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Jiggy-Z

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  1. That should buff right out.
  2. ...and we all get stoned on drugs and beer.
  3. How many investigations is that worth?
  4. I'm sure he got a nice severance package. In Russia, golden parachute made of lead, maybe polonium.
  5. It's fog of war type of stuff. That is kind of how Jack Donaghy of 30 Rock fame ended up with a time share in Port Arthur.
  6. More like wee peat.
  7. Charlie should have just skipped half time like I did. 70's and 80's Up With People swore me off Superbowl half times forever.
  8. Pretty Good game. Two pretty bad calls. One on each. Some sloppy throws and drops by both teams in 4th. Not exactly vintage Superbowl clutch history making but some great players (Donald and (Kupp) getting after it. Would have liked to have seen ot. Sure beats the ho hum blowouts from the 80s and 90s. I hate the Rams, but they earned it.
  9. Kathy Geiss. Crazy Daughter of deceased GE CEO Don Geiss. She was also fond of unicorns and desk gnomes and engaged to Deven Banks, gay rival of Jack Donaghy.
  10. Not to be confused with the other great master of the same name.
  11. Kind of out of my area of expertise. Get a builder. Good to ask questions though. Hope some of this helped.
  12. Nothing on this in a coupe of weeks. You better not be slipping.
  13. What I usually see is the architect draws something up but with very little detail-more of a memory jog for the engineer. The structural engineer will detail the drains with the architectural drawing in mind, routing the system around any possible architectural obstructions etc. Either way that stuff is usually not left to the builder. Either the plumber or the concrete sub will do the drains. Pump and exit piping is the plumber. Keep in mind this is what is done in central Texas. Also, for residential here, concrete sub usually does the mass excavation. Electrical sub will route conduit etc. I don't do a whole lot of residential, but on commercial projects, these details will appear in Civil, Arch, Structural, and MEP drawings. Additionally each of the subs will submit shop drawings with their interpretations of the drawings for approval by the appropriate designer facilitated by the GC.
  14. Agreed. In fact, I have found that it is a source of confidence rather than anxiety. I don't weigh on the weekends (I weigh at my office), but often I come back and weigh on Monday and I have gained weight over the weekend probably due to factors other than actual fat gain but sometimes there is some discipline slippage. After a day or two that usually weight is gone with some additional weight loss to boot. It is just good to get some affirmation that even though you may have screwed up, all is not lost and that things were not as bad as you thought. Without doing the daily weigh in, you might let things slip a little more due to lack of confidence and start a downward spiral.
  15. Water is always set to drain away from the house. The issue is what to do with the water that pools around the outside of the wall in the soil. There needs to be a way to remove it. Even on a plateau or a hill water will find its way to the lowest point, sometimes even traveling against gravity and uphill through pressure applied in seams and voids. Here in central Texas most houses that have split levels have a French Drain at the perimeter which is day lighted downhill, which eliminates the need for a sump pump set up. However when you have a true basement, there is usually a sub slab French drain and a perimeter French drain which are routed to an interior sump pit/pump. In 26 years in Central Texas I have never installed a residential sump set up in a split level "hillside" house as there has always been a means to remove water through gravity. We install sump pits in elevator pits all the time, although those are too small to warrant any type of individual drainage system. In the example I gave with the Hilton, the sub floor French Drain was installed with gravel but it was mixed with wet limestone fill creating an almost concrete like encapsulation of the drain pipe which did not allow the sub slab drain system to work. On top of that, the wall waterproofing failed due to poor install and improper exterior wall drainage system installation. The amount of water infiltrating was too great for the sump pit/pump set up they had. The solution was to cut into the floor and install an entirely new sub floor French drain system, an additional sump pit/pump, and enlargement of the existing sump pit/pump set up. The basement walls had to be treated from the inside with a crystallizing waterproofing element to keep them from weeping. Additionally, the walls received over 800 core holes which were fitted with an interior pvc manifold system that fed down into the sub slab drain.
  16. Concrete contractor here. Back in 2003 we were working on the convention center Hilton in Austin adding some curb on the 6th, 7th and 12th floor. We had to dowel into the slab to affix the curb and the the scanner guys fucked up and didn't mark all of the pt cables and sure enough we hit about 5 of them. Sounded like a gun going off and a couple of them shot out the side of the building. They were about $3,500.00 each to fix. That building was plagued with bad design and execution. We got to fix the 5th level of the below ground parking garage too. The wall waterproofing failed and th French drain system was shit. During the rainy season that lowest level had a bout 3 feet of water in it.
  17. "Shanks of Glory"?
  18. Jim Spencer going commando.
  19. Hit the Oak Hill HEB at 7 this am. It was a breeze. They were out if a lot of stuff, but I think they weren't done doing their restock. Plenty of water and ass wipes, though.
  20. No dice. I even tried to get him going. Stupid dog.
  21. "Off the grid Alaska thread of dominance and pot"
  22. Patriots Eagles too.
  23. you left out spiritual black guy helps main protagonist somehow.
  24. I thought it a necessary detail to bring home the glare issue and balance the other surly poor issues like my old tv, my fretting over a couple of hundred dollar price difference, and general bewilderment over all things audio tech.
  25. ..thread finally gets back to Rudy.
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