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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Besides my regular clients, I mow for a real estate company that owns a mass of rental properties in town. I mow their turn arounds when they become vacant for about a month while their team renews the property for the next renter. Yesterday I was given a single dwelling home to restore and maintain while it undergoes a facelift. I thought the address sounded familiar and sure enough, it was a lawn I mowed for many years for an elderly single woman. When she passed, I mowed for her nephew who inherited the home for a few more years. It has been ten or so years since I last mowed the lawn and I must have been the last person who gave a care about the property. What was once a very attractive yard with well groomed beds of flowers and plants has become the wilderness. It's a shame to see a property overrun by vegetation for lack of care.
 
I received my replacement weather station yesterday. The putting together and installing went without any problems. For an unknown reason, the display was not gathering the inside sensors information. (temp, humidity, barometric pressure) I tried rebooting the sensors as well as the display a number of times without success. I searched the net for a reason and fix without luck. I finally found in the settings the sensor in question and deleted it and installed it again. That was the answer and that was fixed. The unit was made to easily share it's information with the Ambient network. That all went flawlessly. My old unit was made to easily share it's data with Weather Underground. In the settings you can share the information to multiple weather networks so I spent the rest of the evening trying to establish communication between my station and WU. I finally went to bed without success. I still have no idea what I need to do but I'll eventually get there. The point of this rant is a first time station owner should not have to deal with difficulties such as these and most would be more than put off by the complications.
 
Just like that my microsoft edge for windows ten.

Microsoft EdgeVersion 126.0.2592.61 (Official build) (64-bit)

The drop down menu is now autoguessing everything I type up.
Any sugesstions on how to turn it off?
 
Bearsyzf said:
Do you guys have a problems with porch pirates like we do out here ?
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Not where I live. My doorbell camera would get a good picture of anyone attempting it

There's actually a video, I think it was on YouTube, of a guy having trouble with Porch Pirates who set up an exploding shoebox. When the thief took the box and got about 15ft away the box exploded. It did minor damage to the thief, like burned his hands. I think the guy used like a cherry bomb in the box. It was really a dangerous thing for the guy to do. If the thief got badly hurt he could have the guy arrested and also sue him.

This isn't the video I was thinking of, but it is similar

 
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I reported the problem yesterday to Amazon via a chat bot exchange. I was informed to give the situation 24 hours before reporting. I reported it again late afternoon. The chat bot pretty much told me to piss up a rope. The missing package was three pairs of safety sunglasses that I wear while mowing. With tax the order was only eighteen bucks and change. It's not like it's worth getting bent way out of shape over but I ordered the glasses because I wanted them and continue to need them. After dinner, I ran to the car wash to see if I could wash the crazy amount of bugs off of my wife's car. When I got home, my wife handed me my package that was supposedly delivered yesterday. It was supposed to show up yesterday and I was informed it was delivered with a time stamp. It did show up just a day late. It could have showed up next week. Just don't tell me that it's been delivered when it hasn't.
 
I wonder if Amazon has rules for delivery drivers, such as, how many deliveries per hour or else they get fired. I could see someone saying it was delivered when it wasn't so they wouldn't lose their job
 
When I came home from mowing there was an Amazon van parked across the street from my dive. I waited but it didn't move. I walked up to the van and the delivery dude was sorting packages and had no idea he was preventing me from backing my trailer into my drive. I asked him if he delivered a package yesterday to my home. He said he delivers over 200 packages a day and has no idea if he was at my home yesterday. He went on to say that there were multiple drivers delivering from Amazon daily in my area. I had no idea it was that big of a business. Over 200 parcels an eight hour day would be a package delivered every two minutes or so.

I just received an email from Amazon CS. I was given a link to follow to get a full refund if the package didn't show up before the 28th. That does restore my faith in the buying / delivering process.
 
I don't order much from Amazon. I did have a package that I paid a $6.99 delivery fee for a couple of years ago that was 3 days late, and they did credit my credit card $6.99
 
.......Over 200 parcels an eight hour day would be a package delivered every two minutes or so......

That sounds like something Amazon will get into trouble for, but they are probably paying the driver as independent contractors to get around labor laws
 
I have had occasions where I've had two vans in my driveway and two others within sight of it. My understanding is depending on the product it may come from different warehouses. I think it is something like warehouses for small, medium, and large items, and depending on where things are located and the number of items in your order they may or may not be shipped to one warehouse to be aggregated into a single shipment.
 
I live in a rather rough neighborhood, chances are if you try to steal something off a porch you're going to be leaving with extra holes
 
Being delayed because someone decided to do a half@$$ repair job on a trailer I am picking up and now I can't move it:mad::maddroid::thumbsdowndroid:
 
The General Motors 2.2 Litre Ecotec engine. Damn thing thew the second timing chain since I got the crappy Saturn ION in 2016, and now the valves are toast. Now the car is sitting in my garage with camshafts on the floor along with two broken cam phasers and a big mess. Then I unplugged a purge solenoid and the harness went up in smoke.

Why can't I just fine one decent condition (and decent priced) '78 Continental or '89 LeSabre? I mean even WHEN I find such a car for sale, it doesn't matter how rusted the frame or body is, or even if it runs--they want like $20K for it. I hate Obama....he destroyed the entire used market with his blasphemy of Cash for Clunkers. Now I got the remains of a dead Saturn in my garage, one good vehicle left (and I HATE MODERN!!!!) and both are built like cheap golf cars. I can literally disassemble the Saturn's engine in less than 8 hours. It's built THAT cheap! I wish I kept the Chrysler Fifth Avenue. It might have had issues starting in weather below 28 degrees F, had a mere 215 mile range for 18 gallons of fuel, and no overdrive so you're racing the 318 V8 on the interstate, but damn if it got me from point A to point B without suddenly stopping and ruining the valves because of cheap design.

At this point I'm so desperate that I'd buy a cheap Mercury Marquis with no engine and just the transmission and cobble together some cheap EV out of it by welding the shaft of the transmission to a large DC motor and put few 12V deep cycle batteries in series for a cheap 72v electric car. Given it would still shift and the interior would otherwise be original, it might go farther than a Tesla with a mere analogue setup. I do remember seeing someone on YouTube put some cheap Harbor Freight Predator engine into a Honda similarly and they were driving it on a stupid 6HP side shaft engine!

Heck, the Saturn ION would likely be more reliable with the Harbor Freight engine. hmmmm.
 
Well both my cold sores vanished after nearly oh about since June, just before I left for my vacation, now this does not make sense my paycheck was thirty, but I know I did put in a lot more hours at the side occupation just before I did leave, about a few weeks before getting paid though, thus my math was really used and I know I should of got more for it though. Something is missing.
 
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