Much of my time in the last 2 weeks has been spent chasing missing information for the projects he was working on. Notorious for not getting his clients to pick hardware, I got one client in 6pm Friday. They complained about him being nonchalant for details requested. Another client came in Saturday morning to make a selection.
A friend of mine was working in a record store (after school) and got a pre-release a few weeks before. He claims to still have that album in his collection.
I known I wore one out from playing it so many (more) more times!
30 years ago, I put nearly 100 LP's in a storage shed. I have to check, but I think I've got unopened Led Zeppelin 1 and 2 in that stack. From the heat I'm sure they are unplayable... maybe of value to a collector if the original wrapping is intact.
Len, do you have access to prefabricated fiberglass shower stalls? The floor and side walls are one unit or in larger stalls, the walls overlap the floor pan so it gets assembles on the jobsite.
The photos help a lot. Need more dimensions. The plumbing wall that looks like 4.7 meters. What length are the other 2 walls? Are you trenching the floor for the toilet drain or wall mounting it like one photo example? What size is the bed?
Let's say he gets his funding for a wall... Who do you think gets awarded the contract(s) as in one company, several companies? Do the Chinese get to bid on building this wall? How many miles are we talking about... 800 miles? 2,000 miles? 4,000 miles?
What time frame will it take to complete a venture of this magnitude? Weeks, months? years maybe?
Since Mexico is paying for all this... do we take American Express? That's a lot of cash back incentives.
Having heard the history of Trump and his business ventures, I'll wager someone connected to Trump is going to directly profit from this. I'm smelling kickbacks in the soup. Any wagers on this subject?
We don't need illegals to do that. Plenty of home grown are in the same category.
prep... don't go off on a tangent. Illegals receiving medical care, housing and education didn't happen overnight. That's a TOTALLY different issue and putting up a wall won't fix it.
I brought in a friend... retired contractor. He finished patching the ceiling, removed the old light fixtures and connected the new duct work for the bathroom fans.
Draegoneer, I had ACA for a few years and none of the 'sky is falling' horror stories that were professed happened to me. Some of your cousins were actually angry when I had first hand experience and no complaints. Same doctor with discount pharmacy.
Are you proud of Trump right now? Good thing you don't have a government job... But don't worry, Trump publicly stated those government workers are supporting him. Pffftt... no hardship. Right? I'm sure your mortgage company would take an IOU, so will your grocer and life insurance company.
Jim says it's extortion... Trump wants his wall and he doesn't care who gets hurt.
imp, I cannot move in until the work is done. I'm the contractor and my wife is the assistant. Attempting to do this ourselves saves money but takes longer than paying someone to help.
Fay, I'm interviewing a new accountant. All the contractors I'm working with pay much less than me.
Len, right now, the money is escaping my bank. At some point all the repairs will be completed. Long term, should I sell is when I will see some benefit to all this madness.
In the beginning the FAA required all pilots to be registered for drones within 0.55lbs to 55lbs. That means one pilot could own several drones with one registration, but each drone had to be tagged/labeled for identification.
It appears the laws have changed over the years, now they are requiring each drone to have individual registration and failure could be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties including fines up to $250,000 and prison.
My opinion says this is crazy serious.
I'll address the hobby part mostly and leave out the commercial registration. Not long ago it was stated that more than 770,000 hobby drone pilots had been registered with the FAA. That number is greater than the number of licensed pilots of full-scale aircraft.
I scanned the FAA website and they have definitions of Unmanned Aircraft of purchased (ready to fly) versus ones put together from various manufacturers parts. All that legislation is an attempt to restrict the number of pilots. Some of my friends have switched to micro-drones small enough to race indoors. No registration is required. (cough) you call that fun??
There are a few (very expensive) models that can be programmed to fly a defined course of GPS weigh-points without the need to communicate with the transmitter. This would be like the models Amazon is experimenting with. Type in some coordinates and it carries out the instructions autonomously.
I'm sure there are stories of high flying drones crossing the Mexican border dropping off packages of cash in exchange for drugs. I haven't checked payloads of drones but I've seen some large models that carry high resolution video equipment used in the filming of commercials... a few pounds at the most.
All of these drones require Li-Po batteries that provide lots of power with much less weight than older styles of batteries. The problem is flight time. Less than 15 minutes of flight is pretty standard. There is a trade off with bigger batteries for more flight time, but the added weight means less flight time. At some point you negate the benefit of a bigger battery.
To ban/restrict all hobby flying within a 50 mile radius of the president is absurd.
Model aircraft are only good for line-if-sight and cannot fly a distance of a mile from the pilot. If they lose transmitter signal, they go into 'fail safe' and power down.
Sophisticated drones with GPS can be programmed for a few miles, but return home when the signal to the transmitter is lost.
The furniture should be here in less than 1 hour. I'm guessing we need a few days to assemble things. Still waiting on confirmation for delivery of the mattresses.
The realty is 2 weeks as the paint smell and new furniture smell will be overwhelming.
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Much of my time in the last 2 weeks has been spent chasing missing information for the projects he was working on. Notorious for not getting his clients to pick hardware, I got one client in 6pm Friday. They complained about him being nonchalant for details requested. Another client came in Saturday morning to make a selection.Two down. Several more to go!