6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I hope to hear from Wish now that I've finally got some more pics up. I miss having her around here :(
Weren't avoiding you, were avoiding the topic. I had a really bad few weeks where nothing got accomplished, and didn't wanna talk about it.
Finally got halfway up to speed today. Painting the front of the house to match the siding that's going up. Hope I can stay runnin for a while, but I never know.
Gettin somewhere, just slowly
PS. Check the taglog on the side of the home screen. He he he...
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Well I was just lampooning anyway Jack, which you knew - Tax Assessment has to be one of the most corrupt institutions ever, in both directions, that I have ever seen, and I am not at all adverse to bending the tax man over and servicing him good and proper if the opportunity arises, sure enough he gets his turn on you often enough!
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Guess that's one of the good things about living out here in the middle of nowhere in a dinky county in an old fixer-upper, my property taxes are about the same as a couple of ol' Tanks' gas fill-ups, but that's probably in part because we have ta fill up ol' Tank about a thousand times more than other folk. One or the other- it's how it always goes!
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Glad to hear you're making progress Wish. I've been kicking some ass over here and I got all the damn grass seed planted early enough in the spring that it shouldn't rely on me watering it 3 or 4 times a day when I have to start working full time.
Damn... taxes by you are a few hundred bucks, huh? Nice :) I'm sure it's because you have to drive far for most of what you do though (that's a really simplistic view of it, but in the end, it's a good way of looking at it). I'm not really bitching about the $2,300 tax price here. I knew it was close to that before I moved in, and that's why I moved here. In Crook County, my taxes would be at least $5k, but more likely $6k a year if I owned the exact same house just over the border.
Something's wrong though when I've got the highest taxes on the block (I do have the largest land by far, but it's not brick and there are bigger houses than mine). I'm sure the assessors got in before the previous owners moved in and jacked the prices up and they never fought it. The assessors probably went back in after they got foreclosed on too, but of course they didn't reduce the price at all when they saw all that was missing and damaged since the last assessment. That will be on me to fight it now.
Oh... I haven't been in chat for days lol. I never turn my computer off. I forget to log out of things like this when I'm on my PC I know nobody else will use. BTW... I just figured out what the taglog was. What did it say????
I knew you were joking Frem 
Funny thing is, I've paid WAY more in taxes this year than I've physically made in income. My income is still under $1,000 bucks for the year. After I make another withdrawal from the retirement accounts, my income tax burden for that will be nearly $1,500 bucks. I have a $1,300 property tax bill due in 30 days, and I paid 35 bucks for car registration for the year. Not to mention sales taxes and excise taxes on the booze and smokes. By the end of the month i bet I will have paid 4 times more in taxes than I've made so far this year!
Again... nothing unexpected here. Just gotta start making some cash and doing what I can to lessen the tax burden. 
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I just figured out what the taglog was. What did it say????
You can use the scroll up/down buttin on the side of it to read the whole thing...
I just tried to go to Avengers and was only 15 minutes early and it was sold out, then a rock flew offa truck and put a cm long crack in my windshield
Why can't anything EVER go easy???
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Sorry for your bummerz, Wish. Odd how bad luck seemz to happen in clusterz.
I hav to thank you, Jack. I changed the shoks on my car yesterday & wenzday & usually that kind uv chore work bugz me, but insted I had a different attitude and didnt mind all the little obstaclez.
Hard to describe the difference, but I wuz thinking about you doing your remodelling work and everything here iz linked to Firefly, so naturally I'm picturing you az Mal overcoming every challenge.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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Hey Wish, I think I saw it then... were you talking about how somebody should feed me?
Bummer about your windshield. Is it really bad? I've had a crack on my Camry since I bought it. Nasty little spiderweb. It hasn't really gotten big like I've been anticipating it to. I figure I'll ride around with it until I get pulled over. That one will be easy for me to talk my way out of a fine. Down where you're at, they probably would never bother you about it at all. If money is tight, you might consider foregoing that fix until things start getting better. (I have good feelings about next year for all of us )
Why can't anything ever go easy? Haha... preaching to the choir here... There's not a single project that I've done on this house yet that took anywhere near how long I thought it would take. Some of them, like the damn crabbage patch took 5 times as long to do than I thought going into it! At least, except for restoring the hardwood floor, the financial costs have actually been less in almost every project than I estimated going into it.
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Originally posted by JO753:I hav to thank you, Jack. I changed the shoks on my car yesterday & wenzday & usually that kind uv chore work bugz me, but insted I had a different attitude and didnt mind all the little obstaclez.
Hard to describe the difference, but I wuz thinking about you doing your remodelling work and everything here iz linked to Firefly, so naturally I'm picturing you az Mal overcoming every challenge.
Wow JO,
Thanks!
That really means more to me than you might think.
I bet it felt good after it was done and you could sit back and admire your handiwork and let it sink in just how much you saved on labor to boot.
Was that the first time you replaced shocks before? If it was, that's especially cool. I love learning how to do new things and using new tools. Once my house is in order, my dream is to be able to buy a classic car and restore it from the ground up like they do on those late-night auto-shows and really bling it out.
I'd sure love to be Mal, but I'm not nearly as "pretty" as Nathan. I always related to Mal and Book the most on the show, maybe a little bit of Jayne's crazy-ness and all around lone wolf bad-ass-ery in the mix too. I guess if the three of them had a love-child, that would be about on par with my outlook on life as well as the looks department
I'd love to say I had a bit of Wash in me, but I'm just not the happy-go-lucky fun type. My brother who co-founded the 76th Batallion is Wash through and through. If I ever had a ship in the future, he'd be my pilot/comic relief
Keep flying man.
NEW PIC!!!!!
Hastas planted, FINALLY!
I hope to get some other nice shrubbery from my neighbor, and hopefully some things that won't die off in the winter so it won't look totally bare 5 months out of the year. If not, I'll just have to figure that out down the road. I'm sure if I start trolling Craigslist I can find some mature bushes and evergreens without paying premium prices for them.
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WOW!
I love documenting things with pics......
Here I am, looking at the grass in the pool today thinking that things aren't progressing along as fast as they should be, and then I check out these pics from 4 days ago.
There's at least twice as much grass growing now! Half of that pool is filled. I just hope the rest starts coming in soon. Way too many bald spots for my liking still. Nothing growing on the former crabbage patch yet but weeds still. Hopefully something starts coming up soon.
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"Job Search 101" OR "What Nobody Ever Taught You"
Or at least nobody ever taught me, anyway....
I think I may have mentioned the overnight stocking position available at the local K-Mart I'd applied to a month ago. I know I've mentioned a lot of jobs that I've applied to but never heard anything back about, and how frustrating it is to have worked such a great job for 5 years straight and then you can't even get your foot in the door at a big chain for an hourly waged position that high school kids can get.
So... I checked online for that position again, and sure enough, it's still out there. I went to KMart today to buy a jug of weed preventer for the area with the hostas before I put the anti-weed fabric down, and I asked the girl at the register who I could call to follow up on an online application if I hadn't heard anything back. She dropped the name of the hiring manager and said she'd be in later in the day. Sure enough, they had my resume. She told me to hold on a minute while she "saw how I did". When I told her I'd give up my security job instead of looking at this as a second job, she told me they probably couldn't pay as much as a security job did. I said, that might not be the case since it was un-armed security and it was a temp firm and nothing but part-time placement so far. (I then went on to tell her that my REAL job was remodeling this house and that I just needed to actively seek out a source of REAL income to subsidize my living before I burn the nest egg up).
She told me she really wanted to give me an interview and to call her on Friday morning and maybe she could squeeze me in. I just got a call from her 20 minutes ago giving me a 10:30AM slot!
I don't know how well it pays yet (don't ever ask salary on the phone before the interview!). If it pays 9 bucks an hour and is at least 39 hours a week, I'll be doing just as well as I would driving out to a hospital in an undesirable neighborhood, and this job is so close I could just walk to work and back every night. I'm hopeful that because it's overnights that it should be paying at least a buck or more than minimum wage, so here's me keeping my fingers crossed.
Better yet.... ZERO customer service interaction, I'll be one of the only people in the store while I'm working, and I'll have a billion mindless things to keep my OCD mind occupied and happy so 8 to 12 hour shifts will just fly by for me like they do when I'm playing a dungeon crawler RPG game. (I don't REALLY enjoy playing those games.... it's more of a meditative/vegitative state I'm in while playing them. I just get pissed off the next day or week when I realized how much time I mindlessly sunk into my habits.... At least here, I'll be getting paid )
The best thing yet, the manager is a woman who sounds to be over 40 years old. I've never been denied a job when the interviewer was a woman over 40 years old. I'd say, given any unexpected curve balls, that this job is in the bag if I want it.
So...... to make a long story short.....
The lesson here for anyone having trouble even getting to the interview step is, if you've applied somewhere online, and you never got an email back saying that you weren't qualified, do some light "social engineering" and get somebody to drop a name of somebody who you could talk to to get the ball rolling.
Why didn't I ever get a call back or an email from the manager after applying online (here or anywhere else)? I couldn't tell you for sure, but I'm willing to guess that in this economy my resume was probably lost in a sea of 500 or 1,000 other resumes she was never actually going to sift through. It sounds like she's a really busy woman. Had I NOT called her and made a good enough impression over the phone to secure an interview on Friday, she probably never would have seen my application and she would have just "pic
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The place looks good!
Yes, I've dun shoks before. I've been driving this car since 89 and had 2 other 72 New Yorkers before that, plus a dozen other cars, mostly sister modelz or similarly big Chryslerz.
I worked az a stock boy at Jupiter! (which wuz an SS Kresge spin off or subsidiery like Kmart iz, but I think its just Kmart left now)
Iz it just my computer, or iz anybody else having this problem where the verticle line that showz where the typing iz going to happen duznt follow the arrow keyz or the mouse
, goramit!?
!! makes it a hassle to type!
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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