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UPDATED: Thursday, May 23, 2024 14:59
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Shia Labouf and sam Worthington!
Their contracts state that they must be in all action/fantasy/syfy moviez until further notice.
About your no carpets where the pets are idea - where are they suppozed to barf then?
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Haha! Sam Worthington though....? He might be able to be Mal's slightly younger bro, but he's got a few years on me. Wouldn't piss me off so much if he was the guy getting face time with Megan Fox in the Transformers movies :)
At first I thought you were talking about Sam Rockwell, who it turns out is over a decade older than me (I can't believe that!). You should check out his movie Moon. It's AWESOME. I saw it twice. Once at my dads on an old standard TV and then again on Blu Ray at my brothers house. The movie is entirely different in 1080. It's as if you were right in the room with him.
Dogz and Catz aren't supposed to barf if you're feeding them right. I suppose though, if I had a cat today that took care of the mouse problem that has just popped up, I wouldn't hold it against the cat if it barfed up mouse bits on the hardwood.
Got my traps today. Going to set them tomorrow.
I hate hurting any animals, but this is MY house 
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Originally posted by JO753:
Shia Labouf and sam Worthington!
Their contracts state that they must be in all action/fantasy/syfy moviez until further notice.
About your no carpets where the pets are idea - where are they suppozed to barf then?
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Sam Rockwellz contract stipulates that he gets to show hiz ass in all hiz moviez. Naturally he wuz the star uv Moon!
I saw that this year. Great movie!
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Yeah, Moon rocked!
LOL... about ass shots in every movie. When I saw moon it was killing me the whole time because I knew I saw Rockwell before but couldn't place it. It wasn't until I watched MADE a second time, John Favreau and Vince Vaughn's Swingers-type mob followup that I remembered that's where I saw him before. He was the poor schmuck bellhop that Vince humiliated and threw his drink on for no reason (just Vince being his usual D-bag self ) As far as I know that was the only other movie I've seen him in, and he didn't get to show his ass in that one. It must have been before he got a better agent to get him a sweeter deal.
I remember the days when Bruce Willis had the ass-shot-in-every-movie contract. Guess I missed the memo that it was bequeathed to Sam. 
I like Moon because it's one of those movies that you're like "WTF is going on" the entire time, but when it's over you pretty much get the gist of it. Two other movies I can really recommend if you liked that one are Ink, and Total Recall. You've probably seen Total Recall by now if you weren't living in a cave, but Ink is something almost nobody has heard of. It's in my top 10 movies of all time and it's probably the best damn movie that nobody has ever heard of. Oh.... eXistenZ with Jennifer Jason Lee and Jude Law is pretty sweet too. (That one took a bit of contemplating after watching it the first time, but I'm pretty sure after the second viewing I don't have any unanswered questions).
I also like those movies where you're like "WTF is going on?" the entire time, but at the end of the movie you're like "WHAT!!!!???? THAT'S IT!!!!!???? WTF DID I JUST WATCH!!!!?????".
My top three in that category are "Donnie Darko" "Mullhulland Drive" and "Event Horizon". Every few years I watch them again, and to this day, I still don't know what the hell they're about. One time I thought I finally got Donnie Darko, but when I watched it again the next night to verify my opinion I realized that I just had more questions I didn't even think to ask before.
Pretty frustrating movies overall, but if you got a mind like mine they make for some pretty heavy pondering.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Boy.....
Romex can be a tricky mistress.....
She lures you in with that siren's song of (I'm so much easier to install even though I'm against code), but if you're anything like me and have no desire to burn your house down, you better do it right.
I was working later than I should have (again) on the circuit a few days before Christmas and I thought everything was perfect before nightfall. I flipped on the switch to the main in my almost completely dark basement and I saw a spark that nearly made me shit myself. (I hear that those sparks happen all the time when a breaker goes, but I've just never been in front of the box in near-dark when it happened before).
For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. It's Romex, to an outlet.... not even a switch. It should be "Electric for Dummies".
After a little bit of internet research I found another person who had the same problem as I ended up having. I'd like to refer to it as Herculitis.
This ain't conduit son... no need to tighten down those screws so tight that you could make the wires bleed copper.
When I loosened the connectors and pulled some of the cable through, my Romex was just as burned as hers was. After removing the yellow sheathing I discovered that the neutral (white) leads were pinched so bad that the copper was exposed.
It's all good. I had an extra 5 feet of it for the length I needed in the first place, and rather than be a cheap bastard about it and thinking I could use that 5 feet somewhere else someday, I just left it behind where teh drywall will go up. I just had to pull about 6-7 inches more through each side and start again.
Now I got me 3 working outlets in the secondary bedroom.
BTW... does anybody know if it's kosher to drill 3/4" holes through ceiling joists to run conduit? I want to move a light switch for the bedroom so it's actually in the bedroom and not across the hall. The current switch, which is about 3 feet away from the room, is wired over the joists and under the carpet of the finished attic crawl space. I'd much rather rip up the ceiling drywall and drill through joists than rip up finished carpet and the plywood beneath to get the outlet where it should be.
If you've got any thoughts....
Thanks!
I can't wait until that's done and I can primer over the hideous colors on those walls in that room.
"A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned." ~Shepherd Book
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Now I got me 3 working outlets in the secondary bedroom.
BTW... does anybody know if it's kosher to drill 3/4" holes through ceiling joists to run conduit?
If you've got any thoughts....
Giggles...You roll with it yer own bad self
Whatev you can get to work, and not look too outta place, right? 
I asked hubbs, who had to take a wiring course for ADT, he said 3/4 in IS kosher, as long as it is in the middle of the joist, and as long as any low voltage wires like phone, cable are not run with it, they have to be a couple inches away at very least...
Hope at least SOME of yer weekend was relaxing
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Hehe....
The last few days were very relaxing.......
Too relaxing, in fact, so my new unpaid tenants, the mice would tell me.
I hadn't cleaned my kitchen for a few days with the holidays and I was mortified when I woke up this morning and saw all the mouse poop on the kitchen counter. I had a brand new loaf of bread out there that I had to throw away. From the front it looked good, but they chewed right through it and ate about the size of 3 of them right out of the bag.
And what thanks do I get for the free food?
About 30 pellets of mouse crap on my counter that are smaller than any respectable ant's body, that's what...... 
Seems they're either too tricky for the traps I set this morning or they're too aware of me stomping around. Hopefully I get a few of those bastards and I'll start again tomorrow.
I HATE the idea of killing any animal. In fact, I'm the guy who will trap a spider in a cup and a piece of cardboard and let it outside. I just know there's no other way to rid oneself of mice, and this is my house Gorram it.
Tell hubby thanks for the electrical/joist tip. I probably have only 5 joists to drill through from the look of it (without actually removing the drywall, that's my guess).
This is good news. I was hoping I didn't have to either rip up carpet upstairs or tear down half of my ceiling just to get this run an alternate way.
I hate Romex, and I wanted to do any new electric to code, but the existing structure wouldn't allow me to do it for the 2nd outlet. It was either seal it all back up without an outlet and call it a day or use the Romex.
You could ask your husband this.... but my thought is that properly wired Romex is completely safe, it's just not up to code because if anything ever dies there's no conduit to snake new wire through.
From what I've seen so far, I bet half of this house is Romex anyways. Was there even electrical code back in 1960?
If you want a house that's perfectly up to code, you better build it from scratch yourself or buy a new house. Even then, do you trust that the guys building it didn't cut any corners?
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We don't really have building codes here. It's kinda like red lights are just a suggestion 
People here wouldn't follow 'em anyway. You think I'm kidding. We don't really even have building permits, nobody notices or cares if you hammer away the night...
A part of out house still has old fiberglass sheathed wiring. I talked to an electrician that says some in the area still have knob 'n tube wiring, sheesh.
It's nice here, but I sure wouldn't mind having something to do, that's not of my own making...
Egh, mice...We had some here when we first moved in(house was empty for 6 months), I can't sleep when I know one is in the house... See if you can figure out where they are gettin' in at, and if you can find any holes behind cabinets or baseboards or in closets and nail them shut!!!... Putting in new trim helped a lot here. Ours were in the attic, little bastards. One was a fancy rat, had creepy little hands instead of furry paws, *shudder. 4 boxes of poison dribbled in various locale and (knock on wood) we haven't seen 'em since. Couple even had the decency to die IN our trash can, heh. Just remember, if you get a pet or have kids over TO PUT THE BOXES AWAY. We forgot when we puppysat and just barely remembered in time, whew! A little won't hurt most, but if they eat alot they bleed to death internally, ick...
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Haha... I bet you're right about the code down there. I hear in Illinois if you drive about an hour south of Kankakee the only time the un-Constitutional smoking ban in is ever enforced in any of the bars or restaurants (outside of Springfield) is if the owner doesn't like smoking and gets enough non-smoking patronage or the bartender just doesn't like you. It's only by the really big cities/suburbs that these things ever seem to be taken seriously.
We're probably a little too close to Cook County where I'm at though. It's got its plusses and minuses. It's nice having a bit more of a country feel and privacy here than back home, but at the same time having a White Castle, Pizza Hut, KMart and Menards all within walking distance ain't half bad either.
I've heard from a neighbor or two that Romex for new electric probably wouldn't fly around here, not that they give two shits about code themselves. The way I figure it so much of this house is wired up sub-code that unless I was going to gut every interior wall I'd not really be accomplishing all that much by making the small amount of electric I'm doing up to code. Chances are, even if I somehow managed to devise a way to use conduit to the 2nd outlet, there's no chance I'd ever be able to fish back to the box from the 1st outlet.
As long as it's all safe, that's all I really care about. If I wire it up right the first time, it will be just as good 60 years from now as the day it was installed, right?
Ah... the mice.....
Got two of those little bastards while I was sleeping last night. Must have got them right away because the food looks untouched. These plastic Ortho traps seem to be so much better than the old wooden/metal traps. No mess at all... not even any punctured skin. And the same tab that you depress to "lock" it into the ready position is the same tab you press to release the mouse in the garbage.
My grandma said that once you use a trap you can't re-use it... but she was talking about the old wooden ones that make a mess. These things look perfectly clean, so I don't see why they wouldn't work a second time, even without washing them and putting new bait inside.
That being said, I didn't wash them and I just put them right back where they were and reset them. It's been almost 24 hours since I've caught anything.
So, either:
A) I'll have to wash the traps and re-bait them.
B) I only had two mice in the house.
C) My mice are a mouse/raptor hybrid and they're not about to fall for the same trick twice, no matter how much I clean the traps.
I'm hoping for B
I saw my first mouse about 10 or so days ago, and I had two other times where I've seen them clumsily trying to scurry away behind the stove or the kitchen as I entered the kitchen (they really aren't graceful creatures at all, are they???)
I guess it's possible that if I only spotted 3 mice in 10 days that there were only 2 here. Some lady on the Lowes website who reviewed these things said that she caught about 7 of them in a few hours with these traps (and she was mortified that there had been a "gang" of mice in her house before).
Anyways... got the drywall up over the two outlets I was working on today. Going to mud them tomorrow. I hated having to use my 1/2" mold resistant drywall up on the 2nd floor, but because the outside walls in that room were two sheets of drywall that was 7/8" thick I had to improvise and use a dual layer of my 1/2" greenboard and 3/8" regular drywall. It's not that I'm sweating the 2 bucks more a sheet price, but I don't have a pickup truck yet and when I run out of drywall I'm going to have to ask another favor to pick up more.
The light switch is going to be such a bitch however. It's gotta be done though. I couldn't live with myself if I just skipped over that completely and started painting that room knowing that I could have spent a while getting that switch in the room like it should be.
Man... I always thought I loved working with electric. Turns out I only love
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I saw an article the other day that said rats will free other rats if given the option...don't underestimate the critters...
Oh, and I get the 200 POST goodness!
Wanna go for 3?
I wonder what the longest post on this site IS??
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