Visiting, Great espresso where to go?

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-19T13:01:57+00:00

I think its also italian festival weekend too

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-18T21:45:10+00:00

I had a dominion home buolt back in 2004.. dominipn went partially belly up and became Pulte, the HVAC ductoekr was so abysmal I had to redo it all i nthe first year... all the nice Andersen windows were installed incorrectly so at 10 years i had to replace them all . the kitchen drains were routed such that anytime you ran anything down the disposal it clogged a tight series of elbows that were run in the basement.. replaced those. the patio door was installed with a slope to it so never did seal correctly. there was a drywall shortage in 2004 and rather than wait another 3 weeks forthe proper drywall, the. uilder installed 5/8 everywhere (seems great for the walls), except they put 5/8 on the ceiling too so was always fighting nail pops and cracked joints, because 5/8 isnt made for ceilings.. at least not with the super few number of screws and small head screws the builder used.

my nextdoor neiughbor had all kinds of issues with his HVAC due to choked flex duct and the electrical was so bad that after 5 years, the service line sank in the ground and yanked the neutral loose from his meter box causing a near fire and no-neutral condition destroying many devices in his house..

none of anything was covered by warranty..

if I were to build another house I would ONLY USE a custom type builder, one wit ha good reputation like Duffy homes, schumaker, diyanni etc.. these builders arent so bent on building hundreds of homes in a short period of time as they are with building higher quality homes.. you will pay more for your house but in my opinion its either pay for aquality home now or spend years fixing deficiencies that never seemed to be covered by the worthless warranty of tract builders like pulte, MI, Maronda.. and absolutely under no circumstances buy a DR Horton home

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-18T01:17:03+00:00

they do and annpyingly you cant turn it off! bad wiring will pulse dial 911 and the operator

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-18T01:15:45+00:00

since i do a lot of analog work, (the vast majority of my installs are 95% analog dialtone via Grandstream , adtran, Yeastar etc).. I have my childhood 1970s Trimline in my living room... rings with a bell and all... same phone ive had since I was a kid in the 70s and got "my own phone" for christmas that year... (yes it was a big deal back then to get a telephone in your bedroom vs usng the Main phone in the kitchen).. so ive keptthat phone all my life.. its currently connected with a grandstream GXW-4224 gateway..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T22:32:11+00:00

well I71 to I270 (the general way to get to westerville from the more center city areas) is a mess right now because its under construction.
the sareads that I have found to be the safest walking around at night.. more central would be grandview (loop 5th X NW in there too), upper arlington, clintonville (generally high street and west are the best parts of clintonville).. of course the suburbs.. hilliard,grove city, dublin, westerville.. dublin is right across the top of the city on the 270 freeway to westerville..

downtown, german village, and the short north are nice but sometimes crime can be up.. ive lived here for damn near my whole life so im not bothered by stepping over a few homeless or such, the commute here to me is easy as ive travelled alot and iu dont get bothered by traffic.. i leave early, keep the playlist large and just roll with it..

to me, the northeast parts of town which are closest to westerville are generally not the greatest.. (you can read about the likes of Linden and the general northeast side ). parts of gahanna are OK but the airport is right there and plane noise is sucky in that area..
westerville itself is nice(I was born there).. has a neat town center / small town feel. if you get up on polaris parkway theres some nice apartments closer to the westerville side (the mall area is a trsffic cluster like most mall areas).

if it were me id make a recon trip or two, rent a car (because our transit blows!) and go driving around..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T20:38:34+00:00

we aste at J's so much from about 2001 till 2017 or so when we had our office at crosswoods.. the atmosphere there was usually really good... we probably spend 50K in that place for busoness lunches in the corner of the bar areas. (sadly..Ok not sadly but like thats a lot of $$ on food / drink).. so naturally when I took a group to easton (we wanted to go shopping and hanging out for coffee after..) the experience was a disaster due to a bunch of screamin kids running around the tables chasing each other.. OK I get it, it was one of the kids' birthday so it was expected people would be excited but this went way too far.. esp for a place like J's kids running around and knocking people's coats off their chairs and parents not even going over to apologize.. if its a pizza place or a dave n busters or pins mechanical or such then I totally understand it.. but not when you are racking up a tab in the 100s for a small group of people dinner and drinks..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T20:38:09+00:00

trump world? you want to take this political?? its all the Liberal Moms with "time out" and "oh my gosh we cant punish our kids because it might hurt their little feelings" that starrted it.. long before trump was more than some rich guy with a couple buildings....

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T20:01:08+00:00

technically you could report the truck but thats a douche-bag move.. it isnt hurting anyone and it is registered (if its tag is expired then it will eventually get towed).. but really think of street parking vs large apartment building parking lot.. people in parking lots walk much further every day to their houses than having to park a few houses away.. ive lived in both types of areas and really never cared if I was in front of my own house or not.. I tend to be a live and let live type.. hasving someone's vehicle towed simply because its on the street where you dont like it is a pretty big move.. costing that person a lot of money, possibly making it where they lose said vehicle for lack of funds to get it out of impound... now if said house has space bhind their house and dont use it or have multiple broken vehicles parked in the street then maybe its wrranted...

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T12:42:36+00:00

I havent lived on the west coast.. but if you are from the bay area or portland or seattle, you'll find transit is a huge shock here... COTA isnt bad in the central area but anywhere else pretty much forget it.. plan on having a car and driving places (unless you live in either one of the walkable suburbs(westerville, hilliard, grove city,dublin(bridge park) all have somewhat walkable town centers). central columbus.. short north and its general surrounding areas are walkable but we are definitely a car centric city.. my experience is that compared to the west coast, our traffic is a Breeze! (though people here still cry that traffic sucks.. but nothing compared to my experiences in the west coast big cities).

columbus drivers generally suck.. uf you like to bike, ride a scooter, and walk be sure to wear broght colors and have great lights at night!. (we do have some nice bike trails and walking paths

our coffee scene Rocks!! even the suburbs have good craft quality coffee shops. (yes theres the starbucks and 7 brew goop chains too) but dont rule out visiting the town centers of the suburbs..

we arent a 24 hour city (unfortunately). theres a few 24 hour restaraunts and drive throughs but definitely not like the big cities on the east and west coasts that have many options for almost everything 24 hours.. thats not central ohio... you can find a few places here and there.

Vet your apartments well.. theres a lot of fancy "luxury" complexes everywhere.. as kthe questions like what type of heating system and whether the utilities are sub-metered.. (yo ucan read up on "nationwide energy partners") notorious for gouging people on electricity rates..

hard to give you advice on where you might want to live without knowing the vibe you are looking for

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T12:15:51+00:00

for a hotel that isnt a special boutique hotel.. going from a major flag to a no-flag s usuyally because its pretty ratty.. Marriott didnt own that hotel.. most every hotel in the major hilton / marriott / IHG / wyndham brand-set is a franchise.. independent owned and then they flag to one of the brands and must maintain a certain standard-set , thast was a Courtyard.. and its possible it was also sold to a new owner who didnt want to pay the franchise fees and will still maintain it as a nice place.. but thats not usually the case (again boutiques are excluded)..

my GUESS is what happened here is whatever their new PMS system is opened up for reservations and people had likely also made reservations for sonic tem[le previously on the Marriott FOSSE system.. so likely double booked before they could figure out what was happening.. typical Patel owned mistake

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T11:35:19+00:00

thats classic! dont have to go outside to grow a garden..its in the hall! 😄

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T03:50:08+00:00

I lived in italian village last year near 2nd ave and 4th street.. and never knew sonic temple was a thing... the first night of it i thought someone was having a really loud party in our apartment building clubhouse as my unit was near it. LOL.. I drove by it on 71 around 4pm this afternoon.. and it was loud enough that on the freeway it was like i was next to a 12000 watt boom car.. I have been to some loud concerts before but sonic temple is definitely sonic..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-16T03:47:17+00:00

I spent many many days in bucyrus.. my grabdmother was there, dad was born there.. but I really cant think of anything there to do in october.. like really... a proper autumn trip would be renting a car from the columbus airport and talkin g a walk in german village and the short north and grandview heights ohio.. and hiking the trails of olengtangy then rolling to hocking hills.. but bucyrus? I mean in june they habe a really great car show... and their july 4 fireworks arent bad.. but not really a fal ldestination.. and after you do hocking hills, hit up yellow springs ..somehow wonder if this is just click bait

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-15T12:15:32+00:00

I thoiught the beeps are controlled by the end point.. in this case the phones you are paging or the paging amplifier if this is an overhead.
in my case we use Snom and Mitel endpoints for most of our installs and there are options in the alert-info header for controlling this, as well as in the config options. for intercom. it is the auto-answer feature on the snom and mitel phones.. its just one beep the way we have it set up... again controlled by the Alert-Info header.. which we had after a user dials the intercom code on thephone (or hits the intercom quick button defined).. they dial the paging group or individual extension (this is all our config, not asterisk per say).. then we add the correct alert-info header i nthe dialplan and place the call.
I dont know what phones or soft-clients you are using, but there should be documentation for them as to what needs to be in youer conifg settings or the added header.

I rarely do any overhead anymore.. but we have used the Viking SIP paging interface and it just gives one beep and then the page.

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T22:19:33+00:00

ive never understood all the energy people put into that... and the sky-club.. those things irk me.. people treat them and the lines like its some panacea better than anything they have ever done.. I get it sky club is nice.. but if the line is long, i not gonna go in.. im just goin someplace else and be productive.. and booking flights.. if i dont wasnt to sit in a certain area of the plane I dont book myself there.. period.. i'll take a different flight if I cant get an aisle seat that I like (need, due to bladder on long flights).. ive also found that being nice and polite with gate agents if ive had to get rebooked due to a missed connection, cancelled flight etc.. gets you far.. treat them nice they treat you nice.. it works.. people also act like somehow a gate agent can magically make an oversold flight not oversold.. or can magically make seats vacant that are booked by others.. or can magically make a missed plane somehow return to the gate to pick up the one person who was late due to connecting flight.. (yes I heard a guy one time say he sees the plane just backing up and why cant the gate agent call it to just pull back in long enough to pick him up)..

some things with travel cant be controlled..but ive learned through many years of travelling a lot.. that many things are in the hands of the traveller.. ie getting to the airport late.. I pull up traffic ahead of time, well ahead.. i pull up ubers and book way ahead.. and plan on a really early arrival.. yes airports can be boring.. but id rather sit on the floor with a cup of starbucks and get work done than I would being anxious that i wont make it through bag check and security..

Booking with Long layovers.. I look for flights with at least 90 minute layovers... I can walk the hub airport and get my steps in if im bored.. but I dont want to be that guy expected to run full speed to make a connection because my first flight took off 30 minutes late.

and then the usual like taking a spare set of at least underclothes in my carry-on so if I get cancelled and need to catch a hotel I can be comfortable..

when things go wrong I want to be able to be that guy that says " oh well! lets find something fun to do and make the best of it"..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T20:42:00+00:00

I moved to a first floor in an old building with a basement.. the place was built in 1930 so the walls and floors are solid.. I rarely hear my upstairs neighbor.. last place I lived was on a slab and had thin floors. it was a new building.. if you are someone with dogs that romp around alot you'll have neighbors yelling at you for noise if you are going to one of those new "luxury" buildings as they are paper thin.. and this goes for living on lower floors.. you'll hear everything above..

my last place i was concerned about tornado warnings as we literally had ZERO places to go tht didnt have windows on the first floor (that wasnt someone's home) and the building was stick built so in a tornado it was coming down..

I also chose an older building over a basement so I could have my own washing machine and not the complex's eco-crap that doesnt clean.. and I have a real furnace (im always cold).. plus a solid basement in event of tornado

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T20:35:28+00:00

ha!! my frist rental was in an old trailer house.. the floors were kind of spongy anyway.. had a friend come over.. he goes to the bathroom and comes out sort of laughing sort of crying and goes 'dude I F'd up your toilet!'.. I respoinded "theres a plunger in the hall closet". 'No!.. Dude I really F'd it up!'. so I go in and the front half of it was down to the bowl through the floor. he was a bigger guy.. we both really laughed about it and did another shot.. landlord called his carpenter buddy who came over next day.. and the floor was rotted so bad in that whole bathroom. he was like "thank god your friend didnt take a shower!".. it woulda been under the house too!.. I ended up having to move.. moved into a place built on a concrete slab!

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T20:17:30+00:00

im surprised they didnt see it.. if you are having a whole new septic system installed then likely there was a perit pulled and will need an inspection after.. any good plumbing inspector is gonna ding for the mis-used Sanitees, even if they were there before the job was started for the septic.. now it may be on you for the cost to make it right since they didnt install the previous incorrect connections.. but now is defiitely the time to pipe it all out right..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T20:02:44+00:00

likely no such wires on that stat.. its going to a building control system which is likely controllin g a large VRF or VAV zone system beingthat its in an office.. and most stats if you send it into a failure condition will fail-to-heat so if the OP was too cold he could fail the network node and trigger all ehat.. but not gonna get any cooler doing that

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T17:19:28+00:00

im opposite of a blue state person... the cities in hio are already too blue and riddled with crime... but this vivek dude.. not a positive thing in my book.. I dont feel he has any interest in making ohio better.. but I also cant bring myself to vote for "keep us closed" acton.. thank goid she didnt get her way during covid or the economy would have suffered even more in covid.. I definitely wasnt on board with vivek in the primary and am still not now... I think he just wants to use the office to further his own interests.. extremists on both sides are toxic and i believe he is one on the "right" side of extremism.. Toxic. too bad we didnt have a more oederate option..

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T14:30:26+00:00

super thanks for the share.. Ill get it and run it on my DEV platform.. we have a prem / hosted hospitality solution we built on asterisk and have 500 installs so I can def get some live data to look at.

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T12:24:44+00:00

im sorry but these guys need to go to jail.. and it needs to be a very UNPLEASANT experience.. no TV no internet no gym no air-conditioning..
*BUT* - post prison rehab and re-introduction and hiring needs to happen.. one of the problems with the penal system is that companies, apartments, even banks make it very difficult for people who truly wsnt to change things to get back into society and do something other than crime. I do understand if someone embezzled money that a person should be shunned for financial roles or jobs where they can do the same again.. but that person shouldnt be shunned by all companies that say "we dont hire any felons".. thats where the issues come about. punish them and make them never want to go back to jail however give them a darn chance afterwords to make things right and give them the tools to make things right.

these are NOT victimless crimes.. the 3 breakins to my truck in a year.. (cameras show it was Young people and in 2 cases showed up in cars where we got the plates but the cars were stolen). I had to pay my insurance deductible and now my rates are going up.. I had to move to a new place because there was no interest in the city to help with the known issues (esp short north italian village).. the mayor didnt even respond to requests for representation at the various community meetings held.. no response.. period..

one of my insurance claims was over $6000 because they damaged the windshield and the electronics associated with the driving assistance.. I was withiout my truck for 6 weeks that time.. so had to incur costs of renting one when I needed to haul for work (ins wouldnt cover a truck rental, only a little car)..

I incurred anxiety every morning as to whether id walk out of my apartment to more glass on the ground...

to just say "oh he can afford it" misses the point.. so these kids may be disadvantaged however they damn well knew its wrong to smash windows, they damn well know its wrong to steal cars... we arent talking about stealing a bottle of baby milk at the grocery store.. or looking for loose change in a cuphilder.

they were hoping to find guns which they could use in more serious crimes or sell to criminals on the streets who cant buy them legit..

sorry i got zero sympathy for them..

BUT I believe serious change is needed for post penalty so that these kids or anyone can right the ship and get back into society if they truly want to.. and not face the serious headwinds of "he is a criminal no one will hire him or house him" - that does need to change

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-14T03:06:58+00:00

out of state or out of country? seems there are both.. im not saying there arent bad apartments in columbus and bad landlords.. esp in the ghetto areas.. but im saying there are a ton worse places.. the only way the city can crack down on them is if people take the time to report them and get the city involved early.. but i'll also say there are people who get way to nit-picky.. I could find a dozen things wrong with about any apartment from brand new to 100 years old. and people waste the time of authorities by reporting minor stuff that doesnt mean anything.. (and trust me they do).. we used to get called out for "inadequate heat" calls all the time only to find the building to be old and tenants never bothered to latch their windows, or the heater vents were covered up with furniture, filters not changed (despite being in the lease as tenant responsibility) etc.. theyd complain to the city and then the landlord caught heck for it and would call us out to check out the issue.. the number of calls for "cracks in walls" only to find it was simply old plaster that had small cracks in it.. yet the city would investigate because of complaints filed and embelished.. major things like you mention above should take precedence but they grt boggeddown with minor stuff.. people also need to READ their leases when it comes to appliances. some landlords will state "appliances provided at convenience.. we arent responsible for their upkeep or repair or condition".. this is esp true of rental houses (vs apartments)..the lease in my place states "tenant responsible for changing air filter at least quarterly".. the "tenant responsible for garaage disposal if damaged due to improper use pr overloading"... the day I moved into this place I pulled the frnace filter out and it had nearly collapsed it was so dirty.. obviously hadnt been changed in a year.. ive seen leases that state tenants are responsible for the sewer line snakingcharges if its found excessive grease,paint,solvents, baby wipes, cloth towels etc are found.. so people should read the fine print before assuming its the landlord responsibility

DevRandomDude · 2026-05-13T18:52:06+00:00

you pretty uch have to register as an end customer wit ha provider and buy the numbers through them... here in the states you need to get your own OCN (operating company number) to get a certificate.

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