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Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:26 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Speaking of EMP... we had one bolt of lightning all yesterday evening.
Only one.
But it either hit a powerline of very close to it, bc it made all of the lights do a slow blink and reset our microwave, tablet, and a few of the clocks.
If I had been doing anything on the PC, it would have screwed it up for sure.

(Did I even tell you about the time hubby had been programming furiously for 3 hours when the power suddenly went out? There was a moment of silence, the I hear a big "SHIT!" coming from a dark room).

So, si, se puede".
SAVE, and back up often!

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Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:28 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I wanted to repost this on the new page so Brenda doesn't miss it:



Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries. I know I love my tech but I can be a bit of dummy about it.

It is something to think about for sure.



If I ever come off as being impatient or insulting about it, please don't take offense. I'm not directing that at you, Brenda. My frustration is with myself for not being able to direct you properly.

Did you email the book to yourself? You really should do that first so you always have a copy in your email to re-download if something goes wrong.

Then you should make a few backup copies on a thumb drive and your other computer.



Please send yourself the email and do the backups first before we move on to making the 25 page doc to send to your friend.


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Thursday, March 30, 2023 10:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Speaking of EMP... we had one bolt of lightning all yesterday evening.
Only one.
But it either hit a powerline of very close to it, bc it made all of the lights do a slow blink and reset our microwave, tablet, and a few of the clocks.
If I had been doing anything on the PC, it would have screwed it up for sure.



Ehhhh... Probably not. I mean, anything you were working on when it knocked your PC out that wasn't saved would have been lost (if the program didn't have an autosave feature), but my computers have been hit quite a bit over the years with blackouts and brownouts and there's only been one instance where I felt one of the computers may have taken some physical damage from it because of how it performed afterward, but it never screwed up any of the data on my drives.

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(Did I even tell you about the time hubby had been programming furiously for 3 hours when the power suddenly went out? There was a moment of silence, the I hear a big "SHIT!" coming from a dark room).

So, si, se puede".



No. lol... But I've been through something like that once or twice in my life.

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SAVE, and back up often!



Absolutely.

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Thursday, March 30, 2023 3:29 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Busy busy busy... indoor work past couple of days.

Forecast said rain in the AM but when I got up (at stupid o'clock) the sky was clear from horizon to horizon. But I got fooled again! It clouded up and poured right quick, and now it's cloudy and cold-ish by LA standards.

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Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:14 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
No worries. I know I love my tech but I can be a bit of dummy about it.

It is something to think about for sure.



If I ever come off as being impatient or insulting about it, please don't take offense. I'm not directing that at you, Brenda. My frustration is with myself for not being able to direct you properly.

Did you email the book to yourself? You really should do that first so you always have a copy in your email to re-download if something goes wrong.

Then you should make a few backup copies on a thumb drive and your other computer.



Please send yourself the email and do the backups first before we move on to making the 25 page doc to send to your friend.

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No offense taken as I can get quite frustrated with myself as well.

I hope to get something done over the weekend as I am doing nothing today. Back morning will explain in another post.

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Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:17 PM

BRENDA


Back from mah jong and grocery shopping. No luck at mah jong.

This day started off real good with the power going out in my building and all around the area someone in the building told me. So, I ate a cold breakfast to take my meds and walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out to go to mah jong. I was going to get my garbage out but I am tired and will do it tomorrow.

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Thursday, March 30, 2023 4:17 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Got my errands run for the day. 5 birds with one stone, the way I like it.

Eggs were $1.99 for the first time in forever, so I treated myself.

Gas was up 36 cents per gallon though. Yay. FJB.

Going to hang out with my buddy tonight, shoot some pool and watch a movie or two. It's a de-stressing day for me.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 1:33 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Had a great time at my friend's tonight. Got fed really well too and sent home with some more food.

His daughter loves her new room. Her dad got her those strip/tape LED lights and put them all along the top of the walls. They're real cool and can change all different colors. She likes the pink though, so even though she wanted a big girls room without the pink and purple colors on the walls she's still got her favorite color in there.

He wants me to join his pool league. I'm kind of flattered that he thinks I'd be good enough, considering I hadn't played in about 15 years until I started playing with him again. I'm not good enough right now though. I can make a lot of great bank, rail and cut shots, but then I'll blow an easy straight on shot and lose the game. I can tell he's gotten a lot better since we got the pool table in his basement and if I miss just two shots in a game it's pretty much a sure thing I'm going to lose. I still won 3 out of 10 games though. I've got to start playing Safety shots if I don't have a shot. In my mind that's just playing dirty and/or weak, but it's a legit strategy they use. I've just got too much Tin Cup in me to do it.

Just going to relax tomorrow I think. I'm going to be helping my other friend on his rental this weekend.


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Friday, March 31, 2023 3:07 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and grocery shopping. No luck at mah jong.

This day started off real good with the power going out in my building and all around the area someone in the building told me. So, I ate a cold breakfast to take my meds and walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out to go to mah jong. I was going to get my garbage out but I am tired and will do it tomorrow.

I trust the power was on by the time you got back and you didn't have to walk UP 10 flights of stairs??? If I thought I was facing that on the way home, I wouldn't leave in the first place.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 3:08 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 3:10 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.

Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!

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Friday, March 31, 2023 10:15 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.



I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.

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Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!


I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.

At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.



Quote:

Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.


Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.

I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.

I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.

My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.



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Friday, March 31, 2023 12:18 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Lovely... Severe thunderstorm this evening with a side of tornadoes.

Better get prepared.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 1:10 PM

BRENDA


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by Brenda:
Back from mah jong and grocery shopping. No luck at mah jong.

This day started off real good with the power going out in my building and all around the area someone in the building told me. So, I ate a cold breakfast to take my meds and walked down 10 flights of stairs to get out to go to mah jong. I was going to get my garbage out but I am tired and will do it tomorrow.

I trust the power was on by the time you got back and you didn't have to walk UP 10 flights of stairs??? If I thought I was facing that on the way home, I wouldn't leave in the first place.

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No, I didn't SIG. In fact the power came back on as I was going down the stairs but since I didn't want to get caught in the elevator I just kept on walking down.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 1:13 PM

BRENDA


Got rain for my area today and over the weekend. At least we had a taste of Spring for a couple of days.

Out for my walk soon.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 4:21 PM

BRENDA


Back from my walk and there is some rain around today. Couldn't be bothered to take my umbrella with me.

Legs sore after walking down all those stairs yesterday morning to get out.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 7:32 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


First wave of TStorms weathered. Not too bad. Gutters all look good, well is operational and power is still on.

Worse one coming though. Looks like we might get 1.25 inches of rain in an hour, starting about an hour from now.

Fingers crossed about the power. :(



And then it will be freaking snowing tomorrow while I go out to help my friend after the high today reached 70 degrees.

Excellent.

I hate spring.

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Friday, March 31, 2023 10:35 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I think we survived. I had a little damage to the siding on the side of the garage, but eventually that garage is going to be resided anyhow. Nothing was lost, but I'll just have to re-affix it for the time being.

Rain is mostly past and will be negligible for the next hour or so.

Sump well is going off every 5 minutes or so, but everything is operational and I haven't gotten any water in the basement where it shouldn't be coming in. It wouldn't even be coming in that fast, but we have had quite a bit of rain over time and no days of sun and heat for any of it to dry up in between. We only look to have had 1.50 inches of rain in the last 72 hours, with about 1.25 inches of that in the last 24 hours. This was about double what they were predicting this morning, and about half of what they upped it to later in the day. Looking at that nasty radar, I think my area got EXTREMELY lucky. Most of the yellow and red stuff missed us tonight.

All I've got to worry about now is the power going out with the wind gusts that are supposed to be pretty bad until early afternoon tomorrow.

I think I'll go help my friend anyhow. By the time I'd leave here there's only about 4 or so more hours of gusts, so if the power doesn't go out tonight I'm not going to lose a day of helping him just because I'm scared of a little wind.

Sucks that it will be cold again though. :(

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Saturday, April 1, 2023 1:04 PM

BRENDA


Off to laundry and walk. Weather people called for rain today but they are wrong. Bright and sunny out right now.

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Saturday, April 1, 2023 1:37 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I had a response to this but when I tried to post it the site had logged me out so it got lost in the ether. I really should do this in a text editor.

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.

SIX: I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.

AFAIK they're the only ones that go WHOO WHOO at night. (If you hear something similar during the day, it's either a mourning dove or the closely related pigeon) The WHOOO HOOO is when they're looking for, or trying to locate their mate.
Owl sounds, various owls. We used to have a pair of great horned owls nesting on a window ledge a work.



Great horned owl hooting duet.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/sounds#

Quote:

Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!

SIX: I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.

You could have paid a month and a half of rent for what we paid this guy for a sloppy job. Decent handymen are as rare as hen's teeth around here! But I know I can't sell you on LA bc it's just nota vey nice place to live.

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SIGNY: Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.

SIX: Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.

I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.


It's probably the cold. I remember reading somewhere that the Innuit burn 20,000-30,000 calories per day ... more than ten times normal for most people... just generating enuf body heat to survive. There was an engineer who need to lose weight, and after reading all about diet and exercise he decided to immerse himself in cold water for a number of hours every evening, and it worked. Personally, I'd rather go the "diet and exercise" route. I hope you put some healthy weight on this summer, tho.

*****

Haven't had time to catch up with the news, even. Been real busy playing catch-up on all fronts. Front yard has been beaten into not being such a mess and back yard it getting the same once-over. That, plus contractors.


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Saturday, April 1, 2023 5:00 PM

BRENDA


Laundry done and walk in. Nothing grabbed me at the grocery store so it is grilled cheese for supper tonight. I don't feel like cooking. Also got some paper down to the recycling bin too.

Still no rain which was nice but there is a cold breeze out.

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Saturday, April 1, 2023 9:50 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


I gave myself a bit of a break this AM. I guess it was an early Sunday for me.

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Saturday, April 1, 2023 11:11 PM

BRENDA


No harm in that SIG.

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Saturday, April 1, 2023 11:40 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I had a response to this but when I tried to post it the site had logged me out so it got lost in the ether. I really should do this in a text editor.



Oh, that's a bummer. I used to have that problem here years ago, but Firefox does a great job at saving any text I haven't sent.

Quote:

Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard a great horned owl tonight, what a treat! They show up once or twice a year. It would be nice to have a permanent popuation: they would keep the rats and mice down.

SIX: I don't know what a great horned owl sounds like, but that might be the one I hear only once or twice a year around these parts since I was a kid too. Never seen one, but I was told by my parents it was an owl when I was a kid.

AFAIK they're the only ones that go WHOO WHOO at night. (If you hear something similar during the day, it's either a mourning dove or the closely related pigeon) The WHOOO HOOO is when they're looking for, or trying to locate their mate.
Owl sounds, various owls. We used to have a pair of great horned owls nesting on a window ledge a work.



I want to say that it's a Great Horned Owl call that I've heard, because out of all of those it's the closest sounding, but I always hear the same call they do and none of the hoot patterns I've heard on a few other videos for them matches what I've noticed.

It's like a Whoo! Whoo! Whooo-WHOOOOOO! Whoo-WHOOOOOOO! Whoo! Then it starts over again over time. The two "WHOOOOOOO! parts actually sound kind of "warbled" too.


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Great horned owl hooting duet.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/sounds#



Now that I've looked at the 2nd link, it could possibly be the "Duet" going on, but it still doesn't sound right to me. Maybe it's just different because I'm listening to a digital file with headphones?

Quote:

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Yeterday and today was workin the house. We had a handyman come and patch walls under he sink from our drain line replacement. OMG SIX you could make a fortune here. Altho I know you wouldn't dream of living in LA!

SIX: I bet I would, but I'd spend it all right away on living expenses. My brother lived in LA for a short stint and even though he was making buckets full of cash, he was paying $2.5k per month for an attic apartment so he could live reasonably close to work. And that was years ago, way before Bidenflation.
At that time, just a little over 2 months of his rent was about what it cost for me to live.

You could have paid a month and a half of rent for what we paid this guy for a sloppy job. Decent handymen are as rare as hen's teeth around here! But I know I can't sell you on LA bc it's just nota vey nice place to live.



It's a shame we don't live closer. I'd love to help you out.

Quote:

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SIGNY: Sounds like you need a break, SIX. I hope you have a nice time relaxing.

SIX: Yeah... I've had what I would call more than a little bit of unintentional weight loss this winter. I'm hoping it's just living in the cold all winter and the recent stressors. I've been making an effort to eat better and eat more the last week. I'm feeling more energetic, since yesterday, but the week before was pretty rough.

I look fantastic though. I need to take advantage of this after I put on a few pounds and feel better. If I went back to doing crunchies for a month I'd be rocking an 8 pack that I haven't seen since I was 22 years old.
I just gotta make sure that I didn't get an ancient gypsy curse put on me like the guy in Thinner... or worse.
My old man says that if I'm not sick, I need to figure out how I did it and patent it and I'll be a millionaire.


It's probably the cold. I remember reading somewhere that the Innuit burn 20,000-30,000 calories per day ... more than ten times normal for most people... just generating enuf body heat to survive. There was an engineer who need to lose weight, and after reading all about diet and exercise he decided to immerse himself in cold water for a number of hours every evening, and it worked. Personally, I'd rather go the "diet and exercise" route. I hope you put some healthy weight on this summer, tho.



Wow! Maybe I'm on to something then. Just got to do better eating right and taking care of myself. I've started a journal with my weight, and I intend to run this little experiment again next year, but making sure to get all the nutrition I need next time as well as adding a reasonable amount of exercise in the mix too.

By August (assuming I'm not sick) I should be in fantastic shape again. From September to the end of November I want to get back up to about 175lbs with a decent amount of that being fat like I usually do around that time a year, and then keep the heat down to what I had it at last year without changing the amount I usually eat during the winter (which is the same is what I eat during the summer, but I put the pounds on when I'm not busy doing a lot of labor intensive projects in the cold).

I don't know if I could make millions with this system because I think most people are like you and wouldn't even want to attempt it, but (again, assuming I'm not sick), it REALLY works. I've got my 20 year old body back right now.





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Haven't had time to catch up with the news, even. Been real busy playing catch-up on all fronts. Front yard has been beaten into not being such a mess and back yard it getting the same once-over. That, plus contractors.



The news has been pretty dumb as of late. You're not missing much.

Keep on keeping on. One day we'll be done with all our projects and wondering what to do with the free time.



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Sunday, April 2, 2023 12:19 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.

I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.

We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.



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Sunday, April 2, 2023 1:15 PM

BRENDA


Just a Sunday around me. Not much happening.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 2:31 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.

I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.

We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.



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Seems like you (collectively) have been rehabbing that rental for quite a while. It must hve been really trashed. I guess a family of hoarders can really ruin things.


Realistically, what else is there to do? IIRC the hoarders were booted out and the place de-junked. This was the house with the sinking front stoop, yes? That's been corrected. Last I remember, you were cleaning cat piss off the lower walls and baseboard. [HINT: Since the compounds responsible for the bad smell are basic (amines) , vinegar, being an acid, helps neutralize the odor.] What else? Windows? Painting? Door repair/replacement? wiring?

Just being nosy, but I'm always interested in the details of a rehab. I guess even if our progress is glacial, reading about someone else's progress makes me feel better.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 2:45 PM

SIGNYM

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According to Climatestations.com for LA (which my backyard tracks closely) we're just shy of 28" of rain, which makes us just shy of twice normal 14.3". That's what I call a good rain year! I see 90F in our future. Not my favorite weather, I have to do outdoor work late in the day. It looks like we might be roller-coastering into summer.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 2:48 PM

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Just a Sunday around me. Not much happening.

I guess I had my Sunday yesterday, today is almost a regular "work" day for me excpet I ot out of bed late. Time to get back to it, my list of "things to do" gets longer and longer every time I think about it. Have a nice one. Do something fun!


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Sunday, April 2, 2023 10:11 PM

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Dinner cooking now. Had a late night at my bud's building that social credit some more. His dad was there too, so we had a fun and productive day. I know my bud will pay it back when he has time. We just need to get him out from under that bad situation and get his life back. Poor guy barely has time to sleep he's over there working whenever he isn't doing his real job.

I can't wait to get the help working on my house some day. His dad really came through for me the last two falls.

We're not going to start super early tomorrow but I'm going back for round two sometime in the AM.



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Seems like you (collectively) have been rehabbing that rental for quite a while. It must hve been really trashed. I guess a family of hoarders can really ruin things.


Realistically, what else is there to do? IIRC the hoarders were booted out and the place de-junked. This was the house with the sinking front stoop, yes? That's been corrected. Last I remember, you were cleaning cat piss off the lower walls and baseboard. [HINT: Since the compounds responsible for the bad smell are basic (amines) , vinegar, being an acid, helps neutralize the odor.] What else? Windows? Painting? Door repair/replacement? wiring?

Just being nosy, but I'm always interested in the details of a rehab. I guess even if our progress is glacial, reading about someone else's progress makes me feel better.

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Yeah. Those Democrat pigs really trashed the house. And after Covid came out and the put the eviction moratorium on him, he couldn't even get them out even though the city was on his ass to fix code violations that they created. They wouldn't even let him in the house to do work on it for a full year.

All the cat piss is gone along with the mouse crap I removed from the basement last summer. You can't smell anything bad in there anymore. I'm really proud of how much he's been able to get done in the house over the winter months in between working a full time job.

We were painting doors and trim this weekend. He's got more doorways in the main hall than I've got in my whole house if you don't include my closet doors.

It's really starting to look like a home again. I just hope we can wrap it up soon and he can get something for it on the market. I'd hate to think he'd have to hold onto it any longer and rent it out again.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 11:08 PM

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So his plan is to sell it?

Renting out is such a headache. Several of the people I worked with built up their equity by renting. But I heard a few horror stories about horror renters, like the pedophile who spent a lot of time in law library and knew how to avoid being evicted while living for free. One thing he'd do is call code violations whenever he got close to being booted out. OTOH my colleague did have 15+ units and wasn't too careful screening prospective tenants so...

Another guy only rented one house and he did a much better job screening his tennants and I never heard a peep of trouble from him.so I guess it can be done.

There are a lot of financial advantages to renting: you can depreciate the house off your taxes and all repair/ improvement expenses are business expenses and can be deducted. But unless the rental income is higher than the mortgage it doesn't make sense and I never thought it was worth the headache.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 11:22 PM

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So his plan is to sell it?



Well... It was. I don't really talk about it with him because I know what's happening to the market right now... possibly more than he does even though that's a large part of what he actually does for a living himself.

I feel terrible for him because of the timing of everything.

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Renting out is such a headache. Several of the people I worked with built up their equity by renting. But I heard a few horror stories about horror renters, like the pedophile who spent a lot of time in law library and knew how to avoid being evicted while living for free. One thing he'd do is call code violations whenever he got close to being booted out. OTOH my colleague did have 15+ units and wasn't too careful screening prospective tenants so...

Another guy only rented one house and he did a much better job screening his tennants and I never heard a peep of trouble from him.so I guess it can be done.



He kept telling me 23 years ago that ownership and rental was the way to go. I think for a good deal of time he was probably right, but he got himself into a really bad position with these people and, quite frankly, I think he's just too nice of a guy to be a landlord. He let them get away with murder for years and in the end they stuck a hundred knives in his back for it.

But the real killer here is when Covid happened and everyone who was a landlord learned that they have ZERO control. Tenants destroying your house? Tough shit. Tenants not paying their rent? Tough shit. Get fucked. You can't afford to pay your mortgage and property taxes because your tenants haven't paid rent for a year? Fuck you. You have to take out a huge loan to repair the damage your tenants did when we forced you to board them for free and then pay all of our fines for the code violations they were creating while they told you that you couldn't come inside to fix them because "Covid"? Eat shit and die.

There's no way in hell I'd ever be a landlord.

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There are a lot of financial advantages to renting: you can depreciate the house off your taxes and all repair/ improvement expenses are business expenses and can be deducted. But unless the rental income is higher than the mortgage it doesn't make sense and I never thought it was worth the headache.



I hope he knows what he's doing. He's a huge ball of stress but when I go to his house he and his fiance never seem to be panicking about how they're going to put food on the table or keep the lights on. But there's been zero rental income for at least 6 months now (plus whatever they weren't paying before he finally had the police escort them out after YEARS of trying to get that done), and Illinois has SUPER HIGH property taxes. I know that he can write off a lot of this stuff as losses and he knows how to do it, but he's still getting creamed right now. He was paying over $260 per month just in natural gas alone this winter just keeping the house warm enough so the pipes wouldn't burst.


He needs to get rid of this house. It's gorgeous, but even under the best conditions it's a money pit. It's just too old and the design isn't something that they'd even be allowed to make today. The house is over 100 years old, and I'd bet it's even hard to get insured.

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Sunday, April 2, 2023 11:32 PM

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Just a Sunday around me. Not much happening.

I guess I had my Sunday yesterday, today is almost a regular "work" day for me excpet I ot out of bed late. Time to get back to it, my list of "things to do" gets longer and longer every time I think about it. Have a nice one. Do something fun!


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My to do list starts tomorrow with some actual grocery shopping.

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Monday, April 3, 2023 12:59 PM

BRENDA


Out for my walk soon on a bright but not overly warm day.

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Monday, April 3, 2023 6:52 PM

BRENDA


Back from my walk and though the temp has gone up it is still very cold out.

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Monday, April 3, 2023 9:48 PM

SIGNYM

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Family is sick. Headache, sore throat,stuffy drippy nose, low grade fever, cough. It's not Covid- I know, I tested them! But they're miserable. I'm serving chicken soup tonight.

As for me... my eyes and nose drip all the time (chemo side effect) so I wouldn't know if I was sick or not. I had a scratchy throat a few days back, but I think I'm ok!

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Monday, April 3, 2023 11:23 PM

BRENDA


Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

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Monday, April 3, 2023 11:29 PM

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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

I hope so! How exciting!

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Monday, April 3, 2023 11:45 PM

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Awwww... sorry about your family, Sigs. Hope everyone feels better soon.

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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

Wow, Brenda. That sounds great!




I put another piece of the puzzle together on the dread work I was talking about today. I'm still going to have a lot to do.

I'll probably be helping on the rental next Saturday, but maybe not with Sunday being Easter. His family is big into the holidays. May or may not help my other buddy this week with his kitchen, but that's not going to happen until I make it through this next round of terrible storms over the next 2 days. :(

I seem to have put on a few pounds. At least it's trending upward. Been between 149 and 151 lbs for 2 days now, which is up from the low of 146. But jeez... do I have to eat a lot right now. I must have put my metabolism in hyperdrive. You wouldn't believe how much I'm eating. It's almost a chore at this point.

Feeling my energy pick back up. Once I get back to about 153 I'm going to start working out about 30 minutes a day and hopefully all these new good habits stick after a few weeks.



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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 1:40 AM

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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

I hope so! How exciting!

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I think we need to rein things in. Getting a foot in the door with publishers on either side of the line is hard.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 1:41 AM

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Awwww... sorry about your family, Sigs. Hope everyone feels better soon.

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Was talking to someone I know about my book today and she already has me doing a book tour. *L*

Wow, Brenda. That sounds great!




I put another piece of the puzzle together on the dread work I was talking about today. I'm still going to have a lot to do.

I'll probably be helping on the rental next Saturday, but maybe not with Sunday being Easter. His family is big into the holidays. May or may not help my other buddy this week with his kitchen, but that's not going to happen until I make it through this next round of terrible storms over the next 2 days. :(

I seem to have put on a few pounds. At least it's trending upward. Been between 149 and 151 lbs for 2 days now, which is up from the low of 146. But jeez... do I have to eat a lot right now. I must have put my metabolism in hyperdrive. You wouldn't believe how much I'm eating. It's almost a chore at this point.

Feeling my energy pick back up. Once I get back to about 153 I'm going to start working out about 30 minutes a day and hopefully all these new good habits stick after a few weeks.



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One step at a time and I would have to deal with my nerves in order to do such a thing.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 1:07 PM

BRENDA


Out for my walk on another bright but most likely cold day. Temp is only 38F. Need refill for one of my meds.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:25 PM

SIGNYM

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That's chilly!

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Had to call AAA to replace a battery this AM. We've had to jumpstart the car for a few weeks now, and the fuss was getting old. But it was a 7-year old battery so I guess we needed a new one.
Still dealing with sick people here. I was going to take the family out to see the superbloom but between illness and Easter I think that'll be later.



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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:08 PM

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Here comes the rain again...

They're calling for some monster Tstorms with a chance of tornadoes again.

Might not be getting too much sleep tonight. Had a nice nap though.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:51 PM

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That's chilly!

*****

Had to call AAA to replace a battery this AM. We've had to jumpstart the car for a few weeks now, and the fuss was getting old. But it was a 7-year old battery so I guess we needed a new one.
Still dealing with sick people here. I was going to take the family out to see the superbloom but between illness and Easter I think that'll be later.



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It is and even in the afternoon now it is only 52F. Guess we are going for a cold Spring up here.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:52 PM

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Here comes the rain again...

They're calling for some monster Tstorms with a chance of tornadoes again.

Might not be getting too much sleep tonight. Had a nice nap though.

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Don't mention the "r" word. My area is expecting that on Thursday.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:52 PM

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Meds refilled and returned something to the library as well. Cold day again.

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 5:53 PM

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Here comes the rain again...

They're calling for some monster Tstorms with a chance of tornadoes again.

Might not be getting too much sleep tonight. Had a nice nap though.

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Yeah have you seen the news about all of those tornadoes further south? Here's hoping they avoid your area!

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 8:10 PM

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More news on tornadoes south of me in the last 24 hours you mean? ... Or from over the weekend?

There's a possibility we're going to miss a lot of it again tonight. It depends on which weather service you look at. They've made it a habit not to agree with each other for about 5 months now, dating back to the bomb cyclone in December.

We should have already had an inch of rain today, but it's been barely a drizzle here and there. I'm not complaining at all about that, for sure.

I'm just really getting sick of this weather. If it's not cold out, it's dark and rainy and potentially dangerous. Not a good start to spring in these parts so far.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2023 9:01 AM

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Looks like tornadoes are probably out. Power stayed on last night.

They're saying we're going to get 1.25" of rain in the next 4 hours now though.

Yikes.

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