volvoclearinghouse said:Neighbor texts me last night, "Hey, you've got a tractor, right?".
He needed help digging a grave.
And, did you reply the you have a couple bags of lime too?
volvoclearinghouse said:Neighbor texts me last night, "Hey, you've got a tractor, right?".
He needed help digging a grave.
And, did you reply the you have a couple bags of lime too?
DarkMonohue said:Peabody said:I have had this email address for about 15 yrs and I'm probably going to just let it go.
Any recommendations for a new free one?
That sounds more like a computer or peripheral issue than a provider issue. Maybe the keyboard isn't reporting the correct keystrokes, or the computer doesn't read them correctly. Try logging in from another machine.
At the very least, type the PW somewhere else (Notepad or whatever) and make sure that what you type is what you see. If that fails (forgive me), power cycle it.
So here's an interesting update. I decided Friday that I'd best do something and, while explaining to Mrs. O'Lady what was happening, I typed in the same PW I'd been trying for a week to show her what was happening.
It logged me in.
So I thought I would try it on my phone, which I'd been logged out of and unable to access for months. It went straight to my inbox, I was already logged in on my phone.
WTF?
In reply to Peabody :
You had a computer glitch that makes no sense? Inconceivable!
I coated the edges of my local election campaign sign with Vaseline and silver glitter after my one of my crazy neighbor's yanked it down. If they do it again they will be a sparkle princess. Don't get mad, get even. Tempted to up my game to silver anti-seize, but I'm pretty sure that's against the Geneva Convention.
In reply to slefain :
Screw em. berkeley around and find out.
Friday night, my washing machine died while making a burning smell. It's unplugged.
Yesterday, somebody turned into the 4Runner. Luckily the only damage was a small scuff and a broken clip on some of the cladding.
This morning, right before I ran a charity 5k, my body decided something I ate yesterday was a no-go and went into purge mode. I got off of the crapper and joined the run at the back of the line.
Let me tell you something, brothers and sisters, not knowing if you're going to crap yourself can make you run a bit faster than usual. I was 1 second off of my personal record time, and did make it back to the facilities in time. I've not really left my property again all day.
volvoclearinghouse said:Neighbor texts me last night, "Hey, you've got a tractor, right?".
He needed help digging a grave.
The berkeley?
In reply to Mndsm :
Dead pet. Hopefully.
Appleseed said:In reply to Mndsm :
Dead pet. Hopefully.
With a tractor? I'd think full grown pig, horse, cow, or similar.
Since for once there wasn't much going on Saturday, The Dancer decided to look into Ghost Walks nearby that we've not been to yet and found that there was supposedly one (two actually) that evening in Frankfort about half an hour away. Since we've not really spent any time in the state capital, we signed up for the later one, paid for our tickets, and headed out there. We arrived a few minutes after the stated 'muster' time, but 10 minutes before the tour was supposed to leave. There was absolutely nobody at the meetup point or even in sight of the meetup point- I get this was supposed to be a Ghost Tour, but it wasn't to our knowledge supposed to be led by ghosts. Waited a bit and walked around the building the meetup was in front of and eventually called up the tour company. They said they didn't even have a record of there being any tours scheduled that night, and gave us the number for the booking company that ran the app we'd booked through. They had us on hold for like 15 minutes before coming back and saying that there must have been some kind of mixup because there wasn't a tour that night and we shouldn't have been able to book the tour at all for that night- but at least they refunded the tickets. We ended up walking around the area on our own to make the best of our having driven out there already, found an ice cream shop that was open and had some dessert, and drove by the state capital (at like 10pm) and walked around looking at the ground and artwork.
Also, why is it that after a relatively calm (compared to some, like show weekends or flying across oceans) weekend where I've gotten a decent amount of sleep that I wake up on Monday morning (after having slept about 20 minutes longer than planned) feeling more tired than ever? Probably has something to do with turning 50 next year...
Ashyukun (Robert) said:...feeling more tired than ever? Probably has something to do with turning 50 next year...
You're singing my song. I turned fifty last year and am exhausted pretty much at all times. I used to think I looked and felt pretty young for my age but it feels like I've been aging at double speed for the last five years.
Mr_Asa said:Appleseed said:In reply to Mndsm :
Dead pet. Hopefully.
With a tractor? I'd think full grown pig, horse, cow, or similar.
It's was a sheep, and it was pregnant. Barber pole worms.
My wife came home with a "chip" in her winshield. I took it to Safelite to see if they could repair it with their fancy epoxy or wahtever. I was sceptical because although the "chip" was only a couple inches accross it was a very complex fracture with many radiating rays and a weird circular halo crack. It also looked like chunks were falling out of the center. So, an ugly one. My fears were confirmed by the tech who didn't think it would fill.
So, I made a new apointmnet for replacement. This car has all the optional cameras and stuff, so I am a little bit aprehensive of getting it replaced. I guess I'm crossing my fingers.
Mr_Asa said:Appleseed said:In reply to Mndsm :
Dead pet. Hopefully.
With a tractor? I'd think full grown pig, horse, cow, or similar.
If you ask the right person they just answer yes/no and don't ask any questions...
This is kind of a long, multi-layered one. So, in the spring I replaced by worn-out Yaris hatchback with a 2012 Chevy Impala. As a GM tech, I figured at least I have access to diagnostics and I know the cars. I've never loved it, and it hasn't been a great car, having had to waste 1300 miles driving it to get it to set the OBD monitors to pass inspection and almost immediately having to deal with a massive power steering system leak that required some re-engineering. Just not a car that's really clicked with me.
Saturday I drove two hours west to Brockport, NY to get photos of the Falls Road Railroad. It's an operation I've wanted to photograph but they don't normally run on weekends, and their weekday operations are "as-needed" with no set schedule. I just can't burn a vacation day and a 4 hour round trip to go out there to find out that they aren't running that day. But I saw they were running a special excursion on Saturday and this was my chance to get some photos of it.
I'm leap-frogging the train (get ahead of it, grab photos as it passes and then race ahead) and as I leave on spot, I hit the throttle and it stumbled and died. Coasted to the side of the road, and it would crank and start and then almost immediately stall. Cue somewhat panicked calls to U-Haul to try and find one that was A) open and B) would rent me a truck and dolly. Oddly, despite being in a college town, none of the U-Hauls were open on weekends. I call the only open one, which is 15 miles away, in the wrong direction from home, and I get a "The line is currently busy, please call at a later time" and my phone hangs up. Wait a couple minutes, call again and get this woman who immediately opens with a bitchy attitude about "I was on the phone with another customer, you could have just waited." No, I couldn't because it disconnected the call. She says they have a dolly and a truck, but the truck is not a one-way rental. I don't want to drive two hours back to Rome, then back out to Batavia and then back to Rome. She says she'll call the other U-Haul and see if they have a one-way truck and call me back. She never called me back, ever.
I attempted to start the car again and it ran, went down the road about two or three miles and stalled. Waited, tried again, and had the same result. I now had turned around and started limping my way back east, hoping to maybe find a town further east with an open U-haul with a truck and dolly as I went east. After a third stall, it then started and seemed to run fine, doing 55mph for five, then ten, then fifteen miles. I almost decided to set up and wait for the train to come west but decided not to test my luck. I set my GPS to avoid highways and toll roads, turning my 2 hour drive into a 3 and a half eastward slog. I drove along for almost two hours without incident, and was just getting ready to write it off as some water in the fuel (I had fueled it right before the chase began) and get on a highway when it stalled again. It would conk out at least once more before I got to Rome, and again just one mile from home, which has me thinking the fuel pump is dying and has me quite irritated with the car, since it shafted my one guaranteed shot at catching Falls Road in operation.
Adding to that, plus the whole U-Haul debacle, I have no clue when I'll be able to get a fuel pump in it. GM, of course, stupidly did away with the access hatch in the trunk, requiring removal of the fuel tank, which means I need a lift at work on a Saturday. I'm out of town this weekend (Guess I'm taking my MR2 to Vermont), and then the next Saturday I have a friend's wedding, so I'm potentially looking at October 12th before I can get a fuel pump in it. I also feel bad because my parents two vehicles both have over 200k on them and are rather tired, and my father had come over and asked if he could borrow the Impala one day to take my mother up to the Adirondacks to see the fall leaves (already starting to change last weekend) and I said, "No problem." Now I had to tell him, "Sorry, the Impala is broken and it'll possibly be mid-October before I can fix it."
In reply to NickD :
I don't know what's on top of the fuel hat in the impalas, could you cut an access hatch? I did that in my Trans Am, much better than dinking with lowering the axle to pull the tank out.
What kind of burn-my-house-down bullE36 M3 is this? This is the dryer vent flange that's mounted to the wall. As you can see, the vent pipe is 3" and this flange fits over it and turns it into the standard 4" dryer vent pipe size. The flange was packed with lint. I have a 4"to 3" duct reducer but the 3" is OD and doesn't fit over or in the 3" dryer vent pipe. I guess I could slice the reducer to fit in the vent pipe but this setup is already sketchy as berk and I don't want it to collect even more lint.
Home ownership sucks
No Time said:Mr_Asa said:Appleseed said:In reply to Mndsm :
Dead pet. Hopefully.
With a tractor? I'd think full grown pig, horse, cow, or similar.
If you ask the right person they just answer yes/no and don't ask any questions...
In a lighter moment while we were burying the deceased wool-maker, I mentioned something like this to him. He said anytime I need help disposing of a dead body, he'd reciprocate.
volvoclearinghouse said:Neighbor texts me last night, "Hey, you've got a tractor, right?".
He needed help digging a grave.
I have to hope it was something with hooves.
Edit: saw that it was a sheep, barber pole worm. Very significant parasite for sheep, I still remember Haemonchus contortus from studying for the national boards.
Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:volvoclearinghouse said:Neighbor texts me last night, "Hey, you've got a tractor, right?".
He needed help digging a grave.
I have to hope it was something with hooves.
Edit: saw that it was a sheep, barber pole worm. Very significant parasite for sheep, I still remember Haemonchus contortus from studying for the national boards.
His initial text to me came while I was out having BBQ with the family at a restaurant. So naturally Mrs. VCH gets her phone and starts googling "Barber Pole Worms" and reading about them to our kids, in the middle of the patio as we're eating.
My neighbor was also kind enough to pressure wash off my tractor with dish soap when we were done, so I didn't pick up any hitchhikers back to my place. We don't have sheep, but I try to keep the number of parasites on my property to a minimum, as a general philosophy.
I go back to work today after bout #2 of pneumonia. I feel fine except for a terrible hacking cough that won't go away. The FNP prescribed me a 5 day course of antibiotics which I finished Sunday.
My back was a little stiff yesterday morning which went away after moving around.
But it's full blown sciatica today. It hurts to sit, stand, lay down, walk and exist. Both legs hurt so bad that I thought I was going to have to crawl to the bathroom this morning. The pain goes from mildly annoying to put me out of my misery levels seemingly instantly.
I'm trying different stretches to ease the pain but ibuprofen seems to be the most effective.
I can't take anymore time off of work. I'm already deep into LWOP territory as I burned all of my sick time on bout #1 of pneumonia. If I take anymore time off, I might not be able to pay my mortgage this month.
Yay adulting :(
I'm listening to an interview on the radio with an author about the importance of sleep schedules and getting the proper amounts. Boring! I already know I'm almost dead for all these reasons and then some. Get back to history or entertainment or something.
One of my last competitors is now telling his customer that the response time for service will be 3+ weeks. If parts are needed, it will be another 2-3 weeks. They also no longer service manual doors. Basically, he is pulling out of this area just like everyone else.
I've picked up 3 of his customers this week. It's great news except this job is turning into work.
Does anyone with experience in commercial doors and door repairs want a job in Charleston, SC?
The third party appraiser my insurance company hired finally completed his appraisal. But of course it didn't get emailed to me or the shop performing the repairs. I had to call the claims department and have them email it to me, then I emailed to the shop
It's 40% lower than the shop's estimate. Plus he used the wrong labor rate and a lot of the repair estimate times are incorrect. The insurance company is also sending payment to me instead of the shop like we agreed 3 weeks ago.
The shop let me take my truck back yesterday while the insurance company figures out what the Berk they are doing. It was costing me a little over $100 a week out of pocket for a rental car.
I'm done with this company. I refuse to deal with incompetence.
stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) said:The third party appraiser my insurance company hired finally completed his appraisal. But of course it didn't get emailed to me or the shop performing the repairs. I had to call the claims department and have them email it to me, then I emailed to the shop
It's 40% lower than the shop's estimate. Plus he used the wrong labor rate and a lot of the repair estimate times are incorrect. The insurance company is also sending payment to me instead of the shop like we agreed 3 weeks ago.
The shop let me take my truck back yesterday while the insurance company figures out what the Berk they are doing. It was costing me a little over $100 a week out of pocket for a rental car.
I'm done with this company. I refuse to deal with incompetence.
Wow. An insurance company that happily takes your premiums, then wants to do a shoddy repair, while screwing the shop.
This is a not new story.
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