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The Door Frame posted:We don't use ground wires here, the metal conduit is the ground wire. And I meant it as a statement of why those rules don't really apply to regular home repair, because the spirit of those extremely strict laws is to protect A friend of mine is an electrician in Chicago and he insists on putting a bare copper ground wire in conduit in case somebody uses their conduit as a pull-up bar and breaks the ground path that way.
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Darchangel posted:...you've never used an electrician in America, have you? yes, i have and they did a great job! passed code inspection and reasonable priced work too
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Former Everything posted:I'm a lurker in AI, but we recently picked up a 2024 GR Corolla, which seems very AI and made me want to post here. Just about 1000 miles on it so far, but it's a really fun little AWD car. I'm hoping to take it to a local road course this spring in Bowling Green and see what that's like. Hell yeah! Which submodel? Got pictures?
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OBAMNA PHONE posted:yes, i have and they did a great job! passed code inspection and reasonable priced work too huh. Well lucky you!
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Safety Dance posted:A friend of mine is an electrician in Chicago and he insists on putting a bare copper ground wire in conduit in case somebody uses their conduit as a pull-up bar and breaks the ground path that way. Honestly, I ~trust~ the math enough to be ok with it in my own home, but it would be nice to have at least a dummy ground to give me a clue as to if the person who installed the thing even tried Former Everything posted:I'm a lurker in AI, but we recently picked up a 2024 GR Corolla, which seems very AI and made me want to post here. Just about 1000 miles on it so far, but it's a really fun little AWD car. I'm hoping to take it to a local road course this spring in Bowling Green and see what that's like. Welcome friend! All cars are good cars, except the Plymouth Prowler, and it sounds like you got a fun one
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Former Everything posted:I'm a lurker in AI, but we recently picked up a 2024 GR Corolla, which seems very AI and made me want to post here. Just about 1000 miles on it so far, but it's a really fun little AWD car. I'm hoping to take it to a local road course this spring in Bowling Green and see what that's like. Yes go hot Corolla. AI demands pictures!
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Former Everything posted:I'm a lurker in AI, but we recently picked up a 2024 GR Corolla, which seems very AI and made me want to post here. Just about 1000 miles on it so far, but it's a really fun little AWD car. I'm hoping to take it to a local road course this spring in Bowling Green and see what that's like. come rep your house in the hot hatch thread we were just debating whether or not the new CTR/ITS supplanted the GR Corolla in the minds of the automotive internet
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I’d argue also everywhere I have lived trying to get a tradesperson to do anything remotely minor is a nightmare because the good people or companies are swimming in big jobs. The only people you might get are the mediocre people where yeah you are probably better off doing it yourself, especially as I imagine a good chunk of AI folks are comfortable enough around their car stuff around your house isn’t much different in what you need to pay attention to and be careful about.
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Today's checklist is done. Rode bike to pharmacy to get insulin and pump supplies. Completed that successfully. Got lunch..a very healthy chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes. The green beans made it healthy!.... Right? Gkt hit by a car heading home. Somehow this is where things get fuzzy (I'm sure the huge lump on my head is unrelated) Random person claiming to be a nurse drove me to the emergency room after confirming nothing critical was broken. I know she had black scrubs on with her name embroidered, said she worked in a nearby hospital. The color of scrubs suggested ER doctor. I was in no shape to argue - she helped me into the back of her car and asked if it was too painful to put on the seat belt (no). Black scrubs with both local hospital systems denote a full blown ER doctor - or denotes a full vet. Either way, she checked vitals, made sure I could stand, and helped me into the back of her car. Don't remember poo poo after that, except what's left of my bike somehow made it home, and my gf isn't speaking to me. I know I have a broken eye socket and black eye, and I have stitches above my eye. I don't even know what hospital I wound up in (I'm sure I'll know in a few weeks when the bills show up, but the nearest is a medium size regional hospital, probably wound up there). Have paperwork from local. PD about a hit and run with "moderate to severe injuries" and noting I was transported by a private vehicle. I have zero recollection of dealing with police. Or hospital. Or even anything much behind getting into the back seat of a later model. RAV4 and putting on my seat belt, and being handed half a box of gauze and ordered to keep pressure on my forehead. I did get a chuckle when I said "well poo poo, I guess I'm leaking, huh?". I know the person who took me to the hospital works in medical care of some kind. I don't know if they're the one who hit me or not (I think the car in front of them did). She had black scrubs with an ambroidered name, so I'm assuming either an ER doc or a vetrenarian. My everything hurts, pretty sure I broke a rib or two, my GF won't even talk to me now, and the room won't stop doing the tilt a whirl poo poo. Which tells me I probably. went to the regional hospital that rarely even has someone on hand for xrays.-closest hospital. Don't have any paperwork from any hospital tho. GF said she did not pick me, or my bike, up. I know I've puked at least 5x at home that I know of.. She probably thinks I got hammered, but this is more concussion poo poo. I think. I'm hindsight I wish I'd waited for ems, but that's a $1500 bill for them to just show up. Transport doubles it. And they balance bill (insurance might cover 100-300.. For AL'S) Tl;Dr today sucks, but I'm alive. For better or worse. Still trying to figure out why gf won't talk to me - I know I have some kind of concussion and probably didn't make much sense when I got home. I guess the upside is I have a king size Sterns and Foster bed to myself for the night.... Just gotta find a new bike now. I REALLY liked that bike damnit. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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drat dude, glad you're alive I swear to God I've never seen someone else with such loving bad luck
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I’m glad you’re alive dude. Did the person who picked you up/dropped you off at the hospital not leave any identifying information with you or the hospital/cops? I don’t mean to impugn a probable Good Samaritan but you ending up with a near-total absence of information strikes me as really shady. Presumably you got some kind of witness statement, etc from them if you ended up with a police report, right?
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I'm outside at the corner waiting for the weed delivery guy (I had $40 of promotional gift money to spend or I'd have just gone to the dispensary) who was now 3+ hours late due to some glitch in their system... I saw a doordash person cluelessly trying to find an address on a street that has no addresses on it, I'm on the phone dealing with the weed delivery service's support chat when I hear something drop across the street. By the time I looked up a couple minutes later, the doordasher is nowhere to be seen/had gone around to the other side of the block or something. I stood there for 5 minutes while the weed dude arrived, and the doordash guy never came back. So that's the story of how I got a chicken shish kebab plate that I found in the road
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la vida te da sorpresas sorpresas te da la vida
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drat random, glad you are alive but holy hell you have the worst luck. I hope you recover okay
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Goddamn how dystopian it is to be afraid of an ambulance picking you up because it's too expensive. In my own news I entered two of my cars into a value estimator. '07 yaris diesel with 425,000km on it = 6600€ '05 Mazda with 225,000km on it: 4400€ Lmao none of these cars are worth over 2000€, maybe not even 1500€
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His Divine Shadow posted:Goddamn how dystopian it is to be afraid of an ambulance picking you up because it's too expensive. I once had an ambulance called for me, they showed up, couldn't do poo poo because they couldn't administer pain meds to move me, waited 10 minutes for a better ambulance to show up and then billed me $200. I have also driven to the hospital in "shouldn't be driving" condition to avoid an ambulance. His Divine Shadow posted:In my own news I entered two of my cars into a value estimator. Got me beat. (there is no 1999 option)  Shame it lost 2/3rds of it's value in 10 years  At least the American site knows what's up. 
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I ran my cars through those calculators 2008 M3 with 35k miles 2nd owner: Paid $38k, now worth $20k 1992 Miata with 69k miles 2nd owner: Paid $3700, now worth $3500 1985 Volvo 240 DL with 150k miles 2nd owner: Paid $2500, now worth $500 1966 Pontiac GTO with 91k miles, family owned since day 1 but techically 3rd owner: Paid $3700 in 1966, now worth $8600 Sounds like I should trade them all in for a cybertrvkk !! 
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Humphreys posted:My post is a 'how to' on insulting americans and/or british. When I worked with my dad, he had a buddy who was a Boeing electrician, all he did was run harness in aircraft (which, tbf, is a skill all of its own) he stole thousands of feet of cable from the job and decided to use it to wire a little machine shop he was building. Everything was like 24-16ga, it all formed impromptu fuses when he powered the machines on, we came in and fixed it. Anyways, now I'm just a mechanic and have been for over a decade, electrons are perfidious and should not be trusted.
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I got called beautiful by a stranger in public for the first time! I'm awkward as gently caress, so I said thank you a bunch of times and practically ran away, but she made my entire week  randomidiot posted:Today's checklist is done. You've had all the CT scans, right, no internal bleeding or swelling? I can practically read the post concussive symptoms in your post, and hearing that you "probably" have broken ribs does not fill me with confidence that you should lose consciousness alone. Wishing you the best man
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Ether Frenzy posted:I ran my cars through those calculators Lmao those values
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loving Christ, dude. What did you do in a previous life? Are you Job? His Divine Shadow posted:Goddamn how dystopian it is to be afraid of an ambulance picking you up because it's too expensive.  Powershift posted:I once had an ambulance called for me, they showed up, couldn't do poo poo because they couldn't administer pain meds to move me, waited 10 minutes for a better ambulance to show up and then billed me $200. I have also driven to the hospital in "shouldn't be driving" condition to avoid an ambulance. I ran my '05 Crown Vic and our '08 Kia Spectra5 through Carmax and Carvana's trade-in calculator back in 2020. I think Carmax's was slightly better, but both offered like $200/$500 respectively. Just insulting. Meanwhile, I sold the Kia for $3K shortly after. In Texas, anything that runs and, critically, has working AC is worth at least $1500-2000. KBB was much more reasonable. Clearly Carmax/Carvana just weren't interested in old junk. The Door Frame posted:I got called beautiful by a stranger in public for the first time! I'm awkward as gently caress, so I said thank you a bunch of times and practically ran away, but she made my entire week Nice to have your existence not only validated but praised from time to time! quote:You've had all the CT scans, right, no internal bleeding or swelling? I can practically read the post concussive symptoms in your post, and hearing that you "probably" have broken ribs does not fill me with confidence that you should lose consciousness alone. Wishing you the best man No poo poo. Several things repeated several times (though STR does that from time to time anyway...)
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The Door Frame posted:I got called beautiful by a stranger in public for the first time! I'm awkward as gently caress, so I said thank you a bunch of times and practically ran away, but she made my entire week Practically? quote:Random person claiming to be a nurse drove me to the emergency room after confirming nothing critical was broken. I know she had black scrubs on with her name embroidered, said she worked in a nearby hospital. The color of scrubs suggested ER doctor. I was in no shape to argue - she helped me into the back of her car and asked if it was too painful to put on the seat belt (no). Black scrubs with both local hospital systems denote a full blown ER doctor - or denotes a full vet You're concussed. You need to be evaluated for that. If you need somebody who isn't concussed to have a conversation with your girlfriend to figure out why she's not speaking to you, I'm sure any of us could do it.
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Darchangel posted:loving Christ, dude. What did you do in a previous life? Are you Job? the parable of the wandering goon
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trilobite terror posted:I’m glad you’re alive dude. Did the person who picked you up/dropped you off at the hospital not leave any identifying information with you or the hospital/cops? Yeah, I need to get the full police report - I know her first name, that's it. Things are a blank more because I whacked my head pretty good (bad enough that I broke my RX sunglasses, and have a bunch of stitches above my eye - also a golf ball right there, NO YOU CANNOT PLAY GOLF WITH IT). I remember the entire ride with her, we were talking about random bullshit the entire time (with her handing me more and more paper towels, I was leaking worse than I thought). Safety Dance posted:You're concussed. You need to be evaluated for that. If you need somebody who isn't concussed to have a conversation with your girlfriend to figure out why she's not speaking to you, I'm sure any of us could do it. Yeah, I'll be going back for an evaluation on that, but I slept without dying, so.... And it turns out she was just cranky from being really tired - she moved to the couch because I was snoring so drat loud. I woke up around 11, and kept trying to wake her up to come to bed and whooooooo boy was that a bad idea (she is EXTREMELY cranky when woken up). The Door Frame posted:You've had all the CT scans, right, no internal bleeding or swelling? I can practically read the post concussive symptoms in your post, and hearing that you "probably" have broken ribs does not fill me with confidence that you should lose consciousness alone. Wishing you the best man Had a CT (can't WAIT for the bill on that, insurance doesn't cover CT or MRI until I hit my $8000 deductible, then I still have to pay 25% - but xrays are only $10/ea without regard for deductible, go figure). They did say I had a "mild" concussion, but released me. Bits and pieces are coming together, I know for sure which hospital I was at now (the closest one like I figured) - it's a medium size (~120 beds, level IV trauma center) regional hospital that's very hit and miss in the ER, but was pretty decent the one time I've been admitted. I need to look over my renters and automotive insurance to see a bicycle and associated injuries are covered. I know Progressive automotive policies cover a whole lot more than just injuries from a car wreck, and we carry very low deductibles/fairly high limits. But our insurance tripled when I got added back to it (since, uh, legal issues), so that's kind of a last resort. More pissed about the bike at this point - it was a really nice, mint (especially considering its age - it was older than some forums users) Cannondale MTB that I got a lot of fun out of with nothing more than a couple of sets of tires and tubes. Yes, Cannondale made MTBs. It was a beaut, Clark. I MIGHT be able to fix it with new wheels and a new fork.. I don't know how badly tweaked the frame is yet, I'm gonna have to haul it down to a bike shop and see if they think it can be saved (it's a rare enough bike in a very rare color, I think it's worth it). I think it was one of the rarest colors for that line though, so finding a matching fork won't be easy (I've never even seen another one of these IRL since I was in high school, and online searches have never turned up the same color). Overall I feel a lot more coherent today. Definitely not 100%, but I haven't been 100% in years anyway. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Jan 19, 2024 |
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cannondale still makes mountain bikes. At least they’ll keep doing so until they go under. hopefully the frame can be saved. You may not be able to find a good condition period-correct fork in your budget (and you prolly can, eBay’s always got tons of bike stuff) but there are new options out there, even if it means going to a rigid fork or a temporally-incongruous suspension fork
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It's a fully rigid mid 90s bike anyway. I'll be hunting ebay for as long as it takes to get the right fork if the shop gives the frame a clean bill of health (been wanting a different front crank set anyway). The paint on the bike is (well, was) MINT (and I'd expect no less from the person I got it from, they're extremely meticulous with everything they own). Despite being rigid, it's very much worth saving simply because it's such a well preserved, drat near factory condition bike, despite me catching LOTS of air with it on a few trails near me (Suburban Ninja is tits, even after the fire; a lot of the offshoots of Brushy Creek Trail are good too). I found the Walnut Creek BMX trail by total accident once too - literally - flying down a trail by my old place, and OH gently caress I'M NOT ON THE BIKE ANYMORE WHERE DID IT Goh it just landed in that berm aw gently caress this is gonna hurt
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randomidiot posted:It's a fully rigid mid 90s bike anyway. I'll be hunting ebay for as long as it takes to get the right fork if the shop gives the frame a clean bill of health (been wanting a different front crank set anyway). The paint on the bike is (well, was) MINT (and I'd expect no less from the person I got it from, they're extremely meticulous with everything they own). Despite being rigid, it's very much worth saving simply because it's such a well preserved, drat near factory condition bike, despite me catching LOTS of air with it on a few trails near me (Suburban Ninja is tits, even after the fire; a lot of the offshoots of Brushy Creek Trail are good too). I found the Walnut Creek BMX trail by total accident once too - literally - flying down a trail by my old place, and OH gently caress I'M NOT ON THE BIKE ANYMORE WHERE DID IT Goh it just landed in that berm aw gently caress this is gonna hurt what is it, a steel 26” MTB? Yeah there’s a bunch of new rigid forks out there, some really nice ones too for that matter. https://www.jensonusa.com/Dimension-26-260mm-Mountain-Fork-en.aspx I think Surly makes some too, but those might be 27/29”
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Yeah almost positive it's a 26" (been a few years since I had to order anything for it), it'd just be nice to find one with matching paint and stickers. Though worst case I can get it painted. I'm serious when I say the paint on this looks brand new, almost like it'd been waxed weekly. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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randomidiot posted:Yeah almost positive it's a 26" (been a few years since I had to order anything for it), it'd just be nice to find one with matching paint and stickers. Though worst case I can get it painted. Post that poo poo (and post about it in the bike threads), we live for helping fix old wheeled things There’s a whole cottage industry around replicating old decals and mfg labels for vintage bikes too. There’s a billion dudes online making aftermarket Reynolds stickers and whatnot for all of your rebuild needs We’re gonna make this bike so pretty that you won’t want to ride it anymore and you’ll have to get a brand new one because the “classic bike” is too nice. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Jan 20, 2024 |
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randomidiot posted:Universe making GBS threads on you WTF? From that post alone it's seems obvious to me that you have quite a substantial concussion. Get well soon and keep us updated on the CTs.
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randomidiot posted:Yeah almost positive it's a 26" (been a few years since I had to order anything for it), it'd just be nice to find one with matching paint and stickers. Though worst case I can get it painted. Was that a 1994 Cannondale KillerV 500? Huh. Previous owner sounds like an absolute psycho. In other news, I bought another house yesterday. Kinda just popped up, a 1500sqft cape on 4 acres bumped up against a new development of $1M houses. Estate sale, previous owners were in the house 60 years and took incredible care of it. Plans are to pull up carpet, refinish wood floors, repaint everything, figure out the mess of a kitchen, then rent it. In 5-10 years, do a lot split and sell the house and 1 acre and have the back 3 acres to build a forever house... Goddamn a bunch of big rocks moving all of a sudden. Nice bonus? It has two out-garages and a shed. I'll use the shed for storage and the smaller garage for a workshop... I've wanted a workshop for decades.
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meatpimp posted:In other news, I bought another house yesterday. Kinda just popped up, a 1500sqft cape on 4 acres bumped up against a new development of $1M houses. Estate sale, previous owners were in the house 60 years and took incredible care of it. Plans are to pull up carpet, refinish wood floors, repaint everything, figure out the mess of a kitchen, then rent it. In 5-10 years, do a lot split and sell the house and 1 acre and have the back 3 acres to build a forever house... Goddamn a bunch of big rocks moving all of a sudden. Plot twist: the HOA for the neighboring development will attempt to assimilate the property and fine you to death for disallowed outbuildings. And the color of the drapes.
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