Not So Pro 3

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Excuse my mess. Siding is torn off the house, lumber from tearing the deck apart is piled on a trailer. Rails in another pile, grill living in the yard, grass needs cut. But....here's where we are with the remodeling project.View attachment 391059View attachment 391060View attachment 391061

I like your decision to use treated vertical posts under the floor in ground contact. Would of liked to see your carpentry skills in that transition.

 

[Czed]

At the school. Let the learning begin. Plus GFY

Teach them well

 

[41FanForLife]

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Looks like management material to me.

 

[lohan808]

But, but…

They are new and improved…

Honestly when they changed from only available to officers to available to enlisted as well is when the rates started climbing and the service started dropping in my opinion

Then when they flung the doors open to the whole wide world it was the beginning of the end

It went from a service oriented company to a bottom line company

As soon as we closed on our house last spring we pulled a BIG chunk of money out of our USAA savings account because their interest rates have become a joke

I’m about ready to pull the plug on the works, banking and insurance

Yep, me too. When I found out that a third party evaluation and claims PERSON would be handling my claim, I hit the roof. They took my rental 1 week after the wreck then stonewalled me for three months and verbally abused my wife of 26 yrs on a recorded line. I took it to corporate level.
In the end, 4 months later, they canned that rude sumbitch and gave me $1000 more than the truck was worth. Profusely apologizing the whole time. Blew enough smoke up my a$$ to choke an elephant. I am paying for it now with premium increases. Hell its over $100 more than when I had my daughter on the plan. So I ask you, when is it gonna be enough for change...?

 

[lohan808]

Oh and if you're in the insurance biz GFY, and take a couple of them D.C. hookers with ya.

 

[Lnk]

They are still one of the cheapest options for insurance and if price and not service is what matters people will continue to get their insurance there

If you look at "best of" lists on major financial websites they usually say that USAA banking is a joke and go elsewhere, but, they almost always rate USAA Insurance as about the best you can get

I have no idea what their metric for ratings are but I am sure price is pretty high on the list

If I could talk my wife into changing all her direct deposits to our new bank I would completely close all my USAA banking but she hates doing stuff like that because it's all federal government and they make everything as hard as they can

I left a token amount in savings there as well as our checking but the rest went to a new bank and USAA didn't even flinch

I don't know what it would take, dollar wise, to get their attention

Individually none of us will affect how a company operates. It will take many doing the same thing to cause any change. We are all small potatoes in the financial world. Word of mouth and education are the only ways I know of. Many are just too complacent and will take the easy route for everything.

We now have monopolies or virtual monopolies in most retail sectors. Media is all owned by just a few. Banks are almost all under a few umbrellas. Anything that really matters is controlled. Try finding certain books any more. Libraries have been sifted of things we don't want the public to read. No need to burn books, when you just remove ones you don't want in circulation. Even used book retailers will not put certain books back on the shelf.

Freedom is now just a word we are supposed to use to describe the United States. None of us are free, we just have the illusion of it.

 

[Lnk]

Good morning all, hope everyone got some sleep last night.. my wife bought a new comforter for our bed, and I am now too hot. Even with the ceiling fan on. So we tried window open. The dog loved that, and so did I when she woke me at 2:30 barking. Probably an attack by the bunny hoards. She apparently repelled that attack. So close the window I did. I hate being hot!

 

[Loony661]

Freedom is now just a word we are supposed to use to describe the United States. None of us are free, we just have the illusion of it.

Bingo.

 

[USMC615]

Mornin’ peckerheads…65 to 85, same ol’ song and dance.

 

[Loony661]

Good morning men. 59 headed to 64 today and rain all day. Got rained out of the grader about 2:30 yesterday afternoon. Can’t grade slop.

 

[GCJenks204]

Good Morning / Evening All. Had a coyote sprint across the road about 50 ft in front of us today, then others dining the wounded animal song to try and entice Thea into the woods. She knows not to leave my side and we enjoyed the wonderful dark. Sky full of stars and the northern skyline pulsing with the Aurora Borealis.

Not sure what is up with the site software but only able to post pics from the laptop version, not iPad or iPhone (using Chrome browser latest version updated a week ago). If I could remember my password maybe I would try a different browser. @exCanuck

 

[cuinrearview]

Hi fellas. What's the word?

 

[Mastermind]

I like your decision to use treated vertical posts under the floor in ground contact. Would of liked to see your carpentry skills in that transition.

That part I built in the mid 90s. The 6x6s, and all the floor framing is built with ground contact treated. The skirt around the floor, and decking is hemlock.

 

[Mastermind]

The two posts at the bottom of the steps are white oak set in cement. I don't know how long they will last, but I hope I live long enough to find out.

 

[JugHead27]

Individually none of us will affect how a company operates. It will take many doing the same thing to cause any change. We are all small potatoes in the financial world. Word of mouth and education are the only ways I know of. Many are just too complacent and will take the easy route for everything.

We now have monopolies or virtual monopolies in most retail sectors. Media is all owned by just a few. Banks are almost all under a few umbrellas. Anything that really matters is controlled. Try finding certain books any more. Libraries have been sifted of things we don't want the public to read. No need to burn books, when you just remove ones you don't want in circulation. Even used book retailers will not put certain books back on the shelf.

Freedom is now just a word we are supposed to use to describe the United States. None of us are free, we just have the illusion of it.

Come to Canada for freedom we use the best freedom…

 

[JugHead27]

 

[Woodrow]

Good morning fellas. 30 pages behind, what did I miss?

 

[Mastermind]

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Healing.

Good morning fellas. 30 pages behind, what did I miss?

Not much. But I was wondering where you were.

 

[Loony661]

The two posts at the bottom of the steps are white oak set in cement. I don't know how long they will last, but I hope I live long enough to find out.

Are you going to stain the Hemlock with something to seal it once you’re done?

 

[Lnk]

Come to Canada for freedom we use the best freedom…

Commie metric freedom, lol