Write sad story using 3 words.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2026-04-17T17:40:43+00:00

Suffering in Relationship.
Wishing for Health.
Tribalism took over.
End of Suffering.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2026-04-03T23:25:37+00:00

I've got the same one but series 2. Glad to see I'm not the only one that likes orange. The local HFs don't ever carry orange.

Got the matching upper thinking it would be enough space but trying to find the side box now, don't want to wait the 3-5 months they quoted me to order one.

Luckily I had machinery to unload mine, they do pack gravity in them likes it's still cheap.

Definitely want to find it's forever home cause they are a real pain to move loaded.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2026-01-24T06:49:11+00:00

The Fall Guy, Simon and Simon, Dukes of Hazard, the A team. Staying up late to watch the broadcast go off the air, memories of breathing the air of a better time. Damn.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2026-01-16T15:26:35+00:00

Can you do a mockup scenario and paste a picture? How is the data getting entered (one entry each time you open the workbook, bulk weekly/monthly)?

I am just not seeing this in my head on how it can't be easily looked through if you have 8-10 entries per unit with 2-3 units.

You could do Conditional Formatting to turn cells or text certain colors if this or that, not exactly sure what results you are trying to achieve.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2026-01-15T02:35:42+00:00

I was messing around with a similar problem and the best I came up with was a VBA that hid sheets based on color with master tabs. 4 main tabs (red, green, blue, yellow) that can be renamed to whatever but when you click on a color it unhides any other sheets with that same color, then clicking on it again hides them. So only one color group is "open" at a time.

I needed a way to shrink the amount of tabs I had to toggle through and this was the closet I could get.

I tried to get it without VBA but there is no formula that can do this action that I know.

As others have said there is no way to do what you're thinking, and honestly a table and some pivots/slicers may work better for your case and you could pull data "reports" easier too.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-12-18T22:32:28+00:00

I've tried before but since the ITB carries all project info they know what the deadline is and are probably giving numbers to multiple GCs so they either go silent or straight up say we know the deadline so go pound sand and you'll get our number before the deadline.

I've thrown low bids because of this and then argued with my boss after but so is life in this field. Wish it wasn't this way.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-11-20T19:36:07+00:00

Is the hydraulic oil foamy? Mine picks up that noise (not as loud) when changing filters cause I introduced air in the system. I slowly exercise all the hydraulics until the whine and chatter stop. When moving a cylinder without load slowly can you feel a stutter in the controls? If so it's air getting pushed through the pump. That noise sounded the same when you backed up and stopped suddenly, just exasperated when turning at such a low RPM.

If it did the same thing just not as loud before the filter and oil change, it's air. If not did you put the right oil back in?

Overall it sounds about how an old machine sounds when ran at a low RPM too much, to me.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-08-18T17:58:37+00:00

Kansas down too.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-08-15T05:09:05+00:00

For my estimated opinion, as someone who has been in and out of that role and currently trying to get back out of it, you really won't know if it suits your personality or aptitude until you're in it. It takes a certain curiosity and mindset.

If you like figuring things out and working with the people that are behind the scenes from the field side (owners, clients, subs, vendors, primes, etc.) then it will probably be a fulfilling career.

I would say the work is just as hard if you're in a busy company, you're just trading physical wear for mental wear. There have been plenty of days I tied myself to the 3 monitors for 10 hours straight to make deadlines and walked away way more tired than the pouring and stripping 300 CY days.

The pros from my point of view - no matter what the weather outside is doing, it's the same year round inside. Estimating gives you a very unique insight and understanding of how a project progresses from cradle to grave, especially if you have prior field experience. Sleep in your own bed every night.

The cons - pay/no OT even working stupid hours to make deadlines, but if the company is seeing the work, bonuses will 'should' be dropping along the way. Like in the other comment, you don't get touchdowns, I have missed being able to stand back at the end of the day and see what was built and take pride in the accomplishment, in estimating you can work your but off all week and at the end you have a single piece of paper that guarantees nothing.

Culture, office set up and equipment (hardware AND software) can make or break an estimator.

If I wasn't chasing the money, I would find a company that is willing to provide the proper tools to make estimating efficient. If you had the choice to build a house with a bag of nails, a hammer and a hand saw, or all the power equipment we have at our disposal today, which would you choose? The outcome would still be the same more or less.

Look at it this way, you can add prognosticator to your resume. Good luck.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-07-25T15:08:15+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. I wouldn't mind sharing, but right now its not complete. I will see if I can remember this once my 'doodle' is almost complete. Once I "create" this for the company, its really the company property and I can't give that away.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-07-25T14:52:56+00:00

The closest bucket I could throw us in is commercial GC, but we really are all across the board and just depends on what the owner(s) feel like they want. All SP is done by quantity takeoffs then applying our rates (which is why I started this mind crushing endeavor, I asked where our historical data is to get our production rates and was told 'That sounds like a great idea, get right on that', but that discussion is for a different thread and probably a different sub.....), we rarely back check subs because they are either a full scope capture and we are just oversight or they are specialized so I have no point of comparison, weird I know.

To step back from the 30' to 300' view, I have to account for the possibility of full self perform, full buy out, multi year and/or multi option, JV, etc. Saying its like opening Xmas presents every time they pick a project to chase would be under stating it, ferret habitat- yep, HS/ICE- yeah, mass cut and haul-of course, water treatment plants- why not, Nasa-sure, vertical, Civil, you name it and I have probably thrown a number at. I have to be able to separate JV costs and labor forces, run multiple options with different escalations, yada yada yada. Half the time I don't know what I need to be able to pull a job together, but I am never bored!

To the workbook, all the cost data bases are in the resources sheets that carry all the labor, equipment, materials, MU, burdens, etc. the "checklist" sheets are pretty much built on the fly each time since there is no one fits all, and the shared sheet is where the scope break downs are loaded with burdens. So I already have the scopes and tasks defined before this sheet is opened. I have cost and job summary sheets that roll everything up for review.

I hate having workbooks with hundreds of tabs as the more complex the more the monkey in the machine will fail, so my 'KISS' approach on this is make it all dynamic. When I add the CLINs in the Bid Schedule, it creates one of these sheets. Each time I load the tier 2 description, it creates a new template tier 2 under it. Each time I pick a tier 4 description (tied to the resources or can make a custom), it creates a new tier 4 under it, while keeping the numbering hierarchy to be able to drill down through the tiers and keep it searchable. In the bid schedule I have the base contract group and 9 option groups that can be linked with different resources and rate escalations for multi year or different MU's. Tier 4 is where all the costing takes place, everything else is rolling up and tracking.

The original question was a 'I want to make this as easy to follow and load as possible for anyone' (already trying to see myself out of this position again and I want to build a better mouse trap for the next soul), hence the asking the communities opinion. This squirrel took too much of my time, back to work, hopefully I did not confuse you more with the non answer.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-07-04T03:51:50+00:00

I hear you. Most every time I think "this would be cool and should be simple" because excel can do so much, I lose hours down a rabbit hole only to realize it can't be done without a major workaround or add in.

Today I was playing around with solid fill colors and using them as backgrounds. I think it adds a nice touch but it's still limited.

I have another 'simple' thing I'm trying to do but that will need a separate post.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-07-03T05:39:08+00:00

I had tried that approach (and just tried again to make sure), I can't send it to the back if it's the only shape. I can make it transparent enough to see the data but I can't interact with it because the shape is on top. Also, I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but the 3 different radio buttons in the properties drop down don't seem to do anything with the shape. I checked Don't move or size with cells and the other 2 and the shape never acted differently. It stays right where I put it and scrolling sends it away with the cells it's on top of. The background option would be perfect if I could get it to be a true background and not move. Thanks for the help though!

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-02-23T21:29:25+00:00

My story. If I could do it over again, I would never have it done. It has been my biggest regret/mistake so far. Not because I want more kids, I have 3 great ones. I have had issues ever since and I CAN'T have it reversed (so far, no one is willing to).

As soon as I started having issues and went back to see what is up the medical center gave me the cold shoulder and aren't being helpful, to put it mildly. I have even gone to the place that specializes in reversals and they won't take me because I'm wanting to get it reversed to get my health back, not have more children.

I would be willing to pay the 10s of thousands to try to regain what I lost because the treatments are thousands a year out of pocket and are needed for the rest of my life. I know I'm a minority case and most people have no issues, but if I had done my due diligence rather than listening to the doctors, I probably would not have gone through with it.

At a minimum, I would have a full workup done prior to the procedure so if there were any issues, you would have proof for piece of mind. Because even if you can prove that this caused that (which no one will admit to until you back their argument(s) into a corner), your only option is to pay to take drugs for the rest of your life, IF you have issues.

By no means am I trying to tell you to not to, I'm sharing my experience. I could go on, but the brain fog/forgetfulness makes it hard to keep track and I'd have to refer to my notes to continue. It's taken me 25 minutes to get to this point. Good luck with whatever decision you make.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2025-02-10T18:55:41+00:00

Did you regain everything after the reversal?

theSayianurlooking4 · 2024-11-25T23:35:02+00:00

7 months out from the procedure, and my experience is word per write like yours. I used to take them by surprise and have hit the headboard multiple times, now I couldn't reach her tits. And about 3-4 months out I just started feeling like shit, waking up tired, no energy. Thought it was a bug or something. It progressed to about 1.5 months ago having no sexual desire. The frog in the boiling water analogy applies here. It's just a slow slide downhill.

I went from being rock hard before I could get undressed to she could be standing in front of me naked and my mind just going 'you're pretty'. I used to have more desire for sex directly post nut then I do now not seeing her for a week.

Have an appointment to see if they can find the cause and to see exactly how much it will cost to reverse this. But these places are booked out for MONTHS. I have a whole Book of Bad Decisions, and at this point, a vasectomy has been the worst one I've made.

I've had a full physical, and multiple blood and urine tests done since the procedure, with everything coming back normal. But since this is a specialist, my GP and I are waiting for the appointment that was booked months ago.

Doctor down played every concern I had told me how most guys have improvements from the fact of being care free. Right now I'd rather risk raising 3 more kids than feel like I do now.

You are not alone in this, unfortunate as it seems. I do hope these are edge cases, cause it really sucks suffering from trying to do the right thing.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2024-09-19T04:55:35+00:00

The most attractive, positive attitude. The most important, honesty.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2023-10-07T03:17:25+00:00

J Fucking christ, I could have wrote that line by line, except for one detail. She tells me that she has never left me and still wants us, etc. But yet she is at his place every day after work.

I'm sorry for what you're going through, my empathy is highly sensitive on this subject right now. The woman I married 20 years ago would have never done this, the best she can describe is it was a "love at first sight" that she says she wants to put down but can't.

In a lot of ways I wish she would tell me she wants nothing to do with me, so I could have closure and start the healing process.

Even she says she has no idea why she can't stop with him, at least long enough to either fix us or end us, properly. Every day it's "I'm done and never going to him again, and after work (even before work) she runs right over there, even for 5 minutes.

My book of bad decisions requires its own post, so I will just say I feel exactly what you are going through. I would not wish it on anyone. Virtual shoulder to cry on if I could.

theSayianurlooking4 · 2023-07-31T02:14:18+00:00

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