The tax value on my home has increased 23% in the 18 months we've owned it. That's over fifty thousand dollars. I'm glad my homes value is going up, but can it chill the berkeley out for a bit?
The tax value on my home has increased 23% in the 18 months we've owned it. That's over fifty thousand dollars. I'm glad my homes value is going up, but can it chill the berkeley out for a bit?
With a home office and my wife and daughter home for the summer, ive moved my workspace to the basement shop.
How am i rolling in sweat in a basement?
It needs air conditioning, but being a basement theres no practical way to do it that i can see. Ive already tapped inti the hvac ducting and it aint enough. And its not even hot yet.
Dusterbd13 wrote: With a home office and my wife and daughter home for the summer, ive moved my workspace to the basement shop. How am i rolling in sweat in a basement? It needs air conditioning, but being a basement theres no practical way to do it that i can see. Ive already tapped inti the hvac ducting and it aint enough. And its not even hot yet.
Have a window well, or window of any kind? If so, get a portable ac unit.
Nope. 2 garage doors and an access door to the crawl space.
I do have a window unit, just no way to use it that i can see.
In reply to Dusterbd13:
Mini Split.
They start about $500 and you can probably install it yourself.
In reply to Toyman01:
Got a link to a cheap one?
Burrito wrote: The tax value on my home has increased 23% in the 18 months we've owned it. That's over fifty thousand dollars. I'm glad my homes value is going up, but can it chill the berkeley out for a bit?
Could be worse. Two years after I bought mine I refinanced and it was appraised for 70k less yet in the eyes of the town it is as valuable as ever.
mtn wrote: Ran a 5k yesterday. Why would anyone run when they could... play hockey, swim, bike, kill themselves, play golf, eat a pizza, play with a dog, have sex, go skiing, waterskiing, masturbate, masturbate while waterskiing, go cross country skiing, cut off a nipple, get on an exercise bike, go canoeing/paddling, jump rope, smoke rope, now the lawn, go fishing, play baseball, play basketball... I mean seriously, why would anyone run? What a stupid waste of my time.
Running for fun, to me, is basically saying "HA HA LOOK AT ME MY KNEES AREN'T BERKELEYED".
/can sprint, if I have to, because cones don't put themselves up
dropstep wrote: I hate dealing with the local snap on dealer, but have a few broken tools so i need to chase him down and have them replaced.
I found it preferable to just buy replacements from MAC or Matco.
The Snap-On guy who has our area pretty much refuses to warranty anything, so either way I'm buying something, might as well buy something that has a warranty.
Meanwhile, Harbor Freight will warranty anything you bring in. They don't even check it, they just say "Okay, get a new one". And the tool manufacturers wonder why the tool truck guys can't do business.
(that, and $500 socket sets, or $180 specialty tools you can buy from the auto parts store for $30)
In reply to Knurled:
I learned to take a hit because I never could run.
In reply to Toyman01:
You have my wifes attention. Theres a thread about this in off topic. Please, educate me....
I'm reasonably certain half the people I work with are the same set of people that can't order food at McDonald's without looking at the pictures.
Toyman01 wrote: In reply to Dusterbd13: Mini Split.
Normally, to get the warranty to be valid, an HVAC man (or woman) has to install it.
In reply to Knurled:
Im trying to get ahold of the local matco truck. Ive already replaced all the snap on stuff aside from the 1/4 inch drive ratchet. Have yet to find one i like the ergonomics of as much as the snap on one i own.
I know a guy who is going through hell and I have no way to send him strength. 
Three days in a row I had to take the Expressway to work because some idiot hit something on the local road into Atlantic City. I love spending 75 cents to drive five miles that would ordinarily cost me nothing.
Rant one: red light cameras. No, she didn't come to a complete stop, but she sure as hell wasnt driving more than 1 mile an hour. And this is for safety?
Rant two: way to go hon. By not paying the ticket on time, that you told me you were going to pay, we now have to pay $200 instead of just $100!
Appleseed wrote: I'm reasonably certain half the people I work with are the same set of people that can't order food at McDonald's without looking at the pictures.
I hate the rolling electronic menu boards at McDonalds. I drink a lot of cheap coffee and refuse to pay a lot if it's on the value menu for a $1.00
In reply to mtn:
Do you really though? Is it actually the city sending the ticket, or some company based on the other side of the country? Thread about traffic cameras
RevRico wrote: In reply to mtn: Do you really though? Is it actually the city sending the ticket, or some company based on the other side of the country? Thread about traffic cameras
It's from a company the next town over. Contesting it is a losing proposition. I've tried. Can't take the risk of not paying right now either.
Pulled into the work parking lot this morning and the RE71Rs were doing their usual picking up every pebble in the parking lot and chucking them. Well, one managed to somehow ricochet and get wedge between the rotor and the backing plate, resulting in a nice constant screeching noise. So, guess I'll have to pull the wheel at lunch and get it out of there.
So I have this problem with my worn out old work boots where every couple of weeks, on average, one of the hooks wears through the laces and they break. Of course, I never have fresh laces handy when this happens, so I tie the ends back together and forget about it until the next time it happens, rather than replacing the laces or the boots like I probably should.
Happened again this morning and the laces were too short to tie back together again. "Ah ha!" I think to myself, realizing that I recently bought new sneakers and the box is still in my car. "Perhaps there's an extra pair of laces in the box."
So I go out to look and of course there are no laces to be found. "Ah ha!" I think to myself again, seeing the semi functional audio input cable laying between the seats. "I need a new one anyways, so I can just cut the ends off and BAM! Instant shoelaces!"
So I go to pick up the wire and, feeling resistance, figure it is caught somewhere beneath the seat, as it usually is. I give a good tug and come up with a fistful of bare copper strands at one end of the wire. That doesn't look like an audio cable....
Nope, it's the wire to the fuel pump! I've just disabled my own vehicle in the name of tying my shoes! In yet another instance of dealing with a problem in the cheapest and most ghetto way possible, several months ago I just wired the fuel pump on a toggle switch when an issue in the harness was causing the vehicle not to start. So now I get to spend my lunch break sweating my ass off under my car trying to hopefully rig it back together well enough to make it home.
Of course, in all of this ranting I have no one to blame but myself. I have the money to buy new shoe laces, or new boots, or a car that doesn't need some new problem rigged together every month, but I'm a cheap ass so I don't and then end up dealing with the consequences. It's a pervasive pattern of behavior in my life and I need to learn that I should just spend the damn money every once in a while so I'm not constantly dealing with these nagging little annoyances in all facets of my day to day life.
In reply to NickD:
The Abomination does this on a regular basis. Backing up a fair distance usually kicks it out of there.
In reply to Furious_E:
I was going to say, "I used to have the same problem so now I use paracord 550 as laces in my workboots." then I read the rest of your post.
Wow, that sucks. Sounds like a situation I would find myself in.
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