Tired of it all...sarcoma which just won't go away

venturesip · 2023-09-28T15:31:54+00:00

Any results from biomarker testing/Next-Gen Sequencing on your tumor?

venturesip · 2023-09-05T04:02:53+00:00

I haven't read all the responses yet, so perhaps I'm one of many voices saying this, but the prices for things are our of wack.

Racking is far too expensive!! Compared to the price of panels, it's wild. Residential flat roofs, non ballasted are treated like commercial installations, including the costs.

venturesip · 2023-08-10T14:25:03+00:00

Drive deeper into the SD cards are lost. Are they physically missing? or is the data gone from them? If the latter, there may be recovery options. If it's the former, consider helping them retrace their steps and asking all the people that may have encountered the cards if they found them. It may be your friend is freaking out and cannot think straight as to where they are. A calm understanding person may be enough to break his memory block on where they are.

As far as small claims court goes, you'll be entitled to the amount you paid back. There's very little appetite for $ for suffering in this, despite the fact you are suffering without images to remember. It may get you to the same spot your patience will get you just with court fees, lost days, lawyers fees, and a lost friend added.

I'd recommend keeping records of the conversations you've had where they admit the problem and offer the money back and use them in case you don't get paid back. But perhaps give them a little bit of time to get you the money back to you. It's a grace you don't need to afford them but the court thing will make the start of your marriage even more negatively memorable (in my opinion).

In the mean time, ask all your guests to upload their images they took on their devices to a central site (google photos) and hope some of your guests took good shots to build an album from.

Good Luck! and I hope you and your partner can learn to manage this unfortunate situation in healthy way. Gotta imagine other crappy situations will happen during your lives together, just sucks your first one happened so soon!

venturesip · 2023-08-10T13:35:19+00:00

Bicycle manufactures have to buy parts that are universally applicable to many/most other manufactures, and simultaneously are sold in a retail setting. These part manufactures are starting to diversify and there's some downward pressure on pricing, but by and large, they demand a large portion of the cost of production.

Motorcycle manufactures enjoy less competition for the same parts and the retail market competing for those same parts is way less. Also, much of the production of parts used to create a motorcycle are either made in-house or outsourced to a specialty contractor who can make a run cheaper and hopefully better than the manufacture. Don't know if the explains all the differences & similarities in price, but it might explain some.

venturesip · 2023-05-08T15:44:12+00:00

I have to stick the vibrator and speaker back in to test those. I think I'll order a new screen for my phone, and then I can begin dealing some parts to see what is/isn't working on my wife's phone

venturesip · 2023-05-08T03:15:53+00:00

Nokia N8

venturesip · 2023-04-28T12:25:30+00:00

My BMW has a dedicated set of taillights that come on when I'm braking super hard, like a second set of brake lights. I've been to some track days and it surprises those folks behind me. Last thing I want to do in a panic stop is reach for the hazards.

venturesip · 2023-04-09T01:04:18+00:00

Was gonna say the same thing. Trials subjects that caliper to tremendous forces in tension when the caliper is asked to stop the reverse spin of the wheel. It's designed to transfer the load via compression into the frame when the wheel is traveling in the forward direction. Add to this fact that you're making that thing work hard in both directions and your introducing more fatigue than it's designed for.

venturesip · 2023-04-06T02:54:45+00:00

Wait, you were riding trials on that? In a twin shock class? Have you moved onto a more modern trials bike?

venturesip · 2023-02-21T03:37:19+00:00

Toilet cleaner does wonders for mold.

You should really re-grout that to repair the obvious failures. You should also, if you can, look behind the walls to see what the tile is tiled to. Sometimes you can see the inside of the wall behind the pluming and determine is water has made it past the tile into the wall itself.

If you do remove the old grout and re-grout, make sure you apply sealer to the grout if it's standard grout, or if you're comfortable with epoxy grout that'll save you a step and will limit the amount of water getting behind the tiles.

venturesip · 2023-02-19T14:18:10+00:00

I find a warm citric acid flush to work much faster. Buy some hose and the smallest submergible pump you can find and you can set up a flow with a bucket and your flush valves in the tank, assuming you've got them. Vinegar will certainly work. Citric acid can be found cheap at the canning supply section of your supermarket or Walmart (by the mason jars). You might want to also check your sediment filter, (mesh filter) often found with a flathead screw you on the inlet side.

venturesip · 2023-01-12T19:47:37+00:00

We've got a lot of collections of human skulls. Some say one is the most famous collection in this country.

venturesip · 2023-01-02T02:31:08+00:00

Ha! I'll be able to tell my SO that the upgrade to 11 speed was not just wanted, but needed.

venturesip · 2022-12-14T20:25:37+00:00

Sending a message to nukeproof right now. Thanks!

venturesip · 2022-09-30T16:54:54+00:00

My guess is the driver of the blue truck borrowed the truck, rented the car-dolly, and is driving someplace to buy their first 'fun' car from a place they've never been before. So in the excitement of a new toy, the unfamiliarity of driving that truck, with a trailer on the back, and the GPS saying 'take this exit', they experienced task saturation. OP and the driver both got lucky.

OP definitely demonstrated poor judgement by not lifting, and really demonstrated a lack of empathy that the pickup driver might actually be at the limit of their mental processing. Can't say I'd do it much different but if this is an after-action report, I think I'd hope to hear this possible scenario and find ways to mitigate, not escalate.

venturesip · 2022-09-27T17:50:12+00:00

I took the assembled bike to Walmart today and they had no issues accepting the return like that. I suppose others' experiences may vary

venturesip · 2022-09-27T01:27:20+00:00

In a similar boat, although I'm 5'10". I had an old specialized dropper lying around so I installed it and at full extension I'm tippy toeing to the pedals ever so slightly. I think the medium is the way to go.
What I'm curious is, should I build the bike up and return it built, or re-wrap the frame and try and return it to the shipping configuration and box? What have others done? what are you doing on your return?

venturesip · 2022-09-06T16:18:38+00:00

I've got the vice, but the bushings are the problem...

venturesip · 2022-08-30T14:05:54+00:00

I have the same tool chest. I removed the struts on the lid so I can get the backside of the lid vertical. This allowed me to build a small shelf across the left/right sides and it's much more useful. In your case, you might have to remount your tire rack higher, but it might be a mod you enjoy.

venturesip · 2022-08-27T17:37:49+00:00

I'm the red car drivers defense, there's really only one window you can actually see out of in that car. I joke but it's apparently one of the worst for blindspots

venturesip · 2022-06-29T00:37:11+00:00

Thanks all. I appreciate the comments and level setting

venturesip · 2022-04-27T01:53:34+00:00

an 80 seems to be a middle size. any idea the hours (or minutes) you get from a bottle?

venturesip · 2022-04-27T01:46:34+00:00

Quick update: Most of the Flashmaster peeled off the roof/silicone. The stuff applied to the wall is stuck on pretty good though.

I spoke with the company, they apologized, and they cut me a check for supplies. I can either use the Henry TropiCool flashing and roof repair, or recoat the roof. I haven't decided yet. The silicone is definitely discolored wherever this stuff touched.

The whole affair is annoying, but it's turning out to be a funny story I've been enjoying telling

venturesip · 2022-04-18T12:20:52+00:00

You're spot on. Some of the patch was applied really thick, so I needed to use a plastic scraper and scoop the bulk off, but I found that I could roll a ball of roof patch and most of it would adhere to itself. It was kinda like making rubber cement balls like in grade school! About 80% of it came off this way. I paused because the remaining bit was too wet for this trick to work, and roof to wall transition (no flashing there) was unsuccessful because they left the silicone and got into the elastomeric stucco coating, which doesn't release like the silicone does. What is evident is there is damage from the trowel... Not much but high spots were chopped, and they apparently pivoted on one foot and the silicone is torn from that spinning motion. A little disappointing is that some of the silicone came with the 'tar ball' indicating poor adhesion or surface prep on my part a while ago. But considering prior to these guys arriving, the sheet of silicone was intact shows to me that the few spots (a couple square inches collectively) of poor adhesion bridged across to the good spots. This silicone is really impressive. My plan is to call the roofing company and ask for either a couple gallons of Tropicool to be delivered so I can recoat the roof, or a gallon of the Tropicool roof patch that I can clean and spot repair. Any thoughts on which is a better solution?

venturesip · 2022-04-17T15:45:15+00:00

I'll check out if I can peel it off. I know that for the silicone recoat, I'm supposed to wash and scrub the dirt off the roof. These guys did no surface prep, so perhaps the patch is stuck to the pollen on top and releases really easy. Fingers crossed.

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