neomachino

I did general construction and framing for a while when I was younger so I feel like it's kind of a "I saw how the cake is made" thing where I have a hard time trusting anyone to do it right or paying $3,000 for something when I could do it for $300 even if I don't want to.

We hired someone once to put in a new tub/shower and replace the old pipes in the bathroom. The plumber seemed great but within a few months we realized there were 3 different leaks in the bathroom that I had to back and fix along with checking everything else he touched after trying to get the guy back out here for a month.

I've always stuggled to take time for myself. I always say I never learned how to relax. After this weekend I have nothing scheduled outside of work hours though so maybe I'll try taking a night.

Granted I'm not a gamer, but I don't think I've ever even heard of prime gaming. I've heard of steam though.

When I was 7 my moms boyfriend was beating her to a pulp. I was sure he was going to kill her this time.

I wholeheartedly believed I could overpower him and save her so I grabbed a toy hockey stick and ran over. All it took was one measly swing from a scrany, malnourished kid and all his attention on me. That's all I got in before I realized how wrong I was, followed by watching my mom run out the back door. I knew in my heart she wasn't leaving to get help and I was right.

I've gone through a lot before and after that but I've never been more horrified than that very moment. I remember the horror leave me shortly after when I was certain I wouldn't see tomorrow.

My son turns 3 next month and had no clue about SUDC. Thank you for sharing.

My heart goes out to you and your wife. I hope you both found some sort of peace.

Well what's the number? Don't leave us hanging.

I worked construction from 14-20. Nowadays I work a cushy desk job. Still whenever we need something sone in our house (which is a lot, my house is a degrading shack) if it's something I'm comfortable doing I do it myself. Every once in a while there's a job that just kills me and I feel like I need a week to recover from.

Last weekend I put new drywall up on my kitchen ceiling. I used to do it all the time with ease, by myself, light work. Nowadays I'm glad my wife wasn't home to see me struggling. I had to pull out all my tricks and it was still fucking rough.

I tired this with my son and he pulled his ladder into the kitchen, climbed onto the counter and peed all over everything.

The last place I worked was like this too. Smallish ~50 employee company that big numbers. They had an initiative thing where if they hit 20 million or something like that they would take everyone to cancun, they made 21 and found a way to back out of it. They made a few million off of some applications that I came up with, built, managed, and worked with the sales teams to sell, all along with my normal daily tasks. I was just bored and kind of fucking around. I asked more a measly raise of $10,000 since I recently found out I was the lowest paid dev there (and the best, not bragging it just wasn't a dev focused company). They pushed it off for so long I found another job and when they said they'd give me a raise to stay I told them I'd need an extra $80,000 now assuming they'd say no, they did. About a year later I'm at my cushy new job and I got a call offering me big bucks to come back because no one could figure out my horrendous code and they were losing clients who wanted new features. I said no. I asked my new boss for a raise after my first year and it took 10 minutes of talking before we were both happy with a number.

What benifit does Mint have over Debian for anything graphical?

I feel like it all depends on what you're cooking and what the egg is meant to do. For brownies/cake applesauce is pretty good, when I make desert breads I use a flax egg. If whole point of the egg is to help hold things together (which it usually is) and i know my fake egg isn't gonna cut it I'll throw in a dash of corn starch along with whatever egg substitute I'm using.

Isn't private healthcare still an option? Not that it should be the case, but I'd much rather pay a thousand a month (which is cheap) for my family to have prompt access to primary care and virtually nothing (?) for hospital trips, specialist etc.

I'm not sure how it works in places with UHC, and my job pays 100% of my insurance now, but a few years ago I was paying $1200 a month where my employer split the cost and still had to pay $300 for every doctor visit for me and about $50 for my son. Anytime any of us were in the hospital we had to ask at every step how much something would cost because we've ended up with a few hospital bills totaling up to crippling debt that we'll never get out of.

Even with my insurance costing me nothing now I still pay ~$200 for every doctor visit because we never hit out deductible of ~$6000 which keeps getting raised every few months. We definitely could hit that deductable but we'd still end up owing money for every little thing. I avoid going to the doctors because we can't afford it. We have to save for any tests/procedures at this point, I've been putting off an echo and stress test that I'm supposed to get every 6 months for about a year and a half, my heart medication just doubled in price, an ultrasound for my pregnant wife cost us $800 last month and for some reason it didn't apply towards our deductible.