lot of old friends and acquaintances. Looks like I might have a few job leads after tonight too. One or two of them could be some serious life changing money if one of them were to work out. I'd have to work full time for the first time in a dozen or so years, so working on the house like I want to would be out of the question pretty much with all the time it takes just to do regular maintenance around here, but if I was still in a big hurry to move I could just pay somebody else to do it.
I was there for 5 1/2 hours and wasn't even tempted by the booze. Even had no problems out in the beer garden while the bowl was passed around and had to turn down a few people who were practically trying to force some edibles on me after I mentioned that I've never tried them before.
Good to know. I can trust myself in a scenario that I was fairly uncomfortable walking into, and I didn't feel the need to make up an excuse to leave early either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's wonderful on all counts Jack.
So glad that things are starting to look more up for you.
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Thanks Brenda.
It's really kind of interesting being around a bunch of folk who are drinking and cutting loose while being the sober one. I'm thinking with the fact that so many of them have families at this point that they wouldn't have drank as much even at a 40th B-day party if nobody had invented Uber yet.
When I was the last of the party to leave except for my friend and his fiancee, he followed me out and we had a smoke and he said "well I made it". I asked him what that meant, and he said "Well... I'm still standing. I didn't embarrass [his fiancee]." It was true. Actually, he seemed to be quite a bit better off than some of the other people I knew by the end of the night. I let him know I can't wait until he gets that rental property fixed up and that bullshit stress out of his life.
One of my old friends who I hadn't seen in maybe eight years was there and said "we're neighbors". It turns out that at some point he moved one town over from me. He want to go shoot pool like we always did back in the day and even offered to pay for it. None of his friends live very close and everyone's so busy. I told him that I'm probably not good anymore and I hope I don't bore him, since apparently he's really good now and never quit playing. His oldest kid just graduated high school. That was with an ex of mine that he kind of stole away from me while he was unemployed and I was working a lot of overtime, just around 20 years ago. It had led into a fist fight and a huge falling out for years. We'd since made up and hung out on a few occasions in between my times cutting everyone out of my life. He asked me if I hated him, for yanno, what happened between us all back then. I said, nah man... we're past that. No worries.
That relationship didn't work out for him either, and even though the kid is out of high school he's still paying child support probably until the kid is out of college. I kind of feel like it was just another in a very long line of bullets I dodged over the years.
Anyhow... he's one of the guys who says he wants to get me a job. He's been a salesman all his life. He was talking about the job and said "It's not much... $25/hr." I said, dude, in the last 10 years I was working overnights for $8.25 an $11.50 an hour. I think I can make it work".
One of the other guys was a dude I only met once in my life at a friend's wedding around 12 years ago. He married the sister of a friend I hadn't seen in 10 or so years (who was also there). Not only did this guy remember meeting me too, but he asked "don't you live in Wisconsin". He remembered I worked up there all the way back then after just that one night. Sharp guy.
He wants my resume. He wants my google photos link of the work I've done on the house. He says whether I want back into the tech industry or I want to work with my hands that he's got connections and he can either get me in where he's located or with somebody doing something that I want to do, whether I want to work a solid gig or just some moonlighting stuff. He mentioned tech security, and that if I wanted to get certified knowing what I already know about the stuff, I could be looking at six figures.
It all sounds pretty exciting. Not going to get my hopes up on anything just yet, but I can add the "networking" opportunity last night to the things I'm really thankful to my friend for. Maybe... just maybe, I can get my foot in the door at a place that pays a real livable wage and really turn things around finally instead of just kind of skating by and piecing things together with duct tape. It's not like I'd have to do it for very long if I didn't want to. 5 to 10 years with legit pay is really all I'd need.
Fingers crossed.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Sounds like you and had good time with your friends. And made some good contacts as well.
Finger crossing is good but hopefully one of these will turn up something for you.
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Meeting up with old school mates and friends from long ago can be stressful, so I'm very happy for you that you had a nice time! Congrats as well on testing your sobriety successfully! Not going to say too much about that beyond that; don't want to tempt the gods and bring bad luck down on you. But like BRENDA, I hope that this turns up some opportunities for you. Maybe next time, if at a party or something, you can take your guitar: I think music means a lot to you and I'll bet you're pretty good at it.
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Dry here this Remembrance Day.
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And again after a warning, kiki reposted the same ridiculously long post again and again. Here you go kiki.
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Monday, November 11, 2019 8:24 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
In the meantime, while I appreciate the bump, I hope to keep the thread ON TOPIC.
Assange in Court 841
22 Oct, 2019 in Uncategorized by craig
UPDATE I have received scores of requests to republish and/or translate this article. It is absolutely free to use and reproduce and I should be delighted if everybody does; the world should know what is being done to Julian. So far, over 200,000 people have read it on this blogsite alone and it has already been reproduced on myriad other sites, some with much bigger readerships than my own. I have seen translations into German, Spanish and French and at least extracts in Catalan and Turkish. I only ask that you reproduce it complete or, if edits are made, plainly indicate them. Many thanks.
BEGINS
I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening.
Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I must note was Julian’s condition. I was badly shocked by just how much weight my friend has lost, by the speed his hair has receded and by the appearance of premature and vastly accelerated ageing. He has a pronounced limp I have never seen before. Since his arrest he has lost over 15 kg in weight.
But his physical appearance was not as shocking as his mental deterioration. When asked to give his name and date of birth, he struggled visibly over several seconds to recall both. I will come to the important content of his statement at the end of proceedings in due course, but his difficulty in making it was very evident; it was a real struggle for him to articulate the words and focus his train of thought.
Until yesterday I had always been quietly sceptical of those who claimed that Julian’s treatment amounted to torture – even of Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture – and sceptical of those who suggested he may be subject to debilitating drug treatments. But having attended the trials in Uzbekistan of several victims of extreme torture, and having worked with survivors from Sierra Leone and elsewhere, I can tell you that yesterday changed my mind entirely and Julian exhibited exactly the symptoms of a torture victim brought blinking into the light, particularly in terms of disorientation, confusion, and the real struggle to assert free will through the fog of learned helplessness.
I had been even more sceptical of those who claimed, as a senior member of his legal team did to me on Sunday night, that they were worried that Julian might not live to the end of the extradition process. I now find myself not only believing it, but haunted by the thought. Everybody in that court yesterday saw that one of the greatest journalists and most important dissidents of our times is being tortured to death by the state, before our eyes. To see my friend, the most articulate man, the fastest thinker, I have ever known, reduced to that shambling and incoherent wreck, was unbearable. Yet the agents of the state, particularly the callous magistrate Vanessa Baraitser, were not just prepared but eager to be a part of this bloodsport. She actually told him that if he were incapable of following proceedin
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YOUR link? What a lying sack of shit you are!
A billion flies eat shit.
Some even shit here.
And some ARE shit!
Hey there THUGGER, that means you!
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back to our regularly scheduled chit chat
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I think you're beginning to catch on. I'll accept a certain amount of trolling from you because you're a troll. I think you are beginning to learn there is a limit to what I'll tolerate.
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YOUR link? What a lying sack of shit you are!
A billion flies eat shit.
Some even shit here.
And some ARE shit!
Hey there THUGGER, that means you!
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All the Remembrance Day services across Canada were held on a dry and clear day.
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Have "Good bye, Farewell and Amen" on in the background on mute. I can't watch it or listen to it. I've been wanting to cry off and on all day. I can catch bits of it out of the corner of my eye and that is enough.
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Don't feed the faggot, Kiki.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Freakin' cold around here. 20 degrees right now. Low of 8 tomorrow night, with a windchill below zero. What the shit? That's not supposed to happen for at least another month. It's going to be 50 degrees again next Monday.
Ton of snow today. More than I would have cared for this early in the season, but a great test of the waterproofing that was done. Unlike Halloween when I took in a decent amount of water, everything inside the porch was bone dry all day long. We easily had 10 times as much snow today too. Everything is holding up nicely even with the wind howling all day long.
The plastic covering the window in the attic where I have the blower is holding up nicely as well, and I'm actually really surprised how much heat the attic is retaining now just from that simple little step. I'll probably save $100 or more this season just by taking a few minutes to put that up. Will be doing it again next year.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Too... cold...
I failed to prepare with the food situation before the cold spell... I still have a huge pail of brown rice and a few pounds of vegetables.
I think I'm going to be a vegan for the next 48 hours.
Wake me up when it's 40 degrees again.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Rain here.
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Don't feed the faggot, Kiki.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Is there anybody or anything besides whites you aren't bigoted against? First you exposed yourself as being a racist when Rep. Elijah Cummings died. Now it's anti-gay.
Good grief
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Jack,
WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYyyyyy back - from when I was a kid mumble mumble decades ago in NYS ... the Thanksgiving song ... Over the river and thru the woods, to grandmother's house we go ... the part about bright and drifted snow made sense. Then over the years the snow came later and later, got skimpier and skimpier, until there were a few Christmases that weren't really white. So your snow and cold isn't that out of line, depending on your reference point!
Hey, let us know how your water-proofing holds up, OK?
And YAY for the plastic on the attic window!
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Freakin' cold around here. 20 degrees right now. Low of 8 tomorrow night, with a windchill below zero. What the shit? That's not supposed to happen for at least another month. It's going to be 50 degrees again next Monday.
Ton of snow today. More than I would have cared for this early in the season, but a great test of the waterproofing that was done. Unlike Halloween when I took in a decent amount of water, everything inside the porch was bone dry all day long. We easily had 10 times as much snow today too. Everything is holding up nicely even with the wind howling all day long.
The plastic covering the window in the attic where I have the blower is holding up nicely as well, and I'm actually really surprised how much heat the attic is retaining now just from that simple little step. I'll probably save $100 or more this season just by taking a few minutes to put that up. Will be doing it again next year.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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How are you holding up otherwise, Brenda? I read your posts in your Veteran's Day thread, and here. There are songs I strongly associate with people who've passed on, people who I still deeply mourn even though it's been many years. One song is "The Scottish Soldier". But I tend to cry only when my mood starts to dip starting in fall through winter, like now.
So I hope the rain isn't too bothersome at this point.
Chin up Brenda. Winter will pass. Now is the time for quiet, rest, home. Hugs.
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Rain here.
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As for here ...
As you know, I was on edge because of the multi-week 'red flag warning' for my area, which in the news was associated with a lot of hot, fast-moving, wildland fires, even in urban areas. So even though those red flag warnings expired, along with my feelings of being unsettled and on alert, fire season isn't over! I check both the weather forecast and the AQMD air quality forecast every day. If I want to know which way the wind is blowing - literally - the AQMD forecast is the best shortcut. If the air quality is better in the deserts, and worse closer to the coast, it means that the air is overall blowing from inland to seaward. And that's a Santa Ana, no matter how mild. And that means low humidity, and increased fire danger, even if there's no red flag warnings up.
About a week ago there was an earthquake swarm in Ventura County, north of here. And now there's a swarm near the Mexico border, south of here. Well, that bookends my area nicely!
If I had more time I'd look them up. I'd want to know how tightly grouped they are, and how shallow, and if they're associated with any known or newly-revealed faults.
Last time I looked into a swarm in spring, it was in San Bernardino County east of here. It was EXTREMELY shallow! They were individually easily half the depth of a typical very shallow earthquake. So I speculated they might have something to do with our abundant rains last winter, and replenished ground water.
But now - for these swarms - I have other fish to fry.
Ciao Signy, Brenda and Jack! Good wishes. TTUL!
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