Recent content by Jeraden

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    Gutter and Downspout question - horizontal runs

    Wouldn't the yard drains be more prone to clogging with debris and be harder to clean out though? Like if I add some cleanout T's in the longer sections, I should be able to just blast them free. And gutter/downspout material is cheap! Was also think I could put some shrubs against the side...
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    Gutter and Downspout question - horizontal runs

    I recently purchased an older property that has the gutters/downspouts draining into the ground into clay/terracotta piping. That disappears somewhere below ground and are supposed to be tied into the sewer system (which I know isn't the way to do things nowadays, but this is like a 100 year...
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    Yard grading/water issues

    Have a long time issue with my back yard and wondering if anyone might have any advice. So I'm having some wall issues in my basement and it all boils down to the area in front of the back wall in my back yard. From reading online, you don't want your soil to be above your foundation walls...
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    OnePlus 3T... did I make a good purchase?

    To followup on my last post -- I ended up sending it in a THIRD time at which time they finally agreed to replace it instead of trying to fix it. Then of course the Oneplus 3 has been out of stock. So after 3 weeks of my replacement being in limbo, I finally got an email today saying they...
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    OnePlus 3T... did I make a good purchase?

    I have a OnePlus3, and had a oneplus 1, and like both in theory. But have had hardware issues with my OnePlus3 which they refuse to fix. Have sent it in twice for repair/replacement, and they've sent it right back both times saying they couldn't detect an issue and it passed all diagnostics...
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    Intermediate to Complex SQL help - nested queries + aggregates + over time

    join the 2 tables and just do counts? select datepart(yyyy,ContractInitiated) year, count(contractid), sum(employees), sum(hours) from contracts c, jobs j where c.contract_id = j.contract_id group by datepart(yyyy,ContractInitiated) Paraphrasing, but you get the idea. I only know Oracle, so...
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    Strange phone issue - refuses to power on for hours sometimes

    I did end up sending it back for warranty repair - actually saw it was delivered today. At least it was a super fast turnaround! Hoping they just sent me a replacement instead of "fixing" mine, but I guess I'll find out when I get home from work today!
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    Strange phone issue - refuses to power on for hours sometimes

    Oneplus 3. Still under warranty, but pain being without a phone for 2 weeks or however long it takes to get the replacement. Just trying to understand what might be causing it prior to sending it in for service. Worked fine for the first few months, then this issue kind of just developed out...
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    Strange phone issue - refuses to power on for hours sometimes

    Thanks for the suggestion! But unfortunately I've done that... 3 times now actually, lol. Went to running a bare minimum of apps thinking it might have been an app causing the reboot issues. But didn't seem tied to any one specific app.
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    Strange phone issue - refuses to power on for hours sometimes

    So I've done extensive googling of this issue, and still haven't really found anything helpful. My phone has been locking up/rebooting on a somewhat frequent basis. Annoying, but nothing too bad. However, sometimes it just does not want to turn on again. It will lock up such that I have to...
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    Pokemon Go!

    I just cash out the shop bonus the minute I move a pokemon into a gym. I know the likelihood of me ever having 2 pokemon in different gyms simultaneously is pretty slim. Maybe once the popularity dies down it will be possible to hold them longer. But gyms never hold that long like you said...
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    Preschool graduation party? WTF

    My preschooler had his graduation from preschool last week. They had a little ceremony in the preschool. It was cute. And he was all excited about it too, he can't wait to start kindergarten in the fall. While I didn't have some huge party for him or anything, his grandma came up to visit...
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    Explain hot nannies

    We had a nanny for my now 5-year old. He had some medical issues that prevented him from going to regular daycare for a while. Our nanny was pretty affordable too. So even after it was ok to go back to daycare, my wife decided to just keep the nanny on as it wasn't THAT much more expensive...
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    Woman Hides Recorder in Her Hair During Surgery, Catches Doctor Body-Shaming Her

    If you are a big enough ass to a group of people, they are going to talk about you when you leave. Seems she made a point of being a drama queen to the doctors, so naturally assumed they'd talk about her. Plant microphone, try to cash in. Actually a pretty good scam on her part if it works...
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    The story of ET, the worst game ever?

    I remember playing that as a kid on my Atari 2600. Never could figure out what the hell you were even supposed to do. I watched a walkthrough of it a couple years ago -- and still not sure how one was supposed to figure out that's what you were even supposed to do. :P I just remember falling...