Everything is dry as a bone today. No rain until the weekend and that is suposed to be a quick shower. We will see.
What did you do today?
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Mowed and found a dead squirrel in the yard. Anyone want squirrel souffle?
I'll stick to possum.
Better in the yard than where I found oone on the job. I had to whizz and lifted the lid on the throne and there he was floating in the water.
On a new house, someone **** in the bathtub and I had to put vinyl on the floor. The smell was awful.
That wasn’t so uncommon of a thing to run across. Multi family on the upper floors it was almost guaranteed that a tub was used instead of someone(s) hiking down 5 flights of stairs to use a nasty porta john. You’re lucky if they only used ONE tub.
If it was really bad in a bathroom I would refuse to do that room until the problem was taken care of. I would go find the GC and bring him to the bathroom and show him exactly why it was that I wasn’t going to work in that room until the mess was cleaned up.
Funny thing with GC’s was that it was never a problem with people shitting in the tub until a builders schedule gets jacked around because of someone shitting in a tub. The GC would pound his fist and maybe threaten to fire a specific crew but the next building comes around and blamo, someone **** in the tub again.
...ah, a floater.
Try finding a body on a job. Happened to a buddy of mine. Summer and the guy had been dead a couple weeks. He quit.
I got my phone case and then got hit with bad fatigue. Could barely stay awake. I'm getting some energy back now. Rupert has been obsessed with sitting on me constantly. I was out of the room cooking for Mom so he followed me and he climbed on my shoulder when I stopped to pet him. I took a few pics of cats with my new phone. I cropped them because they are pretty high res.
My oldest cat Boo and then Senator Snugglebum was on the cat tree in front of the lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlay panels from Vietnam.
My oldest cat Boo and then Senator Snugglebum was on the cat tree in front of the lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlay panels from Vietnam.
We spent Easter weekend.......and our 34th anniversary with our son and his girlfriend in La Jolla, CA. When we first came to CA on a vacation in the early '80s we spent a week here and frankly it may be the most beautiful place I've ever been. So in 2023 there's a lot more.............everything. But it's still a really ideal place to visit and live IF you could afford it.
Believe it or not my son is going to buy a house here.........$2M is a modest home. We'll help them out under the condition that they get married. My wife is really leaning on my sons to pump out some grandchildren. So that's kind of part of an unwritten contract.
So far as long as I've known her that women gets what she wants.
Believe it or not my son is going to buy a house here.........$2M is a modest home. We'll help them out under the condition that they get married. My wife is really leaning on my sons to pump out some grandchildren. So that's kind of part of an unwritten contract.
So far as long as I've known her that women gets what she wants.
Most women do, that is in their training to be a woman.
That’s funny. Small world. I lived in Ca. Late 70s early 80s. I also visited La Jolla in the early 80s. I also though it was the most beautiful place I’d ever been. I also wanted to live there…. Alas it was not meant to be….
I ran the numbers on home prices then and what our unions (teacher and floorlayer) were paying and it didn't add up. Of course, in retrospect I should have sold everything I had, beg, steal........borrow money from the mafia and buy as much house as I could get in 1987.
I found out later that there wasn't much of a union down in San Diego so I would have no doubt gone independent or worked nonunion. I did envision myself independent but just kind of slipped back into the union racket. It was nice to be HOME nearly 90% of the time by 3PM and not HAVE to work weekends so much. All that was in the calculations. How was I to know how San Diego real estate market--------especially it's PRIME area like La Jolla-------would play out.
Yea that would have worked well in a lot of places on Long Island too. The Hamptons, the north fork, Montauk.... Anyone who was smart enough to invest in real estate in the 80s is sitting pretty now... I wasn't...
There is still opportunity to make money in real estate but it’s gonna be somewhere else that hasn’t blown up yet. Are you willing to move?
Sure, and it helps if you know what area that's gonna be. Any tips?
I did a carpet job for a guy in his office a while back. It was in a broken down section of Brooklyn. Dilapidated buildings everywhere. He told me not to worry too much, it was all getting ripped down in a few years. I didn't pay much attention. That area is now known as Dumbo. High end waterfront real estate.... He knew....
A bunch of billionaires got together and bought up all the land dirt cheap. Invested a few billion fixing it up and turned it all into prime real estate. Value of the land increased ten fold within a few years... It helps to know...
I don't need to move.
I agree there's opportunity in real estate, stocks, commodities...........even bonds.
But you might not be aware that while IN THE LONG RUN all these sorts of investments should work out for you better then hiding your cash under the mattress at the same time there are instances in recorded history-------not even all that rare--------where any and all of these sorts of investment choices go nowhere for multiple generations. Check it out.
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It’s a crap shoot. Invest wisely.
Yea that would have worked well in a lot of places on Long Island too. The Hamptons, the north fork, Montauk.... Anyone who was smart enough to invest in real estate in the 80s is sitting pretty now... I wasn't...
Mostly luck and from I've seen in 62 years that works both ways.
Mostly luck and from I've seen in 62 years that works both ways.
I was apparently absent for that training, but maybe my brother went to it instead. LOL. He was always whining until he got what he wanted.
Finally got Mom's taxes printed but HP can go **** themselves with their ink "plan". Printer was cheap and on the box said it came with 6 months of "free" ink. But you have to sign up for a "free" trial and then are supposed to agree to a subscription. It only works if your printer is permanently connected to the internet so they can monitor every single ******* thing you print. You have to agree to be spied on. And they can control how many pages you are allowed to print per month. The more pages you want to print, the more you have to pay. If you want to print more than that, you have to pay extra. Even if you go out and buy your own ink they will block you from printing so long as you are online. Oh, and you HAVE to be connected to the internet to print wirelessly. You have to login to their servers to print. Only way to get around it is to manually plug the printer in to the computer with a USB cable (that was NOT included with the printer) which defeats the whole point of wireless printing. It is absolutely one of the most asinine things ever.
It took me over an hour to be able to print Mom's taxes from her computer. But my cat bumped a button on the printer and it printed out a paper about the wifi. So, you are expected to keep the thing on constantly and connected to the internet constantly. Not sure what happens if you turn it off. But say a child or pet bumps the button and you have the limited pages thing or it messes up the print job and uses up your paper limit. I'm not a violent person, but I want to find whoever came up with this idea and give them an earfull. Once we have the rest of the taxes printed I will probably return the stupid thing to the store and return the protection plan for it.
The lowest plan is 99cents per month with only 10 pages allowed. There is some rollover with max for lowest plan being something like 30 pages. I wish roaches hadn't ruined the old printer.
As an aside, I may have an ear infection in my left ear. It might be an irritation so I'll keep cleaning it carefully and wait and see.
