Useless Conversation

[Nebu]

When did I say deep south summers weren't god awful? 

You didn't.  I was just being my usual 'pest-y' self.

[Paelos]

That's a bad Nebu! 

[Draegan]

Tsk! Tsk!

Also, I'll never have to re-fi ever!  I just bought a house with a 30yr fixed rate at 3.99%. 

[Sky]

That's what I thought getting a 20 year at 5.5% If I had closing costs at hand, I'd drop my 4yr-old 20yr loan down to 10yr for only $170 more a month (not that I have that, either, but it's tempting to stretch it out to own my house so long before retirement).

Rates are ridiculous. I'd like to be able to earn some interest on something that can't get looted by wall street terrorists.

[Soln]

feedback: the site indeed seems slow.  I've also been getting irregular time-out's.

[Viin]

We just started a refi process on our home, hoping for 10yrs at 2.87% (3.1% APR) which only increases our payment by $200.

[Hammond]

I am kinda of regretting I did not refinance into a 10 year instead of the 15 year.  Oh well I can always just bump up the payments.

[Morat20]

We just started a refi process on our home, hoping for 10yrs at 2.87% (3.1% APR) which only increases our payment by $200.

I wonder if I should try that? I have a 30 year at like 5.5%, but I've been prepaying so I'll pay it off in 2019. (Or "fifteen fucking years early"). I'm not sure it's worth it for 7 years.

OTOH, I'd only need like..half the value of the house. Large original down-payment and we've been paying a sizeable chunk towards the principle monthly for years.

[Selby]

I miss being able to own a house.  This talk makes me sad.

[WayAbvPar]

If you want, you can come over and mow my lawn and tell the neighbors you own it. We are gonna paint the house this summer too- can you bring a ladder?

[Rasix]

Should be a house open for sale/rent on the surface of the sun in a few weeks.  The scorpions and rattlesnakes come free with first month's rent.

[Yegolev]

People who want to pretend to own a house, please PM.  Knowledge of drywall, electrical systems, soldering, carpentry, roofing, concrete anchoring, and plumbing is a plus.

[Sky]

Soldering?

[Merusk]

I assumed he has copper pipes that need some TLC.

[Lantyssa]

People who want to pretend to own a house, please PM.  Knowledge of drywall, electrical systems, soldering, carpentry, roofing, concrete anchoring, and plumbing is a plus.

Can I pretend to do upkeep and mortgage payments, too?

[Yegolev]

People who want to pretend to own a house, please PM.  Knowledge of drywall, electrical systems, soldering, carpentry, roofing, concrete anchoring, and plumbing is a plus.

Can I pretend to do upkeep and mortgage payments, too?

I can pay the mortgage, I just don't have time for the upkeep.  You?  You can visit as a guest instead of a worker.  And once the worker fixes the chlorine generator, you can swim in the pool.

[Minvaren]

Note to self : remember to wear dust mask when mucking about in the attic, what with all of the blown-in insulation up there.

(blows nose, comes out black)   

Now to see what The Secret World is all about...

[Sky]

Even without particulate-shedding insulation, there's so much damned dust up there you're always well-served by a mask. Project #4785 is putting in a ridge vent and those soffit airflow channels, my attic crawlspace gets to the point where things directly pass to a vapor state. I have to run a dedicated line for the sump pump I'M SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT IN JULY.

There's a reason I installed the stove (gas line, new electrical circuit) in the winter.

[Yegolev]

London Olympics disturbing my maintenance windows?  Seems so, indirectly.  My advice is to bring your own drinks.

[Minvaren]

Oh look, Tropical Storm Debby.   

[Chimpy]

Oh look, Tropical Storm Debby.   

Is she en route to Dallas?

[Lantyssa]

Well my Thursday just got fucked.

[MuffinMan]

Oh look, Tropical Storm Debby.   

Is she en route to Dallas?

[Lantyssa]

My place is becoming an animal haven.

We've had a feral cat in the yard that I've been trying to tame.  She won't let me pet her yet, but she is getting comfortable when I'm near.  I had the side door to the garage open while I was doing laundry.  I went out to get the last load and thought I saw her dart under the car.  Nope... it was a possum checking the place out.

Somehow my pond has acquired a turtle.  How it got there is baffling.  There are ditches not excessively far that it could have come from, but it would have needed to get through several yards and/or an apartment complex, all with fences, to stumble upon it.  It's old enough that it's highly unlikely it's been there all along else I would have noticed (and probably had insufficient food for a baby turtle, nor have any goldfish disappeared).  Someone in the apartment complex could have hopped the fence and placed it there, but I'd think they would have released it into the ditches, plus they would have needed to know we had a pond.  Now all I need are some grass shrimp and I'll have a full ecosystem going.

[Yegolev]

This seems like the best place for an Excel question.

I would like to have a sheet which looks at another sheet in the same book and imports rows which meet a criterion.  This would be certain text in a certain column.  Is this something easily done?  By easily, I mean I would not like to implement anything in VB.

First jackass that posts "Perl..." gets one in the face.

[WayAbvPar]

My place is becoming an animal haven.

We've had a feral cat in the yard that I've been trying to tame.  She won't let me pet her yet, but she is getting comfortable when I'm near.  I had the side door to the garage open while I was doing laundry.  I went out to get the last load and thought I saw her dart under the car.  Nope... it was a possum checking the place out.

Somehow my pond has acquired a turtle.  How it got there is baffling.  There are ditches not excessively far that it could have come from, but it would have needed to get through several yards and/or an apartment complex, all with fences, to stumble upon it.  It's old enough that it's highly unlikely it's been there all along else I would have noticed (and probably had insufficient food for a baby turtle, nor have any goldfish disappeared).  Someone in the apartment complex could have hopped the fence and placed it there, but I'd think they would have released it into the ditches, plus they would have needed to know we had a pond.  Now all I need are some grass shrimp and I'll have a full ecosystem going.

Just a word of warning- a guy in Oregon was bitten by a stray cat last week and picked up a nice case of the plague. Literally. So be careful.

Also, Excel makes me exceptionally stabby.

[Trippy]

This seems like the best place for an Excel question.

I would like to have a sheet which looks at another sheet in the same book and imports rows which meet a criterion.  This would be certain text in a certain column.  Is this something easily done?  By easily, I mean I would not like to implement anything in VB.

First jackass that posts "Perl..." gets one in the face.

Ruby... 

[Paelos]

This seems like the best place for an Excel question.

I would like to have a sheet which looks at another sheet in the same book and imports rows which meet a criterion.  This would be certain text in a certain column.  Is this something easily done?  By easily, I mean I would not like to implement anything in VB.

First jackass that posts "Perl..." gets one in the face.

Short answer, no. You are trying to impose database query into a spreadsheet. Long answer, yes but you'd have to set up a subroutine to do it.

I'm sure you could also rig up something using a long sequence of if-then vlookups.

[Lantyssa]

<snicker>

Just a word of warning- a guy in Oregon was bitten by a stray cat last week and picked up a nice case of the plague. Literally. So be careful.

She's feral, but been living in my yard for over a year.  I'll get her checked out when I can.  She's not aggressive though, and could have bitten me already if she had wanted.

[Yegolev]

Stupid Excel.  As usual with MS products, manual cut-and-paste is in fact the easiest route.

Ruby... 

Nice, I needed a smile today.

[Merusk]

Stupid Excel.  As usual with MS products, manual cut-and-paste is in fact the easiest route.

Ruby... 

Nice, I needed a smile today.

Silly programmers, trying to utilize products outside their scope of design.   

As the monkey points out, it's a number-crunching tool, not a database.

[Nevermore]

Oh look, Tropical Storm Debby.   

Don't worry, she did a 180 and will now be parked on top of me for the rest of the week. 

[rattran]

Send it here to Colorado, everything seems to be on or catching fire. I had ash falling from the sky on me yesterday.

[Yegolev]

As the monkey points out, it's a number-crunching tool, not a database.

I just thought that if it can change the colors of the boxes based on contents, why not something useful as well?

At least I can play with the data.

I'll edit this a bit to add that if I had the time, and it wouldn't take very much, I could probably put together something using text files which does what I want.  I already have Cygwin installed, so I could dump the main to CSV and sort it out, then slurp the resulting files into new sheets that look like what I want.  Lacking inclination, though, because I happen to use the sheet with all of the data on it and use filters to find what I want.  Flipping between sheets is dumb.

[Merusk]

Look at it this way and it'll begin to make sense.

Excel is a tool loved by accountants and management.

Therefore it will be as effective as they are at doing tasks you want.