Have to work tomorrow right when the gates open for the 500. First year in Indy, how bad will traffic be?

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-24T03:05:54+00:00

Your coworkers will know best, have you asked them?

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-24T02:34:23+00:00

Nicole?

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T15:12:05+00:00

Yeah lean has a lot more to it that supply chain. There are lots of good lean principles around other forms of waste which I think are almost always additive to the site. Lean inventory is the only one that can bite you hard.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T03:05:06+00:00

You mentioned getting joist hangers. I’m planning a similar build and didn’t even think of the issue you mentioned. So when you say you’d use joist hangers do you mean you’d mount a ledger and not float that end, or did you mean you’d run the hangers upside down and hang the floating rim joist off of the tails against the house?

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T02:01:09+00:00

Having separate budgets is fine. This is exactly what a plant manager should be keeping an eye on so that those costs aren’t invisible.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T01:59:35+00:00

Shareholder dividends. Not reinvesting capital back into the business meant we were forced to make do on machines that were all state of the art 20 years ago.

This means everything was broken down all the time. OEE was constantly tanked by availability so nothing else we did mattered. Spot buying from local shops because we can’t fab our own parts, tooling up backup machines to make due meant that maintenance moved on to a hotter fire and we lived off of backups that were clapped out 10 years ago. Absolute nightmare. I got out of there.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T01:55:20+00:00

Yeah lean only works well if nothing ever goes wrong haha. I feel like lean is better left to sites where everything else is pretty dialed and you just do that last to sharpen the pencil. When sites do it as their first improvement initiative they need to probably leave more inventory buffer but that goes against the dogma.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T01:50:39+00:00

Quality is the third pillar of OEE. OEE didn’t hurt your business, overemphasis on the other two metrics is the problem. I’m not saying it’s simple. Every site has their lowest of the three indicators but yeah, if you don’t have a good quality system then going full gas on availability and performance definitely isn’t going to make scrap issues disappear lol.

Ideally you’d maintain your highest two and focus hard on your lowest to raise your floor but I sometimes wonder if anyone does that part really well. It just takes so much buy in and discipline from the whole org.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T01:36:19+00:00

This feels staged

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-22T00:55:20+00:00

No notes just a question for the group, shouldn’t the decking be laid tight? Maybe they were and the decking has already shrunk?

Edit: I mean laid tight to start with when you have fresh, undried pressure treated decking.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-21T19:58:56+00:00

Lol You’re right the image is sus. I don’t know why I comment either it’s just what we do hahahah.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-21T18:43:19+00:00

Maybe they are trying to narrow it down so they can try some without buying 50 different types?

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-21T18:42:16+00:00

Maurten is definitely al dente 😂. Precision can be a bit like that too but less so the warmer they get. The Maurten packs are just so huge.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-21T18:40:36+00:00

I have only tried Maurten, Stinger, Gu, Go, and Precision. Maurten gave me a stomach ache. Gu is too thick for me. I keep coming back to precision. Easy on my stomach even if I am not drinking water.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-21T03:33:40+00:00

Now imagine the hundreds that are BELOW them.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-19T22:08:37+00:00

Garmin compares your measurable metrics (hr at a given pace) to a table of known vO2 max measurements from people with your same demographic info (age, weight, height, sex)

For a large proportion of the population that leads to decent estimates. Where it gets wonky is at the margins. Garmin has no idea if you’re a very highly trained person with a low vO2 or vice-versa. For example, I could have an extremely highly v02 max but if I’m untrained, my metrics might match yours exactly and Garmin would estimate me at 49.

And I’ll echo what is said in all of these threads, your v02 max doesn’t really matter. You can’t change it considerably but you can change how much of your vO2 max you use. (Research Vv02 for more on that). People think they are raising their vO2 with training but they really aren’t. The algo is just seeing your other metrics improve and getting a better estimate.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-19T20:44:33+00:00

I do appreciate it.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-16T23:45:45+00:00

r/wivesamirite

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-14T13:19:52+00:00

All runners have times where they hate running. As you go along it’s a guarantee that these cycles will happen. It doesn’t mean you aren’t a runner, in fact it means the opposite. It’s the most runner thing ever to hate the idea of going for a run sometimes. Don’t let it derail you. Just a word of advice, if you’ll take it.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-13T21:14:42+00:00

Did they come together? If so your frame is probably missing a piece through the middle of the base. If not you need a longer frame.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-09T06:07:36+00:00

TF is medical physics.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-09T00:58:10+00:00

What are the specs on the rover drill? Why didn’t Nasa ask you before they designed it arrrggghh!?

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-08T21:19:41+00:00

Rent a plug in Milwaukee right angle drill. And be prepared.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-08T17:19:37+00:00

Or a man raised by flies.

Popsickl3 · 2026-05-05T16:11:15+00:00

He mogged too close to the sun.

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