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Zen_seeker said:
Wasn’t me, snow guns still in the garage beside the motorcycle.

It’s probably my fault though…always happens when I try to pop seeds for the winter grow. I even put the heat mat on last night just in case. 4* over night, still 7* now at 9am. 😞

Looks like similar weather for the next week.
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it didn't get that cold here last night but tonight it's supposed to. freeze warnings tonight. it's coming...
 
I've been smoking Black&Milds for years...

I should've been saving codes this whole time.
Got this thing coming for free-ninety-free.
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Smoking finally paid off 🤣
 
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So currently my house project is on pause for the next who knows how long.
NY went full blown retard and now i have to have a frost proof, engineered, yada yada bullshit, concrete slab. The fucken thing is gonna run me 35k!!!!!!!!
So back to square 1, i might just be buying a house already built. Yeah I know the bank has money.
But if I put the costs to develop the land in my mortgage, it goes up to 225k and I cant afford that.
I fucking hate the world we live in, I cant afford shit, cant find a job that will work with the hours im available, im stretched in 9 different directions and have no one to help me. I just need a babysitter, that I can fucking trust, and doesnt charge 300-500 a day
 
GoodShit97 said:
So currently my house project is on pause for the next who knows how long.
NY went full blown retard and now i have to have a frost proof, engineered, yada yada bullshit, concrete slab. The fucken thing is gonna run me 35k!!!!!!!!
So back to square 1, i might just be buying a house already built. Yeah I know the bank has money.
But if I put the costs to develop the land in my mortgage, it goes up to 225k and I cant afford that.
I fucking hate the world we live in, I cant afford shit, cant find a job that will work with the hours im available, im stretched in 9 different directions and have no one to help me. I just need a babysitter, that I can fucking trust, and doesnt charge 300-500 a day
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I recall you had access to your dad's tractor to dig up a water line or something a while back. Any chance that you can do some of the prep work to shave some cost off of the slab.

Years ago, I ran into a similar issue, but with a fancy septic system. We wanted to build on a 7 acre tract on top of a mountain. Beautiful location. When it was time to perk testing to approve installing the septic system, we had a brand new, fresh out of college, county inspector. I had a backhoe operator up there digging test holes all over the place, but she wouldn't approve any of them. She said it was sedimentary soil.

So, we set up another date for further testing and she brought in a team from Virginia Tech. It looked like an archaeological dig. Soils samples in test jars every few inches. Weeks later, they reported that the mountain top was river bottom eons ago.

We could have bought some land on the side of the mountain, but I really wanted the flat piece up top. So, we bailed on the whole thing. 30 years later, I still wonder about what we could have done differently.

After that, we went through major inflation on housing. It doesn't get any cheaper, but the initially high mortgage payments do feel smaller over time. I hope you find a way to keep your dream alive!
 
BlueCollarBob said:
I recall you had access to your dad's tractor to dig up a water line or something a while back. Any chance that you can do some of the prep work to shave some cost off of the slab.
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Thats with me doing all the prep... 18k in material and 12k in labor, I save 5k to do the ground work. Everything just sucks, I wanna go back to work but Im trapped.

I have to be here from 6-650am so I can get my kids ready and on the bus, and i have ti be here at 230 to get them off the bus. They cant stay alone cause they hate one another and do nothing but fight and shit.
My wife goes in anywhere from 430-830am so I have to be here to bring her in since she doesn't drive, shes out anywhere between 2pm and 530pm. She also has to close 2x a week so that means she goes in at 11 or 12 and out at 830 or 930 pm
So I can work from 10am-2pm or 11pm-5am and there are 0 shifts with those hours other than Uber and door dash. Which is pointless at 15.50/hr.
The cost of insurance goes up, wear and tear on my car, chance of accident goes up, everything goes up but my bank acct.
Im stressed the fuck out all the time, my wife is stressed out all the time because shes solely responsible for all our financials right now and its becoming a lot. Its causing us to fight almost daily and im just tired. I havent been able to contribute shit to this family for 6 years and im just tired of being a piece of shit who cant get a job to do anything for his family.
 
GoodShit97 said:
Thats with me doing all the prep... 18k in material and 12k in labor, I save 5k to do the ground work. Everything just sucks, I wanna go back to work but Im trapped.

I have to be here from 6-650am so I can get my kids ready and on the bus, and i have ti be here at 230 to get them off the bus. They cant stay alone cause they hate one another and do nothing but fight and shit.
My wife goes in anywhere from 430-830am so I have to be here to bring her in since she doesn't drive, shes out anywhere between 2pm and 530pm. She also has to close 2x a week so that means she goes in at 11 or 12 and out at 830 or 930 pm
So I can work from 10am-2pm or 11pm-5am and there are 0 shifts with those hours other than Uber and door dash. Which is pointless at 15.50/hr.
The cost of insurance goes up, wear and tear on my car, chance of accident goes up, everything goes up but my bank acct.
Im stressed the fuck out all the time, my wife is stressed out all the time because shes solely responsible for all our financials right now and its becoming a lot. Its causing us to fight almost daily and im just tired. I havent been able to contribute shit to this family for 6 years and im just tired of being a piece of shit who cant get a job to do anything for his family.
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I feel you, for sure. It's pure misery to be so close to a goal and then have something like this take the wind out of your sails. Plus, family relations can be stressful enough during times when finances aren't a concern. Throw money in the mix and everything is magnified. We're living in a weird time. The economy is tanking, unless you live in an area that's experiencing some macro-economic boom.

You've got too much smarts about you not to find a way to get what you're after. Just a matter of time and being ready to jump on the right opportunity when it comes along.
 
BlueCollarBob said:
I feel you, for sure. It's pure misery to be so close to a goal and then have something like this take the wind out of your sails. Plus, family relations can be stressful enough during times when finances aren't a concern. Throw money in the mix and everything is magnified. We're living in a weird time. The economy is tanking, unless you live in an area that's experiencing some macro-economic boom.

You've got too much smarts about you not to find a way to get what you're after. Just a matter of time and being ready to jump on the right opportunity when it comes along.
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The only way I see this working out is to back track.
I have to sell this place and move back home with my parents......
I need to save all that i can and trying to live here and build is not working.
 
GoodShit97 said:
Thats with me doing all the prep... 18k in material and 12k in labor, I save 5k to do the ground work. Everything just sucks, I wanna go back to work but Im trapped.

I have to be here from 6-650am so I can get my kids ready and on the bus, and i have ti be here at 230 to get them off the bus. They cant stay alone cause they hate one another and do nothing but fight and shit.
My wife goes in anywhere from 430-830am so I have to be here to bring her in since she doesn't drive, shes out anywhere between 2pm and 530pm. She also has to close 2x a week so that means she goes in at 11 or 12 and out at 830 or 930 pm
So I can work from 10am-2pm or 11pm-5am and there are 0 shifts with those hours other than Uber and door dash. Which is pointless at 15.50/hr.
The cost of insurance goes up, wear and tear on my car, chance of accident goes up, everything goes up but my bank acct.
Im stressed the fuck out all the time, my wife is stressed out all the time because shes solely responsible for all our financials right now and its becoming a lot. Its causing us to fight almost daily and im just tired. I havent been able to contribute shit to this family for 6 years and im just tired of being a piece of shit who cant get a job to do anything for his family.
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Listen, what you do for those kids is priceless. Before you know it, you will blink your eyes and they will be gone. Most children do not have the privilege of even having a parent at home and are victims to the system and whatever retardant ass educator has control of what they learn.
When we are young, we want all of this stuff, these things. We think it somehow defines who we are, our successes..
When we are old..we try to get rid of all that shit. In actuality it’s a fecking burden. If my husband goes first, I will ditch these “ trappings” because that is exactly what they are, build a tiny home, a tiny grow and be happy til the very end.
Today, in these fecked up times if we have a roof above our heads, clothes on our back and food, we are blessed.
Never forget that.
 
CannaGranny said:
Listen, what you do for those kids is priceless. Before you know it, you will blink your eyes and they will be gone. Most children do not have the privilege of even having a parent at home and are victims to the system and whatever retardant ass educator has control of what they learn.
When we are young, we want all of this stuff, these things. We think it somehow defines who we are, our successes..
When we are old..we try to get rid of all that shit. In actuality it’s a fecking burden. If my husband goes first, I will ditch these “ trappings” because that is exactly what they are, build a tiny home, a tiny grow and be happy til the very end.
Today, in these fecked up times if we have a roof above our heads, clothes on our back and food, we are blessed.
Never forget that.
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If I had the title for this place I live in now od just have it moved.
Its not necessarily the place we live in, its where we live thats an issue. My neighbors suck, one pollinated my entire outdoor crop, another had his truck blown up, then got his house robbed, im just over the trailer park.
Its time to go and be on our own little slice of something. I just want my kids to grow up and be able to do what they wanna do.
Right now the new landlord has made it impossible to have kids in here.
No balls, Frisbees, bikes, forts, swings, play sets, nothing.
No window unit ACs, no pellet/coal stoves or wood stoves, rent has gone up twice since April, the "maintenance" guy doesnt do any maintenance, our water is down every other day, we cant get in touch with the landlord ever, hes been in charge since April I have yet to meet him still.
He tried to make me pay to have his water line dug up and fixed so I had to do it myself.
Who wouldve know the landlord couldve gotten worse than the one i had before...
Shits gotten really bad.
 
I’m in the equivalent of trim jail but for data transferring.

Son let me use his new laptop to transfer 4TB on a damaged drive to a new 5TB drive. Then verify before nuking the original. IMG_6985.jpeg
Took most of yesterday and a few hours today.
 
Zen_seeker said:
I’m in the equivalent of trim jail but for data transferring.

Son let me use his new laptop to transfer 4TB on a damaged drive to a new 5TB drive. Then verify before nuking the original. View attachment 116469
Took most of yesterday and a few hours today.
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so how did it feel being back on a keyboard? ya miss it at all?
 
Stoneyluv said:
so how did it feel being back on a keyboard? ya miss it at all?
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Good and bad. I know what I wanted to do but it’s not my system so I couldn’t tweak things…much. 😝 I did turn off more of MS telemetry. It’s a major MS spying tool pretending to be a helpful tool.

The other two issues were transfer speeds and the absence of my tools.

Son is trying to get me to buy a new laptop or fix/build my PC’s. His was about $2200 out the door. Mine would be about $4000, but I don’t need to be able to compile anymore and I doubt I’d be playing games much so idk.

It gave me some interest and I’ve got a slight itch…so we’ll see. Locking down windows tight takes a while without breaking it and I don’t remember everything I used to do atm. I’d also have to get a current version of Linux for dual booting, probably Debian latest stable release. 🤔
 
I’ve been checking out this YT channel this year. Smart woman who so far isn’t steering people wrong or outright lying.

If you’re a windows user you might want to check her out. She covers other issues and platforms as well, like cell phones and other OS’s.
 
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