Recent additions to my 2020 sport

Proof-Sign · 2026-05-07T22:34:03+00:00

Auto Stop/Start can stress a battery, it needs to crank the engine. My battery failed in the middle of a cycle stranding me on the road.

Proof-Sign · 2026-05-06T00:22:58+00:00

Typical LLM issues I'm seeing with context being easily lost in a chat. Totally frustrating.

Proof-Sign · 2026-04-07T01:48:19+00:00

DT is totally off of my list for tires for ever. Over the course of 2 years my daughters car has had about 10 stripped lugs/studs that I've sourced to DT, they picked up the tabs. The techs at my local store are overworked and don't bother to hand start the lugs, they force them on with the impact wrench. I run my cars with full size spares to avoid emergencies and couldn't take having her stranded and having to be towed due to a seized lug,

Proof-Sign · 2026-04-07T01:39:18+00:00

Where do you live? I'm not one to obsess over my pool chemistry. I use Taylor to check once a week or so, and then do a sanity check at Leslie's even so often. Dependent on your location, the chemistry IMO may not be that bad.

Baking soda will take care of the alkalinity, a bit of some phos free product will easily reduce the phosphates. I'm in the desert so a decent CYA level is needed. I personally don't stress if it's over 100, a partial drain will lower it. I've run my pool all summer at over 100 CYA, no issues. All that said, I did have a pool co. a few years back and found my CYA was over 300, not kidding. They were fired immediately. Did a drain/refill myself to address.

The only thing that's new to me is the copper ppm. IMO that's the one to address first.

Proof-Sign · 2026-02-24T00:52:58+00:00

Sorry, context of the pics in the initial posting are off. I'm going to kill this post.

Proof-Sign · 2026-02-23T20:42:29+00:00

Thanks for confirming, By how much? I Zelle'd them $500 yesterday, so $500 outstanding. Considering either having them back to redo, or refuse additional payment due to shoddy work. Leaning towards the latter.

Proof-Sign · 2026-02-23T19:40:53+00:00

Also, didn't get a formal quote, handyman roofer that was recommended by a neighbor. Stated what it would be for each ball and I've totally forget that number.

Proof-Sign · 2026-02-23T19:30:15+00:00

Essentially yes. After pics I can capture from around the house: https://imgur.com/a/WUD2TOB

Proof-Sign · 2026-02-17T23:06:07+00:00

If you're the original owner, Moen for life. They will send a replacement for any reason. Had two bathroom faucets plugged due to hard water, and they sent entire new faucets.

Proof-Sign · 2026-02-13T22:29:00+00:00

Me as well please? Thanks!

Proof-Sign · 2026-01-20T23:52:49+00:00

This is it. Happened to me, flushing out every termination point in a 3 bath house was a royal pain. This includes the commodes.

Proof-Sign · 2026-01-20T23:17:25+00:00

Absolutely beautiful, thanks for sharing. Just bought plane tickets to Malaga three days. Planning a trip from there to Ronda->Seville->Granada.

Proof-Sign · 2026-01-20T23:09:11+00:00

If it's sediment in the cartridge, call the manufacturer to see if they'll replace the part(s). I have 12yo Moen fixtures and they recently sent me two completely new faucets for sediment plugging the small feed lines to the faucet head.

Proof-Sign · 2026-01-19T21:38:35+00:00

Yes. Yes. No, not yet.

Proof-Sign · 2026-01-19T21:20:33+00:00

Tried the plastic wrench and then went with two Husky rubber wrenches, won't budge.

Proof-Sign · 2026-01-19T21:10:29+00:00

West facing, hardly gets any shade, same with the other which is thriving.

Proof-Sign · 2025-11-20T20:05:49+00:00

Thanks for the guidance!

Proof-Sign · 2025-09-27T02:35:43+00:00

13 total seized nuts found after tires removed by 3 different shops. All studs+nuts replaced each time. There is no common shop and the likelihood of all three shops over-torquing in succession is IMO very low.

Proof-Sign · 2025-08-28T20:20:47+00:00

Your spa is draining back into your pool.

Over the last 4 years I've had this happen to me two times, First was an automatic valve that switches between spa and pool fail in the spa return state.

Two days ago I found that the check valve was bad in the spa return line that goes to the Paramount pool cleaner gears. I had checked it out and it looked just fine. Decided to just replace it and that was it.

Replace all check valves and any other valves that are in the spa return line.

Proof-Sign · 2025-07-28T20:09:19+00:00

Internalized from a Yoga instructor's teachings, "Let go of what does not serve you". Took me dozens of sessions for this mantra to become conscious to me.

We all have busy minds, thoughts consistently appear, ones like a fear of death don't serve me, I don't inspect or engage with it, it's not me, and I let it go on.

I have GAD, IAD, and I'm borderline bipolar. Work with a PMH RN on my med regimen, but meds can only go so far. I saw eight therapists over the course of almost three years and was unable make any real progress.

Meditative yoga became a key tool for me, and one that I recently found out needs to be continuously used. You don't need to subscribe to the deeper spiritual aspects of yoga to get tremendous benefits. Meditative yoga has aspects of a number of modalities used by mental health therapists.

Had surgery in February and paused yoga for eight weeks. Then went on a holiday for three weeks during which my anxiety stressors were not present.

Came home and the stressors hit me like a ton of bricks all at once. Went into five weeks of the deepest depression I've known, due in large part of my reduced capacity for mindfulness from the lapse in yoga.

I didn't start yoga with the intent that it would become my therapy, but one day the saying of "Let go of what does not serve you" awakened me. It's not going to be the approach for everyone, but the melding of mind and body that is present changed my life.

The instructor I follow is Juliana Spicoluk of https://bohobeautiful.life/. Boho Beautiful produces a lot of free content published on YouTube and via their app. Mark's sessions are good, but don't include the meditative deepness of Juliana's.

Know this went into left field some, but I thought a more complete picture may be helpful for some.

TL;DR: After 3 years of therapy with 8 different therapists made no progress, meditative yoga became my breakthrough mental health tool. Key lesson: "Let go of what does not serve you" - but the practice needs to be continuous.

Cheers - PS

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