sdifox
No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
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it's your girlfriend. Apparently the plywood in the vent box wasn't too comfortable to sit on.
Chaotic42
Lifer
- Jun 15, 2001
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I think the answer is, both of you are good people and this was a wake-up call. Don't take life for granted. Do what you were sent here to do. Don't procrastinate. If you think you've been putting off doing something important because "I have the rest of my life for doing that", make that line of thought come to a complete halt and do what you need to do.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Just got an estimate to redo my roof and came up to $9,500 total. It's a lot of money, but it's also about the ball park I was expecting, so I'm glad it didn't end up being more. Everything cost more now days so considering the cost of materials, and labour etc that seems like a fair price.
Chaotic42
Lifer
- Jun 15, 2001
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$9500 is super cheap. Mine will be due soon and everyone is saying $25-30K
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Been 25 years, insurance won't cover damage from this point on. TBH I feel like I could have stretched it a couple more years but the shingles were starting to show their age especially on the north side.
Charmonium
Lifer
- May 15, 2015
- 10,370
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The solid black cat that lives in basement, didn't flee in horror when I went down there.
He's one of the ferals that got snipped a couple of years ago.
I think he still remembers.
That's a good kitty. I'm not going to hurt you.
Pinky swear?
No.
He's one of the ferals that got snipped a couple of years ago.
I think he still remembers.
That's a good kitty. I'm not going to hurt you.
Pinky swear?
No.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
- Feb 14, 2004
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Generally-speaking, working for & with reasonable people is 10/10. Got some new contractors who are excellent & a few new customers who are a joy to work with, which is always SUPER appreciated! Spent a long time in the past at different jobs with more...difficult working conditions, haha!
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
I never thought I would live to see this moment, but they're repaving my street. This is just a scrape and pave so not a complete redo, but it will sure be better than what was there before.
After the scrape which they did yesterday. Just that alone improved the road a lot.
First paving pass.
The cats are also making sure they're doing a good job. There are actually 3 cats in this picture.
After the scrape which they did yesterday. Just that alone improved the road a lot.
First paving pass.
The cats are also making sure they're doing a good job. There are actually 3 cats in this picture.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
In past few years they started to do that here too. They've been doing like a dozen or so roads per summer. I'd say like 90% of our roads are bad and they couldn't keep up waiting for complete redos where they do the underground stuff too. There's a big multi year project to redo the highway too as that was really bad due to all the trucks that pass on it. That project takes like 6+ months just to do a 1km or so section though, and that's about the time it takes to redo any road when they do the whole thing, underground infra and everything. The scrape and pave they can do a road in like 2 days. This is the kind of stuff I like to see tax dollars spent on as we actually benefit from it.
Lost_in_the_HTTP
Lifer
- Nov 17, 2019
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Chaotic42
Lifer
- Jun 15, 2001
- 34,546
- 1,709
- 126
BoomerD
No Lifer
- Feb 26, 2006
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Red Squirrel
No Lifer
I always wanted to add security cameras around the house but it was a lower priority project. Well finally did it and pretty happy with results. I still have a couple extra areas I want to add more such as one to get a better view of shed and side door but now that I have the setup working adding additional cameras is fairly easy. Just the thing of running wire. The NVR I'm running is called Frigate and it's running in a VM on my PVE cluster. Went with Annke C800 cameras. It was difficult finding cameras that are POE and don't require any apps or cloud crap so glad I found these.
Still need to tweak some stuff but overall it's working nice. Been checking recordings to make sure that part works and it's nice to be able to see packages being delivered and such. Will give peace of mind when I'm away from home too as I can check up on the house and if something does happen I can go check what.
I'm already running out of space so added a couple extra TB to the recording drive. It occurred to me that for data drives rather than create a partition if I just format the raw drive directly as ext4 it makes it so much easier to live resize.
Quality is pretty decent too,, although the playback is a bit choppy. Not the end of the world for security cameras but I'll want to see if I can tweak that. Maybe doing hardware acceleration for ffmpeg and if I do that I may as well do coral for object detection. I disabled object detection for now. It was working with cpu but bogging down.
The process of getting a recording is also super easy. I have dealt with various security systems where getting a recording out of it was like pulling teeth. This one is super easy, select time range and get a real time view of what's happening in that time range so it's easy to know what to select, export, then download.
Still need to tweak some stuff but overall it's working nice. Been checking recordings to make sure that part works and it's nice to be able to see packages being delivered and such. Will give peace of mind when I'm away from home too as I can check up on the house and if something does happen I can go check what.
I'm already running out of space so added a couple extra TB to the recording drive. It occurred to me that for data drives rather than create a partition if I just format the raw drive directly as ext4 it makes it so much easier to live resize.
Quality is pretty decent too,, although the playback is a bit choppy. Not the end of the world for security cameras but I'll want to see if I can tweak that. Maybe doing hardware acceleration for ffmpeg and if I do that I may as well do coral for object detection. I disabled object detection for now. It was working with cpu but bogging down.
The process of getting a recording is also super easy. I have dealt with various security systems where getting a recording out of it was like pulling teeth. This one is super easy, select time range and get a real time view of what's happening in that time range so it's easy to know what to select, export, then download.
lxskllr
No Lifer
- Nov 30, 2004
- 59,408
- 9,931
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I noticed the guy across the street and down the cul-de-sac replaced his trumptard flag with a US flag, and there's a 'For Sale' up. I like to think Trump's policies caused him a financial hardship, and he now has to move. Probably pure fantasy, but it makes me happy :^D
He had inquired about buying my jeep, but he didn't like my price. I wanted $500 for it. It needs a ton of work, but it would still make a good farm truck or off road toy. Christ, scrap value is $300. Telling me you can't get $200 more value out of it?! Whatever. I had already decided I was gonna up the price if he asked again. First price was before I knew he was a trumptard. I'd rather donate it to npr than sell it to him for that, but money's money. I'd sell to him for the right price.
He had inquired about buying my jeep, but he didn't like my price. I wanted $500 for it. It needs a ton of work, but it would still make a good farm truck or off road toy. Christ, scrap value is $300. Telling me you can't get $200 more value out of it?! Whatever. I had already decided I was gonna up the price if he asked again. First price was before I knew he was a trumptard. I'd rather donate it to npr than sell it to him for that, but money's money. I'd sell to him for the right price.
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
Anything under 1k for a running vehicle is dirt cheap! I'm in the process of buying a new (to me) truck. 2010 Dodge Ram, for around 7k. Ended up having to go about 3 hours from here as there's really nothing local. Anything newer is way too expensive and if I'm going to pay that much I may as well just buy new. This truck should get me by for next few years and once my mortgage and credit line is paid off I'll buy new.
As a side note my insurance told me I have one of the cleanest driving records they've seen and they were shocked at the price I was able to get. I asked for a quote on a brand new 2026 pickup just to get an idea of what it would cost me if I went new and he said he's never seen one that low. Would come up to about 98/mo. Right now I'm paying 38/mo for my F150 and adding the Ram will bring me to 80. That almost makes it worthwhile keeping the F150 too for in the bush. I'll probably end up selling it or taking insurance off it though but it's kind of good to know that if I wanted to I could have 2 vehicles and it wouldn't actually cost that much. My overall insurance is around 150/mo I always assumed it was the truck that made up most of that price but it's the house.
Before I bring the truck to the property to leave it there I'll probably try to sell it for like 2k just to see if I get anyone interested. It has brand new tires on it and the motor and everything is good, it's just that the body and frame is beyond economical repair so it would never pass a safety. It would make a nice project truck and I'm debating on keeping it for a project for myself but I'm far from being in a position where I can work on that. I do plan to build a nice big shop eventually but that is kinda far down the line.
As a side note my insurance told me I have one of the cleanest driving records they've seen and they were shocked at the price I was able to get. I asked for a quote on a brand new 2026 pickup just to get an idea of what it would cost me if I went new and he said he's never seen one that low. Would come up to about 98/mo. Right now I'm paying 38/mo for my F150 and adding the Ram will bring me to 80. That almost makes it worthwhile keeping the F150 too for in the bush. I'll probably end up selling it or taking insurance off it though but it's kind of good to know that if I wanted to I could have 2 vehicles and it wouldn't actually cost that much. My overall insurance is around 150/mo I always assumed it was the truck that made up most of that price but it's the house.
Before I bring the truck to the property to leave it there I'll probably try to sell it for like 2k just to see if I get anyone interested. It has brand new tires on it and the motor and everything is good, it's just that the body and frame is beyond economical repair so it would never pass a safety. It would make a nice project truck and I'm debating on keeping it for a project for myself but I'm far from being in a position where I can work on that. I do plan to build a nice big shop eventually but that is kinda far down the line.
- Feb 14, 2004
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