In reply to Duke :
Dunno about the 13-year brood and any double years, but I know this is the 17-year brood in our area and historically much worse than the 13-years.
Just took these. Almost every tree is like this.
In reply to Duke :
Dunno about the 13-year brood and any double years, but I know this is the 17-year brood in our area and historically much worse than the 13-years.
Just took these. Almost every tree is like this.
In reply to mtn :
I heard it was an alignment of both the 17-year and 19-year broods this year, which doesn't happen often, obviously.
In 2021, around here at least, was some special brood that sang continuously, really loudly, for a week or more. Like, 75 dB in my normal suburban back yard, all day every day. I don't remember seeing a huge number of actual bugs, but I also never heard a sound like that, either.
TIL that Egopower's Lawn Mower part numbers cover both self propelled and non-self propelled models, with the former having an additional "SP" on the part number.
Going for "right part number, let's pick the cheaper offer" might have been an expensive mistake as they're non-returnable on the River and were out of stock at Lowes.
Reading glasses, I haz them. Maybe I should use them more often.
My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
In reply to tuna55 :
My condolences.
tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
That stinks.
Unfortunately, the current business environment makes that very appealing to owners, including me.
In reply to GameboyRMH :
On the desktop, no problem. But no such options on iPhone. No idea if it's better on Android.
There isn't even an option to close tabs on exit; and even if there were, the bulk of settings are in the menu that is unavailable due to the alert.
Just found out I am on a city advisory committee...that I didn't apply to be on. I've never applied for any of these committees, yet my name is on the meeting agenda for this week as a member. Kind of pisses me off because people are trying to get me to run for council but I just want to walk away and distance myself from city BS for a while. I've done more than my part the last few years, time for others to step up. I'm burned out and I'm about to just start replying to people "DILLIGAF"....
I'm dogE36 M3 tired. All. The. Time. I work from 3:30 to 2:00 5-6 days a week. I also watch the hellspawn from whenever he gets up to when I go to work. Hes usually up by 7:30. It takes me a half hour to get to and from work. On a perfect day, I get 5 hours of sleep. Except my ADD brain doesn't turn off right away. So I'm going to bed at 4 at the earliest. Do the math.
I raised my voice at SWMBO this weekend. She kept badgering me to get up on Sunday. She kept waking me up from uncontrolled naps. I finally said, "let me sleep. You have no idea how tired I am" using The Voice.
Bro calls me at 10:00. I'm half asleep on the couch watch the hellspawn. Starts peppering me with questions. He borrowed my truck. Now he needs to swap out vehicles. Why don't we do it after work? No, I'll get home an hour later than usual. We need to load up some big stuff to get out of Mom's house. You gonna help? No, not today. I don't even have a place for it. I can't think straight. I've had about 3 hours of E36 M3ty sleep. He starts bullying me for an answer.
Y'all need to berkeley off. I'm about to pack up nice, calm, helpful Appleseed and put him back in storage. You ain't gonna like the motherberkeleyer that shows up to take his place.
The she spawn is back from college for the summer. She's moody and quiet in the mornings. It upsets my wife. So, I get to play moderator while also WFH and trying to play manager. At this rate it's going to be a long summer.
tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
Time to break out this can.
If you need any references, feel free to use me. My employer might have some openings in the GSP area, too.
Rant: I have never, ever heard of any good coming from a PE firm buying a company. Near as I can tell, they take good, reasonably profitable businesses, wring every penny out of them, and then toss the remains in the dumpster. berkeley PE firms, berkeley them hard. And this is coming from an avowed free market capitalist.
I think you ought to go around to get everyone in your company to quit, effective immediately. Someone needs to send a message. See how they like it when their company value goes to zero immediately after selling out.
In reply to tuna55 :
I am sorry. Having worked for a private equity and ESOPs in the past, the pe firms felt like a had a knife at my back. The knife representing bottom line. Also - from my friends past experience, when someone says "nothing will change", it's time to update the resume.
Scotty Con Queso said:In reply to tuna55 :
I am sorry. Having worked for a private equity and ESOPs in the past, the pe firms felt like a had a knife at my back. The knife representing bottom line. Also - from my friends past experience, when someone says "nothing will change", it's time to update the resume.
Agreed on all counts
volvoclearinghouse said:tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
Time to break out this can.
If you need any references, feel free to use me. My employer might have some openings in the GSP area, too.
Rant: I have never, ever heard of any good coming from a PE firm buying a company. Near as I can tell, they take good, reasonably profitable businesses, wring every penny out of them, and then toss the remains in the dumpster. berkeley PE firms, berkeley them hard. And this is coming from an avowed free market capitalist.
I think you ought to go around to get everyone in your company to quit, effective immediately. Someone needs to send a message. See how they like it when their company value goes to zero immediately after selling out.
Thanks Dude. Send an Email if you have any useful contacts for me. You know where I am, roughly. Thanks
Why the hell did GM make it so that setting the OBD-II monitors on the 2007-2013 Impalas takes so berkeleying long? Seriously, I put 90 miles on the car yesterday and it didn't set any of the three that weren't already set. On my Yaris, you could set all 8 in under 20 miles.
CAinCA said:The she spawn is back from college for the summer. She's moody and quiet in the mornings. It upsets my wife. So, I get to play moderator while also WFH and trying to play manager. At this rate it's going to be a long summer.
Don't waste your time. The eternal Mother/Daughter power struggle is going to play out no matter how you manage it. If you get in the middle, they will both yell at you.
The logical thing to do is to sit them both down at the kitchen table, and tell them to smarten the berkeley up, or you will lock both of them out of the house.
That will not go well.
NickD said:Why the hell did GM make it so that setting the OBD-II monitors on the 2007-2013 Impalas takes so berkeleying long? Seriously, I put 90 miles on the car yesterday and it didn't set any of the three that weren't already set. On my Yaris, you could set all 8 in under 20 miles.
Maybe the absurdly complicated Toyota evap system is conducive to fast testing?
I dimly recall that evap monitors on some GMs require driving in 3rd gear for extended stretches because the engine speed must be over X and the vehicle speed must be over Y.
I mean, I know you probably know all this...
Pete. (l33t FS) said:NickD said:Why the hell did GM make it so that setting the OBD-II monitors on the 2007-2013 Impalas takes so berkeleying long? Seriously, I put 90 miles on the car yesterday and it didn't set any of the three that weren't already set. On my Yaris, you could set all 8 in under 20 miles.
Maybe the absurdly complicated Toyota evap system is conducive to fast testing?
I dimly recall that evap monitors on some GMs require driving in 3rd gear for extended stretches because the engine speed must be over X and the vehicle speed must be over Y.
I mean, I know you probably know all this...
Not really. We typically don't set the monitors on cars. We fix the CEL and then just tell the customer to go drive the car for 100-250 miles and come back. But now I own one, which had had a dead battery and has until Sunday to pass inspection on the temporary inspect the DMV gives you, soooo.....
I'm trying to avoid trying to set EVAP, since I can get away with one not set and on a 12 year old Impala it likely has an EVAP leak of some sort. But I still have to set Catalyst and Heated 02. And I almost think that ambient temp has to be below a certain temp to get Heated 02 to set. Which, after an entire spring of 40-50 degree weather, we are now firmly locked in at 85 degrees.
Oh, we usually try to get as many monitors as possible to pass if we have to clear the computer. Especially if the vehicle is a failed emissions.
I know quite a few monitors require starting from dead cold (CLT and IAT within a certain number of degrees). Driving miles is not as important as number of trips.
This is one place where Ford has their E36 M3 together. If you clear the codes while the engine is running, it will try to run as many monitors as possible during that key cycle instead of waiting for a cold start. At least, they used to do it that way.
Some computers, however, will not run ANY monitors if a scan tool is plugged in. That was a fun lesson.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
EVAP, Heated 02, and Catalyst are the three I have to set. I know that below about 25% fuel or above approximately 80% fuel levels will lock out EVAP, which is a common trick around here.
Too bad that NY patched out the bug that the new inspection machine had when it first rolled out where it never looked at monitor status. We'd have a customer come in with a CEL, fix it, clear the codes, then go to get their 10-day extension, and the machine would pass it with 0 monitors set. It did that for about 2 months until NY rolled out a software update that fixed it.
tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
Next the new investors will sell the property and lease it back to the business. It's a strategy I heard about recently but apparently has been done for a while. It's one of the things that went into the Red Lobster bankruptcy.
In reply to tuna55 :
Ugh. Been there. I'm sorry. Payout????
jharry3 said:tuna55 said:My nicely sized family owned private company employer was just sold to a private equity firm
Next the new investors will sell the property and lease it back to the business. It's a strategy I heard about recently but apparently has been done for a while. It's one of the things that went into the Red Lobster bankruptcy.
Hopefully Tuna's company will not start offering All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp.
I need a drink, a seriously large cigar and about twenty hours to do nothing but decompress and play with my motorcycles. I swear I am still picking up the pieces from my vacation I took in April of stuff that slipped through the cracks.
Also we got to see this really cool presentation from a company today about how they have automated an small section of our workload. Everybody loves the idea but they do not see the ~25-50 million it took to do it and the 6 years of getting it stable, that is with no corp overhead and project meetings and other stuff that slows things down because tey are so agile. I am sure they think we can just whip this up since now they have proof it can be done and I will be seen as a negative person for pointing it out.
Not all PE is bad. Of course, usually when it's good it's good because it is rehabbing a name that had previously been destroyed by another PE Firm, but still. Some of them benefit everyone (assuming you consider the consumers of the product/service as beneficiaries of the transaction).
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