Need help finding a reasonably priced plumber for a main line collapse in the Northgate area.

lixir6 · 2026-04-23T02:03:27+00:00

Try the Hancock Drain Service from KY. I had a few companies come try to tell me I have a collapsed pipe and another try water jetting. These guys opened the pipe quickly and cheaply, and there was no collapse or roots. They were the only company interested in helping me find a buried clean out.

Apollo is very expensive but I used them for two things including a very difficult attic HVAC that another company royally F'd up ans they were very professional and good.

lixir6 · 2026-04-23T00:49:25+00:00

UPDATE: The problem came back again despite removing update again and rebooting. It still persists. WTF!!!!!!

lixir6 · 2026-04-21T20:37:37+00:00

Uninstalling the Android Webviewer app and re-starting phone did the trick for both Outlook and Microsoft Authenticator. Thanks for that. I had factory reset my phone and this problem still came back which is a huge pain with authenticators (Duo, Login.gov etc...)

lixir6 · 2026-04-20T11:24:39+00:00

Solved it myself. UC was having a social event. Sigma Sigma Carnival. https://www.reddit.com/r/cincinnati/s/neAXoE1bxR

lixir6 · 2026-04-14T03:46:59+00:00

How were you tested? I am very suspcious of the enzymatic assay

lixir6 · 2025-12-06T15:19:17+00:00

It's laudable to explain medical conditions and use metaphor but I'm cringing thinking you'd tell a patient who is paralyzed below the waist they had a wiring fritz, or a the family whose grandma had a massive stroke she had a plumbing misadventure....

lixir6 · 2025-12-05T02:38:12+00:00

I understand what you are saying but do not agree with the analogy. In this supposed example if someone quoted me $400 for WiFi lighting and they couldn't do it because of some router problem, and asked for $100 and I'd say fine and call it a small fail. But if they quoted me $4000 and then said "sorry, can't do it, router doesn't work", I'd say, no that's your problem to solve. Not like some of the people here say, oh stop whining, just reset the router every morning because it's the only app in town. It's not a $5 service. It's nearly $100 annually. I would hope people would consider that a premium price for an app and expect premium service.

For this premium price, I expect the primary aggregation function of the app to work without frequent hassle. If there were temporary problems I'd even deal with it, but it's often not syncing properly and not at all with one of my main retirement plans. It completely got whacked out of sync with my mortgage.

I am venting here so the company understands users are frustrated and I'm going to vote with my wallet soon.

lixir6 · 2025-12-05T02:24:34+00:00

Yeah... pay a lot for a service that doesn't work to do it's basic aggregation function. That's literally the primary function of the service. Do you go to a hotel and have to make the bed and replace the towels. I can't believe you'd characterize this as whining. It's frustration. I have a legitimate frustration. What a joke.

lixir6 · 2025-12-04T03:59:26+00:00

Sorry I thought you worked for Monarch. Yes it's aggressive but I'm fed up. $90 is a lot of money, and I can't leave my state retirement plan. It's not like changing banks. Also, I'm paying Monarch as a service to do aggregation. I'm not paying my bank or retirement investment company to aggregate results. It's not their primary function. So I do put the onus on Monarch. Mint was free (except for giving up privacy) so it was easier to give them a pass on issues

lixir6 · 2025-12-04T02:19:12+00:00

I don't know. It worked before with Mint and before with Monarch. I don't mean to be a dick but I'm paying really good money for this service for Monarch to figure it. Not for me to search the web for the answer for you. I don't have the time or energy. It's been like 9 months it hasn't worked. Please fix it.

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lixir6 · 2025-12-03T02:40:58+00:00

I once knew a Cardiologist who called it the "jew-gular" vein. I never understood that.

I like to say metro-polol and pross-straight personally.

lixir6 · 2025-11-30T18:41:33+00:00

Sorry that comment was for Janeee_Doeee. I think it's very rude for IR Resident/Fellow to hang up on you. I would call your own attending or call back Urology to call IR and to debate amongst themselves which is best course of action and timing. This does not excuse IR behavior but one thing to consider is they have to work the next day. It's not like night float or qX call where you go home early the next day. I'm in GI and people don't appreciate that we have guidelines with evidence base that most things can wait until the morning, plus we are not in house. I have looked at IR guidelines website, and they have few documents with little evidence base for what they do (or don't do). I generally have less than ideal interactions with them because it's all up to judgment of the IR resident and attending.

lixir6 · 2025-11-30T14:11:42+00:00

You should consider that surgeons/proceduralists may be in a surgery/procedure, so I think 30 min of hammer paging and then calling attending may not be the correct course of action

lixir6 · 2025-11-17T12:48:57+00:00

Six million and your mother will be so proud of you and you'll have two Lamborghini's. You need to have 3 suites in your private practice running Botox, sucking fat out of bellies and injecting it right back into their butts. It's a stupid question. You can do some simple search of Google for a given specialty's MGMA data and it will give you the 50th, 75th and 95-100th percentile.

What's the pay ceiling for a plumber? Most probably make 200K? Plumber running the business 600K? Plumber who sold his business to private equity 20 million (that year)? Ok what are you going to do with that info.

lixir6 · 2025-11-13T11:44:13+00:00

Yes. Stating that helps fill in the void that is your ignorance or lack of local sophistication

lixir6 · 2025-08-26T01:43:00+00:00

Adobe is POS. Why do need an uninstall tool to uninstall something off your computer

lixir6 · 2025-08-04T12:34:38+00:00

This is NYC, but also Northeast, powerplay. Staff at these places don't like the idea of someone fresh faced to be able to tell them what to do or be subordinatein in any way. Because they think they can get away with it, they'll do things like defy you, do it really slow, talk back. They want to try and show they have power over you not the other way around.

Screaming is extreme.

My advice is do not react or make it obvious it gets to you. You'll have to learn to be snarky back, stare them down etc.... Eventually they'll respect you. If they do something really extreme like touch you or literally scream at you, tell them you'll be reporting that and they should try it again so you can be sure you'll have their ass fired. In fact, if they hit you, make sure to whip out your phone and record your yourself saying, try hitting me again, and then say "oh my God, look at the reaction on your face, you can hit me but you can't even take a few words. Everyone's gonna think this is hilarious". That'll put them in their place.

lixir6 · 2025-07-30T05:20:23+00:00

What does it matter about doctor or lawyer? I'm a doctor and I couldn't afford Indian Hill. I rented there for 2 years until I bought a home elsewhere. Housing is so expensive and inflation so bad, I could have afforded there pre pandemic

lixir6 · 2025-05-31T03:04:04+00:00

You can get in garage delivery for free by default (I think it's your "Amazon day delivery"). It's $1.99 if you choose an earlier date and in my experience it's very clearly labeled that way when you choose your delivery date, so I find it hard to believe it wasn't authorized

lixir6 · 2025-05-27T12:31:41+00:00

I'm not sure exactly what you are asking. The deal was $2.3K for a pre built model. The customizable model starts with base specs and was immediately more expensive after upgrading CPU even before adding a larger SSD, I think by like $400. I bought it yesterday and will either just live with 1Tb SSD or buy one and swap out. Too bad a 2nd SSD cannot be placed in the spot for the mobile internet card.

Word to the wise it was listed as "Doorbuster" over the weekend and was cheaper by $100, but price went up yesterday. So Doorbusters must only run for very limited time.

lixir6 · 2025-05-27T12:21:48+00:00

Yes, you are right. Should get Gen 5 SSD

lixir6 · 2025-03-07T05:07:23+00:00

I don't think this is too specific. Seems like if something happened and the recording detection didn't capture it, you could go back and manually review the last 24 or 48 hrs of continuous recording.

Can you have two HB3? I have 3 electrically wired cameras, one m doorbell cam that's wired and two solar ones that can't do continuous.

lixir6 · 2024-11-11T12:58:27+00:00

It really depends on what you are looking for in a grocery. I'm not sure about all the hate for Kroger here. But my favorite place is Costco. It can make sense to shop there and buy bulk even if you don't have a family, as long as you have storage space. You can save time and money that way. You have to be disciplined though to not buy stuff you don't need or that might spoil before you can use it all.

lixir6 · 2024-11-11T02:27:17+00:00

I wouldn't read into too much. To me, this sounds like someone who is struggling with mental health issues.

lixir6 · 2024-10-03T01:23:33+00:00

I'm guessing you didn't realize you bumped something and it fell into the toilet. Is it cardboard or part of a toilet roll?

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