Random thoughts thread

Ronkh said:
A simple 2nd home in FL would do too.....
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Its in the plans, another couple years and I will start doing 2 week house rentals to try different areas and look around. Then slowly ramp it up from there 3 weeks 4 weeks and on and on till I buy something and I retire and can do 4-6 months down there. i hope to find the area I want to buy in before I am 55. I would like to be able to establish residence before I sell my business so I can save state capitol gains 5.1 percent (which will likely go up as I live in Taxachusetts).


Edit: Those savings alone could pay for half the house I would like to buy.
 
trashmanssd said:
its in the plans, another couple years and i will start doing 2 week house rentals to try different areas and look around. Then slowly ramp it up from there 3 weeks 4 weeks and on and on till i buy something and i retire and can do 4-6 months down there. I hope to find the area i want to buy in before i am 55. I would like to be able to establish residence before i sell my business so i can save state capitol gains 5.1 percent (which will likely go up as i live in taxachusetts).


edit: Those savings alone could pay for half the house i would like to buy.
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yep
 
Stokdgs
If your problem started within the last year it could be from the software updates they have been doing. They told me a couple months ago they were doing these updates all over the country at different time periods. To get anything done tell them you want to cancel your service and they will connect you to the loyalty dept. you won’t get anything accomplished by talking to the first person you speak to. To get my service call fee removed I had to talk to someone in the finance dept and this person actually gave me their name and ID # and he tried to get over on me. After explaining everything to him he said yes you shouldn’t have to pay the service call fee and then puts me on hold and then comes back and says after looking at your previous bill it looks like you have already been credited the $99 charge
I said bullish!t If that is the case why am I still getting e-mails and texts that my bill is overdue. Puts me on hold again, comes back and says the charge will be removed in 3 hours. Another thing when they connect you to another person ask them to stay on the line until the person picks up. They had me going around in circles for a while. The first time they tried transferring me to finance I was on hold for a while then the phone started ringing followed by a recording that said we would really like to help you but you have to pay your overdue bill first. I’m a pretty patient guy but I was steaming when I heard that. But in the end it was straightened out.
Hope this might help someone one day from getting the run around

PS: when I lived in the suburbs I had Comcast for 20 some years. After moving out to the country the only thing that was available was satellite
I actually like directv better than cable for a couple reasons
I like the on-screen menu better and the picture was better in mine and my wife’s opinion and it has never lost signal unless a heavy rainstorm comes through and then it’s only for 5 or 10 minutes
When cable went out it would be for a day or so because the buried cable went bad
 
It shouldn`t be that hard to get decent channels at an affordable price. Luckily I have not had that issue with Direct TV, just the outages durning bad weather. Most importantly I am not going to pay $245 (plus the raised rate) for TV and internet.

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Bill D said:
LOL—yep. One for most rooms in the house and just gotta have one in the garage :D
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Huh, I haven`t even turned on the garage stereo yet this decade. Never turn a TV on unless there`s something specific we`re gonna sit down and watch (and when doing cardio).

I don’t even have a DVR, just TVs and Internet..
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When we need to record something we still use a VCR.
 
Bill D said:
Wow! A VCR—-can you even still buy tapes for them any more?
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I dunno...I`ve accumulated enough to be OK for a while. The tapes don`t die as quickly as I`d expected. Some pre-recorded ones have though, but I was able to find those movies on DVD.

We don`t even have big-screen/flats-screen/high-def TVs :eek:

Eh, I know, weird weird weird...we`re still living a basically 20th Century lifestyle.
 
I’m trying to get my neighbor to buy a flat screen being that the prices seem to be dropping more and more. I had to replace a projection TV with one this past spring.
 
I don’t skimp on my TVs. I want the best picture available. I went from plasma to Oled. I’ve got the 65 inch LG Oled in my bedroom and it looks fantastic. The 4K pictures are close to looking like a photo. I’m wondering how much of an improvement 8k will be. And they are so thin and light. My old Sony plasma 50 inch weighs 160 lbs, the new 65 inch Oled weighs 40 lbs. They have some new sets that you can just hang like a picture. Fun times.
 
And the prices seem to be getting better fairly steadily. At the moment I’m content with the quality of the 6 TVs I have in the house. I’m only going to upgrade when they fail like my projection one did after 10 years.
 
Rimccarty
I’m still using a 11 year old Panasonic plasma. Still works great. When it does go out I’ll probably do like you did and get an oled
I read somewhere that the oleds don’t have any viewing angle problems
that was the main reason I bought the plasma
 
Bill D said:
I’m only going to upgrade when they fail like my projection one did after 10 years.
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Despite being Early Adaptors back in the day, that`s the way we are about pretty much everything these days; we only replace stuff when it can`t be fixed any more. Our newest TV dates to the early aughts.
 
Accumulator said:
Despite being Early Adaptors back in the day, that`s the way we are about pretty much everything these days; we only replace stuff when it can`t be fixed any more. Our newest TV dates to the early aughts.
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How do you get around the digital TV channels issues with your older TV`s? My folks had to use a converter box to get digital OTA TV channels (they don`t have cable), but it never worked well. A couple years ago I helped them buy a modest sized, inexpensive LCD TV and a HD OTA antenna and they are quite happy now. They were blown away by the image quality difference going from 480 to 1080p.
 
The cable company here requires digital converter boxes and of course charges monthly for them. The price just rose a few months ago. Seems like technology taking a step back rather than going forward.
 
Dear Autopia, I have seriously sinned. I took the GTI to the touchless... I mainly like it for the undercarriage wash, but right now both my hose bibbs are froze and it`s cold as heck outside! It was brown with mud, sand, and salt from my daily commute to work.

And please don`t pass out, but I also took the S10 to the self serve and used the brush! But the paint is faded and it`s getting painted in the Summer anyways. As beat-up as it is I wanted to get all the mud (it seriously looked like I drove through a pasture) and greasy fingerprints off the fenders, hood, and door. I think I used $7 worth of quarters to get it clean.

In other news, I want to know how the company that provides uniforms at work wash their clothes! When I was first issued them, the pants would literally fall off, now I feel like popping putting them on now! I`ve even lost weight! I was all excited they were super comfy when I first got them.
 
Bill D said:
The cable company here requires digital converter boxes and of course charges monthly for them. The price just rose a few months ago. Seems like technology taking a step back rather than going forward.
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I think it`s more like a band-aide for those who still have analog TV`s. They may be raising the rates in hopes of people NOT buying the box and upgrading their TV`s instead so they don`t have to suppport the old TV`s and SD-quality broadcasts.

In my area, ATT UVerse did something similar with their internet access. For years we had the 20Mb package and were pretty satisfied. ATT then offered us 100Mb for LESS than what we paid for 20Mb. I happily agreed with the upgrade but didn`t understand why the offer was presented until the installer arrived. What I learned was all the old sub-100Mb equipment in the network (backbone, fiber-to-premise equipment mounted to my home, and the router in my house) were approaching end-of-support and ATT wanted to get them off their network. The easiet way for them to rid of equipment they didn`t want to support was to move customers in a new direction, i.e a healthy boost in network bandwidth.
 
Desertnate said:
I think it`s more like a band-aide for those who still have analog TV`s. They may be raising the rates in hopes of people NOT buying the box and upgrading their TV`s instead so they don`t have to suppport the old TV`s and SD-quality broadcasts.
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We need to have the box even if we have a brand new TV. It’s a drag.
 
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