6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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How's your current temp job going? Still going okay?
I assume you're my pal until you let me know otherwise.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya.
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IN HOME IMPROVEMENT NEWS:
Wow! from that angle you can't even tell a pool was ever there now!
So.... that's the pool... sure a far cry from the previous pics from the 3rd.......
Sorry... had to put that all up here for my own benefit so I could see with my own eyes how much has been done now just by watering. It's hard to tell day-to-day.
Hey JO,
I haven't worked retail for over 12 years! At least I'll be behind the scenes if it's overnight, right?
Hey Riona,
Nothing new with that temp job. That's cool though because I hate it, and at this point I don't NEED it. If this overnight K-Mart stock position pays 8.50 an hour, i'll gladly pay it before driving 20 miles to an undesirable neighborhood to work security.
Things will get better.....
I already have my own dreams of creating a jack-of-all-trades temp service that will allow the laborers to accrue stock in the company the longer they work there.
No more Labor Ready, no more BS.....
If you prove to provide a positive momentum to the company, your rewards will only grow the longer you participate!
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BAH!!!!!
Crappy day today.....
K-Mart would have been more than happy to have me, but even the interviewer was saying it wasn't what I was looking for. 8 bucks an hour and only 24 hours a week. (Not what they advertized online!!!) She got me an interview on the 22nd right over the boarder where minimum wage is a buck higher with a security gig that would pay more than minimum wage though, so there's still hope there.
Got some more grass popping in the pool in the bald spots today, but it looks like Homer Simpson's "hair" on his head. I'm starting to think that I boffed the whole thing and I tilled the seeds too deep. If that's really the case, that means the 900sq/ft easement I tilled will probably have the same problem. I'm new to all of this though, so I may just be overreacting. I never even owned a Chia Pet as a kid lol.
Tomorrow will be better though...
TACO FEST at my parent's church. Every year, the day before Mother's day, a beautiful day when you can indulge in all you can eat tacos and beans and Spanish Rice and Nachos..... Every piece of it authentic... nothing processed!
My only problem on TACO FEST night is to do everything I can not to prematurely hibernate on my ride home after stuffing my belly to it's limits! It's the one night of the year that I eat so much it actually hurts....... Hurts so good!!!!
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Been a wile since I had tacoz. I make the filling either with Old Elpaso medium or Bennet's Chili Sauce. I I lay a bunch uv sharp cheddar strips over that in the taco.
I stopped eating them about 5 yirz ago wen I eliminated hydrogenated oil frum my diet. Nun uv the shellz didnt hav it. But last yir I noticed Old Elpaso finally got rid uv it, and had sum.
Your new avatar looks good. Wherez it frum?
I didnt hav much work last week, so I made a set uv antisway bar support struts. The stock werent long enuf since I added a heater to the lower radiator hoze and it wuz rubbing on the antisway bar.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
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Hey JO,
THE TACOS WERE AWESOME!!!!
It was cool too becacuse this year a ton of my family made it and it was more of a family party. I got there early at 4:30 and didn't leave till after 9PM. I ate so much by 5:30 though that I could hardly move, and I didn't ever go back for thirds. 
I load mine up with hot peppers, lettuce tomato and sharp cheddar. Lots of refried beans and my Mom's EXCELLENT Spanish rice on the side (I seriously could eat a gallon of that stuff out of a bowl if it was in front of me).
What's hydrogenated oil?????
The avitar is just me. It was one in a series of pics of myself I had recently taken for something else and for whatever reason that crazy light show obfuscated enough of my face I didn't have a problem putting it up here. I have no clue what happened to make it look that way, none of the other pictures had any problems at all.
Good to hear you're getting more done man! I don't know crap about cars, so you're speaking Chinese to me, but I think I get the main jist of it anyway. I really need to learn about cars when I get a chance. I'd love to make an old retired POS into a beautiful ride someday. I'll ask you and Frem about that when I get to that point 
I broke down today and spread new grass seed over the pool area by hand. I tried to get it as far into the center as I could, but I'm sure I'll have to re-seed that again as the perimeter (hopefully) fills in now. It's hard to throw uber-light-weight seeds like a fastball 14.5 feet in the wind when you've got a hole that spans 29 feet.
I don't know if the seeds will take, since I didn't rake them in at all, and the dirt has had a lot of time to settle now, but I'm hopeful. Before the grass started growing in at all and I was worried that I did something wrong, there were LOTS of visible seeds on the surface. There were NONE today before I spread the new seed. I figure by now, any seeds on the surface and shallow enough to grow would have sprouted by now. Maybe if I keep the soil moist enough with thourough watering I'll be able to get it in full before the really hot weather starts.
I REALLY HOPE I'M NOT STILL TRYING TO FILL 1,700 SQ FEET OF DIRT WITH GRASS COME SEPTEMBER!!!!!!!
Crabbage Patch = Roughly 910 sq/ft (Likely just a conservative estimate)
Pool = Roughly 660 sq/ft (3.14 * 14.5 * 14.5, plus a walkway and a boxed area where the filtration system was)
I just mowed the lawn today. Actually, the large filled in patches are nearly as tall now as the cut grass. Obviously, there nowhere near mature yet, but I did a REALLY careful job of cutting down the edges of the mature grass without disrupting the soil for the new grass and in the areas where the edges meet up with new grass patches that have fully taken hold it looks nearly indistinguishable now. I'M SO CLOSE!!!!!!
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I finally got my big kitchen window ripped out and replaced, as we bought and ordered it a year and a half ago...Sooooo nice to have a breeze, and I can open it one handed...I am very pleased with it.
Also, remember that mower I broke? After the third place I went to, which turned out to be a mostly industrial repair place, they said they'd take a look at it and he said the carburator was extremely dirty, and that he had never seen one like mine (something about a two way going into one with a float??) Anyway, I'm back ta ridin' again, yeehaw!
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You 2 woud be horrified if you saw my lawn. I havent mowed it this year! It turned to complete plants a few weeks ago, so its seeding itself!
I didnt mow most uv it frum about september last year wen a weel assembly fell off due to rust.
Hydrogenated oil iz the stuff that a group uv doctorz sued KFC about. Its basicly a cheap butter substitute. Cheap if you don't count all the bypass operationz and other health problemz cauzed by it clogging up our circulatory systemz. Its usually called transfat on packagez and in the nutrition info, but in the ingredients its called hydrogenated oil. It will almost alwayz be sum vegetable oil, soybean, canola, corn, etc., but there iz also hydrogenated lard, which you can still purchase if youre pro-level serious about clogging your arteryz.
All margerine, including the supozedly healthy butter substitutes are hydrogenated oil, at least partially.
A big scam that I'm surprized they can get away with iz stating 0 gramz tranz fats in bold letterz on the frunt uv sum chips such az Cheetoz, yet in the small print ingredients therez the hydrogenated oilz. Its probably a per serving rule that givez them an out.
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
http://www.nooalf.com
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I don't much care about the lawn most days, but my neighbors are anal-retentive about such things and if it gets over three inches they knock on my door and want to know if my mower is broke, seriously... The constant hum of mowers here in the summer makes me uneasy, I feel like I'm being invaded. Next house I get is gonna be farther away from people.
Jo, from what I understand, aren't there two different kinds of transfats, one is "light" and one is "heavy" and your body needs a certain amount of one of them??
I don't know if you live in a city or not, but in towns here if your grass is over nine inches you get a citation, if three citations- the city mows it and bills you... If you don't wanna or can't get a new mower auctions are the way to go! For the price of a tank of gas you can usually get a cheap functioning one...
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I finally got my big kitchen window ripped out and replaced, as we bought and ordered it a year and a half ago...Sooooo nice to have a breeze, and I can open it one handed...I am very pleased with it.
Also, remember that mower I broke? After the third place I went to, which turned out to be a mostly industrial repair place, they said they'd take a look at it and he said the carburator was extremely dirty, and that he had never seen one like mine (something about a two way going into one with a float??) Anyway, I'm back ta ridin' again, yeehaw!
Double good on you Wish!
I after carbrator, you lost me too, but glad you found somebody who could make it work for ya!
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Originally posted by JO753:
You 2 woud be horrified if you saw my lawn. I havent mowed it this year! It turned to complete plants a few weeks ago, so its seeding itself!
I didnt mow most uv it frum about september last year wen a weel assembly fell off due to rust.
Hydrogenated oil iz the stuff that a group uv doctorz sued KFC about. Its basicly a cheap butter substitute. Cheap if you don't count all the bypass operationz and other health problemz cauzed by it clogging up our circulatory systemz. Its usually called transfat on packagez and in the nutrition info, but in the ingredients its called hydrogenated oil. It will almost alwayz be sum vegetable oil, soybean, canola, corn, etc., but there iz also hydrogenated lard, which you can still purchase if youre pro-level serious about clogging your arteryz.
All margerine, including the supozedly healthy butter substitutes are hydrogenated oil, at least partially.
A big scam that I'm surprized they can get away with iz stating 0 gramz tranz fats in bold letterz on the frunt uv sum chips such az Cheetoz, yet in the small print ingredients therez the hydrogenated oilz. Its probably a per serving rule that givez them an out.
Haha JO,
You haven't mowed it yet this year!!!! I've already had to mow it like 6 or 7 times since we never had a winter!
Ah.... Trans Fat. Heard of that before, for sure. I RARELY if ever drink any soda today because it's all corn syrup and giving people diabeties, but I probably ingest more hydroginated oil than I should be. I do make a point to avoid any soy intake (because it is in essence nothing more than estrogen), but if it's created from other places as well I'm probably eating it. I DO LOVE ME SOME CHEETOS!!!!
I've never once purchased margerine though, so that's a good thing. I rarely use butter even, but if I'm going to use it, might as well be the real thing.
hmmmmmmmm... makes me wonder how many extra poisons I'm not even aware I'm drinking per 30 pack of Icehouse rather than springing for at least MGD or something?????
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
I don't much care about the lawn most days, but my neighbors are anal-retentive about such things and if it gets over three inches they knock on my door and want to know if my mower is broke, seriously... The constant hum of mowers here in the summer makes me uneasy, I feel like I'm being invaded. Next house I get is gonna be farther away from people.
Jo, from what I understand, aren't there two different kinds of transfats, one is "light" and one is "heavy" and your body needs a certain amount of one of them??
I don't know if you live in a city or not, but in towns here if your grass is over nine inches you get a citation, if three citations- the city mows it and bills you... If you don't wanna or can't get a new mower auctions are the way to go! For the price of a tank of gas you can usually get a cheap functioning one...
Haha... I'm pretty anal about my lawn, if you couldn't guess from how I do everything else. I'd never go to your house and bitch about it though. I'd just bitch to my friends and family behind your back about how shitty your
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The job "interview" wasn't actually an interview. It was an excuse to get my happy ass up early though and finally put in a physical application at the store that pays it's employees more than any of its kind because there are no unions and they don't pay for "frills" like cart boys or internet applications. (Also, because everyone who actually works there bitches constantly about how shitty it is... but I know that I've worked WAY shittier jobs for WAY less pay and no benefits, so I think it's right up my alley)
The woman there was super attractive and dressed in a very striking business suit. I hate being old enough now to refer to a woman I'm attracted to as a woman rather than a girl... grr... but I'd guess her to be no more than 27 years old. Being a regional manager though, she's probably making 25k more a year than the best year of my life. She's the real deal......
So I filled out my app, gave it with my resume, answered a few preliminary questions and if they like what they see from my app I'll get a call on Thursday. I told her that I'm willing to work any position at any store within 20 miles, even across the border and that I'm available 24/7.
If all of that, and actual face time with a DM, and just two attractive young people having an excuse to banter outside of a bar scenario aren't enough to at least give me an interview for a job which requires only a HS Diploma or GED equivelant, I'm going to start fitting a noose out of old shoe strings....
Seriously, J/K about that... but this is really my chance to live a truly care-free existence outside of the work place. Keeping my fingers crossed.
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