The appropriate thread to report that.
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News to me as well, when it warms up I’m gonna get one to paint my porch railing things. We will stain the decking and stair treads, but have decided to paint everything else, which is more historically accurate.
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Do we have a thread where we can complain about poor processes at work?
I had to take over a real doozy at work because the last senior person left (I think due to stress) and I now have to spend the next few months fixing the mess that I am seeing.
I was hoping for a quiet few months after year end…arrgghhh
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You are more than welcome to post in the DNGAF Friday thread tooooo!! 
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I had to take my car to the dealer due to a recall. I had the car recently serviced at an independent mechanic.
Of course the dealer wants to recommend a bunch of things I don’t need, including 4 new tires. Even if I did need tires, I wouldn’t buy them from a dealer. Crap like this is why I don’t bring my car to the dealer for service.
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We just got lucky lately.
TL;DR: guy offered to buy my dad’s house, no inspections, no agents. sweet!
My dad is in assisted living and the house was sitting empty. No one had the desire/patience to rent it. It needed a bunch of work to get it rentable anyway. (Mold in the basement, minor plumbing issues). His neighbor had a friend who wanted to live in our town in NJ; the friend lives in north Jersey which is more urban than our decent sized suburb.
He came to look at the house. He gave us an offer and was waiving all inspections, pretty much buying it as it. My sister and I liked the offer, but my dad wanted more. We upped our price and settled on 10% more than the first asking price… Score! Plus we used to agents so there was no commissions at all. It cost us $1,500 for the attorney and sever hundred for a few dumpsters.
It was bittersweet, because this was the house we grew up in, and where my dad stayed until 2022. We bought the house in 1973. We had quite a lot of memories there. it was tough getting rid of stuff, but in the end, we got it all out of there.
I keep in touch with the guy and he’s doing a pretty big remodel. Tore out the whole semi-finished basement. 
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Costco has garlic stuffed green olives. So goooooood!!! 
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As my parents were aging, I thought about how weird it’d be someday for someone else to live in there. (House was over 100 years old, needed a lot of work, and neither my brothers nor I were interested in living there.) That’s one “good” thing about the house burning down. Not being able to go through stuff was a mixed bag. There was A LOT of stuff (big house they’d lived in over 50 years, having bought it before I was born) that would have been a pain to get rid of, but the little bit of stuff that we could access wasn’t what we really wanted.
My MIL has done some purging over the last decade since my FIL died, and I’m sure my spouse and BIL will do the dumpster method when she goes. At least it’s not the house they grew up in, so there won’t be the same level of sentimental attachment.
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What a week. mostly have the reno’s done. Real estate agent, staging person, and the counter top people all here today. It’s complete chaos. While I’m trying to work.
And of course, work is wild. Got initial inquiry into buying my company. A line of business I’ve been trying to crack is looking like it’s going to open up (*). And I just launched a utility/app that I’m making available to the industry - I showed it to one company and they asked for exclusive distribution rights. I was not prepared for that.
(*)I want to develop a system to sell life insurance through P&C agencies. It’s a huge uncracked problem in Canada, and I think I’m the person that can do it. Spoke to an agency last year. They had a guy, did nothing. Fired him, and were considering me at that time. They decided instead to go with what they were already doing that wasn’t working, but with a different person. Fast forward, that didn’t work either. So then they thought, hey, what if we hired the first guy back who never did anything. Maybe that’ll be the key to success. They’ve finally realized maybe that won’t work. I"m meeting with them next week to discuss. If that opens up, and I’m successful, I’ll have a tiger by the tail.
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Huh, that surprises me.
I’ve been in markets like that (sold a house in 2008 after the market crashed) but didn’t think that was the case in suburban Toronto (is that where you are?)
Well one can hardly blame him then.
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No. Small rural town near Waterloo.
Realtor just left. He’s hopeful it may be gone this weekend.
Aaaand here we are again. I got another fire drill dropped on my from senior leadership, I don’t know why I bother trying to plan anything anymore. I should just wake up and see what’s on fire today, might cause me less stress.
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Because it’s Friday, I anticipate this at some point…
They have been doing work on the power lines on my street this week. Yesterday they blocked the street completely for a few hours, which wasn’t that big of an inconvenience as I could turn the other direction to get out.
Today they parked their bucket truck completely blocking my driveway and cut the power. Would have been nice to get a heads up this would happen. I’d guess it will be this way for a while given how long the road was blocked yesterday.
Well shit…it took about 2 minutes…
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Despite making no changes in my life, I’ve gained three pounds in the last week! I’m not concerned, but I am quite annoyed, and I hope I’m feeling back to my normal, non-bloated self soon.
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Three pounds in a week would be unusual form me, but despite weighing at the same time and same clothes daily, I can have a daily fluctuation of a pound or slightly more, with no reason I can understand. It’s sometime accompanied by another change, same direction the next day.
Its just water retention.
Eat carbs + salt and you will store more glycogen and retain more water.
Reduce carbs, and that water retention goes away.
My wife’s employer did not take out FIT, they took out everything else, for a bonus she received. Nice little $1400 surprise when doing the taxes.
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