What made your day today?

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Re: What made your day today?

#4041 Post by creep » Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:19 pm

mockbee wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:11 am

Yeah, up and down and hard surfaces on the knees is brutal. I decided to spend this summer outside building a fence out of pallets I found. It went well, until I coudln't see shit and couldn't breath because of the fires. But made pretty good progress...

I only paid for the hinges and a couple bags of concrete...and a couple 4x4 posts
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nice job :thumb:

I'm trying to get better at reusing shit. I just took out a bunch of oak cabinets and saved the wood for something else in the future and normally I would just get rid of it.

Also where I live it's free to go to the dump and they let you pick through the wood pile and take what you want so I might try to find some wood for some landscaping stuff.

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Re: What made your day today?

#4042 Post by mockbee » Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:16 pm

creep wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:11 pm
mockbee wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:41 am
Creep, here's the mobile home in Oakridge. $180K for the house and 3 acres:
That looks pretty nice for the money. It helps that it's on a permanent foundation. Much easier to sell.

I wish I didn't have to work a real job and I could "flip" FT. If I was a little younger I might take the chance.

For now it's buy and sell every two years. :bored:
See, you were thinking what I was thinking about the foundation. If it's real, that's a steal. I didn't have a proper tour, and I was trying to see if that was just split faced veneer block or if it's actually a stem wall. Couldn't see inside the vents and felt a little hollow when you banged on it. I think it's just 4" veneer unfortunately, but the wall is in really good shape. But wouldn't really matter if I wanted to do something extensive (or anything really, outside of sprucing up the interior) Definitely needs a new roof, but I don't think there is water damage to the walls/interior. It's a foreclosure so the interior is totally shot, looks like a junkie lived there unfortunately.

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Re: What made your day today?

#4043 Post by mockbee » Fri Oct 16, 2020 9:30 pm

creep wrote:
Fri Oct 16, 2020 7:19 pm


nice job :thumb:

I'm trying to get better at reusing shit. I just took out a bunch of oak cabinets and saved the wood for something else in the future and normally I would just get rid of it.

Also where I live it's free to go to the dump and they let you pick through the wood pile and take what you want so I might try to find some wood for some landscaping stuff.
Thanks, I still have more I want to do, but moved on to building a new deck in the back, as whenever I moved my deck chair around a leg would go through the painted cedar decking boards. Previous owner was meticulous in painting the deck boards, not good, traps water.

It costs $40 for your first #350 and $10 for every #100 from there at our local dump. People still go in droves....

I had a lot of time on my hands this last year so I have been scavaging for wood and metal at all the industrial warehouses and manufacuters here. Very successful. Marble and granite suppliers and wholesale contractor suppliers are the best of the best. Regularly they throw out huge protective casings for shipping made of 2x4, 2x6, 2x8 and 2x10 - 8' and 10' lengths. It takes a bit of legwork to dissasemble on site with a crowbar and sledge, but I got easily $4,000 worth of clean framing lumber over the summer, fun doing it too. Now I can't do it, have a job, but that's alright. Definitely for the best.

Here's part of my pile, have another 4 piles like the one in the background. You can see this was the day the fires moved in as well. In about an hour, the weather turned to RED and stayed that way for days....

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Re: What made your day today?

#4044 Post by Larry B. » Sat Oct 17, 2020 4:51 am

You people have really big fucking houses!

We recently bought a flat of our own here in Santiago. We are currently repairing it, as the previous owners rented it to some really disgusting people. Hopefully, we'll move around January 2021. It's in a nice part of town and one of the good things is that we're basically designing it as we want from the bottom up. Windows, floors, electric, heating, kitchen... just everything.

It's been quite fun.

And the building was built in like 1955, so I wouldn't be too surprised if in the next 10-15 years we receive an offer as a construction company attempts to buy the whole lot.

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Re: What made your day today?

#4045 Post by Juana » Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:18 am

I hate horses but I got to hang out with some today at the Luck Ranch, and the man the myth and legend and I shared a bowl but not in normal fashion :kv: I stayed at least 15 ft away can't let 2020 take him as well

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Re: What made your day today?

#4046 Post by kv » Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:12 am

That's rad...

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Re: What made your day today?

#4047 Post by Juana » Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:20 am

kv wrote:
Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:12 am
That's rad...
I needed it, weird how one of your heroes can normalize even the worst week

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Re: What made your day today?

#4048 Post by kv » Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:33 am

It's a coin flip...luck was on your side :lolol:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4049 Post by Juana » Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:33 am

That I got to be a part of this image while I was continuing my right sleeve

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Today I'm gonna be writing a song for a friend

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Re: What made your day today?

#4050 Post by mockbee » Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:04 pm

Great day!

Got the lot!!!

Still one left........ :wink:


Creep, you need to get a job up here and build spec houses.
They will sell for $300-500K and you won't be dinking around with small returns....
You're always saying how much you hate Cali, you got real outdoors here without the crowds...... :nod:
Plus you get an NBA team that will be in playoffs every year and people like them, a lot.

No good burritos though............ :nyrexall:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4051 Post by creep » Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:20 pm

mockbee wrote:
Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:04 pm

Creep, you need to get a job up here and build spec houses.
They will sell for $300-500K and you won't be dinking around with small returns....
You're always saying how much you hate Cali, you got real outdoors here without the crowds...... :nod:
Plus you get an NBA team that will be in playoffs every year and people like them, a lot.

No good burritos though............ :nyrexall:

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:lol: i finally have a job with a pension so i want to continue working a city job for at least 4 more years so i am vested. someday.....

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Re: What made your day today?

#4052 Post by mockbee » Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:20 pm

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Re: What made your day today?

#4053 Post by kv » Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:31 pm

mockbee wrote:
Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:04 pm

Plus you get an NBA team that will be in playoffs every year and people like them, a lot.
Yeah...but the Lakers...are still the problem...I don't think he'll be happier losing to us in the playoffs :noclue:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4054 Post by kv » Mon Nov 09, 2020 10:01 am

My xbox just shipped! :rockon: :love: :banana:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4055 Post by mockbee » Thu Nov 12, 2020 8:05 am

kv wrote:
Fri Oct 23, 2020 11:31 pm
mockbee wrote:
Fri Oct 23, 2020 5:04 pm

Plus you get an NBA team that will be in playoffs every year and people like them, a lot.
Yeah...but the Lakers...are still the problem...I don't think he'll be happier losing to us in the playoffs :noclue:
Nah, you got green, kuzma, rondo.

All fall flat for whatever reasons... therefore lakers no problem, we laugh at you..... :lol:

i'm cray cray? :crazy:
:nod:

But that's the logic seems to be going round elsewhere in the world.
So why not here?
:noclue:


Feels alright.... :bday: :lol:
I think I can really embrace al....yeah, me and al..... :agree:


:rockon: :rockon: :rockon:


:wiggle:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4056 Post by SR » Mon Dec 28, 2020 9:34 pm

Will Calhoun sent me a Thank You holiday card, thanking me for a purchase I made of a 100 dollar drum head I ended up putting in a shadowbox on the wall. That was like 10 months ago. Who the fuck does that?

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Re: What made your day today?

#4057 Post by Matz » Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:29 pm

One of the best Dave interviews I've seen, he says some really cool and profound things along the way and is so loose and happy it seems, great stuff


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Re: What made your day today?

#4058 Post by mockbee » Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:37 am

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Senator Warnock :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:


The Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat and the pastor at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, defeated Senator Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, to become the first Black senator in Georgia history and the first Black Democrat to be elected to the Senate in the South.


Has to make Abrams feel good after what Kemp did to her (Georgia)..... :nod:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4059 Post by creep » Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:00 pm

found one of these on the side of the road today. it works great. i was just thinking about getting a new blower. no one posted anything about losing one so... :noclue:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4061 Post by Pandemonium » Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:36 am

creep wrote:
Mon Jan 11, 2021 7:00 pm
found one of these on the side of the road today. it works great. i was just thinking about getting a new blower. no one posted anything about losing one so... :noclue:

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I hate goddamned leaf blowers. It's the lazy man's broom, haha. My neighbor uses one every day to blow off his driveway at about 7am like clockwork, the dirt and dust inevitably settling on my cars.

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Re: What made your day today?

#4062 Post by mockbee » Sun Jan 17, 2021 10:46 am

Yeah, when I saw that photo I wanted to get a baseball bat and demolish it piñata style.... :balls:

Oh, BTW Creep...uh...I lost a leaf blows off the back of my truck in CA...so, ..yeah...lets figure out a way to return it....:lol: :dunce:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4063 Post by kv » Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:03 pm

My mom catching a last minute cancellation and getting her vaccine today :aoa:

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Re: What made your day today?

#4064 Post by Artemis » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:27 pm

kv wrote:
Tue Feb 02, 2021 11:03 pm
My mom catching a last minute cancellation and getting her vaccine today :aoa:
Good news, kv! :aoa:
I don't know when my mother can get one. She still lives in her house, not in a long-term care home. The vaccine roll out here could be much better.

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Re: What made your day today?

#4065 Post by Artemis » Thu Feb 04, 2021 2:29 pm

I bought some delightful, yellow tulips today. #selfcare

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