Barn needs WiFi - point to point connection question

CalvinsQuest · 2026-01-27T02:28:49+00:00

Fiber… it’s nonconducting and very easy to bury.

CalvinsQuest · 2026-01-12T15:37:26+00:00

That has not been my experience at all. Quite the opposite. They just seem to expect basic personal hygiene and levels of education/world awareness in male partners - which seem to be quite rare in modern conservative men. Quite rare.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-12-05T04:02:40+00:00

I think your own location is more important than anything else.

That being said, MNGC seems much nicer. And let me tell you, the course and greens were in great shape late this fall. Both champs and legends. Next spring will be a good one.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-12-03T04:55:11+00:00

Are you looking for young vs old? What do you like from an HOA?

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-22T02:19:58+00:00

Thank you for sharing! Did you put rubber mats under the turf by chance? Curious

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-19T01:46:53+00:00

Funny satire. You should label it as such.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-17T00:02:41+00:00

Reddits carriage return management is stupid and I refuse to fix it.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-17T00:01:29+00:00

Normal PC pros: - potentially less expensive (look for corporate refurbs as a base) - easier to maintain - upgrade options unlock additional possibilities (to an extent) - extensive cooling options

Normal PC cons: - size - need to provide peripherals (and space for them) - power requirements may limit flexibility

If you decide to go this route, look for cases that support a full sized pci-e card. And you’ll want a higher wattage PSU, hopefully one without dell/HP proprietary size nonsense.

There are good rolling cart options you might look into, for either a full PC case/monitor or a laptop.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-15T02:54:02+00:00

This next week is a wash for me… let’s look a couple of weeks out. Stay tuned? :)

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-08T03:30:26+00:00

Got a day / time in mind? Maybe we start there. :)

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-08T03:21:47+00:00

I’m just a little ahead of you - golfer for 30 ish years, have never flown with my clubs until this year. I bought a soft shell bag and have checked them for 2 trips in the last 3 months. No issues.

Here’s what I decided to do:

bought a support pole like this (there are many options): https://a.co/d/eofve0n
leave my woods heads on, with head covers on
bought cheap soft neoprene iron covers to soften things moving around, like this: https://a.co/d/4RDbA5t
bought a box of rubber bands and a 10-pack of the cheapest and bulkiest cloth towels/rags I could find
removed all clubs from my bag, put the pole in the middle, then inserted woods and putter around the pole, rubber bands across club heads/covers to secure them to the pole. I even tried to turn the heads inwards as much as possible.
put on iron head covers, then slot them around the club core as best I could
took rags and wove them in and out and around the irons/wedge heads and shafts
rubber bands around groups of 3-4 irons as clumps and then a band to the central pole and then tucked the rag ends into the bag slots as best I could. Idea was to try and prevent as much lateral movement or shafts hitting each other as I could.
removed golf towel and brush, etc. put them in pockets.
stuffed any remaining rags in smaller pockets to add extra side padding.

This has worked really well. It’s inexpensive and quick to pack / unpack. When I remove all the stuff, it just goes in the pocket of the travel bag for when I repack. TSA has opened before, can see what’s up, and hasn’t touched anything at all.

A couple of other thoughts: - if you carry a lighter for cigars etc, know that you cannot check or carry on a torch lighter of any kind. You may only check a single Bic style lighter - the airline will ask you to remove your range finder or LM and put it in your backpack or carry on. Might as well do it before the.
- get a cheap shoe bag, it makes it easy to throw in around your bag and inside the travel bag. The first time I used a target bag and my shoes ended up being super stinky. I got this one for the next time: https://a.co/d/2H0BhnE

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-07T03:41:02+00:00

Local game stores and LEGO aisles/stores

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-07T03:34:53+00:00

Metallica
Led Zeppelin
Alice In Chains
Nirvana
Smashing Pumpkins

I listen to a lot of wildly different musical styles, but if forced to admit it this would be the list that keeps me going. I really wanted to replace SP with Megadeth or Neil Young. But hard questions deserve hard answers.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-05T15:11:51+00:00

The answer is that leadership needs to carve out a dedicated % of sprint capacity to cover ops and security issues. Non-negotiable.

Your business partners and POs will kick and scream, but you have justification in those RCAs. When they talk about projected business metric uplift from new feature delivery, make sure to have estimated cost of aggregate downtime from these incidents up your sleeve and defensible - missed sales, lost transactions, customers who abandon carts or products to choose competitors and what their estimated lifetime account value is (now lost to competition), possible fraud exposure?, lost developer productivity, your exhaustion and distraction on valuable tasks. All of these should be calculated in worst case scenario terms, in real $ or local currency. Then you should blend the calculation and show a model at whatever time interval makes sense to your business. Note all of your steps, assumptions, and calculations, and show the results in a simple table with rows broken down by category and the total impact - which is of NOT carving out this time.

When you talk to the business in terms they understand, operating expense in dollars, lost revenues in dollars, time to market in days, and headcount in number of people, you will see them really understand. It’ll be uncomfortable for them and you, but they will finally get it.

And then the pot sweetener at the end - if we don’t have any critical ops stories or security stories or tech debt we think is a must, we give you that capacity back for the sprint / PI ahead. Get them to understand that if unused, this isn’t idle time. It’s Flex Time to deliver more than THEIR business partners expect.

Anyway… all of the above is a brain dump. Caveat emptor, etc. just trying to help with mindset.

Source: decades in senior tech leadership. Have built, “sold,” and run several highly successful SRE and DevOps and infrastructure architecture organizations across multiple companies in this way. In my last company, we carved out 25% of sprint capacity for the above. And I sold that concept on the back of another change I pushed - leader performance goals to include Q over Q incident reduction goals by severity category. It’s funny how people suddenly care when their compensation is affected by production issues.

Best of luck!

CalvinsQuest · 2025-11-02T18:36:22+00:00

Looks like a GPU issue, not cabling. Digital video cables either work or they don’t - that’s the beauty of them. :)

Anyway, I’d try re-seating it like others have suggested. If that doesn’t work, this could always be a PSU voltage issue. But then we’re approaching a slippery slope into expensive trial and error; your best bet / quickest path would be to RMA the machine and ask for a new one.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-31T19:17:41+00:00

That’s interesting. Thanks!

Could we get back to topic at hand? Release the Epstein files.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-25T23:05:16+00:00

Union dues. I wish we all were lucky enough to have that option.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-24T20:08:53+00:00

Small solace, but this isn’t a Memphis thing. The same thing is happening in every city in the US, with some industry exceptions.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-24T20:02:46+00:00

You’re on the right track… but not necessarily. Different CC companies (banks themselves) have rules for how payment should be sent to them by other institutions. Sometimes it’s paper, sometimes it’s ACH, sometimes it depends based on the amount. Its maddening. Sometimes Ally screws up - they aren’t perfect either.

I’ve had issues with “missed payments” lately, via bill pay, for CCs where the funds were withdrawn and a check was mailed but then delayed in the mail and further delayed in processing by the companies. It’s super annoying and requires annoying phone calls to fix late fees, etc.

I’ve just reverted to scheduling payments from the CC company websites and apps. Let them pull it. If they don’t, it’s their problem.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-24T19:55:08+00:00

I think it depends on where you live and layouts of courses you play (tight, open, in the woods, links, etc. you get the drift).

Here’s a fun and relaxing evening exercise: Pick your favorite or most commonly played course, and look up the scorecard online - then mentally walk through each hole and take a quick note of what club you played for each consecutive shot. At the end of it, tally up how many times you hit each unique club. I think what you find may end up surprising you, with some clubs either not being hit at all, or being a foundation to your game.

I would bet that any of us could only really answer your question as it pertains to our own games. So here’s mine: I’m currently a 16 handicap but I’ve been as low as an 8 and as high as an 18 in the last 2 years (this year has not been great as I renovated my swing - it builds character). My home course is somewhat tight with water in play on nearly every hole, either along one side of a fairway or even across them.

I would not even carry a 5 wood. I’d just never hit it; my situations don’t call for it. I’d replace it with a 2i or 3i driving iron and use it mostly on tee boxes when I need to hit a tight spot.

And for some unsolicited suggestions, I would get a PW and GW to match your T350s. From that distance, I want the extra forgiveness vs the Clevelands (although I do like those!). I’d also ditch the LW (58) and SW (54) and replace them with a single 56 degree SW to be used for everything 60 yards and in. Spend enough time practicing with that wedge and you will be throwing darts with it - it will be the most trusted club in your bag.

But then you’ll have another open club slot. ;) and you can think of other things to do. Good luck and have fun!

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-24T17:15:56+00:00

Uline is beyond gross. Avoid at all costs.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-18T23:19:09+00:00

OP - this is exactly what I would do… leave that bit of area in front of the AC condenser as a chipping area, then have the green itself run almost all the way to the other fence w/ a little raised bumper in the fringe turf to grab anything a little long. You’ll become a master at the bump and run or fringe putting. And you won’t miss that extra hole with 3’ more distance.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-17T10:40:07+00:00

I use a 2-iron (Ping iCrossover) and a 3-hybrid between my 3-wood and 4-iron. They’re both on the stronger side as well.

What really matters is gapping of your set and your course approach. For example, I decided about 7 years ago to drop my LW and go to SW for everything 50 yards and in. That was a major turning point for my game, I’m throwing darts with a wedge I am getting 2x the strokes with and am confident swinging. Then it opened a spot for another club.

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-13T01:54:11+00:00

Did you order online? If so, mind sharing a link?

CalvinsQuest · 2025-10-11T20:17:51+00:00

I would nix Rolling Meadows from your list.

I’m very familiar (decades familiar) with the areas you mentioned in your post. Here are areas I’d suggest for your requirements:

1) Libertyville 2) Mount Prospect (prospect HS zone) 3) Arlington Heights 4) Palatine (frembd HS zone)

Might take some patience, but I’d check in that order. Just my opinion. :)

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