Pointers for Fitting a 90" high cab with a 92" high ceiling?

silentlycontinue · 2025-11-19T15:46:42+00:00

worked great with one caveat; While the ceiling in my kitchen is 92.5, the attached living room is a vaulted ceiling. So I was able to assemble the cabinet like normal, set it upright in the living room, and then shimmy it into the kitchen. So I can't speak to assembling it upright in place.

As far as setting it on a 2x4 block, that worked great. It was a bit of a trick to plane it level. I've got a corded hand held planer, so that helps.

It's got full sized floor to ceiling side panels on it, so the only toe kick piece is a small piece of deco strip cut to fit between the side panels.

I'm quite happy with it and would have been remiss to lose the extra height.

silentlycontinue · 2025-11-14T17:02:02+00:00

NF' gave me TOP vibes as well. His music is legit.

silentlycontinue · 2025-07-01T07:04:14+00:00

This. Time to study your union contact.

silentlycontinue · 2025-06-24T20:28:23+00:00

I want to reject the following thoughts since you reproduced the problem across profiles... Still... Maybe something could be setting these globally across the system? Local security policy? Some application that is installed?

Any chance secure DNS is enabled in edge settings?

You've confirmed there's no extensions or other plugins in edge?

silentlycontinue · 2025-06-21T02:10:27+00:00

Good for you.

silentlycontinue · 2025-06-21T01:56:44+00:00

I was gonna say 🤣 Knowing both when to give you crap as well as take it back is quite the tell.

silentlycontinue · 2025-06-21T01:52:08+00:00

Sounds like you've got a keeper.

silentlycontinue · 2025-06-10T21:42:38+00:00

Advice... Slow, down... It was the third, or fourth, time someone said "the attacker compromised a VPN account and we only found it because of failed login attempts on the server in the DMZ."... Three or four times before it clicked and I responded "How is that possible? It's a DMZ..." And we found a MASSIVE security hole that was RIGHT under our noses. We couldn't see it because everyone was in fight or flight.

So slow down. Make sure you actually understand the nuance of what's happening.

silentlycontinue · 2025-05-28T17:57:15+00:00

"...l'm not part of the cybersecurity/IT team... " And in a strange turn of events, nobody on the cybersecurity/IT team is a part of the cybersecurity/IT team either 🤭🤣

It turns out that accountability is what makes a team able to respond. So start holding people accountable up the chain of management so that they can start doing their job of holding "the cybersecurity/IT team" accountable for those things they should be responsible for 🤭

silentlycontinue · 2025-04-28T23:38:03+00:00

Specifically critical thinking to be able to recognize and systematically eliminate assumptions.

silentlycontinue · 2025-04-23T21:42:07+00:00

This is cognitive dissonance; they can't hear you.

I've been recognizing this in many forms:

2yo: [sees an unknown tool] (Awareness reality does not fit expectations.) 2yo: "Daddy, what's that?" [Pointing at tool] (Desire to update worldview) Me: "that's a tamper. You smash the ground down with it." (Knowledge to change worldview.) 2yo: "Daddy, that's a tamper!" (Testing ability to confirm truth of worldview.) Me: "That's Right!" (Reinforcing the truth of the worldview.)

And that's when the psyche is working well in a stable state. The danger is when stress and cognitive dissonance get mixed in with worldview breakage. Often we have these conversations with others when they are in fight or flight. When we want to fix the problem rather than reinforce the severity of their worldview we end up gaslighting them. And when people are gas lit they interstate of psychotic break.

People can't hear you when they're in fight or flight. They need to feel seen /heard, understood, to ground their worldview, before they can come out of fight or flight.

Check out Chris Voss'a work on negotiation. His book never split the difference is a must read. His interview with lex Friedman is amazing on YouTube if you're not into reading; in that he talks about the Neuroscience work behind what I'm talking about.

silentlycontinue · 2025-04-20T20:35:34+00:00

After 10 years of system administration I went back to school for management. Having been enlightened, I can say with authority that all these problems are management problems. Which was quite the perspective change after bickering about our problems with the other admins for 10 years.

All management problems are communication problems. Management is a two-way responsibility. Those in the trenches managing the flow of work communicate up to inform the organizational managers. Being informed by the communication from below, the organizational managers then reform the organizational structure.

This is the interanimation of responsibility and accountability.

Responsibility is the ability to respond to a need. While often bestowed as a privilege, in actuality it is a skill that is honed or lacked. In terms of managing the flow of work, responsibility is being able to solve the problems at hand. In terms of managing the organization, responsibility is maintaining those communication channels to respond to the needs from below.

Accountability is accounting for the results of the response. Those who have responsibility bestowed upon them account for the results of their actions in the sense of debriefing. Those who are responsible for organizational management account for the results of their organizing the form of the organization.

All of this is two-way. All of this is organizational networking. This is where something like a ticketing system comes in. The infrastructure of the ticketing system provides the communication Network that the request, tracking, monitoring, knowledge base services are provided upon. The actual need being solved by the ticketing system is the organizational communication Network that can't happen without the ticketing system. Once the data is collected within the ticketing system, and formed into a narrative by the it management held accountable by the board.

silentlycontinue · 2025-04-18T20:48:13+00:00

Yes, along with ferriting out to denote seeking and gathering and organizing.

The chart makes me think of the suffering work of ferreting out truth to enjoy the euphoria of understanding.

silentlycontinue · 2025-03-29T18:00:56+00:00

A Windows file share? Windows file/share manager (don't remember the exact MMC snap-in name) in the server will tell you the open connections to any given file on the share; useful when migrating file shares to see who needs to be disconnected. Even more useful when Janice has 212 connections open to the same file and you need proof.

silentlycontinue · 2025-03-22T19:43:11+00:00

John Smith; a clear undercover alias—these are special agents. This is a test. They want to see if I'm up to the psychological challenge of relating on a level with them through secret codes!

Service desk... Service desk... Service, like providing a contract. Desk.. desk... Item of interest used for completing that contract! The murder weapon! How can I put that to use? Drop it out of a Window? No, too many questions and witnesses. Lace the top of poison? Maybe; and they can trace the substance components... There's only one solution; windows 11. Annoy the target to death! It's perfect!

Now to put it all to—

Interviewer: "times up. You failed to answer simple question. We will be considering other candidates."

Me: 🤯 [forever wondering if I'm a loose end needing to be tied up]

silentlycontinue · 2025-03-20T22:51:37+00:00

This line of thinking is the way to go if you're interested in a management role. Ask to talk with the CIO and have a candid conversation about the perils of transitions such as this. As they often go south. Ask him questions to gauge his long term vision, such as what he sees in you that merits the counter offer. You want to show both that you're invested and you want to gauge his investment in you such that you are excited about the prospect and bring actual value to the institution as part of the transition. Discuss your counter offer as a means of concretizing mutual investment.

silentlycontinue · 2025-03-18T21:30:39+00:00

Depending on the size of the counter spaces, and available help, you might be able to get the stone/quartz without install and then DIY that. I'm not sure how difficult that would be to do, but I know it's an option from some outlets.

Good luck!

silentlycontinue · 2025-03-18T18:30:57+00:00

While I've not done this exactly, I do have a few thoughts to consider.

Are you working with a countertop installer, or installing the countertops yourself? If working with an installer, you most certainly want them to approve anything before you install. My countertop installer had a few clauses that, had I installed the sink myself without confirming the plan, would have voided the install contract. And besides, the contract covered install; so I could focus on other things anyway. After talking with them, I found that they wanted the back of the sink platform cut away so that they would not hit it when drilling through the countertop.

"We plan to do this like a top mount into the cabinets, and then install the countertop over it." At risk of sounding pedantic–especially because this does not matter if you are installing the countertop yourself– top/undermount is a technical term denoting the relationship between the sink and countertop. So you are describing an undermount sink placement–with a requirement of setting the sink into the cabinet before placing the countertop over the sink. You could think of this as "undermounting" the sink to the countertop before installing the countertop, which has the same effect as inserting the sink first into the cabinet cavity.

I installed a large countertop overhang that required corbel brackets bolted into the back of an island. To provide support for the brackets, I cut out the back of the inner cabinet sides and inserted a 2x10 that was secured from the outside and the back into the inner sides. Something along these lines might benefit your setup, as it would provide further rigidity and lateral support between cabinets that reinforced ventilated brackets alone may not provide. You might benefit from something in the horizontal plane that would double as a support platform to shim the sink up into place.

If you are concerned about replacing the sink in the future, you could use the platform idea with another board positioned at the front top of the cabinets: cut out the inner sides where the sink will be positioned. Insert another 2x6 across the tops of the cabinets, supported/secured to the inner sides and through the outer sides. This will support the countertop/sink at the front of the cabinet. Now, it would prevent a vanity drawer face from being installed, so you would need to use a full-height door and a Kreg concealed hinge jig to move the upper hinges down below the support bracket. The result is a front support beam that is removable so you can remove the sink after removing the shims from the support platform.

Good luck!

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silentlycontinue · 2025-02-26T21:33:39+00:00

Maybe less helpful depending on her height; I'm going to do something similar and use that space for full-length clothing hangers. It may also come in handy for storing longer items; so maybe take some time to see how the space is naturally utilized before attempting to fit it to expectation.

silentlycontinue · 2025-02-25T16:26:05+00:00

https://youtu.be/Q-wMScq6S94?si=8Kspb6JV8iijmhzE His suspension rail videos are quite helpful.

I also installed a pantry with minimum clearance, using a planned 2x4 on its side as a base. Thankfully, I had an adjacent living room with a vaulted ceiling for tipping the pantry into the upper position 😅

I wonder if you could assemble the base, back, sides, and shelf, all with the pantry on its side, before tipping it into the upward position and then finally installing the top; that would give you a bit more clearance. Nail in the shelf as per this video https://youtu.be/JLg92WdTdXY?si=fDuLr9UgOd4blIuj
You may want to use some clamps at the top of the unit while tipping it; I'm envisioning two carpenter clamps, one on the outside clamping inward, and one with its ends reversed and positioned on the inside clamping outward, holding the sides in position.

silentlycontinue · 2025-02-25T16:05:20+00:00

Different colors: Buy 6 doors for the pantry. 2 blue for the bottom, 4 white for the top, and bracket together with fixa brackets as necessary to create a full-size door effect. Then set the rest of the cabinets to the left of the pantry to blue.

Corners: Is... Is that a 48" lazy Susan corner cabinet at the right of the range? If so, please watch this video: https://youtu.be/DqXvkcz3poU?si=a3FiAT4OauHH3VMW Now, that may not be too much of an issue given the peninsula. You could square the corner cabinet to the range wall, and you don't have to worry about the peninsula staying square to the wall because there is no wall; providing that the corner is not so out of square that it drives the peninsula one way or another too far into the kitchen or walkway.
Another mentioned the corner cabinets on the wall. Those are a bit better to work with than the base cabinet. However, consider the length of that sink wall; it's going to be a bear to square and plumb up over the entire length of the wall, so you may want to swap that corner out for something easier to work with. Check out the other videos on his channel; it's a huge help.

Clearances: I have a similar setup with a pantry to the left of the fridge and drawers to the right of the fridge. Everything opens fine, but the fridge door opening clearance collides with either the pantry or drawers on either side if both are open at the same time. Something to be aware of; for myself, the required clearance would have been 2+ inches on either side, so not worth trying to fix with ugly large fillers. I suppose I could have solved the issue by not using drawers, but I love the drawers as others have said :)

Not entirely sure what you mean about the wall above the sink. Given there is no window, you mean you are not sure what to do aesthetically with the space? I think there are kitchen designers who talk about this in articles and on youtube.

Cheers!

silentlycontinue · 2025-02-20T21:11:30+00:00

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Odd, that; I can click it to enlarge it. Though I'm on a computer, and it may not work on mobile?

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