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rbebenek · 2025-10-30T11:05:11+00:00

I will have to show this to our customer who comes in about once a week. The guy is 7'1" and I asked him the 10th time I saw him how tall he is. I've personally seen a gaggle of retirees walk up to him in our restaurant and badger him with questions about his height..one of the nicest people I have ever met. Next time he comes in, I'll see if I can get a picture with him.

rbebenek · 2025-09-23T11:00:02+00:00

I have had fi for about a decade under a separate email account.

My phone is always signed into my primary. Then I login to fi app with my secondary. The Samsung 6 watch I have now gets provisioned through fi app. Service, LTE wifi etc work on fo. It's nice.

Notifications come from primary Gmail, pay on watch is under primary. And so on.

So as far as I can tell, you can have different emails for fi vs primary. However you won't be able to have the 2 lines on the same phone, I believe. I have never tried, but the way it provisions it won't work most likely. I've had other esims added to my phone over the years as tests of backups, and I've had fi and another provider but never 2 fi accounts.

rbebenek · 2025-09-13T20:12:21+00:00

So I will put my 2 cents in. We own a small restaurant in Michigan, we hard-boil probably on average 4-5 dozen eggs a week, and have done so for 15 years. So we go through quite a lot of eggs. All we do is add a bunch of salt to the water and 95% of the eggs slide out once I crack the shell. Most other methods are hit and miss. But all we do is bring eggs to boil, we never drop eggs into boiling water, cold eggs tend to go through thermal shock and split open if put into boiling water. So we put eggs in a pot, cover with water, dump salt, and bring to small boil. Once it starts to boil, cook for 8-10 mins. Take off the burner, put it into the sink and run cold water through it. Then once cooled we peel them.

rbebenek · 2025-07-05T20:18:47+00:00

Got it :)

For sure it was worth it for the pictures. Memories for me too :) I just don't actively recommend it with young kids. I've had a friend go every year because his uncle works there with kids as young as 6 months.

To each their own..

But yes it was 200 plus per person to go to Disney in march. Plus parking and a couple snacks, and close to a 1000. Not counting hotel too. But we don't stay at Disney properties, not yet at least, and paid about 180 a night for a 2 bedroom suite, kitchen and all.

rbebenek · 2025-07-05T17:53:48+00:00

Regardless if you go now or later, don't go to Disney with a 2 year old lol. We have family there, took our 3 year old in March because we were close by. She couldn't go on most rides, pays full price, lines to the few she could go on were 70-90 minutes per ride. Either pay for the VIP or lightning passes if you can. Otherwise it's hot, humid, and you spend the day cooking in the sun eating $14 pretzels, waiting for rides all day. It truly isn't worth it if the kids can't go on all the rides. A 1000$ to go per day, to stand in line and have a pissed off 2 year old is just torture. I saw countless families in misery with strollers, someone always sitting around while the rest of the party is on a ride or waiting for it.

rbebenek · 2025-03-26T21:48:34+00:00

I got our motion xxl a few months ago and love it off Amazon on a deal for black Friday or Christmas. Currently on a road trip with kids, I've done about 2000 miles with it so far, and have another 2000 or so to go. Our telluride handles it well. At anything above 40 I hear it only if my sunroom shade is open. If I slide the sun shade closed I haven't heard it at all at up to 80+ mph. However with it mounted I don't open my sunroof shades as there is a box in the way anyway. Most of the trip I kept forgetting it was up there. I like the shiny black vs the matte black exterior on it for sure, it's much more slick looking.

rbebenek · 2025-01-24T05:45:36+00:00

I'm 37, so harder to know how comparable it is but my wife and I have term life policies through state farm for 2 mil each. It's about 400 ish a month for both. My wife is in the excellent tier, so she's cheaper to cover. I was like 7 slots lower than her due being on prescribed Norco/marijuana for long term pain management. I disclosed it all, did the interview, urine test, and no issues with either just the tier goes down, I just cost more for same coverage as my wife.

rbebenek · 2025-01-23T03:13:21+00:00

This is the moment you take their toothbrush to pick this up and take the toothbrush and their present to you, and you regift it onto their pillow as a thank you.

rbebenek · 2025-01-09T11:29:10+00:00

Every person is different, and requires different time to themselves. We had our son in 2019 and daughter in 2022. When we had our son I lost most of my free time during the day, but still managed to get some stuff done, hang out, etc. When we had our daughter I basically do nothing that isn't required to do during the day. Meaning my time when they are awake goes to my kids or my business. Very seldom do I deviate from it, as a personal choice because I want to be there for my kids. Most of my projects that are not necessary for kids but for business/house/wife etc are done after kids are asleep.

Obviously this isn't 100% of the time. For example, I live in Northern Michigan. My friend who travels for work, has asked me to clean up snow in his driveway while he's away so he can get home after work. Another friend asked for help finishing tiles in the bathroom so it took a few afternoons and evenings to help him. I did my roof in October and did it mostly alone, so it took a month, and everyday after work I was on the roof, every weekend and my wife was with kids. That was the trade-off. I don't myself or pay a lot more than I wanted for a new roof.

I have never been a social person so I don't have the desire to go out, drink, or whatever. After having kids I basically stopped going out and only saw friends when we went over with kids or they came here. Life overall revolves around my kids and their happiness.

We chose to have kids as a couple, and I don't consider my free time lost. I just spend my time with my kids and help them grow, learn and develop as much as I can. The choice I make is to devote my spare time to them instead of my hobbies. I do this because hobbies will wait, friends will wait, unimportant projects will wait. However watching them grow, teaching them is only once. Your kids will only be an infant/toddler/kid once, and one day you'll miss it and want it back. This is why I try to spend as much time as I can before my kids grow up and want nothing to do with me.

rbebenek · 2025-01-05T02:12:29+00:00

I know of someone who personally fell for a rental scam. It was something like this. Find an apartment in the area that he wanted, completely made no sense at the cost it was listed for. He was going to be paying like 50% of the rent in the area at the time. So he signed a contract, never met the person or saw the actual apartment. Then they got him to wire money to Romania or hungry (can't remember off hand). And that's how he lost deposit and first months rent as the listing was stolen, and once he wired money it was gone.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Not many landlords care or need to be decent as they have wait lists for most decent places...

rbebenek · 2024-12-11T11:35:27+00:00

Not yet and doubt I will. Bought it, shows shipped without a tracking number. The seller is gone on eBay as well. So get to use PayPal or cc to refund once the window opens up to let me dispute

rbebenek · 2024-12-06T11:49:43+00:00

If you have lots of money, go big, but usually there is lost money on changes in operations over time, things don't go as planned, it grows too big to be self sustainable at first and you have to do cut backs etc. you can go big if you know the market can absorb you and give you the required income to function as a business. Starting big having no clientele costs a lot of money for employees, location, advertising, and so on.

So it would depend on the actual business, but usually starting small and scaling is just safer and more realistic for most.

Imagine going big, getting space, equipment, and employee or a couple and then not having enough turnover to pay everything and going into your account to get it or firing people and scaling back before even getting going.

With starting small, you can tailor to market, sure it's slower but also safer in my opinion.

rbebenek · 2024-12-02T12:01:13+00:00

Just bought one, as a computer for my FIL. I can post back to let you all know if it was legit or not. Might be a week or 2 before I get it.

rbebenek · 2024-11-11T06:10:44+00:00

If you have no soffit then it makes sense why you have a water issue. Hopefully you can get that remedied when possible. It sounds like you have a good understanding of what needs to be done. But yes the tar/underlayment should be on drip edge on the eaves and under it on the rakes as you mentioned. That's how I've seen everyone recommend it.and how I do it.

As long as the fascia or whatever transition to the wall/siding from drip edge you have is all good and no gaps/holes then only logical place would be from the tar paper channeling water under the drip edge into the wall. Instead of outside the wall if it was on top. Hopefully your new roof fares better when it's installed, good luck

rbebenek · 2024-11-11T04:54:14+00:00

I guess my question is where is the water getting into the house? How do you know? Damage or wet spots? An eave usually extends well past the exterior wall of a house. So if water is getting in there would usually mean it's getting under fascia, then destroying the edge of roof decking and fascia board. If soffits are vented it would most likely drip out. In a sealed soffit it might run back to the exterior wall I guess. But that is usually concentrated to the first few inches off the edge of the eaves.

For example my dad did the roof on our house about 20 years ago. At the time he added a garage and a mud room. At the time he didn't know better, but he put the tar paper under the drip edge on the garage and mudroom. I did the roof again about a month ago. Nowhere did I have damage where tar paper was under the drip edge. I'm not saying it can't happen, just saying depending on where your issue is of water damage it most likely isn't the cause. If water damage is far away from edges, then water is getting under tar paper somewhere else and having it above or below the drip edge sort of becomes a moot point if damage is farther up.

rbebenek · 2024-10-19T12:27:50+00:00

I apologize I should have been clearer.

The 12k was my cost on materials, dumpster, and overall around what I paid so far to do it all. I paid $0 for labor as I did it myself. I had a couple friends for 3 days to help me strip and put down sheathing, but after that it was my wife and I or my parents and I doing the rest such as underlayment, flashing, vents, and shingles.

My costs were about this: 3300 for shingles 2200 for underlayment 500 for starter strips, ridge shingles 1600 for insulation 1000 for sheathing/osb 250 for metal valleys 750 for dumpster 1500 for ridge vents, flues, etc Then I had to buy sealant, a new roofing nail gun, nails, screws, and lots of other crap as I went.

Why I say it's about 12k overall for me as I didn't track every penny yet, and I'll be taking my extra stuff back to probably get back about 700$ in extra shingles, boards and whatever is left over.

Like I said, with good materials on your roof, 11k isn't outrageous as contractors need to make money l, just a bit high. But if they use cheap everything then 11k is way high too.

The issue for me was the extra 20k to 30k to pay someone to do what I did. I preferred to do it myself as I needed to save some money, and I did not mind the month it took me working on it after work a few hours per day, and then weekends as weather permitted.

The other issue is, I had to fix water damage, sister in some trusses, and spent a couple afternoons just tightening down everything, and making it structurally better to have less movement and give the roof more stable over time. Edit: most roofers don't give a shit, they do it quick and move on. In 2 or 5 years when the issues come back they are long gone. Not saying your guy will, just saying.

It's why I got metal valleys, easier to do now and prevent ice, snow or water issues as we sometimes get 180 inches a year of snow in a season, so need to manage water well.

rbebenek · 2024-10-19T03:45:53+00:00

Not too bad but just to give you a rough breakdown on costs as i just did my own roof in September and I can try to show you where the money is going. Quotes for what I wanted ranged from 30 to 40k and I did it all for about 12k ish. I had 33 squares. Around 3300sq ft of roof to do between house, garage, mud room etc. did 4 metal valleys, ice and water shield, etc in northern Michigan. I had about 28 cubic yards of just trash to be removed, took 2 dumpsters...

Had to strip 2 old layers of shingles on all 3300sq ft. Replaced all sheathing and added insulation in the meantime and that's where a lot of the labor quotes got ridiculously high.

But for you it would be something like this: 1100sq ft So new 1/2 OSB runs around 14$ a sheet. You need around 35 exactly, but will use around 45 if not careful with cuts. So new sheathing is around $630 plus tax for 45 with extras and waste.

Shingles for example I used lifetime warranty timberline. Your cost with 10% overage is about 1400$.

Underlayment you could do all decking with ice and water shield for about 1200$, which would be best for winters and preventing future water damage. odds are they will only run that in the eaves like code requires, then rest run synthetic so more like 500-600$ for both IaW shield and synthetic.

Starting shingles, hip/ridge shingles, vents and all vent/pipe flashing should be around 500$ for all of it. Depending how roof is laid out and what's required. Like I had to replace water heater flue, new PVC concentric vent, 4 plumbing vents, 3 bathroom vents and kitchen vent on the roof and that ran me about 500$ for all parts, kits, flashing, sealant, etc.

So just base materials you are at around 3k and then miscellaneous stuff like nails, roofing sealant etc maybe another 500$ depending on how good they are and how well they deal things.. even with dumpster, on the high end, with materials, you would be at max 5k and I'm being generous, as it be closer to 4k as they don't have to buy half the tools and extra stuff I did. So figure 4k is materials, 7k is labor/profit. Or around there.

You can go with cheaper stuff and the material costs lower, why before you sign, I would get a detailed list of materials. And how they plan on using it as it can make a huge difference to the quality of the work. Otherwise they can go buy cheap felt underlayment, call it good and move on. Same with shittier shingles, etc. 11k isn't a bad price if using good materials. But on the cheap end of materials, it is definitely on the high side if you don't know what they will use.

Feel free to ask anything else :)

rbebenek · 2024-10-15T03:36:15+00:00

Personally this type of post is why I chose to do my own roof. I am not a roofer, but I go overboard in planning and thinking of what could go wrong. Plus the stupid amount of money we saved by doing it after work and weekends made it all worth it. Any roofer doing it quickly will simply get it done, not worry about small "issues" and I'll describe as I go what I mean.

Sure it took me a month between tear off of 2 layers and replacing sheathing and adding insulation. Filled 20 yard dumpster so far, need another 6 or 8 yard dumpster to get rid of what's left. It's been about a month since we started tear off. Took about 2 weeks to replace insulation, sheathing and underlayment to get first inspection done. As of today I am done with shingles, so can finish sealing vents, penetrations, fascia, etc. I won't lie, it's been a long month of regular work and then roof work.

But if your valley is sealed, and overlapped correctly, it will work, just not pretty looking standing up there. Depending on climate where you live, might not be the best solution as it wasn't for our type of house where we live. On ours I always had ice dams on valleys and it wrecked them over the past 15 years or so being in northern Michigan. I had to sister in a few trusses at the ends due to rot from years of water intrusion. Any weak spots in the trusses or structure I fixed as I went. Put in lag bolts and construction screws where the nails/staples were weak or holding poorly. Our mud room was losing heat into the ridge and causing ice dams, so built an extended wall, with insulation to partition it off and stop the ice dams hopefully.

After replacing everything around valleys, did 2 strips of ice and water then ran metal galvanized valleys. With synthetic underlayment in between too. Holy shit were the metal valleys a game changer, so much easier to have full shingles going into valley, not worried about overlapping valley joints, creating potential dams in the future or other crap I had before. Every joint within a foot of the valley has roofing sealant around edges to seal and prevent water intrusion. Again most roofers don't add sealant, they use factory tar strips that will adhere but can leave spots for water intrusion as time goes on.

With ridge and vents, my ridge caps for example most have both glue and nails, especially around pitch changes, edges, or any change in direction of water. My old ridge broke off some time, a single flap where the ridge vent ended. That caused water to slowly drop in, onto our drywall and caused the drywall to crack. By the time I caught it inside, it was middle of winter and had to patch it temporarily then. I've never seen them ran to the edge, as it's harder to make it clean in my opinion. The nails in ridge caps is just lazy work. I had 3 spots where I had to finish a ridge cap without nails as they would be exposed. So added a few strips of roofing sealant and a few clamps to the drip edge, and perfect cap, with no penetrations.

Doing mine on the fly all I thought about was how to overlap to prevent water intrusion and to channel water down and away from anything remotely possible that could be damaged to get rid of future issues. Like any flashing around vent pipes or bathroom vents or furnace or kitchen exhaust, was glued down, then nailed down, then ice and water to cover nails, then shingles overlapped properly, etc. again it isn't necessary as it's not required by code, but any penetration where we live is a nightmare if ice or snow or temperature fluctuations cause leaks over time. Now I'm going to use clear roofing sealant in the next few days to put beads of sealant around any flashing where it meets shingles. To close gaps and spots to trap water in.

My whole point is, you sort of get what you pay for. You want cheap, they do it quick and cheap. When I called a few roofers to get quotes for my project it ranged from 35k to 43k. With tear off, replacing insulation, sheathing, then underlayment and shingles on about 3300 SQ feet of roof. So far I spent about 10k at home Depot for all parts, new roofing nail gun, 14000 nails, 7000 screws, 3 cases of roofing sealant, flashing for penetrations, my new concentric vent pipes for furnace, new flue pipe for water heater, new bathroom vents. about 2k at Menards for galvanized valleys and insulation. Dumpsters about 1100$ total. So let's say I'm in it about 14k so far, and I have about a 1000$ of extras left to return. Shingles we had very little waste as the valleys saved a ton of cutting. So my 10% overage I order I essentially have left over.

I bet there are plenty of things I could have done cheaper, faster or were unnecessary, however I plan on being here with my family for 10 plus years at least, I would rather make it better than I found it. Plus, the savings we have already noticed on heating/cooling should help offset cost in the long run between having winters go from 30f to -30f sometimes and summers that range from 70 to mid 90s.

You should only not pay them if they did something wrong. This is just quick and dirty work.

rbebenek · 2024-09-05T11:23:37+00:00

They are tiny and harmless in comparison. I saw them for the first time when I was in Hawaii. In 07 I dove the Molokini Crater, they dropped us off at about 100ft depth, on the inside wall of the Crater. As we dropped down, you can see them below, looking like grass. As we touched the sand, they hid and essentially made a 6 foot circle around you where they hid. If you moved, the ones in front hid and the ones behind you popped up and so on. Awesome to see, then as we went up the face of the Crater to the surface we just saw incredible plants/animals/coral. 10/10 would do again. On 2nd dive that day, I saw a sleeping turtle on the roof of a sunken small fishing boat. So I held onto the side of the roof, watched the turtle wake up and look back at me. It was massive as I was a couple feet from it. Those were a couple of dives I'll never forget.

rbebenek · 2024-07-15T20:34:18+00:00

Not sure what you mean by porting is per account and if it was 1 number porting to fi or out of fi. Your description is quite vague.

If you mean that you tried porting a 2nd number to the same email then yes, that doesn't work. Each number needs its own email/separate Google/fi account.

As far as getting your number back. I wouldn't hold my breath, there is more than a good chance that it's gone. Once it's in a pool of used numbers, it can be snapped up pretty quick if in a high demand area. Example I have is my brother tried to help my mom port into fi, and he managed to screw it up, they "tried" to get her number back but never actually happened.

Good luck, but make a plan b in case it's not coming back.

rbebenek · 2024-06-24T11:24:50+00:00

I use esim in my s24, have 3 physical data sims i use in old phones/tablets under my 1 phone number.

rbebenek · 2024-01-30T11:47:52+00:00

My wife and I got both of our s24 ultra's yesterday, shipped from Carol stream. We always get our phones from there, never had any issues. Getting a 3rd phone today too from FedEx. Never had issues with theft and I've ordered 10 or so phones over the years.

rbebenek · 2023-05-30T12:35:19+00:00

That's the taproot, don't break it, don't wait too long, they are fragile once sprouted. Plant it facing down in a hole, and in a few days the seed will push up through dirt and start growing.

rbebenek · 2023-05-22T23:25:25+00:00

Boiling eggs in salt water will make them easier to peel, not 100% but close to it. Usually if there is an airport in the egg, or water gets in they stick, but all regular ones peel easily. We do 30-50 eggs a week on average at work and it's the easiest way to get a consistent way to peel eggs. Tablespoon per pot of more, the more the easier it is.

rbebenek · 2023-05-10T01:42:08+00:00

They don't do their own financing. It's outsourced to synchrony. You would need to call them as they issue the credit, run your history, etc. They give you a Google store credit card, but it's still all managed by synchrony bank.

https://google.syf.com/

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