In reply to mtn :
Color me ungrateful but if they're shoe-horning you into a third row designed for 8 yr olds and soccer practice they're a big fat jerk.
Simply put I'd have asked to get out and searched the all the apps I could for rideshare and short-term rentals like Zipcar which I continue to pay for, even though I haven't used it in darn near three years, to cover every base.
And I hate SUVs. I just think they are the most irrational vehicle purchase ever. Soccer vans like the Sienna whilst ugly at least are meant to be practical from the get-go not a tough mudder dad/career mom the new binary penis extender get off my road weapon that most are. Well Suburbans get a pass because they can haul like a mug.
mtn
MegaDork
8/21/19 1:14 p.m.
nutherjrfan said:
In reply to mtn :
Color me ungrateful but if they're shoe-horning you into a third row designed for 8 yr olds and soccer practice they're a big fat jerk.
Simply put I'd have asked to get out and searched the all the apps I could for rideshare and short-term rentals like Zipcar which I continue to pay for, even though I haven't used it in darn near three years, to cover every base.
Whoa, calm down there! It was after hours, we were going to dinner, and we were trying to fit 4 people into one vehicle to travel about 1/2 mile and back. Our options were her personal car, or a Focus/Corolla/WhateverCompact rental. When you factor in that one of the dudes is about 6'7", it was an easy choice.
In reply to mtn :
ah. You weren't even in the third row. That's not much of a rant then.
the sound of another car flying through the stop sign outside my apt. at well over 25.
I gotta get cameras and put this E36 M3 on youtube.
mtn
MegaDork
8/21/19 1:36 p.m.
nutherjrfan said:
In reply to mtn :
ah. You weren't even in the third row. That's not much of a rant then.
No, I still was - she had a baby seat in one of the second row seats - but it is a very minor rant, and my rant was not about riding in the backseat, just about how people don't realize how big or small SUV's really are.
longest
meeting
EVER!
4 hours.
5 minutes of it applied to me.
If I here from one more German company about how a component has a lifecycle of 25 years which 5x the assembly and yet here I am replacing it in 18 months again I am going to scream. Seriously everything from screw drives to belts and sensors. You guys are supposed to build the good stuff I am paying out the nose for it.
At least the American companies are giving me reasonable estimates on lifecycle.
Good friend of the wife is in an borderline abusive marriage. Not physically abusive (yet), but verbally/mentally/emotionally abusive.
She is stuck in a loop, as many many abuse victims are. So GD frustrating to watch from the outside.
My attorney filed additional claims with the VA appeals causing my claim to get put back 16 to 29 months. I wasn't informed until I was wondering why the VA haddnt changed anything.
Since they get a percentage I can't help but wonder if they are running the total up to get more money.
If so I have no idea what I can do about it.
wearymicrobe said:
If I here from one more German company about how a component has a lifecycle of 25 years which 5x the assembly and yet here I am replacing it in 18 months again I am going to scream. Seriously everything from screw drives to belts and sensors. You guys are supposed to build the good stuff I am paying out the nose for it.
At least the American companies are giving me reasonable estimates on lifecycle.
I did a factory tour for one of the automatic door manufacturers we use. They were touting million cycle testing and such. And they did do the testing...in a clean, conditioned space. Shiny new door, open-close-open-close, over and over. Nothing near it, no shopping carts, hospital beds, kids, dirt, floor wax. Just a clean door cycling in a clean space. The engineer got all huffy when I told him it wasn't much of a test. I suggested that he put it in the middle of his employee parking lot in the sun, rain and dirt, and then pay a kid to push 1000 shopping carts a day through it. Test it as it's intended to be used, otherwise you are wasting time.
A setup that normal takes 35-40 minutes at most has taken 5 hours because we had to diagnose and undo somebody else's rigging on the proximity switches under our vertical lathe. I'm ready to go the hell home but it ain't over yet.
Cotton said:
I may have missed it, but is there a reason they aren’t picking up the materials and dealing with all of that? I’m building a new shop and having to constantly fetch supplies for the contractor would be exhausting. They always find something that was missed or needs to be added to scope.
This actually came up again in a conversation with the contractor on Tuesday afternoon- he left for vacation for a week or so either yesterday or today so had called to get things lined up before leaving and one of the things he had mentioned was that they were going to be just piling all of the scrap/unused materials out of the way on the deck instead of piling them up at the bottom of the (50+) stairs by the road because, "we're not getting paid to do that."
The Dancer jumped on this and asked what he meant, and he said (NOTE: for those who live anywhere near me and listen to the Bob & Tom Show on the radio in the mornings, the builder sounds disturbingly like Donnie Baker. For those who don't, the closest other reference I can come up with would be Ray Stevens doing one of his hillbilly character voices, ala The Streak) "Well you see sweetie (the Dancer REALLY, REALLY hates that he calls her this- I think it pisses her off almost as much as any of the other crap he pulls) if we were getting the materials instead of having you get them, we'd need to charge 15% of their cost to get them and haul them up and another 10% to haul the waste away, so by having you handle the materials you're saving a lot of money."
Also, for as much of a stickler as he has been (despite having initially said that he would NOT be...) about what is in the contract, we're pretty certain that they're trying to cut corners/costs and not doing something the we know IS in the contract- fire caulk/foam behind the electrical boxes. They put up the insulation yesterday on the lower half of the cabin and just tucked the roll insulation behind the boxed (which is definitely not best for actual insulating properties and may be a fire hazard). When we texted him and asked if they were going ot be putting in the fire foam/caulk he said 'Yes,' but we likely won't be able to see anything to tell once they put the wall paneling up... >_<
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
At this point I think burning the place down and starting over would be preferable to continuing to work with this guy.
In reply to slowbird :
We're not sure the construction insurance would cover all of what we have in it at this point, so that would be a losing proposition as well...
Cancer sucks!
My best friend from high school has kidney cancer. He's 52. Looks to be a slow growing, nonaggressive strain but it's still going to cost him a kidney.
Cancer Sucks!
That is all.
Amazon's packing guys really seem to be outdoing themselves this week. Yes, I know they're systematically overworked but I have to say the recent packaging it taking the cake.
First, on Monday I get a large box of cat snacks that also included a rather expensive and hard to get AMD processor. Whoever packed the box managed to put it into the box in such a way that the actual processor faced the outside of the box. Like, literally touching it. OK, granted, AMD might not have it packed in the most clever way but still putting the most expensive item of the order into a place where it can be damaged easily is ... suboptimal.
Today, I get another box that includes more sensitive computer components, a (heavy-ish) roll of labels and an OEM Honda S2000 air filter. Someone chucked all of the items into a box, added a couple of fig leave little air cushions and had the roll of labels rattle around the box nicely. All items in the box but the roll of labels at least has damaged packaging at the very least, the air filter has a few pleats squashed and I can't test the computer components until the rest of the arrives, which I also stupidly ordered at Amazon.
I'm so glad that Amazon removed the packaging feedback button a while back. I guess it's time to Twitter them again. Not that it seems to be making any difference anyway.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
It's almost as if working in a un-airconditioned warehouse in August while you watch every human around you be replaced by robots and get constantly chirped at by your automated boss through some crappy walkie talkie thing doesn't incentivize people to do their best work
In reply to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ :
I know . And I'm blaming the system more than the individuals. And myself for not taking more time out of all the stuff I'm supposed to do to shop around.
But that doesn't mean we should just accept E36 M3ty service, so now I get to take more time to just send stuff back again. Yay.
Just found that one of HS friend's youngest brother just died. I think he was maybe 40 and on the road to a very lucrative Comic Book artist career.
If every post you share on the book of faces starts with, "I bet I can't even get one share."
You are right, you can't. At least not from me.
My supervisors are Berkeleying insane.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
Amazon pissed me off this week, too. I'm *this* close to cancelling Prime and writing them off.
T.J.
MegaDork
8/22/19 7:58 p.m.
Flight delayed and hour and a half. Then a bit later, snother 25 mins. Will I make it home tonight?
T.J.
MegaDork
8/22/19 8:15 p.m.
Just moved 10 more minutes.
T.J. said:
Just moved 10 more minutes.
That sounds really bizarre yet mundane, somehow.