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Hellraiser97

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  1. My wife berates me for a being a cheap bastard. I revel in it, and I may have reached a new level. I recently took down some really over grown bushes and spent yesterday putting a new garden in place. Putting the edging in, I had to remove a decent chunk of grass that had grown into the area. On my front lawn, along the street, its dead as fuck. Put some sod in last year but it didn't take. Was going to sod again after putting some lawn soil down, but thought, hey I have perfectly good grass in that garden! Spent the after noon cutting out the garden grass and planting it as plugs (St Augustine) in the dead area. My wife was on the porch just shaking her head at me.
  2. If there's another option than tapa for viewing mobile, I'm open. I've used chrome on my iPhone but fuck that was difficult to do.
  3. I've had a CPAP since 2005. My quality of sleep before was complete shit. Now, I can't deal with sleeping without it. Get tested.
  4. So I realize I'm late to the game on this, but figured I'd put it out there before a blew a shit ton of money. Situation: Wife went back to work in January 2016. Her job blows and with her commute (going from Circle C to the Domain) she's borderline useless in getting the kids to/from school/child care. I'm working from home, so my schedule is somewhat flexible, except that sometimes I have to be on site for something and then its not, but all this shit ends up falling on me. 3yo is at Primrose, so her child care is set up. 6yo is just completing kindergarten at public school. Last year she was at Primrose so summer child care was taken care of. Over the two week Christmas break, I had the bright idea that I could manage her at home while I worked since its usually super slow in our business (Construction) at that point and lots of her friends on the street would be at home as well. That was a complete fucking disaster as my partner was out of town for his honeymoon and due to some backups, a shit load of work was being done on one of our custom projects. My wife was able to help some the second week as her office was closed, but it still didn't work. Regardless, I knew it would never work for the whole summer. So for Spring Break, we did a camp at Lifetime fitness. She liked it and good news/bad news was that she was pretty wiped out at the end of the day. So now we come to summer. I've signed her up for a few camps that I know she wants to do and we're taking a family vacation for a bit over a week in July. I'm leery, however, of putting her in non-stop camps for the 10 weeks we're not on vacation. That just screams burn out to me, and fuck the prices on a lot of these things are high for a week! I had a stay at home mom, so I have no experience with this growing up. My wife basically stayed at a friends house or her older brother watched her. We have no family that can help out unfortunately. So what is the experience of Surly in this? Those of you that are single parents or dual income, do you just do non-stop camps? Is it possible to hire a care giver but just for the summer? This whole thing is just beating me down. Thanks for any advice.
  5. So for the science tards like myself here, would that amount of gravity in an area of space make life, at least as we know it, impossible? IE, is there basically a region of space with hundreds of galaxies, each with billions of stars, where not a single planet likely supports life?
  6. I’m just amazed at the number of dumbasses that lose their pets. Sure cats are just assholes but if your dog runs off at the first chance it gets maybe you should look into some training? My 3 yo opened the front door on Saturday and our dog apparently slipped out. I mowed, weed wacked and fertilized our backyard before I noticed that the dog wasn’t inside. Went it front and she was just sitting in the garage chilling Then there’s my neighbor that lets his dog roam off leash and twice he’s barged into my house when I’ve opened the door. Fuck OU
  7. I have never heard the term commodork before! That looks pretty cool.
  8. I pulled a Pong machine from my Dad's house over Christmas. Damn thing still works! Been thinking about buying a dead C64 and putting a RaspberryPi in there for fun.
  9. The original campaign was so bad, and the whole interface so unrefined, that I never got far. Apparently they fixed a lot of the interface and other complaints with the expansions. I knew some people that played mods online for several years. They only gave it up because they had basically played through every decent mod. Figured it might be worth giving a chance again.
  10. Never really got into NWN (though I played the shit out of NWN2), but I own the whole damn thing. Finally going to to run through it and some of the mods that are highly rated, may even fire up an online game with some friends, but curious if anyone has got the Enhanced Edition? Big thing seems to be that multi-player works a lot easier now.
  11. Do they still do the buffet at North Star? Used to love that but it’s been 15 years I think since I’ve had it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  12. I like Kerby but it’s mainly because my kids love their pancakes and I can take them there for kids eat free dinner and get a decent dinner myself. I like their breakfast but it’s nothing out of this world. I haven’t exactly been dining out a ton since I moved back three years ago but I’m amazed at how blah I find pretty much every Mexican place. Flores, Maude’s, Santa Rita, Matt’s El Rancho - they’re all good but nothing exceptional. I really have no preference of one over the other. One thing I find vastly over rated is most of these brewery/distilleries in southwest Austin. If they have a nice outdoor place for the kids, I’m in, but otherwise I’ve found most of their drinks and just about all their food to be mediocre at best Yeah an P Terry’s blows. Are their the first week I was back as a bunch of people told me how great it was. It’s just an over priced McDonalds Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  13. Yeah this is the deal. I'd have no issue living in some tiny town as long as I was a reasonable drive to a major city (1 to 1.5 hours), but I'd never do that to my kids. My in-laws live in Graham, TX, moved their when my wife went to college, and I can't imagine raising kids there.
  14. The number one thing driving our real estate prices is people moving here, tourism (AirBnB, etc) has a marginal effect. We have had roughly 30k people moving here year for over a decade which means we need roughly 15k new housing units each year to keep equilibrium. The best we’ve done is 13,500. It’s basic supply and demand. Code Next was supposed to help address that imbalance but of course the NIMBY crowd has gutted it Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  15. I found it hilarious when Will Wheaton read the line calling Will Wheaton an old geezer
  16. Greatest group of assholes in Britannia? I'm in. So I had an account when it first launched. I played for a few months, never got very far in it or did anything special with my character. Would it be worth it to try to revive this, or just do a new account?
  17. Can we get this moved to the new book forum?
  18. Just finished Red Rising. Not a bad book, but after having read the Hunger Games and a few others of that genre, it seemed kind of just more of the same. Going to read the next book to see if it gets more interesting as I think it sets up an cool universe.
  19. “If it weren’t for the slit between their legs, we’d be hunting them.” - friend of mine named George Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  20. Guaranteed money the husband was watching at some point.
  21. I read that as Latin hot teacher and was disappointed/confused when I opened this thread.
  22. Yeah, I was not convinced he was innocent, but if the evidence had been portrayed at the trial like it was in the podcast (which of course has no standard to measure against), I could not have returned a guilty verdict.
  23. Mine went up about 5% (Circle C area). I'm going to protest it, but really its not that far off from the sales I've seen in this area. As for protesting, unless there is something really weird about your property, or just not a lot of comparables, you're wasting money using those services. Takes less than an hour of your time typically. 1) Request the hearing (done online) and go for the absolute latest. You want everyone else to do the majority of the work first. 2) Find comps, use redfin or similar, that justify the price you're trying to get down to. 3) Go to the informal hearing, have them re-run the matrix. You get the benefit of everyone else that has already protested their taxes and gotten them lowered. Chances are that will be as low as you're going to get if there's any type of robust market in your area. If not, present your comps. They may accept them, they may not and you have to go to the formal hearing. I've never had to do that though. 4) No profit, but you'll need slightly less lube at the end of the day.
  24. Given how completely ignorant his lawyer was on all things internet (and seems likely he's not any better), I'd say he probably thinks he can keep it running and make a bunch of money. Obviously spite was part of this, but generally you don't get to be a multi-millionaire by spending hundreds of thousands of dollars just to be spiteful.
  25. Remain calm!
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