Anybody I used to know still post around here??????
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UPDATED: Thursday, May 23, 2024 14:59
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Hard to say wut he did. we stayed 'frendz', but he wuz alwayz an assclown, so seperating out any new assclownish attitudez or activityz iz impossible. I suspect, for example, that hez been working against The Nooalf Revolution all along, but he wuz against it before also.
The whole thing wuz actually an effort to fix sum uv hiz flawz. He wuz completely incapable uv lissening to anybody - he woud think he knowz wut youre going to say and interupt mid sentence - so the fake chick wuz designed to be sumwun he woud 'lissen' to. The original plan wuz that she woud get him to realize (it wuz all AOL instant message) wut hiz problemz were and he woud hav a chance uv fixing himself.
I bungled it though. I went to alot uv effort to create the girl and tricking him wuz way too much fun. I made her too perfect for him and he fell in luv with her! I accidently tipped him off sum how during an excessively long IM. It wuz halarious, really, he & hiz brother were calling me on the fonez, asking for Jenny, 'wut are you wearing?' 'wut color are your pantyz?' etc.
He did improve a little, at least for a while. Its a strange malady, since he can lissen to people on TV with no problem, but its like he thinks real people are idiots or lying, so he cant pay attention for more than a few secondz. Makes it hard to hav a decent conversation wen hez spouting off sum shallow crappola frum the History channel or Fox 'News' and then wont lissen to my opinion on the subject.
One can alwayz hav hope that people can improve, if only they know wut their flawz are.
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Haha....
I won't even get into my family dynamic. I could write a very long and (probably) very uninteresting book about it (to anybody outside of my family).
I do admit though, now that most of my cousins are grown ups and a few of us sometimes get together without the parents around, I do get a totally different vantage point than I ever did as a kid growing up in a messed-up-yet-no-more-messed-up than the average American family. I've got about 20 cousins, but I really only keep in touch with about 4 of them semi-regularly either in person or via email. It really amazes me how much of our DNA is similar, yet there are so many wildly different personalities in my generation of the family.
Things are strange, and people (especially), can be VERY strange.
It's actually quite comforting to know about some of this stuff that people I grew up around, who spend what must be a lot of their effort throughout their lifetimes to come off as they've got it all together and they don't have any issues. Kinda lets you off the hook for your own shortcomings and demons. 
Far be it for me to judge anyone's behaviors though, particularly when they "KNOW" nobody is watching. I grew up with a lot of anger and hateful vibes that developed as a child and solidified as a punk teen well into my 20's. No good can come from any of that. In fact, I consider myself very lucky to be in the position I'm in today with the road I was traveling down, and the companions I chose to keep company with. I've seen that behavior all but destroy several people I care about, both inside and out of my family tree, and I've seen that behavior do others in.
Bah.... I don't want to talk or even think about family issues too much. As much as I hate the futures laid out in 1984 and Brave New World, the more I delve into my family history and pettiness, the more I am inclined to say that Orwell's Brave New World is a better alternative, and I hate thinking that way.
Anyways.... I got that plug outlet in the second bedroom taken care of. Such a small thing in actuality, but it was DANGEROUS work.
There were a couple of problems....
1) the outlet box behind the ghetto outside-the-wall crap they installed was not what I thought it would be. It was a smaller than normal sized box, and I was completely unable to re-install the outlet inside of it after removing the whole shitty patch job.
2) There are, I kid you not, two layers of drywall on the outside walls of the bedroom. That in itself wouldn't be much of a problem, but the first layer is a type of drywall I'm not familar with. It's not the concrete stuff you'd put in a bathroom tub to prevent any mold buildup or a breakdown in overall structural integrity from the moisture, but it's wrapped like regular drywall but more like stone than powder between the sheets. Cutting through it with a drywall hand saw takes ages. Unfortunately, after cutting 12 inches of it with a woodcutting blade on my sawsall, the blade was destroyed.
Fun 
3) The electric in my house is so messed up I don't even know how to figure it out. I mapped out breakers months ago and I verified that the outlets I was working on were not live before I worked on them. I only turned that breaker off. Cutting the live wire in the box for what I needed in the future went off without a hitch. Cutting the negative wire though (white wire) there was nothing but sparks. I ran downstairs and shut off the main. As far as I can tell, nothing was burnt up this time...... whew!
The bad news though, was it was about 3:30PM and I had to figure out a way to do this before it got dark. That didn't happen. I spent an hour with my flashlight powered by the same 18V batteries my drill and sawzall uses. I had a backup tiny flashlight in-case that died. Eventually I had to wrap it all up and just cap the wires before I lost any auxiliary power.
I'm glad I did too, because when I tried using that backup flashlight the next day it died after two minutes.
I would have to
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I won't even get into my family dynamic. I could write a very long and (probably) very uninteresting book about it (to anybody outside of my family).
2) There are, I kid you not, two layers of drywall on the outside walls of the bedroom. That in itself wouldn't be much of a problem, but the first layer is a type of drywall I'm not familar with. It's not the concrete stuff you'd put in a bathroom tub to prevent any mold buildup or a breakdown in overall structural integrity from the moisture, but it's wrapped like regular drywall but more like stone than powder between the sheets. Cutting through it with a drywall hand saw takes ages. Unfortunately, after cutting 12 inches of it with a woodcutting blade on my sawsall, the blade was destroyed.
I'm so glad it's done now, but.....
WTF was I thinking??????
I can't even tell you how lucky I am that I still have both of my thumbs!!!!!!
I still have a spare blade and a half for my rotary saw. They're "masonry" blades. Should cut through that weird drywall without any issues and not damage the studs too much if I'm careful.
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My family thinks I'M the wierd one, and I'm thinkin' "Pot callin' who??? black?"
Does your drywall have and colors to the paper, or layers of plaster or impressions?? Sounds maybe like rock lath... Never know whats under the surface, in people or in houses
And fer chisssakes, be careful. Might wanna call someone before you get started and say "If I don't call you by such a time, call and see If I'm still kickin','eh?"
The other day a gal tried to cut off her man's Jimmy with a sawzal and I thought "Use the right tool for the right job hon, maybe a electric turkey carver?..."
No more tofurkey for me
Where are we going?
And just why am I in this handbasket????
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Six, I'm glad you're okay, electrical can be really dangerous if you haven't had the training for it.
Wish, that is so weird that your mom isn't excited about the grandkids, really weird person she must be, grandkids are just about everyone's favorite thing.
A Joe a chara, I'm about as female as they come, I don't think I could fool anyone into thinking I was a boy. I'm getting better at playing male charactors in pretends though, but its slow going.
"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya
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Hey Wishimay,
If your posts get eaten, seriously, just hit the back button and it should still be there. Then, select all, copy it, and go back to the thread. Hit reply, paste it and hit post and you should be good.
It happens to me here all the time. I think it has something to do with the amount of time between when you click reply and you actually post. It never happens when I make a short post, but let's face it, how often do I make a short post here?
Pot calling the kettle black... hehe... Reminds me of an awesome shirt I saw online a few years ago. 
Yeah, it seems to be real drywall. I can't tell about what color the paper is on the stone stuff, but it seems like the paint is on paper and there is a clear deliniation between the two sheets. I could be wrong though. I've never seen this stuff before in any of the remodels I've done. I have seen plaster put on wood lathe before, at my grandma's house before, but that house was pre WWII and built originally in the 20's. From my understanding, unless somebody had a specific affinity for plaster and lath and paid extra to have a builder do it, everything in the US built after the troops came home from WWII was some sort of drywall/sheetrock. This house was built in '59.
I always used the words drywall and sheetrock interchangeably before, but I may have to reconsider that now. The top layer of whatever it is I need to remove truly deserves the title sheetrock over what we commonly refer to as drywall. (Although, I'm just as consumerised as the next American, and without even researching it, I'm betting Sheetrock may just be a brand name brainwashed into the proletarian lexicon like Band Aid is almost always incorrectly used for a bandage, or those weirdos who call every type of brown syrupy pop/soda "Coke").
Great idea about calling somebody first. I'll definitely keep that in mind next time. I'm just imagining how hard it would be to dial a number on my cellphone without a thumb.
A sawzall for the Bobbit treatment! You got to be kidding me!!!!! Throw the book at her! There is no way that that wasn't pre-meditated.
Turkey carver.... lol. Maybe you should be put on a watch list too. 
Isn't there about 18 different tools that could do the job much more quickly, quietly, and effectively in the Miracle Blade set? Hell... even if you were a sloppy household and only did dishes once a week, you should still have about 5 or 6 spare blades from that set in your kitchen if you were at least considerate enough to use a clean blade to get the job done.
I know "Uncle" Ron Popeil would totally use that as an aside in his infomercials as a selling point if mentioning that you could remove your philandering husband's offending appendage with this knife as if slicing through warm butter, even after you spent all day cutting tomato cans in half with it would net more money than he'd loose by mentioning it.
Sawzall.... geez.
I thought it was just men who always seem to have a desire for bigger and more powerful machines than they'd ever need to get the job done. I wonder what else that beast of a woman is hiding under her flannel or her mullet.
Hey RionaEire,
Thanks! I'm glad I'm okay too.
Yeah, I haven't had any official training or certification in electric, but like most things I know how to do today I didn't learn it in school. I learned on the job or taught myself.
I mentioned here before, if you weren't reading when I posted it, that I fixed a sabotaged furnace about 2 months ago doing research online and speaking with a licensed HVAC guy on a DIY site. I didn't even know how to light a pilot one day, and three days later I made 4 critical fixes to get her up and running that would have run me in the vicinity of 400-600 bucks to pay somebody else to do, depending on if he was a "parts-thrower" or not. In the end, it only cost me 8 bucks to fix it.
When I asked the HVAC guy on the DIY si
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Wish I had a garage!
I also hav a Milwaukee Sawzall and am not a big fan uv the tool. Very well made, good old fashioned pride uv workmanship company, but the tool iz not very ergonomic and haz a limited range uv applicationz in which it iz the best option.
Had a great idea today - bild a house that looks like a Firefly. And not a cheezy standard construction pile uv wood & plaster tornado snack crappola! Make it like it will really go into space! Haf inch thick M5 steel, completely air tite, az many real moving parts az you can manage, etc. Then wen the teknology exists, you can convert to really be a Firefly!
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Being the first one I've ever had, I have to say that garages are awesome!
I haven't even had more than a 1/16" of snow yet, but I know the bad times are coming.
The blades are Sawzall, but the company is DeWalt. Please tell me what, yet again, I've been brainwashed to call a tool by its brand name.
It wasn't until early this year that I called it a Rotary Saw instead of a Skilsaw......
Ummmmm Sure dude. Build a Firefly. Sounds awesome. Just don't ask me to esplaine to wife where all the money is going, mmmmmmmmmmmm-kay? lol
Maybe, in the mean time, epsecially if she is a fan, you could turn one room in your house into a room on Firefly?
That just gave me an awesome idea man......
Thanks!
I think I'll turn my "game room" in the basement into a complete replica of the dining room on Firefly!!!!!
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Originally posted by JO753:
Wish I had a garage!
I also hav a Milwaukee Sawzall and am not a big fan uv the tool. Very well made, good old fashioned pride uv workmanship company, but the tool iz not very ergonomic and haz a limited range uv applicationz in which it iz the best option.
Had a great idea today - bild a house that looks like a Firefly. And not a cheezy standard construction pile uv wood & plaster tornado snack crappola! Make it like it will really go into space! Haf inch thick M5 steel, completely air tite, az many real moving parts az you can manage, etc. Then wen the teknology exists, you can convert to really be a Firefly!
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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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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Wish, that is so weird that your mom isn't excited about the grandkids, really weird person she must be, grandkids are just about everyone's favorite thing.
Yeah, tell me about it. I told her my kids B-day was last month, and she said "Oh, well I guess I'll have to send her something..."
To date she has recieved nothin
Not that we care about the junk, but damn....
Ironically, my dad who wasn't really interested in parenting when I was little was a better grandparent than she could ever attempt to make up for. Damn cancer...
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Awesum idea! Haz the advantage uv not costing 30,000,000$.
Garage...ggggggggg(the sound Homer makes wen he'z thinking uv sumthing delicious)
I coud hav bilt a garage, but the roof deck project had a big inspiration advantage, and I didnt know my line uv work wuz going to fall off a cliff, so thought I coud do it a year or so later.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Hey Wishimay,
If your posts get eaten, seriously, just hit the back button and it should still be there. Then, select all, copy it, and go back to the thread. Hit reply, paste it and hit post and you should be good.
This house was built in '59.
A sawzall for the Bobbit treatment!
Yeah, I didn't seriosly know how ta cut and paste(really not much of a 'puter person!!) when I first came here, but I've gotten so used to pareing down and reposting. Gives me a second chance on the brain delete button, yanno? Strangely enough, the sawzall story made it both times, hah. Don't go overthinkin' that too much, just a sick joke...I find I do those more when I'm tired....But yeah, good sharp steak knife would be more'n enuff, says I
**Jack winces againI think I need a bumper sticker of that pot 'n kettle, yep....
Hey, half my house is a 59, Good vintage!
I did nothing today but go to the dentist, booo!
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