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frankj1 Online
#351 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 4:38 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Just saw this, thanks RAM.

any word?
danmdevries Offline
#352 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:03 PM EST
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Rain rain and more rain. My empty lot has waves. The back yard has a creek running through it.

MACS Offline
#353 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 6:26 PM EST
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It's 80 degrees outside.
danmdevries Offline
#354 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 7:10 PM EST
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I sure could go for some 80 degrees outside right now.
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#355 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 7:11 PM EST
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Wind headed east at 50 mph all day. Over 60 in the northern part of the state. Batten down!
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#356 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 10:16 PM EST
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Culvert got clogged under the driveway. Dug at the mud n leaves on the downstream side until it shat out a 6-8ft long log of mud and explosively drained the lake on the west end of the driveway.

Get to do it about once a year and it's so satisfying when it breaks free. Then the huge volume of water clears the debris from the bottom of the ditch and culvert and it takes until the next year to fill back up with chit.
frankj1 Online
#357 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 11:03 PM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Culvert got clogged under the driveway. Dug at the mud n leaves on the downstream side until it shat out a 6-8ft long log of mud and explosively drained the lake on the west end of the driveway.

Get to do it about once a year and it's so satisfying when it breaks free. Then the huge volume of water clears the debris from the bottom of the ditch and culvert and it takes until the next year to fill back up with chit.

get the frank outta that place already.
delta1 Offline
#358 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 11:45 PM EST
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^ yup, but methinks danm has a little Sisyphus genetic trait in him...
delta1 Offline
#359 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 11:48 PM EST
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yesterday we had 83F...today 70 with strong freezing winds...forecast for some cold (high of 50's to lows in 30's) and rain for the next 6 or 7 days...


word to Californians who were suffering from drought: careful what you wish for...
Sunoverbeach Offline
#360 Posted: Wed, Feb 22 2023, 11:57 PM EST
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Think you'll need a couple more days to make up the deficit. Didn't check totals but we were supposed to get a couple inches today. May just water-ski to work tomorrow
delta1 Offline
#361 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 12:03 AM EST
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water managers in the state are saying a couple more years like this...
MACS Offline
#362 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 7:09 AM EST
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Mornin' dudes... coffeed up, dog needs walkin, grass needs cuttin'... and so does my hippie hairdo. It's touching my ears!
Ram27 Offline
#363 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 7:30 AM EST
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Mornin MAC, corey(where ever you are) and 500 posters.


ram27bat
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#364 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 7:43 AM EST
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Morning peoples. Meeting all day long today. Nothing I love more than a meeting that takes up the entire flipping day
DrafterX Offline
#365 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 8:28 AM EST
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I sure hope they are providing donuts.. Mellow
DrafterX Offline
#366 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 8:35 AM EST
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Cool Dudes...
HockeyDad Offline
#367 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 8:42 AM EST
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Sunoverbeach wrote:
Morning peoples. Meeting all day long today. Nothing I love more than a meeting that takes up the entire flipping day


I’ve only got four hour long meetings today. I might get some actual work done scheduling more meetings.
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#368 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 9:43 AM EST
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Good Thursday Morning to All! It's ° on the way to ° today. Enjoying some coffee, going to work on the garage chaos and make a Costco run today.
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#369 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 10:12 AM EST
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danmdevries wrote:
Culvert got clogged under the driveway. Dug at the mud n leaves on the downstream side until it shat out a 6-8ft long log of mud and explosively drained the lake on the west end of the driveway.

Get to do it about once a year and it's so satisfying when it breaks free. Then the huge volume of water clears the debris from the bottom of the ditch and culvert and it takes until the next year to fill back up with chit.



Thread a rope through it ahead of time and pull an old tire through it the next time it needs to be unplugged

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOjXjp8vMfk

Tree sexy NINE!
MACS Offline
#370 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 10:32 AM EST
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I sure could use a donut about now... Mellow

Everything is done except the haircut. It is winter, right? Got it all done before 10am and now it's 81 frickin' degrees.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#371 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 10:54 AM EST
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Speaking of, every month there are donuts at this meeting. Today I skip breakfast because donuts. I'm sitting through O&M budget talks, looking at an empty donut table, and wondering if my grumbly tummy is as loud to everyone else in the room as it is to me
8trackdisco Offline
#372 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 11:37 AM EST
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10 inches of snow down and moved. Awaiting the last forecasted two inches to land by the early afternoon.

Have to settle in a bit. Been way too busy for a mostly retired guy this week.
Ram27 Offline
#373 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 12:27 PM EST
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You're lucky 🍀 Eight you have the room for the snow 🌨. Think
8trackdisco Offline
#374 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 12:41 PM EST
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Ram27 wrote:
You're lucky 🍀 Eight you have the room for the snow 🌨. Think


Absolutely.
MACS Offline
#375 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 1:32 PM EST
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Afternoon, gents. Went to a local barber shop instead of the base barber... base barber is $13 + tip. This barber shop charged me $30 for a fade. OhMyGod

But it was entertaining as all get out. All the barbers were hilarious. Just messing with each other the whole time. I think one dude's blood pressure shot up. I couldn't stop laughing. Almost worth paying more than double for the cut.
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#376 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 1:56 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Afternoon, gents. Went to a local barber shop instead of the base barber... base barber is $13 + tip. This barber shop charged me $30 for a fade. OhMyGod

But it was entertaining as all get out. All the barbers were hilarious. Just messing with each other the whole time. I think one dude's blood pressure shot up. I couldn't stop laughing. Almost worth paying more than double for the cut.


You should of went next door to get a mini/peti we know how you retired Navy Guy's like to keep your nails groomed!! Herfing Herfing
8trackdisco Offline
#377 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:00 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Afternoon, gents. Went to a local barber shop instead of the base barber... base barber is $13 + tip. This barber shop charged me $30 for a fade. OhMyGod

But it was entertaining as all get out. All the barbers were hilarious. Just messing with each other the whole time. I think one dude's blood pressure shot up. I couldn't stop laughing. Almost worth paying more than double for the cut.


Was it a Brothers kind of barber shop?
MACS Offline
#378 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:18 PM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Was it a Brothers kind of barber shop?


If you mean were all the barbers black... yes.
MACS Offline
#379 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:21 PM EST
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RiverRatRuss wrote:
You should of went next door to get a mini/peti we know how you retired Navy Guy's like to keep your nails groomed!! Herfing Herfing


I trim my own fingernails and toenails. It's called grooming. IIRC you were Chair Force, right? They don't have grooming standards?
Stogie1020 Offline
#380 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:37 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
any word?

Valve replacement went well, thanks for asking.

Now, if only there was a surgical proceedure to inject a little gratitude in the guy.
RiverRatRuss Offline
#381 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:42 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Valve replacement went well, thanks for asking.

Now, if only there was a surgical proceedure to inject a little gratitude in the guy.


LMAO Love It!!! Herfing
RiverRatRuss Offline
#382 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 2:44 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
I trim my own fingernails and toenails. It's called grooming. IIRC you were Chair Force, right? They don't have grooming standards?



Ooops hit the wrong poster before... LMAO Love It!!Herfing
Palama Offline
#383 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 3:15 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
Mornin' dudes... coffeed up, dog needs walkin, grass needs cuttin'... and so does my hippie hairdo. It's touching my ears!


Back in the Stone Age when I was in high school, whenever the school needed “volunteers” to help with manual labor, the Brothers would make the rounds to give out detentions. One of their favorite things to do was to take a pencil and touch / flip your hair to see if it touched your ears or shirt collar. If it touched, then you were awarded with a 1 hour detention for that Saturday AND you had to get your hair cut by the following day. Failure to do so would result in another hour. I kept my hair short to avoid spending time on a weekend to help beautify the school grounds.
Palama Offline
#384 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 3:19 PM EST
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MACS wrote:
I sure could use a donut about now... Mellow

Everything is done except the haircut. It is winter, right? Got it all done before 10am and now it's 81 frickin' degrees.


+1

Haven’t had a donut in months…but did have a malasada (…or was it 2?…) about 5 weeks ago - does that count? Think
Palama Offline
#385 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 3:21 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Valve replacement went well, thanks for asking.

Now, if only there was a surgical proceedure to inject a little gratitude in the guy.


Hey Jeff, I heard your valve replacement went well. Great news! Applause
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#386 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:14 PM EST
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No snow but friggin' cold/windy here. This is the desert damn it!

Just finished my taxes and between state and the feds I owe something like $45K due to some silly thing called Capitol Gains. Don't ever buy/sell a second home. d'oh!
danmdevries Offline
#387 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:18 PM EST
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Still raining.
Whistlebritches Offline
#388 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:21 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Valve replacement went well, thanks for asking.

Now, if only there was a surgical proceedure to inject a little gratitude in the guy.


Congrats brother..........were they able to do it laproscopically or did they split ya.Had a dude here needed valve replacement and it was done laproscopically.............I'd never heard of such a procedure.They split me from stem to stern but I had bypass surgery,I wish this on no one
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#389 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:24 PM EST
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delta1 wrote:
water managers in the state are saying a couple more years like this...



Them water guys don't know schit...........me included. We rely on meteorologist predictions and they are little more than weather guessers at best.
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#390 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:28 PM EST
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Palama and WB, thanks, it was actually my FIL having the proceedure. They went in through the armpit and chest laproscopically.

My heart is thumping away just fi-....
Whistlebritches Offline
#391 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 5:34 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Palama and WB, thanks, it was actually my FIL having the proceedure. They went in through the armpit and chest laproscopically.

My heart is thumping away just fi-....




Good deal recovery time should be very quick.Tell him good luck.
Palama Offline
#392 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 6:01 PM EST
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Whistlebritches wrote:
Good deal recovery time should be very quick.Tell him good luck.


+1
dkeage Offline
#393 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 6:28 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Palama and WB, thanks, it was actually my FIL having the proceedure. They went in through the armpit and chest laproscopically.

My heart is thumping away just fi-....


Stogie?.. Stogie!?!?
MACS Offline
#394 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 6:37 PM EST
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Whistlebritches wrote:
Them water guys don't know schit...........me included. We rely on meteorologist predictions and they are little more than weather guessers at best.


The ones in Socal just say "sunny and warm" and they're right like... 90% of the time. Whistle
rfenst Offline
#395 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 6:39 PM EST
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Stogie1020 wrote:
Palama and WB, thanks, it was actually my FIL having the proceedure. They went in through the armpit and chest laproscopically.

My heart is thumping away just fi-....


My mother had her valve replaced through her groin just like angioplasty is done. She came home the same day. Drove three days later. Unbelievable.
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#396 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 7:01 PM EST
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I could see that being procedure for a male. Quickest way to a man's heart is through his d*** after all
HockeyDad Offline
#397 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 7:17 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
No snow but friggin' cold/windy here. This is the desert damn it!

Just finished my taxes and between state and the feds I owe something like $45K due to some silly thing called Capitol Gains. Don't ever buy/sell a second home. d'oh!


You gotta pay your fair share!
rfenst Offline
#398 Posted: Thu, Feb 23 2023, 7:53 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:

Just finished my taxes and between state and the feds I owe something like $45K due to some silly thing called Capitol Gains. Don't ever buy/sell a second home. d'oh!

I don't know your personal financials or tax rate, but if we presume that you are paying capital gains of 20% ($45k) from the sale of the second home, then your taxable profit on the sale would appear to be something like $225k. If you are paying less than 20% CG, then your taxable profit was even greater. Got to pay to play...
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#399 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 4:34 AM EST
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Filed my taxes this evening. Mine are rather simple. Single W-2, no major financial transactions and stuff. Since it a simple process, I did them myself.

I try to break even at the end of the year. I don't want to owe them anything and I don't want to give them a free loan (large return) with my money over the tax year.

State: get a return of about $130
Fed: get a return of about $3k (which was rather surprising as I did some shuffling around with some $ out from my a standard IRA into fed it into my Roth IRA)

I'm a poor college student in 2022 working 3/4 time at Wally World while doing full time for school. My reportable income was on the low end of the tax brackets (which was the impetus of shuffling money out of a pretax IRA into a my post tax Roth IRA so the tax hit in doing so was minimized).

Might have been able to milk another $100 or so if I wanted to spend the time itemizing things but I just wanted to get them done and over with.

Tree NINE! NINE!
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#400 Posted: Fri, Feb 24 2023, 5:25 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
Afternoon, gents. Went to a local barber shop instead of the base barber... base barber is $13 + tip. This barber shop charged me $30 for a fade. OhMyGod

But it was entertaining as all get out. All the barbers were hilarious. Just messing with each other the whole time. I think one dude's blood pressure shot up. I couldn't stop laughing. Almost worth paying more than double for the cut.


I like old school barber shops. When I lived in Redondo Beach there was this really cool barber shop I used to go to that had the same vibe you described. On the walls were pictures of old boxers like Marciano, Walcott, Louis, all sorts of magazines including playboy, penthouse, hustler. The line of barber chairs faced away from the mirror wall so you faced the people waiting while getting your hair cut to be able to chat. They gave the best shave around with that scary straight razor. If you wanted to get your finger on the pulse of the neighborhood or looking for scuttlebutt just stop in for a cut and a shave. I used to love that place. Gritty but great!
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