[NotCranky]

The water could be coming from several properties over maybe a big apartment. See if you can find out if the neighbors have the same issue. This is not an extremely rare event. Well I see you say it’s on the high side of the street. Maybe a nice french drain down to the canyon would help, lots of people put them in because the clay soil doesn’t percolate well.

[NotCranky]

[quote=svelte][quote=Blogstar]In my dream we were arguing that “innie” or “outtie” belly buttons are not really proof of who is or isn’t a superior person.[/quote]

What? Two people dreamt about Brian?

Now I’m starting to freak.[/quote]

LOL! Thanking G-d that I am just making it up!

[NotCranky]

In my dream we were arguing that “innie” or “outtie” belly buttons are not really proof of who is or isn’t a superior person.

[NotCranky]

[quote=flu][quote=Blogstar]I’d exhaust all options for getting the bolts out without messing with the female threads. You might have removed some material with the bolt extraction so the head might be too weak for the slot and screwdriver suggestion?
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That’s what I’m worried about….

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I have gotten away with pounding a smaller socket or wrench on the bolt head once or twice in my life too. Easier on larger bolts.[/quote]

You mean on the outside, right? (I tried pounding in a bigger hex and torx socket and that didn’t work)
The thing I hate about these bolts is they are perfectly round. So I’m wondering if that would work…The other thing, I don’t have much room to work a socket in between the bolt and the shaft bolt in the center.[/quote]

I would try with the star pattern type socket over the outside of the round bolt, but you might bend the pulley shaft if you hit it too hard. $75 to the mechanic is sounding pretty good!

[NotCranky]

I’d exhaust all options for getting the bolts out without messing with the female threads. You might have removed some material with the bolt extraction so the head might be too weak for the slot and screwdriver suggestion?

I have gotten away with pounding a smaller socket or wrench on the bolt head once or twice in my life too. Easier on larger bolts.

[NotCranky]

cut a deep slot in the bolt head with grinder. jam a heavy straight screw driver into the slot and use vise grips on the screw driver while pushing in hard, maybe even rig a pice of a screw driver to air wrench and try that.

[NotCranky]

Get a few pounds off the house cat.

[NotCranky]

I built a two story second house behind a single story house in Normal Heights in 2003 the lot was 50′ x100′. I didn’t get the permitting done, the owner hire his own draftsman, but I know it took the owner about a year because the draftsman he was working with was pretty slow. The lower floor too small for the size of house, with a single car garage and stair well taking up a lot of space. Upstairs had 3 bedrooms and a bath. Upstairs had a larger footprint due to cantilever floor design.

Everything was easy as the builder. We put a 2 meter power main on the new house and underground the electrical from there to the new house. Dug up the yard and replaced the old cast iron drain pipe with 4″ ABS that served both houses. I don’t think you can have a plumbing main under either house so make sure it can be routed around if necessary with the proper additional fall for any new length of run required to accomplish that if needed. Upgraded the water main from 3/4 to 1″ and put in a mandatory anti-siphon station on the main ( another contractor did that).

I don’t think the owner had to sign any agreements not to rent both houses.

This was an alley property. The owner had to hire an engineer to finish the alley in concrete even though the alley had sections of dirt behind other houses.

I think an off street non tandem space is required for each bedroom of both houses, but check that out, the existing house may be grandfathered in.

[NotCranky]

[quote=spdrun]Long, sedentary periods of work sure don’t help. Jobs with long working hours in the past tended to be blue-collar and involved physical exertion.

Nor does lack of free time to cook, or grab anything other than fast food for lunch.

Of course, there might be other factors in play, like obesogenic chemicals in food and the environment.[/quote]
It still mostly comes from calories dense nutrition light eating and drinking and too little energy spent during the average day.

Most people can do an amazing job of losing weight if they tried ,but don’t keep it off. So I don’t think there is too much voodoo fat out there. My MIL a big desert eater always says her son got the fat tendency from her, until he got serious about his health and is now 6’3″ 170 something.
Office people can get desks for standing work, and I think there is even one that lifts and lowers so a person can stand or sit at it( sit when you need a break from standing. Some engineering offices I have seen have high tables with tall backless barstools and people do tend to stand as much or more as sit. Sitting on a exercise ball instead of a chair keeps muscles engaged. 10 pull ups 10 squats and 10 push up and hour in a 12 hour day wouldn’t hurt work productivity too much , if it didn’t actually increase it. 120 pull ups , body weight squats and push ups is a pretty good workout especially compared. Add , a half hour jog or an hour walk most days and you are set.

It’s funny how many people find out that I exercise and eat pretty well and they say ” wow , why do you do that? You never had a weight problem”.

[NotCranky]

20.1 % of athletes are obese? Maybe some many fat people just missed their calling. I am not fat I am an unemployed athlete.

[NotCranky]

Were there payment only loan mods? No principal reduction. I think there were. Just wondering how many of these house could be pretty easy to make payments on even though they are upside down?

Also, people who did get principal reductions but owe the government equity sharing might be nearly as bad as upside down, even though the house doesn’t look that way. Not sure how many there are. Does anyone have these kinds of stats?

[NotCranky]

My reductions by reassessments are pretty much toast now. It was good while it lasted.

[NotCranky]

People seem to be having to balance living to survive, living to live an enjoyable satisfying life, and pressure to live to be seen, as in ” keeping up appearances” . Maybe some people deal with all three pretty well but it’s impossible to tell who they are or realistically keep score. Impossible.

I am starting to immediately recognize “score keeping” attitudes and behavior. It is not a sign of superiority or correctness.

[NotCranky]

Anti-dirtbaggism is inhumane.

[NotCranky]

The right kind of Dirtbaggism makes the world a better place, and is in some people, reflective of their awesomeness. Like Jesus when he wandered around in the desert for 40 days and 40 nights starving , he must have been a dirt bag. Sometimes it’s a requirement to lead an awesome life. I don’t trust people who are anti-dirtbag. I am sure there is something seriously wrong with anti-dirtbaggism.

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