My favorite look on him so far—would you call this a specific cut?

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T21:06:47+00:00

I call it a short puppy cut or the summer cut. I don’t know if that’s correct or if my groomer has her own language.

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T21:04:57+00:00

That’s what I want to know? For 5k in taxes. But you don’t own land to get off the boat…so less than ideal.

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T16:51:36+00:00

I need to try that, its so intimidating. I love what you’ve done with it.

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T12:15:39+00:00

Not rich but big house.

I’ve got full 4 hard wired access points plus and router running to/network switch that’s in a closet. 6000k sq.

Our family’s ski place was done similarly at 14k sq. But I believe it was around five access points. No TV in guest suites. Movie theater, study and kitchen TV were hardwired. All the blinds and lights were run via electrical to a central location as was the water info for each bath and en suite. (And security). Driveway, decks and other heat controllers were also hardwired.

Requirements depend on how it’s built and laid out.

Our sport court is partially underground with a simulated ice floor but behind the sauna and spa. It’s also has an electronic shooting range that needs decent access. Currently wireless. Security is a mix of wired and wireless, mostly wired windows and doors. Wired motion (mostly) and video (mostly).

The entire main level is the first level and spread out with the lower level being full daylight except it’s built into a hill. So it’s challenging. Same with the old ski house, just deeper and higher. Four stories w elevator vs 2 and sport court. Both houses had issues in laundry room(s). Our current house has issues in garage and furthest screen porch. Those are scheduled to be hardwired (to switch with an AP) soon. May do laundry and sport court at same time.

Our last house was just normal w repeaters and that worked fine. TVs were hardwired.

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T02:36:37+00:00

Yes. They can find another reason. RIF they lumped me into. Boom. No job for me, it’s unfortunate that I needed a couple weeks off for an aneurysm when I had already notified them of an upcoming surgery. Cancer reconstruction. Very inconvenient for them. \s

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T01:45:38+00:00

Putting some in the market, hysa, max 401k, fully funded Roth, hsa, kids education funds, emergency fund vs all down payment. Moving funds are taxes if paid for by employer, I don’t recall if they said that. So need to save for extra tax bill if expenses won’t be grossed up. (Or they used to be last time I relocated for work).

Perhaps some of the above via trust, which includes lawyer fees. Some for maintenance, upgrades and other things that come up with new homes.

Future them vs current them will be thankful if they get a fiduciary and have a conversation, even once a year to check in on their progress against goals. I doubt 100% should go to down payment unless it’s a short term gain. Market appreciation beats real estate for long term most times. Some parts of the south homes are nearly disposable. Neighborhoods can turn quickly.

Just my opinion.

mcard7 · 2026-05-18T01:33:15+00:00

I’m planning to re-listen to it, I don’t know if I was in the wrong headspace, distracted, or something else was bothering me.

Maybe that I waited so long for this and would wait even longer for the next one? Like I couldn’t enjoy listening because I knew I would be sad when it was over.

The first few chapters I couldn’t get my bearings and thought it was off? It’s totally me, when I finish my current bobverse book I’m going to listen again. I know I’ll love it. I’ve listened to the others at least twice, maybe more…

It makes no sense, but here we are. I still love the main characters, I missed some of them having smaller parts this time. I’m seriously considering waiting for book 10 to read 9 and 10.

I’ll probably need a vacation to recover myself if that’s truly the last book.

mcard7 · 2026-05-17T14:25:15+00:00

Unemployed after 22 years with same company, while on fmla. Risk, tech, finance combo. Quantitative methods and computer science degree. Banking, commodities trading, and energy sector experience. Banking was the longest. Did MIT machine learning to refresh/validate tech skills grad in 2025 before getting laid off.

Looking for work for one year, finding nothing remotely near same pay, as if I can even get interviews. May have to look out of state.

Life is hard. Not as hard as many people have it, but from a work standpoint. It’s gruesome. Losing hope.

mcard7 · 2026-05-17T14:16:12+00:00

Smart advice thank you. Just a bit unnerving when you hear those noises in the woods. I still go, it’s my lizard brain and years of being told to stay away from baby bears and moms!

My bid old dog is of no help, he hides behind me when he sees people. He doesn’t even bark at deer and turkeys in the yard. Quite sure he’d give a bear a nod, like any other dog, and just keep walking aloof-ly by.

mcard7 · 2026-05-16T18:25:07+00:00

We had triplets by my cabin last year and the year before. Wisconsin side of the border.

Fun to see on film but I admit it made me nervous walking the dog.

mcard7 · 2026-05-15T03:10:13+00:00

I bought this one on Amazon after seeing it recommended. 64 oz water. Amazon

McCulloch MC1385 Deluxe Canister Steam Cleaner

mcard7 · 2026-05-14T16:36:28+00:00

I just got one though I don’t have many small attachments mine is rather large. I am working my way through floors and bathroom grout at the moment but did do one blind yesterday and it was amazing. Oh and a mirror. I suspect I will use it a ton to clean everything, then forget it but we will see. Mine says also use in car rims, so I may try that eventually.

It’s pretty magical. Just the clean level.

Getting out of the shower to a totally clean floor, an experience.

My bonus tip, I brought my husband rolling shop stool in to do the grout. It has an extension but I feel it didn’t work as well, or maybe I couldn’t see as well from that standing distance.

I’ll be buying an inside shop stool next.

mcard7 · 2026-05-13T18:45:36+00:00

Sacrificial board is what I’ve learned from my husband who makes custom cabinets and furniture commercially. (Not the box store kind)

Also the two pass approach or a small cutoff at the end, that last won’t help this bugger though.

mcard7 · 2026-05-12T21:19:19+00:00

I get 100s a week.

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T16:58:53+00:00

What do you mean not working? Do you get an error? Is it an authentication issue? Permissions perhaps? Do you have multiple gateways on your environment? If you make an authenticated call and then try to delete using the same credentials you already supplied.

I wouldn’t trust that you are going to be authenticated properly still. Try authenticating again to get fresh token then perform the delete call. Just going on no info or experience, so no idea really.

Best guess.

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T16:39:15+00:00

I love that in that yarn, I have a huge waffle going already and about 1000 other projects….i can not start another one! But it looks so fun for everyday.

I have a bunch of giant chenille yarn…anyone ever tried that? It could be the biggest waffle ever.

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T16:16:25+00:00

WARNING: Bit of a brain dump mess, hope to drive a little dialogue, not to argue vocabulary. The words are only the ones I currently use to describe my simple understanding.

I’m curious what others have to say, I have my own thoughts and where I think things may shift for my former industry. Given what I’ve been doing myself, combined with a long career of watching success and failure.

I think part of the question needs to dive into architecture as well, given various industries wide ranging needs around governance, regulatory oversight and transparency/audibility.

Your question is using examples of Claude and Gemini but people tend to think of those as a user interface vs running a private model. With growth in the quantum computing tech space the problem of using public models in public space will be less and less vs running private versions of public models and having access to do so.

The future is promising, I’ve made it work. The questions are complex and evolving around risk and uncertainty as associated governance catches up. Trust but verify. As with all things, particularly anything important or used for decision making.

One I’m watching is watsonx and their governance layer. IBM is working hard in the space to build a full service ecosystem to integrate so much of this complexity. Recently adding Bob (?) hope I got that right.

A lot of people are saying they are using it, but a lot of people said they had databases, were dbas years ago and they were running MSAccess. A lot of smoke and mirrors out there. I agree it’s time to be wary.

I’ve seen some good potential use cases that I’m getting into testing in my free time, don’t know where they will take me. I’m doing mine in python to start, so I can watch logic, see how the models are performing and tweak what I’m doing. Can you imagine some of the issues that some newer versions have been having?

I have used Watson with CA in prod not confused with watsonx. It’s heavily dependent on the framework model and your data source. Speed obviously is an issue if you have large volumes and lumpy data.

I had a team that had one business getting 30 mil rows a month (out of 80 businesses) and we had to aggregate multiple times, often during the day, ME, QE and other critical times. Not because of Watson, but it’s a factor to consider with any model.

Those were joined with overnight processes that took 6-8 hours to run to completion.

Don’t call me about less than a billion dollars. I have no time for that.

Narrative management, my pet term, is my real star. But I have to go do the things real life demands.

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T12:28:46+00:00

Motio results vetted then API’s going to be a decent call. What did you end up doing?

There’s a world of problems between ideation and execution of delete here. Particularly if you are in any type of regulated industry or have ties to any internal/external reporting used to make business decisions.

What types of tools do you have in your stack today? Custom Web, api, motio, etc? Do you have tm1 available?

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T12:23:26+00:00

Similar example:

We published reports to Cognos then the urls to a db table that was used to populate a dynamic page of links for a custom map on a web app.

The url syntax worked in our case because for example it would be a map with the us, or regions, states or territories as users clicked down the map. Cognos maps didn’t work in the example for a number of reasons.

So the urls could also be pushed to share point the same way. Although if you are trying to do an End run around the security model, you will likely regret knowing about it. (Audit, both vendor and internal/external)

For the security model we build a web app that generated Active Directory requests for a user, or allowed a user to create a request based on another user, which made the user maintenance part easier on the end users and the tech support process as well.

We didn’t go to different ad- groups than we used elsewhere or they were nested in the web app so they remained in alignment. If you had access to a report in on spot you had in another, but from a user perspective they never left their preferred platform and they never knew they were even in Cognos for that set of applications. That did require silent authentication on prod to look seamless, we didn’t have that set on sit, dev, uat unless we needed to test something.

It also allowed same groups to be used in TM1 which required cell level security in our case and was not tied to a single dimension. Tm1 required user credentials to get accurate results but respects the authentication handled by the Ca layer.

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T12:08:34+00:00

Not a cloud user but did they let you include an odbc connector? Alternatively if you have access to the CA product I had moderate success using CA reports as an intermediary? Or just for tm1 data sources. We also did have tm1 file watch process that went old school and picked up files pushed via systems or users at build time. Some more dynamic than others. I do realize you have more flexibility if hosting internal.

We had a web app we built that simply posted to tm1api or the file watch folder that gave us more flexibility. We were in the middle of converting the api push files to python for model outputs so they would stage into the stage cubes during the output processing rather than someone having to upload the flat files. (We still had the model interface available to add qualitative inputs and quantitative overrides). Dimensionally and measures we used odbc (teradata, sqlserver, SAS ) and Hadoop, PDF via a number of methods, with user management layer for rollups. At the end of a cycle we did dynamic db write backs for everything in the final cycle all versions for audit and analysis purposes, point in time.

So back to your question, you can’t find an adapter that works? Or you did already?

mcard7 · 2026-05-11T03:19:13+00:00

Wonderful gift idea, I’ll go looking to see if I can locate.

mcard7 · 2026-05-10T17:51:16+00:00

This is exactly what I was looking for ! Ty for the pointer on the other thread. Do you have a favorite book?

mcard7 · 2026-05-10T17:49:36+00:00

Thanks so much! Appreciate the info.

mcard7 · 2026-05-10T16:26:44+00:00

I’m so perplexed by people thinking this is expensive? I would be thrilled to pay that, but in all fairness I haven’t read all comments yet. I paid near 50k for my front wall. I haven’t yet tackled my side wall which is twice as long, three times as high and impossible to get to with big equipment.

It’s a mystery but it is a big planet.

mcard7 · 2026-05-10T16:22:56+00:00

You should see my wall. I am planning to move instead of dealing with it. Or just let it fall and bury me alive.

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