The kid will be popping in this weekend for his birthday. A light cleaning and some decorations are in order. My favorite part is the cookie cake. I’m good for a thin slice only because I prefer not to die.
For @MatthewCrawley
Nikki Finke passed away.
The hockey season has started. Being a Red Wing fan isn’t much fun these days. At least they shouldn’t be total ass. It could be worse, I could follow The Leafs.
I hope your day is going well and your weekend gets here quick. I said fuck it and took a half day.
I’m hoping for a kind of halfish day. Hanging sheet rock but my brakes went out in my truck yesterday, hoping to get out early and get the brakes fixed, but who knows.
I am taking a two-thirds-ish day? Need to install a new garbage disposal unit under the sink, so that’s going to be my afternoon.
@MemeWeaver
That is a skill I do not have. The last time I messed with kitchen plumbing was before a major holiday. Leaky faucet kicked my ass. Needless to say there was a frantic call to our plumber. Plumbing now is a big…
@memeweaver the holiday was Thanksgiving, 16 people were coming the next day…and the plumber came after Thanksgiving. Dishes were washed in the bathtub. 😜😱
Somewhere I heard that the busiest days for plumber calls are Mondays and the days after holidays.
I will always call a plumber when a connection is frozen — I’m not going to risk a busted pipe. And anything that involves getting into the walls is beyond me.
But if it turns easily, it’s not usually a big deal to do a one for one replacement. Replacing a garbage disposal is usually not bad, but putting in a new one where there wasn’t one in the first place, no no no.
The problem with plumbing is you cannot do it on a deadline like that. You have to empty out a day and allow for multiple trips to the hardware store. We managed a Christmas weekend without a kitchen sink and dishwasher. Not fun.
The only reason that I’m attempting the disposal in an afternoon is that I bought the exact same model that I’m replacing — so other than some plumber’s putty, I shouldn’t need any new parts. Fingers crossed — I’m going in.
I spent my lunch hour hauling hurricane debris to one of the county drop-offs. Took my neighbor’s, too. It’s been sitting there for over 3 weeks now. Fortunately I have a truck. Others do not. Short-sighted, that.
HURRICANE ADDENDUM
There’s been a small revolt locally from residents whose hurricane debris isn’t getting picked up. Most yards and quite a few streets and medians have gigantic piles of chopped up trees, limbs, and leaves, and it’s been sitting there untouched. There have been several pleas in local news for residents to please stop calling the county and screaming obscenities at employees. (That’s bad, stupid, and useless, but Karen gonna Karen.)
The problem was exacerbated by the county’s inexplicable failure to do normal trash collection before the hurricane. Yard waste is collected separately from household garbage and recycling, and you’re expected to bag or tie it up.
For those of you unfamiliar with hurricanes, you’re supposed to remove or secure anything that can become a wind-blown projectile. But the county never showed up to pick any of that up. So people secured it in various ways, and then moved it back out, along with huge additional piles of debris, after the hurricane. And the county hasn’t ever shown up and offered no explanation.
About three days ago (a solid two weeks after the hurricane), the county said that it had hired a contractor who had started to pick up debris. No explanation about why it took so long. We may have gotten outbid by wealthier counties. It’s happened before. The county government is Republican so we can be certain there’s a grift of some sort going on.
There’s also no explanation about why the normal trash routine hasn’t resumed. I get that the guys who pick up the bagged yard trash aren’t equipped to remove a half-ton of logs. But they’re not picking up anything. And we still have to mow our lawns and trim our shrubs (HOAs, ya’ll). So the piles are getting larger and larger. And nobody’s showing up. I could even understand a quota — we’ll pick up two bags from each house. But nothing.
So the tax-paying citizenry is understandably pissed. Another side effect of hurricanes is you have displaced rodents due to flooding. So guess where all the rats, raccoons, and possums are taking up residence? Why, the cozy pile of logs and limbs in Mrs. Johnson’s front yard, of course.
Now we have entrepreneurs who are going around and knocking on doors and offering to haul debris away for a fee. More power to them, but Mrs. Johnson is doubly pissed because she’s already paying taxes and now she has to give Rupert $50 to get the rat-infested garbage out of her yard.
Ah, Florida. There’s no place quite like it.
@bryanlsplinter, That is an issue that I had never thought about. That sucks.
@BryanLSplinter, weird question, i know, but one you just made me wonder, thanks to learning from Southern GT’ers, whose regions don’t own snow & ice-mitigation equipment…
What do the trash companies *do* with their trucks, when Hurricanes are headed their way? Are they driven to higher ground at all (if there *is* somewhere?), or brought indoors, to protect them from damage?
It’s got me curious, how that’s handled–since I know that *before* Hurricanes hit land, power & communications companies start calling up volunteers to go stage somewhere put of the storm’s predicted path, so that they can get in & start getting lines back up asap, once the storm’s passed by. (LOTS of times, teams from our region head south to hell out for a few weeks.)
You’ve got me curious, about what happens, with regard to trash trucks!🤔
Typically they’re just parked at the county facilities. They have a ton of different vehicle lots, so they move things to ones that are less likely to flood. The actual landfill is on a flood plain, so they don’t leave them there. They do stop driving them when the wind picks up past a certain range — wind has been known to tip trucks over.
I’d forgotten about Nikki Finke.
https://www.gawker.com/5392863/why-nikki-finke-never-makes-a-mistake
There’s a movie about Michael Jackson?
i decided to work a full day today and save my remaining time off for next week…ive still got 50 some hours remaining till christmas
figure ill want to use some of them next week…works gearing up to start building the new machines next week and have literally planned in nothing but new machines to be built and the first 100 to be shipped by friday
which you know..great…fantastic…lots of money to be made there
cept we dont have the prinplates or cpus yet…. kinda important those…. and considering we’ve been waiting for the things for 6 months and delivery date got pushed back twice in the last two weeks….you’d think maybe the powers what be would wait till we actually have them before deciding to start production and sales
then again…. the inhouse developed software isnt ready yet either…and thats apparently not a reason to maybe hold off for a minute
so what do i know…the powers have spoken
next week is going to be a massive clusterfuck and i suspect itll stop being funny by wednesday….may just take the rest of the week off
I took another sick day. Overall didn’t feel as sick this morning, but I’m still not sleeping worth a damn between not being able to breathe and the sore throat so I was wiped out and said fuck it.
Hilariously, my employer has a policy of offering up to 40 hours of Covid sick leave that doesn’t come out of our regular ETO bank…but only if you’re an on-site employee. I guess they figure us remote folks can still work ourselves silly while we’re sick as fucking dogs. They always find a way to fuck up a benefit.