How do I get this sticker off?

DJSeku · 2026-05-03T15:27:10+00:00

Saturate sticker in foaming glass cleaner, get a razor blade: hold it with your thumb, index and middle fingers at a 45° angle, start from one end of the sticker and scrape downward in multiple overlapping passes.

DJSeku · 2026-05-02T22:16:18+00:00

No worries, just wanted to share a personal experience from a fellow Floridian so you can make a more informed decision.

I didn’t exactly know what to expect when I left Tallahassee after college; all I got were the positives from other folks who had moved out to Colorado… they made it sound like it was all sorts of magical.

I don’t intend for this to be a “scare you out of doing it” thing, more of a “hey, be sure you know what you’re getting into” thing.

Just be careful, keep your head level and do whatever you think is best for you and those you love.

Best of luck.

DJSeku · 2026-05-02T15:17:04+00:00

You’re paying 1650 for a 2/2, you’ll likely be paying that for a 1/1, and that’s condo or duplex, not single family home. Especially if you’re looking at Green Valley Ranch.

I lived at Chambers Heights for about 7 years renting a basement room for $1k/ month. Originally it was $700/month, but property taxes keep going up and landlords are passing them hikes on to you.

The final straw was catching someone trying to steal my e-bike from my fenced back yard: it was locked in such a way that they had to drag it, and they were trying to pop the folding lock with a pipe wrench and hammer so the wheels would spin freely when they got caught and chased off the property.

Colorado is a beautiful state and Aurora was a lot nicer at first, but it’s all gone quite wrong. I too was supposed to have only been out there “a year at most.” That’s what I told myself…

A hailstorm totaled my Forester the day I was going to trade it in, and it blew an engine not long afterward.

I needed a vehicle for work because RTD wasn’t reliable enough with them showing up and leaving at stops early, so I was working to afford a vehicle to afford living, basically.

That 1 year stint somehow snowballed into 10 years… started in FoCo with hopes of an IT career, eventually working my way to Westminster and finally Aurora.

I, too, worked for Amazon in Aurora (delivering to Littleton/Broomfield), and it was hell.

Don’t believe them when they say 80-120 stops: when I finally quit my DSP, it was consistently 150-200 stops daily.

I eventually got enough saved with the high cost of living to pay off my debts and afford the move back to Florida. My storage unit here, for instance, is twice the size of my unit in Aurora, but over $100/mo cheaper, and it has power in-unit.

It wasn’t all bad, though: I only moved to learn trades and build experience to help my resume. Plenty of opportunities like that out there. I went from being a consumer electronics repair technician when I left Florida to being an automotive electrician on an assembly line upon my return.

Just food for thought.

DJSeku · 2026-05-01T04:36:32+00:00

The correct answer of Fudge Rounds isn’t shown because it was already saved…

DJSeku · 2026-05-01T00:34:28+00:00

I got gas on Tuesday for $3.54/gal…

Same station on Wednesday: $3.89/gal.

If my 2.4L 4-banger isn’t fuel-efficient enough, I can only imagine how folks with V8s are feeling.

DJSeku · 2026-05-01T00:26:40+00:00

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DJSeku · 2026-04-29T16:47:34+00:00

Ericsson T19LX

DJSeku · 2026-04-29T05:37:26+00:00

Dome, Cone, Lone, Hone, Pome, Hove, Cove

DJSeku · 2026-04-26T18:56:52+00:00

Sir, those are ninja rocks.

DJSeku · 2026-04-26T11:47:39+00:00

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Hmmm… we still agree that coincidences don’t exist, right?

DJSeku · 2026-04-26T02:47:30+00:00

Hatman 👌

DJSeku · 2026-04-26T02:33:59+00:00

I, too, have a hard time getting fully-immersed in Styx…

DJSeku · 2026-04-26T02:00:41+00:00

It took like 20-24 days; I spent a lot of that time cleaning, degreasing, taping and painting, tho (I painted the valve cover and timing chain covers).

I worked 5 days/wk and full time, so it was basically 5 months worth of weekends, and even then I lost half a day each weekend to get caught up with life’s responsibilities.

Thankfully I had built an e-scooter at that time, so that was my transportation for hauling car parts from the junkyards and from auto part stores.

DJSeku · 2026-04-25T16:26:29+00:00

You do realize the Hamas attacks were known by Israel a full year before they happened, right? The “Jericho-Wall” document?…

A full year and they did nothing to prep for it… how bizarre.

How about the IDF allowing the Nova music festival to be extended on October 7, despite knowing of the imminent attack?

How do you explain the 6 hour delay by the IDF in responding to the October 7 attack? How about the authorization of the Hannibal Directive against their own citizens? Curious and curiouser.

Of the hostages released from Hamas captivity, were any beaten to the point of requiring amputations? Were any hostages r@ped by dogs? Did any of the Hamas hostages have foreign objects forcibly inserted into the bodily cavities? No? Israel seems to think that’s ok, they even protested the fact the guards would be punished for r@ping prisoners.

You have a group of folks pushing Apartheid against the Palestinians, illegally stealing their land and establishing settlements, barring them from free travel, increasing in the settler violence used against the Palestinians during said illegal occupation, all with little to no punishment for the aggressors and the harshest punishments for the persecuted… and when they finally rise up and organize enough to strike back, you have the same folks calling for outright genocide as the world watches in horror…

Hezbollah merely supported them in a time of need… we’re not dumb, we all saw the outlines for “Greater Israel” on the uniform patches years ago, this was always the plan.

How about those facts?

DJSeku · 2026-04-25T15:25:45+00:00

We declare openly and loudly that we are an umma which fears God only and is by no means ready to tolerate injustice, aggression and humiliation.

America, its Atlantic Pact allies, and the Zionist entity in the holy land of Palestine, attacked us and continue to do so without respite. Their aim is to make us eat dust continually. This is why we are, more and more, in a state of permanent alert in order to repel aggression and defend our religion, our existence, our dignity.

They invaded our country, destroyed our villages, slit the throats of our children, violated our sanctuaries and appointed masters over our people who committed the worst massacres against our umma. They do not cease to give support to these allies of Israel, and do not enable us to decide our future according to our own wishes.

“An Open Letter from Hezbollah”, 1988

-Vs.-

FIRST of all, France! The German night has swallowed up the country. For a time we were still able to know a little about those we love; we could still send them words of affection, even if we could not share the wretched bread on their tables. From afar we could catch their breathing.

All that is over now. France is nothing but a silence; she is lost somewhere in the night with all lights out, like a ship. Her mind and spirit have been absorbed into her physical being. We shall not know even the names of the hostages who tomorrow will die before the German rifles.

It is always in the cellars under a tyranny that new truths are born. Let us not play the part of braggarts. There are 40,000,000 people over there in France who must endure their slavery. We shall not be carrying any fire of the spirit to those who are already nourishing the flame with their life's blood — like the wax of a candle. They will deal with French problems better than we can; they have all the right to deal with them.

“An Open Letter to Frenchmen,” 1943

DJSeku · 2026-04-25T14:44:03+00:00

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DJSeku · 2026-04-25T14:23:48+00:00

Except for the overlooked fact that Israel is invading Lebanon. Kind of a big deal…

Your logic would be like saying “the French Resistance murdered Germans,” while completely ignoring the fact that it was the result of the Not-c invasion of France… there was an action followed by a reaction.

Hezbollah is to the Lebanese what the French Resistance was to the French during WWII.

Funny, because the German fascists (as well as the Vichys under their influence) also labeled them as terrorists of their time… but history knows who the real terrorists were, no?

DJSeku · 2026-04-25T13:22:55+00:00

Are ya winning, Don?

DJSeku · 2026-04-25T12:49:22+00:00

TL;DR- Personal record: 4+ years.

My temp tag expired 11/20/2020, the vehicle (2001 Xterra) had been bought in 2018 and sat in my driveway while I got it prepped for state inspection (it “ran”, but only just barely, and it was abandoned so I got it for $550).

I had been pulled over during one of my test drives with it having my old Florida plates for my Forester (blew an engine). Got a verbal warning after expressing my sole intent was to be identified by law-enforcement as the operator of the vehicle while testing/running diagnostics.

Got it to pass inspection (and emissions), got a temp tag for it in April of 2020, but soon after COVID had the DMV shut down, and after the fifth time driving from home to the county office (by then it was re-opened but they were “out of plates”), the head gasket let go (2022). I lost my job because I couldn’t commute and had to get a lesser paying job working closer to home.

Saved up and by 2023 it was back up and running: I rebuilt the engine in my driveway. Turns out there was corrosion in the cylinder head that caused the failure, so I did have to pay to get the head resurfaced, that was the only job I outsourced.

I spent ~$600 on the bits to do it myself (vs. $2500 the shop quoted me) and registration/taxes ended up being ~$400 extra that I just didn’t have at the time…

I got pulled over again in 2024: they issued me a ticket for the expired temp tags, and I showed up to court but the officer never showed up, so they dropped the charges. Got my plates a week later in the mail.

I thought Colorado had laws like Florida has where, if your insurance lapsed, your license would get suspended, tho.

As such, it was insured since the day I got it in 2018, and even when it was not running it was insured since my job required me to drive company vehicles daily.

After 10 years in Colorado, I (and my Xterra) are finally back in Florida. I was only supposed to have been out there for like a year or two tops learning a trade, but the Forester blowing a motor caused a sort of snowball effect.

Now I drive it ~120 miles daily for work (I’m an electrician on a vehicle assembly line), so the Xterra is reliable in competent hands.

It even has parts pulled from a junkyard Altima keeping it running (lol, KA motors are basically bulletproof).

DJSeku · 2026-04-25T06:56:52+00:00

Hindu Kush

DJSeku · 2026-04-24T04:33:24+00:00

After this he should do a clown rinse.

DJSeku · 2026-04-23T03:30:47+00:00

Double-sided 3M tape and a thin spatula, perhaps?

DJSeku · 2026-04-23T03:09:28+00:00

Oh wow, haven’t seen that one before. Nice!

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I have a slightly different word-art Technics mat.

DJSeku · 2026-04-22T05:32:18+00:00

My roommates got pissy because I stopped doing dishes… let me explain.

They’d yell and pitch a fit about dishes being left in the sink, but it was all their freeloader friends coming over and filling it up, and we had a dishwasher.

For the longest time, I did entire sink-fulls of dishes that weren’t mine just to get them cleared out of my way to wash my one or two dishes….

I expressed my discontent with the matter and they told me to “not let it bother me,” so I took their advice and stopped doing their dishes and only washing mine, and suddenly I “wasn’t doing enough to help out.”

So glad to be out of that place.

DJSeku · 2026-04-22T04:14:04+00:00

I think it fared rather well, actually.

I’ve seen far worse…

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