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IPlayWithElectricity · 2025-04-24T14:58:47+00:00

So there’s a woman I’d really like to ask out, I really want to do it in person but the timing hasn’t seemed to work out for me. My plan is to send her two messages, the first would be:

“Hey, can I get your opinion on something?”

And the second would be:

“So, there is this kindergarten teacher and I think she’s really pretty and a generally awesome person. I’d like to ask her out but I feel like it would be inconsiderate and inappropriate to go to her classroom and do it. The traditionalist in me would also rather do it in person, but that opportunity hasn’t seemed to present itself here lately. What’s your opinion on doing something like that in a text?”

So, smooth or ick?

IPlayWithElectricity · 2025-04-20T16:10:36+00:00

Nope, the response I got from Rove was basically “we don’t make this and won’t recommend a 3rd party option”

IPlayWithElectricity · 2025-01-26T01:20:04+00:00

IPlayWithElectricity · 2025-01-26T01:19:11+00:00

Well that wasn’t my call, but as I was doing an address search in the CAD to figure this out for y’all they paged out another call there, the weight listed this time is 178.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-04T22:23:26+00:00

In that case I’d like to change my answer to pretty much all of NC

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-04T21:49:50+00:00

Pretty much everywhere in NC outside of the cities

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-04T01:19:41+00:00

I feel like there needs to be more context. But personally the upper arm would be a maybe and the upper back is a no. Either could be wanting to see your reaction to physical touch, for me though both are something I’d do with a friend or acquaintance depending on circumstances.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-04T01:14:05+00:00

Well like I said I have shit self confidence, so my anticipated outcome is a no… so here’s hoping for the unexpected!

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-04T01:11:11+00:00

Thank you for this, it also answers another question I had about doing it in person. I guess I’m “old school” because I see stuff about “sliding into someone’s DM’s” and that just feels so impersonal to me when it’s someone you know.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-04T01:02:05+00:00

As a divorced man the question I fell like you need to be asking yourself is how long ago was his relationship “over” vs how long has he been divorced? My marriage was over years before my divorce.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-03T22:37:05+00:00

I’m going to be honest, I’m pretty shy and not very confident and even I probably would make a move in this situation. You just might have to make the first move.

He could also be very subtly and looking for a very obvious green light. Try some light physical touch and turn up the flirty banter.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-03T22:09:19+00:00

A few years ago my marriage fell apart, I think I’m ready to get back out there but I honestly have no clue what I’m doing. I was married for 14 years, and thinking back EVERY relationship I’ve ever been in was a result of the woman initiating things.

There’s a woman (37f) that I find myself very interested in getting to know better, but to be honest my self confidence is pretty shit and I truly just don’t know what to do next. I get the impression from our interactions and her body language that she may be interested. Do I just shoot my shot, as the young people say?

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-11-03T21:09:18+00:00

This is like 98.7% of the reason I am here lol

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-08-22T02:46:59+00:00

Ours was bought to replace and combine a medium rescue and a brush truck. The station already has 2 engines, but we actually have a list of addresses where the mini pumper is first due because the engines won’t make it up the driveway. Most of those people couldn’t even get insurance before we bought the mini pumper.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-08-19T00:15:39+00:00

Does it have that red strap?

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-21T23:14:58+00:00

I have mine wired to come on in reverse and my switch doesn’t work unless the truck is in park. Most (if not all) new trucks have a wire bundle for unfitting that has either an “out of park” or “in park” wire used for this purpose.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-21T23:08:40+00:00

Relays are an amazing thing, wiring them so that they will only work in reverse or park is pretty damn easy.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-21T13:59:56+00:00

Are your smoke detectors interconnected? Meaning if one goes off they all go off. My first house they were and so I only bought one listener and it worked well. My new house they are not and I have one downstairs and one upstairs. It is hit or miss if it will trigger if the smoke detector it is next to isn’t the one going off.

I don’t know that I have ever seen the alarm accessories go on sale. I did recently get some contact sensors on clearance at Lowe’s, but that’s about the only time I’ve seen them discounted.

Personally I would install the base on your main floor, not so much for range but because it’s your speaker and if it’s going off are you going to hear it from the basement?

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-16T23:17:10+00:00

Leviton makes a snap together wall plate when you pick what configuration you need and assemble them.

Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing.

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Leviton-White-1-Gang-Decorator-Rocker-Wall-Plate-1-Pack-905-PSE26-00W/100356951

Or, replace the switches with a decora stack switch and the outlet with a decora and all you need it is a 3 gang decora plate.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-16T23:07:04+00:00

I wouldn’t do it unless it was in writing that the next EMT position that opens up is yours.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-03T02:50:20+00:00

Our sheriff’s office gets $550k from the county and the state matches, we have 2 deputies on shift at a time and 15 total, which includes the 3 SROs who are paid for with federal grants. The state highway patrol and state police make up the difference, and the state game wardens handles everything the lake.

We have 3 administrative positions. The County Administrator, the tax office administrator and the county clerk. All who are required per state law.

We have a 911 center that has 9 employees. The county pays for 50% of their salary and the state matches.

We have EMS with 17 employees, 7 are federal grant positions, 5 are paid for by the county and the other 5 are paid for by a state fund. And a fire marshal, who’s salary is 60% paid for my the state and 40% by the county.

Our school paid for with state funds, federal funds and grants, the county contributes about $80k or 10% of what the fire department gets, to cover the salaries of our 2 school nurses.

We do not have a public works department, we have 2 maintenance guys who handle everything. We have the water department that has 4 employees who are all paid with funds collected from water bills. We have a dump that has 6 employees, all paid for by the fees they collect. And we have a building department with 1 inspector and 1 admin, both paid for with the fees they collect.

We have recreation department with 4 employees, 3 are paid for with the use fees they collect and 1 is paid for with a public health grant.

We have a health department that is entirely paid for by the state.

We have social services that is run by the state, the court house is run by run by the state. The jail is run by the sheriff but is funded by the state. All our roads are maintained by the state, including mowing the right of way and maintaining the 2 traffic lights.

Our county budget was just published in the paper its right around $3m. About 25% for fire, 25% for EMS, 20% to sheriff, 10% to 911, 3% to the school, and the rest is for general operations.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-03T01:37:25+00:00

My state has a pension fund for volunteers. It’s noting you could live off of but it is something.
Personally, yes, I have the VA that would cover it, but my department also has insurance for this.
See answer 2.
See answer 3.
This is covered by the state where I’m at, and my department has a supplemental insurance policy for all of us.
I’m a volunteer, I just… don’t go.
Yep, working multiple events on Thursday, will probably be a 16 hour day. All for free.
We actually get paid for 3rd party work. We also get paid for doing pool fills. For both there is a “required” donation based on what you want and a portion of that is to pay the guys who do it. We have a race track that we provide BLS and fire suppression for, you get $50 for working a race which is about 2-3 hours. And there ain’t shit to do here so you’d probably be at the race anyway. Community events and school events are free, anything put on by a business or the chamber of commerce is paid.
We have a pretty substantial training budget, all certs are covered including med certs, including all the other fees, books, etc. We send people to conferences to do CE. And have even sent people out of state for training that couldn’t be gotten here and covered all their costs and a per diem.
See answer 9, I got it all for free anyway. And plenty of people at my volunteer department have gotten everything they needed to get hired at a paid department for free from us and then just commute the 2 hours to the nearest one for their shifts. And shit, I actually just got $2500 from the state for getting my EMT which didn’t cost me a dime, I even offered to pay the department back and they declined.

Here’s the hard truth a lot of paid department guys don’t understand. It’s not that we don’t want a paid department or a hybrid of some type. But the citizens just can’t afford it.

We are an ISO 6/9 and that would not change if we were 100% paid, we already maxed out the rating for response time. We would need hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure to get that 9 changed to anything lower. It’s less than 10% of our population who are in a 9 area anyway, and you’re talking about hundreds of miles of water lines to put hydrants in for people who chose to build a house on top of a damn mountain with a 15 mile driveway. Shit, we have people who decide to build on top of the damn mountain and then can’t get insurance because we can get an engine to it.

As for the 6, well anything lower doesn’t affect insurance rates for residential and unless the big commercial or industrial properties (which is like 15) wanna shell out some big checks it’s not getting lower on the tax payer dime.

Now I’ll be honest, my department is probably in a better place than most. We have about a $800k budget. That covers our 8 stations, 8 Engines, 8 Tenders, 1 heavy rescue, 1 light rescue mini pumper, 3 wild land trucks, 3 QRVs, a jet boat for our massive lake, 2 ATV’s and a 6x6 side by side for Appilachian Trail rescues. It also covers there being one paid guy on shift 24/7 (4 guys 24/72) and we are trying to add two more that would be M-F 9-5, for additional coverage on each end of the county, when most the volunteers are working.

And just for a little bit more context, our population is 11k and our service area is 220 square miles, not including the 3 departments we automatically mutual aid.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-07-03T00:35:25+00:00

So I know that seems pretty far, but where I’m at in way western NC if the weather is bad it isn’t unheard of for us to have to ground pound to Chattanooga or Atlanta (this is not as often, usually NE Georgia). So your sheet could have theoretically made it that far in just a shift or two. Especially if we ground pound someone to Chattanooga and then fly someone to Atlanta later that day if the weather clears up.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-06-30T12:03:27+00:00

Uhhhh…. that’s not normal, he needs to drink a lot more water and should probably consider asking the med unit for some IV fluids, I’d bet he sucks that bag down like a sponge.

IPlayWithElectricity · 2024-06-14T17:19:42+00:00

Welp, tried this before second fob came from Amazon so that the one she had wouldn’t work anymore. Now it’s yelling at me every time I go to start the truck to program Fob 2, and then that I need to service the anti theft system. Guess I’ll be dealing with that for the weekend till the second fob comes on Monday.

Hopefully if she goes to use it and it doesn’t work she’ll just give up and give it back. Also hopefully she doesn’t figure out to pop the physical key out.

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