OT: Spring has sprung...
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brian_griffin
"Eric Cartman?"
PM if you want some troubleshooting help and you don't have any neighbors / friends / family who are handy. No guarantees, but I've done my share of wiring, re-wiring, and T/S'ing. (An immediate thought is the light may, or at one time may have been, controlled by two or more switches and whomever made changes didn't separate the traveler wires fully when they "borrowed" one of the switches.) Would help to know if the "hot" to the light is fed by the line or fed by the switch. Disclaimer: I am not, nor have ever been, an electrician, and certainly not a licensed one. And I assume you aren't making basic mistakes, like swapping the hot and neutral on anything you're replacing (maintain "black to brass", "white to zinc"), and if you're recycling old outlets, making sure the tab between the top and bottom receptacles isn't clipped as you would do if you had half the outlet always hot and half the outlet controlled by a switch.
Tis the season for giving...
I'm sure you'll make up for lost time with them...
Old Navy Goat
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It's not like that, these are actual nursing students that I paid and they got credit towards their required OJT. They are anticipating several weeks of pay, pool time and western food while trying to sound contrite and sympathetic
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
You should blow their mind by telling them we’ve figured out a way to deep fry water
Old Navy Goat
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Today was funny, out of hospital so all cast up and took my nurses out to a bar. They loved the cultural coming down in Elf costumes with little miniskirts etc, were shocked by the spotlights. Basically tromodale or vodka for pain, plus laying around or trike to front door of bar, then trike back home. Call me a crutch master
BuffaloGooner
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This has been honestly the worst year of my life. Maybe someday I’ll get into it here with you guys, I’ve been posting here long enough lol. I just can’t wait for it to be over. January 1 will be symbolic for me.
Anyway! I’m at Jury Duty for the first time today. Bleh.
Anyway! I’m at Jury Duty for the first time today. Bleh.
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
spintheblackcircle
incoming!!!
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Montag DP
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Buffaloed
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Not sure if anyone is looking for an interesting Christmas present for Sabres fan, but RJ is on Cameo. For $50 he'll record a message for your loved one. Sent one to my dad and was a fan
Cameo - Rick Jeanneret
Cameo - Rick Jeanneret
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Sad. I guess I'm still wondering about the why. Anyway, I'm glad they were able to at least retrieve her body from the car.
Mike McDermott
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All kinds of reports came out yesterday that she drove in intentionally. Sad and horrible situation no matter what but worse if this is true.
If you need help, reach out. There are so many resources available. I’m so glad I started seeing someone for my mental health earlier this year. It has made a huge difference.
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Jim Bob
RIP RJ
sabremike
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First world problem of the week:
My wife and kids are out of town and my garage spot (we have a 3 car garage) has malfunctioning sensors so I have to manually shut the garage everytime i leave the house. So, with the wife gone, I grabbed her garage opener and took over her spot for the next few days. Well, I needed to charge my car (it's electric), so I ran the charging cable to my car. Plenty of slack, no issues. So, I left this evening to go on an errand, unplugged my car. However, because the cable being ran behind it (On my side the cable doesn't get routed behind my car, I had the outlet placed so my charging port would be close to the outlet), the cord got tangled in my bike rack which I leave installed because its a pain to take on and off. I drive down the road and a few miles later discover that my charging cable had been dragging behind me for miles. Thankfully its a "travel" style cable that isn't a hard wired install, just a 240V "pig tail" adapter into the main charger and then the cable to the car. The 240V adapter came out and the charger and cable came along for the ride. Nothing like wasting $200+ replacing a charging cable
Anyways, I'm dumb.
My wife and kids are out of town and my garage spot (we have a 3 car garage) has malfunctioning sensors so I have to manually shut the garage everytime i leave the house. So, with the wife gone, I grabbed her garage opener and took over her spot for the next few days. Well, I needed to charge my car (it's electric), so I ran the charging cable to my car. Plenty of slack, no issues. So, I left this evening to go on an errand, unplugged my car. However, because the cable being ran behind it (On my side the cable doesn't get routed behind my car, I had the outlet placed so my charging port would be close to the outlet), the cord got tangled in my bike rack which I leave installed because its a pain to take on and off. I drive down the road and a few miles later discover that my charging cable had been dragging behind me for miles. Thankfully its a "travel" style cable that isn't a hard wired install, just a 240V "pig tail" adapter into the main charger and then the cable to the car. The 240V adapter came out and the charger and cable came along for the ride. Nothing like wasting $200+ replacing a charging cable
Anyways, I'm dumb.
TheDawnOfANewTage
Dahlin, it’ll all be fine
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Love y’all, hope ya can still have a nice holiday break. Spend time with loved ones, give ‘em a call if you can’t. I’m half a world away, not too big on holidays anyways personally- my family is chill, I’m just kinda resigned to Covid making things suck for awhile.
I’ve got 6 weeks to kill and it’s lookin like hockey won’t be part of my plans. Time to write this banger of a dystopian novel I’ve been thinking about for years. It’s anti-capitalist, involves climate change and Covid, it’s got all of it. It’s like the anti-Atlas Shrugged, but man, it is tough actually sitting down and doing the thing.
Anyways, just wanted to thank y’all for providing me a hockey outlet, it’s a bit of home for me. Cheers to y’all.
I’ve got 6 weeks to kill and it’s lookin like hockey won’t be part of my plans. Time to write this banger of a dystopian novel I’ve been thinking about for years. It’s anti-capitalist, involves climate change and Covid, it’s got all of it. It’s like the anti-Atlas Shrugged, but man, it is tough actually sitting down and doing the thing.
Anyways, just wanted to thank y’all for providing me a hockey outlet, it’s a bit of home for me. Cheers to y’all.
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
Just make it a goal to write a sentence a day. And every day re-read everything over and revise, because sometimes what you write might be “clunky”. And I fully suggest actually writing out a brainstorming thing. That way you can see ideas you miss and/or eliminate ones. And don’t worry about a title. That will just randomly come.
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I knew a guy in high school that had a similar issue but it involved a dog in the bed of his pickup truck on a chain with too much slack
MarkusKetterer
Shoulda got one game in
Update to my new job: I’m now in charge of a basement installation. One project they took on was jacking a house up and installing a basement (instead of having it be on stilts and skirting the outside so it looked solid). We put ICF in and filled it with concrete (ICF is styrofoam blocks that are hollow that you fill with cement, for those of you that know nothing of construction), and because of my previous experience with concrete, I’m now in charge. The best part is the subcontractor now has to listen to me because they screwed up last week. I got pulled off a different project 40 miles away for this
sabremike
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ICF Construction: Everything You Need To Know
Fun fact: Werner Gregori, a Canadian contractor, filed the first patent for an insulated foam concrete form in 1966.
Hey, a bit of good news going into the holiday:
My current company, in the last month or so:
- Gave everyone the week of between Christmas and New Years off, permanently (i.e. every year)
- Added a 4% match to everyone's 401k
- Just had my review and got a 7% raise. Plus some more RSUs! (stock options)
Had a bit of bad luck with my previous two companies. Was at company A for 4+ years and only got 1 raise (after 3 years) and it was a 3% bump. At company B for a year, but was laid off for 6 months of it due to the pandemic. So, some good news this year is a good thing.
My current company, in the last month or so:
- Gave everyone the week of between Christmas and New Years off, permanently (i.e. every year)
- Added a 4% match to everyone's 401k
- Just had my review and got a 7% raise. Plus some more RSUs! (stock options)
Had a bit of bad luck with my previous two companies. Was at company A for 4+ years and only got 1 raise (after 3 years) and it was a 3% bump. At company B for a year, but was laid off for 6 months of it due to the pandemic. So, some good news this year is a good thing.
