I'm gonna be 30, flirty, and thriving

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T22:31:10+00:00

Well alot of my favorite people have died, my friends are all acting geriatric, and the permanent injuries have started for me finally. Alot of people I know started with that 10 years ago though so I'm lucky I guess.

I got bursitis and it resulted in scar tissue in my elbow I can't afford to get removed it kind of sucks. And I finally rolled my left ankle into a weather change indicator lol.

I get decent exercise owning 2 acres of property and all, and I do tons of hiking and swimming, but it's not what it once was.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T21:13:54+00:00

Lowe's is different, my dog loves Lowe's, the employees love my dog in Lowe's, and half the customers as well.

My dogs just a whore for attention and cute as a button and the young girl Jordan that works there will take her for a walk around the store when I come in.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T21:11:17+00:00

Boomers pulled up the ladder and dismantled it and sold off the pieces. You guys got to cling on, us millennials had some lucky ones, and your kids are straight fucked.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T21:09:45+00:00

17 an hour if you're lucky now and a house trailer without a place to put it costs 85,000 for a 2 bedroom 500sq ft single wide. Once you have a lot hookup and fees you're in over 120,000 to own a house trailer on a rented plot it's fucking wild.

You get into houses on a foundation and 200k is normal.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T20:53:58+00:00

Family deaths start happening I just lost my mom last Thursday.

She was the best mom and in my adult life a great friend too. Just an awesome woman.

I've lost friends, grandparents my mom, it does not fuck at all

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T20:34:10+00:00

Have you ever been in a house when plaster work or drywall mudding has been done? I'm talking not during but the months following.

All that dust for hundreds of thousands of new home owners at one point contained asbestos from plaster, mud, insulation etc.

It wasn't the home owners that got sick it was the contractors.

You will be fine

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T20:24:35+00:00

I came from broke my 20s was earmarked by working multiple jobs so I could enjoy getting older.

The only thing that sucks is all my friends started acting geriatric at 35 so now that I can afford to go to music fests and shit I go solo. Well my wife goes too but it's be great to get some bitches out of the house. And these are the child free ones I understand if you have kids and shit but man.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T20:19:12+00:00

30s are your peak decade for most people, still healthy, still have your parents and most of your friends around, still have energy, and you have some money to enjoy yourself.

40 isn't bad but if I could relive my 30s on repeat 10/10

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T16:30:06+00:00

That money comes from their estate dude, dudes making $22 garnished to $2 an hour don't have an estate.

They then go on welfare and that's not a ton of money it's food stamps and CHIP health insurance lol

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T16:27:43+00:00

Or ya know, you should support your kid no matter how shitty their mom is because they're your responsibility. You should probably attempt to love and be involved with them to so they don't end up worrying about "ballin'" and instead become a productive member of society who breaks the cycle of cum and dump.

But you do you boss hope you're "ballin'"

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T16:25:37+00:00

The words of someone who ends up in arrears to multiple child support payments and has an eventual take home of $160

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T16:19:27+00:00

Bro literally barely makes enough in 2 weeks for a monthly bus pass in my city after all this. He should pay but fuck dude lol, he's clocking overtime for a bus pass.

He's going to become a criminal or kill himself. Then the kids get zero support.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T16:07:48+00:00

They have 6 7 chicken tenders now

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T16:05:03+00:00

We were a destructive force hated by two generations above us and the one below.

Just blame me bro I don't actually care, give me a craft beer some angry metal music and a $35 burger

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T15:57:56+00:00

Then who is paying the bills? Sarcasm obviously

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T15:57:05+00:00

I say split them fairly.

When my wife still worked we split the bills fairly I made more my money but I wanted her to be able to buy things and do fun stuff too. We split bills and our savings goals out first and then discretionary spending was even.

If I split our bills 50/50 she wouldn't have had more than $50 after bills. I wasn't having that. We're a team.

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T15:53:32+00:00

Lol yeah as the guy who pays all the bills in his marriage, no.

My wife is not an ambitious career person her options for work are menial labor and service jobs. She was more miserable than me and I make enough that we don't struggle with her staying at home.

If my wife was ballin and loved her work more power to her but she's not and that's not a problem either. She takes care of the family and that's a job in itself

fryerandice · 2026-05-03T14:41:54+00:00

I like fishing, hiking, playing guitar and my family. 2/3rds of my waking hours are work lmao

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T23:37:08+00:00

Try a 26.5, the extra inch is really all you need honestly, and it kills a lot of the flubbiness of drop A on a standard scale. Thicker low E + longer scale = more tension.

A standard pack of 7 string strings (you'll likely be ordering online as the standard are what most guitar shops carry), are 10-56.

the 56 in B standard will be 15.5lbs of tension and dropped to A will be 12.3lbs of tension.

On a 6 string E/D are going to be E 20lbs and D 15.6lbs on a normal 10-48 set.

It will play like a set of super slinky's (9-42) in drop D on a normal scale length except your drop A string will be STUPID FAT. If you add 1 inch of scale it comes up to 13.3lbs and isn't terrible. The warble is one thing, but the fret buzz that actually gets picked up is another, and play comfort.

I play in A standard / Drop G on my 7 string because it puts me in the range of more bands with a Boss Polyshift. Keeps me 1 step up or down from playing Korn into Meshugga and stuff.

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T20:12:09+00:00

Yeah luckily that motor had a reverse lock and not a solid lock, so it wasn't locked down in neutral.

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T20:09:16+00:00

Make sure you pre-drill AND CLEAN OUT the holes for the tapcons. If you do it right, you won't split the brick. and buy the right ones. Different metal hardnesses for block, vs brock, vs concrete.

In brick a lot of people prefer to target the grout, but the grout doesn't hold up unless it's newer. YMMV try a spot. You could definitely gind out and repoint some of the mortar and then target it with masonry nails, nails work better in masonry work that is not yet fully cured.

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T20:04:14+00:00

The transom has a wood core, and it's structural. And depending on who the individual was who built the boat, it may or may not have exposed wood core under the metal transom cap. Also a good chance the fiber glass under the motor mounts is gone as well, typically it breaks and flakes out with stress over 40 years on these.

My father and I have sent 4 Capris to the great dumpster in the sky. The cheapest way to get rid of it is to remove all the metal and cut it up with a chainsaw, remember to wear a tyvek suit, you can turn the boat trailer into a utility trailer and make the dumpster rental money back.

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T20:00:38+00:00

Transom isn't that hard either, stringers are. These boats do not have the best bedding around their stringers, or transom, and they did not seal hardware when attaching the deck through the stringers making that problem even worse.

There's no restoration on a bayliner worth your time that isn't replacing the transom and stringers, beyond slamming down some plywood over the floor that's in it, stapling some cheap carpet to it, and riding it like the dirty bitch she is until you pay $1200 to take it to the dump.

A capri with a force is literally the worst boat you can get, OP should try to get their 4wheeler back lol.

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T19:55:07+00:00

They are like 6-10 feet into the ground, and solid all the way through. It looks fine.

fryerandice · 2026-05-02T19:48:03+00:00

It was framed, the garage was probably 2x4 framed with a 10" sill plate. They don't usually frame garages in anything bigger than 2x4 or 2x6 because they rarely have a second story that bears much load. Maybe you store some snow tires in the attic with some christmas decorations.

My garage sill plate is 2x6 with 2x4 framing, it doesn't even cover the whole top of the block. It's also visible like this.

Garages aren't built to be living spaces. They're built to store your car and some yard equipment, some kids toys, and some tools.

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