The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
[House] Rent Boogie
Cambiata
Commander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
Commander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered User regular
New house thread obligated me to find a new song with house in the title, since until now I only knew of Our House. Here is the new song for the house thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSK0L5v4NY&ab_channel=GilaGilaGilaGilaGila
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWHXNG_4CM&ab_channel=TheBluesfan12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCSK0L5v4NY&ab_channel=GilaGilaGilaGilaGilahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAWHXNG_4CM&ab_channel=TheBluesfan12 "excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Cambiata on
0
Posts
Like I said in the Thursday thread, I'm apartment hunting (in Montreal) for a 2-bedroomer. (I need a room separate from my bedroom where I can put my PC.) So far I've visited
one (1) 1200$/mo completely unfurnished place in Mercier with no utilities or appliances included and currently in renovation (the real estate broker is also sketchy af)
and one (1) 1295$/mo place in Lasalle with a stove, a fridge, hot water and heating, but I'd have to start my lease in August.
I've also sort of heard back from someone about a 1200$/month place in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. I'll contact them this afternoon.
This is why you should clean up your garage folks!
Yeouch. Duly noted.
Hey, wanna see something gross???
Is it your mangled hand?
https://us.v-cdn.net/5018289/uploads/editor/d9/mh6warhb70yz.jpg
Although, now that I have a picture of it, it doesn't look as bad as I originally thought.
Anyway, I put the toolbox away and drained the gas from the snowblower and shoved it into the back corner. Finally. Now I gotta figure out what to do with all this extra plastic fencing from last year's gardening project. Give it to my sister I suppose for her gardening project. (She had to put her garden plans on hold because a killdeer decided to raise its family in the middle of her garden.)
However, against all odds, today has turned into a rainy day! It's a warm summer rain, too! Now if only I didn't have work and could just go play in it.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I’m going to spoiler these for V scroll folks. But it’s bloom time here in Maryland and some of our anchor plants are finally growing up!
Couple bearded iris, some mandevilla that hasn’t had a chance to really go crazy yet as it isn’t nearly hot enough, couple peonies, and some Russian iris.
Really excited to see things blooming again.
I guess now that I have a decent blade I should give sharpening it a go next spring.
It really isn't. Your blades are constantly chipping up rocks and shit.
A local Ace Hardware charges ~$16 USD to sharpen a pair of blades, or if you've got an angle grinder and vise you can do it yourself.
That's why I mow backwards every other time...
Ace mentioned that too, so may actually do that. I have the Dremel kit, but feel like I'm screwing it up so will let Ace have a go.
Here's the thing I've learned over the years. I've gone from never sharpening to going at the blades with my angle grinder to paying Ace Hardware to do it.
Shape blades make everything look better. In particular you'll get less 'mowhawks' in your yard.
Sharpening these things yourself will cost more in time than just paying someone else to do it.
The number of sparks kicked up during sharpening kind of scares the shit out of me.
Also my partner and I got a house and it's very wild to have the ability to change almost anything about our new place after so much time renting. It's also just a very nice place already but like we can put in permanent changes to make it better without being bothered by the landlord! We also can't be kicked out with almost no notice!
The two tools I own that absolutely scare the shit out of me when I use them are as follows.
1. Angle Grinder
2. Stihl Edger
Both are great tools, though.
Honestly if you just grind on some stuff a bit it's way more approachable, it's just that it's rare these days to need to angle grind something. I did steel pipe work one summer and it becomes easy peasy after a few days of practice. Always gotta be ready for the kick or just random explosion (ps wear safety glasses)
These fuckin things. We call them sabre saws. Either you’re worried of them jumping out of their seat, or you’re worried that you didn’t actually check properly for hidden services
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
bit.ly/2XQM1ke
Satans..... hints.....
When you don't care how fucked up it looks in the end, as long as it's in smaller pieces, you break out the sawzall.
They’re about a week from fledging at this point. We’re pretty excited as this is the first time the birdhouse has been used.
Edit
Just got two shots of the female as she was heading in to feed the chicks!
Edit 2
And one of the male
I estimate I need about 20 more to complete the circle, but to be on the safe side I'll be purchasing 30 saplings on my next paycheck. Having a few spares won't be a problem, I can just plant them somewhere and if any of my current saplings die there's a replacement ready for them. I already think the first tree I planted is dead, since it never sprouted leaves.
Of course, planting is just the beginning. And I'm not even sure yet I planted them close enough, but, well, then need another 4 feet or so of growth before I'll really know. Unfortunately, the phase of the project after they're all planted will be much slower progress, but I'm excited to see how it turns out. These trees are fast growers, so I might have a reasonable structure in five years, or I might have one in two. I won't know until I've seen it!
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Let’s say you recently moved into a new house. And let’s say you misplaced your copy of House of Leaves during the move. And let’s say you randomly found it in the attic 6 months after moving in. Which is good. Because it’s a well loved copy of the book. Full of dog eared pages and some handwritten notes.
Except…
It isn’t your copy.
Thread, I guess what I’m asking is: do I need to sell this house and move?
and it's rotted under the soffit and starting to creep into the garage proper
so now i need a new roof; and hopefully i can find a contractor that can identify some clear storm damage on the roof so insurance will pay for it....
To be fair, I finally checked the little closet/crawl space in the attic, and found a box of shit a previous owner had left that also included a bunch of Dean Koontz and John Grisham books. And a Patsy Cline cassette. All of which is a lot less ominous than the mysterious House of Leaves, but still.
I love this stuff. It's soft, ok with foot traffic, tolerate of the broad range of climate conditions found in our region, and chokes the grass right out. I'm encouraging it to take over my lawn in place of grass
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
This is a row of several of the fanciest restaurants in Oklahoma City. Last time I went there for my birthday I literally bumped into a former governor. This really drives home that I pretty much paid for that withered old fuck's dinner one way or another.
Hunger games ass city, I swear.
so i put my new battery in backwards and somehow that didn't permanently destroy anything, so neat
WHY would there not be a standard for terminal orientation... i am pretty sure there is for cars
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
Hefner Grill is fucking delicious, tho.