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[flipper35]

Steve, you should have cable internet available there too. Much faster and more expensive.

Bernie, McDonalds has WiFi access now if that's any indication of where we are at.

Also, 23x36 Cobra cutaway and other posters here for $20.50

http://www.pelicanparts.com/catalog/...TCH-detail.htm

[trularin]

It is all over the place here in Detroit.

I am truely amazed sometimes.

There are places that offer for patrons a PW at connect.

Rain again today. Dang, I wanted to tool around a bit.

[Ron61]

Bernie,

Several of the so called up scale coffe shops here have a wireless set up and some of the motels and from what I have heard it seems to work well.

As for the empty the bathtub, am I the ONLY person here to get the correct answer????

Tru,

It was 83 yesterday, and is 70 this morning at 3:45 AM. I think we are about ready to go straight into the hot Summer weather.

Steve,

Do you pay a seperate for your DLS with that phone company? If so, I don't see how they can mess the bill up so much. I have all of my phone and computer services through the phone company and the only time I ever have a bill messed up is I do get billed for some 1 minute calls once in a while that I never made. I just call and once they learn I helped develop the AMA system and that has always been a bug, they take them right off the bill. And I do at least one time a week an up stream and down stream test to see that the speed is stayiing in the range it should be.

Ron

[Ron61]

Forgot to add this to the post above. Found it under a Woman's post.

[4RE KLR]

Ron:
The phone and DSL are on one bill. They are seperated on the bill but none the less on the same bill. They told us that would be the case and we would save money getting DSL from our phone compnay because they had to bill us for the phone anyway. OK, I got it.

The problem is every month they add something or take something away arbitrarilly (SP). We don't call and make changes they just do it. We even had our phone number changed one month, not by us mind you. The calling area changes every month. One day we have to dial a 1 then the area code, the next day we don't have to dial the 1 to get to the same number.

We will live, and yes this is a minor deal. It is just frustrating that they change it every month without our consent or request. They are the only phone service out here, so if I change I will loose the fax ability witch is important for the business.

Cable TV is available here, but is from the same company. The service itself is OK. The phones are rarely out and the DSL is never out. It is just the clowns in the office are manually making these stupid changes to our bill each month. FRUSTRATING!


Different subject:
I Know around here the plug in card for the wireless internet is real popular. I am not sure how it works but you can get internet with a plug in card on your laptop. The guy at a local auto shop has one, and his laptop works all over town from his truck. He says it is the card in the side of his laptop that is working from his cell phone, somehow. Bets me how, but it is pretty neat.

[Ron61]

Steve,

Now I can understand your frustration. As for the area codes, I used to program in two or three a day somedays as they run out of phone numbers and have to change area codes so they can use the same ones. There are places in L.A. that it is a long distance call across the street now. But they shouldn't be changing your number without asking you. Just the area code change doesn't affect the 7 digit directory number.
The wireless works really great in some areas and others it doesn't here. They have repeaters on poles all over Chico and you need to be within 300' of one of them I think it is. Here on the block I live in we have a really weird situation. Some days a cell phone will work and other days nothing will. When some of the police who are friends of mine stop by to visit the first thing they do is call dispatch and tell them they are at Ron's and if they have a call to call on the phone. Go down the street a block or so and they don't seem to have any problems. My neighbor bought 4 cell phones and threw them away because he was mad before he talked to me and I told him about this block. He then got a new one and tried to call me from my gate which is about 50' feet and it wouldn't work. He drove down the street a couple of blocks and it worked fine. So he threw away 4 probably good phones because he didn't know about this area.

Ron

[4RE KLR]

That is crazy.

I also built the home we just moved out of. I put the foil backed decking on the roof. The cells phones would not work inside the house about 90% of the time. Step out onto the front porch and you had full signal.

What kills me is the phone companies always say, "I am sorry, but it is not our fault.


Different subject again:
In Arlington, Texas a realitivly large City close by, the City sewer backed up into three or four homes yesterday. You know what was floating aroung in these peoples living rooms. They called the City to find out what happened. The city came out and told them it was not thier fault because one of the neighbors had put some cooking grease down their own sink. The city said they needed to talk to thier neighbors and see who put the grease in the sink, and get their homeowners policies to pay for the damage. Then the city left.

Can you say lawsuit, bigtime! Mind you these are nice new large homes in a fairly new neighborhood. The city said they are protected from tort lawsuits for damages, even if they are at fault, and then told these people to go get thier attornys.

[Ron61]

Steve,

Greed and the lack of accepting responsibility are going to kill this country.
Along the lines of your sewer story. A few years ago in Anderson which is about 15 miles South of here, they built a new bunch of track homes. Sold them for 3 times what they were worth. One of the people that I knew who worked in Redding bought one and was really happy with his nice big fireplace. The 3rd time they built a fire in it, the whole thing fell through the floor and the chimney came through the roof. They called the insurance agent who sent an investigator and the city had law suites for years. When they built the homes, they not only never reinforced under the darn fireplaces, but built them right on plywood colored to loook like concrete. The city had inspected all of them and signed off on them. I think there were around 20 homes in that bunch and they all had to be torn down and the money refunded to the people that bought them. Of course the contractor was long gone and has never been heard of since.

Ron

[trularin]

Built my own house.

Got two natural and two woodstove fireplaces.

[4RE KLR]

When I was in the Banking business, The bank forclosed on a house that was exactly as you described. It was a 6,000 sq ft home and it had a HUGE stone firplace in the middle of it.

It fell through the floor. Tore up the whole house. It would have been less expensive for us to tear it down and start over. I tried to tell those dinga ling directores that. But they insisted we fix it. It cost over 200K to repair. Three and a half years later, we sold the home for 175K.

Tru:
I'll bet yours are on solid ground.



Ron:
Get your green box back yet?

[BMK]

My neighbour - four down - built a large entertainment area including BBQ's etc. He had a fibreglass pool put in.

Decided one day to empty it out and give it a really good clean.



He went out next day and found his pool had popped up about 12" out of the ground pulling up all the pathway and pool plumbing. An idependant inspector found that they had not placed the foundations in correctly.

The pool company had gone bad and bankrupt. They openned over the other side of town under another name and are still trading - hard to prove anything there though..

Builders and pool companies - a law unto themselves sometimes!!

[blykins]

Hey, does anyone have an FE block they're wanting to get rid of? 361, 390, 391, 410?

[G.R.]

Originally posted by Bernie Knight



Builders and pool companies - a law unto themselves sometimes!!

Bernie only some builders are, you are going to hurt some feelings here

And you are right 'cuz here in the states there seem to be a lot of builders that turn out shoddy houses then disappear from the community.

[4RE KLR]

Hey, Bernie.............

The sad truth is you are correct. But GR is too. Only some are. I still stand behind every single home I have built for the last twenty years. And my clients know it.

I have been fortunant (sp) though. Some poeple just cannot be pleased. As many homes as I have built, I only had one real doosy of a client. I will admit I have been lucky so far, not to get some yo yo that knows everything. You know the type.

I also am on the job EVERYDAY to make sure my vendors work stays up to our standards, And THAT is almost unheard of in this industry. Most of my vendors have been with me from day one. That halps me build a better home. They know what I expect and I know what they are, and are not, capable of doing.

Yes there are some clowns in this business, but there are clowns in every business, right?

[Ron61]

Steve,

And the horrow stories go on. Swimming pools dug into back yards and then the company closes over night and leaves the person with a huge hole and piles of dirt minus the money they paid in advance. This is normally good for three to five places before they vanish. Don't even ask me about re-modling in the house. I got into that mess once and it got to the point I told the contractor that if they didn't show up the next day I was going to come with a gun and stand guard over them until they did what I paid for and it was to my satisfaction. And they all cry that they need business.
I will e-mail you the story on the Gray box.

Ron

[4RE KLR]

I can't tell you how many "builders" I have had to clean up after. For awhile there it seemed as if we were following around the same guy. We knew aht to expect when we got there.

The last straw, he was dealing with the lady of the house and took her to the cleaners. His remodleing carreer ended when she introduced her attorney husband. It was my understanding he actuall did a short stint for theft.

Oddly enough the guy is building pools today.

[Ron61]

There is just no reason for that type of stuff. We pay these people and they should do the work without having to be threatened.
I just got a call from a friend's wife in Chico last night. They hired one of their local computer gurus to upgrade their computer to XP Pro, and they have no sound. He told her that the speakers were bad and left and now they can't get hold of him. I had her read me some of the things she had in her sound settings and the fool never loaded the sound card. He has some kind of junk in there that I never heard of. And I told her I wasn't coming to Chico to straighten out what they paid that guy for. They can track him down and make him do the install correctly. I don't think they even have the XP upgrade program that he used as from what they said he just came in, did it and left. The sound was working great until he upgraded it and I would think that would tip him off that the speakers aren't bad. Boy, you can't get anything done in this area without a big mess and fight.

Ron

[hey,littlecobra]

this has been one of the busiest weeks/weekends. Next week is almost as bad.... 4 kids, 8th down to Kindergarten, and let me tell you, the last couple of weeks is tough!! Stayed home from church, let the kids sleep in. Hubby went tho', has communion duty..... gonna get these kiddos busy cleaning up this mess!

Haven't scrapbooked in weeks. Humongous Middle School banquet was Friday night, got that huge project out of the way. Been working on that for 6 weeks! My 6th grade boy got nominated for 'Outstanding 6th grader'. He's a good kid. Smart, funny, athletic, good looking, got it all from his.... mom!

gotta go!
K
yeah, the tires are sitting on the front porch, EXACTLY where the delivery guy left them last Saturday.....

[Ron61]

Kristen,

Slow down, calm down,and start to enjoy life again. Congratulations to your 6th grader. That is quite an accomplishment. How did he get all of his intelligence from a kndergarded teacher????

Ron

As for the tires, they will last longer setting on the porch.

[4RE KLR]

I hope he left the original CD with them, if not, it is pirated software and illegal to use.

It is my understanding that you would have to reload the sound card. I did when I had trouble with mine a few weeks ago.

If they truely have XP, when they turn on the computer to start up the XP logo should show prominantly on the desktop. You can also check the version from the Microsoft website. If this guy is truely selling pirated software your friends should report him to Microsoft. The fines are real steep for that.