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I'll give my wife credit on this one. We keep the house set at 68 and she usually wears shorts and a t-shirt with bare feet year round. I need slippers or socks in the winter or my feet get cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkhound Odin
OTOH in her car she seems to either have it either full blast heat or a/c--no middle ground.
My office is in a row of 3 and has no thermostat. The 2 offices next to me each have their own thermostat, and both seem to control what happens in my office. I suspect they also influence each other to some extent. Lady on one side is always cold, chunky dude on the other side whose uniform includes shorts year round is obviously always hot. I also have a floor-to-ceiling east facing window. I can't even begin to describe the temperature swings in there, going anywhere from mid 80s during summer mornings to high 50s in the afternoon. I actually use the stand up desk quite a bit, just pacing in place to try and stay warm. Have to wear sunglasses in the AM despite the dark shades and can't see my screen.
I get to scout lines on Timp and Box Elder though so no real complaints...
Breaker just tripped here at my house in the middle of a work call. Why? Because my daughter, in her room, and my wife in her office, both had space heaters blaring for hours despite the thermo set at 69 in the house.
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I used to work with a girl who was always freezing. Thermostat was in her office and controlled the two offices next to hers as well. The neighbors would complain if she cranked the thermostat up, so instead she brought in a space heater. Which she would crank up instead. And when she did, the AC would come on and blast the other two offices. And hers, so space heater would get cranked up even more. Um.... maybe put a sweater on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Also worked with a CFO who was paranoid. We owned the building. Finance was on the 3rd floor. He kept the elevator and stairwells locked so no one could get up to 3rd floor without being buzzed in by reception. Our half of the floor was also behind a locked door. And he'd still lock his office door every time he left, even if it was just for a minute or two. It's only finance staff in that little, secure 3rd floor bubble. I have no doubt he also keeps his desk drawers locked inside his locked office. Maybe he's worried who ever slayed the 3rd floor bathroom would infiltrate finance and ransack his office? In another amusing story he didn't trust our IT dept. So rather than have them back up our servers, he did it himself using this ancient backup computer in his office. CEO asked him one time, why don't you tell me who it is specifically you don't trust, and we'll fire them. Probably would have been everyone in the company. LOL
There is indeed a campaign underway to reduce space heaters across the org. I might have stirred it up a tad. Literal tears have ensued. Those monsters.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Every time somebody brings needing more space heaters up to me I insist that the heat in whatever building must be set at 75 and until it is I don’t want to hear anything more about it.
Results have been amusing. I’m glad we have this to distract us from more important shit.
Wrong thread, sorry.
At least in an office you can adjust your clothes to suit the temp. Most surgeons keep an OR brutal cold because it gets hot inside waterproof gowns, with hat and mask. (And your feet get stinky after a day in waterproof shoe covers, plus you've been operating in the same bloody shoes for years.) So the OR folks who aren't scrubbed freeze. One of our surgeons was cold sensitive--she operated with the hot air tube of a patient warmer stuck up her gown. OTOH, I kept the room very warm, because that cold OR that's comfy for the surgeons is bad for patients with their belly open from breastbone to pubic for hours. I got a lot of shit for that but I was suffering too.
That's wild.Quote:
Originally Posted by The AD
Just got home from long rainy drive from hockey rink with my daughter sleeping in the back.
A few miles from my house...while I was zoning out to podcast on dark highway...a guy tried to step into my car and I saw him at the last second and swerved to just missed him.
Guy had to have been tweaking or something...Holy fuck. Took a few minutes before I realized I came a foot away from killing someone.
I called 911
I was having beers with a couple cops and they told me that’s pretty common where they work.Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
So fucking selfish. Glad you missed him!
The word 'skiplagging'. WTF?!?! Who the hell need some new word to describe hidden city ticketing. Get off my lawn.
I was stopped letting people cross in the roundabout the other day, car behind me is honking at me for stopping so that was cool. The people cross and I'm starting to go, all of the sudden a bike coming from my right rear zooms through the crosswalk and almost gets fucking nailed by me. Guy never even looked at me or anything and I almost killed him. WTF dude?!?! He must have been going 20 mph.
Related, our crosswalks are located way too close to the roundabout around here. Here you are, trying to figure out what all the other morons (tourists) around you are doing, not run into them or get ran into. And all of the sudden, there's people walking across the road right when you are about to accelerate out of the circle. Doesn't help either that your A pillar is usually blocking you from seeing them at that angle.
I have a pre-hung exterior door where the deadbolt isn't aligned with the strike plate and only extends part way before it hangs up. It's off both horizontally and vertically -can't figure out how the installer managed that with a pre-hung door. Also don't understand how the previous owner signed off on it
A well hung door is a big deal
75 F is brutally hot in an office in winter, unless yours has a Clothing Optional policy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mustonen
Dollars to donuts the floor isn't level. My pro tip for exteriors is the throw the level in the garbage and just work off reveals. Assuming it is the reveals that are off, you are gonna have to rehang the door.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
But it could be that the lockset mortising is dog shit from the factory in which case it's paddle bit and chisel time.
If you are bitching for the sake of bitching, get down with your bad self sister. If you need tips on fixing it, post pictures in the remodel/kitchen flex thread.
Geez!!! That would haunt me for a while. Thank God you were at least alert enough to avoid him. Hope whoever that was seeks help after nearly experiencing death like that. Surely that was his goal, but sometimes it takes people getting to the precipice to snap out of it and get the help they need. Poor guy. SO glad you didn't hit him. That would mentally wreck even the strongest among us. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by booner
The fact that the expression "dollars to donuts" doesn't make sense anymore.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles
Did it ever make sense?
We have a great contractor we used for a couple of jobs. For the last one he had trouble hiring carpenters so he hired who he could get. The first thing the carpenter did with a prehung door was unhang it. Took him all day to hang it and I've had to adjust it a couple of times. The contractor did the other two doors in less than an hour and they're perfect. The carpenter was doing exterior trim and every day the contractor who was working another job would call me "is he done yet?". "Nope".Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
A few years ago I replaced all the hollow core doors with VGDF 6 panel. I used the existing jambs. Recently I was working in one of the bathrooms and noticed the door was loose. It wasn't hard to figure out why.
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I think the idea was that a donut was worth a whole lot less than a dollar. Not exactly true these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcski
Great... now I'm hungry for donuts. :mad:
Word.Quote:
Originally Posted by skaredshtles
Huh, I can neither confirm nor deny the floor being level, but it's in a garage so it's over a slab. Dog shit mortising from the factory seems very plausible to me because it looks square/plumb as far as I can tell (though I haven't checked with a level). Surprised that the factory would be that far off, but maybe I'm not cynical enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Foggy_Goggles
Mainly here to bitch, I already chiseled it out and glued chopstick pieces (maybe not a pro approach, but I'm just a dentist) into the existing screw holes so I can drill new holes like 4mm away. I'll use some silly long screws when I reinstall to get down to solid wood
Luckily I have beignet dough in the fridge... although it'll have to wait until tomorrow.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Ha! We had a similar saggy door issue (different door than the one I whinged about above). Turned out the top hinge was attached with little 1/2" trim screws. So weird the corners that were cut here.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
Contractor did two bathrooms here over the summer. We needed to take the washing machine out for something so I asked my wife to take the new door off. Of course she unscrewed the hinges instead of pulling the pins. I swear the door doesn't hang the same as it did, no matter what I do. It works, but it's not the same and it's driving me nuts
Prehung doors aren’t guaranteed.Quote:
Originally Posted by dan_pdx
Mostly it’s the wiggle room on the final install.
If the door closes evenly top to bottom you should be fine.
If the strike latch is off. You got to move it up down or sideways.
Probably there was a shim behind one of the hinges she didn't notice that was lost in the process. Maybe a piece of cardboard.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Or it's fine and I'm just obsessing.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
I want to replace the lock entirely and watch him lose his shit trying to get it open again when he comes and sits down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Core Shot
If you’re going to be anal retentive you can’t outsource that kind of thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
Loctite has entered the chatQuote:
Originally Posted by paulster2626
Everyone having close calls while driving, I highly recommend a dash cam. For less than $100, it’s great insurance.
I was hit a few years ago by a guy who ran a red light. He claimed to his insurance that he had the green light. Without the dash cam footage, it would’ve been my word against his. Thankfully, I was 100% not at fault.
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Careful there buckaroo.Quote:
Originally Posted by plugboots
I know you're thinkin' it's the ladies, but are you so sure you're the gold-standard reference gender? :)
*I* used to be the one always too warm.
But I'm in the back end of my 50's now and the last several years have really seen my feet get cold. I sit at a desk most of the day, and if it's 70 or below, my feet and ankles get really cold. I don't know why. And I'm not some unfit bastard who never does anything. (Estimated VO2 was in the low 60's earlier this summer, and I rode ~2500 miles since May.)
I'm now that person with the space heater. :)
I have a lot more sympathy for the people who say they're cold. (And which makes me cringe a bit for when I had the "WTF is your problem, it's not that cold" attitude.)
^^^^^
Same
One of the first signs of the degradation of the human race is the consistent “on ramp, failure to yield syndrome”….
Jesus…..it’s becoming laughable. People merging onto the highway really now expect the driver that’s already on the highway driving at 65+ mph to slow down/slam on their brakes so they can merge onto the highway.
No yielding whatsoever anymore.
I have sympathy for people who are cold at reasonable indoor temps if they are attired for warmth (sweaters, hat, long underwear, etc). I have no sympathy if they're dressed too cold for their environment, because it's much more reasonable for chilly people to put on more clothes than to have people who run warm walking around the office like it's a beach day.
How has online ordering become such a shitty experience? With technology constantly improving it should not be hard to maintain or improve it. Instead it seems to continuously and universally get worse.
I placed an order for bike parts a week ago that is supposed to have expedited delivery based on order value. I heard nothing until yesterday when I got an automated email saying one of the items that was shown as in stock is actually backordered and they'll ship it whenever it arrives. No info about when the rest of the order will ship. Called during business hours, no answer. The phone message suggested emailing instead. We'll see how long it takes to get a reply.
I ordered tires last week too. Online, they showed as in stock and ready for install at my local tire shop. I got an email 2 hours later refunding half the order because apparently only two tires were available. I called the local shop who said all tires get shipped to them after you order, and to try re-ordering two tires since they could be in stock at a different warehouse. Or call customer service who could check inventory by location. No answer, so re-ordered 2 tires since the website still showed them as available. Nope, cancelled. Not gonna get just two tires installed or a mis-matched set so I cancelled and ordered somewhere else. Charges hit my card immediately but they claim it can take up to 5 business days for my refunds to be processed. :fuckyou:
My current laptop is on its last legs so I ordered another one yesterday. Of various shipping options available I selected one with delivery scheduled between Dec 4-6. Had planned to leave today on a week-long road trip until I got an email from the vendor today saying the laptop will be delivered tomorrow afternoon. I have doubts about that but we all know what will happen if I leave town tomorrow morning. UPS has an option to change delivery but of course it doesn't work, and being a holiday no one was picking up the phone at UPS or the vendor.
It seems like a lot of vendors take days to ship things out compared to years past when shipments would go out same day or day after an order was placed. And none of the shipping companies seem able to hit estimated delivery timelines anymore. USPS gives an estimated date and often delivers a day or two early. The other ones are often a day or days late. Amazon has cancelled a number of my orders outright after estimated delivery date was revised back multiple times. Guess the items went missing? None of them except USPS can consistently find my front door. Instead they leave packages at random neighbors' doors. Early or late delivery isn't a big deal if you're around, but it always seems to happen when you're away or leaving soon. I don't want a package sitting on my porch, and definitely not on an unknown neighbor's porch.
Trying to buy locally in person isn't much smoother. Selection is usually limited. If you check online, half the time what the website says is in stock, is not. So you're stuck ordering. Do you ship to your home and deal with all of the above, or ship to the store and have to make a trip to pick up? We can't seem to win.
On that note, I ordered a pair of skis on-line last week that were prominently displayed on the web page, credit card was charged, only to be informed 24 hours later that they have never carried that specific ski. Full refund, but still. ..... phantom skis???
I work on the premise that the person further in front always has the right of way, regardless of speed. Change lanes if possible, but if not then definitely slow down to allow merge. This also takes into account the blind spot in the mirror of the merging vehicle. Annoying, perhaps, but degraded? I think not.Quote:
Originally Posted by BC.