In the morning stand-up meeting, the list is sorted alphabetically, and I always have to go first.
I'm hoping they hire somebody named Aaron or Alice or something.
In the morning stand-up meeting, the list is sorted alphabetically, and I always have to go first.
I'm hoping they hire somebody named Aaron or Alice or something.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
sorted by first name? Lunacy
remember that shirt project? It got worse. It went from 25, to 26, to 28 shirts. I only had to redo half a dozen cuts or so. And do all the weeding. And placement. About the only thing i didn't do was the actual ironing. Thank berkeley those shirts left my custody this morning.
Fifty-two minutes.
You tied up the only toilet in the office for fifty-two minutes while the other 5 of us paced around or sat very quietly, and tried not to think about running water.
Fifty-two minutes.
In reply to Duke :
Sorry about that.
In reply to budget_bandit :
Right? I am used to being pretty much in the middle of the order.
I had to file an insurance claim on the Maverick due to hail damage that happened on May 29th. I found a PDR shop and they sent the estimate to the claims handler June 27th. I also made the repair appointment at that time. The earliest they could get me in was Sept 9th (yesterday).
I just now received a call from a third party appraiser that my insurance company hired to do a damage appraisal.
I've already dropped the truck off and am paying for a rental car. My policy covers a whopping $20/day for a max of 30 days for a rental.
WHY IN THE BERK WASN'T THE APPRAISAL DONE 3 MONTHS AGO?!
I'm done with this insurance company. I've been with them for 22 years and have only had 2 claims in that time which both were not my fault.
They are wasting my time and money. I'm dropping them as soon as the repairs are done.
Wtf ever happened to being quiet in libraries? I'm in the reference section down here and this effing lady is going on and on with the librarian about trying to find some ancient relatives or some bullE36 M3. And he's conversing back with her. At the regular tables. At full conversational volume.
So I moved over to the other side of the library away from them and now two homeless dudes are discussing the benefits and downsides to different shelters in the area.
In reply to wae :
Whatever happened to being courteous, situationally aware, and not self-absorbed in general?
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
Identify as Zeus...
I have no truck, because it was stolen and totaled. The insurance actually handled that part remarkably well.
However, the weird mish-mash of particular insurance company constraints, rental company constraints, and weirdness of the world are making it way more awkward than it ought to be to get through the final furlong of the garage project; excavating for the paver driveway.
I went to rent a dump truck, and I can't rent anything over 12,000 lb GVWR unless it's a moving van.
I found a dump truck that's literally an F-350 with a dump bed. No, no commercial vehicles, which a dump truck is regardless of what it, well, is.
I fell back to renting a pickup and a dump trailer; a more expensive, awkward, and dangerous arrangement than a small dump truck, but my insurance will cover a rental pickup as a passenger vehicle, and liability on any trailer.
But there are no 3/4 or 1-ton pickups available from local rental places because they're all being used in firefighting around here. Except one place. Which does rent equipment to homeowners/individuals. But not pickups; those they only rent to commercial accounts. They seemed strangely confused when I no longer wanted to rent a dump trailer after they declined to rent anything to pull it with.
So I'm renting a 1/2-ton pickup from U-Haul, and a small dump trailer that will mean twice as many trips but fits the 6k lb limit of the truck.
I initially put under "silver linings" that if they'd waited a week to steal my truck, I'd probably have wasted $700 on tires. Now I'm starting to think it would've been worth it if only they'd waited 'til after this job... Or alternatively, I wish I wasn't racing the weather, or I'd just put this off 'til I could find the right van.
I entertained the idea of living with no truck or van at all for about a week. I may be spoiled, but it just seems like as soon as you don't have one, you need one.
This is not a rant, because, you know...love
If you marry a country girl, be prepared to bury her animals. Cats, dogs, horses, etc. Today was horse #3 this year.
Mndsm said:remember that shirt project? It got worse. It went from 25, to 26, to 28 shirts. I only had to redo half a dozen cuts or so. And do all the weeding. And placement. About the only thing i didn't do was the actual ironing. Thank berkeley those shirts left my custody this morning.
She came home and said they forgot the damn choreographer. Can't be doing that. 29.
Now for the hard part. I've been asked if Disney could acquire something to compensate me for my time, because apparently everyone is very excited about these shirts. I drew a blank. I don't do out food, I already have free park admissions, they won't buy me a gun......
In reply to Mndsm :
I have trouble believing you have all the rare light sabers you want already. OOO DVD copy of Song of the South!! Don't forget they own the Simpsons now, maybe some choice play sets or a pinball machine?
A while back, I bought front uprights for a 2018 Impreza. I wanted these because they are aluminum (loads lighter), they have a lower-placed ball joint pivot (necessary for my purposes), and the three bolt Toyota style ball joint allows me to build a stronger lower control arm.
They have steel tapered inserts for the tie rods. The right one did not come with the insert, as it must have stuck to the tie rod on disassembly.
The insert is only available as an upright assembly.
Looking on eBay... ALL right side uprights are missing the insert. I looked for used outer tie rod ends and none of them have the insert still stuck in place. I did find a rack that has an outer that has an insert stuck to it, but that'd be a $200 purchase not an $80 one.
In reply to Mndsm :
Write up an invoice. All materials, shipping, etc., at your cost plus 100%. All time at 150% of your hourly pay or equivalent, plus multipliers as appropriate for evening and weekend work. Energy surcharge. Environmental impact fee. And whatever else you can tack on. And then whatever exorbitant total you come up with, add a 35% rush work fee. You should be deep into four figures by the time you're done.
When they say, "but this is too much!", simply reply, in a flat, even tone, "Yes. It is." And maintain eye contact.
RevRico said:In reply to Mndsm :
I have trouble believing you have all the rare light sabers you want already. OOO DVD copy of Song of the South!! Don't forget they own the Simpsons now, maybe some choice play sets or a pinball machine?
Lol I could get the new Lego dark side aluminum falcon.....
In reply to llysgennad :
We've got a neighbor with a skid steer to dig the hole-- what's your solution?
In reply to Karacticus :
Viking-style funeral pyre!
Sucralose: It's in almost anything "healthy". 99% of sugar free drinks, 99% of protein shakes. Bleh.
I though the fairlife CorePower was good because I saw stevia listed in the ingredients, but I looked closer and it has stevia and sucralose. 😡
Found a coach that is sort of what we're looking for about an hour and a half north of here. The ad has been up for 19 weeks, so that's a sign. Despite having dropped the price about a month ago, he's still a little high. But maybe he's just ready to have it gone and we can get a little bit of a bargain. Plus, what we're looking for is weird so it doesn't show up very often. I sent a message last night verifying that it was still for sale even though the ad was so old and went on to ask a bunch of questions. Date codes on the tires, any delam, is the title clear, clean, in your name, and in your possession, hours on the gen, any water intrusion ever, are the windshields cracked at all, does the dash AC work, and are there any issues with any of the systems or appliances. His response was nothing but a wordless 4 minute walk-around/walk-through video. Didn't show the tire codes, didn't show any close-ups of the glass, didn't demonstrate any appliance functions other than having the generator running, nothing.
Gee, sir, I'm sorry that I inconvenienced you by asking relevant questions about the thing for which YOU put out an advertisement.
stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:Lots of bitching about how my insurance company is handling my claim
The third party inspector has been pestering me to set up an appointment for her to inspect the truck. I told her the truck is at the body shop and gave her the address.
I wonder if it's going to be another 3 months while I fight the insurance company because they low balled the berk out of the repair estimate.
Dealing with insurance berkeleying sucks 
I know, the news really isn't in the "accurate and informative" age anymore, but some basic spell checking of pop star names and road names could do a bit for credibility. Luke Bryan, Fitz Henry road, these aren't that difficult.
Although I'm curious if the spelling mistakes will continue when Trump comes to town (why? 450 people live here. There's 3 trucker friendly gas stations, a strip club, 4 stop signs and 2 bars. The rest is farm and warehouses) earlier that week.
In fact that's a rant in and of itself, we live here in the sticks to AVOID the city problems like politicians coming through. Stay out!! There's no room for your motorcades or your followers that will show up and inevitably break stuff and get their vehicles stuck in places they shouldn't be driving.
At least Skyline will be closed so nobody will fall in the river from there, but I bet they're still going to clog up the town that already doesn't have enough parking for the residents.
In reply to wae :
Sounds like the guy isn't really interested in selling it... or everything you asked about is problematic.
I don't know why people can't answer basic questions about things they are selling... of course the opposite is true as well. I don't know how many times I've been asked a question by a buyer that was clearly covered in the ad I posted.
I would not want to go through RV shopping again, although I'll be a lot better prepared if I ever do, having owned a big coach. I know a lot more now than I did when we bought ours.
Our part is done. You have a request to exit from our system. You have the lock bypass. You have the door activation. It's all labeled for your edification. You just need to wire your part.
Yes, I have a guy who knows how to wire your system. I have 5 of them with close to 50 years of combined experience in getting the job done. Maybe you should try training yours. Or maybe if you weren't such dicks to work for, your experienced people would stick around. So, while my people will explain to your people what they need to do, I'm not paying my guys to wire your system or stand around while your guys read the instructions with confused looks on their faces.
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