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Wow over a year later ha! Our basement has been very slow progress. Finished up the drywall & mud/taping. Before and after pic of the Doorway and Barn door. The 2 pics of the sills are before I finished the tape/mudding. Still dreading the wall cleaning/painting, but that won’t take too long. The barn door will keep all the systems and storage on one side and leaves us with 750sqft of finished space. Next up will be finding wood for the sills, about 35 ft of length. Thinking about going with a live edge look but still undecided.

ok folks, lets bring it down a couple of notches with the personal attacks.

This. 100%. I couldn't care less if 'you' get the vaccine. I do care if a loved one of mine doesn't. I struggled a bit with how I should handle it and decided I would simply tell those that I cared for that I thought they should get the vaccine. That's it. No pressure or arguing. Just a one sentence statement. I felt if one of them died and I hadn't at least told them I felt they should get one, I'd always regret it. My brother, parents and best friend all said, "thanks, but no". A few weeks later when it seemed this Delta variant was a different beast, my brother decided he'd get it. Because he did, my parents decided to. I hadn't said a single word about it since the first time I mentioned it. I thought I'd try my best friend one more time, but he flat out said, "no, never". He said he doesn't trust it. I asked him which part, hoping I might alleviate any concerns he might have and he said, "all of it." This is my best friend of 40 years. Literally been best friends since the first day of kindergarten when I saw a boy picking on him and shoved the kid into a urinal. I've seen him do coke, meth, acid, shrooms, ecstacy, MJ, etc. Pretty much every popular drug known to man. I've also seem him huff paint, vcr head cleaner, and gasoline. But he doesn't trust the vaccine. I just don't get it.

Working with Sasquatch ain’t easy.

Not sure if this has been said, but as I understand it Covid ICU is different than regular ICU. In most hospitals the Covid area is separated. When news reports the "ICU" beds are full, that usually means the Covid ICU beds, not the necessarily standard ICU beds. With that said some standard ICU beds are also reaching capacity, but mainly because they've cut their numbers due to staffing shortages. I could be wrong, just some information I've gotten from associates wo work in healthcare. I wish the news would specify these differences to give us better context. But I guess that is not their job...

After putting up most of the Walmart clearance haul I finally got around to feeling/sorting out the Mario Character Series 1 bags I've got. Realized I could use a scale to streamline the process and narrow down what I was feeling for in a bag. Out of 87 I came out with 6 full sets, with an additional set if you include the ones my daughter yoinked and opened I've already sold a few complete sets at $160 on eBay. My average buy-in was just $2.26 each ($22.60 for the set). Plus a third of the 20 left over are Bullet Bills!

not a deal, but in case you missed that price https://www.target.com/p/lego-architecture-san-francisco-21043/-/A-75559088?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google_pla_df&fndsrc=tgtao&DFA=71700000012732838&CPNG=PLA_Toys%2BShopping_Local|Toys_Ecomm_Hardlines&adgroup=SC_Toys&LID=700000001170770pgs&LNM=PRODUCT_GROUP&network=g&device=c&location=9028883&targetid=pla-517349206223&ds_rl=1246978&ds_rl=1248099&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIs_Cb04XL8gIVEz2tBh1MggjfEAQYASABEgIe8fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

IKWYM

When people say TWSS, or FIFY and I have to Google what that means. Sent from my SM-G960U1 using Tapatalk

Oh F....

Ummm, yeah….we’re all going to need that buyer’s ID so we can add it to our blocked buyer list, mmmmkay? Please PM if you’re not comfortable posting it in the forum. That’s crazy. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

....so is it safe to talk about jerky again?

Just like a virus , BPers mutate

Sounds like he's bullet proof.

https://www.joinhoney.com/explore/popular/lego shop/E9DXCzE8d_114?sort=price_current%3Adesc Looks like Star Wars has joined the 12% mix today! Really want to get another sailboat, better throw an order together.

I immediately thought of @redcell when I read this email about new service for FBM: Customer Service by Amazon: Delegate customer service for your self-fulfillment orders to Amazon Hello, You are invited to join Customer Service by Amazon (CSBA). CSBA is a paid service where Amazon takes care of customer service on your behalf for your self-fulfillment orders. We will direct customer inquiries for these orders to Amazon Customer Service so that you do not need to handle them. To join CSBA now and utilize Amazon’s expertise to provide your customers a delightful post-order customer experience, sign up here –

Here is the marked up guide I used. My scale only goes down to grams so there are at most three options for any one weight.

Right? Which is funny when you go back to all the grumping about how they dumbed down the original model. Literally some of the best Lego I've ever put together.

Sad to hear this and I hope help and a solution are coming, alas if this becomes the norm there simply will not be enough outside aid for everywhere that needs it. The projections said mid September for this level of trouble and we have not even made it out of August. I saw somewhere was offering 50k sign on bonus for nurses, that says a lot about need. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Two things: I didn't know Jang had a monorail (always curious why not) and his alien doppelgänger is Babu Frick.

To make this thread old school on topic: When I have to work in the garage when there is an excessive heat warnings outside. Only lasted a few minutes in there.. #TWSS

We had a lot of rain this weekend so I built the Medieval Blacksmith. Probably the best set I have built in the past 2 years. It has details like a Jamie Beard Modular and some neat new building techniques like the roof. 4 good Minifigures, a horse and wagon, a light brick, a dog, No stickers and Sand Green Nexo Knight Shields, what is not to like.

Moving more things to storage for the big move. This is my collection of displays. Not sure why I get them but we all have our different things we collect in this hobby....

My son ate half before we got inside. You know he likes his food when he’s om nom nom’ing loudly.🤗

I was able to get both mario and luigi keychain. Luigi is easy bought through Lego VIP rewards points. Mario I had to log into my Nintendo account (that I never use). I got a couple hundred free coins just for logging in the first time. Then I got the 200 coins from the free ones you can access through Lego VIP redemption. Then I had to buy the coin bank for $50 coins (through the tutorial.). Then I downloaded Animal Crossing to my iPhone. I linked animal crossing and was able to get 300 coins for linking my Nintendo account to Animal Crossing on my iPhone. Then I had enough coins to get Mario keychain. The key here is that you have to buy the coin bank for 50 coins. Otherwise the extra coins you earn by linking accounts and doing missions are greyed out until you have bought the coin bank for 50 coins. After purchasing coin bank you can then add the coins from your missions and linking accounts, etc. Shipping from Nintendo was $7. ish.

not sure the point...because context matters Trump said shooting lysol into arms should be a thing...so I 100% agree w/ Harris's POINT...Trump ALONE saying to take a drug will not convince me...and if he is ALONE in making the recommendation...then I would be pretty skeptical myself.

Just think…make up discussions used to be controversial here.

Our house was built on a ledge/slope so the other half of the basement has the more common 20'x24' small windows. not exact but similar.

This is almost like paying for the barrel they can bend you over.

Oh great, now I can have 2 different Amazon people conspire with the customer when they return something that was “not delivered, not as pictured, missing pieces, etc”

That sounds right. We had to take our daughter to the ER a few weeks ago (cue: Mathew's reply about how I'm a terrible parent and a lawyer) and it was pretty clear from talking with one of the intake people that COVID patients go in one direction and everyone else goes in another. Come on dad, you're always spoiling the fun.

I have heard, at least here locally, children with RSV are many of the cases in ICU. It's especially bad right now.

How many of those “virus” patients are people over the age of 60 and or with pre existing conditions? While we’re at it let’s blame all those people with cancer for smoking or the obese for over eating. The finger pointing at the unvaccinated is insane. You and many others are deluded by the psychos running this shitshow.

So, the public would be more supportive of getting vaccinated if Pfizer and/or Biden sunk more money into providing care? You really are a special kind of stupid.

Either you don't understand the significance of what a lack of ICU beds means or you're one of the "what's a couple hundred more deaths matter?" kind of guy. Either way, gross. This.....this is not how healthcare works. Even if it did you are suggesting a far more expensive and less effective solution when the issue could be better mitigated by more people getting a $20 shot.

full interview here.

This is exactly why people are getting upset and will be getting downright hostile toward unvaccinated folks. Justifiably? $20 an hour for RN? I’m shocked if so and surprised you have any nurses there at all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you want to see what not owning your property and abusive use of eminent domain look like I suggest you investigate “property laws” in China and Vietnam. People there truly do have a lease on the land they build on sometimes 50 years sometimes 100 often with the “right” to renew the lease. And to the comments on world economy being upset or changing, if you mean people of democratic nations realizing that the way they spend their dollars, often supporting brutal communist oligarchies, makes a difference in who controls the cards and what the world makeup looks like then I say it’s about bloody time. What hopefully will happen is some form of enlightened economic patriotism wherein citizens of democracies start spending their money like they know and care where it goes, realizing in some sense it is one of the few things an individual has control of to make a positive difference, or negative. I have nearly been able to stop purchasing goods made in China, it has cost me dearly in dollars and time, and of course is not perfect due to supplier masking. That said if you as a consumer are unwilling to pay a high enough price for an item such that your (democratic country) neighbor can earn a living wage making said good then how can that neighbor be expected to pay you a living wage for the work you do for a living. I’m not an economist, not even a freshman year Econ 101 student but this seems obvious and the change it brings will be huge. Demand our corporations do the right thing for democracy and freedom over profit, they will not do it unless we change how we spend, and it is truly very difficult but will get better in time, similar to the organic food movement that 10-20 years ago everyone thought would be outrageously expensive to implement and now organic food costs what 20-40% more, well worth it to not be sucking down chemicals and ruining our fertile land. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have so many questions. LOL at the "Oh for Fox Sake" mug Strange is holding.

Not really...ownership of property is a pretty well defined thing at this point in time. You can only be forced off your property or forcibly deprived of the right to possess and own your property if you fail to fulfill a responsibility that goes along with owning such property. To say that you don't own something simply because a legal process exists that could deprive you of your possession of that property under some set of circumstances is an extraordinary narrow and rigid view of what it means to own something. It would be a bit like saying that none of us are actually free because we could be forcibly confined by the government. The fact that the government has the ability to force you to transfer ownership of your property using the power of eminent domain does not diminish the fact that you own the property that you hold title to. The due process clause in the Fifth Amendment exists specifically to temper the power of the government in this area by obligating it to provide just compensation if it takes private property. It always sucks for the person who doesn't want to sell, but has eminent domain exercised on their property. At the end of the day, living in a society like ours requires one to accept certain tradeoffs...you can own all the property you want, but if you don't pay the taxes that help fund the roads that lead to your property or the fire department that exists to protect it in the event of a fire, you are going to lose your right to own that property. Similarly, each of us trades the risk of possibly losing our property to eminent domain for all of the myriad benefits that flow from the things that are only able to exist because the government can force the transfer of ownership of property through the use of eminent domain (e.g., electricity, roads, railroads, etc.).

That hurts

Started the super castle need to open up all the bags, ugh. #FWP You can watch the Live Stream here:

250 Lego VIP points for 0 my Nintendo platinum points.

I don't want to be *that guy* but that's 12% back. Honey is a decent system with very good CS. I grab a Screenshot of the offer when I make the purchase so I have some proof to offer them - haven't had a missing points request rejected.

It is the same as the folks who are afraid of big government tracking their everything then being fans of the power of the free market, which created privacy-violating monsters like Google and Facebook. Sent from my LG-TP450 using Tapatalk

Nah...I'll pass on the tattoo. None of those things are "normal" in the context of how we were able to live our lives prior to March 2020, but I recognize and accept the fact that we live in a complex world where **** happens that we have to adapt to. I don't like all of the things that we've had to do to adapt to the pandemic, but I accept them because I know that there is nothing to be gained by whining, ignoring the reality that we are confronted with, or comforting myself with stupid conspiracy theories that do nothing to get us all back to where we'd like to be.

Figured at $85 shipped I could flip Thrawn and break even. Sets ended up including: 4429 Helicopter Rescue 6860 The Batcave 6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City 6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout 76001 Bane Tumbler Chase 76025 Green Lantern vs. Sinestro 70816 Benny's Spaceship 75099 Rey's Speeder 75137 Carbon Freezing Chamber 75149 Resistance X-Wing 75155 U-Wing Starfighter 75168 Yoda's Starfighter 75170 The Phantom 75173 Luke's Landspeeder Had a new baby last Sunday and this was posted the next day. It sat for over a week before I messaged, and apparently my $90 was the first offer he received. Ended up being the same guy I grabbed the Treehouse/Speed Champions lot from last year. It was listed at $115. The lot included: 21160: The Illager Raid 21152: Pirate Ship 21155: The Creeper Mine 75270: Obi-Wan's Hut 75271: Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder 75241: Action Battle Echo Base Defence 75259: Snowspeeder – 20th Anniversary Edition 76100: Royal Talon Fighter Attack 76108: Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown 76088: Thor vs. Hulk: Arena Clash 75265: T-16 Skyhopper vs Bantha 75889: Ferrari Ultimate Garage 40408: Drag Racer 41487: Lloyd 41605: Thanos 41598: The Flash 75232: Kylo Ren & Sith Trooper

you can get enough points by playing animal crossing iPhone and linking your Nintendo and Facebook accounts to the game shipping from Nintendo is about $7.00 for the Mario keychain

I had dozens of treehouses until Dec of last year... when the date got pushed back to 2021, I sold them all at a profit (buy-in was ~30% off) & needless to say, I'm happy about my decision. I would have also sold at a loss. It hurts, sure, especially when the initial date would've been such a short run, but that's the game. There are so many big sets retiring this year, I'd say free up the capital & go for it.

I wish we never had the major server issue over a year ago that forced us to make some difficult choices about removing features. Many things have changed for us over the past decade (plus) and the ways we made money to support the site have all but evaporated, so certain costly features had to be sacrificed. Throw in the fact we are in the middle of a pandemic and that there were two major family health issues that sucked Jeff's spare time this past year, many plans and fixes were not implemented. Is this an excuse? No, just the truth. Jeff is working on a slimmed down and more current version of Brickpicker, but the Brickfolio might not be in the final version. On a personal note, most member's LEGO inventories are probably so different at this point, what use will the data be? Most major resellers I know had their own spreadsheets to track their data. What I would suggest is that if the data is so important to you, message Jeff and ask him for it. I make no promises, but I think you will catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Stay safe...Ed Mack