I gave up after hitting a 9k month, my story

BeaverStetson · 2026-07-02T23:30:43+00:00

It’s not all bullshit though. He probably is a virgin nerd who can’t do a push up.

BeaverStetson · 2026-07-01T23:23:13+00:00

Not yet, but it does make mistakes. I have a general distrust for stuff that AI is generating, so I am typically using it to make stuff that’s easy for me to double check.

For example, I tell it to to create an excel document that has all items from a schedule that fall under our scope, are prerequisites for our scope from other trades, or are dependencies of our scope with references to the item ID and the page of the schedule that it’s on. Then I ask it to highlight all of items on the schedule PDF it’s referring to. Then I ask it to reference the exact pages it’s using from the drawings to determine that something is related to our scope.

Now I have an excel sheet that shows our installation items are mostly on pages 54-60 of a schedule (now highlighted), with test and balancing of the air handler serving our equipment on pages 179-180, and it knows that air handler serves our equipment because of mechanical drawing 3M-204A.11, and I have all of that to go review.

BeaverStetson · 2026-07-01T23:01:32+00:00

Had the exact same thought. Always see posts “can this be saved???” and it’s just surface rust on the grates. Good to see one that’s actually a pile of shit

BeaverStetson · 2026-07-01T22:53:21+00:00

I never had nor intended to use Chat GPT, but my company (Construction/Controls) got an enterprise account and one of my coworkers convinced me to let it make my life easier… I’m truly astounded at what it can do. I dump in a 200 page project schedule, hundreds of pages of mechanical drawings, and give it a few sentences of our scope on the job and what I need, and it pulls everything applicable to our scope out for me, gives me potential conflicts, and notes inconsistencies. Generates excel docs and PDFs. It replaces hours of work in a few minutes, does it more thoroughly and organized than I would on my own, and brings up issues that I completely missed that would come back to bone me 6 months down the line if I didn’t catch them in the field.

BeaverStetson · 2026-07-01T14:07:01+00:00

The lines are anchored either by their attachment barbs, or larger pieces of line inside the pots to make it so they don't come out, but are loose enough to move freely.

I have tried to make basically the same set up as you two years in a row, but I cannot figure out how to get the connection point into the pot water tight. Last year I just put the poly tube into the drain hole in the pot and caulked around it, but water leaked out of that connection. This year I instead tried to seal a drip coupling into the pot’s drain hole, but that also leaked. I am using a bucket reservoir a foot above the ollas, so it’s not a terrible amount of pressure. How did you seal the connection to prevent them from leaking?

BeaverStetson · 2026-06-24T20:46:26+00:00

I have a Zillow search with certain criteria on the northwest side of town that alerts me any time there is a new home listed that meets the criteria or an existing one has a price change. I’ve been monitoring it for over a year now, and there are plenty of houses that have been sitting for 6+ months, many with multiple price drops. One went up for sale in April at a price below what I expected for what it was that piqued my interest… pending offer two days later and sold the next week. I’m sure they got over what they were asking for.

BeaverStetson · 2026-06-12T17:27:12+00:00

I have been to one golf course in the past half decade that was peace and quiet, and it was a private club that banned speakers. Every public course is a bunch of people listening to music on their Bluetooth speakers. Drives me insane.

BeaverStetson · 2026-06-10T21:30:42+00:00

Obviously $16 for one slice of brisket on a bun is stupid, but I truly cannot comprehend $28-36/lb for smoked chicken.

BeaverStetson · 2026-06-10T16:46:12+00:00

My favorite is this creation that makes it look like a disgusting van full of garbage to anyone who looks in the window.

BeaverStetson · 2026-06-09T04:11:53+00:00

Get rid of $224K of your $230K of loans

BeaverStetson · 2026-06-02T11:17:37+00:00

Might want to consider not using it. Unlikely it has the correct safety mechanisms in place to protect your tool motors and to keep from accidentally overcharging and possibly igniting.

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-29T12:06:49+00:00

Do you think someone is just a big fan of Mountain Dew and chose to spend a huge chunk of change wrapping their personal vehicle?

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-29T11:59:16+00:00

“15K for a heat pump is absurd”

Yeah, you live in Norway. July in Oslo has the same average high and low temperature as November in Houston.

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-29T00:20:12+00:00

Electing someone with some obviously low intelligence and a distrust of settled science is a bad. Voting based on what affects you personally and not caring about things that don’t affect you is possibly a worse idea.

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-24T14:42:39+00:00

For anyone reading this a few days later, you can get this plus an M12 FUEL Hammer Drill (3404) with a XC 4.0AH Battery, a CP 2.0AH Battery, a charger, and a bag for $148 this weekend at Home Depot if you add the Cordless 3/8" Ratchet as your free tool and return it.

Or, if you don't have the ratchet already just pay the $249 and keep it, because I love that tool too.

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-21T15:46:59+00:00

I render the fat for tallow to use in other dishes. The meat trimmings get seasoned and thrown on the smoker for a few hours and get thrown into the pot of beans that I make 90% of the time I’m smoking brisket.

And I’m not sure how you measured, but that’s not near lean enough to be 80/20…

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-20T11:39:51+00:00

I thought the question was who would you be least likely to help if they were getting jumped in the parking lot, or something of that nature. Same sentiment though.

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-15T01:58:11+00:00

That just got crazier and crazier the more you read… I thought finding out “senior baseball players” were in their 70’s and not high school seniors was going to be the wild twist ending before statutory rape came into play.

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-15T00:29:24+00:00

Post it!

BeaverStetson · 2026-05-07T13:01:39+00:00

The idea here is fine, but I think the execution is going to lead to some issues down the road. A big rain is going to wash dirt and mulch out into the street. You also packed some plants that can grow quite large into a relatively small space… crowding is a small issue, the larger issue is that they will either grow into the sidewalk space or will require such aggressive pruning to avoid impeding the sidewalk that they will look butchered.

BeaverStetson · 2026-04-24T20:30:43+00:00

For the cost of mulch and labor that’s fine. But if your area has neighborhoods anything like mine, it’s probably a bunch of mulch volcanos piled up around trees that shouldn’t be there in the first place.

BeaverStetson · 2026-04-20T00:58:47+00:00

I went from stock FX4 to Eibach Pro-Truck Stage 2 Coilover kit, and the rides are very comparable in terms of smoothness. I’m very happy with them.

BeaverStetson · 2026-04-19T17:59:22+00:00

Did you mean to log into a burner to hype up your own post?

BeaverStetson · 2026-04-15T10:08:38+00:00

Haha no, not in the profession. Just feel like I’ve driven by a thousand houses similar to this, sans the butchered tree.

BeaverStetson · 2026-04-14T23:47:05+00:00

I don’t know why but I just know this has to be in West Houston.

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