6ixString's Home Improvement and Mindless Ramblings Thread....
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UPDATED: Monday, May 9, 2016 00:48
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Originally posted by JO753:
Congrats!
I hav sum luk myself lately. More machining work than usual, so I will be able to pay sum billz this month.
Odd polygonz are easy to calculate area. Just lopp off trianglez till you hav a rectangle. And the area uv trianglez iz 1/2 hite x width.
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Thanks for the tip and the congrats! Good to hear that you got more work coming in too. Nice....
Fortunately, I don't have to have the entire thing written up by friday like I thought. I only have to put the request for a petition in by then. I still have time to build my case.
Didn't get the tomatoes planted today, but I got 8 plants for $3.50, way cheaper than I thought they'd be!
I just didn't buy enough tomato cages for that many plants. I have to figure out the best route since I'm not actually using the SFG method this year. I will use it next year when I can start seeding at the proper time. (And hopefully I'll have 1 or 2 more 4x4 garden areas by that time as well).
Pictures tomorrow hopefully
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I wuz under the impression that you can grow tomatoz frum the seedz frum tomatoz you get frum the store. Am I mistaken?
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Yeah, but if you want to eat some this year, and have them be big enough to do something with then you kind of have to start the seedlings inside in early spring, it's late in the season now...
I'm glad SOMEONE has had some luck...We finally got around to putting in sewage lines in the new bathroom (water lines were in months ago) and had a miscalculation as to the layout... Had to take floor back up and drill new holes... dropped somethin' on mah pinky and it's all purple too... Dammit.
Siding is coming along, but had a couple setbacks on that too.
Why can't things ever go easy???!
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I hope you dont get persistent leak problemz, 6string. Leaks and clogz are like a demonic force against me!
It seemz like wherever I dont want fluidz flowing, they alwayz find a way and wherever I want them to clogz up! I coud hav a 10 ft diameter drain pipe and I'd be continually cleaning out junk. But the frame for the hatch on my roof deck rarely goez more than 6 months without leaking no matter how carefully or cleverly I try to seal it.
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Good advice about not mulching, Wishy.
I mowed sum more today and it went much eazier with the side discharge open. I remowed the areaz I cleared a few weeks ago and expanded them. I found that I coud do a wheeely and gradulaly lower it to chop down the tallest stuff.
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Originally posted by Wishimay:
Yeah, but if you want to eat some this year, and have them be big enough to do something with then you kind of have to start the seedlings inside in early spring, it's late in the season now...
I'm glad SOMEONE has had some luck...We finally got around to putting in sewage lines in the new bathroom (water lines were in months ago) and had a miscalculation as to the layout... Had to take floor back up and drill new holes... dropped somethin' on mah pinky and it's all purple too... Dammit.
Siding is coming along, but had a couple setbacks on that too.
Why can't things ever go easy???!
Yeah, way late in the year to grow from seeds. Actually, I was surprised that in the book the guy says that tomatoes are one of the few plants he recommends buying small plants rather than growing from seeds yourself. Can't exactly remember why he said so, but at 1.75 for four plants, I think it's worth having the plants 8" tall aready at that price point.
Glad you're making progress too. As for things never going easy... know that I'm one of your deepest sympathizers
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Originally posted by JO753:
I hope you dont get persistent leak problemz, 6string. Leaks and clogz are like a demonic force against me!
It seemz like wherever I dont want fluidz flowing, they alwayz find a way and wherever I want them to clogz up! I coud hav a 10 ft diameter drain pipe and I'd be continually cleaning out junk. But the frame for the hatch on my roof deck rarely goez more than 6 months without leaking no matter how carefully or cleverly I try to seal it.
That thing leaks like hell and there's probably nothing I can do about it. 20 gallons of water basically gone after only 3 days. The good news is, it is properly irrigating the soil in the mean time. Just 1/2" below the surface the soil was quite moist. So I guess I'll just water by hand most days, but if I have to go away for an extended weekend I should in theory just be able to fill the sides and it would take care of itself while I'm gone.
I should probably take the unit back, but the plants are in now and I just didn't want to deal with the hassle of getting another unit. I will be putting up the first review for the item on all the sites that carry it and it will be a very unfavorable review.
But that was yesterday..... today??????
Have you ever had one of those days where every damn single thing just goes exactly according to plan???? Marking it in my own journal here.... Friday, June 8th, 2012, was Jack's Day!
First, there was the property tax scenario. It's not done, but the preliminary interaction exceeded my wildest expectations. I thought I was just going to be dropping off the form and be on my way and expect a call back in 45 days. When the guy made a dated copy for my records he came back out and told me that if I have pictures of the mold remediation, we wouldn't even need a hearing and I could just come back and they'd give me signifigant relief on the property taxes for a year because of that!
I told him that sounded great, but I wanted to also bring up issues like being in a flood plane and that's why I never plan on actually re-finishing the basement and putting another furnace down there only to see it flood again. He told me to get a letter from my Village saying that it's in a flood plane and that can be taken care of as well (yay! That's one "finished" floor off my taxes for good!).
He also said with pictures of the brick patio that isn't a permanent fixture we can get that 280sq/ft removed from the taxes as well, and I'm feeling pretty good that we can get the finished attic removed without ripping up the carpet because there is no heat or A/C up there (it's 110 degrees in the summer and 35 degrees in the winter... not exactly livable. We'll also remove the 2 A/C units from the taxes, and fix a few sq footage
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Thats too much good luk. I'm afraid that bumps you up to a higher tax braket.
My luk iz averaging out with sum bad breaks and dum mistakes. The motor on my mill iz getting worse. I packed a special tap in with a job I delivered even tho I still needed it for the next job, so I lost sum time.
The new blue ray player froze up alredy. Had to pull the plug to reset it.
I gess this iznt such bad luck, since I'd rather hav it fail soon so I hav no problem returning it. I alredy ordered a Sony.
I Like Toshiba, but the reviewz werent good for any uv their playerz. Maybe Sony iz making good stuff again?
A sine uv good luk - I got to Prometheus and back without the usual car trouble!
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Originally posted by JO753:
Thats too much good luk. I'm afraid that bumps you up to a higher tax braket.
My luk iz averaging out with sum bad breaks and dum mistakes. The motor on my mill iz getting worse. I packed a special tap in with a job I delivered even tho I still needed it for the next job, so I lost sum time.
The new blue ray player froze up alredy. Had to pull the plug to reset it.
I gess this iznt such bad luck, since I'd rather hav it fail soon so I hav no problem returning it. I alredy ordered a Sony.
I Like Toshiba, but the reviewz werent good for any uv their playerz. Maybe Sony iz making good stuff again?
A sine uv good luk - I got to Prometheus and back without the usual car trouble!
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DUZ XaT SEM RiT TQ YQ? - Jubal Early
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Hehe.... If I was just sitting around wishing on a wishing well for good things to happen, I'd agree with you wholeheartedly JO. Days like the other day are so hard to come by that if it just popped up in my lap one day in the middle of a month long Fallout 3 bender, I'd be wondering who is controlling the outcome and what angle they have.....
If you're averaging out on luck, that's at least the best you can expect today if you're one of the people at least putting a real effort into it, (and I commend you for that because I believe you are one of those people). If you could only find the time and energy to reach a little higher than that just a few hours a week, you might be surprised at what the positive outcome might be.
With a little research and speaking to my Twp. Assessors office directly, I now can navigate my "Tax Card" like a pro. Even after talking with him, it took me about 3 hours to really get familar with it, but what was Klingon a week ago is like English to me today.
You have to remember that this stuff is abbreviated and coded in such a beautifully intricate way that it can on one face completely obfuscate the truth from most people, but at the same time will open all doors to reason for the few people who dig deep enough, so there is no legal recourse, such as class-action lawsuits for hiding the truth.
(As a VERY meaningful aside to this point.... the fact that a house is a "foreclosure" immediately negates the selling price on a "distressed property" from affecting the tax implications on the property henceforth. Time will tell.... but I believe that this is just a way for Twp's to save their own ass in these bad times and that only those who are truly vigilant and do their research can prove why their house was bought so cheaply, and should get deductions accordingly)
In the end, MUCH less of my Tax Card was false as I originally believed it to be. Most of my gripes, although they were trivial ones in the end, were because I was ignorant to the "lingo". Sure, some things are blatantly false, and from my interaction, they have no problem fixing those based solely on my word and a few pics. The Flood Hazard issue is going to be a massive windfall for me when I show up with the letter from my town saying I'm on a Flood plane (NOTE: In order to have land that currently, or has previously claimed FEMA funds after a flood, the Village/Town/City has to agree to re-zone that property so that another structure can NEVER be built upon that property... so if a tornado hits my house today, I can't rebuild here).
So, the Flood Hazard claim not only explains why my 7-room, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom house is actually a 4 room, 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house... but there is the implied tax deductions of owning a property I'd never be able to rebuild on if this structure was razed in a fire or tossed across town by a tornado.
If you simply take the unfinished basement and the legitimate decrease on the back porch size and the complete removal of the paver stone patio out of the equation, my
taxable finished area quickly diminishes from over 1600 sq ft
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Thanks! Thats a great song that I only ever heard in passing. Didnt know who made it. Not the genre uv myoozik I hav my radio on.
Sony made good consumer stuff up till about 85, 90. Then they seemed to forget ergonomics, then quality went to hell.
Toshiba haz alwayz been my fave, but several yirz ago I got a DVD recorder that didnt work properly rite outa the box. But the customer service wuz still outstanding. They were on the fone in minits and talked me thru an attempt to solve the problemz.
This netbook Im on here iz a Toshiba and haz never failed. I had a complaint about the touchpad and customer service walked me thru a setting change that fixed it.
The Sony BR player wuznt much more than wut I paid for the Philips, but it haz a 3-1/2 star rating in Amazon, so its probably going to be decent.
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Ha... yeah, the music stations that would play that song these days wouldn't be on my presets either. Back in the early 90's though this was played in heavy rotation on the "party radio" station one summer. Memory is funny. I hear a song like this today and I have a lot of good memories about that time. Living through it as an awkward pre-teen sucked though. Kind of cool how good music from the past can bring up the good feelings without bringing up all the crap with it.
I've never had much experience with Toshiba. I can't remember ever buying anything from them before. Overall, I've been pretty lucky since almost every piece of electronic equipment I've ever owned served its purpose until long after it was antiquated. I'd have to say the only "stand-out" piece of electronics I ever owned was that 51" Hitatchi projection screen TV. Even though it's about 6 years old now, the picture is just as perfect as the day I bought it, and it's survived 3 multi-story moves before it found it's final home before the tech-graveyard. It's still a larger screen than many people's LEDs or Plasmas, and because the design is so attractive it looks as though the base with the speakers is like a perfectly built TV stand for a much thinner TV. Throw that bad boy in the corner and it doesn't look as weird or ugly today as a lot of the other aging projection screen TVs still in houses. The only thing I wish it had was 1080 capability.
All in all, I'd say that's one of the best big ticket purchases I've ever made, especially since it was about 40% off when I got it.
These days though, I really just wait for tech to age before I buy it and then get it from a 3rd party manufacturer. Always do research on reviews though before buying something. With any product, even from top names, you're going to have some horribly negative reviews... so I just throw out the top and bottom 2 or 3 reviews and look at what everyone else says. Many times, as a bonus, you get extra functionality out of these 3rd party devices that you'd never get with a major player like Sony. It's not because Sony couldn't make it happen, it's because Sony either wouldn't want to make it happen, or because they're so high-profile they're not willing to go into grey areas of the "law".
2 examples...
When my 300 dollar Sony DVD player crapped out about 5 years after I bought it, well before Blu-Ray or HD-DVD came out, I was nearly broke. I needed something though. I was able to buy 30 dollar unit that was barely twice the size of a DVD itself and cased mostly in plastic, but it played ripped DVD movies and also would play CDs loaded with mp3s. International laws prevented a company like Sony from allowing even a foreign DVD to be played on the unit I bought in America for 10 times the price 5 years earlier, but here this no-name Chinese piece of junk lasted just as long before the DVD tray broke and it allowed me to do far more than the Sony ever could.
I also bought a pretty expensive mp3-to-radio transmitter unit with a digital readout and cigarette lighter recharger for listening to my mp3 player in my '79 LTD since it had the vintage 2-knob radio and I didn't want to cheapen the look of the car by putting a flashy new CD player in it. It was about 50 bucks. Even though it got the best reviews I'd seen at the time, the reviews all came with warnings that if you lived in an area that there were a lot of radio stations (Chicago..... check), you'd have a lot of interferance no matter what band you listened to it through, and you'd find yourself changing bands every few minutes to keep listening. True to their word, whenever I came within 15 miles of Chicago, the unit was basically useless........ What a waste of money.
I don't remember the brand name of that unit, but I know it was a well known name. It wasn't their fault either as I'm sure they could have made an awe
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