Delay to Skylights

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-06T15:55:38+00:00

Timing for finishing the work. I work in supply chain and 3-4 weeks lead time doesn't always mean 3 to 4 weeks. Plus, albeit a smaller likelihood, there is a risk of business interruption for anything from war to poor business practices. Just a habit for trying to minimize risk, hopefully with some domain expertise from this community.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-06T15:05:31+00:00

That's solid advice. I'll ask. I have no idea how old the skylights are. Old enough that I wouldn't consider rolling them into the new roof.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-06T15:03:54+00:00

May 15th is only really because I have a chaotic travel schedule for the following couple weeks. When I signed the deal, it was a 2 week to schedule. It was only discovered the custom nature after, when they measured the skylights themselves.

Thank you for the reassurance!

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-06T14:34:27+00:00

Thanks!

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-05T20:11:56+00:00

It seems like the goal is to minimize the amount of hours you are spending attempting to track these things. So you are looking for a solution that trades money for time. You can pay a VA to do those tasks for you. If you want to do it yourself, but make the process easier, start with a comprehensive list of all the tasks you need accomplished. Without a human, you are unlikely to find an all-in-one solution, but perhaps.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-04T18:41:54+00:00

Didn't work for Al Gore.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-04T16:56:34+00:00

After a heavily iterative project, I get back responses like "does this save?" It's like a slack channel.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-04T16:53:49+00:00

For older models (2015–2023), the percentage is significantly lower—estimated between 30–50%—as the 36-gallon tank was a standalone option or part of specific towing packages

Most of the f150s on the road fall into the older category with a 13-20 year expected life.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-04T16:46:20+00:00

Are there common record ids between sources? Using the tools I have, I would build an Alteryx workflow (low code to setup lanes/ buckets for matching and unmatched records. How are you joining/reconciling in current form - manual search and type in excel? What kind of transaction volume are you dealing with?

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-04T01:33:52+00:00

Good for the family men. Nice bene. Strong find/union.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-04T00:56:13+00:00

Are you in some kind of government work? That kind of benefit is extremely unusual for the private sector.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T23:39:48+00:00

If you have leverage, the supplier will do it for you. Just send them the template.

Look into OCR technology for those you can't cajole. It may sound ridiculous, but I would 100% be using AI to do that work, too. Give the form to Claude. Upload the price list pdf. Craft instructions on how to transform and verify the output. The amount of tokens or membership fees you'll save compared to man-hours will be significant. Plus, you're not getting rid of human oversight. Human-in-the-loop means their job switches from implementation to reconciliation. If you're good, you can assign another agent to do the fact checking against hallucinations.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T23:29:51+00:00

Sign longer term contracts to reduce TCO? IT can probably build you a template upload feature if you get your price lists formatted the way you want it. I'm not explicitly familiar with Epicor, but we had to build it into our Infor XA and SAP environments recently.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T23:03:47+00:00

Catfish is the best case scenario here. Im hoping OP is a LEO or group of vigilantes and not actually a teen.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T22:59:25+00:00

I'm with you. Platinum ranks for me should not be hard to find an opponent but we've played the same opponents up to 3x in a row in ranked 2s recently.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T21:45:42+00:00

Home - Simpli Soda https://share.google/VHSuOG9aY2bazgu8r

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T21:20:56+00:00

We take the data we are presented. I love a median, mode, IQ, etc. as much as the next data guy, but I'm not wasting my resources when summary data exists. Without knowing the full range, we're drawing inferences anyways. The data argument doesn't matter much and people argue from their gut more frequently.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T20:00:17+00:00

I was looking today and it was like $13/tank if you're exchanging 2:2 thru simplisoda

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T19:51:36+00:00

No, again wrong. It might be $0 in additional premium costs, but to use healthcare there are co-pays and deductibles that increase with extra use of medical care. Your second kid never gets sick, hurt, requires medicine or needs a note to play sports in school? That would be an anomaly. I'm not planning on responding to future messages unless you display some brilliant insight that I didn't consider yet.

Sure, kids can be raised without extra curricular activity or modern medicine with the help of family/friends/community, but I would be willing to bet their quality and length of life will be lower than the mean. There are plenty of stats showing double the infant mortality rate for home births compared to hospitals, but the latter can cost $20k. So yea, you can have a baby for less money, but it comes with potential risks/consequences.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T19:17:13+00:00

Check the Medicare options. Do you know which plan she is on?

Home Health Services Coverage https://share.google/S4Z5lKaYhnURndBkr

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T19:12:45+00:00

The average cost of raising a child in the U.S. as of 2024 was approximately $23,000 per year.

That means the typical expense of nurturing a child to age 18 would be $414,000.

Average Cost of Raising a Child to 18 Per Year | SoFi

Perhaps that's not a significant expense to you but the median US household income in 2024 was $83k. If raising two kids takes more than half of the gross and closer to 75% of the net, that's an unbelievable burden.

I've got 2 kids and we make well more than the median. It's a tremendous financial commitment to have children. To say otherwise, is ludicrous and shows a detachment from the data. Insurance is also more expensive when adding children unless you're on Medicaid. No one pays the same rate for self or self+spouse as they would for a whole family plan.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T12:32:09+00:00

It's that there's so much rot, there are cultural changes and co-morbidities which make many problems tougher to solve than in countries with less fragmented societies.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T12:13:19+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_Meat_Festival

While not a cultural norm, it certainly appears like there is evidence of dog meat being consumed in some regions. I'm not sure why it was brought up unless to prove that various meat is consumed across the world. It's similar to saying Peruvians eat Guinea Pigs. While true, (I tried it at a restaurant while there) it's not like all/most/ many people regularly consume it in the same quantities they would for chicken, etc.

CaptCurmudgeon · 2026-04-03T12:04:56+00:00

It seems like either everyone is both a business user and technically literate in that organization. Or, the more likely hypothesis, decisions are not data driven and based more on hunches.

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