In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
Now that's the epitaph I want.
In reply to volvoclearinghouse :
Now that's the epitaph I want.
Dear eBay seller,
Thank you for ignoring my very reasonable offer for 24 hours. I have since decided to just buy your item (the BIN price was only $9 more than my offer, on a $60 item).
I just received an email notifying me that the item I purchased from you is out of stock. That's a really E36 M3ty way to run your eBay store. At least I get my money back, I guess.
Thanks for nothing.
Ashyukun (Robert) said:dculberson said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
If you have the space it's impossible to beat off lease workgroup size printers. I bought one just recently that's 11x17 capable full color laser duplex capable for $450, for my dad. Mine I bought for the same price five years ago and have done exactly nothing to it not even replaced toner. The cartridges are good for something like 10,000 pages. I mostly print black and white but it does amazing color prints. It also scans 11x17 full color duplex (double sided)
I need to look into this for The Dancer- her non-profit prints a fair amount of stuff and I'm always having to run to either the library or FedEx to print stuff in color (and we spend a fair amount each year on having a print company print the fliers and posters for their shows). Every other year or so we can apply for a grant that we can buy physical stuff with- the last time we got the grant it was for our BlackMagic BMPCC4K video camera, it may be worth looking into getting a big printer so we only have to outsource specialty things (like yard signs, 6' long banners, etc.).
Something like this:
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/ele/d/cincinnati-savin-mp-c2003-all-in-one/7792248858.html
It's $200, and will print 11x17 in full color at (only!) 25 pages per minute which is slow for one of these. It can scan to a file on your computer as long as you get the SMB shares set up right, I could help troubleshoot that. If it was local to me I would be tempted to buy it for home, I'm glad it's not. I do not need it. They're great printers with some Ricoh quirks (mostly related to odd terminology or settings, but one quirk is I CAN NOT get ours to print labels, it doesn't fuse hot enough even with label media clearly selected. I just use another printer for them.) but ours has been dead reliable for five years.
Who the berkeley plans an important city meeting on Halloween night at 6pm? I warned them the optics are bad...like real bad. Nope, going forward anyway. I'm sitting this one out, let it all burn at this point.
dculberson said:Ashyukun (Robert) said:dculberson said:In reply to stanger_mussle (Supported by GRM undergarments) :
If you have the space it's impossible to beat off lease workgroup size printers. I bought one just recently that's 11x17 capable full color laser duplex capable for $450, for my dad. Mine I bought for the same price five years ago and have done exactly nothing to it not even replaced toner. The cartridges are good for something like 10,000 pages. I mostly print black and white but it does amazing color prints. It also scans 11x17 full color duplex (double sided)
I need to look into this for The Dancer- her non-profit prints a fair amount of stuff and I'm always having to run to either the library or FedEx to print stuff in color (and we spend a fair amount each year on having a print company print the fliers and posters for their shows). Every other year or so we can apply for a grant that we can buy physical stuff with- the last time we got the grant it was for our BlackMagic BMPCC4K video camera, it may be worth looking into getting a big printer so we only have to outsource specialty things (like yard signs, 6' long banners, etc.).
Something like this:
https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/ele/d/cincinnati-savin-mp-c2003-all-in-one/7792248858.html
It's $200, and will print 11x17 in full color at (only!) 25 pages per minute which is slow for one of these. It can scan to a file on your computer as long as you get the SMB shares set up right, I could help troubleshoot that. If it was local to me I would be tempted to buy it for home, I'm glad it's not. I do not need it. They're great printers with some Ricoh quirks (mostly related to odd terminology or settings, but one quirk is I CAN NOT get ours to print labels, it doesn't fuse hot enough even with label media clearly selected. I just use another printer for them.) but ours has been dead reliable for five years.
Thanks- I've passed it on to her to look at. We may not be able to get one for a bit (we usually don't have a lot in the budget for things like that, which is why we go for grants to get things), but at least I know what to look for.
Holy crap, my wife uses waaaaay too much cleaning product when she cleans.
She cleaned the kitchen counters with Mrs. Meyer's while I was gone, and it hurts my sinuses to be within 10' of the kitchen.
Beer Baron 🍺 said:Holy crap, my wife uses waaaaay too much cleaning product when she cleans.
She cleaned the kitchen counters with Mrs. Meyer's while I was gone, and it hurts my sinuses to be within 10' of the kitchen.
I generally end up cleaning bathrooms in our house, and since I'm doing the cleaning, I eschew the organic, hippy dippy stuff she buys for Spray Nine or whatever generic equivalent is on hand. Because, well, it works. But then Mrs. VCH complains about the smell. To which I reply, if you want to use your cleaner, go ahead and clean the bathroom. And then I end up cleaning the bathroom again, the next time...rinse and repeat.
Beer Baron 🍺 said:Holy crap, my wife uses waaaaay too much cleaning product when she cleans.
She cleaned the kitchen counters with Mrs. Meyer's while I was gone, and it hurts my sinuses to be within 10' of the kitchen.
Brother she is cleaning and your not doing it. Let it go and enjoy the smell.
2nd degree burns across y upper palm and lower fingers blending up some soup the same way I've done before. Yikes - time to spring for an immersion blender because this HURTS.
Luckily -kids in the kitchen were okay and is on my left hand.
slefain said:Who the berkeley plans an important city meeting on Halloween night at 6pm? I warned them the optics are bad...like real bad. Nope, going forward anyway. I'm sitting this one out, let it all burn at this point.
You sure they don't want to push some bullE36 M3 and they know they can get away with it because no one who'd object will be there?
Appleseed said:slefain said:Who the berkeley plans an important city meeting on Halloween night at 6pm? I warned them the optics are bad...like real bad. Nope, going forward anyway. I'm sitting this one out, let it all burn at this point.
You sure they don't want to push some bullE36 M3 and they know they can get away with it because no one who'd object will be there?
Bingo. That's exactly what it looks like from the outside. It's going to blow up once the right people find out what is on the agenda. I'm actually in favor of the agenda items, but doing it on that night when there are people in the city opposed to it who want to speak is just....bad. The whole thing feels wrong.
On the other hand the meeting was rescheduled because of an attempt to derail the agenda using backend procedural shenanigans. It's a popular topic that most citizens want passed, but a few powerful (and loud) citizens oppose. The meeting was supposed to be last night. Turns out the postponement reason was BS and not actually a legal requirement. So as a "FU" I'm pretty sure whoever scheduled the meeting put it on Halloween.
Oddly the opposition group hasn't noticed the new meeting date. It is advertised as legally required, but they haven't picked up on it yet. When they do though, whoo boy NextDoor is gonna be lit.
In reply to slefain :
Nextdoor users make your average FB poster look smart and well-informed.
I've never seen so much aging Boomer paranoia compiled in one place.
Typical RockAuto failure:
Ordered 10 oil drain plugs, i.e. 2 boxes of 5.
Showed qty 10 on the confirmation.
Received 2 plugs, and the pick sheet showed 2 as qty.
Worked thru their terrible online returns process, which is all designed to be difficult, when all I wanted was for somebody to put 8 plugs in a USPS box to me. Had no choice but to return the miscounted order for a refund.
They received my return and credited back the purchase price, minus the cost of the return shipping, since it wasn't their fault. So I paid $14 in total shipping to have the wrong quantity of hardware shipped to me and returned.
The punchline: After all this I checked O'Reilly's to see how much more it was gonna cost to get from them. They were $1.87 my price vs $1.95 plus shipping from RA.
On the plus side, RA has saved me thousands over the years and this mistake cost $14, so I'm gonna be zen and let it go. Ohhmmmm.
classicJackets (FS) said:2nd degree burns across y upper palm and lower fingers blending up some soup the same way I've done before. Yikes - time to spring for an immersion blender because this HURTS.
Luckily -kids in the kitchen were okay and is on my left hand.
Not to intrude, but what did you do? I'd kind of like to avoid getting burnt like that.
In reply to FJ40Jim :
I'd contest that with my credit card company. But that's just me.
So I ordered a wonderful tool for a wonderful price. I open it up and it exceeds my expectations. What a deal! It's just..... metric. Not available in inches, which is what I need. D'oh!
Look, if we wanted solar panels, we would have gotten them from one of the 50 people pushing them on us already.
Bugger off!
alfadriver said:classicJackets (FS) said:2nd degree burns across y upper palm and lower fingers blending up some soup the same way I've done before. Yikes - time to spring for an immersion blender because this HURTS.
Luckily -kids in the kitchen were okay and is on my left hand.
Not to intrude, but what did you do? I'd kind of like to avoid getting burnt like that.
No intrusion. We make tomato soup with chunks of tomato and onion, and take very small ladles at a time into a nutribullet to smooth it out. Done it probably 6 batches of soup before with no issues. Maybe the soup was hotter this time, or I didn't seal it right, or... I was just using the wrong tool the whole time :)
came away with 5 or 6 blisters but honestly after 3-4 hours the pain was otherwise gone. Just jarring.
GPz11 (Forum Supporter) said:Look, if we wanted solar panels, we would have gotten them from one of the 50 people pushing them on us already.
Bugger off!
Recently, my door dash guy asked if I wanted Solar because he also did that. Uh, no thanks buddy.
In reply to iansane :
But its free!
I found a great deal on the jungle website for a high vis parka. It was delivered today and I was excited to wear it to work tonight because its going to be rainy and windy. I excitedly opened the packaging and tried it on.
I bought the wrong size. It's huge. Like "I'm wearing a circus tent" huge.
I've already started the return but the replacement won't be here until Monday. Boooooo.
I went in to our post office here in Hickory Valley, TN to get a flat rate box to take home and pack. The post office hours are noon-4pm. I usually go around 1 or so because you never can tell when she's going to show up. Anyway, the ol' gal says "when you come back, I'll weight it and tell you how much shipping is". I just told her that in that case, I'll use my own box. Did I miss something?!
Beer Baron 🍺 said:Holy crap, my wife uses waaaaay too much cleaning product when she cleans.
She cleaned the kitchen counters with Mrs. Meyer's while I was gone, and it hurts my sinuses to be within 10' of the kitchen.
January 17th, 1994 - Northridge earthquake raging - closet door swings open and all of its contents go flying across the room - I calmly said "I didn't know we owned a vacuum".
Buddy, you've got a real peach there...millions of guys would love, love, love to have your problem.
I was hoping the beater van's old tires would last until I could replace them for the winter, they didn't.
When I fixed a new, fast sidewall leak around Cobourg with a can of fix-a-flat I was hoping it would last at least until Shannonville, it didn't.
When I called a nearby towing company instead of using the insurance's free roadside assistance I was hoping it would be faster, so far it seems that it isn't.
Update: Over 45min wait to find out that the local tow company can't get to me for a few hours, apparently this morning's ultra-dense fog has caused a ton of wrecks.
Update 2: 2nd company says they can get a truck to me in 20mins. Really hurts that I was well under half an hour to making it to where I was going.
Here's how the fog is right now:
Update 3: Getting a replacement tire put on now, shop only had one or I would've done both fronts, the other one's just as old...
Update 4: Finally moving again $625CAD and 3.5hrs later, good thing I can get a job to earn money OH WAIT
I made some alignment pins for the transmission on the mini and it slid in like butter. No wrestling or fight to get things aligned.
Trying to get one of the bolts to attach the transmission mount to the body requires working around the windshield washer bottle. In the process I broke the fitting off the headlight washer.
$80 part I need to replace due to not paying attention when moving the washer reservoir 🤬
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