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OK, time to stop answering the freaking phone~! Been up since 5:30AM and was at the Honda Dealer with Dads car for the recall at 8:30. Thank goodness they got me out of there just after 9AM. I guess telling them I was a previous Auto Shop Owner and a Service Manager of 2 Dealerships in my time made them get me the fuck out of there~! LMFAO.
grocery shopping, nearly always sat 11;30'ish to 2pm'ish.
i am am fixing up my front porch. it has been a workshop area, storage, and all around dumping area. when i was heavy into rehabing this house, this porch was a godsend.
now it is going to look normal. maybe put some paint on the floor today.
tinker in the garage.
i am am fixing up my front porch. it has been a workshop area, storage, and all around dumping area. when i was heavy into rehabing this house, this porch was a godsend.
now it is going to look normal. maybe put some paint on the floor today.
tinker in the garage.
Since we decided to have the Labor Day BBQ today I have been in the backyard working my ass off since 8AM. Almost all set with setup and food preparation. Had to fill my tank now off the check the sound system and setup the bar~! Enjoy your Sunday my fellow porch dwellers......
Your always welcome~!
Needs Coffee~!
Yeah, I know and thanks for being concerned~! I did the lawn work and picked some veggies this morning and aside from being tired I feel much better than I did this morning. No fever but damn sure I had one during the night. Had Steak and Egg Hero for brunch~!
It was homemade with a leftover Filet Mignon from the Labor Day BBQ.
So I received an Auto Response from PC Richards Manager a month later after I reported a driver for a Road Rage incident. Pissed me off Royally after I cooled off and was going to let it go. So I posted the video from my Dash Cam on their FV Page. Because I had my radio playing the 1st video got blocked by FB due to Copyright infringement. So I had to re-encode it with the sound disabled. I got an almost immediate response from whomever does the Social Media wanting to know who was the Manager I reported it to. So I posted his name on the page since they did not ask for it in private. I am now waiting to see how they handle it from this point on.
So on Friday I receive an Out Of Office Auto Response which pissed me off because I had let this go. So after posting the video on their FB Page that got action. A manager called me apologizing and it is the first he heard of it. So the manager who I had reported it to never did anything and it was all a lie. So now he is going to get reprimanded along with the Tech who was driving like a maniac. I also took the original video and cut the section of the driver racing thru the side streets to not be confronted by me. More unsafe operation for him to answer for. Not going to be a good morning for these two on Monday.
Good Morning my friend~! Can't wait for later and the 1st Giants Game~!
This aptly fits alongside the subject of personal accountability brought up in another thread. When a person works somewhere for a company it becomes professional accountability. Someone wearing the brown shorts and shirt is an extension of UPS, they represent UPS (as an example only), and so what they do reflects on UPS. You might for example notice one of their carriers mishandles a package marked fragile. Right away you vow to not ship via UPS.
So many people have lost sight of this, or frankly no longer care. It does make a difference. Take people like Jon Potter for another example. Right there is someone who understands loving your neighbor as you love yourself. He is also tackling personal accountability. He said no to helping to someone once and felt bad immediately after, he then vowed to say yes to helping. Granted, he does not have to help anyone. I am glad he does though. I too have at times helped others, still do when I'm able. You have to live to your own highest right, and not demand it of others.
Been learning a great deal lately. It has been stuff I likely was aware of, or had some insight to before, it comes now though with a lot more. Sure I am Agnostic. I do not feel though that forbids me from looking at, reading, enjoying the wisdom of any religion's sacred texts. A nice web site called Learn The Bible hosts an on-line Bible in King James version. The books of Timothy have provided me a good bit of understanding lately. I especially appreciate Timothy 1 (verses 9 - 15). I have in my learning of recent come to know my grandfathers a lot better.
They were men which understood what it was to be a man. This is not meant as chauvinism, rather an expression of traditional societal mores of being men. They knew all about personal accountability and made sure to live it by example. Even my Papaw John who at times got foul mouthed with Mimi, knew about "being right". He loved Mimi and even though he fussed about her going to church Sunday mornings, we kids would find him watching the tel-avengelists every Sunday and we knew we dared not do anything that was "work". Later on I met my wife's granddad. He too was loathe to do any work on Sundays, only if it had to be done.
Now, I'm also not saying any one religion is better or worse than any other. I'm not even saying this "path" of life needs to involve religion at all. There is also the concept of morality, ethical living. I can be moral and hold myself to a cannon of ethics the same as a monk of any religion. The point of it all I believe lies in the freedom of choice. We all have the freedom to choose being "good" people. We can accept personal accountability, even professional accountability or not.
The way I figure it is I'll take my "fair load" and do what I can to live life well. Let others live as best they can. I don't need to judge anyone nor be judged by anyone. As a wise master once said, "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." It seems all of us need to realize we all make mistakes, we all commit errors. As my uncle Buddy was found of explaining, "point a finger and three point back".
Then of course there is always wisdom from a mom. Boys most certainly would be lost without moms. "Live and let live," she would say. Still I do applaud your efforts to get this driver to own their errors, be held to account. People doing business like that do need held to account. Even if our POTUS says nuclear weapons should be used for destroying hurricanes, or even if he leaks covert military intelligence in the form of pictures of Iran launching rockets, and none hold him to account. *smh* Leaders, huh? Go figure. *chuckles*
I had let this sort or die without ever following up or going further with it. But when I received the email I had a feeling it was never forwarded so I posted it on FB. That got an IMMEDIATE Response~! Apologies flying and when I got the phone call which confirmed the 1st Customer Service Manager did nothing I went ballistic. Now his ass is going to be in as much trouble as the driver he protected.
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*hurls empty lasagna pan in @SteveS45's direction* Fuck Monday! Come on back to bed damn it. No, leave the lights off. You ain't got to go do anything. Monday myths are just that, silly notions the world puts in your brain. No, you don't need go see anything. Back to bed I say. Bet she wants you back in bed too. Ha!
I'm getting fed up with this Monday shit, real quick. I am going to call a Trump. We'll destroy Mondays with nuclear weapons. There, now we're done with them. See? No more Mondays. I scared them all off by mentioning nuclear weapons. Nobody likes M.A.D, not even the days. The only thing you need to worry about, got oregano?
No, don't go look. I know you do. If not I'll put some there. Yeah, there, exactly where you keep it. I don't consider it stalking to keep watch over friends. That's just being concerned, knowing my friends like I know myself so as to love 'em like I love myself. Yes, you still get boundaries. I promise not to pop into a shower with you unannounced and I'll look away if you need to pick your nose. I'll just know, too. Why? Like I said, I get to know my friends.
That also means though if you swing a bat at me, I'll either duck, sidestep you. That way we can kick all the assholes in the bar to the curb. They'll not see you actually swinging at them, or me spinning and trouncing 'em. "Here batta batta batta!" But, you got to let go of these Mondays, brother. No way to be letting just a day ruin things for ya.
It's just a fucking day like all the otha fucking days, aint nuttin but nuttin to it, lean to and get through s'all ya gotta do. I be here to catch you if you fall going forward too much. That's what buds do, we look out for one another. Forget being a hero, that shit for little boys got no imagination. Just be a bud. One life all it takes to save a world.
So yeah, fuck Monday!
On second thought, just for giggles, ... I might let you fall on your nose once or twice. Figure you'll do the exact same to me. Gotta poke some fun at times even being buds.
I'm getting fed up with this Monday shit, real quick. I am going to call a Trump. We'll destroy Mondays with nuclear weapons. There, now we're done with them. See? No more Mondays. I scared them all off by mentioning nuclear weapons. Nobody likes M.A.D, not even the days. The only thing you need to worry about, got oregano?
No, don't go look. I know you do. If not I'll put some there. Yeah, there, exactly where you keep it. I don't consider it stalking to keep watch over friends. That's just being concerned, knowing my friends like I know myself so as to love 'em like I love myself. Yes, you still get boundaries. I promise not to pop into a shower with you unannounced and I'll look away if you need to pick your nose. I'll just know, too. Why? Like I said, I get to know my friends.
That also means though if you swing a bat at me, I'll either duck, sidestep you. That way we can kick all the assholes in the bar to the curb. They'll not see you actually swinging at them, or me spinning and trouncing 'em. "Here batta batta batta!" But, you got to let go of these Mondays, brother. No way to be letting just a day ruin things for ya.
It's just a fucking day like all the otha fucking days, aint nuttin but nuttin to it, lean to and get through s'all ya gotta do. I be here to catch you if you fall going forward too much. That's what buds do, we look out for one another. Forget being a hero, that shit for little boys got no imagination. Just be a bud. One life all it takes to save a world.
So yeah, fuck Monday!
On second thought, just for giggles, ... I might let you fall on your nose once or twice. Figure you'll do the exact same to me. Gotta poke some fun at times even being buds.
When I did not hear what I wanted to hear which was he was no longer employed by them he has cost them many long time customers. Even with the offer of steep discounts on my next purchase I told them if I had the chance this service person ever came to my house I can't risk it. So you did not only lose just one customer but every single person I know. Fire him or you lost me. Reprimand is not enough.
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When I used to work at food joints. I always stepped up and served as the "glue" man. "Something wrong boss? Let me do your worrying. Goes South, pitch me out."
To me that has always been "the way an employee is to be". What usually happened though was completely the opposite of me being pitched out. I brought in at least 1,000 stable customers who might even suggest to ten, fifteen others to come in where I was, get good grub, service, clean place to eat.
I brought "rain" into businesses & people actually tried to actively recruit me, poach me away from here or there. Could do it no matter the menu, no matter the rest of the staff, I come in and worked magic. No, I was never a gourmet nor do i ever desire being. I was at best a cook, maybe not the best cook but cooked well enough I fed to my family. Every other family saw that, come and adopted me.
Long about age forty two to forty four I realized that I just can not "move" to do the back line work any more. Until then I "danced" around three, or four seventeen year old kids at a time. My training them consisted of "here fall into the deep water, swim!" I learned from a lady once that if someone does not "get it" after three days, send them out. She was correct too, until she was not and lied to me about what was coming.
The point I'm making is that, I do exactly the same thing with businesses, people. I take the silent route though. If you normally take care of me well but one time you goof up for whatever reason, "okay, just give me a sorry and try to not let it happen again." If it starts to run into being the usual "crappy" service, I start drawing away my business in steps, a quarter, fifty percent, seventy five percent, then I'm gone and you'll not see me again. Note, you give them opportunities to make corrections at each step back. If that does not happen move to the next step back.
I do the same with people. I play "baseball" three strikes and I walk away from someone to be gone, probably forever, unless they realize later they screwed up and change. Although, I also play innings, all nine with people on an individual level. That gives them 27 strikes, or two foul tips and a strike in an inning. I allow for balls as well, maybe I read/did/said something wrong, maybe it was Universal Interference. So, all in I think I act fairly with other people.
Up to the point they start acting unfair toward me, or abusive to others. at that point they can forget playing "ball" with me, cold rage politely escorts them to the door and if need be LEO's may offer an assist. I won't resort to violence unless it is the last resort. I can not "get angry" and "let it go" like most people though. I am too passionate with anger and literally black out, do damage, come to and not recall a thing. Granted I might try "diminished capacity" but that will not be allowed in my case. I've been too trained and I am aware of my anger problem, ergo am accountable even if I do black out. Yep, know if first hand factual.*ahem*
So, I concur with what you are doing taking business away from them & spreading "word" to others to avoid doing business with them. That is not using anger directly but rather assertively and constructively to create businesses that do understand and value professional accountability. You do not get mad, you get even. You cut them by taking dollars away.
You may want to check out B Corporations. They have a link there to a directory of various corporations coming into the B Corporation structure / mission plan. For a long while I used DuckDuckGo, still do to some degree but now most of my searching is Ecosia. They are planting trees out of money they make offering search services, or rather the adverts served, but unobtrusive text based ads. Granted you need to do 45 searches to plant 1 tree, I've already planted 6 trees though.
That also goes to fund women's businesses in parts of Africa as well. They get a "bank" from pooling a few dollars here and there from their tree planting paychecks. So searching on the Web/ Internet has started to help heal our world.
See? I'm telling you Love wins. All we need to do is let the Light shine on the evil, then hold fast to the good. And if the evil gets mouthy with you, tries stupid stuff against you, send it my way. I eat monsters. They are tasty and fill my belly well, and I then make more good with the energy from them.
Well, hopefully we all made it through Monday. It was Burma-Shave here for a while. But while the mornings here are beginning to turn cooler, by noon it's still well into the 90's. That's one more reason I like getting up around 6a. I immediately open the blinds, raise the windows, and let some fresh air circulate in the house. Yesterday afternoon was doing some minor work in the garden and noticed many of the flowers, the ones that are left, have blisters on their petals. The grass is scorched. I'm so ready to be able to leave the windows open all day.
Anyway, morning porchers. Didn't mean to abandon the conversation. I just got caught up perusing all of the other forums, educating myself, etc.
Sip.
Anyway, morning porchers. Didn't mean to abandon the conversation. I just got caught up perusing all of the other forums, educating myself, etc.
Sip.
Thanks @SteveS45 - morning. Finishing up my third and final cup of coffee this morning before beginning the new project: ripping up the carpet on the second floor. Woohoo. No, seriously. It's gotta be done. I've left my coffee scat all over those carpets upstairs. Don't need to be tracked by field mice! You'd think a former waiter could carry a cup of coffee without spilling it, but nope. Big day of work ahead. Cheers!
Well, I'd like to put hardwood floors down, but ultimately it's up to my mother. It's her place and I'm thinking she'll opt again for carpet. It probably won't be long before she sells it - townhouse - so, I doubt she will want to invest in true hardwood. My tastes are for solid hardwood floors with a nice, deep, cherry finish and area rugs. Funny how I'm inclined to match my visual tastes with my taste for liquids. Rich, round...etc. But she's a practical woman, and we've had problems with the faux hardwood downstairs because it's so humid here. There's some buckling and peeling in a few places. Hopefully the foundation is okay.
Carpet? Argh!!
Fun of it I'll tell you, fun involving my wife's chopping board and a toe. I was as my usual getting the dishes done up. Well the wife she sat her cutting board over the end of one counter up against cabinets of the other that abutted it. Barefooted me walks over that way in getting stuff put up.
"Whack! Thud! ... (Profanities horrid enough to frighten C'thulu)"
Look down to my poor second left toe, blood spurting out. Over the carpets in the living room I hopped on one foot as my hand held the other covered with a paper towel compressed to the toe. Into the downstairs half bath, rummage through our "medic" bag, locate an adhesive bandage, wrap the toe.
In the galley again, notice the blood I had left on/in the sink's little 3 foot bit of carpet. Bugger it I say. Mind racing from the pain of being so dumb to step into her obvious bear trap. "That damn board needs to go 'somewhere', muhaha," I think. It wound up between the end of that counter and the fridge in the gap twixt them. Least there no more can it pitch after poor unprotected toes.
Later she got an earful. "Oh, well that explains why the rug out there is bloody, huh," she asks. I just snort and go on.
Fun of it I'll tell you, fun involving my wife's chopping board and a toe. I was as my usual getting the dishes done up. Well the wife she sat her cutting board over the end of one counter up against cabinets of the other that abutted it. Barefooted me walks over that way in getting stuff put up.
"Whack! Thud! ... (Profanities horrid enough to frighten C'thulu)"
Look down to my poor second left toe, blood spurting out. Over the carpets in the living room I hopped on one foot as my hand held the other covered with a paper towel compressed to the toe. Into the downstairs half bath, rummage through our "medic" bag, locate an adhesive bandage, wrap the toe.
In the galley again, notice the blood I had left on/in the sink's little 3 foot bit of carpet. Bugger it I say. Mind racing from the pain of being so dumb to step into her obvious bear trap. "That damn board needs to go 'somewhere', muhaha," I think. It wound up between the end of that counter and the fridge in the gap twixt them. Least there no more can it pitch after poor unprotected toes.
Later she got an earful. "Oh, well that explains why the rug out there is bloody, huh," she asks. I just snort and go on.
5 Ways to Remove Blood Stains from Carpets
https://www.themaidsofcapecod.com/blog/5-ways-to-remove-blood-stains-from-carpets
All is not lost there are few ways to get the dried blood out.
https://www.themaidsofcapecod.com/blog/5-ways-to-remove-blood-stains-from-carpets
All is not lost there are few ways to get the dried blood out.
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As you can see, I'm already taking a break. This ain't getting done in one day.
Well thankfully I'm not bloody (not yet at least) so I bow out MyMagicMist. But dammit, is it still Monday? The truck failed inspection for a bad caliper. No biggy, brakes are fairly simple. Pretty sure it was here I shared my woes but just to recap, had the truck on jack stands. That was short lived when a heavy rain caused them to sink and the truck slid sideways and landed (sans rear wheels) into the mud.
Naturally it's never 'just' the brakes. New calipers, new pads, new rotors, new ebrake shoes, new brake hardline front to rear to replace the rusty shit. New dust shields for behind the brakes because the rusted bits didn't amount to much. So I removed the passenger rear rotor, not only is everything rusted and the ebrake lines cut, no ebrake shoe at all. Mmmkay. Get the driver's side tore down, same condition. Missing the ebrake shoe and half of the adjuster/actuator. Fantastic, but at least I had the forethought to get a new hardware kit so it was getting replaced anyway. I dig the rotor and crap out of the mud, begin taking it apart and thought damn, how did mud get clear up here? Sniff, sniff.. that's not mud, that's grease. Oh I see, the axle seal has gone to shit and oozing fluid.
So to add to the laundry list of fuckery that began as 'just' the brakes, going to have to drain the rear end, yank the driver's side axle out and replace the seal. Fingers crossed and knocking on wood it's just a seal and no damage to the axle or a tore up bearing. Granted it could be worse, always sounds simple enough. Just a bearing, they're like $10-15. Until factoring in that while I have some tools, story of my life I never have the crap I need. So a good $100 or better for a slide hammer and bearing puller along with a bearing/seal punch to put the new one in and another $40-50 for gear oil, along with a new gasket and all the garbage that entails.
Might have to look into autozone's tool loaner deal and see if they've got slide hammers, not trying to buy one for one time use if I don't have to. Anyone who's used one, they suck. Jobs requiring them suck. Oh sure, YT vids make it look cute when 4-5 taps of a 5lb slide hammer get the job done. They don't show the 30-40min time lapse of someone jerking on a 10lb slide hammer until they start looking around to borrow the 20 pounder.
Hopefully this is the end of the woes for awhile so I can get this turd put back together and mobile. Almost afraid to pull anything else apart and what shenanigans I'll find around the next corner. Just an example of what I've encountered, new dust shield vs the pieces of what I imagine was formerly known as a dust shield.
Naturally it's never 'just' the brakes. New calipers, new pads, new rotors, new ebrake shoes, new brake hardline front to rear to replace the rusty shit. New dust shields for behind the brakes because the rusted bits didn't amount to much. So I removed the passenger rear rotor, not only is everything rusted and the ebrake lines cut, no ebrake shoe at all. Mmmkay. Get the driver's side tore down, same condition. Missing the ebrake shoe and half of the adjuster/actuator. Fantastic, but at least I had the forethought to get a new hardware kit so it was getting replaced anyway. I dig the rotor and crap out of the mud, begin taking it apart and thought damn, how did mud get clear up here? Sniff, sniff.. that's not mud, that's grease. Oh I see, the axle seal has gone to shit and oozing fluid.
So to add to the laundry list of fuckery that began as 'just' the brakes, going to have to drain the rear end, yank the driver's side axle out and replace the seal. Fingers crossed and knocking on wood it's just a seal and no damage to the axle or a tore up bearing. Granted it could be worse, always sounds simple enough. Just a bearing, they're like $10-15. Until factoring in that while I have some tools, story of my life I never have the crap I need. So a good $100 or better for a slide hammer and bearing puller along with a bearing/seal punch to put the new one in and another $40-50 for gear oil, along with a new gasket and all the garbage that entails.
Might have to look into autozone's tool loaner deal and see if they've got slide hammers, not trying to buy one for one time use if I don't have to. Anyone who's used one, they suck. Jobs requiring them suck. Oh sure, YT vids make it look cute when 4-5 taps of a 5lb slide hammer get the job done. They don't show the 30-40min time lapse of someone jerking on a 10lb slide hammer until they start looking around to borrow the 20 pounder.
Hopefully this is the end of the woes for awhile so I can get this turd put back together and mobile. Almost afraid to pull anything else apart and what shenanigans I'll find around the next corner. Just an example of what I've encountered, new dust shield vs the pieces of what I imagine was formerly known as a dust shield.
Pfft. Potato enzymes do real well removing fecal matter from walls. I know if one uses ammonia, it nixes chances of DNA being recovered. Rather not use ammonia though as there are other more reliable means.
I laughed when you first posted this but just now seeing it again made me choke on my vape laughing~! Here is why.............
Early this morning I get a call from my GF which immediately I was thinking WTF~! She found water near her water heater so I went and checked it out. Not the water heater so I taped a plastic cup on the end of the pipe from the Pressure Relief Valve and told her check it when she comes home. When she got home the cup was in the foil pan and the Duct came off the cup~! I was like WTF and after some further diagnosis it turns out the Thermal Expansion Tank is bad so off to the plumbing supply in the morning. I originally was thinking it was bad Pressure Relief Valve but the tank has water where air should be. Better for me less work but about the same price in parts.
Good Morning~!
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I will not add to the Hysteria but will ask all of you to sign and share the Petition to STOP The Flavor Ban
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/pe...nPQd8SYoCwbyCThzDaLo4ajOqatrijymGcs6Up4p-eurQ