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Racoons are straight up murderers. They will kill anything and everything to get their little murderhands on a bit of kibble.
Squirrels are ok, I guess, but racoons are genuinely evil. Thinking, human-style, plotting evil.
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Zonugal(He/Him) The Holiday ArmadilloI'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User, Transition Teamregular
Racoons are straight up murderers. They will kill anything and everything to get their little murderhands on a bit of kibble.
Squirrels are ok, I guess, but racoons are genuinely evil. Thinking, human-style, plotting evil.
Chromdon enters the chat:
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minor incidentexpert in a dying field---Registered User, Transition Teamregular
My mom had raccoons. They were chill little gremlins who hung out on her porch with her dog. They’d walk up to her with their hands out like little Victorian street urchins begging for food. She’d feed them, they’d gobble down the dog kibble she gave them and go back to napping on the porch.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
*minus some fasteners and tape currently being shipped
Edit: whoops got too excited and didn't do a count of the plywood, only about 1/3 of roof
2-hours spent on the phone getting increasingly angry (multiple hang ups), 1 hour driving to town 30 minutes glaring over a register, a ~$200 courtesy credit, and 1 hour driving back home later and they finally managed to deliver the rest:
It's been an evolving journey (and I have stuff I'm going to do different next year), but I'm really happy with the backyard currently.
I moved the raised bed from the side of the fence (right side) to the middle of the yard:
We also have clover as the yard which has been great, but does start looking a bit sparse if you walk on it. I might have to add some grass seed to those areas eventually.
I have a wildflower spot as well along the left:
Milkweed and natural grass and blueberry bush:
It's a bit sparse compared to last year but hoping we have more stuff coming up soon:
Since I moved the raised beds I put some compost and clover into the area that was left, and I apparently have a bunch of random volunteer plants (wildflowers, tomato, squash plants) and we also put some sunflowers in there:
Bonus snap pea flower (and some of them are purple!):
In the raised beds I have 4 tomato plants (2 on each side of the trellis thing), snap peas, 2 spicy peppers (sugar peach from bakercreek seeds), basil (purple, cinnamon, Thai sweet), carrots, beans, 6 sweet pepper plants (left side), cucumber plant. I haven't seen it grow much but I also have butterfly pea plant that should be able to make a blue tea from the flowers that turns purple with something acidic.
My bribe offering to the local crow population has been received. I gave them some walnuts from my native land which they gladly accepted.
Also, one squirrel who must think they just won the lottery.
The circle is now protected.
The peanuts will be added security though, when they finally get here. I know these crows have eaten peanuts before, I've found the shells in our yard.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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sponoMining for Nose DiamondsBooger CoveRegistered Userregular
We're going to have the house tented for termites soon, so I had to finally clear out all the garbage from the dead space between the garage and my neighbor's wall.
The space, now clean:
The spoils:
I have no idea what some of this crap is. Most of it was there when we moved in. I'm pretty sure some of it is a windsurfing boat or some other kind of boat, minus the boat part (lots of poles and ropes were found). Plus a vintage Four Loko can
Bonus pics of the bamboo that had to go and the cacti that grew despite barely having any sunlight and having never been watered:
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MichaelLCIn what furnace was thy brain?ChicagoRegistered Userregular
Four Loko has what cacti crave!
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Now that my trees are all situated and I just have to wait for them to grow, there are of course other things I want done in my empty field.
I don't remember if I mentioned it here, but the city is still mowing my empty lot. The first time I saw them do it, despite my anxiety about taking to people I don't know, I did go out there to try to tell them they don't need to mow. But the only dude close enough was on a riding lawnmower and while I did make an almost attempt to walk up to him and tell him, he wasn't turning the mower off he was just halting until I got out of his way. I really wasn't comfortable walking up to a riding mower while it's on, even though the rider saw me. So I decided to just let them continue for now. Thanks to the use of black weed fabric they haven't been mowing down any of my new plantings. But they still use weed whackers down near the drainage creek which I don't want them, or anyone, to be mowing. Not only on my lot, but across the entire creek (meaning the areas owned by the city and other people).
When I went on a trip with my oldest sister, she gave me a suggestion: Get a "native wildflowers, do not mow" sign for the area you want to keep them out of, and use rocks to mark the border of the area. That sounded like a good idea, so I went online searching for a sign like that. I actually found a sign I like even better though, and it fits the area I want to mark off much better (because I don't know how much, if any, wildflowers I'll be able to grow along the bank of the river since it's so shady):
When I found this sign I didn't know what a Riparian zone was, so I looked it up. Riparian zones are largely used by farmers; they are areas next to a stream that have native plants intended to both halt erosion and filter pollutants. I was so jazzed to learn this was a source of information I could draw on. I even found a template for planting from the city of Austin!
First things first, though, I do want to mark off the area and plant my sign. A sign post and hardware have been ordered. I will start laying rocks down for the border, but I'm going to wait until after they mow on Monday.
Along with my Riparian zone, another goal I have is to completely rid the lot of these awful sticker burr weeds:
As I told Striker, when I go out in the morning to give my unshelled peanut offering to the crows, I'll also bring my trash bag and digging knife and start digging these monsters up. They keep the poor doggos from being able to run in the field during the late spring, so fuck 'em. The nice thing is that the areas where Creeping Cinderella has completely taken over, there are no sticker burrs. So I have full confidence in the Creeping Cinderella to get rid of them in time, but I want to speed that along as much as possible.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Now I want a protected mitigation riparian area. Goals for the next house.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Also, it has rained heavily for my last three weekends. Seriously considering whether it would be viable to rent a couple of goats for a while rather than try to mow the jungle in my back yard tomorrow. It all looks very tasty and grazable.
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minor incidentexpert in a dying field---Registered User, Transition Teamregular
I replaced my mower blade. It was shot to hell from the previous owner. Cracked, chipped, totally blunt. Not worth the time it would take to try to salvage it with a sharpening, and a new one was only 20 bucks.
There was one unexpected side effect! It used to take almost exactly one full battery to mow my front and back yard. This time after mowing both I still had almost 50% left on the battery and was able to do the edges with the string trimmer, and tidy up with the leaf blower all on one battery.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
You know how many batteries goats eat? None. I mean, they will, but you definitely shouldn't let them.
Hey house thread, I discovered we have vermin scurrying around in our attic which I'm not happy about but I don't know what's reasonable for perst removal.
This morning I got an inspection from Terminix who found rodent tracks in our attic insulation, and that some of the insulation has been removed or compressed to make a nest. Some parts of the attic barely had any insulation left.
He quoted us ~$1500 for mitigation such as closing off access areas, plugging some holes and setting / removing traps.
He also quoted us ~$2600 for cleaning and re-insulating the attic for about 1600 sq ft house.
I haven't had any other quotes yet but I've spoken to family who said that the quotes are crazy high both for the mitigation and for the insulation. Has anyone dealt with either of these problems lately, and what did you wind up paying or doing yourself? I'm in the DFW area in Texas.
I paid about $1600 to have some squirrels evicted from a chimney. That included traps (which never caught anything) and some mesh panels added to the open parts of the chimney. That's in NC.
You may be able to hire someone for cheaper. We're also in DFW and have used Mr. Handyman a few times. A lot of it is going to depend on things like how tight your attic is because no one wants to jam themselves in somewhere and the price is going to reflect that. I do know you can rent an insulation blower from Home Depot and buy a bunch of insulation for relatively cheap (by comparison anyway) yourself but uh that's a lot of physical labor in this heat.
Whatever you do end up doing please do not use poison. It screws up the local ecosystem with secondary poisonings and is pretty inhumane.
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MichaelLCIn what furnace was thy brain?ChicagoRegistered Userregular
I paid about $1600 to have some squirrels evicted from a chimney. That included traps (which never caught anything) and some mesh panels added to the open parts of the chimney. That's in NC.
Shit's not cheap
We paid slightly less than that for similar type work . What you want is to seal up against future mice and to funnel the remaining ones into basically a kill box.
Our guys put mesh under the siding, filled in spots with caulk and cement, and overall tried to block new ones from entering. They then set up traps where they'd try to exit which was where I work in the basement. So got a mouse triggering a trap above me while I ate lunch.
Hey house thread, I discovered we have vermin scurrying around in our attic which I'm not happy about but I don't know what's reasonable for perst removal.
This morning I got an inspection from Terminix who found rodent tracks in our attic insulation, and that some of the insulation has been removed or compressed to make a nest. Some parts of the attic barely had any insulation left.
He quoted us ~$1500 for mitigation such as closing off access areas, plugging some holes and setting / removing traps.
He also quoted us ~$2600 for cleaning and re-insulating the attic for about 1600 sq ft house.
I haven't had any other quotes yet but I've spoken to family who said that the quotes are crazy high both for the mitigation and for the insulation. Has anyone dealt with either of these problems lately, and what did you wind up paying or doing yourself? I'm in the DFW area in Texas.
We had mice in the garage and I killed about a dozen with twenty dollars of mouse traps from Amazon and a spoonful of peanut butter.
After the killing slowed down we put shavings of Irish Spring soap around the base boards of the garage and never saw one again.
This was years ago.
So I think that's crazy expensive in the sense irs treatment for mice, but in the sense of paying someone to spend eight hours crawling around your house and installing all that stuff it's right.
This is not a drill. I have an opportunity to build a secret room in my house. STOP EVERYTHING.
Kinda screwed up on step one there, pal
The best I had was my childhood bedroom had a walk-in closet with built-in chest of drawers. When I was older I knocked out the bottoms and back of the drawers so I could climb inside.
MichaelLC on
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
This is not a drill. I have an opportunity to build a secret room in my house. STOP EVERYTHING.
I've definitely contemplated it what with all the fascists rising to power. As a cis het wasp (seriously, I can trace part of my family tree to the Mayflower), my house would be an ideal sanctuary assuming I can hide from any street-level surveillance. Problem is I don't know enough yet about infra red shielding to do it yet.
"Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
Going through bills I noticed our internet (Charter Spectrum) has gone up to $80 and the introductory two year offer is $40.
Anyone here ever try cancelling and reactivating under your spouses name?
The thing I always do is threaten to cancel because the cost is to high, which ends up getting you a better price because they'd rather you don't cancel.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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minor incidentexpert in a dying field---Registered User, Transition Teamregular
Both equally valid reasons for a secret room.
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
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minor incidentexpert in a dying field---Registered User, Transition Teamregular
Going through bills I noticed our internet (Charter Spectrum) has gone up to $80 and the introductory two year offer is $40.
Anyone here ever try cancelling and reactivating under your spouses name?
The thing I always do is threaten to cancel because the cost is to high, which ends up getting you a better price because they'd rather you don't cancel.
With a lot of companies you don't even have to threaten to cancel anymore. It's a whole game and they're all aware of it. I just call up and say "what new promos can I get to lower my bill?" and they list off all the new customer promos they have at different tiers, and I pick one and they say "Okay sir, sounds good. Call us again in 12 months when this runs out and we'll do another one."
Ah, it stinks, it sucks, it's anthropologically unjust
Oh I've done that dance before, I'll give it a shot. I mean 50% off over two years is crazy
I am in the business of saving lives.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
Our bill has gone up like...70? bucks a month since we started our plan 5 years ago, but they've also more than doubled the down and up speeds we're getting which I frankly care about more so I don't want to call and risk them changing it again.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Our bill has gone up like...70? bucks a month since we started our plan 5 years ago, but they've also more than doubled the down and up speeds we're getting which I frankly care about more so I don't want to call and risk them changing it again.
So one thing that happened one time I did the "I want to cancel" trick, is that instead of lowering my bill (since they said I was already on the cheapest plan), they'd double my speeds, because my old speed was too slow to be offered anymore. So it still could be worth it for you to do if you like speed!
Edit: The company phasing out lower speeds is also why you probably got a stealth speed boost. Telecoms do that now and then, as long as it doesn't require new equipment at your residence to perform.
Cambiata on
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Just have to hope the weather forecasts for next 10 days stay accurate and no rain.
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
In about an hour I'll be driving to the county appraisal district to convince them not to have an appraisal hearing by using evidence. I didn't realize before that this was something I could do! My sister K. will be meeting me there to help me out and give advice. Supposedly if you go to the county directly you have much better luck with tax protests, because the people working in the office are professionals, while the people they get on the hearing board are always grade-A Boomer morons. Fingers crossed.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
In about an hour I'll be driving to the county appraisal district to convince them not to have an appraisal hearing by using evidence. I didn't realize before that this was something I could do! My sister K. will be meeting me there to help me out and give advice. Supposedly if you go to the county directly you have much better luck with tax protests, because the people working in the office are professionals, while the people they get on the hearing board are always grade-A Boomer morons. Fingers crossed.
My attempt to pre-negotiate at the appraisal board customer service counter was a bust. The same weasely guy who was the opposition at my last hearing was the one who spoke to us. I opted to go ahead with the hearing on Thursday, and that asshole triggered my hyperfocus superpower and I've spent hours compiling STILL YET MORE DATA.
The worst thing was the "proof" he gave me as to what determined the appraisal value of the empty lot - the proof was the one thing of value I got out of today's meeting. I assume their computers use some dumb algorithm to compile comps, because the comps he had were nothing like the property they appraised. My empty lot is a floodzone that can never be built upon, which in capitalist terms means it's worthless. The lots they compared it to... all have fancy houses on them? And are obviously NOT floodzones? Like yeah, if your lot has a mansion on it then of course the lot is worth more, you shifty fuck! Even the potential to some day build a mansion on it makes it worth a lot! But a weed-filled lot that you just get to maintain and can never even erect a shed on? COME ON.
"excuse my French
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
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FFOnce Upon a TimeIn OaklandRegistered Userregular
Well, whether it's a good time to buy or not (I've heard both). Lady-FF and I put an offer on a house and...they accepted! Currently a week into the closing process and the mild, persistent panic of "how did we manage to do this?" is starting to feel normal. It helps that our agent is also my brother so we have very easy access when we've got questions. Still freaking out with every new form, but also really excited.
I have a house question: I'm smelling a slightly weird smell sometimes I think generally near the HVAC system that I would describe as "kind of ozone-y" like what you get near some electronic devices. So far it doesn't seem to specifically increase noticeably when I run the unit, but it definitely only started being something I notice now that the system is running regularly.
So I guess anyone else notice anything like this in their own residence? Any idea what this could be, and whether it's something I should be trying to fix?
I hate trying to investigate a smell, because my brain gives me like one go at it and then edits it out of my perception for a day.
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Squirrels are ok, I guess, but racoons are genuinely evil. Thinking, human-style, plotting evil.
Chromdon enters the chat:
2-hours spent on the phone getting increasingly angry (multiple hang ups), 1 hour driving to town 30 minutes glaring over a register, a ~$200 courtesy credit, and 1 hour driving back home later and they finally managed to deliver the rest:
I moved the raised bed from the side of the fence (right side) to the middle of the yard:
We also have clover as the yard which has been great, but does start looking a bit sparse if you walk on it. I might have to add some grass seed to those areas eventually.
I have a wildflower spot as well along the left:
Milkweed and natural grass and blueberry bush:
It's a bit sparse compared to last year but hoping we have more stuff coming up soon:
Since I moved the raised beds I put some compost and clover into the area that was left, and I apparently have a bunch of random volunteer plants (wildflowers, tomato, squash plants) and we also put some sunflowers in there:
Bonus snap pea flower (and some of them are purple!):
In the raised beds I have 4 tomato plants (2 on each side of the trellis thing), snap peas, 2 spicy peppers (sugar peach from bakercreek seeds), basil (purple, cinnamon, Thai sweet), carrots, beans, 6 sweet pepper plants (left side), cucumber plant. I haven't seen it grow much but I also have butterfly pea plant that should be able to make a blue tea from the flowers that turns purple with something acidic.
Also, one squirrel who must think they just won the lottery.
The circle is now protected.
The peanuts will be added security though, when they finally get here. I know these crows have eaten peanuts before, I've found the shells in our yard.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The space, now clean:
The spoils:
I have no idea what some of this crap is. Most of it was there when we moved in. I'm pretty sure some of it is a windsurfing boat or some other kind of boat, minus the boat part (lots of poles and ropes were found). Plus a vintage Four Loko can
Bonus pics of the bamboo that had to go and the cacti that grew despite barely having any sunlight and having never been watered:
I don't remember if I mentioned it here, but the city is still mowing my empty lot. The first time I saw them do it, despite my anxiety about taking to people I don't know, I did go out there to try to tell them they don't need to mow. But the only dude close enough was on a riding lawnmower and while I did make an almost attempt to walk up to him and tell him, he wasn't turning the mower off he was just halting until I got out of his way. I really wasn't comfortable walking up to a riding mower while it's on, even though the rider saw me. So I decided to just let them continue for now. Thanks to the use of black weed fabric they haven't been mowing down any of my new plantings. But they still use weed whackers down near the drainage creek which I don't want them, or anyone, to be mowing. Not only on my lot, but across the entire creek (meaning the areas owned by the city and other people).
When I went on a trip with my oldest sister, she gave me a suggestion: Get a "native wildflowers, do not mow" sign for the area you want to keep them out of, and use rocks to mark the border of the area. That sounded like a good idea, so I went online searching for a sign like that. I actually found a sign I like even better though, and it fits the area I want to mark off much better (because I don't know how much, if any, wildflowers I'll be able to grow along the bank of the river since it's so shady):
When I found this sign I didn't know what a Riparian zone was, so I looked it up. Riparian zones are largely used by farmers; they are areas next to a stream that have native plants intended to both halt erosion and filter pollutants. I was so jazzed to learn this was a source of information I could draw on. I even found a template for planting from the city of Austin!
First things first, though, I do want to mark off the area and plant my sign. A sign post and hardware have been ordered. I will start laying rocks down for the border, but I'm going to wait until after they mow on Monday.
Along with my Riparian zone, another goal I have is to completely rid the lot of these awful sticker burr weeds:
As I told Striker, when I go out in the morning to give my unshelled peanut offering to the crows, I'll also bring my trash bag and digging knife and start digging these monsters up. They keep the poor doggos from being able to run in the field during the late spring, so fuck 'em. The nice thing is that the areas where Creeping Cinderella has completely taken over, there are no sticker burrs. So I have full confidence in the Creeping Cinderella to get rid of them in time, but I want to speed that along as much as possible.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
There was one unexpected side effect! It used to take almost exactly one full battery to mow my front and back yard. This time after mowing both I still had almost 50% left on the battery and was able to do the edges with the string trimmer, and tidy up with the leaf blower all on one battery.
This morning I got an inspection from Terminix who found rodent tracks in our attic insulation, and that some of the insulation has been removed or compressed to make a nest. Some parts of the attic barely had any insulation left.
He quoted us ~$1500 for mitigation such as closing off access areas, plugging some holes and setting / removing traps.
He also quoted us ~$2600 for cleaning and re-insulating the attic for about 1600 sq ft house.
I haven't had any other quotes yet but I've spoken to family who said that the quotes are crazy high both for the mitigation and for the insulation. Has anyone dealt with either of these problems lately, and what did you wind up paying or doing yourself? I'm in the DFW area in Texas.
Shit's not cheap
Whatever you do end up doing please do not use poison. It screws up the local ecosystem with secondary poisonings and is pretty inhumane.
We paid slightly less than that for similar type work . What you want is to seal up against future mice and to funnel the remaining ones into basically a kill box.
Our guys put mesh under the siding, filled in spots with caulk and cement, and overall tried to block new ones from entering. They then set up traps where they'd try to exit which was where I work in the basement. So got a mouse triggering a trap above me while I ate lunch.
We had mice in the garage and I killed about a dozen with twenty dollars of mouse traps from Amazon and a spoonful of peanut butter.
After the killing slowed down we put shavings of Irish Spring soap around the base boards of the garage and never saw one again.
This was years ago.
So I think that's crazy expensive in the sense irs treatment for mice, but in the sense of paying someone to spend eight hours crawling around your house and installing all that stuff it's right.
Kinda screwed up on step one there, pal
The best I had was my childhood bedroom had a walk-in closet with built-in chest of drawers. When I was older I knocked out the bottoms and back of the drawers so I could climb inside.
you have to
you must
Anyone here ever try cancelling and reactivating under your spouses name?
Hell just threatening to cancel they might offer you a new deal - esp if there is a promo going for new customers and you make a stink about that.
I've definitely contemplated it what with all the fascists rising to power. As a cis het wasp (seriously, I can trace part of my family tree to the Mayflower), my house would be an ideal sanctuary assuming I can hide from any street-level surveillance. Problem is I don't know enough yet about infra red shielding to do it yet.
The thing I always do is threaten to cancel because the cost is to high, which ends up getting you a better price because they'd rather you don't cancel.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
With a lot of companies you don't even have to threaten to cancel anymore. It's a whole game and they're all aware of it. I just call up and say "what new promos can I get to lower my bill?" and they list off all the new customer promos they have at different tiers, and I pick one and they say "Okay sir, sounds good. Call us again in 12 months when this runs out and we'll do another one."
So one thing that happened one time I did the "I want to cancel" trick, is that instead of lowering my bill (since they said I was already on the cheapest plan), they'd double my speeds, because my old speed was too slow to be offered anymore. So it still could be worth it for you to do if you like speed!
Edit: The company phasing out lower speeds is also why you probably got a stealth speed boost. Telecoms do that now and then, as long as it doesn't require new equipment at your residence to perform.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
How it's going (Sunday):
The middle bits.
Just have to hope the weather forecasts for next 10 days stay accurate and no rain.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
Oh, the property tax assessment is here. Let's see the change.
*opens letter, sees house has been reappraised for over $100k from the previous value purely due to market appreciation*
Oh, fuck me sideways with a rusty pike. And then the speculators.
Uncle Sam is raising your rent.
No, Warren Buffet and other market speculators are raising my taxes.
Blame is like fertilizer - it only works if you place it where it belongs.
My attempt to pre-negotiate at the appraisal board customer service counter was a bust. The same weasely guy who was the opposition at my last hearing was the one who spoke to us. I opted to go ahead with the hearing on Thursday, and that asshole triggered my hyperfocus superpower and I've spent hours compiling STILL YET MORE DATA.
The worst thing was the "proof" he gave me as to what determined the appraisal value of the empty lot - the proof was the one thing of value I got out of today's meeting. I assume their computers use some dumb algorithm to compile comps, because the comps he had were nothing like the property they appraised. My empty lot is a floodzone that can never be built upon, which in capitalist terms means it's worthless. The lots they compared it to... all have fancy houses on them? And are obviously NOT floodzones? Like yeah, if your lot has a mansion on it then of course the lot is worth more, you shifty fuck! Even the potential to some day build a mansion on it makes it worth a lot! But a weed-filled lot that you just get to maintain and can never even erect a shed on? COME ON.
Edit: Like yeah I wonder what on earth makes the land market value of this property $55k? It's a mystery!
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
So I guess anyone else notice anything like this in their own residence? Any idea what this could be, and whether it's something I should be trying to fix?
I hate trying to investigate a smell, because my brain gives me like one go at it and then edits it out of my perception for a day.