In reply to Trent :
Marketing double entendre for younger races who had those LED lighted shoes as a kid?
In reply to Trent :
Marketing double entendre for younger races who had those LED lighted shoes as a kid?
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:I kind of want to just move the mailbox, but that will infuriate my wife, who is ready to die on this hill.
does she have life insurance?
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
She does, but I'd still rather have her.
Current rant: The gloomy, chilly weather has made me completely unmotivated.
That's not the rant. The rant is I know exactly how and why this happens, but I keep feeling vaguely guilty about it, even though it'll pass soon.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
There's a game I created called "Dead in Montana." There are many places with no cell service. You might see another car once every couple of hours. If your car craps out, will you survive? That guy in PJs, Crocs, and just a hoodie? Running shoes, shorts, and no hat? All dead in Montana.
In reply to Appleseed :
To be fair, from what I understand of Montana, there are many parts that you're going to be dead no matter what unless you have a tent and 2 weeks of food, and a heat source.
Or a satellite phone/Garmin InReach type of deal.
mtn said:In reply to Appleseed :
Or a satellite phone/Garmin InReach type of deal.
This is why I won't be dead in Montana.
In reply to Toyman! :
You love Crocs that much? 
Appleseed said:In reply to Toyman! :
You love Crocs that much?
Streetwiseguy said:There is a small chunk of me that is laughing uproariously over the complaints about the temperatures people are experiencing, which would be a welcome break for me.
Its either that, or have the tears freeze to my face in the second solid week of -30 daytime highs.
But it's a dry cold.
Because for many of us, we purposely live somewhere that it doesn't typically get to 0F or below regularly.
I'd rather deal with the crazy heat of July/August in Oklahoma, than 5-6 months of wintry weather. And like someone else said, we also aren't prepared/equipped for it because it happens so rarely. That we get below 0 or hell even just freezing for that matter. This is only the 2nd time we've had below 10 degrees for a few days in row in the 6.5 years I've lived in my current house.
And November-January, we often get many sunny days with highs in the 50-60s
We spent a couple days in Morro Bay and visited Hearst Castle last week. We got home and I never downloaded the pictures off my camera. Yesterday we went for a hike and out of habit I formatted both SD cards. We were about half way through or hike when I realized what I had done. Thankfully I wasn't overly excited about any of the shots I deleted.
Trying to figure out what code was set on my Silverado, turns out there is a whole process to get the ODB2 adapter to talk to the app. Couldn't figure it out but I think the truck told me when it said, start vehicle Low battery voltage.
Grab charger and connect it up, it starts for 30 seconds and then shuts off. Also reads 10.9V.
I'll wait for it to warm up more and yank the battery to replace it.
In reply to GPz11 (Forum Supporter) :
I'm the guy who says working on a Chevrolet truck should be super easy until I have to work on my Chevrolet truck. Battery isn't too bad buts it's not 5 minutes either.
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
Yup, have done the battery before but the weather was much nicer!
I need the house water supply valve replaced. It's so corroded that I can't shut it off and I need to replace the washing machine supply valves.
I contacted this one plumbing company that was highly recommended on Facebook for a quote because they were "very reasonable".
They want $275 to replace the house supply valve and an additional $140 to change the washing machine valves. That's even after I explained that I have the replacement valves and I literally just need them swapped out. They are pipe threaded FFS.
I'm in the wrong berkeleying business.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Pay the $275, do the valves yourself?
In reply to Datsun240ZGuy :
That's the plan exactly. The house shutoff is in a terrible place; halfway in the wall behind the water heater. I'll pay $275 so someone else can deal with it but I thought it would be like an extra $20 to swap the washing machine valves out. $140 is just insulting as I already have the parts and it's literally unscrew the old valves and screw the new ones in.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
No, insulting is the HVAC company quoting me $1300 to replace a $110 part that is directly behind the front panel, literally held on with 4 screws and a wire connection, AFTER I correctly diagnosed the problem and gave them the part number to bring.
In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
Those prices seem pretty reasonable to me.
As a service company, I charge $145/hr. That gets you a trained tech, a truck, parts, and all the tools that go with it as well as the office people it takes to support that tech in the field. An hour of travel and an hour on-site will cost you $290.
In reply to Toyman! :
We are at 149.99 now and as Toyman! Said that gets you a trained tech with a truck and most likely the product that they will find once they swap out what you diagnosed.
From my side it's insulting for someone to ask me to cover the expense of a guy, his training, a stocked truck, insurance, benefits, gas, for less than I pay per hour. Not a dig at you but that's why the costs seem crazy, it's actually just keeping that guy/truck whole and yes; hopefully making an amount of money because that's why we are in business.
In reply to chandler :
My $1300 HVAC quote was not including a $149 site visit charge. I had no problem with that. Neither techs nor trucks nor experience are free.
But the part in question was the draft inducer on my furnace, which had a bad bearing. It was immediately apparent what the problem was with no possible error in diagnosis on my part. It would have been 15 minutes work to replace it, from arrival to sign off, and the part was available to me for $110. The jobber price was probably even less.
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
She does, but I'd still rather have her.
Current rant: The gloomy, chilly weather has made me completely unmotivated.
That's not the rant. The rant is I know exactly how and why this happens, but I keep feeling vaguely guilty about it, even though it'll pass soon.
i feel all of that. last night i was leaving work at 5:45 and the sun wasn't all the way down yet. as a hater of winter, this is a big deal to me. even though it's gonna be cold for another 8 weeks, having evidence of the days getting longer is what pulls me through.
In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :
If you hate winter why do you still live in Michigan? Where is this kind of like a case of Stockholm syndrome at this point?
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael :
I worked on Saturday and, walking between shops, apprentice 2 said, while shivering, this is miserable, why do we live here? It's a valid question I have no answer for.
Panama is looking better all the time for retirement.
I like winter weather for exactly 3 days, then I'm over it. I spent a winter in the middle of nowhere Iowa and it cured me of any desire to move up north. Still love a nice, short ski trip
In reply to Duke :
Yeah, your AC people were hammering you. I seldom sell at internet prices but I also don't try to sell at 5 times internet pricing either.
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