ericbomb

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (5 children)

What I am learning is that I am not in the correct tax bracket to pay for contractors unless messing up means the house burning down. So probably gonna be DIY this one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oof yeah if it is coming out to 4k+ then I probably am gonna be a DIYer.

 

New home owner who has never had to hire a contractor before. Want to have chain link fence replaced and want to have put in white vinyl fence to match connected town home.

It is just a 40 foot length I need replaced and will need to have one gate. As I get quotes, what kind of price should I expect to pay? What's considered fair and what's considered a rip off?

EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback! I think I'm not in the right tax bracket to hire people to do this, so probably going to try to do it myself.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

How dare you post it exactly when I know I should go to sleep but don't wanna.

Work is after sleep. If I delay sleep, I delay work!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Hahaha yeah it felt a bit on the nose.

I'll let you guess how often I completely forget to do an important task.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Probably depends on state or whatever what requirements are.

They had me do a test using a VR headset, and I was like "Oh this will be fun!"

No, it wasn't. I had to stare at a VR aquarium and press a button based on instructions for 20 minutes like

"If you see a clown fish, then a blue fish, press the button" or

"If you hear me say Sturgeon, or you see a clown fish, press the button"

"Press the button if you hear the name of any fish that isn't a clown fish, or see any fish that isn't a sturgeon"

Apparently I did VERY poorly on instruction switching, with it taking several minutes between tasks for me to get the instructions down where they like bleed together. Also like little kids would walk in front of me, or a phone would ring, or TVS would flash.

 

So I went to my doctor and was like "yeah my counselor said I should ask about the process to get tested for ADHD because of XYZ"...

He then had to gently explain that a year ago he had referred me to a local pysch for testing because I already took the ADHD assessment.

Anyway, long story short, after doing testing (which I showed up for on the wrong day the first time) I got an official ADHD diagnosis.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

I actually went to a science/nature camp as a kid where a pig part was we would catch pot guts (ground squirrels)!

Almost every animal there had been caught dozens of times. Because they would go in, get peanut butter, be shown to a counselor that would mark that they were caught, then let go. So pretty sure all of them were trap happy since a 100 traps were out in a field 4 months out of the year, every single year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Wild. With how gnarly residency is you'd THINK most of them would be ground out, but guess some folks just see those dollar bills working as a corporate doctor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

So like did he complete his residency then head straight for insurance field?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The happiest birthday makes me upset.

Because his point is so stupid, but I can't argue at all.

His choice would be a legendary birthday. Your friends would know your birthday before they knew their parents' birthdates.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yeah usually they'd cut kids off from lunch after like 10ish dollars of lunch debt for my school, like 5 meals behind max.

So a class worth of school lunch debt legit might be like 100$, and prevent a handful from being allowed lunch anymore. The level of petty is absurd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

A reasonable policy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sleep five minutes, play five minutes, eat, repeat! Very busy kitty.

 
 

Stolen from Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ftmkwt/oc_foods_cost_vs_caloric_density/

But I loved it. Also this has Shrimp removed, because it was on the OG chart due to an error and this is an updated version.

EDIT: Here is one for protein! https://www.reddit.com/r/budgetfood/comments/1fp2ytb/foods_cost_per_gram_of_protein_vs_protein_density/#lightbox

 

After months of reminders in team meetings on how to do this properly, supervisors have sicced me on the department.

I have been informed that if the issues continue, supervisors will start pulling people in for chats on why they can't follow directions that were laid out.

Pray I am the only monster you meet, for I am the kindest.

 
 

Eating the proper amount is hard. Eating when you have low time, money, mental energy, or education on cooking is even harder.

This book assumes nothing. Do you know how to turn on your stove? You are properly prepared to use this cookbook.

Just want to share it with more folks!

 

Game goes into full release in less then a day, so why not learn build orders to be the ultimate try hard??

 

My two are:

Making sourdough. I personally always heard like this weird almost mysticism around making it. But I bought a $7 starter from a bakery store, and using just stuff in my kitchen and cheap bread flour I've been eating fresh sourdough every day and been super happy with it. Some loafs aren't super consistent because I don't have like temperature controlled box or anything. But they've all been tasty.

Drawing. I'm by no means an artist, but I always felt like people who were good at drawing were like on a different level. But I buckled down and every day for a month I tried drawing my favorite anime character following an online guide. So just 30 minutes every day. The first one was so bad I almost gave up, but I was in love with the last one and made me realize that like... yeah it really is just practice. Years and years of it to be good at drawing things consistently, quickly, and a variety of things. But I had fun and got something I enjoyed much faster than I expected. So if you want to learn to draw, I would recommend just trying to draw something you really like following a guide and just try it once a day until you are happy with the result.

 
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I just think this little youtuber is cool, his best videos are reviewing free steam games.

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I bought a sour dough starter from a special store, and have been on a bread making kick making a loaf every day for the last week.

I've mostly been eating it with margarine or dipping in tomato sauce after toasting.... or just tearing off a piece and eating it like a starving peasant child.

Any other suggestions for ways to eat my sour dough?

(Oh and I am allergic to Soy and corn. Yeah I'm not welcome in most vegan restaurants cause of the soy thing.)

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