In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
She should be able to find her way back by smell and sight. Does she have a yellow streak? If so, check between any hedges, boxes, whatever next to your home. I had a cat that was too scared to come to the door and ask to be let in. He would hide like he was a giant mouse.
If you want to catch cats, go to the dollar store and get a dollar can of smoked oysters. The second you pierce that can they'll be circling your feet
Peabody said:If you want to catch cats, go to the dollar store and get a dollar can of smoked oysters. The second you pierce that can they'll be circling your feet
Dude I swear that actually worked, because she was meowing at me through the screen door 20 minutes after I microwaved some and put it out! She's at my feet now.
GIRTHQUAKE said:Peabody said:If you want to catch cats, go to the dollar store and get a dollar can of smoked oysters. The second you pierce that can they'll be circling your feet
Dude I swear that actually worked, because she was meowing at me through the screen door 20 minutes after I microwaved some and put it out! She's at my feet now.
That's mildly hilarious...
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
I'm surprised it took that long
Indeed.
Had a mouse in the shop. Remembered reading somewhere that peanut butter, lightly toasted to make it more aromatic, was a mouse lure. Put a little ramp to a box, hit some peanut butter with a torch for a few seconds, placed in box. AS I WAS WALKING AWAY the mouse ran up and jumped in.
No, you don't get to complain about being broke, I just watched you spend $160 on 4 dozen sugar cookies. "Oh but they're pretty" they taste like cardboard, like every single other royal icing covered sugar cookie. You're a berkeleying moron.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Every animal likes peanut butter. I don't know why but they do
You buy a nice MOMO steering wheel and the horn button doesn't fit. Why don't they include the ring you need?
Boss just called to let me know that he won't be in tomorrow because his wife is sick. That's not the rant though. The rant is that now I have to cover for him tomorrow. It is expected of me that I sit at his desk and perform lead duties. But I don't get paid any extra; it's just expected.
But, if a lower tier technician calls out, I have to cover down for them as well. This position has very little to do with being an actual technician. It's more of a middle management but with no incentives or authority. I basically babysit adults.
Since my position is salary, I don't get overtime. But I have to meet 40 hours a week. It's ridiculous.
Last year, under the old site lead, was pushing to get me a 5% merit raise since I busted my ass that year. The program manager, whom I never spoke to or even met, decided that 5% was too much and chopped it to 2.5%.
I will have been here 5 years this December. In that time, I have been through 4 site leads and probably 20 technicians. The turnover rate is high. Most people don't like the shift work but it doesn't help that it's a very toxic work environment. A lot of people quit to get away from the BS.
It's getting to the point where I loathe going to work. The new site lead has worked here previously but as a lower level technician. He's a nice guy but completely lost in the sauce. It's been 4 months since he took over and he still doesn't understand how things work. I don't have time to train him. And it's not my job anyway.
I can't wait to get the hell out of here 
Technology is STUPID. Like mad stupid.
Old thermostat. Move the thing. The temp goes down.
New thermostat. Has a fancy app. Wifi goes down? Thermostat gets pissy.
Also has batteries in it. Fully has to be plugged into the wall for it to work the system, but guess what happens if the batteries die? WHOLE berkeleyING SYSTEM DIES. Who decides that in 2023 if my thermostat decides its gotten all the juice it can out of 3 AA batteries in the middle of summer in FLORIDA it's just gonna go ahead and shut my whole goddamn system off and turn my house into a sauna? That could have been a real problem if I'd say, gone on vacation like I had been back in July. A week with no air circulation at all would have killed my animals, quite literally. These are apparently batteries that need to be replaced roughly every 90 days, given that I had to replace them once right after I moved in-and this happened to me yesterday. Why it couldn't run when it was CONNECTED TO THE WALL is beyond me.
In reply to Mndsm :
My Nest is powered by low voltage from the furnace, just like the old '60s-vintage Honeywell it replaced.
Spin the knob on the wall, and the temperature goes up or down, just like the old '60s-vintage Honeywell it replaced.
If the wifi is out, I have to get my ass off the couch instead of doing it from my phone, but the thermostat still functions, just like the old '60s-vintage Honeywell it replaced.
But, unlike the old '60s-vintage Honeywell it replaced, the Nest is fully programmable with a 7-day setback calendar, adaptive learning, and occupancy sensors.
In reply to Mndsm :
What brand, so I avoid it?
In reply to Duke :
And the Nest can basically set to be a 'dumb' thermostat. We have one in the house we just bought and it works much better now that I've turned off all the 'smart' functions. I may try starting from scratch with programming it, but it works so much better just 'dialing' the temp I want that I may just leave it be.
In reply to mtn :
Some piece of $hit honeywell. My dad hated the company in the 80s for some reason ( I think it had to do with union busting in minneapolis, as that's where we, and they were ) and I'm not much of a fan now. But this house is a rental so I can't unberkeley it.
In reply to Mndsm :
Go full turbo Subaru emissions test: Replace the original with a good unit. Return to old unit when rental is up.
My 14 year old knows exactly how to push every single button of mine simultaneously. She can play my like a short Italian accordion.
People who only post exterior shots on their for sale listing. Need I say more? I actually had a seller say that I was wasting his time by asking for specifics. Seriously? You want me to drive 2 hours to look but won't tell me if your Volvo has fuel injection or SUs or take a picture so I can figure it out on my own?
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
And you have to make sure that two of those photos are at the local car wash with the car covered in soap suds. Why is that a thing?
In reply to Puddy46 :
Because that's the cleanest that turd has been during the entire length of ownership.
In reply to Rodan :
I used to have the Nest programmed all fancy with when we were gone to be as efficient as possible, but since I've been working from home the last 3 years I have it acting like an old-fashioned one except for letting it get warmer/colder when we're gone for a long time and the fact The Dancer can adjust it from her phone if she's too warm/cold in bed (usually warm, somewhat ironically). Only thing I wish I could do would be to set it up so that my phone would automatically tell it to start bringing the house back to normal temperature when we get about an hour away when we've been out for the weekend because I'm horrible at remembering to do it manually.
In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
tangentially, people that list wheels for sale without all the specs. or sometimes without any specs. Then you message to ask and they say they don't know. Like, do you own a tape measure? Unless someone is buying them for decor, a buyer is going to need to know if it will actually fit their car
The Microsoft Store is so annoying. I've reinstalling because of what ended up being a store problem. Omigerrd, it's slow.
Appleseed said:In reply to Mndsm :
Go full turbo Subaru emissions test: Replace the original with a good unit. Return to old unit when rental is up.
Narrator: This is what people with Fox body Mustangs did in the 1990s. Leave the EFI smog motor on a pallet in the garage, swap the high compression carbureted 8000rpm screamer out every other year to pass emissions
gixxeropa said:In reply to Kreb (Forum Supporter) :
tangentially, people that list wheels for sale without all the specs. or sometimes without any specs. Then you message to ask and they say they don't know. Like, do you own a tape measure? Unless someone is buying them for decor, a buyer is going to need to know if it will actually fit their car
Or the opposite. I recently had a set of wheels for sale, posted what they came off of, the bolt pattern, the diameter, and some other cars they would fit. Guy comes and says he's buying them for his wife's Kia, I don't know what a Kia's bolt pattern is but I figure the guy's done his research and knows what he's buying. He takes them home and messages me 39 minutes later indignant that I sold him wheels that were the wrong bolt pattern...and attaches a picture of him measuring the bolt pattern with a tape measure...across the inside of the holes (these were 4 lug wheels). I very politely told him that bolt pattern is measured center to center, and then looked up the bolt pattern for his Kia- of course, it was different than the wheels I just sold him.
Despite all this, I told him I would take the wheels back, and refund his money. That was 2 weeks ago, haven't heard from him since.
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