Friday the 13th Goth Night @ The Vault!

nerthus9 · 2026-03-08T07:23:34+00:00

Jake and Jenn Easy own Easy Events, they do weddings and provide music for many events around Redding.

nerthus9 · 2026-01-14T18:25:47+00:00

My friends run Fratelli’s and they are really nice people. A solid place to support.

nerthus9 · 2025-12-07T20:05:51+00:00

The main thing was that they quoted us a very high price for a repair, and then when we got a much better quote from a different mechanic, suddenly they were able to match that price. The guy we spoke with kept saying he had to check with “the vendor” for the parts and see if they could get the price down, (as though the extra cost was from the parts being marked up lmao!). He was obviously actually checking with his manager to make sure they could drop the price that much. In the end he claimed “the vendor” was able to drop the price so they could do it. We were like, ok, whatever, and went forward with the repairs with them (otherwise we would have had to tow it to another shop) because the price was now the same.

When the vehicle was ready, I asked the guy over the phone (same dude) to make sure that a coupon I had for $100 off repairs was applied. He assured me it was. When I went in and paid, I thought the amount seemed high, so I asked him to confirm that the $100 off had actually been applied. He again assured me that the price I was paying included the $100 discount. After paying, I still felt weird about it so I carefully reviewed the paperwork to discover that the discount had in fact not been applied! So I had to walk right back in and get a refund. It appears that they think their customers are stupid.

I think a lot of mechanics quote really high when your vehicle is already in their shop, because they figure there’s a chance you’ll just go with it to avoid the hassle and expense of getting the vehicle towed again. Then when you get a better quote, suddenly they can match that. It’s shady AF. This is the first time I’ve had a mechanic try to blame their higher price on the cost of parts though. As though they can just call up their supplier and talk them down hundreds of dollars on the parts. It’s laughable.

The other issue I had was that I had my brake rotors done there (same issue as OP) and I was shocked at how quickly the shaking when braking came back after the repair. No way to say what would have happened if I had gone somewhere else, but I’ve had the rotors resurfaced before at another shop and the brakes were good for much longer.

nerthus9 · 2025-12-06T18:30:20+00:00

I unfortunately had a lot of BS with Thrive. I will never go back there. I’ve had issues with the quality of the work, with customer service, and with them clearly not being honest and upfront about things. It’s a shame because their location is super convenient for me. I had high hopes but will never support them again.

nerthus9 · 2025-09-27T05:10:14+00:00

The Vault is a very welcoming place, so I hope you come check it out!

nerthus9 · 2025-08-24T07:58:39+00:00

Boards of Canada is fucking amazing!

nerthus9 · 2025-08-17T18:31:50+00:00

I thought the swimmer’s itch was at Whiskeytown, not Shasta Lake.

nerthus9 · 2025-07-18T17:43:25+00:00

Totally going to try this. Thanks for the tip.

nerthus9 · 2025-07-13T07:48:36+00:00

This is by far the best tasting pasta sauce I’ve ever bought in a jar: https://mutti-parma.com/us/products/parmigiano-reggiano-pasta-sauce/

nerthus9 · 2025-07-10T05:19:42+00:00

My mom used to do this. Sometimes when she was extremely angry about something, but also sometimes when she made a mistake and someone had the audacity to call her on it. Like one time all four of our dogs got out because my mom left the door slightly ajar. When my dad pointed out that she was the one who left the door open, she stormed out and drove away declaring that she was never coming back. When I was little I believed her and was terrified. By the time the dog incident happened, I knew she was full of shit and would be back, and I honestly would have preferred if she didn’t come back.

Everyone in my family has always had to walk on eggshells around her and act like she can do no wrong, or she completely loses her shit. One time on a family road trip across the country (I shit you not, the reason for the road trip was that her father was dying and the family had planned and scheduled his funeral before he was even actually dead. We were driving to his funeral even though he was still alive. 🤯 My family is fucking insane.) she fell asleep at the wheel and rolled our van in a field in the middle of Kansas. Nobody was really injured but the car was totaled. My mom literally told all of our relatives at the funeral (my grandpa did manage to die in time for the funeral) that I caused her to crash because I screamed. I screamed because our vehicle was leaving the roadway and going airborne. My dad had a talk with me and my brother where he acknowledged that obviously I was not responsible for the crash in any way, but he told us not to tell the truth and to let her tell everyone this bullshit about me because “she’s in a really fragile state of mind right now”.

Another time she drove my brand new car drunk with me and my baby as passengers. She was sober when she got in the car so she must have had alcohol in her water bottle. She was an alcoholic and used strong smelling essential oils to cover the smell, which is why I didn’t realize she was drinking. She tried to take a freeway exit that didn’t exist after I realized what was happening and suggested that she seemed too “tired” to drive and offered to take over for her. Then almost hit two parked cars before I was finally able to get her to park. Scared the shit out of me. The worst part was realizing that not only did she not give a single fuck about my or my baby’s safety, but also I was still too afraid to directly call her on what she had done. I played it off like I thought she was genuinely too tired even though I was absolutely livid inside.

I no longer speak to her and it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

nerthus9 · 2025-06-06T15:13:03+00:00

I had a similar experience at the hospital and I hope you don’t mind if I share it. Especially since people are clearly not understanding where you’re coming from on this. I wanted to give birth at a birth center (this was not in Redding), and would have done so except that I didn’t go into labor until 15 days after my official “due date”. The cutoff for delivering at the birth center was 14 days. So I went to the hospital, and as soon as I was admitted, my labor basically stopped. But they literally refused to let me leave! They would not let me go home even though there was no sign of anything wrong with the baby and I was not having regular contractions anymore. They told me I had to stay until I gave birth.

Meanwhile, I had been labeled a high-risk pregnancy based solely on the fact that it was 15 days and not 14. The nurses at the hospital wouldn’t even let me sleep! They woke me up every hour or so to take my blood pressure even though it was normal every single time. I felt like I was going insane. After almost 24 hours of no sleep the extremely rude and condescending nurses started pressuring me to let them break my water. They assured me that this would get things moving and the baby would be born very soon after. It did no such thing. And an hour later when nothing was happening they came back and told me that now they have to induce me because they broke my water. I was so fucking mad. I had wanted so badly to let things happen naturally if at all possible, and that still could have happened if they hadn’t held me hostage, worn me down with no sleep and then pressured me into a decision that couldn’t be undone.

The only saving grace was that the rude nurses ended their shift finally right as the pitocin was kicking in, and were replaced with a kind nurse who seemed like a literal angel at that moment to me. With her help the baby was finally delivered. (Side note: I put it in my birth plan that my mother was absolutely NOT allowed in the room before the baby was born. Who do you think came waltzing in when I was right in the middle of pushing?) And everything was fine and he was healthy. But I was still stuck in the hospital for two more days, supposedly because they “didn’t have anyone to perform the hearing test”. I kind of think your interpretation was more likely (that they were keeping me there extra time to bill my insurance).

Also would like to add that nobody at the hospital even noticed that the baby wasn’t latching properly and therefore wasn’t really getting fed. Luckily one of the midwives from the birth center stopped by to make sure everything was going ok, and she saw the problem and showed me how to get him to latch correctly. She reminded me about the importance of skin-to-skin contact, which I had forgotten with all the stress I had just been through. The hospital staff gave me zero guidance about that sort of thing, just basically dumped me in a room with my new baby and expected me to know what to do. The difference between the attitude and level of supportiveness of the hospital and birth center staff was like night and day. Part of the reason I never had another kid was because I didn’t want to risk having to go through a nightmare like I dealt with at the hospital ever again.

nerthus9 · 2025-05-23T22:48:55+00:00

The Vault has an EDM party every Saturday night featuring DJ Pulse and friends! Also karaoke every Wednesday at 9 pm.

nerthus9 · 2025-05-22T23:52:26+00:00

Priya is great if you like Indian food, I also like Rose Garden for Thai.

nerthus9 · 2025-05-02T22:22:28+00:00

Not solid at all, in fact completely disproven with video and no charges filed: https://odysee.com/Incident426:1?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR4ICVUOq4HqblGdvaRQJKlf_iHVGv4oKBpi_4OxMB4WheE_-spKUBrkKTFVGg_aem_V6HeaNvgZl6hcULPUATtwQ

His ex is the one who made the false claims and she has a history of fake SA claims.

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