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I reckon @TheKiwi nicknamed his GF Starbucks because she kept on breaking various coffee machines or toaster.

I’ve decided to rename, or name my (our) bed « Snacks and drinks vending machine », as mine after spilling a cappuccino in it just let Coca-Cola spill on the sheets today.

Also snacks because next to her side of bed you’ll find anything to please a spider or mice: leftover chocolate bars, bread, skittles.
 
Connaught Ranger said:
Had my 21st Wedding Anniversary on the 2nd August, very quite day due to me suffering from a severe inflammation of the inner ear Vertigo I think its clinically called, so no dinner in a fancy restaurant with the good lady wife, but hopefully I will remedy that on Aug 11th my birthday.
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I hope that 11 August went well, CR. Sorry to hear that you had vertigo. That’s malady is pretty horrid. Had a bad case of it once, sudden onset, just prior to leaving for the airport after a visit at my sister’s, a place where there is a lot of pollen and hay fever stuff. I was so affected that all I could do was stumble around, sick to my stomach. Stand Still, felt like I was spinning. Lay down, feel like I was spinning. Both results were vomit-inducing. For some reason, keeping moving was all aI could do to keep the vertigo slightly at bay. Luckily, I was visiting my sister who is a doctor.. Was able to prescribe anti-nausea tablets. Lucky me!
 
The real estate agent probably is kicking herself from meeting me. The place I got is in a subdivision that is gated and I keep asking her access to the gate to go in and see it. Thing is is her office is far from the area and she keeps going to the gate for me lol. Mind you the lot is just grass right now, the construction wont be till next 2026.... So far I've asked the construction foreman the cement psi and he mentioned "3000 psi, and we will give you a sample to check when we build yours." And for the reinforcement bars about 16mm.

Dont know what all those mean, but I gave a nod of approval and asked for sample when they start mine.

Any construction experts around any advice would help.

Other than that Im already thinking of extensions to the place :(
 
Euroamerican said:
I hope that 11 August went well, CR. Sorry to hear that you had vertigo. That’s malady is pretty horrid. Had a bad case of it once, sudden onset, just prior to leaving for the airport after a visit at my sister’s, a place where there is a lot of pollen and hay fever stuff. I was so affected that all I could do was stumble around, sick to my stomach. Stand Still, felt like I was spinning. Lay down, feel like I was spinning. Both results were vomit-inducing. For some reason, keeping moving was all aI could do to keep the vertigo slightly at bay. Luckily, I was visiting my sister who is a doctor.. Was able to prescribe anti-nausea tablets. Lucky me!
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That vertigo is really bad. I get it from time to time but not from infection, I have a microscopic piece of bone floating around and when my sinuses start acting up in early fall or winter I sometimes get really dizzy laying on the right side of my head. My problem is that tiny fragment shorts out my sensors. Things spin around regardless if it's light or dark out and I simply turn over and the problem goes away. It don't help the sinus but anything to rid that vertigo is a win. I have never had it standing up or driving etc, I thought about it and already planned should it ever happen with me driving I will just put the foot on the brake and do a slow stop.......... hopefully no big rigs behind me. I have some really good sinus pills now and when I do start having issues one pill will make me sleep and no sinus problem when I wake up.
 
I had a double windfall today. First off Walmart told me to keep the pair of shoes that were late and delivered after the replacement was mailed. Second my property owner came over and repaired the handrail on my front porch. He also bought a new battery for my truck and told me to not worry about paying for it, he just added the cost to the write off for materials repairing the porch. That was a very nice thing and all totaled about a hundred bucks saved. I was already set to spend the battery money anyway and also order a new power supply for the blown one on one of my new computers. I can only install that new PSU and try it to see if nothing else was destroyed but since it was not a case short involved very unlikely there was more damage. I just turned the thing on and it blew up for no reason. Worked fine last time I had it on and the thing only had possibly 15 hours. These new PSUs are supposed to not damage anything when they do fail, for instance they won't provide any output unless there is some type of system load sensed. To test it you have to use a little plastic tool to plug into the main harness and it acts as a switch to turn it on. If it fails to turn on then the PSU is bad.
 
TheKiwi said:
Yeah home building/ownership be like that James.
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yeah kept on bugging them when the road to a main blvd will be done, as that would cut the drive time by 10 minutes to work. Im a few weeks from going full on Karen and joining the HOA to move things along hahaha
OldGuy said:
That vertigo is really bad. I get it from time to time but not from infection, I have a microscopic piece of bone floating around and when my sinuses start acting up in early fall or winter I sometimes get really dizzy laying on the right side of my head. My problem is that tiny fragment shorts out my sensors. Things spin around regardless if it's light or dark out and I simply turn over and the problem goes away. It don't help the sinus but anything to rid that vertigo is a win. I have never had it standing up or driving etc, I thought about it and already planned should it ever happen with me driving I will just put the foot on the brake and do a slow stop.......... hopefully no big rigs behind me. I have some really good sinus pills now and when I do start having issues one pill will make me sleep and no sinus problem when I wake up.
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Get well soon old man, try not to move around so much.
 
Heading off to NZ tonight for a 3 week driving holiday. Crossing the ditch as both we and the Kiwi's call it. I haven't been to NZ since 1982 so I expect it to be a great trip with lots of touristy type stuff. My wife hasn't been before so we're both looking forward to the trip.

See you all in 3 weeks (Y) ;)
 
This is Crete Part Deux, landed here two days ago and we had to acclimate a bit to this hot, moist weather. No complaints as the place is still as nice as two years ago, prices have gone up quite a bit in a short timeframe.

I’ve heard about local Tenerife, Barcelona population complaining about mass-tourism but it doesn’t seem to be the case here. Endless field of olives trees, beside not a whole lot of tertiary activities going on on such islands, as good as the people are; they seem genuinely happy with walking wallets like us.

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I had lunch with friends. The newest person to the group and the area wanted to check out places that we've frequented as he's a foodie. Today was at a place called Speed's Deli. The menu every sandwich is named for a warbird. Inside the place is all sorts of memorabilia not just for the era but also from veterans in from Korea on up along with patches from the police in state and out of state, feds, etc.

There's an Iraqi Saddam era flag that I gifted, along with unopened pop tops in durka-durka language from the area produced pops, to include a few bottles of the notorious local economy mineral water that gave a few troops kidney stones, haha.

Anyway, the place was closed for the day, no big deal and some other time then. We walked over to taco hell and ate quality garbage in it's stead. Since we parted I decided to try and get a haircut and then ask the wife since the grocery store was right there if she wanted anything...and she did, no surprise there.

Ya fellas that are married, you know what's up. Instead of coming back and being asked if I was planning to go to the store with the wife mind games, I decided to play chess instead of checkers and find out this way if I got back well she did it to herself and now has to go on her own, heh.

Winning!

Anyway, I was taking pictures of the meats to see what she wanted when an old but short statured Asian lady decides to sidestep the limited space there was between me and the meats and block me while pausing. I said HELLO to get her to move as I said that this was rude, and her husband said she was sorry.

She didn't say nothing. Okay, first I get treated like crap by an entitled person and then my intelligence gets insulted while being lied to. I said, no, she didn't say a word and second, she made herself smaller to fit and sidestepped meaning she knew what she was doing all along.

But wait, there's more BS!

He said that it's not serious. I said dude, my guy, bro, bruh, broham, you just made it serious by doing all of that. First, I know where she's from. I know the culture. They complain when we are there that we act Americans and not blend in with their customs and norms. True. But this is now America, she ain't doing our norms and customs. If they complain about it, then they have to reciprocate. Hating us for being us over there is one thing. But expecting to do their BS over here, and getting away with it is just downright disrespectful.

She came here along with you from over there. Not the other way around. Acclimate. Assimilate. Now either move out before you piss me off even more with your lies and BS, or get raked over the coals even more because you both lack the integrity to admit when you were both obviously in the wrong. Choose wisely. Oh, and I was in a really great mood until I was treated like crap for no reason whatsoever. What would you do if you were being treated how I was treated? You both are old enough to know better, WHY are you both still doing it??

They left post haste. I didn't know that a small crowd had gathered to watch. I was expecting karens and cucks of karens to hall monitor me. Nope, was the other way around. Okay, I like this town after all.

I really, REALLY, hate having to be put into a situation unwillingly and be treated in such a way that I have no other choice but to act out and hold a person accountable for their bad behaviors.
 
A very good day, the hurricane swept just east of me and we had pretty much zero rain or wind. I got up early because I could not sleep last night but I went and stocked up on 60 bucks of junk food so I could have something to eat until power came back, it was solid even as the hurricane came ashore late this afternoon. You dodge one of these and it is a very good day for sure
 
Getting back to normal after a bout of Covid, (yes I did get vaccinated back during the first period,) it hit while I was into the second day of a 12 day painting job on a 3 room, plus open plan living room - kitchen, two bathrooms apartment add to that a new varnish on the living-room floor and one of the smaller rooms used as an office, the owners are friends of my wife and were away in Turkey for the period.
Typical day started at 06:30 in the morning because of the heat we were getting up in the +30's breakfast followed by taking the hound for his walk start work at 09:00 - 17:30, some days were a little longer particularly when sanding and prepping the parquet for new lacquer and then the second coat of lacquer, felt a bit crappy while working but as I was working alone kept going till the job was finished.
 
Connaught Ranger said:
Getting back to normal after a bout of Covid, (yes I did get vaccinated back during the first period,) it hit while I was into the second day of a 12 day painting job on a 3 room, plus open plan living room - kitchen, two bathrooms apartment add to that a new varnish on the living-room floor and one of the smaller rooms used as an office, the owners are friends of my wife and were away in Turkey for the period.
Typical day started at 06:30 in the morning because of the heat we were getting up in the +30's breakfast followed by taking the hound for his walk start work at 09:00 - 17:30, some days were a little longer particularly when sanding and prepping the parquet for new lacquer and then the second coat of lacquer, felt a bit crappy while working but as I was working alone kept going till the job was finished.
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Hope all is well now. I envy you guys who can build a home with your bare hands. Right now my useful skill is writing a check for the the bills. Who am i kidding my GF writes the checks and I sign them as my hand writing would make any doctor envious.
 
Junglejim said:
Hope all is well now. I envy you guys who can build a home with your bare hands. Right now my useful skill is writing a check for the the bills. Who am i kidding my GF writes the checks and I sign them as my hand writing would make any doctor envious.
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Thanks for the compliment, painting walls etc.. I learned many years ago from a lad, (God Rest him,) whose house I was living in, Frank was partially physically handicapped in one foot and arm, he had a few operations as a child, but, never let it get in the way of being independent, he made beautiful kitchen cabinets, wardrobes from scratch, painting and wall papering, and outside painting of houses etc..etc..
he rented out space in his house to help pay the mortgage, my family home was cramped with 5 brothers living with Mom, so after I was attached to a local military unit and rather than live in a virtually empty barracks I was luck to find a palace at Franks, 5 mins walk from my home, so I always got fed by my Mother until her untimely passing aged 53 from cancer in 1990.

Frank never let his impediment get in the way from working, but, he needed help particularly to paint gables and chimney stacks, he always told me "if you have to climb down and move the ladder do it, even if its a couple of inches, never over reach trying to save time as gravity rules, and never spare the paint the customer is paying for it."

We also spent time cutting lawns and trimming hedges, I only left when he decided to marry his long time girlfriend so I bought a house of my own, but, still gave him a helping hand when my time was free from military duties, he was an all round great guy, never a word of complaint, his attitude would put physically fir whingers to shame, sadly, he passed from cancer last year, last time I met him was in 2016 while on a visit to Ireland.
 
Some faith in humanity restored.

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Connaught Ranger said:
Thanks for the compliment, painting walls etc.. I learned many years ago from a lad, (God Rest him,) whose house I was living in, Frank was partially physically handicapped in one foot and arm, he had a few operations as a child, but, never let it get in the way of being independent, he made beautiful kitchen cabinets, wardrobes from scratch, painting and wall papering, and outside painting of houses etc..etc..
he rented out space in his house to help pay the mortgage, my family home was cramped with 5 brothers living with Mom, so after I was attached to a local military unit and rather than live in a virtually empty barracks I was luck to find a palace at Franks, 5 mins walk from my home, so I always got fed by my Mother until her untimely passing aged 53 from cancer in 1990.

Frank never let his impediment get in the way from working, but, he needed help particularly to paint gables and chimney stacks, he always told me "if you have to climb down and move the ladder do it, even if its a couple of inches, never over reach trying to save time as gravity rules, and never spare the paint the customer is paying for it."

We also spent time cutting lawns and trimming hedges, I only left when he decided to marry his long time girlfriend so I bought a house of my own, but, still gave him a helping hand when my time was free from military duties, he was an all round great guy, never a word of complaint, his attitude would put physically fir whingers to shame, sadly, he passed from cancer last year, last time I met him was in 2016 while on a visit to Ireland.
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That is an awesome story. Sad that both your mom and friend passed away. I tried repainting my wall once and ended up looking like an abandoned hospital in Chernobyl. Most I can do is yard work and enjoyed doing so everytime I visited my mother in Oklahoma, till she passed last year.
 
Junglejim said:
That is an awesome story. Sad that both your mom and friend passed away. I tried repainting my wall once and ended up looking like an abandoned hospital in Chernobyl. Most I can do is yard work and enjoyed doing so everytime I visited my mother in Oklahoma, till she passed last year.
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A Mother's love is like no other, may she + Rest In Peace + my friend.
 
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