@TRayB said:
Took the Christmas tree down today. It's just laying in the front yard looking pathetic.
Same thing with my neighbor's inflatable Christmas decorations - the elves are just laying there all flat with their arms and legs splayed out, like they're waiting for someone to come along and do a chalk outline.
Edit: there, their, they're... all used correctly. ;-)
@TRayB said:
Took the Christmas tree down today. It's just laying in the front yard looking pathetic.
Same thing with my neighbor's inflatable Christmas decorations - the elves are just laying there all flat with their arms and legs splayed out, like they're waiting for someone to come along and do a chalk outline.
Edit: there, their, they're... all used correctly. ;-)
Nice
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list. Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
I've been building Minecraft Lego sets all day with my youngest son and my wife. We had the idea of creating a Minecraft village with all of them. It's turning into quite the lengthy project.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
@Jrflickster said:
Sounds great are you doing it in the shop so you can smoke too?
No, in the house so we can take Pokémon and hot chocolate breaks from time-to-time.
I will likely be moving again in the late spring or early summer, back to our old place. I'll have to say goodbye to this shop, but the move would help us save money and reach our longterm goals more quickly. Recent events in the world have made those goals more important for us now.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
In the dark with a headlamp I had to change out a ballast for an eight foot two tube flor fixture. The old fixture's ballast was larger so the new smaller ballast would not mount so I had to use self tappers overhead to screw the new ballast into place. All this standing on a six foot stepladder. I then had to rewire the fixture to accept the new ballast. I pulled the ends to mount the wires and found that they would not accept the new wiring.I pulled everything apart and went back to town to get new fixture ends. I've done this before and before the new ballast came with a printed paper wireing diagram but not this time. I had to copy the diagram on he ballast onto a piece of paper to make sure I wasn't stepping on my ****. At 76 I'll getting a little long in the tooth for this sh it. I got her done even though I was up and down the ladder a dozen times.
Maybe LED's next time.
I've been known to buy the LED stick-on tape, scour thrift stores for AC/DC wall worts of adequate size to power them, and make my own lighting fixtures. It's easy and fun, and can work in so many places. Piano light, backlight for TV's and computer monitor, under-cabinet in the kitchen, in my roasting area, a 24/7 nightlight in my cigar room just bright enough so I can see when I come in or leave the room... possibilities are endless.
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
I feel like I should buy an old shīt box vehicle just so I can sit in the driveway in a warm vehicle and smoke since I didn't install my garage heater @Rdp77
@Jrflickster said:
I feel like I should buy an old shīt box vehicle just so I can sit in the driveway in a warm vehicle and smoke since I didn't install my garage heater @Rdp77
@CalvinAndHobo said:
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
Making them work for your money and finding out who has no idea what they are doing, is never a bad thing.
3 things I really despise, cell phone companies, car/home insurance and health insurance companies.
All of them are out to steal your money.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
@CalvinAndHobo said:
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
Making them work for your money and finding out who has no idea what they are doing, is never a bad thing.
3 things I really despise, cell phone companies, car/home insurance and health insurance companies.
All of them are out to steal your money.
Those companies are annoying, but I've got quiiite a few that are ahead of them on my future old man list. Predatory payday loan companies come to mind. Basically the entire funeral/casket industry. Genetically modified food companies. Lawyers, just in general. I could go on forever.
@CalvinAndHobo said:
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
Making them work for your money and finding out who has no idea what they are doing, is never a bad thing.
3 things I really despise, cell phone companies, car/home insurance and health insurance companies.
All of them are out to steal your money.
Those companies are annoying, but I've got quiiite a few that are ahead of them on my future old man list. Predatory payday loan companies come to mind. Basically the entire funeral/casket industry. Genetically modified food companies. Lawyers, just in general. I could go on forever.
Those companies should be outlawed. They prey on people who can't afford the loans and charge exorbitant interest. Which those interest rates are usually reserved for loan sharks.
But then any loan or credit card company falls into that category.
We're battling with a credit card company right now, that we made the mistake of using rewards points to make some payments. We had $1,000 in rewards payment points and they went after us for late fees for the months we used the rewards points and it went against my credit scores.
I paid the credit card off and retained an attorney to go after them.
I will probably only get the satisfaction of going after them, but it makes me feel better.
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
@CalvinAndHobo said:
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
Making them work for your money and finding out who has no idea what they are doing, is never a bad thing.
3 things I really despise, cell phone companies, car/home insurance and health insurance companies.
All of them are out to steal your money.
Those companies are annoying, but I've got quiiite a few that are ahead of them on my future old man list. Predatory payday loan companies come to mind. Basically the entire funeral/casket industry. Genetically modified food companies. Lawyers, just in general. I could go on forever.
Those companies should be outlawed.
Even though everything you said is true, I don't agree with this part personally. Is it immoral though? Absolutely.
OK, outlawed, no. Regulated, yes.
The problem with them is they are allowed to prey on people who can't afford the loans in the first place and make it easy for them to get in over their head.
Yes, those folks should know better, but in their defense, how many schools teach personal finance anymore? Probably not many.
It was a required class when I was in high school, back in the dark ages. 🤣
In Fumo Pax Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
@CalvinAndHobo said:
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
Getting an insurance broker was a smart move. I'm glad it didn't take you as long to learn that as it took me.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
@silvermouse said:
got my biannual hair cut, I look like Anderson Cooper (we are distantly related according to 23andme).
You're a Vanderbilt!
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Today I found out the new maintenance guy at work is a cigar smoker. He smokes Don Rafael and some others he couldn't remember the names of. I'm putting together a fiver for him.
He also makes his own wine and brought me a bottle today!
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I'm not sure what I ate yesterday that caused this, but the air quality in my house is definitely suffering because of it... not silent, but close to deadly.
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seems anatomical and you are about to get f'ed
got my biannual hair cut, I look like Anderson Cooper (we are distantly related according to 23andme).
Took the Christmas tree down today. It's just laying in the front yard looking pathetic.
Same thing with my neighbor's inflatable Christmas decorations - the elves are just laying there all flat with their arms and legs splayed out, like they're waiting for someone to come along and do a chalk outline.
Edit: there, their, they're... all used correctly. ;-)
Nice
I know, You're a big dog and I'm on the list.
Let's eat, GrandMa. / Let's eat GrandMa. -- Punctuation saves lives
It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
Rhys scored his first goal today.
I'm pretty proud
Trimmed my beard this morning and worked on a drain a bit to keep it freely flowing before eating breakfast and smoking a pipe.
We also got our new shirts with the new updated logo
I've been building Minecraft Lego sets all day with my youngest son and my wife. We had the idea of creating a Minecraft village with all of them. It's turning into quite the lengthy project.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Sounds great are you doing it in the shop so you can smoke too?
No, in the house so we can take Pokémon and hot chocolate breaks from time-to-time.
I will likely be moving again in the late spring or early summer, back to our old place. I'll have to say goodbye to this shop, but the move would help us save money and reach our longterm goals more quickly. Recent events in the world have made those goals more important for us now.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
Loaded up the toolbox & bid adieu to the on call grind. My truck’s half a ton heavier for the weekend.
In the dark with a headlamp I had to change out a ballast for an eight foot two tube flor fixture. The old fixture's ballast was larger so the new smaller ballast would not mount so I had to use self tappers overhead to screw the new ballast into place. All this standing on a six foot stepladder. I then had to rewire the fixture to accept the new ballast. I pulled the ends to mount the wires and found that they would not accept the new wiring.I pulled everything apart and went back to town to get new fixture ends. I've done this before and before the new ballast came with a printed paper wireing diagram but not this time. I had to copy the diagram on he ballast onto a piece of paper to make sure I wasn't stepping on my ****. At 76 I'll getting a little long in the tooth for this sh it. I got her done even though I was up and down the ladder a dozen times.
Maybe LED's next time.
I've had bad luck with LED tubes and fixtures, bad quality items from China.
I've been known to buy the LED stick-on tape, scour thrift stores for AC/DC wall worts of adequate size to power them, and make my own lighting fixtures. It's easy and fun, and can work in so many places. Piano light, backlight for TV's and computer monitor, under-cabinet in the kitchen, in my roasting area, a 24/7 nightlight in my cigar room just bright enough so I can see when I come in or leave the room... possibilities are endless.
I think @0patience would be proud of me. My home insurance renews 1/28, and I have been trying to ask them some questions about increasing and decreasing some coverage amounts on various things. Whenever I am able to get someone on the phone, they can't answer my questions with specific dollar figures, and they tell me they'll pass along my requests and someone will contact me. Then, someone contacts me and answers a different question than the question I asked. It's been about 5 cycles of this.
Today, I met with an insurance agent in person who's going to shop around the coverages I want to different companies so I can stop dealing with this company, because their customer service is terrible.
Does this make me old now? Just old fashioned? Neither? Both?
I feel like I should buy an old shīt box vehicle just so I can sit in the driveway in a warm vehicle and smoke since I didn't install my garage heater @Rdp77
Just make sure it’s got a comfy seat.
Makes ya smart. You did, however, last 3 cycles longer than I would have. Yer not quite curmudgeonly yet….
Making them work for your money and finding out who has no idea what they are doing, is never a bad thing.
3 things I really despise, cell phone companies, car/home insurance and health insurance companies.
All of them are out to steal your money.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Those companies are annoying, but I've got quiiite a few that are ahead of them on my future old man list. Predatory payday loan companies come to mind. Basically the entire funeral/casket industry. Genetically modified food companies. Lawyers, just in general. I could go on forever.
Those companies should be outlawed. They prey on people who can't afford the loans and charge exorbitant interest. Which those interest rates are usually reserved for loan sharks.
But then any loan or credit card company falls into that category.
We're battling with a credit card company right now, that we made the mistake of using rewards points to make some payments. We had $1,000 in rewards payment points and they went after us for late fees for the months we used the rewards points and it went against my credit scores.
I paid the credit card off and retained an attorney to go after them.
I will probably only get the satisfaction of going after them, but it makes me feel better.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Even though everything you said is true, I don't agree with this part personally. Is it immoral though? Absolutely.
OK, outlawed, no. Regulated, yes.
The problem with them is they are allowed to prey on people who can't afford the loans in the first place and make it easy for them to get in over their head.
Yes, those folks should know better, but in their defense, how many schools teach personal finance anymore? Probably not many.
It was a required class when I was in high school, back in the dark ages. 🤣
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
Getting an insurance broker was a smart move. I'm glad it didn't take you as long to learn that as it took me.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
You're a Vanderbilt!
Today I found out the new maintenance guy at work is a cigar smoker. He smokes Don Rafael and some others he couldn't remember the names of. I'm putting together a fiver for him.
He also makes his own wine and brought me a bottle today!
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
I just remembered that I need to roast coffee tonight if I want coffee tomorrow morning.
I'm not sure what I ate yesterday that caused this, but the air quality in my house is definitely suffering because of it... not silent, but close to deadly.