OT: The OT Thread: May Cinco de Mayo be with you. (Warning in post 368)

[Gras]

Welp, first job is looking like a bust. Tried to do some data recovery but this drive is literally beeping on its death bed.

I don't miss doing that kind of work.

 

[brian_griffin]

WTF is this world...

told my wife about that this weekend. She didn't believe me/it either.

In happy old man news- I moved into my lil apartment about 6 months ago, and it’s perfect for me, but I’ve needed one more piece of storage in a corner under the TV. Had a coffee table I’d yoinked from a street corner there, but I really needed somethin for shoes and knick knacks, with a top more at counter level. I refuse to buy furniture until I’m settled and until I stop seeing good shit on street corners, but it’s just about right place right time.

I walk around a city for 8 hours a day for work, nothing. I walk 5 houses down to go get my mum a Mother’s Day gift today- boom, the perfect lil cabinet unit is sitting right there, just waiting for me to struggle it back to my place.

Such a small thing, but it’s gonna make life so much easier. Waiting on it and getting it for free just makes the reward better. My positive spin on the fact that prices are already bullshit and only getting worse, I guess- be cheap on most things and you’ll enjoy splurges/rewards more. Anyway- it’s old Sabres red, too, hell of an add.

Not bragging, but I'm at the point in my life that I can afford most of whatever I want, but I live simply, too. Some of the favorite things I have in my sheds were garbage-picked and repaired / re-used. hand tools, lawnmowers, grow boxes, etc. My favorite long-sleeve pullover winter sleeping shirt I picked up off the road a couple decades ago, washed it, and put into the winter wardrobe. So soft and perfect weight/thickness to not sweat in. take it to hunting camp every year, also. Upcoming project for my covered back porch rebuild is to take an old southern yellow-pine built-in kitchen cabinet upper garbage-picked several years ago and modify it for use on the back porch as a base-cabinet for storing games, picnic items, etc. I have gone overboard in the past and hung on to crap I had no hope of time to restore to use, but I nipped that last year with a good purge. This weekend I'll build a face frame and carcass for (3) solid-wood desk drawers I picked a couple years ago and had in the attic eaves. I'll add salvaged casters and it will become a rolling under-the-workbench storage cabinet for my shop shed.
All the males in my dad's side of the family had/have that frugality. they all grew up in or were born in the depression, and carried that mentality throughout life and imparted to their families, the boys especially.

Conversely, as my wife reminds me, I could just be a cheap bastard. We had dinner a couple nights ago and my wife reminded me we went there for a first date or early date 13 years ago, and I brought a coupon.

Being covert only makes it harder for Law Enforcement to keep an eye on and track.

One of my frugal qualities is to keep old clothes for yard work, etc. which make me look rather homeless.
Some of my items are 30-40 years old. I told my wife I'll purge a good bit of it, but I need to keep at least one old pair of shoes, socks, pants, shirts, etc., which are so old that it would make it difficult for law enforcement forensics to match fibers, tread, etc. to a place of manufacture or purchase, before many of those databases were linked. Also, some old plastic bags, the aforementioned garbage picked yard tools, etc.

Just on the odd chance I needed to commit a heinous crime in the future.

I do have a recurring dream about bodies I buried being discovered. Note to all: I have never buried a body. Nor created a body requiring burying.

Stressin' today.

Yesterday I watched a wife and daughter say goodbye to their husband/father. He coded, we tried to revive, we failed, and then the emotional trauma starts.

My wife has been working 12 hour shifts 5 of the last 6 days/nights, so all the household stuff falls on me. That means my weekends mostly revolve around parenting the little guys. I get a couple hours to relax, then it's sleep, and back to the grind. It's wearing on my soul a bit.

This morning my mom comes over to help take the little guy to school since I have to go to work before school starts. First comment is about dishes being in the sink. Great conversation first thing in the morning. Then she can't find any breakfast for him because I haven't had a chance to go grocery shopping. While this is happening, I can't find my work ID.

So, a chaotic 5 days with an emotionally straining day of work yesterday, which was followed up with me getting hardly any down time after work which was followed up by a stressful morning.

Oyeeee...pray for me, people. This nursing schedule my wife is on can really freakin' strain me. Now we're trying for a 2nd kid, and I'm honestly not sure my mental health can handle a newborn thrown into this chaos.

My (deceased) mom would have done the dropoff, then without forewarning, returned to do the dishes, and buy some groceries. And my siblings and I would do the same thing presented the same situation.

Funny thing is the whole gay frogs is rooted in some truths since there's published scientific papers on the effects of atrazine on frogs, he just takes it to a whole nother level and it became meme.

there's no such thing as too much atrazine in your diet.

I have to wonder, if smart phones and social media was banned overnight, would people experience withdrawal? How would society react? There's such a dopamine rush from scrolling on the phone, and people lean in it when theyre bored, depressed, lonely, etc.. The younger generation would really struggle. We'd have to learn how to twiddle our thumbs when we're bored again, haha. The fallout would likely be pretty extreme.

definitely a preferred solution to legalizing public masturbation.

 

[Gras]

told my wife about that this weekend. She didn't believe me/it either.

Not bragging, but I'm at the point in my life that I can afford most of whatever I want, but I live simply, too. Some of the favorite things I have in my sheds were garbage-picked and repaired / re-used. hand tools, lawnmowers, grow boxes, etc. My favorite long-sleeve pullover winter sleeping shirt I picked up off the road a couple decades ago, washed it, and put into the winter wardrobe. So soft and perfect weight/thickness to not sweat in. take it to hunting camp every year, also. Upcoming project for my covered back porch rebuild is to take an old southern yellow-pine built-in kitchen cabinet upper garbage-picked several years ago and modify it for use on the back porch as a base-cabinet for storing games, picnic items, etc. I have gone overboard in the past and hung on to crap I had no hope of time to restore to use, but I nipped that last year with a good purge. This weekend I'll build a face frame and carcass for (3) solid-wood desk drawers I picked a couple years ago and had in the attic eaves. I'll add salvaged casters and it will become a rolling under-the-workbench storage cabinet for my shop shed.
All the males in my dad's side of the family had/have that frugality. they all grew up in or were born in the depression, and carried that mentality throughout life and imparted to their families, the boys especially.

Conversely, as my wife reminds me, I could just be a cheap bastard. We had dinner a couple nights ago and my wife reminded me we went there for a first date or early date 13 years ago, and I brought a coupon.


One of my frugal qualities is to keep old clothes for yard work, etc. which make me look rather homeless.
Some of my items are 30-40 years old. I told my wife I'll purge a good bit of it, but I need to keep at least one old pair of shoes, socks, pants, shirts, etc., which are so old that it would make it difficult for law enforcement forensics to match fibers, tread, etc. to a place of manufacture or purchase, before many of those databases were linked. Also, some old plastic bags, the aforementioned garbage picked yard tools, etc.

Just on the odd chance I needed to commit a heinous crime in the future.

I do have a recurring dream about bodies I buried being discovered. Note to all: I have never buried a body. Nor created a body requiring burying.


My (deceased) mom would have done the dropoff, then without forewarning, returned to do the dishes, and buy some groceries. And my siblings and I would do the same thing presented the same situation.


there's no such thing as too much atrazine in your diet.


definitely a preferred solution to legalizing public masturbation.

May become a reality in Washington

Neighbors demand answers after ‘rampant masturbation’ takes over Seattle park

Nudity is not illegal in Washington state

www.the-independent.com

 

[Mike McDermott]

The conversations people will with other people around them when on the phone with a company are wild. Like I don’t think some people realize that when we ask for a moment of silence to process their request that we can still hear them.

 

[brian_griffin]

You may have seen these trial lawyer and witness answers...

stupidity is alive and well

 

[Dubi Doo]

Man, Ive just been dragging this week. I wonder if some trauma is lingering from the code on Monday. Im glad I have my wife to lean in. It really hit me hard watching the wife say goodbye to her husband. He was only in his 50s. It made me think of when that day will come for my wife and I. I've played the scene over a few times in my had.

My therapist said trauma symptoms can last days, weeks, or longer. I believe the most traumatic stuff Ive seen has only lingered a week or so. It's interesting being more aware of my reactions to those situations


Or....maybe it's just parenting a 5 year, and chasing his little butt around the house, haha

 

[Chainshot]

Successfully packed and moved my youngest back home yesterday. We had five people there to see her off at move-in... and it was just me to handle move out.

 

[TehDoak]

Just used up all our credit cards rewards points booking a trip to Chicago at the end of June. It's been a few years (fall of 2021) since we've been to my favorite city. Bringing the kids for the first time. Weeeeeee.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Successfully packed and moved my youngest back home yesterday. We had five people there to see her off at move-in... and it was just me to handle move out.

Our experience at Liberty was really good. The RAs conduct an inspection of each room the night prior to move out. All items must in out of the room and staged in the hallway. So my daughter had to pack everything the night before. If she didn't, her stuff would have been all over the hallway.

Nothing stolen. Took be two trips with a cart and about 20 total minutes to pack our truck.

If you're not familiar with Liberty, I'd take a trip to visit if you've got kids considering college.

 

[Chainshot]

Our experience at Liberty was really good. The RAs conduct an inspection of each room the night prior to move out. All items must in out of the room and staged in the hallway. So my daughter had to pack everything the night before. If she didn't, her stuff would have been all over the hallway.

Nothing stolen. Took be two trips with a cart and about 20 total minutes to pack our truck.

If you're not familiar with Liberty, I'd take a trip to visit if you've got kids considering college.

Rollins does the inspection when the last resident of the room leaves but they have to sign up - they get a 10-minute window for the RA to make the assessment. Luckily she got one of the last available in the morning yesterday. The next closest was at 6:20 p.m.

The upside for move out was the elevator was working and most of the dorm had already departed. I snagged a cart and used my old warehousing skills to get everything moved and packed. Their staff was great which has been my experience of them throughout.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Rollins does the inspection when the last resident of the room leaves but they have to sign up - they get a 10-minute window for the RA to make the assessment. Luckily she got one of the last available in the morning yesterday. The next closest was at 6:20 p.m.

The upside for move out was the elevator was working and most of the dorm had already departed. I snagged a cart and used my old warehousing skills to get everything moved and packed. Their staff was great which has been my experience of them throughout.

College that provide carts for moving are gold.

I remember no such luxury from my college days.

And yes, get off my lawn!

 

[slip]

Just used up all our credit cards rewards points booking a trip to Chicago at the end of June. It's been a few years (fall of 2021) since we've been to my favorite city. Bringing the kids for the first time. Weeeeeee.

Sitting on about 4 million points myself, and I don’t even like to travel that much.

Yes, I have a point hoarding problem.

 

[Gras]

Sitting on about 4 million points myself, and I don’t even like to travel that much.

Yes, I have a point hoarding problem.

I havent travelled for work in almost 10 years and Im still sitting on about 350k miles on Delta since they never expire.

 

[slip]

I havent travelled for work in almost 10 years and Im still sitting on about 350k miles on Delta since they never expire.

Ah yes, Skypesos. They’ve lost about 2/3 of their redemption value over that time. Use them up Gras!

 

[Gras]

Ah yes, Skypesos. They’ve lost about 2/3 of their redemption value over that time. Use them up Gras!

I have a wedding in Cancun in January so some will be used for that

 

[Chainshot]

College that provide carts for moving are gold.

I remember no such luxury from my college days.

And yes, get off my lawn!

Watching the amount of furniture that was coming out of dorm rooms was very, very different from my time in the dorms.

 

[brian_griffin]

Our experience at Liberty was really good. The RAs conduct an inspection of each room the night prior to move out. All items must in out of the room and staged in the hallway. So my daughter had to pack everything the night before. If she didn't, her stuff would have been all over the hallway.

Nothing stolen. Took be two trips with a cart and about 20 total minutes to pack our truck.

If you're not familiar with Liberty, I'd take a trip to visit if you've got kids considering college.

Lynchburg is beautiful valley. Was their ca. 2017 to look at school for my son. A colleague sent his daughter there a couple years prior but she returned home after a couple semesters.

Watching the amount of furniture that was coming out of dorm rooms was very, very different from my time in the dorms.

Ah yes, the 1980s where college / dorm decor was “Early American Cardboard”

 

[AV18]

College that provide carts for moving are gold.

I remember no such luxury from my college days.

And yes, get off my lawn!

My sophomore year the carts were only available until like 3pm and I didn't get there until later in the day. We ended up running out to Kmart later (speaking of being old) and then my aunt decided to shove a shopping cart into the van at the last minute right before we shut the doors. We used the shopping cart to move the rest of my stuff in and then gave it to someone in the lobby so he could use it for his belongings