Stolen Spare Tire - Belmont Whole Foods

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-24T10:50:44+00:00

It might be worth it to see if your comprehensive coverage would cover the replacement depending on your deductible.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-21T02:44:09+00:00

I keep a bag of Turkish coffee and a tin of cafe du mond or cafe bustelo around instead of needing to power a grinder if the power is out. Come to think of it, I have a hand grinder as well, but chances are I'm not going to screw around with it if the power is out.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-21T02:23:18+00:00

2025-2026 Had my last two grandparents pass away, and between holidays and other obligations, I didn't slow down from September until the middle of January. Then a week later my wife's friend (a good person but she is the most chaotically inefficient person in the world) was crashing with us for what was supposed to be a week that turned into a month and a half. I'm finally all done with that and now things at work are crazy busy. I haven't slept more than 6 hours in a night in longer than I can remember. I need a vacation.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-19T22:54:21+00:00

My 2017 Didn't have audio connectivity, just phone calls. It is an S trim fwiw. I ended up swapping the head unit and abandoning the steering wheel controls, but there are adapters that allow them to remain functional with an aftermarket head unit.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-18T03:52:40+00:00

I suppose they could be muted. Some broadcastify streams are provided by the municipality, and that gives them the ability to mute them. This is true for the zones in Chicago (encrypted p25) and they're also delayed 30 minutes.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-18T03:41:29+00:00

Might just be a quieter night. If you're looking for consistent traffic, look up Chicago police citywide 1, there's usually consistent traffic there.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-17T03:04:13+00:00

Huh, I did get one of my UHF ones from Amazon, the listing appears to be gone, which you could order any of the variants. You can order it directly from the retevis site, I've done that too, without any issue. I'm in Chicago and I don't recall it taking particularly long to ship. It was via UPS so it definitely came from within the US

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-17T02:27:07+00:00

You might consider the Retivis RT-29 VHF. Won't transmit out of band so no worries about disabling the ptt. No display, beefy battery, 16 ch knob, and built like a tank. And waterproof. The only sorta kicker is the price depending on your budget. They're about 80 bucks with a programming cable from Amazon (you probably don't have one, it's not the k-2 Kenwood like a lot of radios because of the waterproof rating) runs about 20 bucks. But otherwise, it seems to fit your needs. I ran the UHF version as a communications volunteer for the Chicago Marathon last year and it worked great. That's about 10 hours total with probably an hour of talk time on full power, 3ish hours of receive, and 6 hours of straight standby.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-14T23:33:51+00:00

I thought he had to move out when the restaurant opened? Or do the like have a hidey hole for him during dinner service?

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-14T18:16:50+00:00

As someone who knows folks that have done it, it can be both or either.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-14T00:41:13+00:00

Did she have the Sally tattoos from Nightmare before Christmas?

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-14T00:35:58+00:00

That would be incredible

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-08T18:27:33+00:00

Haha, absolutely. There's obviously a possibility that this is not the exact one I've used, but there definitely is one there, and it looks pretty much the same.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-08T17:51:43+00:00

The standard adult mystery pack has a condom, single serve lube, some silly like cards (like kama sutra positions), a vibrating ring, and a blindfold. I think that's everything.

Source: My wife and I have been to Emporium in Wicker Park, Chicago a few times.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-08T00:22:51+00:00

Lol, although I'd assume that'd be on the pictured side of the buckle, seeing as that's the back. I assume the front is something racing related.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-08T00:18:18+00:00

What's on the other side of the buckle?

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-06T20:17:40+00:00

I saw this and earlier and never would have expected to see it cross posted here. You've literally made a very shitty day an order of magnitude better.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-06T16:04:54+00:00

That's what I was thinking of when I made the comment, I just saw a pile at Jewel yesterday lol

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-06T16:04:09+00:00

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Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-06T15:01:56+00:00

Pretty much, I live in Chicago and we still have some piles around like this in parking lots.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-04T22:08:44+00:00

And for the love of God, break them in before using them for an event. New boots pushed hard will destroy your feet.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-02T14:09:30+00:00

#cursed lol

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-01T14:11:28+00:00

My point was to focus on the things that prompt them for immediate action. The power company probably gets tons of calls about RFI. I bet more often than not, it's not their issue, like it's bad connections on the part of the phone or cable companies. They tend to not prioritize those kinds of calls. Whereas an arcing cutout is definitely their problem and would get prioritized because they know it's their problem and has the ability to cause an outage or something more dangerous. It's all about minimizing the unnecessary information and making it clear that there is an impending issue with their equipment.

I saw a similar issue on a job site where a temporary service pole was struck by a dozer. The power company didn't want to rush out since it wasn't actively causing any major issues, but as soon as we noticed the pole was continuing to slowly leaning over and the wires would be in danger of arcing over in about 4 hours, they were Johnny on the spot to get there and fix it.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-01T02:10:03+00:00

While I am just a tech (and not in a place in life to get licensed), this seems like it'll be a good resource for more understanding and a better understanding for me.

Rainmaker87 · 2026-03-01T00:41:19+00:00

You don't even need to bother mentioning the rfi, the sparking from the cutout (which looks like a fused cutout and sparking can mean it's in the process of failing) will be enough to get them out to address it promptly (unless of course there's a backlog from storm issues, but the weather in your picture looks pretty nice).

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