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fartknocker posted:You’ll call now. Now's the time to save!
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Bird in a Blender posted:The answer is to not have kids. Oh god why did I have a kid? I’m so tired. I told my kids that school is starting up soon so they need to get used to waking up earlier again and I wasn't going to let them sleep in anymore so they've been getting up at 6 every morning and running around the house screaming 
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I just got central air installed this week. Paid $7k for a "complete install". The electrician they brought out just sent me an $1800 invoice for hooking everything up and the HVAC company says he's third party so I have to pay him separately. Your HVAC company should have warned you that their install didn't cover electrical upgrades, but, there is very little chance they're going to eat that $1800 and if you don't pay it, you'll get a lien slapped on your house and your credit will go down the tubes. Chalk it up to experience, $1800 is nothing when it comes to home maintenance and next time you have anyone do work on your house you'll know better how to grill them to find out what additional costs they're forgetting to mention.
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LeeMajors posted:It gets better, friend. She’ll grow and you’ll start dropping lasts. Last diaper. Last bedwetting. She’ll get more independent and learn to ride a bike. Then she’ll ask you not to walk her to the door at summer camp. Yeah, I have a friend with a 6 year old and he said it got a lot better once she was out of diapers and could talk in sentences. When I was a kid my grandparents lived pretty far away and my mom said she was so happy when I got old enough that I could pour her coffee from the thermos during the long drive to see them (it was a five hour drive, I'd stay with them for 2 weeks-1month in the summer, my mom would usually drive up, stay the weekend and drive back leaving me with them). Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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LeeMajors posted:It gets better, friend. She’ll grow and you’ll start dropping lasts. Last diaper. Last bedwetting. She’ll get more independent and learn to ride a bike. Then she’ll ask you not to walk her to the door at summer camp. Yes, then you have moments of realizing they'll be 18 and likely heading to college in not all that long of a time and them being a day to day constant in your life are fleeting. God drat do I love my son, even at his worst.
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That moment for me came when my older son last got new shoes and I realized he wears the same shoe size that I do The kid is 13
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Intruder posted:That moment for me came when my older son last got new shoes and I realized he wears the same shoe size that I do I think my feet grew at least one more shoe size between 13 and adulthood. So good luck when your kid has bigger shoes than you.
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Air Skwirl posted:I think my feet grew at least one more shoe size between 13 and adulthood. So good luck when your kid has bigger shoes than you. I think he's already there, we're about to buy new shoes for the new school year and he says the ones he's been wearing are getting tight. Might be a size 13 now. Little jerk is gonna be taller than me too I bet, he's already 5'9
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Neil Armbong posted:Yes, then you have moments of realizing they'll be 18 and likely heading to college in not all that long of a time and them being a day to day constant in your life are fleeting. God drat do I love my son, even at his worst. I think about this constantly and try to never take it for granted. Nearly 7 years gone in the blink of an eye. Days are long but the years are short.
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My three year old just got a haircut. Traded in his mop-top for some trendy fade thing. He looks like a big kid and it is heart wrenching.
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I buzzed the boys head a couple weeks ago, his first haircut, but it was super hot out. My wife didn’t talk to me the rest of the day she was so upset haha
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I'd prefer the buzz cut honestly. My son is all blonde hair, blue eyes with buzzed sides and swept back bangs. Boy looks like a little nazi.
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Our oldest is a senior in high school this year and I need to take her to get her driver’s license. All those years where she was tiny and little are gone in the blink of an eye and I’m usually not that sentimental, but I’m feeling some kind of way about it all. The days are long but the years are short.
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Watching this guy veer towards an assisted suicide in real time is fantastic https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1688905432901816321?s=46&t=JBd6ZXmGQ3LmWL-ineTnAA
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FizFashizzle posted:Watching this guy veer towards an assisted suicide in real time is fantastic The way his face just drops after the terrible fake laugh is 
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FizFashizzle posted:Watching this guy veer towards an assisted suicide in real time is fantastic This man looks AI-generated.
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fartknocker posted:gently caress DeSantis Someone has to but it ain’t gonna be me.
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My kid is a junior this year and he's been taller than me for a while and wears shoes 2 sizes more than me. I love him to death and while excited to be able to travel more, I am going to miss him terribly once he does things on his own
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Leperflesh posted:Your HVAC company should have warned you that their install didn't cover electrical upgrades, but, there is very little chance they're going to eat that $1800 and if you don't pay it, you'll get a lien slapped on your house and your credit will go down the tubes. To be fair, this isn't the first time I've had a contractor try to screw me (I won that one after threatening to go to the media) so I look over that stuff well. There's nothing in the contract regarding additional costs being accrued due to third party vendors they bring in. The only parts that are there refer to them getting 30 days prior to being sued to fix anything. Otherwise if I don't pay their bill ($7k, already done) then yeah a lien can occur. The electrician, I never agreed to use him, his services, or signed any of his agreements - that was all on the HVAC company. The electrician even has the HVAC company as the payer on the invoice he sent me. Oh, it also has materials as $350, labor as $800, and total due is $1800, so there's a lot of hosed up to go around. fartknocker posted:gently caress DeSantis That's right. Also the Cowboys.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I just got central air installed this week. Paid $7k for a "complete install". The electrician they brought out just sent me an $1800 invoice for hooking everything up and the HVAC company says he's third party so I have to pay him separately. please don't screw the electrician cause you didn't ask enough questions
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Update: HVAC company is eating the charge because they hosed up. Impossibly Perfect Sphere posted:please don't screw the electrician cause you didn't ask enough questions I didn't have any intention of doing so - my goal (and I got it) was to get the HVAC company to pay like they are supposed to. This isn't me not asking questions - I specifically asked "Ok, so this is all I owe. $7k installed, no other charges" and was told in no uncertain terms that was correct. The original estimate that was hand written by their salesman had the cost included in the $7k. I'm genuinely surprised the thread would just eat a $1800 bill they were never told about without arguing their case.
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Braksgirl posted:Our oldest is a senior in high school this year and I need to take her to get her driver’s license. All those years where she was tiny and little are gone in the blink of an eye and I’m usually not that sentimental, but I’m feeling some kind of way about it all. The days are long but the years are short. Senior in high school just getting a driver's license? Is that normal down there? 15, maybe 16 is usually when kids get them here. Then again I've seen how people from Louisiana drive and it's terrifying.
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Re: books are dead, death of the author, etc. Just had my George RR Martin and GoT moment but for American political history nerds. I’ve been meaning to read Robert Caro’s LBJ series for over a decade, and at that time the fourth volume wasn’t out and he was getting up there in age, but then the fourth was published and all was well. Whelp, just finished the second volume and learned that there’s a fifth volume yet to be published, covering his presidency and death, so kinda a big topic. Caro is 87, please don’t die
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wandler20 posted:Senior in high school just getting a driver's license? Is that normal down there? 15, maybe 16 is usually when kids get them here. I got mine senior year because you generally have to take a driver's education class before you can get a license if you're under 18 and when I was 16 I was doing early classes and the driver's ed was after all of the classes ended, so I would have had to spend close to 12 hours at my school, 3 of which I had nothing to do and no way to get anywhere else because I didn't have a driver's license or a car and I lived in the suburbs.
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wandler20 posted:Senior in high school just getting a driver's license? Is that normal down there? 15, maybe 16 is usually when kids get them here. No, she really had no interest in driving at all until these last few months. My nephew is champing at the bit and he’s 15.
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When I turned 16 my parents made me get my license so I could drive myself places. My dad gave me his old vehicle so he could get a new truck. But I knew a mix of people where some got it right at 16, either for practical or parents not wanting to drive them around anymore, to parents who were terrified of their kid driving so they refused to let them until 18. One of the former did total 2 cars in their first year of driving though, one by driving into a fire hydrant and the other by driving into their house.
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Our girl turns 17 this month so she’s a young senior. In Louisiana you have to keep your permit for 6 months min so you can’t be any younger than 16.5 to get a license. And even then you can’t get a regular class E license until 17. It’s an intermediate license for 16.5 to 17.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Mailbox Destroyer Crew represent I've only ever destroyed a mail box on purpose while sitting in the bed of a pick-up truck swinging a baseball bat. Never ran into one
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I'm finding that a deshedding brush does a better job of getting the dog hair out of my rug than the vacuum does
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bobjr posted:One of the former did total 2 cars in their first year of driving though, one by driving into a fire hydrant and the other by driving into their house. One of my friends did this with a gigantic old Buick but it didn't kill the car, just left a massive hole in front and he of course didn't have money to fix it. So he just drove it like that and it looked like the car was just going to eat anything in front of it if he was following you.
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There's like, a bunch of shows on ESPN where they tell you how you should bet on sports games, right? And now they're loving bookies too? No loving conflict of interest there. On the upside I bet it backfires in a like 5 years when they give some underdog some way too large payout to encourage people to bet on them and then the team actually wins.
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Intruder posted:I'm finding that a deshedding brush does a better job of getting the dog hair out of my rug than the vacuum does Yep, Maggie doesn’t shed much but Jameson sheds a poo poo load. I can 100% tell when it’s been too long since I brushed him because his fur is everywhere. If I brush him every couple days there’s barely any fur.
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Amy Pole Her posted:Travel chat - Rhode Island is pretty awesome. Providence and Newport are two really fun spots. Amazing views too Thanks for coming to the best state in the Union Pontius Pilate posted:Re: books are dead, death of the author, etc. Just had my George RR Martin and GoT moment but for American political history nerds. I’ve been meaning to read Robert Caro’s LBJ series for over a decade, and at that time the fourth volume wasn’t out and he was getting up there in age, but then the fourth was published and all was well. Whelp, just finished the second volume and learned that there’s a fifth volume yet to be published, covering his presidency and death, so kinda a big topic. Caro is 87, please don’t die The only real difference in the two authors is the GoT has progressively gotten shitter to the point of "who cares if GRRM doesn't finish."
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