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Darchangel posted:In other news, I'm joining the "gently caress Amazon Prime" bandwagon. poo poo didn't show up today, despite being ordered on Friday with 2-day. I didn't go with 1-day, because my new phone was scheduled to be (and was) delivered today, so I didn't need the case before then. Looking at the tracking, the stupid fuckers handed it of the the loving USPS, who provided no tracking, and never gets anything anywhere on time. This isn't a critical package, but they don't know that, and what's the point of paying for Prime if they can't get the poo poo delivered on time? I believe I shall be complaining, just on principle. FWIW, I know Amazon's own internal logistics barely had any work today. I'm assuming because they know leaving boxes on someone's front porch on Halloween is just not a very good idea. I can't speak for USPS on that though. Prime Now (the part I work for) was having a shitload of problems getting people to work today, probably because drivers knew that leaving poo poo on people's doorstep was a Bad Idea today. I worked Uber Eats instead, Amazon is all too quick to fire us if someone complains about not getting something. But definitely complain. They pretty much offer you an extra month of Prime for free as soon as you make any noises about being unhappy. nm posted:No one comes to my apartment. Got home around 7. Made sure to have candy for the first time in years. Not a single knock. My apartment complex is a mix of 1, 2, and 3 bedroom apartments, and I know that at least 2 people in my building (which is all 1 bedrooms) have kids in their apartment. The property across the street is low income and mostly 2 bedrooms, I figured they'd have a lot of kids out. .... maybe nobody wants to walk up to the top (3rd) floor for some reason? v  v Oh well, more candy for me! (... I should maybe get some insulin first though) I only dropped $5 on candy anyway, two really small packages (Butterfingers and Twix), I didn't really expect anyone to make their way up the stairs to my door.It seems like a lot of kids are out long before the sun goes down now too, which just takes away most of the fun IMO. Also I was working until the sun went down, so.... Upside is I can probably buy black lights and smoke machines super cheap tomorrow! Beverly Cleavage posted:I think it depends on a number of circumstances. I've lived in two places (one rented, one owned) that were mailing address representative of one town, but physically in another town. When it came to purchase/sell the one I owned, it caused a few people to trip up during the process, and some paperwork had to be redone. I'm surprised it didn't come up before. An area I regularly deliver to has a mailing address of Frisco TX. The properties are located in Hackberry TX, and the school district serving Hackberry is in Little Elm TX. Neither Google Maps nor Waze recognize the address if you put in Hackberry, of course. I'd guess it's because Hackberry doesn't have a post office of its own, and is served by a Frisco post office. The city's own website states "YOU ARE NOT IN FRISCO ISD, YOU ONLY HAVE A FRISCO MAILING ADDRESS!!11!!1!", and "city hall" has a Frisco mailing address.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:GM vehicles are good and awesome. Fite me nerd. I found a few parts with Saab branding on them in my car.  Wait a minute... West SAAB Story posted:CARS ARE SO SWEET AND AWESOME AND SO FAST AND YOU CAN SEE WERE YOU GO AND THEY ARE LIKE RACE CARS CARS GO VROOM
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fjelltorsk!!  I'm basing this on my own experiences with furnaces (which range from mid 70s to mid 90s stuff), but I'm pretty sure if it's not even trying to light (as in not opening the gas valve), it's not going to be the flame sensor. Stuff that has a pilot will be a bit different (still has a sensor of some kind, just a lot slower to react), but almost every furnace I've been around had an ignitor of some sort. When I've seen a flame sensor crap out, the furnace will still light for a couple of seconds, then it goes off, and eventually tries to light again a couple of minutes later. And even if it doesn't light, if the valve is opening, you get the lovely smell of Tetrahydrothiophene. If the furnace has any kind of built-in diagnostic, it'll probably be giving a code for why it's not lighting. Otherwise, I'd probably look at the high temp cutouts first. You can bypass them (TEMPORARILY) for troubleshooting, but you definitely don't want to leave them bypassed. For anything beyond that, Motronic (or whatever his name is these days) would be the most knowledgeable. DIY has an HVAC thread too, but it's not very active.
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 Don't bitch about whoever wins/loses if you don't vote.  I wanted to smack the lady behind me in line though. She was not-so-subtly trying to get me to tell her who I was going to vote for. That's my business, lady. She also gave the election worker a Very Hard Time about setting up the voting machine for her, she kept saying she wanted to be completely anonymous and didn't want her name tied to anything.
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gimpsuitjones posted:I'm not in the US but what if I'd rather set myself on fire than vote for any of the options? I'm still going to complain about whoever wins Ehhh... Jill Stein is running, and IMO she's the least morally-bankrupt. But she has zero chance of winning; her last bid for the oval office (2012) got her around 0.4% of the popular vote - and zero electoral votes. I'm guessing she'll have a better popular vote this time, but still zero electoral votes. I don't really see a way for anyone outside of the two party system to make it to the presidency anytime soon, thanks to the electoral college system. West SAAB Story posted:You're a honorary citizen already, then. My CEL has been on for well over a year. When I smogged my car last year, I kept my OBD2 adapter hooked up after clearing the codes, and as soon as it was down to 1 not ready, I hauled rear end to get it smogged. The CEL comes back on within a couple of miles now, though. Need a new catalytic converter... and surprise surprise, the money I was going to spend getting a new cat is now going to the loving toll authority, since the assholes blocked my registration. I can see why they'd do that if you weren't trying to work with them, but they refuse to let me set up a payment plan (apparently they only do that if you owe them several thousand.. and even then, I was told by a CSR that they don't often grant payment plans until you're coming up on 5 figures?!?). I've been trying to work with the fuckers for several months.  Yeah... I do have an O2 sensor spacer I was going to try out. Problem is, the secondary sensor is visible from under the hood (if you look anyway), so it'll probably fail the visual check. Going to throw it on tomorrow anyway though and see if it gets rid of the light.  If it does, I definitely won't be trying to hide the spacer with high temp dark paint. I MIGHT be able to get a one time waiver, but it's not likely.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Voted a week ago at the downtown brooksville location. In and out in ten minutes flat. Bottomed out like a mother fucker leaving though. Put my sticker on the back of my phone and tried to get my rear end home with my rapidly getting worse vacuum leak. Good times, would early vote instead of standing in line with a bunch of old fucks again, even if my day of voting location is within 3 minutes walking distance of my house. Apparently someone brought literally every form of ID possible for the volunteers to accept this year and there is about a dozen. I thought I was being silly bringing my passport and social in addition to my drivers license... I voted at the south library in the city I'm in, which is about 10 minutes away from me. I could have gone into the next city to vote (most of it is in the same county, and at least here, you can vote anywhere in your home county) and probably saved a minute or two of driving, but... I've been wanting to get a library card here. From the time I got out of my car to getting back in... I voted, got a library card, found several books, checked them out, and got back in the car. I think I was out of the car for about 15 minutes. I think it took about as long to get a library card as it took to stand in line, vote, and get my OMG I VOTED sticker.
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fjelltorsk posted:Hello internets, im drinking beer for breakfast, playing hookie from work to pet my dog. That means I have either gone completely off the reservation or been told I'm free of cancer. Nothing wrong with beer breakfast if you don't plan on driving before a decent nap. And definitely nothing wrong with the "hey patient, no cancer" bit either.  Glad you're back among us!
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For my car - not my particular one (yet, anyway), but extremely common on Delta platform GMs - it's the low coolant warning. Can't buy just the sensor. You have to buy the entire reserve tank. It's not that big of a deal to replace it, but goddamnit, why can't they sell just the sensor?!  puberty worked me over posted:Resistor/capacitor trick works better. How have I not heard of this?  I tried to install the spacer tonight... and found out it won't fit. Hell for that matter I can't even get a regular O2 socket on the sensor, thankfully the O2 sensor tools that Autozone has in their loan-a-tool program include a crowsfoot. It's cramped enough that the wires coming out of the back of the sensor are smashed into the heat shield. I'd have to use a 90 degree spacer, and extend the wires quite a bit. Resistor/capacitor, with a bit of heat shrink, looks a hell of a lot cheaper. And doesn't stand out nearly as much as a spacer. I was pretty surprised how easily the sensor broke loose though. My exhaust is fairly rusty (for here, anyway, but the car spent most of its life in SLC), but crowsfoot + 3/8 drive + 1 solid tap from a hammer broke it loose. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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So maintenance dropped by with no warning. Probably a good thing I didn't smoke any  when I got home!I've been dealing with the breaker for the ac tripping frequently (a few times a week, for a bit over a month, with a work order open for almost a month). The breaker is a 20 amp 2 pole, which is pretty drat small for a 2.5 ton unit. He said he's ordered a 30 amp breaker, but it'll be a few days thanks to it being an ancient FPE Stab-Lok panel and not being able to get breakers locally. Wait... upsizing the breaker? In a Federal Pacific panel?  I guess he figured out what was going through my head when he saw the look on my face, and told me there's at least 10 gauge wiring on the circuit. ... be nice if they could get the thing to start reliably instead of throwing a bigger breaker at it. It only trips when the outside unit can't start. Darchangel posted:On the one hand, I appreciate the utility of bulb-out warning lamps, particularly for bulbs that are difficult to check (brakes, reverse). On the minus side, those things freak the gently caress out when you convert to LEDs. Fast-blink is bad enough, and usually easy enough to fix (I had to essentially intercept the flasher function and reroute it to an external flasher unit, since it's built in to the Lighting Control Unit, and I don't want to resort to crass hackery like adding load resistors.) Try having a car that uses the front turn signals as DRLs. I don't think the load resistors are really meant to handle that kind of load nonstop all day every day. Which is why I still deal with replacing the drat things every 6-9 months.And my last Civic (1995) did the same thing with the CEL when I tried putting in an LED. Oddly enough, every (warning) light on the dash of my current car is LED from the factory and non-replaceable. Turn signals, high beam indicator, and backlighting are all incandescent though. angryrobots posted:I thought the consensus was that for brake/marker/turn bulbs, LED was generally A Bad Idea and not worth the trouble? I have all LED for my interior lighting (small panel in the dome light, 194s in the map lights) and for my license plate. The LED panel has lost a row of LEDs, but it still lights up the interior like the sun. It's also a chinesium LED panel with a few years on it, I more than got my money's worth out of it a long time ago. I was behind a cargo van today that had the brake lights swapped to LEDs, and they slammed on the brakes. I didn't see the lights until I was about to eat their bumper.  They had to be some of the dimmest LEDs I've ever seen.. or not seen, really. They were barely noticeable with the sun out.Modus Man posted:Why does my furnace sound like a quiet train whistle in half of my house? Oh, btw, I installed my own furnace and ductwork while knowing very little on the subject. I snuck in a whistle tip, sorry.
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bend posted:I just had to take my dog skinny to the vet to be put down, he had lymphoma. The last couple of days he'd gone downhill massively, barely eating and harddly moving but we got to the vet and he pigged out on choccy dog treats like nothing was wrong and tried to chase the vets cat, and then he had to go. I want him to come back but now I'm going to bury him and drink. sorry to be a downer Damnit guys, what did I say about chopping entire fields of onions in here? 
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Assistants aren't salaried? Really not related aside from being retail management, but Papa John's offered me an asst, then a GM, position.. less than a year after I'd been hired as a driver. But they offered me $22k/yr, minimum 50 hours a week, for an asst position, and 28k for store manager, also 50+ hours a week. With no possibility for bonuses for quite awhile.  I mean, this was a good time ago (2000 and 2001), but they really expected me to work 50+ hours a week for that, when I was raping them on overtime as an hourly shift lead and was working 80-100 hours a week. I eventually took an asst position, but stepped back down to driver pretty quickly. They closed about half of the corporate owned stores in DFW pretty shortly afterwards - the stores they'd tried to give me (in a GM role) were closed. They also did away with the assistant role at the same time - it's been GM and shift managers since then. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Nov 5, 2016 |
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funny Star Wars parody posted:here is a video of rascal enjoying his newly fenced in yard Dat's one happy doggo right there.
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ExplodingSims posted:So, a buddy of mine has been looking to get a small truck for stuff. What engine is in it? The 2.3 4 banger is painfully slow, but runs forever. It has a timing belt, but it's non-interference, so it's just a hassle if the belt lets go. I've seen those cockroaches still putting along with 400k+. I suspect it has the 4 cylinder, since it's a base model work truck (and I don't see a V6 badge). The other 2 options for a 97 are the 3.0 Vulcan V6 and 4.0 Cologne V6. The 3.0 is pretty gutless for a V6. The 4.0 is a solid engine when it's an OHV engine. Ford half-assed the SOHC redesign of the 4.0 and turned it into a ticking time bomb, but a 97 would have the OHV variant. I don't believe the Ranger got the SOHC 4.0 until 2000 (Explorer in 98, I think). Aside from the 4.0 SOHC offered in 00+ models, those trucks are pretty solid.
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fridge corn posted:i hope you all get out there and vote tomorrow I did early voting.  But I'm gonna deactivate my facebook account until a few days after, because jesus christ I need what little bit of sanity I still have leftGeoj posted:Tried to early vote yesterday (thanks to my state's laws early voting only occurs on the weekend before election day, and only for 4 hours, and only during working hours during the four weeks leading up to election day Cripes. 15 minutes for me.. and that included getting a library card and grabbing a few books (closest location was the nearest library). slothrop posted:Having worked at a few pizza places that make their own sauce, I'd recommend the wand mixer option. Clean up is easier and you can just blend in the pot you cooked in rather than loving around decanting into another vessel. Work smart not hard! Some of the ones I worked at used a (food safe) mixing attachment on a drill. Worked fine.  I have no clue where you would get them though, corporate sent them to us. I think the attachment itself was considered the mixer by the health department; the drill was just whatever was cheapest at Home Depot anytime we killed another one.
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nm posted:poo poo guys, can we not post about the election here? Sup babe? Beverly Cleavage posted:I've built myself a new computer. The first time in probably over 15 years (I built one for a friend/ex probably 8 years ago now). Aside from trying to figure out why there was no video at first (I assumed it would use on board instead of the pcie video card I added on at first boot), but I'll be damned if it didn't "just work" right out the box. installing updates and what not now. I'm pretty chuffed. I haven't built a new PC since 2011 (but I'm still using that PC as it was built, aside from adding a SSD and a better video card), but yeah, it's gotten a hell of a lot easier over the years. Windows 7 didn't have drivers for half of my hardware at the time, but everything in this thing was pretty new at the time. With 8, everything but my scanner and printer worked out of the box. 10? Everything except my webcam works. It has drivers for the cam out of the box, but I get a grey image from it. I use it so seldom that it took me a few months to notice. It could be the cam itself, it was cheap as hell several years ago when I got it.
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 God loving damnit. I'm never gonna drive a car again, this makes the 4th or 5th flat this year. And this one actively tried to kill me. Wondering what surprises they'll find inside when they remove the tire. There's a hole big enough to stick a (pinky) finger through under that flap. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Nov 9, 2016 |
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Today I learned Discount Tire has increased the price of their road hazard certificates to $14.50. I probably have a bit to do with that. I think this makes 4 claims in the past year alone for me. The last time was on a brand new tire with under 1k. This time it was a decently worn tire with about 20k - down to 6/32. Also, I'm going to set a new sobriety date of 11/11. Sick of the grip alcohol has on me. And I was back to being physically addicted again. Found a doctor willing to work with me without hospitalizing me to get me through the withdrawal (though I did get booted to the ER for a bit because of my blood pressure and dehydration). Blood work actually wasn't bad, aside from elevated liver counts. Fingers crossed I can stay the gently caress away from the poo poo. Aside from nausea and sweating, I feel a shitload better, and my blood pressure is way down - it was 183/102 at the hospital. 128/91 a few minutes ago. freelop posted:Speaking of old consoles I picked up a dreamcast today and I'm impressed at how well it holds up. You'll want to open it up and remove the battery if it's leaking. You'll have to reset the date/time after every power up afterwards, but you're probably doing that by now anyway, but the battery will eventually corrode the poo poo out of it if it leaks. If it's not leaking, it's just an annoyance with having to reset the date/time all the time. Better yet is to put in a working battery. But it trickle charges the battery whenever it's on, so a typical coin cell won't work (even though the original is a coin cell.. but it's a rechargeable one - you can get rechargeable ones, but they're stupid expensive). Easiest and cheapest fix is to solder in a holder for 2 AAA nicad batteries. Tomarse posted:You bastard, you made me get my dreamcast out!. I just spent 2 hours playing Rez and now my hands hurt (dreamcast controllers suck and all mine appear to be dead other than one with a broken analog stick) I too have Rez. And two fully functional Dreamcasts.  Lost most of my controllers though.I need to get a CRT TV for my consoles. Have a NES, SNES, and the Dreamcasts. They really look terrible on my LCD, whereas CRTs are cheap/free. I think I may even still have an old 4->1 RCA input selector somewhere! Also need to remember how to burn Dreamcasts  to CDs. I have a massive file somewhere with hundreds of games. Unfortunately most of my games have been lost over the years, I only have a few left.funny Star Wars parody posted:N64 looks like garbage on modern TVs because of the way they did the models and how it was designed to look good on the TVs of the time Craigslist is full of free CRT TVs. Problem solved. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Nov 11, 2016 |
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Aw you guys. Thanks.scuz posted:You can do it, STR! Get ready to be ALIVE AGAIN! I already feel like a different person. My energy levels are still kinda crappy, but I actually have motivation to get up and do stuff. Both the up and downside is.. my appetite has come back. Big time. I'm Noise Complaint posted:Hey STR, I just went through this and did in-patient detox. I was buying a 1.75l of 100 proof vodka every other day. Tomorrow is a month sober for me. You can do it. While I was in detox I saw people who were there for their 15th or more time. Don't be them! Congrats on the past month - and the upcoming years! I actually was half hoping to do an inpatient detox, but the hospital I went to Wednesday night doesn't do them and wanted to ship me off to a psych place. Nope. Done that song and dance before, no thank you. But the doctor gave me more than enough librium to safely detox on my own. Usually if they don't admit you, they give you a banana bag, a bit of IV Ativan (or in this case, Valium, which holy gently caress that poo poo BURNS when they inject it, felt like my arm was on fire), they boot you out with half a dozen librium, not a full bottle. But the nearest hospital is a tiny one; they said they weren't setup to handle any kind of detox, only to stabilize and send elsewhere. The hospital by my parents house will usually do an inpatient detox if you show up in bad enough shape, but #1 that's way too far to drive now (30 miles) and #2 I was a frequent flier there for a bit.And yeah... been through inpatient detox several times, and outpatient twice (now thrice) - I stopped counting how many times it was inpatient, but it wasn't up to 15 at least. I'm hoping this is the last time - I'm at the point where drinking absolutely isn't enjoyable at all, and was just something I was doing to stop shaking so bad. It had gotten to where I couldn't get through even a few hours without going into pretty nasty withdrawals. It was half a box of wine a day for me, plus a bunch of Hard Tea tallboys  through the day. Not as bad as I've been before by a long shot, but if I didn't drink I was hallucinating and couldn't think, and my chest would get really tight. My blood pressure at the hospital was 183/102 so that explains the tightness. They measured a 0.04% BAC in my blood, which is probably the lowest I've ever had while in such shape (last time it was 0.48%... no typo)I've been trying to only take the librium when I start feeling withdrawals. I'm prescribed 4 a day for the first 4 days, then 3 for 4, then 2 for 4, then 1 for 4. 4 a day is a little overkill for what I was drinking, I think; I've only had 1 since I woke up today (granted, woke up really late even for me), and I'm only slightly shaky. I took 4 yesterday, and slept something like 18 hours. IOwnCalculus posted:I'm actually backing a bit off of Discount Tire since while I like the service, the owner made a big deal about putting a lot of money into some less than desirable local causes Arpaio's failed re-election and the successful prevention of legal weed that I have no interest in supporting myself. I do need to find someone to swap the TPMS sensors out. Yeah that definitely made me rethink Discount as well, but... all of my road hazard certificates are from them. And they're pretty much everywhere. I was glad to see they're no longer playing the local Christian radio station when I was in there the other day though; they were playing a soft rock station.The only other real option for me that's everywhere would be NTB. And uh, no. No way in hell. I don't need to be upsold on a bazillion things when I'm just getting my tires rotated. I've been burned in some way by pretty much every mom and pop tire place I've used, and as much as I drive, I need a place that at least has shops all over the metro area (preferably all over Texas, since I go to Austin a few times a year). Darchangel posted:Speaking of which, if anyone in the DFW Metroplex wants a 36" RCA tube HD-ready TV, I have one I would love to get out of my garage. HD (component and DVI) inputs do not work, but the analog portion works great. Has a (non-working) built-in DVD player, too. I was kinda hoping to find an 80s 13-19". The kind with the knobs. May as well make it properly retro!
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TT, words can't express how sorry I am. sidewalk gum posted:Finally got some photographs up on the walls in the first time in forever, feels weird. Immediately want to print hundreds more. I took advantage of Amazon's free 50 4x6 prints offer. Originally I had included a lot of work by a local photographer that I really like.. then realized he would probably get pissed. So it's now all down to photos I took myself - except for the one of my dad, someone took that of him about 30 years ago when he sobered up. Kind of a homemade photo collage. The Live A Great Story one is some graffiti I found in Austin (even though I know it's a brand of apparel, it still speaks to me). My (now deceased) grandmother, my stepfather with my mother's dog, and my dad are surrounding that. Along with my cats (current cat and dead cat). My mom refuses to ever let me take a photo of her, otherwise her photo would be right next to my grandmother's. I used to have a ton more photos, but The Great Sinking of the SS Seagate took care of that a few years back.  My goal is to eventually have that entire wall covered, floor to ceiling. e: not necessarily with family photos. Just photos I've taken that have some kind of meaning to me. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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It was indeed one of those drives (one of the earliest 1TB if I remember right), but I think it had a physical failure - the dreaded "click..click..click..click..click..". BIOS still sort of recognized it (the drive info was gibberish half the time, but it would still at least acknowledge that a drive was connected), whereas I think the firmware issues just flat out bricked it in a way where the BIOS wouldn't see it and the PC wouldn't even finishing POST with the drive plugged in. loving thing was only a few months old too. And that drive is looooooooooong gone anyway, it got chucked in the garbage ages ago. I swore off Seagate after that. I've had a few Western Digitals die since then, but they always threw plenty of SMART errors long before then. So far *knock on wood* I've never had a HGST drive die on me... and this thing has 3 of them in it (plus an external WD that never gets physically moved, and a Samsung SSD). So..... since Amazon hosed me (and thousands of others) over so hard, I've been looking like hell for a job. A friend of mine hooked me up with a courier/shuttle company that mainly picks up new I don't want a 1099 job. I want a W2 job. I don't even care if I get benefits immediately since I still have my own (terrible) health insurance, but I'm utterly hosed on my taxes from working 1099 all year. I've been sending out resumes left and right for a bit, and today my phone decided to blow the gently caress up with interview requests. I have 5 lined up for the rest of the week already. I'm basically trying to figure out how to politely tell the shuttle company thanks but no thanks, without making the friend who got me the interview look like an rear end. The interview went great, the owners are really nice people, but they even admitted they have a very high turnover due to the pay and inconsistent hours. I'm just done with 1099 work for now. I need steady income. e: since a lot of communication with them has been via text, I sent what I felt was a very polite and apologetic text declining the (pending) job offer. They sent back a "Thanks for letting us know Sean! Best of luck to you!". So I don't think I burned any bridges. I just hope friend who got me the interview doesn't catch any heat. We hadn't gotten to the point where background checks or driving record checks had been done yet, so the company hadn't spent any money at all on me yet. Darchangel posted:I get a little scared every time she goes in for something. She's 68, now. My mother is the same age as yours. I don't know what I'll do when I lose her. Her health isn't the best, and it doesn't help that anytime she has even something as benign as dental work done, she freaks out and constantly tells everyone where her will is kept.
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I have 3 HGST drives. One is coming up on 8 years of spin time, another is near 7 years of spin time. One has a single bad sector. The other has 2 bad sectors. Those bad sector numbers have held steady for over 5 years. The external Western Digital makes a backup of the important poo poo every night, but also holds a ton of movies and porn. The porn and movies can be replaced if it does crap, but that drive also sits on the floor, on its side, where it can't get knocked over. e: yes I'm well aware many HGST drives are based on Deathstars. Knock on wood, I've had very good luck with them so far. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Things are looking up, sorta. My credit union told me to for abusing my courtesy pay too much (account is still open, but got a very nasty phone call today, and it'll be closed tomorrow). Can't say I blame them, I'm over $800 in the hole with them. Figured I'd be placed on ChexSystems, but I went to another CU I used to have and... nope, nothing on ChexSystems, and they were more than happy to reopen my old account. I do plan to pay the original CU back, but it's going to take a bit. Just glad I have a checking account again.. and this CU is actually pretty close. It's one I used in the past and was happy with, but they didn't have any nearby the last time I used them.I technically have a W2 job again. It's through a staffing company, but they're trying to get me lined up doing auto parts delivery. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll be working.  an hour to start, but said it will go up significantly. It's a temp to perm setup.I was a bit shocked to get popped with a 10 panel drug test during the goddamned interview. Most places just send you to a testing place. Nope, pee in a cup, they dip it. Told them up front I would test positive for one drug and that I had the prescription bottle in the car. I was right, they asked to see the bottle, they were happy. But man.. the medical "insurance" offered by this place is a joke. $100 copay to see a doctor. That's more than a lot of doctor's cash rates. $300 for lab work. 70% copay for generic meds, $300 copay for ER, $500 copay for ambulance. They flat out admit their insurance doesn't come close to meeting ACA requirements, and told me if I already had a marketplace plan, I should keep it until I get hired on by whoever they place me with. It's also $20/week for their "insurance". I pay $40/mo for my $0 dr visit/$15 urgent care visit/$100 ambulance/$100 ER visit (waived if admitted)/$2 generic meds policy.. Still job hunting, but if this staffing company can at least get me placed with something for now I'll be happy. I'm getting really nervous about December's rent.
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QuarkMartial posted:For about three years I did parts delivery for Advance. I also worked the counters, too, but what I really enjoyed about it was delivering parts. At the worst, it was take the ticket from the printer, get everything, double check with the commercial parts pro / manager that the shop wanted the parts right then, grab stuff for other shops nearby, then go. Drove a company vehicle and everything. Got out, unloaded, they signed, maybe took back some returns, and that was it. Ran into very little poo poo, too, unless a shop was pissy about something. This is a temp to hire job that's strictly driving/delivery. There was a hint it would be auto parts, and they confirmed it would be a company-provided vehicle that didn't require a CDL. They didn't ask about box truck experience, so I'm assuming it's either a pickup or a very small box truck. They said it was right on the border of the city I'm in and the next city, off of <x road>... basically described exactly where I live, I can see that road from my porch and I'm walking distance from the next city. A quick google check shows the only parts stores nearby are O'Reilly's and Advance, but I thought they hired internally? There's a body shop down the road as well that was a pain in the rear end to deal with when I tried to get my car fixed this summer, makes me wonder if it's related. I don't know of any junkyards nearby, and the body shop isn't right on the border. I haven't been officially offered the delivery job yet; they wanted me to redo my resume a bit and put a lot more emphasis on my shipping/receiving and delivery experience, plus list my experience with pallet jacks and forklifts, but thought they'd be able to get me into it. They also wanted me to put my warehouse experience on, but I reminded them that my one actual warehouse job (UPS) was seasonal and didn't think it would be a good idea to list a 2 month job, they agreed. My experience with forklifts (walk behind) and pallet jacks (electric) is actually from Whole Foods and Walmart. But I'm officially a (W2) employee of the employment agency, at least. I'm just waiting to be offered an assignment at this point. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Nov 17, 2016 |
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lovely apartment shows its stripes again. Lock for my patio door broke.. in such a way that I couldn't even close it all the way (it's a sliding door). I took the lock apart - it's a typical 80s sliding door lock - and the lock mechanism had actually snapped and got jammed. Being a (legally required) security device, I called emergency maintenance. They insisted it could wait until tomorrow. So I said "okay.. so when my cat runs out through the door that I can't close and someone steals all my poo poo, you'll cover everything right? And I'll also be letting the city know that you're refusing to fix a required security device". That got them out here. Can't fix the lock yet, but they at least got the door bolted shut. It's technically an egress point (since it has its own set of stairs), but my bedroom window opens to the same patio/stairs. I hated to be a dick about it, but I didn't want to sit here with an unlocked door in a semi crappy neighborhood, even though I do have an alarm. They pulled the same "can it wait until tomorrow?" when the lock on my front door broke and wouldn't unlock, with a key stuck in it (gently caress Kwikset forever). The patio door doesn't have a keyed lock, the front door is the only door with a key. Enourmo posted:I mean i'm lucky enough to get it for free with a school department license, but still. For some reason my 5 PC license of Office ProPlus from UNT is still valid. I don't mean just the key. I can actually go online and download a copy and activate it just fine, but through a convoluted series of web pages instead of through UNT's normal download links. It's not SUPPOSED to remain active once you quit attending, but... I'm not gonna tell em. It was originally 2010. Then 2013. Now I can get either 2013 or 2016 (my choice). West SAAB Story posted:Look for schematics for your model. Then, look for thermostats (at least where I'd start). And after that, look for timers, if it has a mechanical timer. I don't know about the voodoo electronic ones.
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I'm out in the sticks (of DFW) and my rent is still over $800/mo for an older run down 1 bedroom. This $10/hr job I'm supposedly starting soon is going to make things really.. uncomfortable.. for a bit. The upside, at least for the winter, is since I'm on the top floor, I shouldn't need to run the heat much, if at all. We've seen a few nights in the 40s already, and it never got below 68 inside. My electric bill should be pretty much just whatever it costs to run the water heater and stove, and the water heater is already turned down to deliver 120F at the sink. I don't bother with the heat until it's below 55-60 inside. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Nov 18, 2016 |
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Maintenance came by and installed a new lock on my patio door. Yay! Went outside for a bit.. came back in.. fucker wouldn't lock. Not yay! Spent about 20 minutes getting everything to line up just right on the drat thing. I don't think he tightened everything down when he installed it. Also didn't help that the door itself is beat to poo poo. Had to redo the alarm contact positioning on it too, alarm kept thinking the door was open after it was all said and done unless you left the door open just a hair.
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 3 month old GFCI. Every few minutes it makes a loud click like it's trying to trip, but it's already tripped and won't reset. With nothing wired to the load side, and the line side is wired via the terminals, not backstabbed. I guess it didn't like the storm this morning, but it didn't even have anything plugged in to it.
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Howard Phillips posted:I need a car from Jan to May before moving to the city where I won't/don't want a car. Rentals by the week are far cheaper than by the day. Check the local rental companies. Compare prices between airport and non-airport locations. Enterprise specifically has long term rental programs, where you just bring it in for maintenance. I'm sure other companies do too. I know Amazon keeps a ton of long term Enterprise rentals at their warehouses for when they're short on drivers. And of course if you only need it here and there, as Powershift pointed out, there's plenty of on-demand rentals that are all-inclusive. Though so far, every single one I've rented has been filthy and was missing the fuel card - but those were all Hertz 24/7 rentals on a university campus. Powershift posted:Probably just something bent on the inside. Stick a fork in there to straighten it out and it should work fine. Tried that. Even licked it, even tried rubbing my dick on it. I was hoping to get a tickle, but nothing. I got a good tickle when I pulled the cover off and touched the black wire though!Oh yeah. Maintenance closed the work order as "Repaired". I guess they don't know my burglar alarm is monitored.. and that I have it specifically setup so that anytime the code I gave maintenance is used, I get a text message (also the property manager told me she "loving hates burglar alarms", guess that's why ). It helps that I know the ins and outs of programming DSC alarm systems. No texts from the alarm company (just a text from property maintenance saying they'd completed the work order), still flashing red light, still random popping/buzzing from it, and the alarm was still on when I got home (they never turn it back on when they leave). I tried killing the breaker for the outlet, but it turns out that also kills the outlet that my main PC is on.funny Star Wars parody posted:I think my posting got better after I got my sad brains sorted out so now there isn't some manic ginger clacking away at the keyboard all the time Don't you have to have hair to be a ginger? funny Star Wars parody posted:I suspect all of my aunts are going to cry Everybody will cry. You may not see it, but the ones who are trying not to show emotion will find a quiet place and let go. Funerals aren't fun for anybody. Good luck with it man. I was hoping to send something before the funeral, or to the funeral (hence why I got your address from you), but money's been tight. There's still something on the way to your house though, it should be there next weekend.
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I made an order from FTD last night as well. They've been blowing up my email today. So I finally got a 90 degree O2 adapter. Had to beat on the heat shield a little to get it installed, but it fits, and the sensor dropped in. Turns out the wire to the secondary o2 sensor is about 3 loving feet long, it plugs in right next to the primary sensor. It's so weird not seeing the check engine light on, after having it lit up for a year and a half. Also found out it had the wrong catalytic converter on it. The manual transmission version of my car has a double cat downpipe with the sensor between the cats, the automatic has a single cat (sensor in the same spot). Single cat downpipe on mine, and since it's as rusty as the rest of the exhaust, I'd guess that happened at the factory. No idea why the manual version would get 2 cats when everything else is the same. Oh yeah it passed emissions+safety today, so I'm good for a year. It'll probably be someone else's problem by this time next year. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Nov 21, 2016 |
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Geoj posted:Finished the clutch in my Focus tonight. This is how my original 160k mile clutch is. ... I think it's more because either air in the lines or the master cylinder though. Pedal goes halfway down before meeting any kind of resistance. I can't even use floormats if I want the clutch to fully disengage.
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The Door Frame posted:I originally thought that my clutch was dying because it would wait until about 60% of the way up to have any real bite, but that was 20k miles ago and it's still at about the same place. That's how my clutch was when I got the car around 60k. Now that I'm at 160k, it starts biting a hair off of the firewall. Someday (probably when I can't easily get it into gear at a stop anymore) I'll look into it. Anyone who drives my car immediately says "WTF IS WRONG WITH YOUR CLUTCH?!". You can press the pedal halfway down with your pinky finger with zero resistance (hell you could probably blow on it and it'd drop down that far). Once you get used to having to mash it completely against the firewall, it drives fine. What's kinda funny is the starter interlock switch has gotten equally bitchy, it won't let the starter engage unless the pedal is mashed to the firewall now (and even then it occasionally decides to say nope). It used to let the starter engage about 3/4 down. I mean.. I've always been in the habit of pushing the clutch pedal down as far as physically possible when shifting anyway, and the change in the bite point was so gradual that I didn't really notice it until I drove someone else's car about a year ago and realized his pedal had resistance the moment you touched it. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Nov 21, 2016 |
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So I went down to the leasing office today to ask why they had closed my work order for the dead GFCI in my kitchen without fixing it. They said they had contracted it out to an electrician and it should be fixed Wednesday, but they would see if they could get on-site maint to get to it. They also said that the person who closed it was supposed to put notes in stating as much. But nope, notes just said "Fixed". Got home tonight. There's a "new" GFCI that looks like it's from the 70s. It supplies power, but it's warm to the touch, and when I pressed the test button... not only did it not trip, it started smoking. Roommate said it was someone from the apartment complex, not a contractor. Roommate also said the guy said "I verified it has 110 volts" (I've never seen under 122 volts here, going by both UPS and DMM; currently see 126). I'm gonna guess he didn't bother with touching the test button.Going to be raising some hell tomorrow. Obviously it doesn't have the shutters that are required on new outlets, and since they've upgraded much of the electrical in the apartment (switches, outlets, done work in the breaker panel, new light fixtures, etc), pretty sure anything they touch is required to have them now. At least I have a fire extinguisher mounted to the wall a few feet away from the outlet.. and no way in hell am I using it. The breaker would be off if it didn't also power my computer. Darchangel posted:You guys should probably learn to adjust the clutch pedal and free-play thereof? Bingo. I haven't ever had to adjust a hydraulic clutch, only cable. I've also put almost 100k on the car myself (it had 60k when I got it). I'll have to figure out how to do it, I haven't ever been able to find a FSM. I'm sure it'd be obvious once I stick my head up under the dash. And frankly, these cars are notorious for the clutch master making GBS threads themselves (cracking). I haven't seen any fluid loss though.CommieGIR posted:BCBS doesn't cover infertility. I have Molina.  I had BCBS before, and had 5 complaints to the state department of insurance over them. BCBS of TX has more complaints to the Texas Department of Insurance than every other insurance company, of all insurance types, combined. They finally dropped me while in the grace period when I ran behind on payments... then mailed back my last couple of payments.Apparently I can't get a flu shot (paid for by my current insurance anyway) unless I go to my PCP. The PCP they assigned me wants $100 up front to see me, even to do just a flu shot. My copay for office visits is $0, my deductible is $0. His office staff said they got tired of waiting for insurance to pay out, so for first time patients, they charge everyone $100, then mail a check "in a month, or a year, or however long it takes for your insurance to pay us". I switched insurance a month and a half ago and had yet to go to a doctor, I chose this guy based on reviews on various health/medical rating websites (shoulda checked yelp... tons of 1 star reviews). When I protested, they said "sorry, it's the doctor's policy" and hung up on me. No thanks, rear end in a top hat. I asked my insurance to move me elsewhere, but I couldn't get them to backdate it even after telling them what he did. I wound up having to go to an urgent care clinic ($15 copay) in the next goddamned county to get an emergency refill on my diabetes and blood pressure meds. The only other urgent care clinic within 20 miles of me that takes my insurance (aside from the one in the next county) that takes my insurance only serves children.. and the one in the next county was only 7 miles away anyway. I talked to the new place they assigned me to - I did have a choice in where they sent me, but I was more concerned with distance, and looked up the clinic on Yelp while on the phone with my insurance. Reviews were decent, and they even do home visits if you're really hosed up. They don't pull that "pay us and we'll refund you" poo poo, they just won't let me make an appointment until the change happens on the first. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 07:17 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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e: HOW THE gently caress DID I DOUBLE POST THAT BADLYThe Door Frame posted:BCBS is just terrible. A lot of you guys know I've been in and out of the hospital over the past few years over my drinking. Generally for detox. My preferred hospital was a hospital that would handle that kind of stuff internally, without shipping you off to a mental place (it's also a level 1 trauma center, which probably helps). BCBS would always play hot potato with the claims, bouncing it back and forth between the company they subcontracted for mental health and BCBS itself. The detoxes never happened in a mental setting, they happened in an acute care hospital, and were coded as such. It got to where I got letters from the hospital asking me to intervene. It got bad enough that the state fined BCBS many times the amount of the actual claims over failure to pay in a timely manner... more than once. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Nov 22, 2016 |
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Seminal Flu posted:So what's the story with literally a fish? There was a big hullabaloo about his visit to the US and big plans with the van. Then he got here, all of a sudden the van plans were scrapped, then he fell out of the forum entirely, when he used to post in an almost viggen-like fashion. Was there some kind of drama? Sure looks like some kind of drama. He's here, under a different name (thanks to GBS name change thread). Just doesn't post as much. Why he doesn't post as much isn't something I'm privy to. The van plans got scrapped because he realized it was just too much to do in too little time, and he (wisely) cut his losses early. So... put in a few applications today with a large national employment agency. Less than 5 minutes later, my phone rings. It's that company, asking if I'm still interested. I wanted to laugh and say "take a look at how long ago I submitted the app", but bit my tongue. Turns out it's a warehouse job for Nissan. Pay isn't great, but once hired perm, the pay goes up significantly. Fingers crossed.For now though, got hired today as a driver helper for UPS, starting tomorrow. At least it's a W2 job, and it's 2 months of work. funny Star Wars parody posted:Here's something hosed up: my dad got a bill for $1.3mil for my mothers 6 week stint in ICU and the three surgeries she had The first statement is generally before it gets submitted to insurance. I just got a statement from my ER visit last week for about $4000, but it also said "THIS IS NOT A BILL" and said they had not yet billed my insurance. But yeah.... that's nuts. Serious question... if someone passes while in a hospital, what does the hospital do with the debt? Does it go against the person's estate like other debts? Or does it get written off? I know when my grandmother passed, there was no estate to speak of (all she owned was clothes and bedding), so in her case there were no assets to go after. kastein posted:on that note, how are you all doing? I am about to disable my daily driver by swapping the exhaust manifold on it 70 miles from home the day before I have to drive it 200 miles to fly to the other side of the country for thanksgiving! Better. Still freaking out about how I'm going to pay rent for December (there's going to be a lot of begging and pleading from family, since I don't have anything of real value to pawn or sell, and my bank closed my bank account), but moral is way up now that I start a new job tomorrow. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Nov 23, 2016 |
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So, gather round, boys and girls, for it's This is long. But apparently the best way to get rid of roommates who've overstayed their welcome is to help them get arrested. There will be many edits to this to clean up formatting, as I've mostly put this together from IRC and IM convos. So... roommate and his wife supposedly left a bag at Walmart's self check with a ham and pie in it. And the receipt. Wife supposedly called their customer service, and was told that the next customer noticed they had extra items and had called to report them. So no big deal, swing by and they'll take care of it. I give her a ride. They say they pulled video from the self checkout and didn't see her, only her husband, so he'd have to come by. Okay, fine, I take her home and bring him back (the back of my car is full of work poo poo, so I can't really fit more than 1 passenger in it). I try to take him to customer service, and get the attention of the manager his wife had dealt with. I call out to my roommate, I say "hey, this is the manager she dealt with, this is who you need to speak with". He shrugs and walks off toward the door with merchandise. She repeatedly says CAN I HELP YOU SIR?. Also apparently the small Walmart Neighborhood Markets (WM's grocery store format) has plainclothes LP. Roomie cops a huge attitude. Store manager finally gets involved, tells them to just give him what he's asking for just to get him out of the store. Roomie takes offense to the "just give it to him and get him out of here" and gets in his face, almost chest to chest. I try to intervene and tell roomie "it's not worth it man, just make a complaint to corporate and they'll handle it, let's get out of here before the cops get involved". I make the mistake of pulling out my phone to record the interaction between him and the GM afterwards, since I figure it'll make for some pretty hilarious "how NOT to approach customer service people". LP guy sees camera, blocks me, but backs into me pretty hard after I said "dude don't touch me". I got pissed, but didn't touch him, just said "don't touch me again dude". I told roommate "dude, calm the gently caress down, or you're walking home". He starts screaming at me and cussing me out. I walk out. A manager follows me out with her cell phone. I ask why she's recording me. She said she wanted to get my license plate so she could report me for theft (wtf?). I just shrugged and kept walking past my car. Roommate then comes flying out of the store with several people chasing him. They stop once he hits the lot, but the cops have shown up, and the manager who had followed me pointed him out to them. He doesn't have anything except for the one item he did pay for, but I'm guessing he must have physically touched someone or something. I don't know. The store assistant manager walks up to me and asks me how I know him, I tell her "unfortunately, he's my roommate". She tells me the police will likely want to speak to me, but said she had no issue with me. I couldn't leave anyway, car was blocked in. Anyway. He's screaming and cussing out the cops, causing a huge scene. I don't know how the hell they didn't lose their poo poo on him. 2 of the cops pull me aside and ask how we know each other, what happened, etc. The cops tell me that the store managers told them that I wasn't causing any trouble, but that company policy was that since we were associated, we would both be receiving criminal trespass warnings. I ask several questions, such as if this was criminal or civil, if I was being cited, if it would appear on a background check, etc. They were very professional and polite and answered all questions. They also asked if he's always like this. I said no, only if he's really drunk or if his blood sugar is very high, as his diabetes is poorly controlled. He asked if he'd been drinking. I said yes (when I got home, there was a nearly empty box of Franzia in the fridge that wasn't there when I went to work), but had no idea how much. They tell my roommate "get in your roommate's car, RIGHT NOW". Roommate: "IT'S loving LOCKED!" I ask the officer I'm standing next to if I can reach in my pocket to get my keys, and tell him I have a keyfob. He tells me to go ahead and unlock it. I unlock it, cop sees the lights flash. Roommate yells he's not getting into the loving car, cop tells him "then get on the sidewalk, because you're trespassing". It gets better. I sign the trespass paperwork for myself, they assure me it's civil and only for this location, I'm not being charged or detained for anything, it shouldn't show up on any kind of normal background check, and I'm free to go once I sign the paper, just don't show up at this place for a year. The only thing I'm annoyed about with this is they didn't give me a copy of the paper, and I didn't think to ask to take a picture of it. I ask for permission to speak to the remaining managers outside, he says go ahead. I apologize to them for his behavior, and I apologize to the LP guy for getting an attitude with him over him bumping into me. They apologize to me for having to trespass me, as they know me as a regular who never causes trouble, and the LP guy apologizes and said bumping me was purely an accident, he was just trying to block the camera. Cops also repeat to me that everybody had told them that I had been the one trying to de-escalate. and.... it just went downhill from there. Cops told roommate to get in my car. He gets in. He starts screaming IMMA KILL THE COPS AND THOSE MANAGERS and beating the poo poo out of the dash, the door, etc, before I'm even backed out of the parking space. I tell him GTFO and start walking. He refuses. I open my window, wave a cop over, tell him he's causing damage to my vehicle and he will need to walk.. somewhere, I don't care where. He gets out when the cop opens the door for him, gets to the sidewalk. Then makes a "finger gun" motion at the cop while i'm still talking to the cop. "Is that a threat, sir?". Roommate runs back onto the parking lot, gets in his face, and yells WHAT IF IT IS?! This cop is 6'3 and 250+ pounds of pure muscle, his arms were as big around as my thighs. And he wasn't alone.. there were 4 cruisers, 6 cops there. And remember that part where he'd been trespassed from the property a few minutes earlier? It did not end well for my roommate. Who knew that getting in a cop's face and making finger gun motions (as an adult) would get you in trouble? Or that tasers would get used if you threaten a cop/get in their face? I moved my car out of the lot to a neighboring lot once I saw them take him down. I walk back, stay on the sidewalk, and wave a cop over, and ask what will happen with my roommate. "so far he has a class B misdemeanor criminal trespass. Depending on his attitude from here on out, he may get assault on a police officer and public intox, since he reeks of alcohol, but that will depend on how high his blood sugar is at the hospital, since high sugar sometimes smells like alcohol on the breath. is he always like this?". I tell them he's diabetic and turns into a huge dick when his sugar is high. cop tells me I need to kick him out before he down with him. I agree, apologize for all of the trouble, cop tells me to try and have a good rest of my day, I tell him thanks and to say safe. Cop also told me "thank you for respecting the trespass order and staying on the sidewalk. you were very respectful to everyone and I'd hate to charge you with anything." I did see an ambulance pull up as I was leaving. Not sure why, but they did transport him to a hospital. I went up there to try and talk to him, but they wouldn't let me. He was handcuffed to a chair behind a glass door with the last cop I'd talked to next to him and looking just as angry. And yes, he had been drinking h He called a little while ago. He's in the city jail, going to county tomorrow. Probably will get released tomorrow, as the typical bail for this charge (according to the cop) is $500. Might even get released on PR, though he has a prior felony charge (reduced to a class B misdemeanor). I told him he's not welcome in my home anymore, but can come in and get his stuff only if I'm home (I've already removed his alarm code, and I'm about to go buy a new lock). His wife has already found another place, it just needs a couple of days to get ready. My biggest worry - and the cops confirmed this for me - is that they've been here long enough that I may have to file eviction to get rid of them if they refuse to leave, but it looks pretty straightforward. Just a little pricey for me right now ($138). They've only received two pieces of mail here, ever, and I know both went in the trash once they read them, so they have no proof they ever lived here. The weather is relatively mild - well above freezing, well into the 60s during the day. So if he has to sleep outside for a bit, I'm not going to feel remotely bad. funny Star Wars parody posted:My dome is shorting out if u know what I mean That's a funny way of saying you're autistic. The Door Frame posted:Just watch Blazing Saddles again and drink every time you hear dialogue that wouldn't ever make it onto the screen of a major studio picture in 2016. I don't think even hardcore alcoholics would live through that. funny Star Wars parody posted:The new Tribe album is dope Oh drat, didn't know the new album was out already. Thanks. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:37 on Nov 24, 2016 |
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