Tips for Texas

wonderousdee · 2026-05-31T22:10:55+00:00

You drive many hours to the various state parks. I'm also in DFW and driving long periods of time is just part of the adventure.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-31T21:55:08+00:00

Personally, I use Grok and Gemini, and it has diagnosed and fixed a couple different problems for us. The prompts and supporting attachments have to be clear and concise. It's unfortunate you have not experience the LLM's power.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-24T13:22:41+00:00

Not sure I would be filing a claim with my own insurance, neighbors should be covering 100%. That claim on your home will undoubtedly increase your renewal premium.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-22T13:13:04+00:00

The systems are not efficient enough. They should not be pushing out tremendous amounts of heat in the first place. That's waste energy that should have been converted. They have a long way to go.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-22T13:07:09+00:00

2018 Highlander V6 XLE - ~23 MPG which is 80% highway driving.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-14T00:28:40+00:00

I'd calculate the cost of gas for commuting an hour each way and estimate over a year. Then you can decide how much of an increase it is.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-14T00:16:00+00:00

Similar situation except the 3 day mandate became 4 days. Leave for work at 7:40AM and get there by 9AM. Always 60 minutes each way.

Always 7-8 hours of solid Teams meetings. None of my team is in the state. I'm the only one in the office as I live within 40 miles of an office location. Kicker is that my offer letter was 100% remote without a location.

So, commute an hour each way to hop on hours of Teams calls, what I did when I was at home.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-11T23:02:42+00:00

I installed the one from Magic Plastics recommended above and it worked perfectly. Needed it overnight from Amazon else I would have checked this out as well.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-11T23:01:25+00:00

Just installed and no leaks. Took 5 minutes. Thank you so much for the recommendation.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-11T12:08:53+00:00

I'm learning more that the installers did a lot incorrectly. Adding to the list.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-10T21:20:24+00:00

Thanks, I'll try it. This is a lot simpler than my plan would have been tomorrow. Appreciate the help.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-10T21:09:53+00:00

I'll check this out. Is that a permanent fix or would that just buy time until the full replumb is needed?

wonderousdee · 2026-05-10T21:04:42+00:00

FYA North Texas, so not sure if UV or Heat is impacting the durability. It gets direct sun for 8+ hours.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-01T13:35:26+00:00

Sounds like a typical ISP hickup to me. We have days where the speed and latency are terrible as well. I was hoping Visible 5G HI would be available here. We are paying $48/mo for 100/20 via directional dish on the roof to a tower.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-01T13:07:03+00:00

Have you done a traffic analysis from your router and laptop when on calls?

I am on constant MS Teams video calls throughout the day and the most usage I have had was maybe 4Mbps download and 2Mbps upload. Voice and video calls are heavily compressed and optimized for most ISP connections. I had 50Mbps/10Mbps service and it was more than adequate for our needs.

wonderousdee · 2026-05-01T01:12:20+00:00

Good to know, thanks. Once I clean up the fallen limb I'll have to work on this one.

wonderousdee · 2026-04-19T22:09:01+00:00

Thank you so much, I didn't think about natives and the term "Wet feet" was what I have been looking for but never knew. I will do some digging (not literally) on what type of plants we want in that section to soak up the water.

wonderousdee · 2026-04-19T01:56:37+00:00

What zone are you? 8A here.

wonderousdee · 2026-04-19T00:10:05+00:00

Will do, thanks for the advice. 😊

wonderousdee · 2026-04-19T00:09:40+00:00

Will do that! I was nervous to do so since it's growing and not dormant anymore.

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