Wally, I'm so sorry to hear about Kim. Please remember two things:
1. We love you
2. you can reach out to me any time. I think you've got my cell number. If not, I'll gladly send it via email.
Wally, I'm so sorry to hear about Kim. Please remember two things:
1. We love you
2. you can reach out to me any time. I think you've got my cell number. If not, I'll gladly send it via email.
In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
Wally, I'm so sorry. I'm sure you helped her a lot by being there to listen. Please continue to take care of yourself and as others have mentioned we're all here for you.
Wally, I'm so sorry. It says a lot about who you are that your thoughts are about Kim's daughter, who you never met, and not yourself.
You are a good man. Things will get better.
Never Any Parts Available has dropped the ball again. Four hours after ordering a lot of stuff, they still have not delivered. It's an hour to closing and I have three labor hours of work to do and no parts.
Lumber prices. Building a garage this year plus backyard gazebo and skate ramps is going to suck from a price point of view.
93EXCivic said:Lumber prices. Building a garage this year plus backyard gazebo and skate ramps is going to suck from a price point of view.
Everyone I know is pushing back any construction projects that are non-essential farther back because lumber prices are over triple what they were 2 years ago.
NickD said:93EXCivic said:Lumber prices. Building a garage this year plus backyard gazebo and skate ramps is going to suck from a price point of view.
Everyone I know is pushing back any construction projects that are non-essential farther back because lumber prices are over triple what they were 2 years ago.
With the Feds dumping kilotons of borrowed money into stimulus and CARES Act grants to every public agency that ever had a budget, don't expect that to change for the better any time soon.
And for fun, and posted in the musical thread too
Butler Music in Harrisville MO, anyone had experience with them?
On Reverb I was watching one of their guitars, it's interesting and a bit more than I expected but I decided to watch it for a bit and think about it.
Today they send me an offer since Im watching it, something I've never had happen before. The price offered is 10 percent off, not great really so I sent a counter and put 100 in the offer and sent a message that said I didn't expect them to accept it and it wasn't a real offer but to go ahead and counter with what their best price was. It's $399 and it's been up for a month. It has 10 people watching which isn't great after a month really. I'm expecting to hear back somewhere in the $300-325 range
I get back a pissy message about how they aren't interested in countering such a ridiculous offer.
Ffs, they contacted me to try and sell it and I asked for their best price. Thats how it works when you ask someone to buy your stuff.
NickD said:93EXCivic said:Lumber prices. Building a garage this year plus backyard gazebo and skate ramps is going to suck from a price point of view.
Everyone I know is pushing back any construction projects that are non-essential farther back because lumber prices are over triple what they were 2 years ago.
Yeah. I have to get this garage done so we can turn our gym into a kids room so pushing it out aint really an option. Also not doing it is costing me $200 a month on a storage unit
The rest I could but doing that myself so whatever.
In reply to 93EXCivic :
Have you considered block? Obviously not the best for every situation but it deletes wood for framing, OSB/sheeting, drywall and insulation.
And funnily enough the price is lower for block than it's been in recent memory up here
Not a rant, but there's no general BS thread, so here:
My step-grandmother-in-law passed away (mother in law's 2nd husband's mother,) I only met her once but the wife has spent a decent amount of time with her and grew to care for her. To top off the grief my wife is feeling, she was the same age as my wife's biological grandmother (97) and that's making the wife freak out some.
She was diagnosed with dementia a couple years back. Combined with the fact that she started neglecting her diabetes, her last few years were pretty bad.
In reply to Antihero (Forum Supporter) :
Yeah, I was rather surprised at how cheap blocks were- I think 16 BIG (8x12x16 IIRC) blocks cost me less than two 8' 4x4s when I picked up the materials to hold the body of the DMC well off the ground.
Due to some miscommunication between the lease holder and my coworker that offered his ND2 Miata to me, I had to effectively cancel an auto loan. Luckily, I still had the check (which was unsigned) and did not make a payment on the loan yet. All I had to do was void the check and drop it off at my local Navy Fed branch though. Navy Fed rocks!
Now, I have to wait for Mazda to send the lease packet to my coworker so I can take the lease over. Mazda says it will take 10 days. Then I will have to fill the application out and send it back.
When we started this process in February, I was under the impression that they would not do lease transfer so I got financing to buy it outright. Then, weeks later, my coworker talked to Mazda again, and they told that they do, in fact do lease transfers.
I was trying to get this done before May 1st, for 2 reasons; one, I turn 40 and I haven't had a "fun" car in 15 years, and two, the yearly registration on my two vehicles is due and I was trying to save $100.
This whole process has been irritating.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Block is $1.02 here and you get a volume discount when you buy a bunch according to the local lumber yard. I don't remember them ever doing volume discounts so that's interesting. That's smooth 8x8x16 bond beam block, split face is a bit more.
There's a lot of benefits to block, it's fire proof, hurricane proof, flood proof,even bullet proof. It isn't the greatest insulation in the world but a filled concrete wall has a lot of thermal mass and will do decently. You can sleeper it with limited wood material and drywall the inside if you want more finished, stucco the outside if you don't want it to look like block.
Also just putting this in perspective, a 30x30 3 sided garage would be $800 or so in block, less if there's a lot of garage doors obviously. 300 ish for mortar. 8 yds of concrete to fill it would be about 1200 here. 450 bucks in steel. That's $2750.
A mason can lay about a 100 a day, so 7-8 days at whatever your masons make there. There are other costs depending what you want, if you need a pump to grout the walls etc but it's something to think about and to compare to lumber prices if they are stupid high. They are here
Mr_Asa said:Not a rant, but there's no general BS thread, so here:
My step-grandmother-in-law passed away (mother in law's 2nd husband's mother,) I only met her once but the wife has spent a decent amount of time with her and grew to care for her. To top off the grief my wife is feeling, she was the same age as my wife's biological grandmother (97) and that's making the wife freak out some.
She was diagnosed with dementia a couple years back. Combined with the fact that she started neglecting her diabetes, her last few years were pretty bad.
I know I shouldn't say this, but if your wife is freaked out that a 97 year old may die soon, she needs to explore her vision of how life goes.
Streetwiseguy said:Mr_Asa said:Not a rant, but there's no general BS thread, so here:
My step-grandmother-in-law passed away (mother in law's 2nd husband's mother,) I only met her once but the wife has spent a decent amount of time with her and grew to care for her. To top off the grief my wife is feeling, she was the same age as my wife's biological grandmother (97) and that's making the wife freak out some.
She was diagnosed with dementia a couple years back. Combined with the fact that she started neglecting her diabetes, her last few years were pretty bad.
I know I shouldn't say this, but if your wife is freaked out that a 97 year old may die soon, she needs to explore her vision of how life goes.
Somehow no one in her life has died? By that I mean that up until her dad passed away 2-3 years back (she's in her mid-30s) no one close to her had ever passed away. She didn't process it well because of that, and as a result I think she's got some strange thoughts about all of it.
On the other hand, the earliest memory I have is of being at my mom's mother's funeral.
Mr_Asa said:Streetwiseguy said:Mr_Asa said:Not a rant, but there's no general BS thread, so here:
My step-grandmother-in-law passed away (mother in law's 2nd husband's mother,) I only met her once but the wife has spent a decent amount of time with her and grew to care for her. To top off the grief my wife is feeling, she was the same age as my wife's biological grandmother (97) and that's making the wife freak out some.
She was diagnosed with dementia a couple years back. Combined with the fact that she started neglecting her diabetes, her last few years were pretty bad.
I know I shouldn't say this, but if your wife is freaked out that a 97 year old may die soon, she needs to explore her vision of how life goes.
Somehow no one in her life has died? By that I mean that up until her dad passed away 2-3 years back (she's in her mid-30s) no one close to her had ever passed away. She didn't process it well because of that, and as a result I think she's got some strange thoughts about all of it.
On the other hand, the earliest memory I have is of being at my mom's mother's funeral.
Yeah, I have a particular view that probably isn't for everyone. By 13, I had planted three Grandparents, two cousins around my age, my father and an uncle.
Might have flavored my thoughts a bit.
In reply to Streetwiseguy :
I only ever knew one of my grandparents and she died when I was 8. Both my parents were dead by the time I was 50.
So, yeah.
This is what happens in a Ford 3.7 when the timing chain driven water pump fails. It makes a hole in the front cover. The offending part is on top of the front cover.
I've hated this engine since the first time this same thing happened. The first step in fixing this POS is to remove the engine from the car
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