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Post by dnic on Aug 18, 2023 19:32:23 GMT -6
Thanks for the neck advice Eddie.
We just sold an entire house full of stuff when my mother in law passed away. You aren't kidding people are strange when buying stuff. We had things priced way below value just to get it out of the house. And the same thing with people wanting delivery and even cheaper. Then we had people telling us this one collection was being sold to cheap. But did she want to buy it all a low price? Nope.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2023 7:27:40 GMT -6
Thanks for the neck advice, Eddie. We just sold an entire house full of stuff when my mother-in-law passed away. You aren't kidding, people are strange when buying stuff. We had things priced way below value just to get it out of the house. And the same thing with people wanting delivery and even cheaper. Then we had people telling us this one collection was being sold too cheap. But did she want to buy it all a low price? Nope. Sounds all too familiar. LOL!
We have a long ways to go in selling off stuff. We are not in a hurry. We will be using the money to pay off bills. But it is nice to have gotten rid of the items we have sold. Now we have more room again.
After the first of next year, we will be selling off all the big stuff. At least that is kind of the plan for now. So far, I have not had any takers on my guitars and amps. Wish I could sell them off. But I am not going to give them away. If I have to, I'll wait until we move and sell them on the other end. We will be living in a big city then. Lot more people to sell to.
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Post by dnic on Aug 19, 2023 9:01:22 GMT -6
I get it! Best of luck with it all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2023 7:02:58 GMT -6
Well, been gone for a week. Bet you didn't know that. We went to Orlando, FL. Our son and daughter-in-law got us a place at WestGate resort. Just down from Disney World. The apt. We stayed in is bigger than our house. The resort has a huge water park and I forget how many pools.
Their customer service is not good. When something quits working, they are super slow to send someone to fix it. Took then 3 days to send some to fix the tub (jacuzzi) then they only got part of it working. They told me they would be back to fix it. But they never did show up. I lost 3 days of waiting on them to show up to work on the tub. No one showed up, and no one called to say they could not make it.
Well, that's not the only thing they did. But it was still nice to get away and spend time with family.
One other thing that was not a good thing was the drive there and back. WOW, PEOPLE!!! When did it become law that people can drive any way they want? WOW, WOW, WOW!!! O don't care how much over one drives over the speed limit. There is someone always wanting to go faster.
Two time on the way there and back there were 2 big rigs that were side by side. There are only 2 lanes. So the 2 trucks had the traffic blocked, no way around them. I was in the fast lane behind one of the trucks. Then this person thought it would be cool to get on my butt and flash his headlights at me.
I could not move out of his way because the big rig in the next lane was right next to me. The rig in front of me was not even close to be able to change lanes. So, I slowed down. There was nothing else to do. Once the big rig that was in front of me was able to move over, I got in front of him and I moved over. Then the person behind me came around go in front of and slammed on his brakes. I changed lane, went around that person. Never did see him again.
That happened twice. WOW! What do people do go to school for this kind of driving? Then you have those that seem to think of they change lanes over and over again that, that somehow, get them to where they are going even faster. I lost count on how many people would cut people off at a high rate of speed only to end up at a red light, waiting like everyone else. I always want to put my window down and ask them if they got there zany faster.
For me not driving for 7 years, sure seems that it has gotten worse. I think I need to go back to school and learn the new math. If a sign says 55 it really means 75. Somehow I think that is the new math way of thinking. LOL!
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Post by antares on Sept 2, 2023 9:02:51 GMT -6
It's the same recipe here Eddie, with the additional ingredient of tiny single carriageway roads with folks up yer jacksie, flashing you and suicidally overtaking on blind bends. I'm afraid that we share the world with a significant number of arrogant aggressive and ultimately entitled individuals.
That said, nothing, but nothing eclipses nor excuses the pig ignorant driving that I experienced in Tuscany, Italy in 2005 ...
I believe the phenomenon has its roots in that Spock book seemingly published to assist the new generation of (in this case) Americans. It was either intended to assist the post-war upwardly mobile youth that had moved a long way from home and the advice / influence of their parents, or it was just a zeitgeist. That is if they still had both parents left after the war. Either way, the principles laid out therein were set in stone, and we can feel the ripples to this day almost everywhere. We just inculcated it over here as we do most influences from The Other Place over time.
I can sum it up by observing that children today are told that they can be whatever they want, and they're never told that anything they achieve is less than stellar because that inculcates a non-competitive mindset. It becomes ingrained in the common psyche, and lots of folks have the idea that it's their way or the highway.
As usual, observations from a remote location and $0.02 etc.
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Post by dnic on Sept 2, 2023 9:19:08 GMT -6
No shortage of unbelievably bad drivers Eddie. I first learned to drive in the LA area and had to drive freeways for getting to construction jobs. I've seen some crazy stuff over the years. This two lane hwy driving when two semis get side by side is really frustrating. I call it a race for last place. I also mutter to the other drivers about what they are doing wrong. My wife thinks I'm silly when I do that. "They can't hear you". The latest thing I've noticed is folks tuning right from the middle lane. Is it just me? We were trained to move into the right lane to turn right. You know basically get out of the flow of the main traffic and then make your turn. But now they just jamb up up all the thru traffic until it's clear for them.
Nobody laughing when you say "it's hard to find good help these days" these days. I'll save you the gory details of our five week saga of getting the new paint dispenser machine up and running correctly. 4 tech visits and departures with promises of returns that didn't happen. No return emails or contacts from the main office. For a unit and supporting equipment that cost almost 20k.
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Post by dnic on Sept 2, 2023 9:23:26 GMT -6
You are not wrong Steve.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2023 10:40:46 GMT -6
I do more than mutter. LOL! It may not go beyond the car, but it sure helps me! HA! HA! HA!
Customer service is just about gone! One of the top things I was taught in management classes was customer service. I remember how they stressed how it was vital to make the customer happy.
Today, they must teach how to make the customer upset. They don't care how you feel. They push you off in hopes you give up and still pay full price. I had gotten to a place long time ago that I refuse to pay for things that are not what they are supposed to be! I don't care if it's guitar parts, rooms we rent, food we buy, and so on. If I pay for something, and it does not work or function like it should, I need my money back! Not a line of excuses or trying to make me feel like I am the one at fault!
One of the guys that came up to work on the tub stood there and told me I didn't know how to use the tub. So I told him to show me how to use it! It took no time at all for him to see it was not me! He could not get the tub to work as well. I said to him,” Oh, looks like someone else does not know how to use the tub!” Then he told me he would have to come back to fix it. That never happened.
So I called management. I got to talk to secretary. I told her I didn't think it was fare for me to pay full price for a room that is not up to par. Now this was the second room they had given us. The first one the air didn't work, the light switch would spark if you used the switch.
WOW! Don't they go through the rooms to see if things work? NO! This resort is run by a bunch of foreign people that have a dis like to Americans! I watched how the workers there would treat people that were Americans over the foreign people. Or the way they would treat people if they were white skinned.
Almost every employee I tried to talk with could not speak English. At least that is what they would tell you. Most of they say that so that they don't have to engage talking with you. I felt like I was not in America! Sometimes I felt like I made a wrong turn and went through a tunnel that took me to some other country.
In 20 minutes time, I traveled the world. No one, not one person, was speaking English. I am talking maybe a 100 people that walked by me. They all had their cell phones a going too!
Well, it seems to me that things have changed a lot in the USA. It's nothing like it was. To me, so many things have gotten worse.
People are so rude! I was sitting by the pool. I sat with one of them chairs that have a table by it. The kind that goes over the chair. I had my bad arm resting on it when this foreign guy came and sat next to me and shoved the table out of his way, then sat next to me. After he sat down, then he asked if I was using the table. He then moved the table back once I told him I had been using the table and that my are had been resting on it when he moved it!
He never apologized. He moved the table back like he was mad at me. Now, there were all kinds of other chairs around. Why he had to sit next to me is anyone's guess. I told my wife I am going to go see if my doctor can give me something that will remove the sign that is placed on me. I know it says pick on this person! No mater how nice I try to be with others, it seems I always get treated this way. In fact, the nicer I am, the worse it gets! I can be having a great day, then all of a sudden someone has to ruin my day! So tired of going to a place to have some fun, and then having to deal with people not caring. Oh, they are happy to take your money! They treat you like you are their best friend while taking your money. But if things go wrong, or you want your money back, then now you are their worst enemy.
No wonder I like to stay at home. No wonder I don't like to buy items off the web. LOL!
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Post by dnic on Sept 2, 2023 21:39:05 GMT -6
Well Eddie our first mistake is thinking people are paying attention. Most people are very self adsorbed and really don't notice anything else going on.
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Post by antares on Sept 7, 2023 4:42:30 GMT -6
Guys I don't suppose you've ever seen any episodes of the British SitCom "One Foot in the Grave"? The principal character Richard Wilson is one of my heros and something of a National Treasure. FWIW, this is pertinent to the thread.
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Post by dnic on Sept 7, 2023 7:17:40 GMT -6
I'll check that out Steve.
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Post by antares on Oct 5, 2023 2:44:35 GMT -6
I watched a movie with Russell Crowe as the main character. It was called "Unhinged". I will think twice or even thrice before I honk my horn at a stranger in another vehicle from now on.
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Post by antares on Nov 30, 2023 2:15:02 GMT -6
Well I'm hearing about cold temperatures in the high teens over there? Is that Farenheit? Wowser. We had take-away three (Celsius) a few nights ago, and jolly Jack Frost's fingers have been everywhere each morning lately.
This new way of accessing the Guitarattack forum is making me scratch my head; "Liking" posts either doesn't work or perhaps does work but doesn't register here even if I refresh the screen, and yes I'm signed in right enough. I can't reply to posts in the "Latest" posts page- I have to read it and then find the correct thread on the home page in the various sub forums, and then it dumps me at the first post in the thread and I have to move to the page containing the latest post. I check several times each day and then all of a sudden I see four days of posts that I've missed? Really?
Thanks very much Proboards and a merry christmas to you too. 8=(
So, belated greetings for Thanksgiving, and although I'm giving out positive waves for the forthcoming Saturnalian excesses, I'll still be here keeping an eye out for y'all and your escapades!
Your resident silly hippy!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2023 8:25:53 GMT -6
Well I'm hearing about cold temperatures in the high teens over there? Is that Farenheit? Wowser. We had take-away three (Celsius) a few nights ago, and jolly Jack Frost's fingers have been everywhere each morning lately. This new way of accessing the Guitarattack forum is making me scratch my head; "Liking" posts either doesn't work or perhaps does work but doesn't register here even if I refresh the screen, and yes I'm signed in right enough. I can't reply to posts in the "Latest" posts page- I have to read it and then find the correct thread on the home page in the various sub forums, and then it dumps me at the first post in the thread and I have to move to the page containing the latest post. I check several times each day and then all of a sudden I see four days of posts that I've missed? Really? Thanks very much Proboards and a merry christmas to you too. 8=( So, belated greetings for Thanksgiving, and although I'm giving out positive waves for the forthcoming Saturnalian excesses, I'll still be here keeping an eye out for y'all and your escapades! Your resident silly hippy! There have been some odd things going on with me too when it comes to seeing things on here. But I did read on some page I was on that there are a lot of changes going not only with proboard but other medias as well. Seems there is a huge change going on between the UK and the USA in the way they... (who ever they are) letting us communicate. I think it is a way of more control over people. Heck, I have even seen where there is a big fight over text messages and keeping them private.
So I wonder if some of what you are going through is some of that? YT right now has been fighting over Ad blockers. So, it seems we do have a right to use ad blockers but, YT does not have to share our videos if we do use ad blockers. I understand both sides of that argument. But YT needs to regulate what kind of ads people are seeing. Most ads are nothing but spam. The ads have nothing to do with the videos. In one of my 30-min videos, I had like 7 ads attached to it. I never got a dime from them ads. I only know that because on my phone, I cannot get ad blockers to work most of the time.
But there are a lot of huge changes going on in the cyber world. I do try and keep up with some of it. Right now, the AIs have gone through some big changes. They are getting smarter and sounding more human than ever.
Next year we are all going to experience some big changes in the cyber world. With all the new sidelights with new tech things have to change.
They have even started the change to a cashless world. It won't be much longer before we will no longer use cash. It will all be digital money. Less and less people even have cash on them. The other day I sold an item to someone, and they wanted to pay me using an app where they can transfer money to me. I don't use that kind of thing, but I can see where I will have to at some point. Many places here in the US do not accept cash anymore. They only take a charge card of some kind. It will be interesting to say the least to see what goes on in the next few years.
Steve most of us here in the USA when we talk about temps we are using Fahrenheit. We here in the last few days have only hit 50 degrees during the day. At night, down in the teens. I am glad that Dane can heat his shop. I am thinking of installing a wood burning stove for heat in my shop. But I would have to clear it with my landlord before I can do something like that. But the shop would be hard to heat do to it has open beams. If I knew for sure I was going to stay here, I would spend the money on the shop so that I could work in it year round. I have already spent time and money installing things in the shop that will stay here once I do leave. The landlady's son wants me to finish all the electrical in the shop. He has all the stuff to do that, but I would have to pull the wire and hook everything up. It would be nice to have electric all around the shop. I may end up doing that at some point. One other thing, Steve, I use my computer more than my phone to view things. I don't have as many problems using my computers. The phone seems to have more issues with viewing things. Are you having the same problems on your computer? Or do you use a computer? The cell phone has come a long way. But there are some things that still have to be done on my computer. Plus, it is easier to read stuff on my computer. LOL!
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Post by dnic on Nov 30, 2023 11:06:54 GMT -6
I use pro boards on my phone only to turn off the notifications. Cause I don't like that little number on my screen. But like Justin I like things bigger on my laptop. And I can still hit like on my laptop.
Zero in C is freezing and 32 in F is freezing, Right? I do use my iPhone for converting temps and MMs. In this world it's impossible not to use both. I don't drive in KPM. Thankfully I don't have to convert that.
Hopefully Proboards will get their stuff worked out so folks that like to use their phones can do that and keep up with what's happening. I know when I travel and get behind on on posts it can become a chore rather than something I like to do.
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