BigPapiDoesItAgain

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You sure you need 5-ton unit, particularly if the old unit has 4-ton ductwork?

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I'm not sure of anything, but this unit serves the new part of my house. The original structure was built in 1929, we bought it in 2013 and completed an addition in 2016. I feel like it was a well thought out addition with an architect and contractor that had extensive experience renovating and adding to historic homes.

I don't remember anything more than him talking about a 4 or 5 ton unit and him coming back and telling me that I needed the 5 ton in that spot. The crusty old HVAC fella I had out yesterday told me that duct work underneath the house is right for 5 ton, but plenum should've been one step up bigger.

I have 4 units. The two units for the original structure are very nice high efficiency multi-stage Trane units (one split and one package that are 14 and 7 years old respectively) and the two that service the addition are Luxaire single stage units, what I would call contractor grade. I should've paid more attention to that at the time, but that is neither here nor there now.

For comparison, my other package unit is Trane 5 ton dual stage 15+ SEER. That cost me 9600 USD installed in 2019 with a new plenum and some duct work and new electrical for the dual stage thermostat. Will likely need a new supply/return plenum as guy telling me the contractor that installed this one should have put in a bigger one based on tonnage.

Any idea what to expect in 2026? Company I currently use is a Trane dealer. I want to get a quote from the American Standard dealer here as well. Just trying to get an expectation to measure against when the first quote comes up.

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Legit, but won't carry manufacturers warranty.

They are a grey-market dealer.

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They will have some box/paper watches that will still have some warranty and some sole as NIB with filled out warranty cards. But many of their offerings are blank warranty card or naked watches.

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GPG is traditional

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Not really, I mean out of LSU's whole FB history, the consistent home uniform being GPG was only an 1983-1994. I'll give you neo-vintage, but for sure not traditional. I hate them. I was at LSU from 1986-90 and that was the home uni for that whole time and I just can't get behind it. The uni I grew up with is the GOAT GWG. That uni is LSU - for most of the modern era, we wore that uni home and away. I'm ok with an alternate occasionally as long as it stays on brand, but please don't make those garish grape purple jerseys with gold pants and lids a regular again.

Graffeo, Half and Half Roast. I'm not the main coffee consumer in the family. Wife is, but Graffeo works well for both of us (De Longhi Magnifca Plus machine).

HW4 equipped Model S...
I worry about the bottom of the car scraping with an acute angle driveway, and I'm extra careful with wading height if there is a markedly heavy flash rainstorm (air suspension helps with both of these as well as once its been raised at a location, it geolocates and does it automatically).

In and around town FSD takes routes I don't normally choose to avoid things like a street that I know has potholes, or almost always croweded with street parking, and occasionally will try for the wrong entrance to the parking garage at my work. Balanced by joy of FSD all but eliminating driver fatigue on out of town trips.

As others have said, figuring charging calculus if I find myself in an area with a less developed charger network. This is no problem at all if I'm in a charger rich area.

Tire wear is really not much different given the makes and models of ICE vehicles I've owned and the cost of tires therein.

FSD is not completely flexible on speed or route. It takes some work arounds to do exactly what I want sometimes with regard to speed and route. I wish there was a toggle between FSD and traditional cruise or autopilot where I could choose speed (it allows choice between 5 speed profiles). Otherwise, my HW4 computer has performed remarkably well utilizing FSD and updates have consistently addressed issues and it allows for feedback from the entire fleet.

On balance, I doubt I'll go back to another brand for at least one of the cars we own. I would consider another EV if their FSD ever approached Tesla function, but I would imagine that is not close.

With Model S & X gone, I'm hoping they will maybe make a Model Y option that will offer premium cabin materials and traditional driver side instrument cluster in addition to the main screen like my model S has. I'm planning on running the wheels off of this model S though, so don't expect to be in the market anytime soon.

That is most of what I come up with, If I think of more, I'll edit the post and add.

Prob ITA, good reciprocity, Schengen Area, so many places I love and could live.

This is awful and tragic, and likely a failure on many levels. That being said, I've been in many an abdomen and/or pelvis that it is nearly impossible to tell what is what and the answer is identify a known point of reference with complete certainty and work toward the offending organ or structure from known to unknown and if you can't go any farther, get another set of hands/eyes that can or stop to fight again another day. You get a patient that has stage IV endometriosis, or has had pelvic inflammatory disease/tubo-ovarian abscess or prior colectomy for Crohn's disease or ruptured diverticulum, etc and it can make a complete mess of the anatomy.

I'm guessing this most likely had to be an endometriosis case and very likely in a woman that had already had an ovary-sparing hysterectomy, with severe anatomic architectural disruption. Even then one would expect with a foley catheter in and back filling the bladder, one would be able to delineate the bladder margins. Also you would think the surgeon would have tried to identify the ureter at the pelvic brim where it crosses over the common iliac and it can almost always be identified then open the peritoneum there and work downward, which can at least get you pointed toward where the ureter tunnels into the bladder trigone. If you are taking an ovary you should 100% of the time identify the course of the ureter as it crosses over the blood supply to the ovary (infundibulopelvic ligament) anyways in order to isolate that vascular pedicle, so dissecting out the course of the ureter almost surely would've helped here.

I can envision a situation with the anatomy so distorted how it could happen, but still of course should never happen to have a bladder injury to the degree that it cannot be reconstructed (excepting of course a procedure where it is removed due to an invasive malignancy which can be the case in advanced stage or recurrent cervix cancer). Awful story, hate to hear of such things.

I sold them a '23 Cayenne S back in December of this past year. Got a great offer - about 4K USD over Carmax in-person appraisal and they came and picked it up at my house and took it away on one of their flat bed trucks. It was a low mileage perfect car and I they took me at my word on the condition. I uploaded all the documents and I think the process was done within about 5 days of starting it. Money was direct deposited into my account very quickly. Having the title in hand makes it very easy, not sure how the process goes if selling them one that has a lien.

I sold to them because I bought another car remotely and didn't want to deal with trade-in process. I feel like the strong Carvana offer more than made up for any tax savings I would've had on a straight trade.

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My biggest concern is that over 60% of current EV owners say they won't buy electric next time.

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That's interesting, the data I've seen suggests in excess of 90% would not go back to an ICE car. Maybe it was brand specific (like Tesla) but it was a JD Power deal, if I recall.

I have a 23 Tesla Model S. Because of FSD, we rarely take out ICE SUV when we are on a road trip. Life changing.