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Lifer
May 30, 2008
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Having great trouble getting more thyroxine as the doctor's surgery is still closed for the pandemic.

Makes me aware that I now stand even less chance in a zombie apocalypse than I previously did. I've seen what happens when you have to raid abandoned hospitals and pharmacies for supplies in that situation - it doesn't end well.
 
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BoomerD

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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BoomerD said:
We're going to have a planned power outage to orrow. Ecpected down time, 2-4 hours.
Doesn't get more FWP than your power company telling you to be ready for an outage...
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Red Squirrel said:
Worse is when you prepare for it and it never happens! Then it gets moved to the next day when you're not ready for it.

I remember something like that happened and this restaurant made a huge fuss about it. They planned to just close that day but the outage never happened and they were annoyed that they closed for nothing and lost a bunch of money. Way I see it, if your business relies on power to function, get a backup generator. will pay for itself the first time it needs to be used.
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After all the brouhaha about the power outage...at least half dozen emails and robocalls from the power company...power was out 3-4 minutes. Just long enough that I had to reset all the clocks in the house.
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VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

No Lifer
Aug 25, 2001
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My nice new relatively-new Computer Easy Office Chair (holds 500lbs!), I somehow, when my back was turned to my desk, rolled backwards over the end of a CAT5e cable, and now it won't come out of the caster. Gonna have to cut this one loose, and hope that it falls out the other side of the caster, eventually. :( (Still rolls though.)
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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www.anyf.ca
Speaking of running things over with a chair I accidentally ran over my cat's tail with my chair the other day. Poor thing lol. I am always careful but this time I was SURE she was not behind me but she was. I just heard a very loud MEOW! and there was a chunk of fur left on the ground. Tail looked fine so thankfully it never got any skin or bone.
 
Captante

Captante

Lifer
Oct 20, 2003
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Red Squirrel said:
Speaking of running things over with a chair I accidentally ran over my cat's tail with my chair the other day. Poor thing lol. I am always careful but this time I was SURE she was not behind me but she was. I just heard a very loud MEOW! and there was a chunk of fur left on the ground. Tail looked fine so thankfully it never got any skin or bone.
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When I was a kid one of our cats got his tail stuck in the storm-door when a gust of wind slammed it shut.... sadly he DID end up losing about 3 inch's of it. He was none the worse for wear otherwise though and lived 5-6 or so more happy years.
 
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BoomerD

BoomerD

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Feb 26, 2006
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When we bought our house almost 3 years ago, one of the small "picture windows" (~30 x60) had a very tiny chip in it...and it penetrated the pane...so the window had lost its vapor seal. I FINALLY called the local glass guy to replace it. He came out over a month ago to measure it, called this morning to make arrangement to come install the unit. ( not replacing the entire window, just the sealed unit)
For some reason, the replacement was 1/16 too thick...so...he reinstalls the old window...and breaks the outer pane that had the tiny chip.
Gonna be at least a week before he can get a replacement from the glass/window company.
 
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Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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BoomerD said:
When we bought our house almost 3 years ago, one of the small "picture windows" (~30 x60) had a very tiny chip in it...and it penetrated the pane...so the window had lost its vapor seal. I FINALLY called the local glass guy to replace it. He came out over a month ago to measure it, called this morning to make arrangement to come install the unit. ( not replacing the entire window, just the sealed unit)
For some reason, the replacement was 1/16 too thick...so...he reinstalls the old window...and breaks the outer pane that had the tiny chip.
Gonna be at least a week before he can get a replacement from the glass/window company.
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Perfect timing, when bears are looking for a place to hibernate. lol.

I kind of did something like that but it was self inflicted. Removed patio door ahead of time in case I run into issues, and it took over a month for replacement to come in... I don't think a 1/4" ply will stop a bear but MAYBE discourage one. lol

I was in this arrangement for a good part of fall:

 
Captante

Captante

Lifer
Oct 20, 2003
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Red Squirrel said:
Perfect timing, when bears are looking for a place to hibernate. lol.

I kind of did something like that but it was self inflicted. Removed patio door ahead of time in case I run into issues, and it took over a month for replacement to come in... I don't think a 1/4" ply will stop a bear but MAYBE discourage one. lol

I was in this arrangement for a good part of fall:

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I wonder how a bear would react to the "Cool-Hand Luke" red pepper trick he pulled on the pursuing bloodhounds?

Or possibly to a large piece of deer-meet injected with some Insanity-sauce or similar?

I doubt it would be fatal (a good thing!) but I ALSO doubt the bear would be coming back for another snack at your place anytime soon!

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BoomerD

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
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Red Squirrel said:
Perfect timing, when bears are looking for a place to hibernate. lol.

I kind of did something like that but it was self inflicted. Removed patio door ahead of time in case I run into issues, and it took over a month for replacement to come in... I don't think a 1/4" ply will stop a bear but MAYBE discourage one. lol

I was in this arrangement for a good part of fall:

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We're replacing our patio slider...12-16 week wait to get one.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

No Lifer
May 24, 2003
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Yeah this was years back thankfully, right now it's ridiculous trying to get any form of building supply I imagine.

I remember feeling like The Martian for a while, with the vapour barrier being the only thing between me, and the harsh outside world like that scene where the lab blew a wall out and he had to tape it up with plastic.
 
highland145

highland145

Lifer
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Red Squirrel said:
Yeah this was years back thankfully, right now it's ridiculous trying to get any form of building supply I imagine.

I remember feeling like The Martian for a while, with the vapour barrier being the only thing between me, and the harsh outside world like that scene where the lab blew a wall out and he had to tape it up with plastic.
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And now you have 40ac for bears to hunt you on.

What is this new game? Alone Canuk style?

;)
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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Nov 30, 2004
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I bet bears stink. Burrs stuck in their fur, bugs... Bear curls up next to you... "Oh FFS... The heat's nice, but Christ..."
 
IronWing

IronWing

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CenturyLink forces customers to use their chat box in order to schedule a service visit even after their automated tools acknowledge a problem requiring a service visit. The level one bozo could only paste scripts and the level two bozo reset my modem. You know what happens when the modem is reset? You lose internet and the chat closes. Now I have to start over to schedule the service visit that I knew was needed before even contacting CenturyLink in the first place. When is StarLink coming?
 
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BoomerD

BoomerD

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IronWing said:
CenturyLink forces customers to use their chat box in order to schedule a service visit even after their automated tools acknowledge a problem requiring a service visit. The level one bozo could only paste scripts and the level two bozo reset my modem. You know what happens when the modem is reset? You lose internet and the chat closes. Now I have to start over to schedule the service visit that I knew was needed before even contacting CenturyLink in the first place. When is StarLink coming?
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For you, that's a bug...for them, it's a feature...easy peasy way to get rid of you and (eventually) passed on to a different rep.
 
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IronWing

IronWing

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Jul 20, 2001
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IronWing said:
CenturyLink forces customers to use their chat box in order to schedule a service visit even after their automated tools acknowledge a problem requiring a service visit. The level one bozo could only paste scripts and the level two bozo reset my modem. You know what happens when the modem is reset? You lose internet and the chat closes. Now I have to start over to schedule the service visit that I knew was needed before even contacting CenturyLink in the first place. When is StarLink coming?
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So I found CenturyLink’s number and called. After the third or fourth stupid question from the automated voice menu I tried “technician” and it worked. The technician was fairly with it but not used to the idea of physical line problems so he had to run through a laundry list of tests before, forty-five minutes later, concluding that the problem was the physical line. The line was installed when Lyndon Johnson was President. After that, setting up the service visit was straight forward. Then an hour after the visit was scheduled, CenturyLink’s automated system sent a text telling me that all was resolved and that the ticket would be closed unless I told them to leave it open. Glancing up at the modem told me that the automated system is full of shit so I kept the appointment. The system warned me that they would bill me if nothing was really wrong. I’ll take the risk. The issue is that we have bonded two line DSL and one of the two lines is dead.
 
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