Would they actually fire you? Most employers don't want to deal with unemployment/etc so they will just walk you out but pay you until your official last day. I know if I quit my job I'll give 3 weeks notice and enjoy 3 weeks of paid leave :)
Would they actually fire you? Most employers don't want to deal with unemployment/etc so they will just walk you out but pay you until your official last day. I know if I quit my job I'll give 3 weeks notice and enjoy 3 weeks of paid leave :)
In reply to wae :
Oh I did the exact same thing at my last IT job, only with an MS Teams group and a not-unprofessional password.
dan0 said:In reply to stuart in mn :
If it happens again, don't call. Just take the sign and find the worst lawn/property you can find and stick it there.
Hell no. The person with the bad lawn could be me, and I have enough problems in my life. I don't need that sign any more than Stuart does.
The lawn service is dumping their garbage on his property. Returning the favor is not unreasonable.
neverdone said:I'm not grumpy the price is 14.99. I'm grumpy because the price on the shelf says 6.99. And I'm really grumpy you said 'oh well I guess it's wrong". And then when I get home I see you didn't enter my discount card... so found it at another store for 10.99, so this is getting returned.
And you have every right to be. Maybe I'm grumpy too but I hold people/corporations to the agreed/advertised price no matter what.
I don't care if you are making a good deal on it if I accept the stated price, because bit was my decision to accept it.
Anything else gets a giant berkeley YOU from me lol
" Hey , you know that bid I had you do? Yeah can we just add 16 feet of concrete retaining wall to it?"
Not for the same price plus since it's wrapped around the slab you want , and that slab is small, you either get another 2 pumps, extra days to pour a footing, then the wall,then the slab or I mono pour it. Mono pour setup in that configuration will be tricky but doable.
" But it's small...."
There is no small concrete jobs or at least ones that you hire out, it's all kind of a pain in the ass with varying degrees of annoyance. Even though the bid is a good one for me, I might decline it just because of the annoying feel to this guys presence.
Caliper is locked up on the Saab. Nobody has one in stock, but AutoZone claims they can get one to me with next day delivery. So I order it yesterday for delivery by 3pm today.
Still not here.
I called AutoZone and, apparently, FedEx didn't come to their warehouse last night so it's still sitting there. Obviously it won't be delivered tomorrow either.
Grr.
In reply to Antihero :
I love it when stores do that because here you would get it free.
Nothing like a few hours long power outage to help you find which UPSs have bad batteries this time around.
Especially impressed with the two units that don’t even want to turn back on. They're both from the same manufacturer and I'm not sure I want to have buy batteries for them to find out if they'd turn back on with fresh batteries. Hey ho, time to replace a couple of them *again*, maybe get another one of those fancy LiFePo units.
At this rate I should really consider a whole house battery...
I've learned my lesson. NO more tools on top of the engine bay. NO more parts on top of the engine bay. It cost me way too much time and way too much skin yesterday. Now I have to drive around with a rigged power steering reservoir cap till a replacement comes because the engine bay ate it and never spit it out.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
They are cheaper than ever really, I decided to try an Anker 767 for an off grid system that was a hell of a deal and it's been doing well for me so far. Since I was replacing an inverter and batteries It was very close in price with a nice pure sine wave power
In reply to Appleseed :
I dropped an oil filler cap at start of a Chevrolet Trailblazer oil change and spent over three hours looking for it. Convinced it fell inside a frame or suspension piece I was almost in tears looking for it.
Wife came out to help and she found it inside the plastic radiator fan blade. You are wise to not leave parts on the engine.
Broke the abs sensor on my wife's Fit while swapping wheel bearing's and no one around has one. Have to wait for Amazon. Not to mention while I was doing it no method was able to free the inner race from the hub (tried the bearing splitter, heating it with a torch, welding a bead around the race etc.) so I ended up having to buy a new one of those too. At least you can drive it now without the god awful bearing noise.
Also my pork but is taking way longer than normal to come up to temp. Easter dinner may be a bit late
Something at Easter potluck lunch is pissed that I ate it.
The rollbar i just prepped and painted fisheyed like a motherberkeleyer for no reason. Twice.
The ac condensate drain plugged up and that was fun to fix.
Today has not been a good day for stuff other than sunrise service and hanging out with family. Should stayed on the couch.
Getting ready to climb into bed and enjoy an end of hot busy day beer and book, I heard a hissing noise that sounded like water running. Verified nobody was showering or left a sink running. Put jeans and shoes back on and find old hose bib on outside of house has decided to spray water out from behind it. Fortunately it's all going outside but that means I need to shut off the water and the ceiling below it is finished and has a massive wardrobe mounted under it. That's a problem for morning me but now an hour and a half later I'm further from going to sleep than I was at 9:45.
As usually happens, the "lawn" got way ahead of me when spring hit, but I finally mowed it on Friday. Yesterday I remembered that the boss rented a de-thatcher for the weekend and it made sense to get in on that hot, nasty chain flail action. The whole process involved cranking up my ragged old truck and hauling myself into town (despite a battery that had other intentions), mowing the yard three times with two different mowers (both of which needed blades sharpened, one of which also demanded a new carburetor and a blade clutch cable and an improvised kill switch) and getting dragged around by the de-thatcher in between, then getting rid of a truck full of clippings and loading the Brutalizer 4000 back into said truck to run it back to the boss's place, then returning to blast the sidewalk with the world's finest $10 "parts only" leaf blower before finally coming in for a shower. All this on three strips of bacon and a few cups of black coffee.
The yard still looks like hell's doormat, but there's less of it now. As a reward, I expect to be in agony for a week straight.
I also think I lost my hat.
Powersports batteries.
How, in the name of all things holy, have we not come up with a better terminal system yet?
In reply to BoxheadTim :
We have computer-level UPS's on our two computers and two 2kWh 'Solar Generators' that were picked up after the week-long power outage 2 years ago. The UPSs are good for not losing data since they're 'instant' switchover- the two 'generators' both work in passthrough-mode where we can have something plugged into them and them turned on but whatever is plugged in is pulling line power as long as it is available. The 'generators' don't have the near-instant power switching that the UPS's do, but the things plugged into the one that we have set up that way has the sump pump and our Radon mitigation system fan plugged into it and don't really care if there's a millisecond delay like a computer would. Actually, the only real reason the Radon system is plugged in is that I'm not 100% certain that if something isn't pulling power constantly that the 'generator' won't shut off automatically after a while (since the sump isn't- hopefully- always running) and the Radon system is essentially just a fan that runs all the time.
Both 'generators' cost about $500 each when I got them on sale. We've needed to use them for like an hour max since getting them, but they worked perfectly and ensure that the basement doesn't flood like it did last time the power got knocked out for a long time and that we should be able to keep the fridge running and not lose all of our food. In a longer outage, we'd plug them into the old HF gas generator when it's running to recharge them and to power what's plugged into them, and I've also got 2 200W solar panels that can be used in real emergency situations where we may not be able to get gas for the generator.
I've looked at bit into true whole-house batteries, and they were pretty pricey when everything was accounted for. If I were serious about it, I'd snag a wrecked EV (Model 3's are stupidly common at insurance auctions) and pull the battery to use.
I have been trying to get the DMC's frame mounted on my pseudo-rotisserie (read: 2 engine stands) for a while now, but had been held up on drilling the holes in the angle iron needed to attach to the shock towers and to the stand itself. I've had an ancient drill press for a few years now and got frustrated with it trying to drill the 1/2" holes in the angle and gave up for a while. In the interim I picked up some cutting/drilling oil, and over the weekend finally got things picked up enough in the garage to be able to reasonably justify taking the time to try and get the angle drilled so I could get the frame up off the ground. I spend another 3 hours or so fighting trying to drill 1 hole- and eventually did succeed in that one... of 4 total that I needed to drill.
After fighting for another hour to unsuccessfully drill the next hole, I swore at it a lot and drove to the hardware store and bought a new medium-sized benchtop drill press and a more-expensive-than-I-would-have-liked fancy 1/2" drill bit... and proceeded to drill 5 holes (I screwed up and drilled 2 on the wrong side initially...) in like 20 minutes. Rant is that it took me that long to figure out it was worth just spending the $$ and not keep fighting with equipment that wasn't working for the job.
Kind of makes me reconsider whether I want to keep trying to find a sheet metal brake that will bend the 16-gauge (IIRC) CRS that the DMC's frame is made from so I can make my own repair sections for it- which would involve having to cut the metal (probably with the plasma cutter I've yet to actually fire up and use), clean it up, and make the necessary bends with a brake (which may involve my having to go to the local Makerspace- which charges like $150/month- if they actually have a brake that can do it)... or just take the measurements and spend a few minutes in a CAD program and pay a bit to have a place like SendCutSend make them for me and then just have to weld them in...
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Do you have (or are looking to buy) a 12 or 20 ton HF hydraulic press? If so: Swag Off Road press brake kits
YouTube apparently changed things up today: when I open it up to my main browser page, it used to display small icons in five columns wide and three rows across, but suddenly today it's displaying much larger icons in three columns and two rows, so instead of seeing 15 potential videos at a time I only see 6. I have to scroll down more than twice as much to look for videos I want to watch. I tried signing out, removing cookies and signing back in but that didn't help. I then spent a bunch of time looking through my settings without finding any way to change, then I then I tried asking how to change it back with their useless help screen with no success there either. I assume this is an 'upgrade to improve my user experience'. 
eastsideTim said:In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Do you have (or are looking to buy) a 12 or 20 ton HF hydraulic press? If so: Swag Off Road press brake kits
I'm not sure what kind of press it is but I have KyAllroad's sitting on my bench at the moment- I've seen the press brake kits (someone not too far away has one for sale on FBM) but I'm not sure that they'll be long enough for some of the parts that I'll need to be forming (like the box between the two front shock towers).
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Send cut send or similar is the answer here, if your CAD is accurate.
Broke a bass string by overtightening it like a dumbass.
TravisTheHuman said:In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Send cut send or similar is the answer here, if your CAD is accurate.
That's what I was thinking too. I will need to either suck it up and pay for a full subscription for Fusion or download and learn another free CAD program (though I have access to a full CAD program on my work computer I can't legally or ethically use it for a personal project). There is a full CAD model someone made of the frame but they've only shared it as a 3D PDF file which I can't really use beyond a visual reference (I have asked him if I could get the full CAD file but haven't heard back yet).
I need to figure out just how much more than getting the metal myself getting the parts made by Sendcutsend would be...
GET BENT, LADY!!!
Just because you're willing to shoot a two-car gap across traffic on a left turn doesn't mean everyone else is. You're behind me, so you are gonna need to calm down, stop sounding your horn, and wait for me to go first.
Impatience kills people, geeze.
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