In reply to Peabody :
My almost 3 year old daughter is going through a thing right now. "Mommy is a girl! Grandma is a girl! Grandpa is boy! Daddy is boy!" Then I'll start quizzing her. What is Uncle Grant? "He's ahhhhhhhh BOY!"
I get a huge kick out of it. She's obviously got it, she uses the right pronouns, but still has to think about boy or girl.
In reply to Peabody :
That's kind of like the N-word, though. If you own it, you get to use it.
And I'm not talking about "C'mon, girls, let's go get a drink."
I'm talking about "What's the email for that girl over at [client name]?" When the person in question is a professional in her mid-40s.
Toyman! said:In reply to RevRico :
Do they show how many watts the usage spikes are? Are the spikes consistent in wattage? There isn't much in a house that draws more than 1500 watts. Basically the oven, clothes drier, water heater, and emergency heat strips. Do you have resistance baseboard heat or forced air heat in the rooms? They may also be in the 2000-4000 watt range.
In the 1000-1500 watt range, you are looking at space heaters, hair dryers, and kitchen appliances. Do your bathroom fans have heaters built into them?
It breaks it down by hour. We've found some jumps to be for sure the dryer, others hot water because everybody showered in a 2 hour period. But there are a lot of random ones where I'm the only one home, doing nothing at all and just a 500-1000 watt jump for the hour.
There are some 2-3kw spikes in the middle of the night we can't really figure out.
I'll make a thread after Dinner when I can use my computer again. The usage breakdowns don't work on mobile.
Duke said:In reply to Peabody :
I'm talking about "What's the email for that girl over at [client name]?" When the person in question is a professional in her mid-40s.
Well, first and foremost I don't do double standards. And secondly I don't see a problem with that and would have likely said that very thing. And thirdly, I probably have more language hang ups than anybody I know. So I accept your rant.
Had to pull a wheel off the CX-9 to fix a tread puncture and found that the lugs had been heinously overtorqued, to the point where there was galling of the wheel material fused to the chrome-plated lug nuts. I had to work them loose with a 1/2" drive breaker bar. I am...
A) Never taking the vehicle there again for service, unless it's warranty or a recall.
B) Seriously considering calling the dealership, asking for the service manager and asking him if any of his techs know what a Berkeleying torque wrench is and how to Berkeleying use it. I can expect crap like this at a corner gas station, but I expect competent service from a dealer.
In reply to 1988RedT2 :
Dealerships tend to have people who are proud that they don't use torque wrenches on anything. The mindset is work as fast as possible, just good enough to get it out of warranty.
I got out while I still could.
1988RedT2 said:Had to pull a wheel off the CX-9 to fix a tread puncture and found that the lugs had been heinously overtorqued, to the point where there was galling of the wheel material fused to the chrome-plated lug nuts. I had to work them loose with a 1/2" drive breaker bar. I am...
A) Never taking the vehicle there again for service, unless it's warranty or a recall.
B) Seriously considering calling the dealership, asking for the service manager and asking him if any of his techs know what a Berkeleying torque wrench is and how to Berkeleying use it. I can expect crap like this at a corner gas station, but I expect competent service from a dealer.
I'd be surprised at that from a corner gas station. Around me, the corner gas stations that actually have a shop are pretty damn good shops with loyal (local) clientele.
Ejector pump is going berserk. Again. Fold myself into a Metroid ball and wedge myself back there. Loosen everything, pop the hatch. Cover myself in poo only to see this:
Well berk me...
Why is the expiration date for the quart container of half and half in May while the expiration date for the half gallon container is 5 days away?
In reply to Appleseed :
Did the float wedge itself into the inlet??
wae said:Why is the expiration date for the quart container of half and half in May while the expiration date for the half gallon container is 5 days away?
Because the quart container probably has 10x the turnover rate. Half a gallon is a berkeleyton of half and half. Not everybody is buying in that bulk quantity.
wae said:Why is the expiration date for the quart container of half and half in May while the expiration date for the half gallon container is 5 days away?
Milk has a lot more water content compared to cream/half and half/etc., so bacteria will grow a lot faster in milk with its higher water content. Additionally, there is a difference in the pateurization (sp?) process that the two go through. You can get milk that goes through the same process (Ultra high temperature processing) in the US, my parents get one because they don't go through it as fast anymore and they split their time between two houses. Most of the world uses UHT milk. I think a lot of fast food restaurants do as well, I noticed my daughter's happy meal from Wendy's had a 3 month expiration date.
My rant: My wife likely needs to get a tonsillectomy. This won't be fun.
mtn said:My rant: My wife likely needs to get a tonsillectomy. This won't be fun.
and you can't call it tonsil hockey anymore
mtn said:My rant: My wife likely needs to get a tonsillectomy. This won't be fun.
Ouch, I've not heard anything remotely good about adults having tonsillectomies- it's why I've never really seriously considered it even though it would likely mean I'd be infinitely less likely to be smothered in my sleep by The Dancer for snoring really loudly when sick. Hopefully it's not nearly as bad as I've heard...
mtn said:My rant: My wife likely needs to get a tonsillectomy. This won't be fun.
mine is scheduled for Monday, I also haven't heard anything good about it but if it ends this 6 month journey of throat / neck pain sillyness I'll take it.
NY Nick said:mtn said:My rant: My wife likely needs to get a tonsillectomy. This won't be fun.mine is scheduled for Monday, I also haven't heard anything good about it but if it ends this 6 month journey of throat / neck pain sillyness I'll take it.
I'm definitely curious to hear how it goes. One of my tonsils is massive and when I get sick it swells up even more and is not fun to deal with. I really wish my parents had gotten mine removed when I was a kid, but that was never going to happen given my family.
DW had her tonsils out in her early 30s. As the surgeon put it afterwards, "her tonsils had tonsils."
It wasn't fun at all, but it wasn't truly terrible. She was down and sore for a couple days, and uncomfortable for maybe a week?
DD#2 had hers out in her early 20s. Similar experience, with maybe a slightly quicker recovery time.
But it beat the hell out of getting strep infections 2-3 times a year.
Tax dollars at work. 
Never the money to do it right, but always the money to do it over.
When I replaced the 4th floor doors the first time I suggested going back with steel panels due to traffic volume and service carts. I also suggested automating them if you stayed with wood doors so your service carts would stop hitting the doors. When I replace the doors on the 2nd floor 2 months later, I made the same suggestions. I also suggested at least adding steel edge guards to the doors. You didn't like my suggestions at the time because they would look too institutional or cost too much. So you spent $8k replacing the crap you had with the exact same crap. The original set lasted 18 months. This replacement set made it 4 months before your employees crashed into them again and broke the flush bolt out of the edge of the door. It's a fire door, so no I can't just glue it back together.
You might ask your people if they could open the door before they just crash through them.
No, this isn't covered under warranty. Yes, I'll be happy to supply steel panels instead of wood. Yes, I'll be happy to provide pricing to automate them as well.
We'll see you again in a few months when the 2nd floor set gets destroyed again.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
I hope to post in the minor win thread by the end of next week that it wasn't too bad and I am going back to work...
So, you hired the same E36 M3 door contractor that berkeleyed up the last several projects, and surprise, surprise they did E36 M3 work again. He pays his guys E36 M3 wages, and they do E36 M3 work. Now they have left you hanging again and you have 60 fire doors in a brand-new building that are incorrectly installed and won't pass inspection. I'm still fixing berkeleyups in the last new building they did the installation on.
You say your inspection is Tuesday?
You are well and truly berkeleyed, aren't you?
You want my entire company to drop everything we are doing and come bail your ass out of a crack? For starters, the two guys that are free this weekend are already sick. I'm not going to force them to work sick. For seconds, if they decide to work anyway, I'm going to pay them triple time or better and that cost will be passed straight on to you plus a healthy markup to cover the pounding my insurance is going to give me. I'm pretty sure you can't even imagine how expensive this will be. Lastly, I'm not even sure it's physically possible to complete that amount of work in that short period of time. Even at a very optimistic hour per door, that's 60 hours of work in 2 days. I'm pretty sure you are screwed. You might as well cancel your inspection and try to get it scheduled for a later date.
Does anyone in the Charleston, SC area want or need a job? Do you know anyone in the area that needs a job? Please shoot me a message.
dculberson said:In reply to Appleseed :
Did the float wedge itself into the inlet??
Outlet, but yes. I actually laughed at it. Easy fix, but, you know...poo.
Had to buy heating oil today. Ouch.
Appleseed said: Easy fix, but, you know...poo.
I spent the better part of a day fixing a problem in my septic tank once. When I was finished my buddy said, you know, you can pay people to do that.
The thought never occurred to me.
Duke said:Stop calling women over the age of 18 "girl".
Seriously, just stop.
I don't care how you were raised, and frankly, given your parents, I'm really surprised you were raised that way.
I am 10 years older than you and I know not to do it. So you can learn not to also.
You got me thinking about this, because that sounds like something I would do...but not in any sort of demeaning way. I think it rankles you and others because it's the equivalent of calling someone "boy". As in, "Who do you think you are, boy?" And I agree, that's just being a jerk.
But it's also the equivalent of "guy", as in, "Who's the (guy/girl) over at supplier X that does such a good job?" You could say "woman" in that case, and it would be fine, but weirdly, I wouldn't use "man" in that sentence because it then sounds like, "Who's the man!?!" which is an altogether different sentiment. So I actually had to think about it for a minute for a respectful equivalent of "guy"...all I could come up with was "lady", and the masculine version "lord" would also not be appropriate, "gentleman" would, but oddly formal; "gent" or "lad" isn't used outside the british sphere of influence. Dude/dudette is too informal for a workplace outside of southern california. "Folks" only works in a plural referral.
Pronouns are hard. I usually default to assuming no ill will unless proven otherwise.
Peabody said:Appleseed said: Easy fix, but, you know...poo.I spent the better part of a day fixing a problem in my septic tank once. When I was finished my buddy said, you know, you can pay people to do that.
The thought never occurred to me.
I can wash off poo. For what a plumber would charge to come do it, I can buy a decades worth of soap.
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