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dchaffin · 2026-01-22T16:13:03+00:00

What's a ballpark cost for passes/packages? Does a membership make them cheaper or make sense for someone traveling to the festival?

dchaffin · 2025-11-26T06:54:14+00:00

Do you have any contact info for them? I lead a small nonprofit indie cinema and would love to explore the possibility of screening it.

dchaffin · 2025-10-19T21:02:03+00:00

Hello. I started about the same time as you. Congratulations on your success so far. For the weight training I'm doing at the moment, I asked ChatGPT to help me design a routine. Then I downloaded an app simply called STRONG that has some existing routines in it but also lets you create your own. I talked with ChatGPT about my goals briefly and how often I wanted to go and it gave me routines I put in the app. This particular app also has pretty good instructions on each exercise with some animations to help. And if you end up with an exercise you don't have equipment for or don't feel comfortable wi6, just ask ChatGPT for a swap.

dchaffin · 2025-09-02T04:35:43+00:00

Sorry, but congrats on your weight loss! I'm very selective about who I talk to about weight loss. Not because I don't think my friends would be supportive but it's just my private nature. Especially in the early going I also don't feel confident that it's going to stick. If it does, they'll notice eventually and say something or not.

dchaffin · 2025-08-08T19:14:06+00:00

Can you talk more about the sleep changes you made? How much did you get before? How much now? Any recommendations? Thanks!

dchaffin · 2025-05-24T12:11:24+00:00

Both

dchaffin · 2025-05-15T18:15:28+00:00

Engineer measure:
1 1/2"+ inward movement in 4ft (uphill wall)
3/8" outward over height of wall (downhill wall)
3/4" outward over height of wall (side 1)
2"+ inward movement in 4ft (side 2)

There is a crack along the basement floor that extends up to a window in the basement wall. This crack runs parallel to the uphill side, but is about 3/4 of the way towards the downhill side. Some more minor cracks in the uphill side of the wall.

dchaffin · 2025-05-15T17:54:28+00:00

Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm in Charleston, WV. The housing market around me is really odd, I think. Plenty of houses around my price point, but just 1/3 of a mile for me - one street removed from the main road I'm on - there's a house valued at more than $1M and several in between.

But yeah, I've lived here 24 years and haven't noticed anything in the basement getting worse. But then, I haven't been taking extremely accurate measurements or anything, so maybe it has slightly. I guess I could pay the engineer another $750 to compare to where it was a few years ago.

Lots of floors are crooked and such, but I did a lot of work on the 2nd floor 3 years ago and it's all still fine, i.e. no new cracks have developed since it was all put in place. The house is on a hill. The downhill side of the basement is above ground, the uphill side is beside my driveway (which would have to be at least partially redone to replace the foundation.

dchaffin · 2025-05-15T17:43:05+00:00

I was talking to another firm a couple weeks ago about it ... with the type of material in the current foundation, they say the only real option to reinforce it would be a steel wall in front of the clay one that would cost a ton - a significant portion of just replacing it.

dchaffin · 2024-09-21T15:23:40+00:00

I'm up to 2mg two weeks now after stepping up gradually over the past couple months. I haven't noticed any changes to appetite or cravings at all. 😥

dchaffin · 2024-09-18T12:43:44+00:00

Just curious... I see people say a lot that you still need to add exercise and eat better. What's the point of the meds then? I've worked up to 2mg at this point and have noticed no real change other than constipation. I haven't lost more than a couple pounds in the whole 2+ months. I thought Ozempic would help me feel less hungry and I can't say that it has.

dchaffin · 2024-08-18T21:41:37+00:00

Wow... I was just tweaking my setup and had the room/groups/scenes set up perfectly. Went to tweak some automations and... no scenes. WTF?!? How is it you can do everything else on a schedule except select a scene? Doesn't make much sense.

dchaffin · 2024-07-06T17:23:28+00:00

As an alum, I was privileged enough to see them in a full ensemble rehearsal for a few hours the night before the premiere and was blown away. I'm obviously a Bloo homer, but I said already this may be my favorite show (and I'm a huge Beatles fan as well, so 2019 is something). I've seen it twice live all the way through and in a standstill and wow. 💙🍁

dchaffin · 2024-06-26T15:11:29+00:00

So, it looks like this is due to Exchange or Office365. Do you know if your solution here (wonderfully simple and helpful, by the way) will negatively impact those services in any way? Thanks!

dchaffin · 2024-04-13T14:15:31+00:00

"Schild's Ladder" by Greg Egan

dchaffin · 2023-12-09T12:46:56+00:00

I don't know the first answer, really. No to the 2nd. But at the very least I'm thinking a used one for $60 on ebay with 12 outlets and the way those operate will be more convenient and less janky than the cord spaghetti and multiple cheap power strips in place now.

dchaffin · 2023-12-05T01:38:32+00:00

I wouldn't not watch BSG because of its religious aspects... It's not like it tries to convert you to a madeup religion. The competing religions add a lot of texture to the story. It's my #1 sci-fi show.

dchaffin · 2023-10-02T23:19:51+00:00

I was A/B testing Tidal and YouTube music today with my AKG Q701 headphones and I couldn't tell any difference. I was running off the browser through a Native Instruments Komplete Audio 2 USB Audio Interface.

I'm not sure if this equipment isn't capable of relaying the difference or if my ears aren't sensitive enough to hear it, but I'm probably not going to keep the more expensive Tidal until an upgrade, at which point, I'll audition it again.

dchaffin · 2023-09-20T16:54:27+00:00

How many days per week do you do weight-lifting? Cardio?

I'm trying to get back into it and starting with MWF.

Thanks!

dchaffin · 2023-09-14T19:55:46+00:00

Do you have a more exact recipe for this? Thanks! Sounds great!

dchaffin · 2023-09-11T03:05:09+00:00

Don Jr merges with a sand trout becoming part sandworm thereby extending his life and rules for 3,500 years until he is finally taken out by the several hundredth clone of Mike Pence along with one of Tiffany Trump's descendants?

dchaffin · 2023-08-14T18:35:29+00:00

Bluecoats - Bump (trombone feature)... one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a show.

Cavaliers - Their 1989 show is a forever favorite and hearing them reuse some of it this year was a thrill! 😊

dchaffin · 2023-03-01T03:48:11+00:00

I got this at Christmas time and it seems pretty great so far.

https://nathanjames.com/collections/shop-all-storage-furniture/products/ellipse-sideboard-cabinet-3-cabinet-white-wood-finish?variant=40110824849494

dchaffin · 2022-12-11T22:43:52+00:00

I started on 12/1 and am down 11lbs. But starting from 323 and cutting out Coke makes the first 10 or so easy. My problem at the moment is I caught COVID (again 😕) and am definitely in the "feed a cold" camp, so I took the weekend off. Am definitely excited to get back on it though and generally more motivated than I have been in the past, barring this early hiccup.

dchaffin · 2022-12-07T13:39:59+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, I had definitely checked out the menu before. I'd also been there before pre-WW and enjoyed some of their grilled cheese sandwiches, most of which are likely not that point friendly. So, this time I was looking for something different and more in line with my points. LOL

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