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Something about dogs/cats and vehicles? I'm voluntarily paying my tax early. InitialDave posted:Hell, doesn't matter how many animals I post, I'm kind of stuck with Dave farts. I made a batch of pinto beans last night.. and didn't soak them. I'm stuck with STR farts and near-pants-making GBS threads experiences for a bit. Anyone up for bean burritos? IOwnCalculus posted:I have a defective cat. Nothing a spacer can't fix, but your paint's not gonna like dem claws.
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Welp, it's official, I'm moving to (a suburb of) Austin in August.  Rent isn't much more than what I'm currently paying, for a much nicer/much newer place. A bit smaller, but includes a microwave, full size w/d, etc. And only a mile outside of Austin itself. Much of what I currently own will get sold before I move; about all I'll be taking is bedding, clothing, computer, and home theater receiver + speakers. Kitchen stuff too, since I have some really nice dishes, nice knives, etc. What I'm really looking forward to: H-E-B. Also easy access to Kerbey Lane Cafe, their queso is loving awesome. Scared shitless, but it'll be nice to be able to ditch just about everything and move using only my car and a trailer, or maybe the smallest box truck (one way; have gf drive me back to get my car, get a hotel for the night, bring car down). I have a couple of pieces of furniture that I really want to keep (mid century modern dresser and end tables, 00s lamps that go well with them... don't care about any other furniture). If the box truck winds up being spendy, I have a good friend who loves MCM stuff who would probably take the furniture off my hands (and even if she doesn't, this is genuine 50s/60s stuff that's built well, so it shouldn't be hard to move on the local MCM facebook sale groups). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Mar 1, 2018 |
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slothrop posted:Seems like half the forum is moving! I too am taking the plunge in the next month or so. I’m slightly terrified on the job front, partly because I want to get more of a big boy job and partly because I don’t want to end up doing the same poo poo I’ve been doing for years but might have to just to make ends meet. But hey, you gotta follow your heart right? Part of why I'm moving is I've wanted to live in Austin for a long time - a lot of my friends have moved there, I only have 3 friends left here. The other part is because of the relationship. I probably sound a bit like a jerk when I mention the relationship is what's allowing me to move there affordably. I can transfer all 3 jobs down there too.
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Darchangel posted:poo poo, you want bad trains, come on over to the United States of Free Markets and laugh at us. Can confirm some of this, took Amtrak from Dallas to El Paso (and back). It didn't cost as much as flying (it was something like $60 each way, IIRC?), but it did take 2 days, with an overnight layover in San Antonio. It's about a 10 hour drive normally. Amtrak basically took me through Austin to San Antonio, had an overnight layover. Walked around downtown San Antonio a bit and got a bite to eat, got back to the train, fell asleep, woke up somewhere in the middle of nowhere. It wasn't a bad trip, and I'd do Amtrak for travel again, but I'd get a sleeper next time. Sleeper definitely makes it really expensive, but it's a neat way to see the country. DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) rail generally is fine until the snow melts, then freezes into ice; they keep the trains running 24/7 to keep the overheard power lines from icing over during snow events. TRE (Trinity Railway Express - the train that runs between Dallas and Ft Worth) is a traditional diesel train (though a nice one, with double decker cars and wifi), so is the DCTA A Train (going from the northernmost stop for DART to downtown Denton, no idea on wifi on those since I haven't ridden in years). Originally DCTA was using retired single level TRE rolling stock, but I think they've mostly replaced it with much newer stuff now.
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Welp, mom drowned her S6 Edge. Apparently her cat knocked it into the toilet. It was DOA by the time she pulled it out. Did a factory reset on my work phone (Moto X 2014), which is the most reliable non-daily driver phone I have. Turns out Xposed Mod modifies enough system files that you soft brick the phone doing that. Wound up going by there after work and loading a factory image on it, got it working. In theory, I should have it back in a couple of days, but stepdad controls the purse strings, and he's off to Craigslist to undoubtedly buy a blacklisted S7. Using my Nexus 6P as my work phone for now. Cripes, it's big. And keeps shutting off when it drops below 80%.  I guess the upside is it actually has a decent antenna and radio, unlike the Essential PH-1 (seriously ready to dropkick this thing, it has serious signal issues... and /r/essential shows I'm far from alone).  Forgot how beautiful the AMOLED display was on the Nexus too.  Essential has pretty drat good battery life though, from a way smaller battery. Blaming that on the LCD vs AMOLED panel, plus a newer, more efficient processor.The Locator posted:If recall work takes more than a day then the manufacturer should pick it up, but some dealers are lazy and don't want to do that paperwork. FWIW, GM claimed if any recalls on my car took over an hour and a half, I was to get a loaner for the full day. The dealer claimed an hour. 4 hours later, I had a bitch of a sunburn, had one salesman hand me an application for a lot porter when I told him I was just looking and couldn't afford a Camaro anyway (I almost kicked him in the nuts for that one), and drat near lost my job, since stupid me believed them when they said "we guarantee it'll be an hour for the power steering recall!"). (gently caress Huffines Chevrolet so loving hard) (the other recall work was all done by Reliable Chevy in Richardson.. and they knocked it all out super quick, didn't hassle me while walking around, and when I asked about burger places, one guy said "YOU GOTTA TRY THIS PLACE" and drove me the ~mile down the road. the burger was indeed worth it - he even offered to pick me back up, but I figured I needed to walk off the ~2/3 pound burger). ExplodingSims posted:Being in FL is fun when it gets below 65 or so. It's not quite like that here, but we'll get the random 75-80 degree day here in December. I remember seeing a family of 3 or 4 walking down the road bundled up like it was -20 degrees when it was 80 in the middle of December... when I (and literally everybody else around) was wearing shorts, had the windows down, and the ac on. I felt bad for the kids.
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slurry_curry posted:I definitely used to have a pair of JNCO's that each leg was bigger than the waist. I think the most ridiculous ones were the knock off ones I had that were red velour.  Definitely not something to wear in public, but if raves somehow resurge outside of the club scene, it'd be nice to be prepared. 
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So yesterday half of my apartment lost power... sorta. UPS was bitching about undervoltage, some lights were barely coming on, HVAC died, dryer died, stove died, and a nice strong ozone smell + crackling from the breaker panel with a little bit of smoke. No main breaker to shut off inside, but there's a main breaker outside. Shut off all my breakers, crackling stopped, so I didn't bother trying to figure out which meter/main breaker was mine again. Maint came out... his eyes kinda bulged out when he pulled the breaker panel cover. Several breakers just fell off the bus bar when he pulled the cover, and of the ones that fell, about half of them fell to the floor (wire pulled right out of them). Classy. He went through it, said about 2/3 of the breakers never had the screw lugs tightened down, and one of the main lugs was loose. loving hell. No wonder they've had 3 fires in the 1.5 years I've lived here. I'll be so loving glad to get out of this place. Add being woken up at ~8am every day by the building fire alarm lately - I asked maint about that, he said the city came down on them hard about the fire alarms, and they have a contractor out here.. replacing all of the fire alarms on the property. That can't be cheap... ~800 apartments, mostly 12 unit buildings. But the trouble chirp + strobe has been going on over 2/3 of the buildings for well over a year. Maint dude told me to expect the fire alarm to go off at random for the next week or so while they install a new system + have the city come out and inspect it. /me looks at email exchange with fire marshal and code enforcement about the constant false alarms and flat out disconnected fire alarms.... what? No, of course I didn't say anything. When the fire department shows up at your own building 3 times in one week, and literally begs you to contact the fire marshal and stir poo poo up because they're sick of coming out to your apartment complex multiple times per week (sometimes multiple times per day)... you do what the sexy guys in the sexy uniforms say to do. LloydDobler posted:I feel ya man. Divorce is terrible. I'm in year 14, kid's about to turn 16, and I still hate talking to the ex even more than ever. 2 more years. Not much help, but my parents divorced 35 years ago. They still talk plenty of poo poo about each other. Mostly my mom talking poo poo about my dad. Dad's a little more level headed (but still throws out a little shade occasionally... in a way that cracks me up, it's always something I agree with). Mom still calls him occasionally for tax advice (he's been a CPA for well over 40 years), despite how much she trash talks him. Dad's level headed enough that he'll give her good advice, but won't do actual work for her, and won't sign off on anything. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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133 kWh away from a $100 discount on my electric bill. A friend did an entire month's worth of laundry in about 24 hours, which killed drat near 200 kWh. My meter is probably getting read at midnight on Monday. Let the space heaters + air conditioner battle commence! (on the outlets that don't crackle/produce ozone smells when used, anyway.. cripes the wiring in here is a shitshow) When I move, I'll be on a co-op with fixed rates, on a middle floor, in a place that was built in an era when the word "insulation" wasn't a swear word. And looking over my contract with my current provider, it looks like the simple act of moving is enough to terminate my contract without an ETF (my ETF is pretty painful with the power company... $250), I just need to figure out what proof they need. My ETF with Frontier is a lot less ($60), but I think I remember something about them waiving it if you move to an area they don't service (and they definitely don't service the new place). Rhyno posted:A goon strongly urged me to get del taco, but hey whatever. How do I put this nicely.... I guess the best way is to say that Del Taco opened a bunch of stores in Texas several years ago (mostly in DFW). There's not a single store left in the entire state; the nearest one to me is 2 1/2 hours away in Oklahoma. Texans loves tacos. Del Taco is not "taco". Del Taco is, dare I say it, even worse than Taco Bell. Taco loving Casa survives here, despite being worse than Taco Bell (but at least their stuff is a lot fresher...). Goober Peas posted:His knees aren't going to carpetburn themselves I managed carpet burn on my rear end cheeks last week. Darchangel posted:Also had Pho multiple times, since my wife is meh on that, but I discovered I really like it. Please tell me you're aware of the thousands of pho places in DFW. It's seriously 1 step behind taquerias/tacos in how popular it is here. I'm all about pho, but tendon kinda grosses me out, so I mostly stick to the Americanized pho places (Pho Bowl for the most part, DaLat occasionally if I want pho late at night). There's one pho place that delivers to me on Uber Eats, but it's far enough that if the driver doesn't use an insulated bag (and 99% of uber drivers don't), it's cold when I get it. (and to be honest, both Pho Bowl and DaLat have a lot more flavor).Rhyno posted:I mean poo poo, STR spent so much time here he caught the straight. DID NOT  Just... happened to (re)discover vagina, but I claimed to be bi up until I was about 24 or 25 (and I guess now I've started using that label again, at 39). Still much prefer dick, and my porn collection is 99% gay (the little bit of straight porn that I have is mostly because the dude(s) is/are hot). There's always been a small part of me that's attracted to a very specific body type in women. I still don't trust vagina, but it feels pretty drat good. (almost as good as lol I'm not trying to get probated). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Mar 9, 2018 |
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Seminal Flu posted:When my parents lived in Dallas, I always went to Taco Bueno, and I liked it. Does that make me cool, or a pariah? Neither, really. Taco Bueno is pretty decent for fast food. Gonna miss them when I move - there's only one in the entire Austin area, and it's nowhere near where I'll be living. I think most of their Texas locations are in Abilene and DFW. opengl128 posted:Got inside the garage, this would explain why the door only opens a foot and a half. 
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Join us on Strava! Get Kudos from the rest of us AI cyclists He isn't kidding, he will kudo the living gently caress out of everything anyone here does on Strava.
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Mom gave me her waterlogged phone, I was hoping I could coax SOME kind of life out of it. (cat knocked it into the toilet.. thankfully clean) It turns on and goes to "Installing system update....." for a minute, then "Failed", then to the bootloader options screen. Sometimes it just shows the battery charging icon when plugged in, and goes to 100% immediately. But it dies the moment it's unplugged. The googles suggest the power IC is the first thing to fail on these (Samsung Galaxy S6) when they get wet. Apparently people actually solder these tiny rear end chips on to repair phones?!  Whatever controls the charging is still obviously trying to work; my charger has an LED that changes colors once Qualcomm QC is negotiated, and it changes colors a few seconds after the phone comes to life.e: huh, factory reset from the bootloader got it to attempt to boot. Showed the startup animation, played the T-Mobile jingle, now it's just stuck on the T-Mobile logo. Was hoping I could make it do SOMETHING. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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  Getting reaaaaaaal sick of this poo poo. I've been through a fire before, so I GTFO when the building fire alarm goes off. But this is the 3rd false in 2 months. Hard to tell with the sun, but it's still showing as being in alarm, just silenced, and the trouble strobe is flashing (but not chirping, guess maintenance figured out how to silence the piezo on it [edit: found the manual, there's a trouble silence switch on it that they turned on]). And it's a single zone system, so the entire system is effectively disabled now. It's not even that old of an alarm (it's a current model in ESL's lineup), but it's been hacked together so bad that it doesn't know what "fire" is. DesperateDan posted:I have had good luck with stripping stuff down as far as reasonably practicable, drying it out with dehumidifier packs while opened up and giving it repeated hosings with contact cleaner spray, but if it was used while wet the odds aren't good. It was on when it got the toilet dunk, and it's one of those "gently caress you if you want to take your own phone apart to remove the battery" designs (Galaxy S6 Edge). I gave up on it last night. The display and touchscreen are obviously good (never knew you could use the touchscreen in android recovery before), so are the speakers, but replacing the power IC is a lot more work than I want to put into it. I'll just sell it as a parts phone on ebay. If the USB port on my PC would provide enough power for it to work, I'd just try to flash new firmware to it and see what happens. But it just keeps flashing (very briefly) the Samsung logo when plugged into a PC. Rhyno posted:Monterey is just beautiful. I don't think ibhave ever been to a more peaceful place. I have family that used to live there, and have a cousin that graduated from Monterey High School. It's beautiful until you look at the cost of living. My aunt and uncle owned their house for over 40 years, so it was long paid for, but they were shocked at what the house sold for vs what they paid for it in the 70s. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Mar 10, 2018 |
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Seminal Flu posted:That would be super loving annoying. It is, and right now, it's completely disabled. It has power, but it's disabled (left switch disables zone 1.. it's a single zone system). People are already reacting to it crying wolf one too many times. Only 1 other tenant bothered to get out, everyone else just hung out on their patios to get away from the inside sirens.
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So I've been debating the whole "move a little at a time in the Saturd, borrow stepdad's F-150 for big poo poo" vs "rent a truck" for the move. It's only about a 200 mile move, which isn't ~that~ far. A bunch of little poo poo will be getting moved in the Saturd either way, every time I visit Austin up until the move. But I hit up U-Haul's website...... A 10 ft truck, 1 way, for 24 hours, was just shy of $300. Unlimited mileage, but.. that's a 10 footer. And 24 hours... you really think I want to load up a truck, drive it 200 miles, then unload it, all in 24 hours? No. No, I don't. Just checked Penske. A 12 or 16 footer (same price for both), with a car trailer (not dolly), 96 hours included, with the dropoff location literally walking distance from my new place, is within  of JUST the loving truck from U-Haul. Probably do a 12 footer for fuel economy reasons (I really don't have much poo poo; getting rid of most of the big stuff before I move, the only big stuff will be my dresser, ottoman, some lamps, and a couple of end tables).I kinda don't want to try and take my cat with me in the truck; I was hoping to move him during one of the drives in the car (I'd feel a lot more comfortable letting him roam around a car I know vs in a rental truck; not gonna keep him in a carrier for 3 hours, but it's a short enough drive that I won't have to stop on the way). There's a slight chance I may have to leave catte with parents anyway.. new place has a 2 pet limit. GF has 2 cats already. We're hoping we can sneak him in, and hoping he'll get along with her cats (they're quite a bit younger, but we're hoping all 3 cats arriving together at a new place will reduce territorial poo poo), but the apts brought up "so you need to add that other cat to your lease" shortly after she replaced dead catte with 2 kittens a few years back. The fallback plan is to bring him back to Dallas and leave him with my parents, but I really don't want it to come to that unless it has to.
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The F-150 is a total comedy option, to be honest. He swears the ONLY thing you ever do to maintain a car is change the oil every 2500 miles (with the shittiest no-name oil ever), and change the brakes when they start grinding. New tires when the tread starts separating. He's owned it for 100k, never changed the air filter (which has a huge hole in it anyway - PO put on a K&N and didn't use the bracket, so it had a ~2 inch hole worn through it in a hurry), wonders why it's belching blue smoke. This is the same person who told me I was a "loving idiot" for buying a car with a manual, and claimed clutches have to be replaced every few months (he burned through them every ~10k when he drove manual). I've owned 5 or 6 cars with manuals, replaced one clutch in my life (and it was more of a "it's half worn and the gearbox is already off" deal), while he's been through 6-8 transmissions in his past 2 F-150s combined. It's an 01 with ~140k. 3rd transmission (already starting to slip again), been through ~20-30 coils in 3 years (since he keeps insisting on buying $5 coils or 8 coils for $30-40, up until last month), can't get it into park ("park" is reverse, "neutral" is drive, etc), the steering is loose enough that he regularly gets pulled over for suspicion of DUI... yeah, no, that thing terrifies me. The power brake booster also checked out years ago (it takes all of your weight on the pedal to begin to slow it down). It wouldn't take that much work (aside from the slipping trans and burning oil) to make it reliable again, but he insists on spending days to weeks finding the lowest bidder for the most mundane poo poo, including tires (the ones on it now have plenty of tread, but the DOT date is well over 10 yrs old, and chunks of the tread regularly decide to part ways with the tires - but he saved $50 over a brand new set!). It got to where I refuse to touch the drat thing for anything except giving it yet another jump start - I refuse to ride in it, and refuse to drive it. At most I'll pull codes for him, but he's usually driving around with a flashing CEL anyway. You guys saw the saga of his "new" PC, where he was told he was buying a ~1.5 year old i7, got sold an Ivy Bridge instead for 2-3x what it was worth, THEN KEPT GOING TO THE GUY TO BUY MORE poo poo "because I have a good gut feeling about him". tl;dr using his truck is an absolute last resort for me. I'm not ready to die. Also don't tow a ~15-20k pound power washing trailer with an F-150 without an aux tranny cooler. for that matter, don't pull 20k with an F-150. e: the option IS there, but I'd either need to let him drive my car for a day or two (oh gently caress no), or rent him a car (also a gently caress no if it was on my credit card, he likes hitting poo poo). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:56 on Mar 12, 2018 |
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"Foot rest" Same reason he burns through brakes every 10-15k (foot rest pedal). All he does is drive 5 miles to work and back every day, it gets above 40 mph once or twice a month. I do delivery work and manage 40-70k out of pads (depending on quality). I spend a bit more on ceramic pads, he buys the cheapest Valucraft poo poo and has the lowest bidder mobile mechanic on Craigslist slap them on. (I should point out this is the person that taught me how to change brake pads... he refuses to do it himself today, says he's "too old" to use a wrench... yet I watch him grab 150 pound crates at work like it's nothing) I taught myself how to drive stick by going out and buying a beat up Honda Accord with a 5 speed. I had to figure out how to get it home. In Dallas rush hour traffic. My HS ex-gf (... who is now my current gf, wtf life) tried to teach me how to drive stick in her Nissan hardbody, best friend tried to teach me in a late 60s VW. I had the concept down...
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Darchangel posted:Your step-dad is not a bright individual. The term "penny wise, pound foolish" was invented for him. Very much so. And yeah, a coworker has a Kia Soul that eats clutches every ~75k, and ate a gearbox around 150k. He's up to ~250k. His biggest annoyance is there's just no aftermarket (parts) for so much of it. When his starter went, it was junkyard or dealer only... think it was the same when his alternator went out.
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CornHolio posted:welp, brother is in the ER. probably severe dehydration. I had a long reply typed up last night about/for him, but managed to close the wrong tab.  Hopefully the hospital will give him a referral for, at the least, detox, if not some kind of rehab. He needs to ask them about any charity programs they have when the bill for this ER visit comes in as well - almost every hospital has them. If he goes into bad enough withdrawal while there, they may go ahead and admit him for detox, or hit him with some ativan and send him home with Librium. If he's hiding his drinking, he's probably doing it to hide withdrawal symptoms (shaking, sweating, anxiety, etc). To put it bluntly, I've basically been your brother before, and it drat near killed me (let me tell you how fun it is getting rushed into an ICU with a tube in your dick, and staying there for a week). Unfortunately I still drink (not nearly as much though?), but I know what he's going through. Hopefully he caves and gets help before he hits bottom.
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CornHolio posted:They're admitting him. They ran tests on his liver and all I know is that his "numbers are high" whatever that means. Means he's drinking a lot more than he's been letting on. Are they putting him in a regular room, or some form of critical care? If he's going into ICU or CCU, they're worried about withdrawals and will likely have him on Ativan (so don't expect him to remember much of any conversations he may have while there), and will probably discharge him in 3-5 days with an rX for Librium - which I would encourage you or family (or his girl) to hang on to and give as directed, unless he starts getting visibly shaky/sweaty, then it's time for a little more. He won't be driving or really going out on that anyway. Glad they admitted him, hopefully this will be the wakeup call he needs.
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CornHolio posted:Apparently it's pancreatitis Kazinsal posted:Jesus, he's definitely been hitting the sauce hard then. That's rehab levels of alcohol dependency. Sorry to hear that Yeah uh, that's pretty far past the line of "needs rehab". I used to kill a 30 pack of High Life a day myself, and was very close to pancreatitis when I finally got the $600 bus ride (ambulance) followed by the ~$75,000 bill (insurance didn't cover anything related to substance abuse; they did cover a decent chunk of the bill since it was deemed "life threatening" thanks to 230/170 blood pressure and a 180 pulse [OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ], but not even close to half of the bill )He'll get detoxed while there; expect him to be pretty heavily sedated while in the hospital. Probably be there 4-7 days so long as his liver starts bouncing back. The meds used for detox don't hit the liver as hard as alcohol - he'll have either IV Ativan or IV Valium for the first couple of days (IV Valium loving burns for some reason, it makes your entire arm feel like it's on fire), then oral versions of the same meds, and an rX for a week's worth of Librium once discharged. Basing this on my own experiences, anyway. Start looking for rehabs in your area yesterday. The social workers at the hospital he's at will be a great resource for you, if you can figure out how to reach them. They know what rehabs will take people without insurance, people who prefer to pay cash, etc. If you haven't heard from the social workers there, don't be afraid to go to the hospital and go to his floor; drop by the nurses station and ask who you need to talk to about his ongoing care once discharged. The nurses at the station (probably) won't know (and don't interrupt them if they seem really busy, like during a shift change or med rounds), but they'll know who to contact, so long as he's agreed to a release of medical info to family. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Weird rear end electric plan kicked rear end this month. 1005 kWh = $43.02. I had to have the space heater vs portable ac vs central ac battle for a couple of days to break 1000; this bill would have been about $70 higher if I hadn't broken 1k. Where I'm moving has time of day based usage. I'm a nightowl, and the cheapest rates are overnight, but the washer and dryer are in the bathroom (bathroom is attached to the bedroom), so I'd probably have to wash before she went to bed, then start the dryer later (she wakes up at 4am, has to be at work by 5). There's no minimums or credits, it's just straight up "it's this much during X time, this much during Y time, this much during Z time, and a $20 base charge". They have a flat rate plan too, but it's the peak rate 24/7 instead of changing based on time. At least the new place is early 2000s vs early 80s, and a middle floor, so HVAC usage shouldn't be bad. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Darchangel posted:Watch chat: I like chronograph sand such, but I just don't see the value in anything that costs more than about $30 and doesn't do anything but tell time. I admire the craftsmanship, and the mechanical aspect, but I can spend that money elsewhere. Considering a smart watch, though. I haven't worn a watch in so long I don't know if I can deal with something hanging off my wrist again. This one? Not all v.90 modems sounded the same, but that's starting out as 56k. And it sounded like they just cut the sound short.
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Another watch video, but with more Japan.Darchangel posted:How did I know that you would respond to that? Former SysOps get dragged out of the woodwork when it comes to identifying modem sounds. (take a look at the top right corner of that video right around the time it starts stuttering... 1:38 is a good point) InitialDave posted:If you're going to get a watch, either just get yourself a Casio F-91W, or something purely mechanical because you like mechanical things. Or go full 80s sperg and get an 80s Swatch. Metal Geir Skogul posted:These. These steps to the 2nd floor of my apartment bang against the wall when you walk up them. Goddamn, why can't I have neighbors like you? Rhyno posted:I had so much goddamned pizza while on our honeymoon. And burgers. And tacos. I was still logging what I ate and was way over my set calorie intake 10 out of the 15 days we were gone. There's never anything wrong with eating tacos. NEVER. Real tacos though. Not those gringo tacos with the shells. I mean a corn tortilla with meat (or other choice or protein), onion, cilantro, and hot sauce. Bonus points if they give you a side of grilled onions and a grilled jalapeno with every order.
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The best tacos in TX are usually in the back of a gas station. This place is 15 minutes from me, generic as gently caress, and amazing. Don't go between about 2-4am if you value your sanity though, the line is way out the door. You go to the gas station cashier to order/pay, they give you a receipt, you hand the receipt to the line worker, they slap your plate together in 30 seconds. This place also has a location in a gas station, and does a drat good knockoff of Chico's Tacos. 
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slidebite posted:As a middle aged guy, Mrs and I are finally doing our official wills up this week. When my sister in law passed away intestate a couple years back, made me realize I never want to do that to anyone. I don't, but it's definitely been on my mind. I don't have anything of value, but power of attorney would be good, so would a living will.
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Mar 18, 2018 21:36
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 Gee I wonder what kind of car this is? Sounded amazing, but the driver was driving it about like you'd expect someone with such a license plate to drive. Also insanely loud, even at idle (like almost open headers loud), so I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess there was some exhaust work done somewhere.
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Mar 19, 2018 06:53
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I really want to find the GM engineer who came up with this version of Passlock, and string them up by their nuts/vulva/whatever. I've had the Passlock light come on a few times while driving, but tonight's the first time I couldn't start the car. Light wasn't on when I parked, when I tried to start it it wouldn't crank. Then I saw the flashing Passlock light. 10 minute relearn in a friend's driveway got it to start, plus a solid Passlock light, and "SERVICE VEHICLE SOON". Got home, shut it off, restarted it, car's fine now. No SVS message, no lights.
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Mar 20, 2018 06:26
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Nope. This is some weird pull down circuit within the ignition switch itself. e: more info here e2: the tl;dr is one wire is 12V in accessory, 5V in run, 5V through a resistor when in "start". A common fix is to just cut one of the wires and dealing with the permanent passlock light, but there's rumors of this eventually damaging the BCM somehow (you also have to do a 30 minute relearn process anytime the battery is disconnected). Same if you cut the wire, add a resistor, and splice it into another wire (no passlock light or relearn after a dead battery that way, but still the potential to gently caress up the BCM). I'll just replace the ignition switch (...again), it's not that big of a deal to get to aside from needing a few Torx bits and a 30 minute relearn afterwards. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Mar 20, 2018 |
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Mar 20, 2018 06:40
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God help you if it's enrolled in the insider program, you have several more major updates to go if it is. (how many pairs of headphones do you have?!)
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Mar 21, 2018 05:03
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Gingerbread House Music posted:"Reverse racism" doesn't exist. You're thinking of "Racism". Tell that to my mom and stepfather. They constantly scream REVERSE RACISM. My stepfather's parents were fresh off the boat from Czechoslovakia when he was born, so it seems a little.. weird... to hear him bitching about racism (since racism, or at least xenophobia, applies to ancestry just as much as the color of your skin).Rhyno posted:I didn't even know that there was a whistle that caused racists to assemble. There is, it's the same high pitched screech an old TV makes that us olds people can't hear anymore (unless you have tinnitus). Rhyno posted:can we go back to talking about my lovely childhood? Yeah uh had to seriously stare at your FB for a minute to realize why Ryan White's plight (which is loving horrible) impacted you. I assumed your wife had kept her last name.  Christ on a pogo stick man, I wouldn't wish that poo poo on anybody.Enourmo posted:One of my senior design teammates constantly goes "God I hate my nagging girlfriend, amirite guys?", and makes "I legally changed my gender to salt lol" and "i identify as an attack helicopter" jokes like they're so witty and original, and argued that he knows black people are predisposed to higher crime rates because he, personally, was robbed at work by a black man and I am Tired Of It. My stepdad sounds a lot like your dad, except he mutters it under his breath hoping I won't hear it (unless he sees a burka, then he's full on frothing at the mouth and screaming; I've jumped out of his car and walked over an hour back to my car because of him pulling that poo poo while I was in the car). Also, while he was born in the US, his parents were fresh off the boat from Czechoslovakia when his brother was born, and had only been here a few years by the time he was born. He still speaks fluent Czech, despite not using it regularly in over 50 years. He's a 1st generation Czech-American, from a very Czech part of the state (his family used to own a very well known sausage company in that part of the state, and said company still carries his family's last name; they have a store/gas station that's pretty well known north of Waco). His family is no longer involved with that company, despite it still bearing their name. I have no clue who runs it now. I try not to get into politics much beyond telling people "you have no right to bitch if you don't vote" (assuming they're legally able to vote.. I have a few friends who can't thanks to felonies, so they can bitch all they want). I'll attempt to have a friendly debate, but the only people in my family that seem capable of keeping it "friendly" are on my dad's side (and really, my (not step)dad is the most conservative - I'd call him more of a middle of the road moderate.. everyone else I know in the family is very blue). My mom's side froths at the mouth if you deviate from their views (except for my mom's oldest sister), and my mom constantly tries to bait me into arguing with her about this poo poo. I have friends that range from extreme conservative to drat near communist, but we respect each other enough to be, well, respectful of each others views. One of my best friends is one of my former college professors (government), who's a staunch conservative - but we get along great, agree on plenty of things (something he brought up in class plenty, as I was the outspoken liberal in the class), and when we talk or have lunch these days, we both agree everything is utter poo poo right now thanks to how divided everyone is and just leave it at that. I've certainly said my share of racist poo poo in my lifetime (I mean... I was raised in a far right wing white "Christian" home), said a lot of terrible things when I was younger (particularly about the primary ethnic group in the border town I grew up in), but then I discovered college. And retail/food service jobs. My mom+stepdad went through the roof when I dated outside of my race. Not once, not twice, but many times, and now I'm dating someone that I first dated over 20 years ago (the first person I ever dated, hell my first kiss for that matter), who definitely is not white, and my mom can't figure out if she should be happy I'm actually dating someone with a vagina ("OMG I MIGHT HAVE GRANDKIDS" when neither of us want kids, and we both recognize the potential complications of kids at our age), or disgusted because she's not white, even though she's adopted. I'll be a lot happier once I move the gently caress out of DFW. I may push the move date up a bit just to get the hell out of here (and gf has offered to cover my share of expenses until my lease is up), though I'm stuck paying rent, power, and insurance on this shithole until mid August (and have to be here to do a walk-through on move-out day). The change in ownership on my apartments is stressing me out, since they've disabled online rent payment completely, and won't even tell me who to make a check or money order out to now. I'm going out of town next weekend, and won't be back until well after the (24 hour) grace period. CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Counting the days before I gently caress off to Canada next week myself. I'm seeing a hockey game in Vancouver which I am looking forward to a fuckload - I'll have NFI what is going on but whatever I have no clue what's going on in hockey either, but I love watching it for the fights. Adiabatic posted:Anyone going to Electric Forest? The Mrs and the Mistress and I rented an RV. If anyone's going weekend 1 come find us. SO loving JEALOUS. I have at least one friend going, if you want to meet up with people from Texas who aren't total dipshits. Rhyno posted:I'm making moves towards getting rid of it but the options for keeping in touch with people are less convenient. Yeah, about that... AIM, MSN, and Yahoo IM had to go and basically gently caress over how I communicated with people outside of FB. I guess there's still ICQ. (ICQ is still up... isn't it?  )
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Mar 22, 2018 09:06
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So on to misc poo poo. I need a toolbox. Something better than the slightly smaller than a shoebox plastic piece of poo poo from Harbor Freight I currently have. Budget is pretty low, but it needs to be metal, portable, have a couple of drawers, and be capable of carrying more than 2 pounds. Recommendations? I have a box for my main socket set (Kobalt 3/8" metric/imperial set) that came with the set; the socket set won't be going into any kind of toolbox (it lives in my trunk in its original case). But all the other random poo poo I have to buy (both household and car) will, aside from large stuff (like my  drill). Stuff like crimpers (regular, ethernet, coax), drywall saw, screwdrivers, random low usage sockets (like the 37mm I need to change the timing belt tensioner, 22mm for the shocks) and half inch drive wrench/breaker bar, eventually a torque wrench, etc.Northern Tool and Harbor Freight will probably be my first stops, though I may check out Sears (... if I can find one). The gf works at Lowe's, so Kobalt stuff is an option if reasonably priced or on clearance (employee discount etc). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 09:19
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dee eight posted:Low budget? Hit the 2nd hand stores and pawn shops maybe find a gem. One of the largest pawn shops in TX (self proclaimed, but it's the size of a large grocery store) is walking distance from home.  I'll hit them up tomorrow. Then again, maybe not the best place to go, since they're so big... they probably have a drat good idea what stuff is worth. Never been in there despite living so close, I'll check them out and see if their prices are reasonable (and if they're willing to haggle a bit). I could hit the shop that I pawned my camera at a few times too. They've been around for ~50 years and family owned, and were surprisingly good to deal with; they're smaller, and a bit of a drive, but they make a game out of haggling. It's their family sport, you see, and even grandpa is keeping an eye on it from the corner (not as intrusive as Old Man in Pawn Stars, and probably not as with it mentally either, but he's always sitting behind the gun case scowling at everyone). that shop is about as close to Pawn Stars as you'll ever get; it's a lot smaller, but it's father, son, son's wife, grandson, grandson's best friend, and.. I think one other person. I hate haggling, but you can't walk into a pawn shop without haggling the moment you walk in. The stakes aren't nearly as high as they are on a crappy car at a buy here pay here lot (for most stuff), though. There's a Goodwill store and Habitat for Humanity Re-Store nearby too, but I haven't found any tool-related stuff in either of them. Lots of neat lamps and tile stuff in the Re-Store (with the occasional random appliance), the Goodwill is mostly crap unless you happen to be there when someone drops off some 70s audio equipment. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:38 on Mar 22, 2018 |
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Mar 22, 2018 09:27
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Okay what the hell is this from? I'm genuinely curious.
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Mar 22, 2018 17:54
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New ignition switch showed up. Advertised new in OEM packaging. It was wrapped in generic bubble wrap and looks like it was installed once. Doesn't look old though (no dust or anything), snaps into each position cleanly, it's OEM, and carries the revised part number.. I'll have to take a multimeter to it before I tear into the car. Not sure if a multimeter will work too well for testing, since it has a funky circuit in it that drops one line from 12V to 5V to 5V w/resistor. I may just unplug the old one, plug this one in, and try a re-learn. If that works. I'll go ahead and tear the rest apart.Something's really getting under your skin there.
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Mar 24, 2018 06:17
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The Door Frame posted:All I want right now is Taco Bell and beer. A couple Abita Turbodogs, a crunchwrap supreme, a quesarito, and a beefy nacho griller, all with diablo sauce A long time IRC friend made some pretty awesome coasters. I bought a few. I tested one with beer.  (yes I know my desk is disgusting) (barely related because you said beer) randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:19 on Mar 24, 2018 |
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Mar 24, 2018 08:01
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The Door Frame posted:Beer is always relevant to beer. Those look like the surface of the paint dipping pools, what are they made of? 2 are your standard generic 3x3 tile, 1 seems to be a retail sample of vinyl "wood plank" ("Lifeproof", which appears to be a Home Depot store brand - it's a touch smaller than the others). He said he floated paint on some kind of liquid, then poured it over them, then did a urethane sealant after they dried, I think? It was an experiment for him that went pretty well (think this was the first time he did it - a couple of batches over a day). He needs to get his dust control figured out (found a couple of specs on one), but that's always my nemesis when applying screen protectors anyway. First time he's done this; one of them (which he kept for himself) was the same type of pour, but with some blotter art between the paint and the urethane. Originally I had 3 coming in one style, but he misplaced one, so sent one from the other batch. He found the original one I wanted, supposedly he's sending it soon. Even if he doesn't, they weren't expensive. And they're loving awesome. tl;dr basically a poured version of the dipping pools, from what he told me? Devyl posted:Can I just say I love y'all? No one knows me and no one cares, but that's ok. You all keep my day sane when I'm stressing the gently caress out at work. Some of us know you. Some of us. (I know you... via bookface anyway)
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Mar 25, 2018 09:07
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So if any of you ever thought about storing  and incense remotely close to each other.Don't. I didn't think they were close enough to matter... they were. 
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Mar 25, 2018 09:38
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Previa_fun posted:on the other hand I noped out after someone was calling folks' workplaces and poo poo. Rhyno posted:Yeah that was hosed. There's a couple chucklefucks that just want to gently caress with people's lives. I'm giving serious thought to burning the current group, aside from people that I know are part of AI. Then making one of the mandatory request to join questions "what's your forums username". Then doing a search on their post history before approving them, to make sure they're actually on SA. But... I'm not the only admin in the group, and that might be going a bit too 1984 (even though the group was kinda thrown into my lap at one point - I was the only admin at one point). There's entirely too many people in there vs how many active posters we have in here, it's very loving obvious a large chunk of the members aren't in AI (or on SA at all).. The random joins are almost nil now that it's a secret group, but still  I've had join questions in there for awhile, but people still blindly approve the requests. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Mar 27, 2018 |
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gently caress YOU, PASSLOCK. loving thing made me 15 minutes late to work today when it decided "no, gently caress you, I require two relearns of your ignition switch" after I grabbed breakfast. Have the new switch sitting here, just don't have T15 (to remove the ignition switch) + T20 (to remove the wiper switch; not strictly necessary, but makes access a lot easier from what I've dug up) Torx bits handy. Had the passlock light pop on 3 more times through the day (but it was solid, and the car started those times). Wound up using the spare key I keep in my wallet to keep the car running all goddamned day (almost 10 hours), and using the fob to lock/unlock (thankfully it still works with the engine running); I didn't want to chance it pulling that poo poo on me again. I don't like leaving my car running unattended. iwentdoodie posted:Bought the piece of poo poo Civic! Interior is going to give me hantavirus, and it needs 2 wheels and tires (as it's rolling 14s in front, 13s in back and one is corded) but it runs like a goddamn dream. Pretty sure motor/trans are new, or at the very least very recently rebuilt. Sunroof and painted door handles give it away as an EX... and if those didn't, the engine shot does (assuming someone hadn't dropped the Y8 into a DX). The non-VTEC motors got a completely different intake (airbox, throttle body, manifold.. the works). That engine bay looks too clean though, someone at least power washed it. The manuals got real broken if you sidestepped the clutch much... the main input shaft bearing was what I managed to kill on 2 of them. For $520, not bad at all. I used to have a 96 EX coupe (in whatever that green color was that they had for 96 and 97). Fun cars, and I'd definitely own one again. The Door Frame posted:I'm only prejudiced against middle aged white women, because they sit at a table yapping away for 3 hours and only order one drink  TIPPED EMPLOYEE SPOTTED I didn't make poo poo today either. Several stiffs, on delivery, while it was pouring. I have the option of rejecting the no tip orders, but I rejected a bunch last week, and it brought down my rolling 30 day average low enough that I'm in danger of losing early access to scheduling.FAT32 SHAMER posted:Someone please share the secret to uprooting your life and moving 2000mi away to sunshine and happiness How about you just take a look at the cost of living out there instead? Specifically, housing prices. Then take a look at taxes out there.  Then the laws regarding car modifications. I'd love to live in Cali myself, but there's no way in hell I could afford it in this lifetime, even if I did win the lotto. Seat Safety Switch posted:It gets harder as your parents get older. You're a bit late with that one, he lost one less than a year and a half ago...  But I get the sentiment - I'm moving a mere 3 hours away soon, and my parents are in their 70s.... and the older they get, the less capable overall they seem to get (see: stepdad shoving four 150 watt incandescent bulbs into the bedroom ceiling fan when the CFLs I had in it burned out.. him constantly hounding me to work on his F-150, my phone blowing up when a smoke detector has a low battery chirp, etc). Stepdad's the one that instilled my "DIY if possible" mindset in me, yet today he refuses to even change the air filter on the furnace... I did give him a severe mindfuck yesterday though. He wants to get a newer truck, and put a lot of emphasis on it being reliable (his 2001 F-150 is on its 3rd trans at 130k, though the original was rebuilt by Aamco at 125k... rebuilt again when it failed at 126k, it'll probably fail again shortly, eats ignition coils like they're candy, interior has fallen apart, rear doors don't open, belches a huge cloud of blue smoke on a cold start, etc). He wanted to hear Ford. I said Chevy. He hates GM, but GM has managed to keep a dead simple OHV engine in their modern trucks, and at least going on my own experiences under the hood of Ford Triton vs Chevy LSx, the Chevys are usually easier to work on. He tends to drop $5-10k on a truck, so he's at the lower end of the market for the kind of truck he wants (leather, power everything, etc). I have a feeling there's going to be pretty regular trips back to DFW. And I think I may have just started a Ford vs Chevy debate. He wanted my opinion, I gave it to him.
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