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      02-23-2021, 05:49 PM   #2575
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My first world problem is not getting a full 1000Mbps with my Gigabit level of Internet service from my provider.
I can get pretty close (950+ Mbps) when sitting in my office with my laptop plugged directly into the modem / router.
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The plates for the new X3 came in a week. Anyone know what size the bolts are for the frame? I'm NOT going to give free advertisement for my dealer, so no frame. Want to put bolts in the bottom 2 holes. Since they didn't mount the front ( ) I can't scrounge them from there.
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I'm living in a house with no running water today, with a porta-potty on the front lawn in the snow. Adding insult to injury, one of the faucet hose fittings in the bathroom vanity snapped off when our plumber tried to remove the hose. With any luck, we may have running water tonight...although I booked the porta-potty (premium, with sink and flushing toilet) for tomorrow as well just in case.....
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I'm living in a house with no running water today, with a porta-potty on the front lawn in the snow. Adding insult to injury, one of the faucet hose fittings in the bathroom vanity snapped off when our plumber tried to remove the hose. With any luck, we may have running water tonight...although I booked the porta-potty (premium, with sink and flushing toilet) for tomorrow as well just in case.....
And this is "First World?"
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      02-24-2021, 02:46 PM   #2579
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I'm living in a house with no running water today, with a porta-potty on the front lawn in the snow. Adding insult to injury, one of the faucet hose fittings in the bathroom vanity snapped off when our plumber tried to remove the hose. With any luck, we may have running water tonight...although I booked the porta-potty (premium, with sink and flushing toilet) for tomorrow as well just in case.....
What did I miss? What happened, a pipe froze while you were away. Hope you're back to normal soon.
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      02-24-2021, 03:48 PM   #2581
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What did I miss? What happened, a pipe froze while you were away. Hope you're back to normal soon.
Our well water is sooooooo nasty that it eats through copper pipes. We have 1-3 pipe ruptures every year, all of them on long horizontal runs in the basement. Around the holidays, a vertical pipe in the wall of our laundry room popped, making a mess of the sheetrock and sub-flooring. We cut/capped both pipes in the basement, and have been living without a washing machine since late December.

I was so upset with the pipes being eaten alive by the water that I booked a plumber to rip out every shred of copper pipe in our entire house and replace it with PEX (plastic) tubing. My scope of work included a central plastic distribution manifold with individual shutoff valves, and each faucet run to one of those manifold valves with no splices whatsoever between the manifold and faucet connector. The plumber that I chose to do the job thought that I was crazy to rip out copper when he was quoting the project, but saw first hand this morning why I did it when he snapped the bathroom sink valve off trying to disconnect the faucet hose with his bare hands.

Anyway, since it was a long-planned project, I had a few weeks of lead time to order a high end porta-potty with flushing toilet and a sink. I'm hoping that they will be done in an hour or so, but have the porta-potty for another day just in case it runs into tomorrow.....
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but have the porta-potty for another day just in case it runs into tomorrow.....
because I like to see how the unwashed masses live
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      02-27-2021, 11:57 AM   #2583
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Got some minor sunburn on my balding head from running errands with the top down today. In February.
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Got some minor sunburn on my balding head from running errands with the top down today. In February.
So is your first world problem that you're going bald, or that you drive a hairdressers car? Oh the irony
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Got some minor sunburn on my balding head from running errands with the top down today. In February.
When I had my Z4, I'd drive north to work in the morning with the sun on my right (east) and drive home south in the afternoon with the sun on my right (west). The right side of my face was always sunburned. Ah, but those days of cruising home with Bob Marley cranking were the shit.

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My latest first world problem is having a company laptop and a company phone while still having to keep my own for personal business. They say I'm allowed to use the company equipment for reasonable use but I just don't trust them.
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When I order a Machiatto and the barista makes a cappuccino. Grrr.
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When I order a Machiatto and the barista makes a cappuccino. Grrr.
What do you expect from a philosophy major?

I'm kidding of course and please don't spit in my coffee.
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My latest first world problem is having a company laptop and a company phone while still having to keep my own for personal business. They say I'm allowed to use the company equipment for reasonable use but I just don't trust them.
Rule #1:

Company stuff goes on the company products (phone, iPad, laptop, etc.)

Personal stuff goes on your personal products (phone, iPad, laptop, etc.)

Pretty much anyone in your IT/HR department can check anything on your company product remotely.

Um, no.

I don't want MegaCorp to know I've had a fight with the wife/girlfriend (or both), am stressed about my M2 parts being delayed, I lost my line of credit at the bank, my cocaine habit's out of control, the cat's taken up gambling, etc.

Keep your work life and your personal life separate. No good can come of things otherwise.

As a case in point:

We had one of our company's pilots called into the Chief Pilot's office because he'd apparently been surfing porn sites on his company iPad. That was bad.

What was worse, was that it was happening at the EXACT time he was in the Chief Pilot's office-- which was sort of a puzzler.

Turns out that his kid had been bogarting his iPad when he was home to watch porn. He had no idea until Company IT/HR caught him.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.....
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My latest first world problem is having a company laptop and a company phone while still having to keep my own for personal business. They say I'm allowed to use the company equipment for reasonable use but I just don't trust them.
I don't know if things have changed recently, but at one point in the past you had to pay federal/state income taxes for the service fees on a work-provided cell phone...unless you also had your own cell phone for personal use.....
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