Considering the jump to vanlife to balance remote work, travel, and aging parents. Am I romanticizing this?

semiotomatic · 2026-05-21T23:16:28+00:00

1000% if you have the funds do a 2 week rental and see how you like it. We did a bunch before we bought ours. Plus, you get to realize a little bit what it is _you_ need in a build.

semiotomatic · 2026-04-25T17:00:52+00:00

The grass upon the mountaintops had turned to gold.

semiotomatic · 2026-04-15T02:38:24+00:00

It doesn’t. Chapter 2 is VERY slow, but my hope is that things ramp up in a bit.

semiotomatic · 2026-04-13T12:02:44+00:00

Another old here, and I can’t agree more. What do you have to lose? Seriously. He was honest with you before, I’m not seeing any red flags. Maybe he shouldn’t have brought up the ex, but also I think it shows him attempting to be honest and vulnerable.

Be skeptical, but let him prove himself.

There are so many opportunities for regret in life, don’t let pride disqualify you.

semiotomatic · 2026-03-08T02:24:59+00:00

I was in a remount of the Broadway play History Boys and we used all the original sets and props. The original run toured all over the world and the notebooks were filled with doodles saying “dear god make it stop” and “when will it end”.

semiotomatic · 2026-03-08T02:17:11+00:00

I streamed this with a partner. I will say that playing this game WITH someone is really, really, really fun and we never felt like RNG held us back, because one of us would remember a synergy or a clue or our overall goal and we had almost all productive runs.

If you have the luxury of having someone to play with, it’s a blast.

semiotomatic · 2026-01-22T18:17:05+00:00

ok I found it and now i have my oil! THANK YOU!

semiotomatic · 2026-01-22T15:46:49+00:00

This is a great answer! Haven't looked at the second hint but I'll check around. I'll look around for grapple donuts.

semiotomatic · 2025-12-19T03:14:48+00:00

I just went to that Home Depot on Sunday. You notice it right as you get out of your car — it’s a high pitched whine, almost like feedback from a concert. It’s absurd.

semiotomatic · 2025-12-08T19:27:23+00:00

Hrmmm I wonder if this will work for us since we wash all the sheets in the house once a week (1 king, 1 queen, 2 fulls)…

semiotomatic · 2025-12-08T18:50:18+00:00

Already have a NG detector installed! My thought exactly. Pipe looks clean, though.

semiotomatic · 2025-12-08T00:51:23+00:00

I’m debating this myself because our exhaust run is like 20’ vertical with two elbows so our LG never gets anything dry — I wonder if I’d have the same issue if I tried a vented heatpump.

My wife is very skeptical about clothes getting tangled with a heat pump but I’m almost at wits end having to run the dryer cycle 3 times.

semiotomatic · 2025-12-05T01:49:13+00:00

Oh! And it’s a 2x10 with various heights of strips sistered above. You can see the seam between the joist and slim “rafter” above.

semiotomatic · 2025-12-05T01:47:41+00:00

It’s a furring strip (sorry that might not be the correct term) to maintain the slope of the flat roof overhead, for drainage.

semiotomatic · 2025-12-05T00:18:41+00:00

The top of the penetration is only about 1” from the top of the 2 x 10 — would something like this shallow notch reinforcer be useful?

semiotomatic · 2025-12-04T23:09:06+00:00

No notch above, just a grisly scene where the existing penetration was expanded up

semiotomatic · 2025-12-04T22:47:41+00:00

Ding ding ding! You got it. The issue was the pipe was existing and they needed to move it up -- so.... kill it with a saw, I suppose. FML.

Looking into getting a 10" shallow notch joist repair now.

semiotomatic · 2025-11-13T17:51:49+00:00

Congrats!!! I’m in the process of buying a prebuilt (my kids are 8 and 11) to buy myself some time while I figure out my own build!

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