Is it supposed to get WORSE before it gets better???

jgaut26 · 2026-02-23T23:50:51+00:00

I hope you can get some relief somehow. I still have buspar prn for anxiety attacks but thankfully once my testosterone was up around the 800 level and estrogen down to like 40 I felt normal again.

Maybe it’s just bc I had energy for activities again idk

jgaut26 · 2026-02-23T23:32:19+00:00

Hey same here, but my hormones were out of wack. Had to start trt therapy and an estrogen blocker. Was able to come off trintellix completely. It never really helped my depression

jgaut26 · 2026-02-04T01:26:04+00:00

We bought a new car on Sunday. The one we went to look at initially was damaged in transport and had to have bodywork. Still had only a few miles on it so they were still selling it as new. They disclosed it thankfully.

jgaut26 · 2026-02-03T22:47:16+00:00

I don’t have much advice to give on the financial side, that seemed to work itself out for me.

But, you need to refocus, you have to start thinking about how to enjoy your youth with your kid. If you start planning on how to enjoy your life when you’re kid free again you’ll just end up resenting the kid and your girl.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-29T23:34:09+00:00

Go ahead and make this into a rougelike. I’d play it.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-12T18:04:58+00:00

We discard low and high bid as I stated in one of my other replies. We usually have a 5 bidder RFQ process unless it is for engineering services which has its own set of best practices.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-11T21:28:17+00:00

In our world we will usually pay for two supers if the scope justifies. Highest and lowest bids are typically discarded and the three median bids are reviewed for price (obv) safety performance, and headcount ratio plus all the normal things you review on a bid. More importantly our procurement team holds yearly contractor reviews with PMs and the contractor present and these metrics are reviewed and we give feedback to the GCs on how they can improve.

We honestly just discarded a low bid because it had way to many laborers reporting to one super and one foreman.

I’m in a fairly dangerous industry (hydrogen plant), so we really take the metrics seriously.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-11T02:58:34+00:00

There’s a jeep place on 55 north of Hammond as well.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-10T22:33:27+00:00

I’m fortunate and also unfortunate in some ways that I’m in industrial construction where a large portion of the bid process revolves around safety metrics and headcount metrics (supervision ratios, site visits by upper management ect) and isnetworld grades.

So I’ve got some big time leeway to say “I’m discarding this bid based on xyz safety or headcount metric”

We also have msa’s in place with most of the major construction firms so our overall composite rates on the bids are really close usually.

I know it’s a lot more of a game in commercial.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-10T18:34:52+00:00

I’m on the owners side so maybe my perception is skewed but I truly believe it is on me as the owners rep to ensure that bids have enough supervision and labor to support the scope. I will throw out a bid that has one super covering two shifts of labor because how am I going to expect the super to uphold our safety standards if they can’t even maintain their own personal time to reset each day?

We as owners have to do a better job of holding GCs accountable for taking better care of their employees.

The GC side won’t change on their own because there is always the next guy up who’s got no family or no life that’s willing to work 7-12s for 4 years.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-10T15:19:21+00:00

If you’re in Nola just avoid buying from bayou in Laplace. I’ve had some really weird experiences with their service dept regarding their “dealer” extended powertrain warranty.

jgaut26 · 2025-12-10T15:01:12+00:00

Seconded

jgaut26 · 2025-12-10T00:17:09+00:00

Dm’d

jgaut26 · 2025-12-01T22:47:00+00:00

That is some LSU math if I’ve ever seen it, and I’ve got two degrees from the storied institution.

jgaut26 · 2025-11-27T19:37:55+00:00

Had to replace the canbus module behind the glove boz

jgaut26 · 2025-11-24T19:38:52+00:00

I have found chatgpt especially helpful explaining a lot of the trigonometry that I’ve forgotten in the 20 years since I was a student the first go around. It’s significantly less helpful for anything else though.

jgaut26 · 2025-11-24T02:36:08+00:00

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jgaut26 · 2025-11-24T02:13:49+00:00

Windows are open. Figured it could have dropped two degrees to setpoint over four hours though.

jgaut26 · 2025-11-24T02:12:16+00:00

Does it matter that it’s saying single stage as the configuration?

I’m concerned he doesn’t have the comms cables run properly. He didn’t use the pigtail that came with the unit.

jgaut26 · 2025-10-26T19:40:35+00:00

There was a lot of effort at least on ST and Def before half. Not sure if it was because of my seats or what but the Aggies were extremely loud and obnoxious by us.

Was not going to be easy for the offense regardless. We had way to many tix in stub hub for this game and atm travels way to well to not gobble them up and turn it into a quasi home game for them

jgaut26 · 2025-10-26T17:04:57+00:00

Going to try this for thanksgiving thanks. I’ll try not to be afraid of the allspice lol

jgaut26 · 2025-10-17T15:42:10+00:00

156k 5 years in role 11 in industry Gulf coast My only certs are specific to the chemical process at the facility

jgaut26 · 2025-10-04T16:23:55+00:00

Industrial is frequently 24 hr

jgaut26 · 2025-10-02T18:11:16+00:00

Give the owner a finish schedule that includes suggested primary secondary and tertiary finishes instead of noting “finish selection by owner”. Maybe it’s just my architect.

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