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Perhaps we might get a non-stop to singapore as a result. The 777 can go that far. The LAX to BKK route failed after a few years, similar distance.[/quote]United started a nonstop LAX-SIN route this week, and I believe Singapore airlines has plans to add another in 2018. 18 hour flight… that may need some getting used to.
Participantflu, thanks! I did enjoy doing this repair. Was nervous but it was fun when all done. I bought most of the fittings from supplyhouse.com. I will look at my invoices and post the items later tonight.
A quick note, my original inlet feed was like yours, for simplicity bypassed old line and created a new junction through the cutout wall for the city line connection. You can see the old inlet covered by the paper towel just below the old shutoff valve.
ParticipantFinally a thread I can actually add-on to 🙂
Recently completed a similar task, but chose to leave the old regulator and inoperable shut-off valve intact. Here is the end result – (sorry about the debris and couple of messy solders)
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Lots of good info in the previous posts. Hobie I will have to steal the wonder bread trick, and give the squirt bottles some rest. Here are some of the tools that made the soldering work a bit easier.
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After working with different solders, these days I swear by this one – https://www.lowes.com/pd/Worthington-16-oz-Lead-Free-Copper-Pipe-Solder/3819167. They melt like butter and provide a pretty leak free joins. A generous amount of water soluble flux (purchased at Fergusons) at the fittings end also helps. Couple of precautionary steps included wrapping the new and old regulators with dripping moist towels to avoid any heat damage, 2) the wall covered with a few layers of aluminum foil sheets to avoid flame burns. In this particular project, there was a bit of struggle connecting to the old section, which resulted in some flame burns on the wall!
flu – you can do it!
October 24, 2016 at 9:06 AM in reply to: Recommendations for an economical tethering data plan for travel (international?) #802571ParticipantHatfield, you just made my day! Thanks for the awesome links. I have couple of viable alternatives for the trip.
cvmom, were you able to connect laptop using the Tmobile coverage outside of the US?
spdrun, thanks for the introduction about rooted device. I am not yet ready for such a solution. One of these days I will attempt this option on an older device to see if I can get a low cost hot spot for my in-laws place (who refuse to have any form of connected device except for the landline)
What else can I say – when my googling fails, piggington to the rescue. Thanks everyone.
October 23, 2016 at 5:30 PM in reply to: Recommendations for an economical tethering data plan for travel (international?) #802565ParticipantHatfield, Thanks for the details. I do have an unlocked device. I will look into telestial to check for possible SIM card options.
My immediate need is for Canada, and in Europe it will be UK/France/Germany. During my last trip I tried a Fi device, it worked great for calls/text but not as much for tethered data.
In my online search the best I found was https://explore.t-mobile.com/t-mobile-one, and a contradicting support question here – https://support.t-mobile.com/thread/93412?start=0&tstart=0.
I am with AT&T, so am a bit hesitant to jump the T-mobile wagon. Unless there is a benevolent Pigg who will adopt me for a TMO additional line subscriber 🙂
Planning to visit the stores this week to check if there are any cheap alternatives.ParticipantGlad to read favorable Pixel reviews.
Have had my current Nexus for quite a few years, and had planned to buy the next model release as the upgrade phone. It turned out to be the Pixel, especially with the Really Blue invite. I have loved and stayed with Nexus series to avoid carrier/manufacturer related add-ons, and I hope Pixel carries that Nexus tradition.
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Why not just think of money as money, and time as time. Sure, there’s a trade off in life. But time, health, passions, etc… are not money.[/quote]That does keep things simpler. I agree my definition is unconventional. In the context of OP’s question I do believe when ‘money’ is considered in a non-generic fashion there are opportunities to make more conventional money. Although time/health are not money, I would say time is more valuable, and without health it might be impossible to make money. In my personal experience separating the money aspect from the equation has created rewards far greater than I could have anticipated at that time. OMMV.
Participant[quote=no_such_reality]
Finally, you got to work it. You have to actively work the compensation component of it, jumping ship when the comp isn’t there. You also have to work it and deliver. Don’t underestimate this one, deliver, deliver, deliver. Deliver when you said you would deliver. Deliver when no one thinks you can deliver.[/quote]I agree with your assessment, with the exception about jumping ship. I am not certain jumping ship helps in the long run, unless the work experience/circle is large enough so as to never have any overlaps. Definitely in the case of bad/mis management it makes sense. Switching jobs just for the sake of dollars imo may not work out too well.
Now I would consider ‘deliver when no one thinks you can deliver’ to be the perfect blissful state!
Participant[quote=harvey][quote=exsdgal]For some ‘money’ implies dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, bitcoins, etc. I prefer to think of ‘money’ to include monetary currencies along with trust, time, credit worthiness, self ability (skills), self interests (passions), personality and health to list a few. In our every day activities we essentially barter one set of ‘personal currency’ for something equivalent/better.[/quote]
It must be very confusing to do business with you.[/quote]
perhaps! At least the people I deal with know exactly what to expect from me, and that they won’t get screwed. That got to count for something right? 🙂
ParticipantYou asked ‘How to make more money?’
When I read your post yesterday, I thought what can I say that has not already been said. Your question by itself was interesting, and am certain many here have asked a variation of it at some point in their life. I know I did.
For some ‘money’ implies dollars, euros, pounds, pesos, bitcoins, etc. I prefer to think of ‘money’ to include monetary currencies along with trust, time, credit worthiness, self ability (skills), self interests (passions), personality and health to list a few. In our every day activities we essentially barter one set of ‘personal currency’ for something equivalent/better.
e.g. with my skills(not necessarily passion) get W2 income; with trust/credit worthiness obtain a loan; with passion/skills/trust convince a VC to invest in the next round; with time/dollars support organizations I am passionate about.
The best person to answer your original question is YOU!
What works for others need not work for me. It is also worth noting what worked in the past may not be applicable today for a simple reason – my interest/passion changed.
Since I can not provide concrete examples to make more money, I will reply with my thoughts to a variation of your question I had when I was in my 30’s (AARP is eager to add another household to their mailing list soon).
Here was my self assessment:
– I am a lazy person (please don’t mistake that – I seek challenges, and will solve them with the most efficient solution as quickly as possible, with minor fine tuning along the way to perfect/automate the problem)
– value time more than monetary currency (will take reduced pay to keep my 15 minute commute)
– can become passionate/knowledgeable about almost anything (within limits)
– my investment inclinations tend to be valuation driven and contrarian by nature
– have a constant paranoia it will only become difficult as I get older to find interesting workplacesWith this newly acquired self awareness I chose to do reverse analysis on the problem at hand – ‘what do I want to do at age X?’ and most importantly ‘what support will I need to maintain my goals at that said age X’
Now that I had a magical $ number to support life at X, I started looking for diversified opportunities across the spectrum to generate my magical $ number. Typically a $1 saved is $1.33 earned, which simply dictates to come out ahead/even in the game one has to find legal options to minimize the ~30% deficit. My end goal is not to amass wealth, but just enough to support my/spouse lifetime along with a 5% surplus to kick-start the next generation.
Few other random thoughts:
– consider a 9-5 job as a spring board to reach ones goal. This helps to build ones personal currency of trust, credit worthiness, skills. Most importantly helps to sort out what one’s likes and dislikes are.
– it takes money to make money. I know it sounds a cliche. So will amend it as ‘it takes personal currency to make money’.
– The best currency to have anytime is Other Peoples Money in the form of loans, goodwill etc
– look at your 1040 to understand above line deductions and below line deductions.I can’t speak for you, but if I were in your position my action plan (UNLESS my current rent was ridiculously below market) will be to
– buy the largest house I can afford in the best neighborhood I desire. Note, this can be the smallest house in the neighborhood. Ideally prefer not sharing the land rights with anyone. By choosing the best neighborhood I also insulate from possible market slowdowns
(or)
buy a place with best attributes in an up and coming area. This follows the concept money is made where no one is looking.
– maintain the place as primary residence for at least 2 years, depending on market conditions sell and pocket up to $250K tax exempt profit and move to another primary residence (rinse and repeat). Now how to maximize the tax exempt profit is an exercise on its own.
– if selling is not an option, rent the place and move to a newer/upscale property after 2 years, collecting rent against the mostly low fixed rate costs.
– Personally will not consider drastic career changes. For example Mortgage broker business might look lucrative (I don’t know if it really is). But switching from SE to an unrelated business often times we forget to account for the ‘opportunity cost’. The time preparing to enter a new profession, cost involved to become proficient in the new business (note even if one went to the best of school for the new profession one will still be the ‘new’ guy in the business); and in the mean time the SE skills become outdated in case I chose to return to the programming world.Now if real estate is your interest and you are not willing to commit, one idea (which I can not vouch for) is to try the AirBnB route. Assuming you can lease a nice desirable property, which allows subletting/etc and have funds to make upscale furnishing selections, and a support team to complete move-in/move-outs there might be some money to be made. Obviously consideration needs to be made for taxes from the money made, business licenses etc.
If software development is your dream there are plenty of options to explore. With the latest technologies it is quite easy to experiment rapid developments and test market. There are several interesting nascent domains that are worth exploring – internet of things, machine learning, robotics. Look for old forgotten problems that can use some disruptive technology.
Well I hope there was some useful information in here for you to brain storm your money generating ideas following the ‘no pain no gain’ principle. Good luck!
ParticipantRecently I switched one of the secondary phones to Google Fi, and have been happy with the decision. It costs ~$20/month. I did buy an unlocked Nexus out of pocket.
ParticipantTimely thread! @moneymaker your 15yr looks amazing. When did you lock/close the loan. If you can share the loan terms (amount / LTV / cash out / conforming) it will be helpful. Thanks a bunch.
I have dragged long enough on the hassles of a refi, and hope to complete one over the next few weeks.
ParticipantThis was my lunch time fortune cookie reading from today….
[img_assist|nid=25735|title=fc|desc=|link=node|align=left|width=100|height=57]Planning to speculate this time around!
ParticipantHow does one buy a Powerball ticket? I know tickets can be bought at a convenience store, is there something specific to do for these tickets.
The odds of me checking Piggington at this time of the day is rare, and historically anything I hear or read out of the blue has affected my life in some shape or form. Makes me wonder should I buy one today? (As I write this I hear a rolling thunder) In case I end up buying one and win, each of you shall receive a token of appreciation 🙂 Ciao.
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