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CleverNickname

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  1. is this the best twitter day since the 2015 DeAndre Jordan saga?
  2. Somewhere in Nigeria Gabe Mouneke is watching and calling SGA a punk ass bitch.
  3. moneymetals.com I'm sure their are plenty of similar providers. I picked them because they had options for low dollar baller cheapskates like me. I do silver buffaloes.
  4. Anyone else hoping to downsize significantly in retirement? I have the ranch/hole, so I can still live my rural junkyard dreams. But a tidy 2/2 condo we can lock and leave sounds delightful. All I want is a washer/dryer, 2 parking spaces, and not hear the neighbors through the wall too much (well, prjmary on main to age in place). The kids can stay in a hotel or VRBO when they visit. Or if they have kids, we will stay in a hotel while they have the place. We can do yearly vacation rentals over the summers. I'll gladly given the kids the equity amd well enjoy the cheaper insurance, taxes, and upkeep.
  5. My $100/mo silver buillof plan delivered the 100th buffalo. I bumped it to $125/mo, given current elevated prices. I bought a nice little plastic container that holds 5 tubes. If the silver:gold ratio gets back down to ~80 I'll swap some out.
  6. My (teacher) wife may get a huge bonus, and it may put us over the Roth cap. A nice problem to have, I guess. But still annoying. For now we are ramping up 403b/457 savings to adjust MAGI lower. Next year we may just skip Roth IRAs altogether and stuff the 457 Roth option, but I hate it's not in Vanguard. I dislike Empower (employers vendor) a great deal. Normally at our income pre-tax savings is the way to go, but we will have pensions so there might not be a super low post retirement income. We hope we can never touch our Roth savings, and thay would be what we plan to pass down or help kods out of.
  7. gonna go get Pope Bobby to sign my copy
  8. I'd actually be interested is something like this. My ranch has electric, but no well. I do rainwater collection (1550 gal tank) off about 1000 sq ft of roof. I have a rural electric coop with a minimum monthly charge. Even with a fridge constantly running, my bill often does exceeds the minimum. I think I'd prioritize (1) low low maintenance; (2) cost efficiency. Basically I'd leave it running at the ranch cabin when I'm not there, and capture the drainage like my existing rainwater system. I don't need filtering or UV. I can spike with bleach. I think anything below 1kwh per day is basically free for me. Another thought is a pure 12v system than can run direct on whatever cheap panels I can scrounge up. Even 2 gallons a day would be pretty cool, if the price was right. A little 100 or 200 gallon tank would be easy to set up, and I could find a use for it.
  9. Did I want to fuck around with a wet hole? A dirty, wet hole. That was the question. I did. Scooped about 10 gallons of water and muck out. Got out the big boy tool, and started jackhammering away at that dirty dirty wet hole. Penetration was hard, but I was able to get about 8 inches deep. Hopefully such that if more rain somehow migrates down it will gather in one wet sport, rather than across the whole hole. Once I get down a bu5 in one spot, it's easier to widen. I moved some spare plywood amd metal panels around. Hopefully that will help channel water away. Maybe one day I'll sort of French drain or trench around to better divert surface runoff. I really want to concrete all the way from the bottom up, and pour a good sloped pad. Really manage the water better. Might be fun to make it a little storage hut, with a trap door.
  10. Sometimes there are crickets and Sometimes there are crickets. And tiny frogs that maybe eat crickets. And one time I found a snakeskin shef from a snake who probably eats frogs. But I think I have it sealed better now, and that doesn't seem to happen much. I'm always worried some dumbass deer is gonna fall in and die. But if I leave the plywood on, it gets too humid.
  11. Went up last night. Ran the extensi9n cord and got things ready for the morning. Wall needed trimming. spreader it: other side: Dangling noodle. Happens. While I was in the hole is started storming. I figured, safe place to be. Byt the plywood cover caught some flow of the roof and channeled right on my head. You can see it in the first photo. Ugh. So that was it for today. Got out maybe 7 buckets. I need to around and raise the lowest level by abiut 3 inches but it was kinda wet so I left it for now.
  12. will it be a total loss? Old Mr Johnsons house is a total loss.
  13. were are we in the propane theory? Could it have been the dreaded sneeze + fart?
  14. The boy likes hanging out with me at the ranch. As long as I don't spend too much on the hole, she is okay with it. Not so much as a fan of me going alone all day, if the kids are keeping her busy, which is fair. But all in all it may he cheaper than golf, and less time consuming too.
  15. your old house was rifht over there, right?
  16. Not much and probably not enough. Generally the threaded rod wants to hang down. But if it does wander, not that much. I'll clean up maybe later when (if) I dod concrete.
  17. the house was new construction, so it might not be on satellite or streetview
  18. I'm about a quarter mile away. Had to reset a breaker. I was at the bottom on the hole when it happened (seriously). So doubters, suck it! (of course home is 100 miles away from hole, but hey, 183A toll to 29 now open).
  19. Yeah, in retrospect I should not have taunted the subsurface. I know better now. But I won't let it stop me. Not yet. I tacked in some meauring tape, sort of a semi permanent fixture. Ten ft segments, starting below the top 4x6, since that rests on the surface. Bottom is 120" + 83". Dropped in the next 4x of 5/8 rods. Needed to be embiggened, as usual. Narrow side needs embiggening still. That will have to he another day. Widening is easy, but the bottom is some hard rock. I'll have to get the two spreaders in, see about at least partially putting in the lagging (I like to block up the corners), and then the emergency ladder. But at least I can add a step that makes it easier to haul up buckets. Without that I'm lifting a 40 lb buckets of rocks up to my shoulder or head, and that's a real workout. Four foot lifts are better. But it's like Jeff Williams says, don't need to join an gym, be a miner. I would have worked more, but we had to save time to race our rc toys. A little hole dirt to make a jump. You'll have to trust it was a good one. Meanwhile a quarter mile from my house a house exploded. But I was 100 miles away and 16 ft underground. I did have to reset a breaker, so must have been a good shake. Final shot: Weather getting warmer and have a fairly busy summer. I'd like to have the next 4-5 ft below this 4th set out by the end of the year. Twenty foot something sounds good. Hopefully this hard layer of limestone/dolemite is only 8 inches thick, and it's easier going. If not will reassess. Technically deep enough at 17 ft to go sideways. A 4 or 5 ft side passage would have a good 12 ft above. Should be safe. But it would be cool if I could get below this layer and then have that sort of be the roof, like a natural lintel. We shall see.
  20. yeah, I think I'm gonna buy an electric mixer and do it on like 8 or 12" lifts. Fiberglass rebat, because I want it to last centuries. Lowering each bucket down manually with a rope. I mean, how hard can that be?
  21. well spreads are spiking up to and maybe past 163 basis points on top of a 10-year treasury hitting 4.43%. So might stick above 7%. So... not good. Oh, and steel, lumber, copper, and aluminum are tariffed fubar'd so builders are gonna be pinched. At least oil might hit $40 and tens of thousands of unemployed can learn how to hang cheap Chinese drywall.... oh wait. But my selling mom's house and closes 4/30 (under contract) so maybe it's all good.
  22. I got the 4x6s drilled and cut for the 12 to 16 ft level. I thought I had left the washers and nnuts at the ranch, but I guess I had run out or misplaced them. Gotta buy another 8 of each. Worked a little on the hole. looking up: at a hard layer. Breaks in sheets. down in the hole: 20250406_115007.mp4 Somehow I'm pretty good at jackhammering away with one hand and holding my phone in another: 20250406_115041.mp4 I will have to put in the lumber set next time I go up. Inevitably the sides need to be widened a bit. The bottom is pretty damned hard. My plan is to go 4.5 ft or so under the last set, down to 20'. On the one hand its good I'm in hard limestone - the risk of collapse is low. But it does make chipping away a real chore. At that point I think I'm going to see about going horizontal. But I also plan to use concrete forms in lifts and maybe slowly replacing the wood sets with concrete. I'm looking for a electric concrete mixed on FB marketplace.
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