Post / Chat whores post here (2024)

[AbsolutEnduser]

Alright, four, likely futile, applications sent out. Sounds like I'd have support of a few folks at taking a permanent part time supervisor role at UPS, but I'm not sure if I wanna permanently have a 3am alarm clock setting... or the need to work a second job or two to make ends meet.

Time to make the foods.

I Applaud you for the works on both fronts.

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well, I think I'm about to try whether my puny impact-driver will be able to take off a lugnut. Just to be able to know!

also need to do wheel rotation. Seems like typically everyone wants all 4 in the air. Do we think I can be able to do it by consecutively lifting One Side, then Another Corner one-by-one instead?!?

 

[Kurosaki]

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It's my mom's bday today. Big 75! She's doing well for her age, especially for being a breast cancer survivor, both help surgeries, some other nagging medical conditions. She's out of town with some old college alumni friends but I had a fairly expensive bottle of champagne and chocolate delivered to her hotel room via doordash.

 

[GAJ]

It's my mom's bday today. Big 75! She's doing well for her age, especially for being a breast cancer survivor, both help surgeries, some other nagging medical conditions. She's out of town with some old college alumni friends but I had a fairly expensive bottle of champagne and chocolate delivered to her hotel room via doordash.

I loved to spoil my mom.

Feels great.

Great job Joseph.

 

[ThumperX]

It's my mom's bday today. Big 75! She's doing well for her age, especially for being a breast cancer survivor, both help surgeries, some other nagging medical conditions. She's out of town with some old college alumni friends but I had a fairly expensive bottle of champagne and chocolate delivered to her hotel room via doordash.

Right on! Celebrations are great even if you can't be there in person.

 

[mikev]

HBD Momosaki

 

[N4teTheGreat]

I Applaud you for the works on both fronts.

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well, I think I'm about to try whether my puny impact-driver will be able to take off a lugnut. Just to be able to know!

also need to do wheel rotation. Seems like typically everyone wants all 4 in the air. Do we think I can be able to do it by consecutively lifting One Side, then Another Corner one-by-one instead?!?

That's how I always did it. I think some schools of thought suggest you rotate front and rear and side to side, but that seemed like over kill to me.

 

[Kurosaki]

I loved to spoil my mom.

Feels great.

Great job Joseph.

To be fair, admittedly I should probably visit more than I do. I become a serious hermit once I started working from home but we do talk on the phone fairly regularly.

 

[ThumperX]

My mom is finally succumbing to age. We celebrated her 97th in November and I'm not certain she has a lot more in her. I will see her on Thursday.

 

[N4teTheGreat]

That sucks, I'm not enjoying watching my parents age, though so far they are doing pretty well, the reality is still there. Hope your mom holds out for as long as good years allow. I guess I should call my folks this week.

 

[two wheel tramp]

It's my mom's bday today. Big 75! She's doing well for her age, especially for being a breast cancer survivor, both help surgeries, some other nagging medical conditions. She's out of town with some old college alumni friends but I had a fairly expensive bottle of champagne and chocolate delivered to her hotel room via doordash.

You are a good boy.

 

[tzrider]

Andy do you play piano/organ? I don't recall if you ever said so. I kinda assumed you know enough to properly tune them.

I don’t play keyboards but can find middle C. I play guitar. Can definitely tune things.

 

[ThumperX]

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[Kurosaki]

That sucks, I'm not enjoying watching my parents age, though so far they are doing pretty well, the reality is still there. Hope your mom holds out for as long as good years allow. I guess I should call my folks this week.

We are getting to a point of having these sort of conversations. Primarily being civil with my brother. But she wants to be assured if/when her health starts deteriorating, she knows caring for her and helping out more will be a priority and she can count on my broken relationship with my brother not to interfere with that. I can be diplomatic. I find those kind of conversations uncomfortable because she's still pretty spry for her age considering surving cancer can greatly reduce the quality of life for a lot of people and about 7-8 years ago she ran a marathon. Hell, I'm not even doing that. I don't even like 10Ks but it's just an unfortunate truth we all have to deal with eventually. Usually we'll rack up 2-3 hours on a phone call without even realizing that much time has passed.

I think she realizes things were pretty sudden when my dad died and she wants to get ahead of that kinda situation.

 

[Kurosaki]

I don’t play keyboards but can find middle C. I play guitar. Can definitely tune things.

Interesting. Just curious because I do have at least a few friends who tune pianos for churches or for malls (that is still a thing! Especially around holidays) but they are have a lot of history playing from young age.

I've helped tune a piano a few times but obviously an organ is a different beast. I just figured at least knowing a few basic scales would be a really beneficial part of that job/hobby. But if you don't need it, you don't need it. I was shooting in the dark on that one.

I think a better query would be asking if you have people that do play follow up on your work to sign off on it.

 

[ThumperX]

Those are tough conversations I know.

 

[Kurosaki]

Those are tough conversations I know.

She handles them with grace and framing the conversation to not be too morbid. I don't like them because I don't have a lot of immediate family left. It's been years since we've had a 'big' family Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthday, etc get together. There aren't that many of us left. It'll probably be my niece and nephew growing the family tree again because I probably won't be having any kids, at least it's not really in the plan as far as I see it.

That's an entirely different conversation. At the very least, she's off my back about that topic compared to 10ish years ago when she would not so subtlety hint at if I have longer term plans for anyone I was dating. But as soon as she got her two grandkids, she has not asked me a question about kids in years.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

That's how I always did it. I think some schools of thought suggest you rotate front and rear and side to side, but that seemed like over kill to me.

well I was thinking of doing the F-B , plus X this time, as evidenced by this pic and video . (I think I mentioned it seems my right rear wheel always has more wear ) .

But yes, The Germans in the manuals of both MK4 and MK5 suggest only straight line Front to Back -- in their actual manual !!!!

 

[N4teTheGreat]

Do what the Germans recommend or risk being yelled at is what I've always said... probably.

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

They go with an even-level consternation tone, first.

Yelling comes later

 

[tzrider]

Interesting. Just curious because I do have at least a few friends who tune pianos for churches or for malls (that is still a thing! Especially around holidays) but they are have a lot of history playing from young age.

I've helped tune a piano a few times but obviously an organ is a different beast. I just figured at least knowing a few basic scales would be a really beneficial part of that job/hobby. But if you don't need it, you don't need it. I was shooting in the dark on that one.

I think a better query would be asking if you have people that do play follow up on your work to sign off on it.

I can certainly play scales and in fact the layout of pipes in organs are sometimes chromatic, sometimes whole steps and sometimes in minor thirds. The key holder will play the appropriate scale to match the pipe order so the tuner isn’t running back and forth to follow the pitches.

We have had organists on staff and while it’s gratifying to hear some music on the instrument, I don’t need to hear that to know it’s in tune, regardless of temperament. Voicing is another matter, because when voicing, you’re setting the tonal balance of the various stops and you do need to hear them in context. Voicing is not a regular activity, being done during tonal finishing of a new build and once in a great while on an existing instrument.