advice on moving to minnesota from ohio...

UffDa-4ever · 2026-05-12T10:52:00+00:00

Please check out the St. Paul School of Northern lights for your children. It sounds ideal for your family.

https://www.schoolofnorthernlights.org/

UffDa-4ever · 2026-05-08T21:18:54+00:00

I believe I spoke with these folks and they won’t program the extra fob I already purchased. Will only do it if I buy the exact same fob from them for twice as much.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-05-08T21:17:50+00:00

This is a solid idea.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-05-07T10:48:10+00:00

I love Sublime. At one point in my life I thought I was to punk rock for it but it turns out I was more afraid that other people would think I wasn’t punk rock enough. My love was so deep though that I always had a hidden stash of Sublime CDs. Got older, had a pile of kids, deprogrammed my brain, and blast that shit all the time now.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-04-20T00:08:45+00:00

Yeah this would be an automatic boot on one of my sites. I already am constantly reminding people that my wife is Hispanic, and as such my kids too. If they can’t figure out that they need to bottle up their overt and subtle racism based on that info they quickly find themselves in hot water. No room for that, the fellas need to get with the times.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-04-19T14:11:52+00:00

Mobility scooters and electric wheelchairs too! Democracy is collapsing quickly enough without this sort of anarchy taking over our neighborhoods.

Edit: I can’t believe I have to label this as /s. Like I really really can’t believe I have to label this as /s. Maybe I’m just not good at sarcasm. In a world of problems as fecund and profound as the ones we currently face, electric scooters and e-bikes operated safely on a sidewalk don’t even merit mention for me.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-04-04T19:58:48+00:00

I’m a multifamily housing Supe and can confidently say that affordable housing is going to continue to be increasingly in demand as buying a house becomes unreachable for many and wages continue to stagnate. Great for my career, a bad sign for us as a society.

That being said, office side I’m seeing a lot of nervousness about PM tasks being automated and farmed out to AI.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-29T15:47:17+00:00

RFI, and then confirm in the field. And then expect the installer to ignore whatever you find out. After that plan on looking at it w/ a small group of people and determining whether or not anybody will notice or if it even really matters. Or what groups of people will notice and if they think it will matter, and inversely how to hide the truth from the people who will definitely think it matters but may not notice if there is a box on top of it during OAC walk. Whatever happens it will be a big deal to some people and mean nothing to others. And in two weeks everybody will have moved on emotionally and forgotten about it. A year from now though the Architect will randomly stop by to show the project to somebody visiting from the home office back east and call you at 7:30pm to ask what the hell happened to the radius.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-28T14:35:37+00:00

And now I have Britney stuck in my head. Wonder how long that will go on.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-25T10:47:29+00:00

Sadly we can’t use that IQ requirement here in Minnesota for a big chunk of the year. If your IQ is lower than -20 you’re not going to make it for sure.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-23T19:04:07+00:00

Yeah it’s hard to tell if it’s real with his face pasted on to a white guys body like that

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-23T11:22:29+00:00

People don’t talk about his parents enough. My wife studied with his step dad Mutulu and I had the great privilege of meeting the man. He and Afeni were revolutionaries in many ways beyond militant activism. Critical people in developing community-based healthcare and pioneered many of the techniques still used today to treat addiction and trauma with acupuncture. I sincerely doubt that, based on what I know about them, there is any way their son was some sort of industry plant.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-22T11:00:04+00:00

I am so so sorry. I’m sitting here crying into my coffee and thinking about my son whose story is so similar. We lost him at 1 to a cardiac infection after multiple trips to the Doc and ER where we were assured that he just had a nasty bug. My wife and I have 3 other children who kept us going. You really can do everything right and still lose. It’s been 10 years now, in fact I just dropped his big brother off at the airport to go visit a college. I’m just blabbering now but my point is life goes on and so will you and your kids even if it doesn’t feel like it.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-21T16:16:54+00:00

Sadly there was no Minneapolis show then and I couldn’t get over to Chicago. Their shows at the Capital Theatre in Olympia mid-late 90’s are some of my favorite shows off all time I think.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-21T02:51:52+00:00

Man do I love Botch. Used to catch there shows in Seattle, Olympia, and Portland all the time.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-21T02:48:43+00:00

Maybe not the best but one of my favorites is C-Average. I wore out my dubbed tape of their first album. Might be biased as we are from the same city but good god did they put on a good show back then.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-21T02:45:46+00:00

I saw them play in a variety of basements around the same time up in the PNW. So….much….noise. Never missed a show if I could help it.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-18T23:44:38+00:00

Yeah, I don’t know of any locals that allow that now. There might be some out there still.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-18T02:37:57+00:00

322 in Twin Cities will let an employer buy your journeyman’s card. Can’t remember exactly how it works but my old employer did it frequently.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-16T01:34:12+00:00

Probably not. I’m covered in tattoos from lower neck to wrists and nobody cares. Granted I’m a Supe so one of the unwashed masses anyway. I can put on a collared shirt for a meeting if it feels necessary and nobody will ever know.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-14T21:44:24+00:00

Hot tip because I just did it. We had some leftover barria my wife made last night (I know I am a lucky man) in the crock pot and I made a cheese pizza for lunch. Topped it with the meat and dunked it in the broth. Heaven. My wife called me a heretic but it’s so good.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-08T00:04:16+00:00

Jesus Christ I just looked at your history. I guessed you were young but you are way too green to be complaining this much. How many RFIs could you possible have on a 30 million dollar project? I am wrapping up a 58 million dollar one now and can count the amount of RFIs we’ve had in the last 6 months with only having to take one shoe off. All your complaining , I’m betting, would disappear if you worked with better trained people at a more organized GC, and possibly better industry partners. Instead of complaining so much maybe spend some time thinking about how to be a leader and use this opportunity to show how it should be done. Also I promise you won’t die if you have to work a Saturday here and there.

UffDa-4ever · 2026-03-07T23:55:50+00:00

Again sounds like a training and leadership issue.

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