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TTU13

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  1. I heard Coventry Homes is making you sign a document on new builds that says your price can change by the time they finish building and you will owe whatever it is at that point.  No limit like it could go up 10% or something just a “hey, we have been building your house for the last 6 months and now that it’s almost finished you owe us an extra $100K since materials have gone up in price. Don’t like it then we will just sell your home to one of the hundreds of people waiting for a house.”

    Wow. One of my neighbors is buddy buddy with our Coventry sales guy still. I’ll ask him to ask the sales guy about that.
  2. Wife and I were planning on keeping our “starter” house (were youngest in our neighborhood) for a couple more years. But how things are shaping up, we’re considering making this a longer term house and buying a small condo or property somewhere as a vacation place instead.

    Crazy how things have changed in the last two years.

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  3. My wife flew in for the weekend after the CDC guidance and announcement. Compliance sounds a lot like brainwashing to me doesn't it? Lololol

    What part of Chicago? I was in the weekend before and spent most of the time in River North. Wear the mask to get inside and from there more or less free for all once you got “seated”.

    Went to Wrigley and had good seats behind home plate, they didn’t give much of shit.

    The blarts weren’t wearing a mask anywhere.

    Side note, (no cloak room) they were looking to be challenged.

    Double side note, I hope the outside tables/streets blocked off stays in the summer. A beautiful Chicago summer afternoon that shit would be awesome. We never were out there since it was cold and rainy but several people wouldn’t go inside unless to piss.

    Only downside was they added a 5% covid grat to all checks. You could ask to remove it, but I didn’t want to be that asshole. At least their suggested tip didn’t include that. In SF their suggested tip included all 123443 taxes then calculated the tax.
  4. So backstory, my wife’s dad passed away from cancer (pancreatic) at a young age. So I get she’s sensitive to the subject.

    I like the occasional dip and also smoke the occasional cigar. Typically I buy cigars in bulk (way cheaper). She always gives me shit when I buy it and says “fine enjoy your cancer”. Makes it seem like I smoke a cigar daily, instead it’s usually 2 a month. The cigars I buy I usually only smoke half of them and share the other half with whoever I smoke them with.

    Fast forward to yesterday we go to a cigar lounge to celebrate her brother moving close to us. She’s ripping those little cigars that look like blunts like they’re going out of style and saying how fun the cigar bar is.

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  5. Wife:  You need to give me your detailed plans for the upcoming holiday weekend so I know how I'm affected and can plan accordingly.
    Me:  Pffffttt.  Plans.  Like I can have any fucking plans of my own without consulting with you and considering the kids.
    Also Wife:  I am now telling you about my plans that I made without telling you or consulting with you or considering you.  Also, these plans might put our kids in danger since you won't be there.

    Guess who is the one in trouble right now?

    Highly highly highly recommend the shared calendar. My wife would make plans and not tell me until the day of.

    New rule in our house if it’s not on the calendar I’m not obligated to go if I don’t want to. It’s done wonders. Best part is if I go, I get extra credit and cash that shit in right away.
  6. I grew up in Southlake and most of the Karen's were not actually from Southlake.

    My vote is for The Woodlands. I met several people from there in college and they're insufferable. Always yelling "h-town" and saying they're from the "hoodlands".

    Absolute terrible tippers and expected the best service.

  7. Builders don’t have land or materials. I deal with builders on a daily basis. There are some who are actually slowing down not speeding up. Builders may catch up but it won’t be within a year. Also I don’t think sitting out helps anything. Prices aren’t going down.

    Yup.

    I live in a new-ish development where people typically do the “design build” type of thing. According to the head sales guy, due to lumber costs and labor shortage, the sales team for our builder is limited to 5 new build sales a month.
  8. Has anyone figured out how to ask their wife where something is that she clearly did not put back where it was supposed to be in a way that won't result in her being pissed?  If I ask in a non accusatory way I'm being passive aggressive, if I'm direct then I'm being an asshole.

    I’ll start walking around the house looking in random places and make a lot of noise and either a) hope I find it or b) she pipes in with “what ya looking for”. Half the time it ends well.
  9. Wife went to bed an hour ago.

    I just turned of 12 GD lamps.

    Buy occupancy based switches, RF smart switches or Phillips Hue bulbs. (I have all 3).

    Create schedules, etc.

    Profit.


    I even taught my wife how to create schedules with the Hue bulbs. I occasionally have to go in and modify it, but either way lights get turned off. I also put a schedule on the thermostat so after she alters the temp and forgets to put it back the schedule takes over.
  10. My arm is still a little tender after JnJ shot on Sunday, but nothing else.

    Wife had her JnJ yesterday and had no symptoms 12 hours after, which is better than my experience. I had symptoms within 8 hours ish. She was telling me how she’s tougher than me, her body can handle more, etc.

    She woke up this morning with a fever, headaches, excessively tired, body aches, etc. Essentially worse symptoms than me. By about 4-5 this afternoon she started feeling more normal.

    I’m curious if how you react to the vax is an indicator of how your body would handle the actual infection. Any data or info on that?

  11. Had JnJ shot at 2 pm yesterday and had some initial soreness in arm where I got shot. After about an hour, everything felt normal.

    When I was getting ready to to bed around 11ish, my legs, hips and lower back started getting real sore, felt like the day after an intense workout.

    Slowly after that other parts of my body started to get sore and I had chills and would then occasionally wake up in a sweat.

    I probably slept no more than 30 mins straight last night.

    Now all that remains is a little soreness at injection site and a little stiffness in my lower back.

    All in all, it was a minor inconvenience.

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  12. Anyone know of a “last minute” appointments for Collin County alert system to take shots that may be wasted?

    Wife and I are 31, in shape, healthy, etc and don’t want to bend the rules to take an appointment, but also don’t want anything to go to waste.

    Just poking around I found several openings and only didn’t book because I couldn’t bring myself to check the “meets 1A/1B” box.

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