the thing is, i am more than capable of changing it, however it does take a good 60 - 90 minutes to put it together,take the old one down and hook up then new one. figured i would pay someone to do it and spend sometime with the kids this weekend before they start school. and yeah, u would think people would like being paid in cash after hours, ha..

Ordering sneakers for my son's first day of school a week ago , only to have the order cancelled the day after it was supposed to arrive.
Then..... My bricklink order is missing- final pieces to my emerald night. Contacted the seller- no response.
Annoyed[emoji35]

21 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said:

Wife bought a chandelier and I had an electrician come today to install it .. He took a look at it , said it is too much work and left ... Guess i know what I'll be doing this weekend ....... Calling the fire department 

Heaven forbid anyone does "work" at work, blue collar no less. This guy would've been leaving a trail of blood behind as he left my house.

Tropical storms.

20 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said:

the thing is, i am more than capable of changing it, however it does take a good 60 - 90 minutes to put it together,take the old one down and hook up then new one. figured i would pay someone to do it and spend sometime with the kids this weekend before they start school. and yeah, u would think people would like being paid in cash after hours, ha..

Just be careful.  My father-in-law ended up with a broken hip and in surgery because he fell off a 3 step ladder trying to install a chandelier.  

2 hours ago, KvHulk said:

Heaven forbid anyone does "work" at work, blue collar no less. This guy would've been leaving a trail of blood behind as he left my house.

i agree with the work part, but trail of blood ??? you've chosen your avatar and name well

49 minutes ago, Alpinemaps said:

Just be careful.  My father-in-law ended up with a broken hip and in surgery because he fell off a 3 step ladder trying to install a chandelier.  

ouch 

6 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

Just be careful.  My father-in-law ended up with a broken hip and in surgery because he fell off a 3 step ladder trying to install a chandelier.  

5 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said:

ouch 

I'll second that. Yeouch.

Didn't know where else to put this but this is Target. I gotta click each for the price. Sure. Walmart and Amazon display the prices. I'll just go there. I'm a simple man.

On 8/31/2016 at 7:55 PM, Bold-Arrow said:

Wife bought a chandelier and I had an electrician come today to install it .. He took a look at it , said it is too much work and left ... Guess i know what I'll be doing this weekend ....... Calling the fire department 

My parents finished their basement a couple years ago. And apparently a sub contractor hired to do the dry-walling got halfway through finishing and then walked out on the job saying it was too much work to finish..

17 minutes ago, Sandwraith said:

My parents finished their basement a couple years ago. And apparently a sub contractor hired to do the dry-walling got halfway through finishing and then walked out on the job saying it was too much work to finish..

As we're swapping stories ... we hired a local company to install hardwood flooring on both levels of our house. Contractor was recommended by a colleague. After running into some installation trouble 2/3rds of the way into our ground floor, they finished the rest of the ground floor (including some shoddy work towards the end), never answered the phone (even when called from numbers unknown to them), then a month later sent a bill for just the ground floor.

Needless to say I paid them significantly less than they asked and used the remainder to hire a respectable company to finish our top floor.

Oh ... and then one of the new installers came out to do some fixes on the shoddy work downstairs (replace a few planks) and to do some painting - all outside of the original contract, and he left his tool box and everything in my garage after the first day, never to return. Toolbox is still untouched on a shelf in my garage, for the last 3+ years.

Edited September 2, 20169 yr by Phil B

Unbelievable. It just keeps getting better. We didn't pay $400 million for the hostages in Iran. We paid $1.7 billion dollars. Wow! The $400 million was just one payment. SMH.

"And what not."
"my bad."
"You feeling me?"

21 minutes ago, KvHulk said:

"And what not."
"my bad."
"You feeling me?"

Start at 1:44 for those with ADD.

 

Edited September 7, 20169 yr by dcdfan

investing in 70792 Skull Slicer.  Just marked them down to $6.00, still making $1.07 after fees and will hopefully dump them before kmarts make it to 75% off and the market gets even more saturated.

Eventually left dozens of these at WM for $4 (in SoCal of all places). should have been a sign.

investing in 70792 Skull Slicer.  Just marked them down to $6.00, still making $1.07 after fees and will hopefully dump them before kmarts make it to 75% off and the market gets even more saturated.

Eventually left dozens of these at WM for $4 (in SoCal of all places). should have been a sign.

Be patient, or not.

3rd grade math

11 hours ago, exciter1 said:

Be patient, or not.

I'm keeping a small reserve, but I got to get the bulk of these things moving. I've been selling the other bionicle alright at ~$8-9 but this one has been a pest to move.

15 minutes ago, MinifigW said:

I'm keeping a small reserve, but I got to get the bulk of these things moving. I've been selling the other bionicle alright at ~$8-9 but this one has been a pest to move.

The Skull series are the only Bionicles I still see on non-TRU shelves. That might be weighing them down in the resale market.

Hard mode.

I'm working on TH right now in hard mode. I've at least got everything separated by color.

But my 4 year old pulled out a FO Snowspeeder and decided on hard mode. Everything is in one bin. Ugh. Tired of looking for tiny pieces.

For practically the same size set why the hell did they make the box of resistance xwing bigger than poes? That will be a shipping challenge.

losing my UPS driver after buttering him up for months and we had a "thing" going. some ass with higher seniority bumped him off his route. 

losing my UPS driver after buttering him up for months and we had a "thing" going. some ass with higher seniority bumped him off his route. 

He obviously heard about your "thing".

10 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

 we had a "thing" going. some ass

TMI

12 hours ago, Alpinemaps said:

Hard mode.

I'm working on TH right now in hard mode. I've at least got everything separated by color.

But my 4 year old pulled out a FO Snowspeeder and decided on hard mode. Everything is in one bin. Ugh. Tired of looking for tiny pieces.