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re: Home security system

Posted by piratedude on 11/24/25 at 2:39 pm to
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If you're in the Baton Rouge area, stay far away from Certified Alarms.


if you're in Baton Rouge, i highly recommend Certified. I have had them for 15 years on my home/shop and about 10 at my rental. never a problem (except setting it on stay/instant when i leavce) and they have been great.
if it ever comes up, the Mexicans in L.A. created the Zoot-Suit culture. Anyone else wearing a baggy suit is appropriating their culture.

re: Need some door hanging help

Posted by piratedude on 11/23/25 at 8:20 pm to
is it an exterior door with a threshold? if so, it is a bigger job.

if interior, pull the trim, remove the entire assembly, turn the assembly 180 degrees, level, shim and attach the frame to the structure, and replace the trim. If exterior, do the above, but remove the threshold, turn it 180 degrees, and reattach it to the frame. if the knob was on the left, and it swung inwards to the right, the knob will now be on the right and it will swing outwards to the left.


if you've never hung a frame and door assembly, you probably won't enjoy the task or the result.
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I know a grandfather that is called Grumpy. It fits


From Cape Cod?
i don't know how unique it is, but I claimed "Pop" when the first grands started showing up. everybody knows me as Pop, except the 5 year old I see the least. In books, he saw "grandpa" and wondered what that was. When they told him Grumpy (mom's side) and Pop (dad's side) were his grandpas, he decided that he wanted to call me Grandpa. I don't care what they call me, as long as they view me fondly.
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He was on a scooter. There's no insurance there to go after.


unless the law has changed and I missed it, your auto UM coverage does not require you to be in your car to provide coverage. You can be standing on a curb and get run over by an uninsured illegal, and your UM will pay. Raise your limits on all coverage.
I spent a weekend in Senoia GA recently, and it was anything but depressing. It is a quaint little town, that is fighting to remain quaint and little. We walked two blocks into the town square, had food at Brent and April's coffee shop, then went 2 more blocks down to the music festival. When the kids rode by on bicycles, everyone knew them. 21 year old me would not have liked it, but i would have loved to have raised kids there.

re: Speaking about Inheritence

Posted by piratedude on 11/18/25 at 6:51 pm to
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do this the right way


if not living in Louisiana, ignore this.

the chance of you finding a will online that would be effective in Louisiana is about as close to zero as you can imagine. there are 2 basic forms:

Notarial: contains specific attestation clauses and is signed before a notary and two witnesses. for God's sake, have a knowledgeable attorney draft it and act as notary.

Olographic: all handwritten by the person making the will, dated, contains something that sounds like a will (this is my will, at my death I leave x to y) signed at the end. Don't add anything (witnesses, notary, etc.) or you frick it up).

Stop what you're doing right now, write it on a blank paper, give it to the person you trust the most.

Need a horror story?: Nice guy, has some money, a business and land, has a 3rd wife he loves and that treats him like royalty and two sons from the 1st marriage that don't speak much. He's tight with a dollar and wants to leave everything to current wife. He owned all the big ticket items before he married 3, so not community property. he downloads an internet will and takes it to his friendly banker/notary. Banker/notary, is a fricking idiot, says "looks good to me." Not long after, he's killed in a car wreck.

Sons, one a lawyer, contest the will and its obviously invalid. Loving wife #3, who he loved very much, is out on her arse with nothing but her plasma cutter and maybe a welding machine that were gifts.

re: alternatives to ipod

Posted by piratedude on 11/17/25 at 10:21 pm to
update:

I got the new pc after lightening struck the old one, and i hooked up the external drive where all the itunes music resides. The apple support team moved me to apple music (essentially the new itunes), and after some work got apple music to synch with the old library. Then i opened the new-in-box 256 gig ipod touch, and with a little help from my support friends, it is now synching 17,000 songs. SWMBO is going to be thrilled that i got all of her music on a device that she knows how to operate. it's even the same shade of pink. thanks for the advice

re: RIP - Jim Bernhard

Posted by piratedude on 11/17/25 at 4:06 pm to
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My apologies for calling you a retard the other day


You probably just thought he already knew it.

re: RIP - Jim Bernhard

Posted by piratedude on 11/17/25 at 4:04 pm to
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Do you guys get a Tetanus shot every 10 years?


I usually do something stupid every 8-9 years, so I stay current.
Wesley Penn. Young, former IT guy, so he doesn’t come with the “I’m special” stick up his arse. I’m 72 and he’s the 1st doc I’ve ever connected with. He’s a good guy and a very thorough doc. Assistants are top notch too
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far-right activist Charlie Kirk


so, your basic common sense Christian conservative is now FAR-RIGHT? where do the ak47 carrying neck beards fit in if Kirk was far right.
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I had noticed it went back up for some days but back down now


the station on Government just east of Acadian went from $2.34 to $2.64 to $2.41 over the course of 2 days
i bought a truck from a girl that used the back seat as a chihuahua breeding farm and all the dogs smoked. i left it standing open in the sun whenever i could. i sprinkled the carpets with carpet fresh or something similar. i scrubbed the upholstery and plastic panels with murphy oil soap. also constantly hosed it down with febreeze and left it open in the sun.

it took 6 months until it was no longer noticeable (or I adapted). 8 years later and i never notice it.


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Do you know any employer who pays employees interest on top of their s


I presume that his contract says that if they terminate him, the buyout is $X due now. If LSU owes the lump sum now but pays it over time, he's going to be entitled to interest, or he's not getting the full buyout. in other words, $54,000 million today is worth more than $54,000 in payments spread out over 7 years. I don't know what the contract says about sidelining him and just continuing his salary.

If they just continue his salary, they lose the ability to force him to mitigate their loss by getting a new job.
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IDK - away w/ BK?


Seeing the news being posted, it worked!!!!
We had "Help Mac Pack", "the Archer Departure", and others that I cannot recall. If we name it and chant it like a mantra, they might hear it.

re: Do You Wear Sunglasses Inside?

Posted by piratedude on 10/23/25 at 1:06 pm to
because the sun shines everywhere when you're as cool as I am.