Useless Conversation

[ghost]

We've moved four times in the past eight years.  Every time we move I do a massive purge of all the shit we own, but we still are up to our fucking necks in junk. 

[Minvaren]

My holiday present to myself : a chest freezer and temperature controller.

In related news, my first lager beer is fermenting.   

[Fraeg]

just found out that as part of my relocation package my employer has set aside $10,000 dollars to help my purchase a house.  Which is pretty fucking sweet, obviously that is just a small portion of the cost, but hey 10 grand is 10 grand.

[Engels]

what a day.

a) DSL turned off after I request an upgrade to 12 MB from 7. Two separate sales reps assured me there would be no service interruption and that I would not need a new modem. Turns out these things were not true. GFs got an online oracle db admin class today at 5 which she will probably miss as they sort this out. Lots of yelling and screaming ensue. DSL still off, but with assurances that it will be turned on by the time my GF has her class.

b) I had a root canal appointment. Dentist pulls up the x-ray as I'm lying in the chair, all hooked up with xanax and nitrous, and she points to this tooth that needs the root canal. Totally different tooth than the previous dentist said. They swear up and down that's the right tooth. Of course, I know that that tooth was a complete crowned tooth. Virtually no part of it was the real tooth. I asked them to double check. Sure enough, the assistant had written down the wrong tooth, and to make matters worse, they had the x-ray image flipped so that it looked like an entirely different tooth that needed the operation. I promptly relieved them of their services and now have an appointment with a different dentist.

c) AC unit in the computer lab servicing 80 computers goes on the fritz. Temps climbing to the mid 80s. Technicians say they can't do anything till tomorrow because they are missing a screw. I bite my tongue. Thankfully, I work in a civil engineering lab with a full metal shop and dig out the screw they need.

d) stay tuned.

[Fraeg]

what a day.

a) DSL turned off after I request an upgrade to 12 MB from 7. Two separate sales reps assured me there would be no service interruption and that I would not need a new modem. Turns out these things were not true. GFs got an online oracle db admin class today at 5 which she will probably miss as they sort this out. Lots of yelling and screaming ensue. DSL still off, but with assurances that it will be turned on by the time my GF has her class.

b) I had a root canal appointment. Dentist pulls up the x-ray as I'm lying in the chair, all hooked up with xanax and nitrous, and she points to this tooth that needs the root canal. Totally different tooth than the previous dentist said. They swear up and down that's the right tooth. Of course, I know that that tooth was a complete crowned tooth. Virtually no part of it was the real tooth. I asked them to double check. Sure enough, the assistant had written down the wrong tooth, and to make matters worse, they had the x-ray image flipped so that it looked like an entirely different tooth that needed the operation. I promptly relieved them of their services and now have an appointment with a different dentist.

c) AC unit in the computer lab servicing 80 computers goes on the fritz. Temps climbing to the mid 80s. Technicians say they can't do anything till tomorrow because they are missing a screw. I bite my tongue. Thankfully, I work in a civil engineering lab with a full metal shop and dig out the screw they need.

d) stay tuned.

B - Good for you, there are dentists, and then there are Dentists. 

C - those guys aren't even trying, unless you work for NASA, if you need a screw chances are with even a little effort you can find one that will work.

[ghost]

b) I had a root canal appointment. Dentist pulls up the x-ray as I'm lying in the chair, all hooked up with xanax and nitrous, and she points to this tooth that needs the root canal. Totally different tooth than the previous dentist said. They swear up and down that's the right tooth. Of course, I know that that tooth was a complete crowned tooth. Virtually no part of it was the real tooth. I asked them to double check. Sure enough, the assistant had written down the wrong tooth, and to make matters worse, they had the x-ray image flipped so that it looked like an entirely different tooth that needed the operation. I promptly relieved them of their services and now have an appointment with a different dentist.

Wow.  That's really amateur hour dentistry, bro.  BTW, I would really recommend going to a specialist for most root canals.  The success rate for specialists is much, much, much higher. 

[Ingmar]

I'm a little surprised that your dentist didn't refer you to an entodontist for the root canal, yeah.

[Engels]

Ya, the new dentist has an on-staff endodontist from Russia, with all that implies.

[Strazos]

So...hot busty blond with a sexy accent? 

[Engels]

Not sure of the appearance, but from my GF's impacted tooth a while back a memorable quote was 'Open. Now comes the anesthetic. This is not optional.'

[Abagadro]

Ya, the new dentist has an on-staff endodontist from Russia, with all that implies.

Is it Orly Taitz?

[Merusk]

Furnaces.     A part about the size of a tech screwdriver just cost me $230 to replace because the house was 59 (15c) degrees when I woke up this morning.

[Murgos]

Furnaces.     A part about the size of a tech screwdriver just cost me $230 to replace because the house was 59 (15c) degrees when I woke up this morning.

I turn the thermostat down to 60 when I go to bed.  Why heat a house for 8 or 9 hours when you can use a blanket?

[Bunk]

Because its fucking cold when you get out from under those blankets at 4:30 AM to get ready for work. No thanks, I'll pay an extra $30 a month in gas to keep the place warm.

[Bunk]

Does anyone else find it funny that there are posters in the Eve subforum with over 1000 posts, that I've never even heard of?

[Sir T]

EVE is life for the lifeless. 

[Yegolev]

Does anyone else find it funny that there are posters in the Eve subforum with over 1000 posts, that I've never even heard of?

Having played EVE... no.   The EVE subforum is a self-contained ecosystem, like the crabs and bacteria living around seafloor vents.

[rattran]

I was thinking another kind of crab, but I'll go with my steamed colleague.

[WayAbvPar]

Because its fucking cold when you get out from under those blankets at 4:30 AM to get ready for work. No thanks, I'll pay an extra $30 a month in gas to keep the place warm.

I have mine set to go from 62 degrees to 68 30 minutes before my wife gets out of bed. Enough time to make the bathroom survivable, and I am not heating the entire house all night for no reason.

[Sky]

Had some bad chicken from our local market, slept 12 hours straight while my body destroyed microbes of great injustice. Woke up to my 63 degree house (I'm bumping it down a few degrees every year at night. Promptly got a fire going about ten minutes ago. We're getting a miss from the worst lake effect snow, so I'm bummed. Only 2-5", other areas are getting a couple feet, on top of a couple feet they got over the weekend. Dammit.

Anyway, heating the house at night is dumb, get a programmable thermostat. Listen to WAP, he understands the reasoning :p Actually my single biggest regret in the renovations I've done to the house was not putting in radiant floor heat in the bathroom and hooking it to a programmable thermostat. Far end of the house from the wood stove, it gets wicked cold on the tiles until I've been running the woodstove for over 24 hours. Right now I'm still in partial burn mode, only on evenings and weekends. Still, nothing a pair of slippers doesn't fix.

[RhyssaFireheart]

If there's one thing I've learned from watching "Holmes on Homes", it's putting in radiant heating under tiles in the bathrooms.  Doesn't matter where you live, it'll come in handy at some point in time.  I plan to push for this if/when we ever redo our bathrooms.

I agree on the programmable thermostat, it's a huge bonus to have.  You can get ones that let you program each day of the week differently, but that's probably not necessary for the majority of people.  Even when I was working from home, I just tossed on an extra sweater or something in the winter rather than mess around with changing the thermostat.  We pretty much set the temp to 70 and leave it there year-round. 

[Bunk]

I don't have a programable thermostat, though I would like to. I don't worry much about the cost because its only a two bedroom condo.

The place was built around radiant heating, and yes, nothing beats a warm bathroom floor.

[Nebu]

The place was built around radiant heating, and yes, nothing beats a warm bathroom floor.

I use these crazy new things called "area rugs".  They work awesome on a cold bathroom floor. 

[Bunk]

Awesome if you don't mind the rug getting fully embedded by stray litter from the nearby catbox. Yea, I'll stick with a floor I can sweep easily.

[rattran]

Our house is still lacking in heat, as the 1930s pump on the 1920s boiler self destructed 2 winters ago. I'm torn between setting up a vent-free ng system to get through this winter, or just putting in a simple forced air system.

On the plus side, I have heating pads for the cats, so they don't care.

[ghost]

On the plus side, I have heating pads for the cats, so they don't care.

You could make some nice blankets out of the cats. 

[Merusk]

Yeah, cold houses in the morning suck.  Thus why the programmable thermostat is set to heat the house to it's usual 68 before I wake up, but go on with the assumptions as they're amusing.

[WayAbvPar]

I am such a miserly fuck that I left the house on 'away' setting when I was home sick last week. I was going to spend the day buried under a pile of blankets and working my way through my Netflix queue, so why should I turn on the heat? I have also turned into my father, in that I walk around the house and turn off lights if a room is unoccupied for 15 seconds or more.

[Sky]

Our house is still lacking in heat, as the 1930s pump on the 1920s boiler self destructed 2 winters ago. I'm torn between setting up a vent-free ng system to get through this winter, or just putting in a simple forced air system.

Ohnoes, not forced air. Radiant is so much more superior. I'm hoping the final upgrade to the house is a boiler/radiators.

When not running the wood stove, we keep the thermo at 70. It's never really warm enough, so we're in sweaters all bundled and still kinda chilly. And paying out the wazoo for it. The wood stove is great. I'm still working out the airflow situation, but right now it's 74 at sofa level and 79 at standing height (though the thermo is by an outflow fan, so that's actualy a bit high, the room is basically 74. And last year I saved $550 with shitty wood, net.

I'm also miserly about the lights and heat. My boss keeps her house at 60 all winter, that's just insane imo. I'd have to keep my jacket and gloves on. And we wonder why it's always freezing at work. "It feels fine to me!" No shit, nanook.

And yay for the Holmes on Homes reference, one of the greatest people walking the planet imo.

[Selby]

Meh.  My rent house has a vintage late 1940's floor radiant heater that keeps the living room and the hall semi-warm and a matching vintage thermostat.  It can get pretty cold, got down to 62 in the house the night I forgot to turn the heater on.  More blankets and clothes are definitely my friend.

[rattran]

It's 45 in the house right now. 9 outside though.

[Rasix]

74 inside.  Heater hasn't been on all day. 

[Cyrrex]

It's 45 in the house right now. 9 outside though.

Dude.  That's a cold motherfucking house.  I'd light the couch on fire if it were me.

[WayAbvPar]

74 inside.  Heater hasn't been on all day. 

Get back to us in July 

[Ironwood]

Burst pipe.

Joy.