Jump to content

Grimas

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    761
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Grimas

  1. We're leaning towards west coast of Spain south of Barcelona. Can get a 2500-3000 sq ft house with pool close to the beach for 4-500K. Helps that I got my EU passport - thanks to grandfather being displace during WW2 - so I can get on national healthcare system and then supplement with top private for 3K a year. It's our plan B if I get laid off for some reason before medicare kicks in... (COBRA would cost me 3k a month if I had to go on it right now...) Would be looking at moving there right now if the kids would have decided to go to school in Europe...
  2. I had to Google it when I saw the comment as I hadn't heard of any faults in the Woodlands even though I've lived here 11 years and have never noticed the faulting on the roads here like you get down in Spring Branch. (And I'm a geologist...) As a side note, my structural geology professor at UT - who later became the head of the Geology Department - and her geologist husband bought a house in Austin that they didn't know was on a major fault line that caused a bunch of damage to it...
  3. It's a pretty minor set of faults that are most likely due to sucking down the water table that shouldn't affect the wiring/cables. But you also wouldn't want your house or pool built on it... (Ha Ha Gordy Bunch! https://www.jw.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Woodlands-Fault-Line-Lawsuit-Dismissed.pdf)
  4. Does it look like glass (It looks like it reflects like it and has conical fractures in the photo)? If so it's probably obsidian.
  5. I was watching during the evening as it all started to finally turn green progressing from the north and spreading towards 45. I’m also in CC and mine came on between 1 and 4am.
  6. Finally some progress - green in Oak Ridge and the most southern art of the Woodlands…
  7. Throw them on the Traeger! Er, never mind….
  8. I saw somewhere that they lost something like 11 main transmission lines. Trim the damn trees…
  9. Entergy just said they hope to get 50% of their customers online by end of day tomorrow…
  10. YouTube videos… and I do have a 3000 watt inverter that I just had to dust off and just ran extension cables to the wifi and fridges no issue until it gets to 90 today and the wife starts really bitching…
  11. My Westinghouse 12500 just crapped out…. Genny still running but not generating power…. Probably a $2.99 capacitor I can get on Amazon - next week.
  12. Not a single house restored yet in the Woodlands… and this is where all the power lines are underground…
  13. Got a house nearby that recently sold and new owner is having a big remodel done so no one living there yet. 3 surrounding neighbors don’t have home generators so have run extension cables to the empty house since the generator is running and no one home/no one living on in the empty house yet the gen is running….
  14. Entergy just put out a statement it will be several days until they fully restore power.
  15. And the same with most of the internet providers switching boxes (or whatever they are called) while my fiber provider (Tachus) has Generacs on each of their neighborhood boxes…
  16. I think that most cell towers have a battery backup that is only good for so many hours…
  17. Had some new plants in the planters around the pool that were wilting since the sprinkler didn't hit them.. Wife said she was going to water them with the hose that was on the side of the house and asked "is it connected". Said yes and said just turn it on. "It's not plugged in". Huh? While the hose was connected to the water tap, the grounded electrical socket a few feet away didn't have anything plugged into it...
  18. Great strategy- assuming you can last for a long time somewhere - if you get bought out but the downside is that when prices drop (again) and the company looks to cut costs. Being expensive puts a target on your back by people like HR who have no clue what you actually do for the company but they do the math that they can cut you and keep more cheaper/younger people with you gone... Especially when you realize that you aren't one of those "cheap" guys anymore but rather one of the expensive "grey haired" ones...
  19. PC games? Youtube and ticktock mostly like most kids unfortunately besides what they've played on Xbox for past 10 years. But with one Xbox supposedly having issues and most recent releases sucking, I'm thinking I can get one of the Xbox PC passes to allow them to keep playing what they were before on it rather than Xbox versions... (I know PC versions of games are better than what Xbox has now but my point of reference is the last PC-based game I played too damn long ago - CounterStrike on Stream.) Everything since then has been on Xbox so I have nothing to compare against( and they aren't getting a 70" 12K screen in their dorm... Want something better kid? Get a job and build your own box like we used to do...
  20. Bumping this thread as it's been dead for awhile. I haven't built a PC since I did a HTPC 10+ years ago and now all the firesticks/smart TV's do what I used the PC for back then when not using my Ipad or work laptop... Kids headed off to college and have asked for gaming PC's to take with them and to use for school. (I've gotten them decent used laptops for high school that work fine with Office apps but one had an Xbox die and was asking to go the gaming PC route and their school network won't allow anything but Roku on their network.) Picked up one of these off Amazon and wiped and re-installed a fresh version of W11 (used Rufus). Got a few weeks until I can return to Amazon but it seemed a pretty good deal with plans to install Stremio with a Real Debride account as well as Kodi (with a VPN, of course). Seems most kids would rather have their nose buried on their phones than gaming so I figured this was a good option for school apps, streaming and occasional gaming. Thoughts? Can upgrade HD to a 2.5 SSD to get to 2TB. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9J69KH8?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1
  21. Add a 100# scared dog jumping on your bed...
  22. I had a nightmare about pegging last night…
Ă—
Ă—
  • Create New...