Things That Stick In Your Craw

I’ve been selling several hockey pucks on fb marketplace and different puck collector groups on fb today. And noticed it’s been down and having problems. Now I’m just patiently waiting for it to come back up and finish several transactions.

https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1445072650720591875?s=20

The Vikings and Gophers are 0/4 vs. the state of Ohio this season so far…

Vikings lost…

@ Cincinnati

vs. Cleveland

Gophers lost…

vs. Ohio State

vs. Bowling Green

Gopher football beat Miami (of Ohio)

Thanks!!! Forgot about that one…

Well that got canceled out by the lady gopher hockey team losing to OSU.

The real reason that Facebook is down?????

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1445091576460546055?s=21

Color me pissed about the collection and selling of personal information....but karma might have kicked Zuckerberg square in the nuts. Though other people on the interwebs are saying that it's just a server issue. Will we ever hear the real reason it is down.

Can someone explain what this means? Stupid questions is locked because of stupid comments.

https://twitter.com/BenjaminEnfield/status/1445104389014835213

I've been meaning to ask several dumb questions, but it's been locked up for awhile.

Conflicting say...

But who really knows. And I'm an idiot when it comes to computers and IT stuff. Reason why I have the smiley throwing the computer for my signature.

Saw tweet that read the following...

I'm not a networking guy...

<a href=" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp /" class="bbcode_url"> https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/what-happened-to-facebook-instagram-whatsapp/

is a decent place to start

Oh, and if someone were selling facebook user data on the dark webs, Krebs would be the one to report on it, and he's not (so far).

I don't do FB but this article might be of interest for those that do.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-experiencing-outage-11633363936?mod=djemalertNEWS

This is the way of the future. We all have something personal online somewhere….only a matter of time before anything and everything is hacked. I’m about ready to start burying my money in my yard….?

The routing tables are what tell each computer on the internet how to find the next computer in the chain. For you to get from your PC or your phone to any site on the internet, you first need to get a signal to your ISP, which then passes a little farther down the chain, which passes farther, etc... several steps later you arrive at Facebook.

With the routing tables gone, Facebook's ISP (more likely multiple ISPs) didn't have directions on how to get there any more.

Reddit "Explain Like I'm 5" discussion. This is actually a link, so you can follow that to read

https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/52qv4q/comment/d7mi0u2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

SPAM. I get in in my email, phone calls, texts, every frickin day all hours of the day. (Not to be confused with the edible product). It’s sooooo annoying but like the hacking of online information, this is the new norm.

Funny thing is I’ve received spam texts for several different things and they all call me Todd.

I’ve had 8 spam calls already today.

:chainsaw:

Driving to the Gopher Hockey game my wife and I decide to drive past my old apartment complex that I managed for nearly 23 years. It breaks my heart and makes me sick inside to see how bad the apartment complex has gone in just the last five months since I moved out. For nearly 23 years I put my blood, sweat and lots of effort into keeping the building nice, presentable and livable. And now after five months it is a complete dump.

I don't think you can let something out of your control get you down like that. Remember how you kept it in good shape for so long.

There is truth to finding a way to let it go, BUT and this is a big but….it’s super disheartening to see something like that happen and we face the reality that people just don’t give a shit as much as we did. 5 months is a really short period of time for it to be that noticeable as well…

My amazing grandparents lived in a beautiful house they built on a creek in the woods when I was growing up in the 70’s. After my Grandpa retired they sold it and drove around the country in a big RV. I don’t live anywhere close to it but was visiting a relative somewhat close by and told my Grandma I wanted to swing by to see the house that holds many, many fond childhood memories. She told me not to, that it would inevitably be disappointing. Of course my dumb ass still went to find out that whoever bought it had totally ruined it. Put up weird fencing, stopped any decent upkeep and made it almost unrecognizable.

Sometimes it’s true when they say you can’t go home again. You can, but maybe you shouldn’t.

I’ve refused to see the property I grew up on, and my first home as an adult for the same reasons.

I went by my old house and was sick by what they let happen to the yard. On the positive the new roof we put on looks fabulous as well as the windows, and the Maple trees we planted in the backyard look big, beautiful and provide the shade as perfectly as we as we hoped.

This summer had been murder on yards

And my trees…

That’s the same with my parent’s house that I grew up in. My folks almost yearly would have the yard of the week. They sold the house in 2014 and the yard and house has seen its neglect. No where near the neglect my apt complex has seen in 5 months.

Btw… it was great officially finally meeting you before the game.

One of my grandparents' house (which they built themselves), the new residents enclosed the front porch, which would be fine, but they did not make it match the house. OBVIOUS add-on. They totally half-assed it, instead of making it nice.

Yeah, I broke down and watered the trees in my yard. Wish I did the same for the grass. Though it would go dormant and come back. Some of it did not

I have been burned on this twice in my life. I have been forced to let it go. My Dad has it worse than anyone though and damnit I am tearing up thinking about it.

My Dad’s family owned 5 houses on the same side of the street along the river in EGF. The house my Dad was born in was eventually bought by a very close family friend. The house my Dad owned when I was born and lived in until I was a year old was about a block down the street. In 1979 my parents bought my grandparents house about a block further down. A house my great grandfather built in 1920. My uncle bought the house I was born in from my parents.

My grandma lived alone in a house 2 doors down from my uncle’s (house I was born in) house and in 1995 she sold and bought a smaller house 5 houses the other direction.

1997, we lost it all. All houses were buried in their foundations and are now campsites. I never lived with my parents again.

In fall of 1997 my parents bought a house in rural Bemidji. My Dad poured everything in that house. I never unpacked a suitcase there but spent a lot of time there. They sold in 2019 and bought and RV. Since then the current owner has let the yard go to shit, cut down all of the Norway pines and pulled out all of the flower beds. I have driven by once. Thats all the heartbreak this guy needs in his life.

Home is where you hang your hat and I will continue to love where I currently live and once I move, I will force myself to forget about it.

Our water heater is shot. Went out on Tuesday. We have a home warranty with THS. It’s a $100 deductible, but it’s on their time. It’s going to get fixed, beats shelling out $600 myself and installing. I can live with no hot water, I feel like Charles Ingels on ‘Little House on the Prairie’. Just my wife and 3 kids under 11 can’t.

A little water can cave a lot of work. Mature trees can add a lot to the value of a property. Dead trees....not so much.

I watched a guy scrape off all his dead grass a few weeks ago so he could plant a new lawn. Running a sprinkler for a few hours per week would have saved it. AS I drive around the neighborhood, I see so many lawns with significant patches of dead grass.

I read there's been a slowly, slowly growing trend of people weighing the pros and cons of keeping their lawns completely plush vs. conserving water.

Also trending is native grass natural lawns. Started in Minneapolis and now starting to show in the burbs. Long grass that doesn't get mowed mixed in with a few wild flowers.

Tell them they're lucky they don't need to use an ax to bust up the ice on Plum Creek.

Lol..I drove by the plum creek today on the way to the Cities. I normally don't go that way but changed it up a bit.

In college I went to the Laura Ingels Wilder museum with a girl, trying to win points… fail… lol!!!

Conserving for what? Our water tables are replenished each year. This isn’t California.

It's not an unlimited resource. As the metro grows and uses more water the water table can get stressed. During this summers drought some private Wells started going dry if they were not deep enough.

If you're using municipal water it's often pumped from an aquifer then treated with chemicals before you spray it on your grass. All of that is avoided if you don't water your lawn. While conserving the water is less critical in Minnesota, you're also conserving everything else.

Also unless you are one of the few residential customers with a deduct meter on your irrigation system you are paying for waste water treatment on water that is used on your yard vs going down the sanitary sewer system.

Sure. It’s not cheap but I’m not talking about keeping it lush and green, like I do. People will end up using more water to germinate seed to replace the dead grass than they would if they watered a little each week to keep it from dying in the first place.

[mention]Bertogliat[/mention] I agree with you there. I gambled and lost. Didn't think it would die off completely.

What’s shot with it? You can replace the thermostats and elements for less than $100 and have it done in an hour.

There's some space between a golf course like lawn and dead grass.

It’s probably the same water heater from 1998 when house was built. THS even came out and said it was shot. Cause I needed them to come out to evaluate the tank to have it covered. It’s just going to cost us about $175 for a $1,800 install. We have the option to upgrade from a 40 gal. tank to a 50 gal. tank. And I’m consider installing a anode rod. Though I have a water softener, so I might not need an anode rod.

This may be a phone setting issue, but I’m curious. When I’m scrolling down GPL threads and someone has imbedded a video it will auto play even if I don’t click it. Is that a site setting or a phone setting? Just curious how I can change that so it doesn’t stop the music I’m listening to or a podcast. Thanks!

#firstworldproblem

I like to check Twitter while following games of any type. We have a streaming service and tweets are about 30 seconds ahead of the broadcast so I'm notified of big plays before they happen on TV.

I think it’s a browser setting for whatever internet platform you use. I use Safari and don’t have a problem with auto play so I just looked it up and Chrome made some changes a couple years back to be able to control auto play in order to reduce cellular data for users.

My wife's ex husband... his lost, my gain.

Though complete loser and deadbeat when it comes to the kids. I'm just the stepdad and I would risk and doing anything for those 3 kids if it meant for their better well being. And's he's their biological father and does not care, unless it benefits. Some folks in this group know some of the details, stories and the hell hole my wife and the kids went through while she was marriage to him. I know lots of stories, but my wife won't tell me much more. Cause she knows it boils my blood what he did to her and especially the middle kid.

I for one know we all make bad choices in life and have to live with the consequences. Though when it comes to making life a hell hole towards your wife and especially your kids. God's grace is a bit harder to swallow.