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Shorter dick, how much have you had to drink tonight?  And you need the William Shatner version of Rocket Man. "I'm a.. Rock..et... man..." Dog chat: a regular customer has a schizo boston terrier. The dog always snarls at me, then runs up to me and licks my hand, runs back inside and starts snarling at me from behind the owner, runs back out and licks me again, etc. Rinse, repeat. Still fresh on my mind since he was one of my last deliveries of the night. Bostons are awesome, but holy poo poo are they hyper. Our collie is a little dumber than a rock. Almost 8 years old, still not fully housebroken, he sees the dining room as his personal poo poo station. Walks into tables, chairs, etc. Toss him a piece of food or a treat and he snaps madly at the air before it's even left your hand, then looks confused when it bounces off of his face, and keeps looking up in the air for it (... when it's now on the ground). His vision is definitely not great, but he's one of the... specialist... dogs I've ever seen. The cat (The Dude), however, is too smart for his own good. He's figured out how to open a few doors in the house. Always looks really angry too, even when he's curled up and purring.  Work chat: ever since our route started getting served by a different driver (for our own food shipments from our distributor), he shows up hours late.. sometimes over a day late, the record being a little over 2 days late. With the last driver, he showed up every Tuesday at 1:30pm, +/- about 15 minutes. The new guy has shown up 2 days late before (which caused us to actually have to shut the restaurant down - ran out of cheese, dough, pepperoni, and boxes). Today he showed up less than an hour before close (around 9:15pm Wed, when he was supposed to show up Tuesday at 1:30pm). The staff consisted of me, a very small female manager, and a female driver that's roughly Lana's size (from Archer). I got to put up about 1200 pounds worth of cheese, while having to rearrange the entire walk in because he dumped all the cheese directly in front of the shelf it goes on (which means I had to move all of that cheese just to get to the shelf, then rotate the cheese that was already there). They're 55 pound cases.  I don't get why he's consistently late. I realize we're the last stop on his route, but he has the same number of stops that the last guy had, drives from Houston just like the last guy, and we're constantly getting shorted on tons of stuff (and plenty of other stuff is damaged - bags of flour are ripped open when we get them, or they show up wet, that kind of crap). We only got shorted one case of cheese this time; last week we got shorted nearly $800 (wholesale) of food. I know he's not the one loading the truck, but we've yet to have a delivery from him that hasn't had some sort of issue. I'm glad I wasn't the one closing, I noped the gently caress out of there once the super heavy poo poo was done. Yeah I'm a dick, but I was scheduled off at 9:30, and left at 10:30. We weren't even supposed to accept the truck if it showed up after 8pm.  Phone posted:Jokes on you, there's no Foreword by STR I don't even do foreplay, much less forewords. piss boner posted:God loving dammit phone, you scared away STR with that title.  It's nice to be loved.
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1.4 INCH DICK posted:637GB And I thought my ~20gb/month was a bit. Though I rarely tether; that's honest phone usage, and not counting wifi use. Netflix kinda hammers it.
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Safety Dance posted:I never got the appeal of Netflix on my phone. TV, computer, and even maybe tablet if I'm feeling super lazy, but the phone screen is too small and battery life is too short. I often throw Netflix on the phone during breaks at work, and also while trying to fall asleep. I have the world's worst insomnia, and basically need something going for background noise and light - my room also gets insanely hot if I leave the TV + AV receiver on for more than a couple of hours too. It's generally on the charger + wifi when I'm trying to fall asleep at home, but anytime I sleep elsewhere (including in the car) I'll be on LTE or HSPA (and charger, of course). I'll throw on some kind of documentary when I'm trying to get to sleep. If I don't, every tiny little noise wakes me up, including a car driving past the house. My tablet doesn't have enough oomph to run Netflix these days  - it's an original Kindle Fire. I pretty much use it only as an alarm clock now.
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SuperDucky posted:Christ, STR. Is your TV a laser array? I fall asleep with my DLP projector on all the time and don't have temperature issues. Don't I wish. It's an older (~2007) 32" LCD with power supply issues. My bedroom door is pretty much always closed, which chokes off air circulation a bit. The TV also goes into "gently caress you" mode occasionally and goes blank (backlight still on) and gets hot enough to give that lovely "is that magic smoke?" smell, and won't turn off until you unplug it. I'll replace it... eventually.  Nodoze posted:I'm at 12.3gb for just this month. Shoutouts to SERO unlimited data SERO is still a thing? I gave up on Sprint when they still hadn't rolled out LTE 2 years after they were supposed to here (and customer service kept telling me LTE was live in my neighborhood, yet I couldn't get above 3G until I drove 3 miles away). Irony being the bitch that it is, I saw LTE on my phone the day before the service was shut off, but I could only hit about 3mbit on it. I generally hit at least 50mbit while outside (I've hit over 100mbit several times, twice while inside an apartment), and usually at least 20 while inside. I get ~70mbit at work, ~20mbit at home. Shoutouts to T-Mobile for unlimited data.  (though I probably pay a bit more than a grandfathered SERO plan - $70/mo after taxes).
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Great Beer posted:Its 70 for 2gb in america with Verizon, with 10 bucks per gig after that. I have a grandfathered plan that's 60 for 2gb. Verizon - America's most expensive wireless carrier. I'm on a grandfathered plan with T-Mobile, but it's $70/mo for unlimited voice, text, and 4G data, with 3 gigs of tethering included (though it's easy to get around that cap). Same plan now goes for $80/mo and includes 5 gigs of tethering, everything else is the same. They offer a speed-capped version for $70 now, but it maxes out at 8mbit. tl;dr not switching plans mariooncrack posted:I take my tablet to the gym so I can watch TV while I am on the treadmill. My gym has TVs built into the treadmills.  IOwnCalculus posted:Yeah, but it windowed the block and while Dodge fixed it, they're also buying it back under the lemon law and giving him one that hasn't been used as a dealership boom box. I thought they offered to buy it back without invoking the lemon law?
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So last night I went ahead and threw an application at Pizza Hut. For a corporate owned store in a very well off area. One of my old managers sent me a text today saying he saw my application pop up.  He's in a franchise store in a middle income area (a store I've worked before, though briefly, and it's pretty close to home).He's someone I really liked working with - he's checking with his boss to see if he can hire me back. There's a little bit of bad blood between myself and his boss (area manager), so my hopes aren't too high, but I did put in my 2 weeks notice, and worked the entire 2 weeks. A "good" day at the store I'm at now is $35, while a lovely day at his store is $40 (good would be more like $75-100).
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Tips, yeah. This particular PH franchise does $7.25 (state minimum) while inside, $5.85 while on delivery, with $1 per delivery for fuel reimbursement. PJ's here does $7.25/$4.25 + $1.50, but I'm blackballed from ever working at a (corporate - which is 99% of the stores here) PJ's again. I make $7.50 where I am now, no split wage poo poo, but no fuel reimbursement either. I worked 9 hours today, and had $50 to show for it. That got me a tank of gas (I was pretty much on fumes), a bag of cat food, a couple of bean burritos, and some beer. The upside is I drive far less where I'm at now, but I rarely even break 10 deliveries here (my record so far is 18, my record at Pizza Hut was 40, my record at Papa John's was 52). Getting stiffed here also stings a hell of a lot more, since there's no fuel reimbursement.
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Woo, cold front! I have my window open to enjoy it, but the shutters are in front of it. The Dude is alternating between trying to figure out how to open them, and "oh poo poo a noise outside oh gently caress oh gently caress oh gently caress WHAT DO I DO?!?".Tusen Takk posted:So I took your guys recommendation and checked out some shelters, and lo and behold, we found a Lab/Husky/German Shepherd mix. We're picking him up tomorrow after I get off work I don't know how I missed this post, but holy crap that's an adorable pup. You know he's going to be lonely all by himself without any other dogs to play with, right? Right?
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The Locator posted:Umm.. how in the hell do you get blackballed from working as a pizza delivery guy? Argued with the district manager about the legality of something he had us trying to do (actual door to door sales, which requires a permit in Dallas, and was told to ignore any "no soliciting" signs, which is also very illegal in Dallas - also asked us to do telemarketing on our own cell phones), told him to go gently caress himself and walked out. His stores burn through their entire staff about every 3 months (6 if you count GMs). Wonder why? e: I worked in corporate stores long enough that most of the GMs on the Dallas side of DFW know me at least by name, and also know I napalmed every bridge when I left. Corporate owned stores can't override a "not for rehire" flag without a district manager's approval anyway; franchise stores can, but are unlikely to. And I know of exactly two franchise stores on this side of DFW. e2: funny thing is, they were begging me to become a GM at one point, and kept offering me underperforming stores to "turn around". Salaried at 28k/yr.  Granted, this was over 10 years ago, but 28k/year was laughable even 15 years ago.
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e: oh god. cat jumped in lap. cat farted while petting him. my nose hairs curled up, ran outside, doused themselves in gasoline, dropped a match, erected a diving platform over the WHATTHEFUCKISTHATSMELL (wtfits from now on) pool, attached to the wtfits tree, then jumped from the wtfits tree, hitting every branch on the way down, bounced off of the wtfits diving board, and fell into the wtfits pool, then climbed out and jumped in front of a train, derailing it and killing everyone aboard. cat is now staring at me with a "bitch, I smell your farts all the time, shut the gently caress up" look. That seriously smelled as bad as death. 
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I would think the Town Car transmission is setup for buttery smooth, clutchpack destroying shifts - even compared to the Crown Vic. The larger torque converter probably means more rotating mass (which I would think would dampen shifts a bit; I know every Town Car I've driven/ridden in shifts so smooth that you don't feel it unless you really stand on it), but beyond that I'm loving lost with automatics.
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Heard back from my old boss. He told me to put in my 2 weeks notice.  Only downsides will be losing direct deposit and access to decent food on the clock, but my commute takes me right past my credit union. NitroSpazzz posted:The M5 came with a hideous radio head unit. The rest of the stereo install is decent and will likely stay but I need a head unit that matches the rest of the car. Are there any companies that make head units that look like mid/late 80's BMW style but would function with a newer audio install? Basically I don't want a big screen, a bunch of lights and graphics. Nthing Blaupunkt. They've always made solid, and for the most part, non-ugly stereos. Some of Alpine's stuff may work too. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Apr 4, 2015 |
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LloydDobler posted:Coolest thing happened today at the emissions station, which is the opposite of what usually happens. I rolled my C70 in there and they just rolled it past the dyno, hooked up OBD and passed it. Now, Colorado just passed a rule saying 2005 and up cars do this from now on, instead of wasting time on the dyno. My car is a 2003. So I was like "what's up?" and the guy said "With low profile tires like yours it's real easy for us to damage the wheel lip on our dyno so I just forced it to let me do the OBD test." 2005?! We do OBD2 testing on anything 1996 and up. Good to know he was looking out for you though.
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Put in my 2 weeks notice today. Boss was cool about it, said I have a spot if I ever want to come back, and we agreed my last day will be the end of the next schedule (so next Sunday). Win win for everyone, it's been pretty obvious to him that I haven't been very happy for awhile. Pizza Hut's scheduling starts on Tuesday for some weird reason, newold boss asked if I wanted to start on Tuesday or Wednesday. I have class on Tuesday night, so I opted for Wednesday. Got hired without ever picking up the phone, newold boss saw my application come through (for a different store, I guess every store in a certain radius gets a copy?) and IM'd me on Facebook. Said he'd check with his boss about rehiring me, woke up to this today: 
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Double post. Something unholy has been unleashed in my bowels. As in "I don't remember wiping my rear end with a used tampon" unholy.  I'm hoping it's just a hemorrhoid, but uh, the last poop left a murder scene in the toilet. (April Chat Thread: Bloody Bowel Foreword by STR)And the dog won't stop pacing for some reason. Can't tell if he managed to eat something he shouldn't have (again) and got stopped up (again), or if he's freaking out about the weather (he almost craps himself at a gust of wind).  Usually when he gets stopped up he'll go outside and squat, and nothing ever comes out until he gets the roto rooter treatment at the vet - when I took him out a few minutes ago, he just wandered into the yard and stared at me until I went out into the minefield and coaxed him back inside.
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You won't have to worry about that on the G3.. the digitizer is part of the glass. If it cracks, no more touchscreen. tl;dr keep it in a case.
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Why the gently caress is it 55 outside? What is this poo poo? It's supposed to be like 85 this time of year.Wrar posted:I left my s4 out of a gel case for a few months until it slid out of my shorts and cracked on the concrete slab back porch. Now it has two cracks in the screen. It's been like this for about a year. I've kept my Nexus 5 in a case since I bought it. Managed to break the case in multiple spots just through daily wear and tear somehow (it's only been dropped once), but Spigen replaced it for free.
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I figured my ~8 or 9 year old TV would let go before anything else in the house - I mean, the backlight is purple when you first turn it on now, and takes several minutes to get bright enough to really watch it. The backlight is very tired on mine (an earlier Toshiba 32" LCD - $500 when I got it, on sale at that), and mine is old enough that it's about 5" thick and weighs at least 25 pounds. Nope. Stepdad's 6 or 7 year old Samsung keeps going dark at random. If you turn it off and on it'll be fine for a bit, then goes dark after a random amount of time. Sometimes makes a crackling noise when it's turned on. Either way, sound keeps working, and if you shine a bright flashlight at the LCD, you can sort of see the picture. When the backlight works, it has a beautiful picture, but it goes completely dark at random. Backlight on mine works fine once it's been on for a few minutes, it just locks up and goes blank (with the backlight still on) if it's on more than a few hours, and has to be unplugged to get it to respond again (sometimes it'll shut off if you hit the power button on the remote, but it takes about 10 seconds to do so - turns back on again like nothing was ever wrong if you wait a minute after that though). So I'm guessing mine has a power supply issue. Mine had this issue for about 3 years though, and hasn't gotten any worse. Looks like I get to figure out how to replace an inverter. Or let him buy a new one, then I fix it and toss it in my room. Picture quality is better than my Toshiba, but both are 32" 720p. His is a lot thinner though, and weighs a hell of a lot less..
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mariooncrack posted:My Samsung TV did something similar. There was an auto-dimming or auto-adjustment setting I had to turn off and then everything worked great. It's not that, unfortunately; even hitting menu won't get it to light up. Sometimes it won't light up when it's first turned on, sometimes it flickers several times after being turned on. I'm pretty certain it's either a dying inverter or a cold solder joint on the inverter. Darchangel posted:After that draconian bullshit your current pizza-based employer laid on, good for you! Eh, I'm not thrilled about going back to Pizza Hut (particularly since I'll be losing direct deposit, and my hours will be capped at 30/week), but I've worked in that store before, and I consider the GM to be a good friend. Cakefool posted:Crack the case and trace the wiring/traces for the backlight, it could be as simple as a poor solder joint. I plan on doing that. Though I've been bit by an inverter before, so if it's anything on the inverter board, the inverter gets replaced (and handled with non-conductive gloves; it stings pretty bad when the inverter bites you, and I know caps can hold a charge for a long time).
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Siochain posted:Check for bad caps. That sounds exactly like the 6 years of Samsung LCD monitors that had the exact same issue. Could still be the inverter, but some swelled caps out of spec can mimic the same symptoms. Also a lot cheaper/easier to fix. I made a lot of side scratch taking in broken LCD's and putting $5 worth of caps and 30 minutes of time into them. Plan was to just open it up and look for anything obvious, like bad caps. And if they're on the inverter board, gently caress that, entire board gets swapped. I'm not getting tickled again! Elmo might think it's funny to get tickled, I usually cuss for several minutes (camera flash caps also sting like hell). ... I need to get a decent soldering iron. And probably open up my TV as well to swap the power supply. If I can find one for it anyway, it was a pretty low volume TV to begin with (Toshiba 32AV series). Speaking of, one of my monitors is a dim purple until it gets warmed up - no issue with the backlights going off/on, but it's obvious that the backlights are very, very, very tired (color is still off once it warms up, but the longer it's on, the better the color gets). I haven't really checked into it, but are those something you can generally replace? It's a ~7 year old monitor. I'm guessing it'll be cheaper to just replace it. The upside is the one Samsung monitor in the house looks brand new, and it's about 7 years old. I have two dirt cheap monitors on my desktop (Acer 22" and Dell 20", Dell replaced under warranty about 7 years ago after the original one started showing a vertical green line anytime it was on).
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Sir Pukesalot posted:*Paging Some Texas Redneck*    Tide posted:The fancy words to describe it is "sensory adaptation". Basically, your brain adapts to it, recognizes the constant smell, and essentially discards it so that it can pick up on other smells - mostly in terms of identifying possible threats. You're used to the weed smell (like I am a cigarette smell, for example). Remove that smell for a week, and the next time you're around it, you'll be able to smell it full force. Pretty much why I can't smell pizza unless I haven't been to work in several days. People always say "wow that smells so good", and I don't smell a thing. I actually gag a little when I walk back in after a few days, the smell is overwhelming. Super Aggro Crag posted:Weed smoke only lingers around for a short time. We smoke 2+ blunts a day in the living room and it never smells in the morning. Most of my friends smoke, and their places always reek, even if they haven't smoked in a day. The only reason I can even notice the smell is I use a vaporizer 99% of the time. When I actually do smoke, I go outside, and usually go to bed afterwards. I can always smell it on my clothes and bedding the next day. Cage posted:Sorry dude but nope you're rank as all hell. Fuckin impossible. Your room smells like a skunk now.
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Well, first day of class was today. Went fine until I drove home. I figured "hey, it's 10pm, 635 won't be bad at all, I can avoid taking any toll roads!" .... 45 minutes later I had made it a whole 5 miles.  Lesson learned: never use 635, even late at night on a weeknight.For non-DFW goons, the section of I-635 between I-35E and US-75 has been under (re)construction for about 4 years to add tolled express lanes, and the toll lanes just wind up dumping you into the middle of the clusterfuck anyway. Geirskogul posted:The only reason I am packing this thing two days early is so I have a desk-like space to play Morrowind on. Ft Bliss is a black hole for every mobile provider, but Sprint in particular is pretty terrible in El Paso. The best you might be able to do is bridge the wireless and wired adapters inside of Windows, then plug a cheap access point or repurposed router into your PC's ethernet port. Sounds backwards, but that's how I got a connection for my tablet, Xbox, phone, and laptop when I lived in dorms. Had to unplug it anytime I wasn't there, since setting up your own access point meant getting kicked out. I don't think you can do MAC spoofing on your phone (most phones for that matter) either. fake edit: I just realized you're using a Surface tablet. I really got nothin unless you can somehow get a USB 10/100 adapter to work on it, assuming it has full blown Windows 8 on it. I don't think it's nearly as easy to bridge two wireless adapters.Negromancer posted:I guess its not insane compared to street prices in other parts of the country, but prices here have always been super low so its more expensive than it would be from a dealer. I'll just say those prices are on par with street prices here, for stuff nowhere near as good. Tide posted:Don't EVEN get me started on self check out lanes at home depot and Lowes. gently caress those loving fucks. I was thiiiiiiiiis close to completely having a meltdown and showing my rear end when I was trying to buy some stuff that refused to register that didn't weigh enough. Granted it was at the end of a long day and was my fourth time up there in one day for various crap. The Home Depots here have the scales turned off on the self check out lanes. Thank gently caress, since I might be buying something that weighs half a gram (such as a washer), which is below what those scales can accurately weigh. Can't say I've ever seen one in Lowe's though - Lowe's, around here anyway, uses an in-house point of sale system, and the self checkouts generally expect an IBM or NCR backend. Raluek posted:It takes billable hours that small businesses can't afford, endless nights, to convert these kinds of systems into something modern that can be plugged into a modern system. Not to mention re-training, and paying for the software in the first place. The thing with small businesses is that they are small because they can't afford to be any bigger. You can drop $300 on a normal cash register that integrates into Quickbooks (and many other small business oriented software packages), and even has a barcode scanner. It'd take a bit of work, but that register will be able to use barcodes, and update inventory (via Quickbooks or whatever software they use). This is a stand alone register, not a PC based register, so there really wouldn't be much retraining beyond "hey, scan the barcodes instead of hand-keying everything" - and they're configurable to the point that you can lock out someone actually hand keying anything. Or drop $600 on a PC based touch screen point of sale that includes literally everything you need, right down to the cash drawer, though you'll probably have a monthly license fee for the software. There are also free and low cost point of sale software bundles that work just fine on a low end PC, just add a $25 barcode scanner and a $150 thermal printer. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:04 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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So stepdad is the kind of person who never locks any doors, and doesn't believe in alarms either. Mom is the complete polar opposite, alarm always has to be on, won't answer the door if someone rings the doorbell unless she has a gun in her hand, locks every door (including interior doors), leaves every light on 24/7 (which is why I've replaced everything she tends to leave on with LEDs). It's a good neighborhood, but burglaries do happen - usually because someone left something valuable out or because of doors being left unlocked, or the always-favorite "garage left open while someone's mowing the yard", aka crimes of opportunity (I've personally had a couple of bikes stolen since I moved back here). Apparently stepdad got home from work, didn't lock the door, and went to bed. Mom called me freaking out - she walked out of her office when she heard the front door slam, and found a total stranger walking through the living room.  They hauled rear end out of the house when she screamed, at least. But goddamnit, lock the goddamned door behind you.Geirskogul posted:The last one I watched was Tokyo Drift so my opinion may not be "valid" or whatever. Even though I was in the theater by myself (1300 on a wednesday at ft bliss - there was nobody) WHY HAVE YOU NOT GONE TO CHICOS TAOCS YET?! I mean, I know it's a love it or hate it, but if you hate it, you're not far from some of the best Mexican food in the country. L&J Cafe is loving awesome, by far the best Mexican food I've had in a restaurant, and right next to Concordia Cemetery (so lots of history if you're into that). If you have to stick close to base, Kiki's has been on Food Network multiple times - it's almost as good, but the atmosphere is full of newspaper articles and poo poo about how awesome they are, which kinda gets annoying. Sorry. I'm literally drooling just thinking about all 3 places. I pretty much grew up in Chico's (mainly the one on McRae, though that one is long closed), and I spent a lot of time at L&J as well. All 3 of them are regular stops for me every time I go back to visit my dad (who was also stationed at Ft Bliss). T-Square posted:Blew the rear hard-line on the brakes on the F150 this morning going to work. Made it there and back, and crawled under it when I got home. I don't know how the gently caress I'm supposed to replace these, holy loving rust. Abandon the old ones and run new ones alongside. At least, that's what I did when I had a hard line pop on my F-150. Tusen Takk posted:Today I discovered that Rascal does not like being on a leash one bit. on one hand he hasn't had any poop accidents and only one wee accident on the carpet (of course) but on the other I'm getting the vibe that all that husky in him is going to make him far harder to train than the border collie i had in australia and my parent's/in-laws cavachons It'll take a lot of training to get him to behave on a leash. It's that way with any dog, but in particular with an active breed like a Husky mix. Just be glad you got him when he was young - it'll be a hell of a lot easier to break any bad habits. A good friend of mine has a pure Husky that's perfectly behaved both on and off leash (won't leave her side even off leash, but don't you dare get close to her if he doesn't know you. She always takes him camping, hiking, climbing, etc). It can be done, it just takes a little more work with such an active breed. Also, what jamal said - he's going to need a LOT of exercise to keep him from getting bored/destructive. Frequent walks and regular hiking/biking/etc will go a long way for both his sanity and yours. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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I see a lot of skinned knees in your future if/when you try that. I don't think you realize just how strong Huskys are. Work chat for a second. Got a $26 tip on a $14 order today. I texted a coworker about it, she laughed and sent "you met (we'll say Bob), didn't you?". Coworkers tell me the guy won the lottery a couple of years ago. He's very well known in the store, known to tip at least 100% (usually more), and also known to pull into a gas station in a Corvette, buy $100 worth of scratch off tickets, and hand them out to everyone in the parking lot. He also has a loving awesome Boxer. He opened the door and said "watch out he bites!" as his dog ran up to me wagging his tail; I just laughed, knelt down, and started scratching a dog that appeared to be very, very content. I seriously wanted to take that dog home with me.  The next time I see his address pop up, it'll be a knock down drag out to see who gets to take that order.
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Oh trust me, I've been nipped by my share of ankle biters. All of them have "just" been a nip though. I've gotten a hell of a lot better at reading dogs because of that, and it's generally easy for me to tell if a dog is going to be lovely or friendly. If I know it'll be lovely, I immediately turn my side to the dog, which seems to confuse them a bit. If I can tell it's friendly, I've got one hand out ready to scratch them (also for them to sniff, since most dogs won't let you touch them until they've sniffed your hand a bit). If there's a dog outside, I don't even bother stopping for the delivery - I call them and say I won't do the delivery because there's a dog outside, but they're welcome to meet me in my car if they feel safe around the dog. Probably the oddest dog story involved one that ran out and jumped on me... while pissing on my shoe. Can't fault the dog, it was very young, and obviously excited to see someone. I was more annoyed at the owner who just laughed and said "yeah he does that" then tipped me $2, while I had a shoe soaked in dog piss. Thankfully, I keep an extra change of clothes in the car all the time, including shoes and socks, but I always made that customer meet me at the curb after that. I really don't post the negative stories much, even though they're usually far and few between, unless one really, really stands out. I'd rather stay positive. The job sucks rear end, but if I focused on the negative aspects, I would have killed myself years ago. And this boxer didn't make a peep either - the only noise he ever made was a "chuff" noise when I stopped scratching him, more of a "why the gently caress did you stoooooooooooooooooop?!?!?" noise. But most of the regulars know me, and by proxy, their dogs know me. There's one guy that has an awesome lab that always runs out with a rope toy in her mouth (same apartment complex as the lotto guy), and I always wind up throwing it back inside a few times, followed by getting licked to death before I leave (that dog also has the most bone chilling bark you'll ever hear when you knock on the door). Another regular has a massive (fat) corgi that's always trying to attack my shoelaces, then tries to remove my face via licking when I kneel down to say hello. Honestly, interacting with (most) dogs is one of the best parts of this job, followed by interacting with kids. Most of them anyway. Some of them are real shitheads, the majority are "OMGGGGG PIZZA MAN!!!". edit: goddamnit. just tried to smoke 3+ month old  . I usually vape, so I don't taste a whole lot even when it's nasty. I had no idea how stale this poo poo was, I literally  ed
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Remember me bitching about Verizon's territory out here being taken over by Frontier? Looks like the layoffs have already started. Two friends of mine are engineers on the FiOS team here. One just got his pink slip. He'll be able to find another job reasonably easy, given his skill set. However, his boss got one too - she's in her 50s and has cancer, it'll be pretty difficult for her to find something. The other friend hasn't gotten her layoff notice yet, but she's expecting it any day now. The layoff includes a laughable severance. Upper management had told them everyone would be keeping their jobs and could transition to Frontier, or they could move to the northeast and stay with Verizon. Neither option was actually offered to them, of course. Maybe related, maybe not, but I've had more outages in the past month than I have in the past three years combined. I'm already close to dropping them for everything except internet, since they dropped The Weather Channel with literally about 15 minutes notice. Goober Peas posted:Amazon Prime + any variation of USPS = good luck seeing your package anytime soon It's even better because Amazon doesn't give you a choice of carriers. When I lived in dorms, I had one address for UPS, Fedex, etc (they could deliver to the actual dorm).... and another for USPS (a PO box in the campus mail center, over a mile away). Amazon still doesn't recognize this as an issue, and I had tons of poo poo returned because of it. Thankfully, the university did recognize it as an issue, and got the campus mail center to start accepting UPS/Fedex. The Locator posted:I also stay far far away from narcotic painkillers now. I got shingles a couple of years ago and they prescribed Vicoden. Holy poo poo I've never thought I was actually going to die before taking that poo poo. I spent 12 hours on the floor in my bathroom throwing up and not sure if I was actually going to ever leave that room. One side effect of opiates (which covers most narcotic pain killers) is nausea. Some people only get it in higher doses, some people yak with any dose. I used to have to take phenergan (anti-nausea med) anytime I was prescribed narcotic pain killers. They don't really phase my stomach these days though.
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The pressures will be a bit different, since older home AC generally uses R-22. Also different valve sizes, so automotive gauges won't work without an adapter. I'm not even sure what newer stuff uses (404?), I just know the EPA banned new appliances pre-charged with R-22 in 2010 (so that may not even apply to a conventional split system, since they're usually not pre-charged). Same principles as automotive, but you need a license to buy R-22. And the license you would use for mobile AC (R-12 or R-134a usually) can't be used to purchase R-22. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Everything we have at work (make tables), and everything at my last job, ran on 134a (except for the ice maker).  And the ice maker's compressor would actually ice over. I don't mean the lines to it, the compressor itself would ice up. Can't say I've ever seen anything like that before.I'm half tempted to turn in our "handyman" at work actually. Not only did he vent the main make table when replacing the compressor, he did so by using a cutting torch on the lines. Doesn't 134a turn into nasty poo poo when exposed to a flame? (also only vacuumed it for 5 minutes before charging; owners bitch about that make table eating compressors every 6-12 months too) Holdbrooks posted:Anyone got a good recommendation for a cheap obd2 reader on Amazon.? I have the wifi one and some iPhone apps but they don't like the fiat and won't read the codes. It won't start after the tune and I'm not sure if I unplugged something or my ECU is bricked. PLX Kiwi is my go-to. It's not the cheapest, but it's worked on everything I've plugged it into. They have a wifi version as well. and it looks like it's about the same price as the Bluetooth version. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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LobsterboyX posted:Hey guys, remember me? ABOUT drat TIME YOU SHOWED BACK UP SuperDucky posted:anything elm327 based will work with torque. It sounds like he's using an iOS device though, which can't use any Bluetooth OBD2 adapter (and definitely can't use Torque). He's stuck with wifi adapters. CommieGIR posted:Thankfully, being an older house, we have this big fuckoff fan that sucks air into the attic: Attic fans are awesome if you live in a climate where they can work well. My grandfather actually had a huge house in New Mexico (in the mountains) that was built without a/c (5 bedroom/5 bathroom "3 car garage that can fit 6 LobsterboyX Cadillacs" quad-level monster), and just opening the windows and firing up that fan would make it downright awesome even in August. The house was built in the 80s, so it wasn't THAT old. He did eventually add a/c, though the outside units always blew the fuses (who actually installs fuses in the 90s?!). And it was a "vacation home" (at ~5000 sq ft  ).ExplodingSims posted:And yeah, that's a sketchy "handiman" Refrigerants decompose into phosgene, among other things .Plus the venting thing isn't great either. Hahahahah you assume he had a gauge on the vacuum pump. That's so adorable. He was out there again yesterday replacing.... another compressor on the make table (along with a fan motor in the walk-in cooler - it only took him 3 trips to show up with the right fan motor this time, over about two weeks - good thing the other fan didn't crap out in that time frame). He swears he has no idea why the compressors keep making GBS threads out, and my boss gets pissed that I refuse to step inside after he's sliced open a line with a torch. Thank gently caress my last day there is in a little over a week.
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Damnit man, my pants were already tight enough before that picture.  Glad to see you back.
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So this is really painful to admit. I fell off the wagon hard enough that I'm dealing with pretty ugly withdrawal (sweats, shakes, puking, etc). It's been well over 2 months since I started dealing with this. It's especially painful to admit because I just went through this about 6 months ago, and I'm probably going to get kicked out of the house over it. The only way I'm even able to get through the day at work is because I spend half the day in the car, and therefore I can sneak a few drinks. I've spent the past week trying to track down benzos in hopes of avoiding the whole hospital bit, since benzos (valium, ativan, klonopin, etc) are what are generally used for alcohol withdrawal (they act on the same receptors in the brain as alcohol). I've dug myself deep enough that even stronger oral benzos really aren't doing a drat thing. Not as bad as last time, but bad enough that I'm going to go ahead and pull the trigger on the whole "hello hospital?" bit sometime tomorrow. It's either drive there while feeling fine, but with a BAC at least 3x the legal limit (which generally results in an involuntary trip to a psychiatric hospital that isn't covered by insurance, or a shot of Ativan followed by getting kicked out and a lecture about clogging up the ER), or wait until I'm shaky as poo poo (but legal to drive, and they do a  at my blood pressure and shoot me full of Ativan before shoving a catheter into my man bits and moving me into the ICU).You'd think I'd learn my lesson, I've been through detox more times than I can count now, and been through rehab once so far. 
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fjelltorsk posted:Good luck with your demons STR, i sincerely hope you get things sorted out and land on your feet. for some reason AI is the only place i really share and went. You guys are the only people i have told that this cancer poo poo scare me, and that i am afraid. This includes my S.O. Preeeeeetty sure your medicine cabinet is full of things I like too much. Gonna guess it's chock full of pain killers, right? I like those enough that I refuse to ever have more than a handful in the house. Except for Tramadol, that poo poo is about like ibuprofin.But if you have any anti-nausea stuff, that'd be neat to have right now. I still have some phernergan, but it makes me drowsy as poo poo. I also have and a vaporizer, I generally keep it in the car or in my backpack and sneak a hit now and then to keep the nausea at bay.And yeah, AI is really the only place I share this kind of stuff. My family suspects (ok, probably knows) the alcoholism has come back hard, but I haven't admitted it to them, and I've been careful not to let them see me when my body is trying to shake like Michael J Fox's hands. meatpimp posted:Saul Goodman's car from the series. Specifically, one episode where he's asked what his name is. "Saul" "Saul?" "S'all good, man"Mat_Drinks posted:STR, is there not an outpatient or urgent care option in your area you can go to for help? It's good you're thinking about getting help, but I worry about the financial impact it will have to you if you go to the hospital. Also, have you considered shaking up your life, like maybe leaving Texas to try to break yourself of the pattern? My insurance won't cover outpatient without a referral from my doctor, and there's exactly two urgent care facilities covered by my insurance within 60 miles (and they'd just send me off to an ER once they saw my blood pressure - it skyrockets when I'm dealing with this). The fun part of being on an HMO.. I did get approval to do medication management at a substance abuse facility awhile back, but the facility wouldn't do it on an outpatient basis - they wanted me to detox there, and wouldn't touch any form of medication management until I'd been through inpatient. So I have a psych handling two of my meds (Naltrexone and Celexa), with my PCP handling my other meds (diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol). I'm actually due for bloodwork soon (next month). Hoping to kick the booze for at least a few weeks before I go in for bloodwork, otherwise I'm going to get a severe rear end chewing over my liver counts and blood pressure. Still think I need to get my blood pressure med increased a bit, but blood pressure issues go hand in hand with the beetus. The good(?) news is I'm still a free man, for now. I got ahold of a decently large amount of benzos (2 month supply for the friend who's prescribed them, except she takes a higher dose now, these have been sitting around for months), already trying to taper with them. I'm not perfectly comfortable by any stretch (a bit shaky, and sweating a little), but I already feel worlds better. Best part is my heart isn't trying to pound its way out of my chest anymore. $100 for 100 of them from a friend is a hell of a lot better than (another) $20,000 hospital bill. And they're a low dose with a long half life, so it's easy to adjust up and down as needed. Worst case, I fail at this and wind up doing the hospital anyway, I'm only out $100 for trying. I also have a prescription for a med that really helps with alcohol cravings (also opiate cravings, if that was my thing). I can't take it while actively drinking though, otherwise I wind up with an IQ of about 30 for the next ~24 hours and puking my guts out. (no it's not antabuse, if I do drink on it there's no real negative side effects, except it takes a lot more alcohol to get a buzz). ExplodingSims posted:I dont think I've ever been more tempted to walk out. It's been busy, the bitchiest manager is here, and I really don't need this job anymore. And seriously, gently caress washing dishes and cooking at the same time. I came drat close tonight. Our closing driver wound up in the ER; he fainted on a delivery - he'd been complaining about feeling light headed, but was still sent on the delivery. Thankfully it was to a business, and they called 911 (if it'd been a house, I guarantee the homeowners wouldn't have given a poo poo and/or wouldn't have noticed until the next time they opened their door). I can't fault him for medical issues (he's 18 and in good shape, so something had to go REALLY wrong), but I can fault the closing manager for walking up to me and stating "you know you're staying till close now". It wasn't a question, nobody asked me, she just stated it as if it was a fact. I said "hah, that's so funny. No I'm not." She goes off about how the closing driver is in the hospital, I kindly point out that there's 2 other drivers scheduled to leave after me - and I would have considered it, likely said yes if she had ASKED, instead of saying it like it's already a fact. So she asks if I can stay till close, I repeat "I would have considered it if you had asked nicely before you walked up and stated I'm staying late. You already walked up and told me I was staying late instead of asking me. The answer is still no." And yeah, bitchiest manager was there. She kept asking why I was saying no, I repeated "because you said I was, instead of asking if I could - and I have plans after work anyway. My level of give a poo poo about this place is zero at this point. Try asking if I mind staying late instead of assuming I don't have a life outside of work." I'm scheduled 6 days both this week and next week, I'm already pretty pissed off about that (I asked to be cut down to 4 days once school started  ). Next week is my last though. I don't plan to use anyone as a reference (or even list the place on my resume), so my level of fucks given is negative, and the only reason I even bothered with a two week notice is I'd rather not burn any bridges in case I need a poo poo job again.I did notice that for next week, they - wisely - did not schedule me for any first in or last out shifts, except for one mid-week close. The GM got on my case for washing onions before cutting them yesterday (then tried to pull the "all of our produce is pre-washed" line, even though it's visibly covered in dirt and all the boxes say WASH BEFORE USE), I suspect he's as tired of me as I am tired of this place. I threw out the "what would the health department think if they learned that we didn't wash any produce, especially stuff that was sitting on the floor of the walk-in cooler?" line. DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:Look at the number of self admitted alchoholics in here, now ask yourself how many of those are hiding a substance abuse problem, and speak about it freely on the internet due to the degree of seperation, or the people who use that shield to hide behind so people don't know just how badly you're truly well and hosed. Oh man, he looks wrecked, always coming in late and looking ready to die, but he always makes sure to mention right off the bat just how hung over he is and man he needs to tone down those beers. The shame isn't in the act of having it, or to have it over any set of circumstances that could have caused it,. The only shame is in after realising just where you've fallen down to to choose to bury it off in the corner like a cat burying what's left of Jimmy Hoffa. Quiet and no mess, keep the status quo at all costs until the only option is the long way out. I admire your ability to stand up to it. I know it's a hard choice to make. There's alcoholics, then there's "have to down a 6 pack to get the shakes and dry heaving to stop before work", followed by doing more of the same 3 hours into your shift. I generally show up to work early or on time (at most I might show up 5 minutes late - if I know I'll be later, I'll call and give them a heads up). I don't get hangovers as a general rule, but probably because for the past 3 months, there's always some amount of alcohol, no matter how small, in my body. I blow past hangovers and into withdrawal instead. Tomorrow will be interesting. I did buy my normal amount of alcohol (actually a bit less), but usually by now I would have gone through at least half of it. I'm halfway into the first 24oz (@ 12% ABV) can, and I think I'll be able to call it quits after that. Only because I tracked down some other stuff to help. Won't be able to sleep for poo poo tonight, but it beats liver failure. And definitely beats racking up another massive hospital bill. Not arguing, if anything I'm agreeing with you. Just trying to beat it without another hospital visit. There's no way in hell I'd admit half of what I talk about in AI to anyone IRL, except for the people I've met here (both "met" and actually met IRL). There's definite some separation that lets people lower their guards a bit, but I've met quite a few goons now. And how many more times are you going to change your name?  I think I'm just going to change mine to STR soon.DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:I've also just come to terms with the fact that I'm just not that into microdicks Have you ever seen one up close? They're cute, in that "aww, I've never seen anything so small attached to something so large... wait, you're a top? ....................." randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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DICKPOCALYPSE NOW posted:Dude STR I've got dozens of names lined up and best part is for a few dollars I get to entertain myself into thinking I'm far wittier than I actually am. If it makes you feel any better, you can wake up sniffing my boner any time. Smells like victory, indeed.
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goatse guy posted:STR, you should really get yourself into rehab. Addiction of that magnitude is not something to gently caress around with, especially when you are replacing one addictive substance with another. Done the rehab bit before. Can't afford it again unfortunately. I'm only using the klonopin to get off of the booze, then I'll taper down quickly - I don't intend to stay on it. It's the same way you get withdrawn in a hospital setting, except they usually use Ativan (IV), then send you home with librium. They're all in the same drug class, klonopin just has a longer half life. I already feel a million times better today. Still a little shaky, but I consumed roughly a fifth of my normal consumption last night, and nothing yet today (usually I would have had at least a few drinks by now).
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Catte chat: The moment I opened my front door tonight, The Dude hauled rear end out and nearly knocked me down. Cue spending 5 minutes chasing him between bushes before he finally goes back inside. He's chipped, but damned if I can get him to wear a collar. He always manages to get it stuck in his mouth, like a ball gag. So I've rediscovered a side effect of NOT drinking. My blood sugar plummeted today. Started feeling shaky and out of it, thought it was w/d, so I popped a klonopin, waited 30 minutes, and I felt worse (just a bit calmer), so I checked my sugar. 55. That was after a snack too! I guess the Paula Deen organ is confused by the sudden decrease in sugar intake.
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So a few months ago we had a compressor on a make table replaced at work. I remember telling my boss "I give it 3 months before this compressor locks up" after watching this guy. He "emptied" the system by slicing a line with a cutting torch, I didn't see a drop of oil go in (or out), he didn't replace the receiver/dryer, and he only pulled a vacuum for a few minutes. Not only did it lock up, the thermal overload was also bad, so it started tripping breakers around the time people were wondering what was burning. And since whoever wired the place put triple ties on every 3 breakers (even 120V stuff, even 3 phase stuff that wasn't related to anything else), it also took out one oven (3 phase 208V) and the front lights (single phase 120V) every time it tripped. That makes 5 compressors in 12 months. I don't get why the owner doesn't use a professional instead of a handyman, especially on $10,000 pieces of equipment. Called it.
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Day.. 3 (I think? benzos do a number on my memory) of tapering. It's going well. 2 drinks yesterday, only mildly shaky today, mild nausea, mild sweating (compared with always being drenched), and I've already cut down significantly on the amount of Klonopin - I think I had 3mg yesterday, 6mg the day before. I'm thinking by Thursday alcohol will be completely out of the question, and by this time next week I'll be off of the Klonopin. I'm realizing I bought way, way too much of it, but I got it really cheap. Already have a lot more energy, and my blood pressure is back down into somewhat sane levels. Downside is my blood sugar has been all over the drat place (mostly on the low side), though I have glucose tablets if it gets too low. Beats being stuck full of IVs and missing work, though the process would be a lot quicker in that setting. And a lot more expensive. Fo3 posted:You got to take the bad with the good. That poo poo wouldn't fly in Australia, but then again it would be illegal and impossible for you to work on your own car A/C unless licenced in the trade and have another license to buy refrigerant and an account at a refrigerant wholesaler. You need a license to do anything except car refrigeration here, and only if said car uses R134a. Anything stationary needs a license. He walks in with a huge tank of refrigerant every time, which you need a license to get (technically), so he KNOWS this stuff. You also need a license to do most line-voltage work inside a home, unless you're a homeowner replacing "like for like". Some areas don't care, the city I'm in will only allow me to replace a light switch or power socket. Not that that stopped me from adding an outlet for the network equipment, but I can remove it whenever we go to sell. Cage posted:I was late for work today because I had to preorder GTAV so that it would be pre-loaded when I got home. And because the game took up +50% of my SSD I had to delete a few games before I left. Priorities. That's why you put your steam folder on a spinning HDD. fjelltorsk posted:I have now banned all personel not directly employed at the shop, and i have told the operator that they are paying.  says they blame it on your shop.Darchangel posted:Helped a friend do a bunch of rear suspension work on his bone stock '79 RX-7. Spent all day Sunday outside, mostly on the ground. I'm old now, and everything hurts. Couple this with a a storm system moving through North Texas, and I hate moving right now, and can barely stay awake. Apparently I slept through one hell of a storm. Woke up briefly to my phone going apeshit about something related to weather, passed back out, woke up 15 minutes ago. Though weather.gov shows "Heavy Rain" through tomorrow, so that's a plus.
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So there's a bunch of holes already drilled in the attic from the first attempt at wiring (all the drywall was patched years ago). Measure twice, even thrice, before cutting holes in drywall.  I wound up 1 stud over in every single loving room except the living room (and only because I fed the cat5e down with existing coax and swapped the existing jack), and the battery on my drill will drill roughly half a hole before it needs to be charged for 5+ hours. Every room is framed differently, and with about 20 inches of blown in insulation in the attic (on top of what it was built with), finding your way around up there is a bitch. It worked out for the best in the master bedroom though, if I had run the wires through the original holes for the next room, the jack would have been 3 inches from the door frame in the master bedroom. The backside of it. For me, it's easier to just drill a new hole in the attic framing instead of patching the single gang hole I've already cut, I just have to wait for the drill to charge. Again.Why does every room have a different height ceiling edit: cripes, a new battery for this drill is more expensive than the complete drill (including battery and charger). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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CharlesM posted:I get a corded drill if it's going to be used infrequently for that reason. Only the one I have now with a lithium battery I've managed to make last. Unfortunately, this is up in the attic - sparks would be a very bad thing, and there's only 1 outlet up there (at the other end of the attic). I do have an ancient corded one, but last time I used it, the cord sparked and it popped the breaker. I'm gonna let it charge overnight and see what happens. I might actually get TWO holes drilled!
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yeah, see above. no nearby outlet. The only extension cord I own that's not for a lamp is a 100 ft monster that weighs as much as my dog (it's 10 or 12 gauge). I'll pick up a corded one next paycheck anyway though, I really do need a decent one.
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