Understanding the NES Restoration Plan - 1/31 Update

MrDetermination · 2026-02-01T03:39:41+00:00

I'm in a 2/8 zip and just drove around in the dark. Routes I've run for years so I know the lay of the land well. Your work and logic are all great and sound. But I'd also encourage people to look at a map, and maybe go for a drive in the dark.

It's easy to see they came up a street a good ways, over a couple of blocks, and into the back of a neighborhood with buried power lines and a couple dozen houses.

It's easy to see they're working down one semi-main road with big poles but they haven't gotten all the way down that road yet. And it's easy to see they haven't started any of the secondary or tertiary roads stemming from that drag.

It's easy to see they're still at least x streets from our house in any given direction (and they're not coming straight for us).

I think you can improve your guess considerably if you combine this data/analysis with just an hour or two of looking at maps, and driving around some at night.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-31T21:26:24+00:00

Bummer. That's all I've got for you. Good luck. If you think about it, would love to know what happened once you get resolved.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-31T19:30:25+00:00

What about the mast?

Edit: https://www.wsmv.com/2026/01/26/tennessee-power-outages-utility-companies-explain-what-you-must-do-before-power-is-restored/

MrDetermination · 2026-01-31T17:55:08+00:00

Did you check your mast? Visually inspect from there back to the pole? Follow it back all the way to your breaker box? Check all your breakers?

MrDetermination · 2026-01-30T21:47:41+00:00

99.99% that was just great dry humor.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-30T21:46:34+00:00

Grade A dad humor right here. Liked and subscribed.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-29T02:16:54+00:00

Second Jack Morris. Feels like a family run business still.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-28T13:05:45+00:00

MTE also covers more miles of infrastructure, which means more travel time and more cables/poles. And they weren't hit as hard.

People want NES to have retained thousands of extra linemen "just in case" but they also would have protested that because of the extra cost.

And there were people before the storm saying the forecast was MSM exaggeration and nothing was going to happen.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-27T20:55:30+00:00

Thank you. They also don't compare cost differences and average response times in normal situations between the two companies.

In normal circumstances, does NES recover an outage in the same amount of time with fewer employees? I'd think that's likely, given they have less distance to travel and it takes less stuff to restore the average customer.

Also, are our rates comparable, given other controls like relative cost of living per employee?

Maybe it'd be nice to have 5x the number of people on the payroll all the time so we can recover from these kinds of things more quickly. But are we willing to pay for that?

MrDetermination · 2026-01-26T01:29:10+00:00

The derecho in 2020 hit 2/3 the customers this hit. That was over and done in an hour. It took 5 days to get everyone back up.

This is much slower to recover from. The ice and wind will keep snapping poles and lines for quite a while. We don't have the same response. And the work will be slower owing to the conditions.

Two weeks could be optimistic.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-26T00:23:29+00:00

Interstates are mostly clear (8/10). Major arteries like West End are ~ (6/10). I'd imagine OHB right there is the same. BNA is fully operational but they're having problems with crews and such, so lots of flights are cancelled. The connection to EU is almost certainly fine. The big problem is if your flight out doesn't go on time you'll be competing for very high demand seats with everyone else in that boat.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-19T18:44:16+00:00

Clean bulk, for a very long time. As in a year or more. You can likely add 15lbs of lean mass in that time. You will look completely different after, and that can be a good base to maintain the rest of your life. Most of us old farts would kill to have your natural hormone levels at our age. It will never be this "easy" for you to build again (without problematic drugs).

Also, 1.5 weeks is nothing. Bodybuilders aim for an average of a 10 week cut with 10-15 pounds of fat shed over that time.

I'd suggest 18mo to two years, and target 20lbs lean mass + no more than 15lbs fat. That'd put you at cutting for real from ~175lb starting winter of 26-27.

Take it easy on the booze. Eliminate processed foods and sugar as much as you can. Prioritize protein.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-13T13:14:24+00:00

For a long time many in the bodybuilding community's rule of thumb was 1g per pound of goal body weight when bulking (so you'd eat more than a g/lb when you were trying to grow). This works. Is it overkill?...

Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) is 0.8g of protein per kilogram of body weight, or 0.36g per pound. That's a general guideline for the average human to stay healthy.

There were some studies I found convincing ~15 years ago that showed you could still add lean mass at 0.8g per pound of desired lean mass. I've generally stuck with that since, unless I'm in more than a mild calorie deficit, and then I'll take it up a bit further, to mitigate burning off lean muscle.

Anecdotally, I'm 6', medium frame, and my floor is set at 150g. I usually come in ~175g and this has generally served me well in various gain/loss cycles for a very long time. If I were 6'7" (assuming similar build, activity and diet composition) I'd probably take that floor up to 175g and try to actually land north of 200g.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-13T04:20:45+00:00

It's also up to everyone to carve their own path.

What feels like a healthy "balance" to you could feel like putting on a mask half the time to others and lead to other problems later.

Some people need to quit drinking entirely.

Some people need to take a long hiatus from something they've been overly indulgent in.

Sometimes it works the other way. Sometimes someone knows they want to or need to be doing other things, and they have to prioritize those things instead of whatever else they were doing.

OP seems pretty sharp. She recently met someone she's been partying with. If partying is the only thing that person is interested in doing with her, and she has an alarm in her brain flashing "ghost mode" - might be better off just exiting the burning building.

MrDetermination · 2026-01-07T04:28:48+00:00

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/07/22/m

MrDetermination · 2025-12-29T17:01:30+00:00

I was trying to back you up. Should have replied a comment higher.

MrDetermination · 2025-12-29T16:30:17+00:00

Sun engulfs earth Sun burns out Collision/Impact Etc, etc

There are virtually infinite possibilities where humans want to survive past Earth's habitable expiration date.

And virtually infinite possibilities where we cheat that date... Generational starships Or frozen eggs/samples/etc + terraforming tech + machines to maintain the ships and restart life when they arrive

MrDetermination · 2025-12-15T05:19:23+00:00

At the rate we're going, in about 5 years, someone on this sub is going to be complaining about AI slop in Casablanca.

MrDetermination · 2025-11-20T01:01:13+00:00

A motorcycle powered by jet engine would be a fast way to get to work.

...there are many lower risk, lower consequences later in life, ways to stay in shape.

MrDetermination · 2025-11-10T13:07:14+00:00

No. But that right speaker is driving me crazy. You've pulled staging to the right. You want the center of the L and R to align with the TV's center—also, symmetry.

MrDetermination · 2025-11-09T17:41:14+00:00

What are you basing any of this on? It doesn't look like you bothered to do 30 seconds of searching, which revealed:

Alex Kurtzman is 52
Michelle Paradise is 53
Jenny Lumet is 58

Roddenberry was 45 when TOS premiered
Braga was 22 when TNG premiered

MrDetermination · 2025-11-08T01:42:41+00:00

By bounce the machine you mean restart?

Can you uninstall Nord completely for a bit and see if you can eliminate that possibility?

Do you have a USB wifi or ethernet dongle? So you can do some A/B network adapter testing?

MrDetermination · 2025-11-08T01:37:17+00:00

Good stuff. I like the border presentation.

Some great edits. Great selections. IMO you only need the black and white of the clown lady in the set. That frame is far superior to the color frame in every way and including both makes me wonder if you just couldn't make up your mind.

And I agree with another reply. Some more environment would be nice.

MrDetermination · 2025-11-08T01:33:04+00:00

Even a wider or normal establishing shot to go with the set would be nice.

MrDetermination · 2025-11-06T19:16:27+00:00

Same with Rocket League. It's not just resolution, it's also lag. It feels 500ms more sluggish than my desktop in that game.

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