A local kid, age 5, did that a couple months ago and ended up in someone's pool in the middle of the night. Didn't turn out well.
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A local kid, age 5, did that a couple months ago and ended up in someone's pool in the middle of the night. Didn't turn out well.
That is because you have more respect for mine than I do for yours.
Ruthless!
I took it to mean you didn't want "yours" involved but you wouldn't mind the visual component.
We added locks to the fence gates, and safety latches to the door knobs.
But we had a hard time getting out then too. Kid safe, but not really fire safe.
The house was coming in July, then August well finally they ran out of excuses. The house was delivered and placed on the foundation today.
They of course hit a tree while taking it down the driveway. They say it can be fixed.
They of course hit a tree while taking it down the driveway. They say it can be fixed.
If you have an alarm system and live in a gated community, you are not 10 miles from civilization. It has found you.
If you have an alarm system and live in a gated community, you are not 10 miles from civilization. It has found you.
Sounds like you missed the point that I have no external need for an alarm system because I'm enough off the beaten path that there's a near zero chance of the sort of incidental or wayward traffic that leads to opportunistic burglaries, and on top of that and inexplicably someone at some point decided to install a gate. But if it makes you feel better, darnit you sure showed me!
Who knows you better than you? No one, not even your Doctor. So why would a complete stranger argue about your health?
I dropped the wife off to play bocce ball this guy comes up to me and says I see you have hand tremors. He then asks me if I'm going to play bocce ball.
I said no, as you noticed I have hand tremors I can't even hold a pen. The ball will go flying and someone will get hurt.
He continued to argue with me, I even told him about throwing my phone while in my boat into the lake. He then tells me I should play cards with them on Friday. I said exactly how I'm I supposed to hold the cards?
I wanted to tell him to f*** off but didn't want the wife to get mad. I was mad enough for the two of us.
Two days later the wife is at the pool he comes over to apologize for arguing with me. He tells her it must be frustrating for your husband to have tremors that bad. She said for the most part he has learned to live with it, he just doesn't like it when someone argues with him about it.
Then she walked away, I told her it was to bad she didn't have a microphone to drop.
I dropped the wife off to play bocce ball this guy comes up to me and says I see you have hand tremors. He then asks me if I'm going to play bocce ball.
I said no, as you noticed I have hand tremors I can't even hold a pen. The ball will go flying and someone will get hurt.
He continued to argue with me, I even told him about throwing my phone while in my boat into the lake. He then tells me I should play cards with them on Friday. I said exactly how I'm I supposed to hold the cards?
I wanted to tell him to f*** off but didn't want the wife to get mad. I was mad enough for the two of us.
Two days later the wife is at the pool he comes over to apologize for arguing with me. He tells her it must be frustrating for your husband to have tremors that bad. She said for the most part he has learned to live with it, he just doesn't like it when someone argues with him about it.
Then she walked away, I told her it was to bad she didn't have a microphone to drop.
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GPS and Radio correction on the farm.
I subscribe to a radio correction signal that give sub 1” accuracy. $700 a year.
All fields have AB lines around the perimeters and boundaries saved.
Why? You can set up an artificial headland on the turn rows or end rows. It also operates automatic shut offs for the planter and sprayer etc.
We start fall tillage and cover crop rye seeding and all of our stuff is shifted about 9’ north and 3’ east.
Turns out the antenna was hit by lightening and replaced. The coordinates weren’t written down so when it resurveyed, it shifted.
The Piss & Moan: Why the hell didn’t they bother to inform the users?
Is everyone a fuck up nowadays?
I subscribe to a radio correction signal that give sub 1” accuracy. $700 a year.
All fields have AB lines around the perimeters and boundaries saved.
Why? You can set up an artificial headland on the turn rows or end rows. It also operates automatic shut offs for the planter and sprayer etc.
We start fall tillage and cover crop rye seeding and all of our stuff is shifted about 9’ north and 3’ east.
Turns out the antenna was hit by lightening and replaced. The coordinates weren’t written down so when it resurveyed, it shifted.
The Piss & Moan: Why the hell didn’t they bother to inform the users?
Is everyone a fuck up nowadays?
Who's the network provider? We use similar equipment for our construction and survey company for civil construction. We invested 7 figures in TopCon equipment, and the reseller is Geoshack. They completely suck, but they are TopCon's sole dealer for many states around, and we can't afford to buy new equipment from Leica or Trimble and start over with a better reseller. We gave up on Geoshack's network and our surveyor just sets a base up at every site. By the way, $700 for an annual subscription is cheap. For construction companies, it's ten times that. Why? Because they can, that's why.
Oh, that's just fantastic. The whole idea of differential GPS is based on a highly accurate survey of the base station. Yea - I think damn near everybody is a fuck up. I for one am tired of stupidity - esp. wilful stupidity.
The problem these days is you can't just pickup a phone, call and speak to whoever is in charge, and get things straightened out. Now with cell phones, text, email, etc. people can just ignore the things they don't feel like paying attention to and hope that someone else picks up the slack. News flash: NOBODY is picking up the slack. Things just fall apart and nobody will accept responsibility.
My dad is in his mid 80's and wanted to buy a TV at Best Buy on credit. Has the money, has excellent credit. Filled out their credit app in the store and was denied. He tried to find out why and couldn't get an answer. He tried to call the store manager (I told him it doesn't work like that anymore) and couldn't get a hold of one. Tried for a few days regardless to get a hold of a store manager, left messages. They wouldn't call him back. So he paid more for the TV somewhere else in a big FU to Best Buy.
I tried to explain to him that nobody at Best Buy is going to miss his business. Nobody will call him back. The credit dept. is an external bank that really has nothing to do with Best Buy other than printing a card with their name one it. He's old school and will probably never buy anything from Best Buy again because of this. It does suck because Best Buy is about 5 minutes from his house and sometimes I need him to pickup parts before I go visit. Oh well, going to have order everything on Amazon now.
This is also why many brick & mortar stores are failing. They're being run buy large companies that allow this shitty customer service.
Yep. The last two times I tried to buy something on credit - 90 days same as cash type deals, Its been a clusterfuck and I've just skipped it and paid for the item. I too have excellent credit, don't owe anybody anything, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah. The one time I was denied because I didn't have a "mortgage loan within the last 12 months", the other was an online situation that required me to have a smartphone to do business with them. The first shows just how stupid and what a game "credit" is - you're supposed to be in debt up to your ears, then they'll loan you all the money you want; the second is just smartphone bullshit stupidity, its all about the PHOOOOOONNE!! Either way - there's absolutely ZERO appeal, nothing can be done about it, there's nobody to talk to, blah, blah. Same exact thing with Insurance - did you know there's now an "insurance score" that is largely based on your credit? BANKS and InsCos - fuck all of them.
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Yeah, that happened to my dad too. He was dealing with a potential purchase and they wanted to send him a txt message. He has a pre-historic flip phone for simplicity and didn't know how to respond to the txt and ended up passing up the deal. He asked them to txt me for confirmation and they wouldn't do it. Having the money isn't good enough sometimes. SMH
He was asking about getting a smart phone so he could check scores on ESPN and such. I showed him my phone when I was over there and tried to show him how to use it and the ESPN app. 5 minutes later he handed back my phone and said he's no longer interested. Touch screen is too complicated for him, though he can use a desktop PC and mouse.
This segues into a whole different discussion that I won't bore everybody with. Why the FUCK does it ALWAYS have to be all about the PHOOOOOONNE!?!?! The instant someone expects me to spend $1,200 on a device plus atrocious monthly usage fees just to do "something normal", is when I check out. You can send me a fucking email or you can call me - or even send me US Snail. Otherwise, I'm not participating in your smartphone addled world and will take my business elsewhere.
this one is entirely of my own making.
I had a work meeting at a job site at a specific store in Nebraska belonging to a major nationwide retailer. I can name two cities in Nebraska and had never been.
I woke up in my hotel in Omaha, 65 minutes before the meeting start, thinking I had a comfortable amount of time to clean myself up, sit down to eat a decent-enough breakfast, and get to the store 12 minutes away. Then I glanced at my phone where the calendar event had now worked its way up in my calendar enough that it was visible on the home screen...and realized I was attending a meeting in Lincoln. Not Omaha.
Fortunately it was *only* 62 minutes away so I threw my clothes on, packed up, and grabbed a blueberry muffin on the way out the door and ended up walking into a conference room with a dozen or so engineers, managers, and contractors I've never met, 15 minutes late.
Best I can figure is I knew I needed to fly into Omaha and booked it and then had Omaha in my mind when I booked my hotel, and since this store typically only has one location in a city that size, I just entered Omaha and the name of the store to find a hotel close by instead of looking back to the event for the address. I'm just glad Lincoln isn't halfway across the state.
I had a work meeting at a job site at a specific store in Nebraska belonging to a major nationwide retailer. I can name two cities in Nebraska and had never been.
I woke up in my hotel in Omaha, 65 minutes before the meeting start, thinking I had a comfortable amount of time to clean myself up, sit down to eat a decent-enough breakfast, and get to the store 12 minutes away. Then I glanced at my phone where the calendar event had now worked its way up in my calendar enough that it was visible on the home screen...and realized I was attending a meeting in Lincoln. Not Omaha.
Fortunately it was *only* 62 minutes away so I threw my clothes on, packed up, and grabbed a blueberry muffin on the way out the door and ended up walking into a conference room with a dozen or so engineers, managers, and contractors I've never met, 15 minutes late.
Best I can figure is I knew I needed to fly into Omaha and booked it and then had Omaha in my mind when I booked my hotel, and since this store typically only has one location in a city that size, I just entered Omaha and the name of the store to find a hotel close by instead of looking back to the event for the address. I'm just glad Lincoln isn't halfway across the state.
Why is it light roast coffee is hard to find but dark roast is everywhere? Why do people like dark roast? It tastes burnt and has the least caffeine. To me liking dark roast is the equivalent of liking your steak well done.
I'm not a big coffee drinker and actually prefer the reduced caffeine but I agree 100% on the flavor.
Maybe powering through something that tastes terrible makes people feel tough. Same explanation I come up with for how people drink bottom shelf liquor.
This sounds like something I would do. The frustration is awful at that moment and then you can't really get over that until the meeting is over.