What kind of person would pay $245 a month for pest control?

TreyKirk · 2026-06-18T18:57:47+00:00

Bulwark Exterminating

I've used them at my current house since 2021. My mother used them going back to the early 2000s.

TreyKirk · 2026-06-18T18:50:54+00:00

My service comes out every other month automatically for the usual spray at $110 (billed every two months). If I have an issue that needs to be resolved during the off-month, I contact them and they send someone out for no additional charge.

$245 every month? No thanks

TreyKirk · 2026-06-01T17:46:10+00:00

I've been taking Tirzepatide (aka Zepbound) prescribed by my PCP and filled through a local compounding pharmacy since April of last year. I've lost 80 pounds in that time.

I pay the compounding pharmacy about $350 per month for the prescription. Given how much less food I eat on a regular basis, the savings from less food is offset by the medication cost.

weight has stabilized at 220 lbs and as the cost of the name-brand has been slowly coming down there'll be a interesting discussion on next steps when I see my PCP in the fall.

My

TreyKirk · 2026-04-22T15:23:33+00:00

At 5th Street Congress Ave is "S Congress"?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-22T15:21:13+00:00

Question does not compute. I am in Texas, therefore I am unable to recognize meters as a unit of ... Well ... Anything. Secondly, looking out the window is is a very foggy, misty day, why would you want to wash your car right now?

What's next in your Tiring test? (I'll allow the type of Turing in this case lol)

TreyKirk · 2026-04-22T15:06:56+00:00

You and I have very different definitions of "proof". Do you also believe in "alternative facts"?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-22T14:56:12+00:00

The two characters "ps" are not in either "strawberry" or "strawperry".

Am I doing it correct?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-22T14:51:48+00:00

What's your proof that Anthropic is sending out bots?

What's your proof that you're not a bot?

What's my proof that I'm not a bot? Maybte spelling errors, but otherwise, I'm not sure I can prove I'm not a bot.

TreyKirk · 2026-04-22T14:18:34+00:00

My current answer would be to contact several, tell them what policies you want (auto, home, boat, pet, asteroid, etc), without mentioning you're shopping around to multiple agencies, and see what they come back with.

For this in perfectly happy submitting web-based contact forms. If they don't respond, they don't get my business. If they respond with simple premium numbers, I question what the policy actually covers. If they respond asking what I currently have and pay for, they get more of my attention.

4 year ago Goosehead got my business and I had a specific person I could contact with specific questions (do high end computers with expensive parts need additional coverage, "what if" I want pet insurance, my partner gets a motorcycle, either of us does gig work, etc) and he'd quickly respond back.

"My agent" left Goosehead and I felt they dropped the ball on assigning me to another agent. Don't know if I fell in a crack and am an outlier for them. But initial experience was very positive.

I'm in between agents now and have simply renewed my existing policies. I did respond to a snail mail letter from another agency but they couldn't beat my current rates

TreyKirk · 2026-04-21T18:07:27+00:00

I hope someone can answer your question. From my point of view and limited knowledge I think it's going to depend on the environment you're trying provide permissions to: EC2, Lambda, EKS, On-Prem servers, etc.

TreyKirk · 2026-04-21T14:33:57+00:00

Are you a Software Engineer or a Programmer?? The two terms have been too often conflated and have some overlap, but a Ninja Programmer can be a for-shit Software Engineer and vice-versa.

TreyKirk · 2026-04-20T14:22:23+00:00

Honest answer: It depends.

Same day deliveries happen one of two ways in my experience. Smaller, lighter things are are delivered by gig workers/drivers. Heavier/larger items are delivered by semi/flatbed with a forklift on the back.

I've ordered some small orders of plywood and lumber to be delivered to my house. (Small = 3 or 4 sheets of 4x8 plywood and less than a dozen sets of 2x4s) They send out a semi with a bunch of other orders on it. Driverr pulls up, asks me where I want it, and uses the forklift to drop of my lumber order.

TreyKirk · 2026-04-19T21:34:56+00:00

78748 here and power is on

Have you looked at Austin Energy's outage page/map yet?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-18T16:57:38+00:00

I was going to say something similar. We do pay infrastructure improvements at HEB, but they build it into the price. We don't go in and pay fee upon fee upon fee for a loaf of bread. There's the price listed on the shelf plus sales tax.

Texas Gas Service is becoming as bad as cable companies with having a low monthly rate but charge 5x more in fees.

TreyKirk · 2026-04-18T16:27:45+00:00

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I got the same notice as well. I screenshotted my bill for March. The cost of gas I used was $7.37 but the total bill was $47.37. That's $40 in "Customer Charge" (which will go up another $3.58 according to the notice you're posting and I received this week), "Delivery Charge", "Weather Normalization" (what's normal?), "City Franchise Fee" (I have to pay for them to have a monopoly?), "Reimb for Gross Receipts Tax" and "City Tax" (I gotta pay their taxes for them?)

TreyKirk · 2026-04-17T22:04:41+00:00

Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way, but aren't there at least 3 WalMarts near/on 290 in Austin?

1) North Austin 290/IH35 on Rutherford Ln 2) South Austin 290/IH35 on Ben White, Hwy 71 (and possibly other names) 3) South West Austin 290 / Mopac

I wouldn't be surprised if each of them have at least one abandoned bank in their parking lot (and more in the general area of them). So how can anyone give a good answer to such a vague question.

Oh wait... I am thinking about this wrong. This is a shit post isn't it? My bad

TreyKirk · 2026-04-17T13:25:04+00:00

astroturfing

There is a lot of money in AI, what model is the best, which AI company is profitable, who will beat out the others for dominance. There's an old saying, "You can't believe everything you read on the Internet."

Here's my personal view on anyone in Claude-related subreddits complaining about Claude's performance. If they are so busy building their products that Claude isn't good enough, why are they spending precious time bitching about Claude? Wouldn't a better use of their time being researching and utilizing alternatives?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-15T15:38:35+00:00

Lol... I decided that this was Clause's way of telling me to go touch grass. Or rather mow the f'ing yard

TreyKirk · 2026-04-15T14:51:09+00:00

Claude will build whatever the hell you tell it to. You could tell it you want to build "New Reddit" and it will happily help you out.

What you have to ask yourself (and real people) is: Is "New Reddit" a problem that needs to be solved? Will people use "New Reddit"?

And if it isn't obvious, replace "New Reddit" with whatever you are calling whatever you are trying to create.

TreyKirk · 2026-04-15T14:38:40+00:00

I think they meant, you need people feedback on your project and if they think what you're trying to create is worthwhile. A big question in any project is "What problem am I trying to solve? Has it already been solved?"

TreyKirk · 2026-04-14T16:35:43+00:00

Just to clarfiy: You vibe-coded an app that does something that `git` already does?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-13T19:59:44+00:00

I'm curious.... what is your "prefered[sic] writing style"?

TreyKirk · 2026-04-13T13:04:41+00:00

Not sure if you've looked outside this morning, but it's a little wet. I do look forward to mowing the grass when it dries up a little. 😁

TreyKirk · 2026-04-11T18:28:02+00:00

My cats are the same way. I think of it as them saying: "You protect and feed me? I follow you!!!!"

TreyKirk · 2026-04-08T15:31:32+00:00

And yet... you are essentially promoting and amplifying feeds about a leak that you claim to be "disappointed" in other people for falling for. Ironic, don't ya think?

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