Vents: Random Acts of Venting!

[Palehorse]

When you get an e-mail like this, does anyone really expect it to be taken as a serious job offer/opportunity? 

Dear {insert your name here},
We are pleased to offer you a job as a"Check Assist Manager".
Obligatory requirements:

- Age: 21+;
- US citizeship;
- computer skills and e-mail address;
- an opportunity to check your email several times a day;
- Promptness in operations
We trust that your potential will be among our valuable assets.
To apply, please apply at our web-site

[The Troll]

When you get an e-mail like this, does anyone really expect it to be taken as a serious job offer/opportunity? 

Dear {insert your name here},
We are pleased to offer you a job as a"Check Assist Manager".
Obligatory requirements:

- Age: 21+;
- US citizeship;
- computer skills and e-mail address;
- an opportunity to check your email several times a day;
- Promptness in operations
We trust that your potential will be among our valuable assets.
To apply, please apply at our web-site

    Just send us our $1,500 fee for your Operations Manual.  You can start working for us the day you receive your manual.                                                                                                 

[Doc]

    Just send us our $1,500 fee for your Operations Manual.  You can start working for us the day you receive your manual.                                                                                               

This is typical of a damocrap. You want everything free or handed to you on someone else's tab.

[Exterminator]

This is typical of a damocrap. You want everything free or handed to you on someone else's tab.

You and your boyfriend fighting again?

[The Troll]

You and your boyfriend fighting again?

  Doc the dumbass, couldn't smell a skunk if it was on his head spraying.     

[Palehorse]

This whole working thing is getting in the way of my cooking addiction. (Which I didn't realize I had until I no longer had massive amounts of time available within which to do so).

What does it say when you actually find yourself craving your own cooking???? 

[The Troll]

This whole working thing is getting in the way of my cooking addiction. (Which I didn't realize I had until I no longer had massive amounts of time available within which to do so).

What does it say when you actually find yourself craving your own cooking???? 

  I know what you feel.  My wife is always watching what she eats and wants to watch what I eat.  She is always reading the labels on the cans and boxes.

  When I cook and she likes that,  I GET TO EAT WHAT I WANT WHEN I WANT TO COOK IT.  If she says anything about what I cook, I just stop cooking.  I funny how she finally comes around to be reasonable on good tasting food.   

[Palehorse]

Welcome to another edition of This Damned Old House!

This week, we tackle flooring; ripping up portions of a hardwood floor in order to investigate why it is uneven! This should be "fun"! 

[me]

Welcome to another edition of This Damned Old House!

This week, we tackle flooring; ripping up portions of a hardwood floor in order to investigate why it is uneven! This should be "fun"! 

I do not envy you in the least that is not a fun job.   

[The Troll]

Welcome to another edition of This Damned Old House!

This week, we tackle flooring; ripping up portions of a hardwood floor in order to investigate why it is uneven! This should be "fun"! 

  Hope you have good luck and it's just the hardwood flooring or you have new house guarantee.  I put some phony hardwood flooring down, it was the veneer wood.  Crap, had a life time warranty.  It squeaked, it raised up and the finish came off.  Guess what they had gone out of business.  I torn it out with all of the work I spent putting it in and had a professional put in a new underlayment and new vinyl floor.  If it had been any where else but the kitchen, I would have put in carpet.

  It is absolutely unbelievable what I have seen under these new houses while installing a water softener.  The shoddy workmanship, beams notched more than half way through for a pipe or drain line and the big burns of the floor joist where the plumber (their so called plumber) burnt them putting in the plumbing.   

[Palehorse]

Well, it is finished. . . (It was the old house, not our new one).

Fortunately for me, I had some previous experience in this kind of work and it served me well. . .

Since my wife is adamant about NOT wanting to keep the oak floor, I took an educated guess surrounding where the joist that I suspected was the culprit was located, and tore out an 11.5" x 29" section of the oak , hitting paydirt on the first try. . . Unfortunately, it was indeed the joist, which resulted in my tearing out the entire length of the room, tearing out the old joist, and replacing it with a new one, then putting down 3/4" plywood to replace the torn out section. . . (On the plus side, the foundation is solid as a rock and looks like it could have been poured yesterday. . . so there is that).

Took awhile, but since I knew what I had to do, and how to do it, it didn't take as long as it could have. . . And I left with that task completed, so next weekend it will be on to tearing down the wall plaster and slats behind it. . . and the ceiling. . .

[The Troll]

Well, it is finished. . . (It was the old house, not our new one).

Fortunately for me, I had some previous experience in this kind of work and it served me well. . .

Since my wife is adamant about NOT wanting to keep the oak floor, I took an educated guess surrounding where the joist that I suspected was the culprit was located, and tore out an 11.5" x 29" section of the oak , hitting paydirt on the first try. . . Unfortunately, it was indeed the joist, which resulted in my tearing out the entire length of the room, tearing out the old joist, and replacing it with a new one, then putting down 3/4" plywood to replace the torn out section. . . (On the plus side, the foundation is solid as a rock and looks like it could have been poured yesterday. . . so there is that).

Took awhile, but since I knew what I had to do, and how to do it, it didn't take as long as it could have. . . And I left with that task completed, so next weekend it will be on to tearing down the wall plaster and slats behind it. . . and the ceiling. . .

  Yep, it sound just like what I have had to put up with for the last 48 years.  Lath and plaster walls and wall 2X4's (real 2X4's) so hard you can't drive a nail into them.  I don't even use nails anymore, I have two battery powered drills.  One for drilling a hole and the other one to screw in dry wall screws.  

[The Troll]

Well, it is finished. . . (It was the old house, not our new one).

Fortunately for me, I had some previous experience in this kind of work and it served me well. . .

Since my wife is adamant about NOT wanting to keep the oak floor, I took an educated guess surrounding where the joist that I suspected was the culprit was located, and tore out an 11.5" x 29" section of the oak , hitting paydirt on the first try. . . Unfortunately, it was indeed the joist, which resulted in my tearing out the entire length of the room, tearing out the old joist, and replacing it with a new one, then putting down 3/4" plywood to replace the torn out section. . . (On the plus side, the foundation is solid as a rock and looks like it could have been poured yesterday. . . so there is that).

Took awhile, but since I knew what I had to do, and how to do it, it didn't take as long as it could have. . . And I left with that task completed, so next weekend it will be on to tearing down the wall plaster and slats behind it. . . and the ceiling. . .

  Oh, to be your age again and have the desire and the strength to do that kind of work again.  The light bulb in my gas range hood quit working.  I had to take it down to get to the socket.  Since I had a shoulder operation and a carpel tunnel fixed on my left hand and arm 6 week ago.  Without my handy with tools wife, I couldn't have done the job.   Getting old sucks.   

[Palehorse]

Okay. . .Just got my property tax bill for this installment. . . 

You tell me how in the HELL my accessed valuation can RISE over last year when the actual property values in this sewer hole of a county are falling like a brick in water! 

Fucking thieving bastards! 

[The Troll]

Okay. . .Just got my property tax bill for this installment. . . 

You tell me how in the HELL my accessed valuation can RISE over last year when the actual property values in this sewer hole of a county are falling like a brick in water! 

Fucking thieving bastards! 

  I know how you feel.  three years ago the state said my house was worth. $110,000.  I appealed told the my house was 130 years old and didn't have an foundation under it.   I show them the rubble foundation and some other problems old houses have.  They dropped my house to $70,000.  The next year they cut my taxes again.  This year my total property tax on my old home is $395 for the whole year.  I wouldn't trade it for a new one, no way and it's not for sale.   

  Now my son has a 5 year of manufactured home.  The want to charge him more tax on his house that the 6 year old brick home next to him.  He appealed and got his taxes lowered.

  This year he got his taxes and they want more than the wanted 2 years ago.  He called them about it and the women at the court house told his that his appeal was good for only one year.  Now he has to go through it again.

  I think the charge what they think they can get away with.  Thinking the dumb ones won't appeal again.  WRONG!

  You can believe me when I say is thy raise my taxes $5 I going to raise hell.  That's the only thing they under stand.