Pete. (l33t FS) said:
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
My mom told me to never take a shower during a lightning storm in case the lightning forked through the metal plumbing.
Maybe urban legend, maybe it can happen, but also maybe they are thinking the same thing?
I did a LOT of research on this back when I was trying to go in and swim almost every morning and found shockingly (*rim shot*) little information about anything of the likes. The only reports/articles I could find were about people who had been shocked by faulty wiring in lights in pools.
And besides- they only close the pool (and hot tub), NOT the showers, steam room, and sauna (I think... I never use the latter two but know for certain they don't close the showers because usually everyone who was in the pool goes and showers off before leaving).
I would put a decent amount of money on it being that they just made it a blanket policy to close ALL pools when there is lightning so they didn't have to deal with differentiating between indoor and outdoor pools (and potentially ones that are both- where you have a pool that is partially covered and partially out in the open).
Closing an outdoor pool when there is lightning around is ABSOLUTELY the right thing to do- but that's because you're out in the open and thus quite susceptible to being hit... but that's just not remotely a concern when indoors.
The leak that prompted that $36 water main repair I felt so good about a few weeks ago has been going on for quite a while. The severity was less than obvious because we use averaged billing.
Well, it's noticed now. If the losses were a car, we'd call it challenge priced.
All gone.
Storms hammered Western PA last night and now the power is out everywhere. I'm worried it will be off for days. Good news is work has a backup generator so it's work as usual for me. My entire neighborhood is "taking the day off".
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Write to your county's department of health, they generally make the rules for things like that. My girlfriend manages two YMCA pools, one has to close when there's lightning, one doesn't because the two counties have different requirements.
Really? We're bringing back drink minimums at venues now? You're already tacking on enough fees to double the cost of the tickets, and charging triple for the drinks to begin with, and now there's a minimum?
This is a non live nation venue, seems like they're just trying to copy those extortionist berkeleywads instead of joining them.
In reply to Wally (Forum Supporter) :
Interesting, I didn't think about it being a local requirement vs. their own policy- I'll have to look into that. Thanks!
Right up there with for sale ads that don't list location are motorcycles that don't list which size they are. Facebook is full of incomplete ads for Ninja, GS, MT, Duke, Svartpilen, FZ et cetera. List the berkeleying displacement for crying out loud!
Kreb (Forum Supporter) said:
Right up there with for sale ads that don't list location are motorcycles that don't list which size they are. Facebook is full of incomplete ads for Ninja, GS, MT, Duke, Svartpilen, FZ et cetera. List the berkeleying displacement for crying out loud!
Plus the tire and wheel ads lacking size information.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
You’re welcome. I asked her to clear it up and apparently pool construction has to do with it as well. The building, pool, deck area, and all fixtures like lifeguard stands have to be grounded a particular way in places that allow the pools to stay open
People who suck in meaningful ways are using up all the buffer I should have for folks who are just having an off moment or something.
Re: the complaints about sizes and displacements above:
And FB's ads suck because sucking is good for FB, I assume. It would be relatively straightforward to encourage good info in ads by making a few things required (while providing "unknown/unspecified/other" options as needed, but making the user select the non-option, not just default to it), and actually respecting search terms rather than going "our search algorithm has read your specific inputs and is getting a kind of 'this thing' vibe..."
Searching and re-searching is page views, is eyeballs, is the reason it exists and makes money. It's the classified version of "whatever makes you angry is what will keep you on the site."
CL isn't amazing, but actually getting your search terms matched is neat-o.
Or at least that's how it all seems to me.
eastsideTim said:
It's been less than 2 years since I was doing any new car shopping, but today, I noticed something different. I know it is part of the overall strategy to keep you in the showroom for as long as possible, so you feel more committed to buying, since you've spent all that time already. It used to be they still wanted to get you in the car and test drive as quickly as possible. However, at two dealerships, with different brands, and different owner groups, the process of photocopying driver's licenses and getting keys took insanely long. And neither dealer was crowded, either. It ended up meaning some of the test drives were taken in heavy enough rain that we didn't want to get out in any amount of traffic and on the highway, and of course one of those was in the car that is the favorite, so we need to go back again and test drive the damned thing again.
If you want us to buy so bad, get us behind the wheel more quickly.
After a return trip to the Mazda dealer today, I am certain this is a new tactic. If it weren't one of the better rated dealers around, I'd be ready to tell them to berkeley off, but we are giving them a chance to do a dealer trade to get the color we want. Not going to go back up there without actual trade in numbers, though.
In reply to Jesse Ransom :
It's the sellers also. After buying a bike that was too large even though I shouldn't I messaged a seller listing the same model as a 52cm frame. I figured I could swap parts around and get what I wanted that fit. Messaged asking for measurements and he sent me photos of the tape measure on the frame and it was 60cm. Told him that wouldn't work and sent the geometry chart showing the sizes. A week later and he still hasn't updated the description.
Ordered a new bike instead to not deal with it.
I don't berkeleying believe this.https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250422-usa-scientists-race-to-save-climate-data-before-its-deleted-by-the-trump-administration
""It's stunning to me that, at a time when we're seeing more intense hurricanes, greater rainfall extremities, more drought, more wildfires – why at that point would we ever imagine cutting the science that is key to addressing those issues, and keeping people safe?"
I don't expect this post to last. It's out there for now though.
And berkeley the internet. If the sun comes up in the morning, I'm good. And I'll be outside.
eastsideTim said:
eastsideTim said:
It's been less than 2 years since I was doing any new car shopping, but today, I noticed something different. I know it is part of the overall strategy to keep you in the showroom for as long as possible, so you feel more committed to buying, since you've spent all that time already. It used to be they still wanted to get you in the car and test drive as quickly as possible. However, at two dealerships, with different brands, and different owner groups, the process of photocopying driver's licenses and getting keys took insanely long. And neither dealer was crowded, either. It ended up meaning some of the test drives were taken in heavy enough rain that we didn't want to get out in any amount of traffic and on the highway, and of course one of those was in the car that is the favorite, so we need to go back again and test drive the damned thing again.
If you want us to buy so bad, get us behind the wheel more quickly.
After a return trip to the Mazda dealer today, I am certain this is a new tactic. If it weren't one of the better rated dealers around, I'd be ready to tell them to berkeley off, but we are giving them a chance to do a dealer trade to get the color we want. Not going to go back up there without actual trade in numbers, though.
Note to self: Next time I go in to shop for cars bring several copies of my driver's license to hand over for their "verification".
*bangs head against desk*
A ways back I posted ranting about not having the storage capacity I needed on my work computer. I was able to put in a request for a 2nd SSD for my laptop but it took forever to get anywhere because (apparently- this may get circled back to...) someone put the wrong part number in the requisition to the vendor. How this happened with a pretty much wholly automated system escapes me.
But, on Monday I finally got the tracking number for it having shipped out and I was happy to get the package today and after work pulled the back off the laptop to install it and... IT DOESN'T BERKING FIT.
Both from reading the specs on the laptop online and from just looking at the damn thing it's clear that the 2nd SSD has to be a shorter M2 2242 SSD, and they sent the larger M2 2280 SSD.
SO now I will have to wait for the IT department or the supplier, whichever one cocked this up, to get their act together and send me the correct one... and probably have to wait another month.
I try to stay positive and laugh through the suck of life as much as possible. It makes me happy when I log in to see the "Minor Win" thread is above the "Minor Rant" thread for recent posts. But... tonight we rant.
Ever feel like everything is coming broken and falling apart all at once?
The most recent/urgent cherry on top of the growing to-do list of broken E36 M3.
I've been fighting a vindictive sinus infection all week. Therefore it was a perfect day to, upon coming home from work, find a section of shingles sitting in the yard instead of on the roof, on a night we're supposed to get dumped with rain. Super fun timing to be climbing around up there with a hammer, bucket of tar, and a head full of snot the color of Chernobyl c. 1986.
Appears someone, at some point before we bought the house, repaired near the edge without using underlayment. So now there is a nice few square feet of wood that's been (for who knows how long) getting wet, drying out, and now doesn't want to hold nails.
Ok, thanks for listening. The rant thread helped a bit.
And I guess there's a win in there too: When I got home my 4yo daughter told me "Daddy I think there's some of the roof in the yard!" My wife had no idea it was there, and I wouldn't have seen it. No one would have known until water was falling into our bed in the middle of the night.
Pretty proud of her for knowing that the random black sheet thing laying upside down in the grass was part of the roof, and was important enough that I should know about it.
In reply to BlueInGreen - Jon :
Your 4yo is a better home inspector than a lot of home inspectors...
My rant:
New clutch cable arrived! Hooray!!! 10 minutes to replace the cable, 5 to set the pedal free play. Done.
Driving MrsRecon's van to youth group because kids. On my way home from youth group, cross a set of railroad tracks going 15ish mph... and the front left tire lets all the air out. It's 9pm. Tomorrow's project? Tires on the van. Huzzah.
Perhaps not a rant, but more of a general musing. I saw a truck this morning that advertised "Modern Heritage Carpentry" and it got me thinking. Is that an oxymoron? Can something modern have heritage already?
My left boot has suffered a blowout in the sidewall near the toe, just behind the steel cap. Guess it's time to spend money.
I chose to work tomorrow.
Voluntarily.
On a broken rib.
Because we need money.
Pain is my new energy drink.
So the saga of my work computer's larger drive continues... and gets me marginally more annoyed at the IT group.
After finding that I couldn't install the drive yesterday, I sent them pictures of the problem. They responded this morning with, "Oh, I see the problem- you have an XXXX laptop that only has a slot for on SSD card, the other slot you're seeing is for a cellular add-on card. If you were here we could clone the old drive to the new one easily, but you're probably a long haul from a major facility there in Kentucky."
So... you have on record- because you OWN the machine- exactly what laptop I have... and you still just sent out the drive to me knowing that I work remotely and couldn't install it. Now I have to either send the laptop back to them (along with the SSD... that they literally just shipped to me...) for them to take care of it and potentially be without a work computer for a few days (I may be able to still work using the new virtual desktop setup if I can, as you're supposed to be able to, get to it from my personal computer) or hope that the facility of our parent company's that is about 10 minutes from me has the IT staff that could take care of it.
If you call my cell phone, I'm going to assume that what you need to communicate is urgent. (Or you're my mother.)
Do not call my cell phone to communicate trivial information like, "The bartender moved your rolling garbage from the brewhouse to the bar." Text that.
The radio in my S2000 is stupid and automatically answers phone calls, but doesn't have a microphone. So, no matter what, I have to juggle my phone to either hang up or turn off bluetooth to talk. I'm already having a bad morning, and you're interrupting me driving to tell me THAT?!?
I've got a new customer who's been great, except that he's recently immigrated from Israel and is a workaholic. He will send me work related messages practically 24/6. To his credit he studiously observes Shabbatt (sunset Friday to sunset Saturday). This means that about 10 minutes past sunset Saturday I can expect a text. 
