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Another one to consider should I win the lottery and quit my job to loiter about like GFF.
Try this one
No Reserve: Zyclam Red Metallic 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet 6-Speed
Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: Zyclam Red Metallic 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet 6-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #88,608.
Beautiful exterior color! Blah interior color. You should buy it, Nick
The Commencal hardtail e-bike I ordered for my wife in September of 2021 still hasn’t arrived. Thus I’m canceling that order, and instead pre-ordered this one via bikesdirect.
$300 cheaper than the hardtail yet with full suspension and a dropper, similarly from China, similar E7000 mid drive, and a 418 Wh battery that should be just fine. SLX group with XT brakes on this one.
This one should ship in Feb or Mar direct to me, which is just as well since my wife won’t be riding over the winter anyway.
$300 cheaper than the hardtail yet with full suspension and a dropper, similarly from China, similar E7000 mid drive, and a 418 Wh battery that should be just fine. SLX group with XT brakes on this one.
This one should ship in Feb or Mar direct to me, which is just as well since my wife won’t be riding over the winter anyway.
@Nick a steal
www.cbsnews.com
here’s the listing in question. 6,791 foot lot and needs the demolition done yet.
www.zillow.com
Burned home in Golden listed for $840,000
The listing states, "Build your dream home on this well-located lot with spectacular Colorado Mountain Views."
www.cbsnews.com
here’s the listing in question. 6,791 foot lot and needs the demolition done yet.
17412 W 17th Pl, Golden, CO 80401 | MLS #9810414 | Zillow
For sale This 2756 square foot single family home has 2 bedrooms and 3.0 bathrooms. It is located at 17412 W 17th Pl Golden, Colorado.
www.zillow.com
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My old man is a television repair man, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.@Nick a steal
Burned home in Golden listed for $840,000
The listing states, "Build your dream home on this well-located lot with spectacular Colorado Mountain Views."
here’s the listing in question. 6,791 foot lot and needs the demolition done yet.
17412 W 17th Pl, Golden, CO 80401 | MLS #9810414 | Zillow
For sale This 2756 square foot single family home has 2 bedrooms and 3.0 bathrooms. It is located at 17412 W 17th Pl Golden, Colorado.
I don't want a cabriolet. That, and the money thing.No Reserve: Zyclam Red Metallic 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet 6-Speed
Bid for the chance to own a No Reserve: Zyclam Red Metallic 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet 6-Speed at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #88,608.bringatrailer.com
Beautiful exterior color! Blah interior color. You should buy it, Nick
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meanwhile our solar array continues to net overproduce electrons over the course of the year
i should leave more lights on at home eh
meanwhile our solar array continues to net overproduce electrons over the course of the year
i should leave more lights on at home eh
Heh. Mine for September would show 0 hours cooling and 0 hours heating.
Same - although fans were probably deployed in an evening.Heh. Mine for September would show 0 hours cooling and 0 hours heating.
Yeah - we have a small army of window fans...
Heh. Mine for September would show 0 hours cooling and 0 hours heating.
i get why 6th would be un-American but why you, Watz?!
Larry’s bootfitting is appointment only these days! Also surgical mask or better required, and proof of vaccination shown at the door. Good for them!
I booked a Nov 11 appt. I desire some Nordica HF Elite Heat boots for mah feet but will need them to do lots of work as those are a 102 mm last. My 104 mm Tecnicas needed hours of being punched out. Might need two sessions, methinks.
I booked a Nov 11 appt. I desire some Nordica HF Elite Heat boots for mah feet but will need them to do lots of work as those are a 102 mm last. My 104 mm Tecnicas needed hours of being punched out. Might need two sessions, methinks.
Mountain house renovation financing update:
- approved for increasing my previously $140k and undrawn HELOC on the Denver house to $200k, the max they’ll write for regardless of equity. In the process of this got an appraisal that came back at a cool $1.15mm. This market is still nutty. This one is with Third Federal, and is variable at prime rate - 0.76%, I believe.
- pending appraisal on a $200k HELOC on the mountain house itself. Other paperwork is in and passes muster. This one looks to be prime rate + something negligible on the order of 0.05-0.10%, but still clearly higher than the Third Federal one. I’m just happy that they (PNC) write HELOCs on second houses—most banks do not, I found out.
- meeting designer lady and her assistant at the house this upcoming Friday to go over her hopefully not too grand plans for it.
- approved for increasing my previously $140k and undrawn HELOC on the Denver house to $200k, the max they’ll write for regardless of equity. In the process of this got an appraisal that came back at a cool $1.15mm. This market is still nutty. This one is with Third Federal, and is variable at prime rate - 0.76%, I believe.
- pending appraisal on a $200k HELOC on the mountain house itself. Other paperwork is in and passes muster. This one looks to be prime rate + something negligible on the order of 0.05-0.10%, but still clearly higher than the Third Federal one. I’m just happy that they (PNC) write HELOCs on second houses—most banks do not, I found out.
- meeting designer lady and her assistant at the house this upcoming Friday to go over her hopefully not too grand plans for it.
What about getting something like this to store the energy?
Why did you end up getting an EQB?
I like the new Polestar 3 it has all the features I am looking for in a car but let's see what I can get for the money as I have to change the company car by November next year.
We're net metered so the meter just runs backwards during the hours that we overproduce. The grid here is underground and reliable so I don't see the need for local energy storage at this time.
Why the EQB?
- 3rd row seating (for humans 5' 4" and under, which matches 4 of the 5 human inhabitants of my house)
- by a real company with local support/dealers/service
- reviews say it feels upright and airy, which I like
- range is entirely sufficient for day trips to skiing, which is my most challenging personal use case
- negotiated a deal for MSRP + 0 additional dealer markup back in June, which is unusual in these crazy times, in exchange for putting down $5k non-refundable (and this move of mine, by chance, is what's going to get me my last Federal EV tax credit under the Transition Rule of the IRA)
Why the EQB?
- 3rd row seating (for humans 5' 4" and under, which matches 4 of the 5 human inhabitants of my house)
- by a real company with local support/dealers/service
- reviews say it feels upright and airy, which I like
- range is entirely sufficient for day trips to skiing, which is my most challenging personal use case
- negotiated a deal for MSRP + 0 additional dealer markup back in June, which is unusual in these crazy times, in exchange for putting down $5k non-refundable (and this move of mine, by chance, is what's going to get me my last Federal EV tax credit under the Transition Rule of the IRA)
wow that is brilliant with the meter rolling back and good deal on the EQB which seems like a solid choice for your needs
Cleared for any and all activities by the hand surgeon, including mountain biking. I just didn't tell her that I've been bike commuting for 2 weeks now
Just about to tick over 1,000 miles logged on the commuter bike.
before
today (the fracture line basically being invisible now indicates that it's healing as one would like, and unchanged alignment)
I ordered the HF Elite Heat from Evo to make sure that there was one available for my Larry's appointment (buying from his shop instead if in stock, clearly). And they are not wide. At all.
Narrow footbox as expected but also quite narrow heel. They will need a lot of work if they're going to fit me well. (They are delightfully easy to get into, though!)
Updates:
Closing Nov 5 on the Third Federal HELOC on the Denver house. Appraisal physically done Wednesday for the mountain house but pending that report's completion.
Met with the interior designer lady (but no assistant) at the house yesterday. And her ideas are ambitious. Too ambitious, I am judging based on her expected price tag. (And if one's bathroom is large enough to have a sitting room it's too big, imo)
We shall pare down plans and price from here:
Speaking of HELOCs... still haven't gotten the "mystery lien" issue sorted. Sure glad I handed it over to an attorney so I don't need to spend time fucking with it. 
Taking a statin for a few months (lowest dose rosuvastatin + ezetimibe, which is a non-statin cholesterol gut uptake inhibitor) gave me uncharacteristic glucose intolerance and bumped my A1C from 5.0-5.1 to 5.4.
So I stopped the meds and got fasted labs today, day 22 from stopping them I believe. Short version is that my lipids have reverted to pre-medication levels, as expected, and my glucose-related metrics have also thankfully normalized as well.
Details here for the bored in this thread:
So I stopped the meds and got fasted labs today, day 22 from stopping them I believe. Short version is that my lipids have reverted to pre-medication levels, as expected, and my glucose-related metrics have also thankfully normalized as well.
Details here for the bored in this thread:
Designer walked through the house with the actual architect. They deem all of the pared down plans to be feasible, except for the back area under the garage (that was planned to be opened up into a workout area).
This isn’t surprising to me as this sits under the slab for the garage floor—makes sense you can’t take out walls underneath it willy nilly.
This isn’t surprising to me as this sits under the slab for the garage floor—makes sense you can’t take out walls underneath it willy nilly.
Came back at $1.017mm, which is fine for its current state. They rightly note the weird layout is currently hampering its value/sq ft.
PNC will only write to 75% LTV and due to the current size of the (jumbo when originated and jumbo when refinanced to 2.375%!) primary note that means they'll only go to $85k.
So $200k from the Denver house to play with plus this $85k. Will have to keep these constraints in mind when considering the scope of the interior redo.
The Volvo EX90 is going to do very well in my demographic, imo. Perhaps one can find its way to my garage besides the EQB.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/9/23447288/volvo-ex90-suv-ev-price-specs-lidar-mile-range
7 seats. 300 miles, all electric. Bidirectional charging (!).
Clean design yet not 3/Y too-spartan.
LiDAR! as well as two driver monitoring cameras—presumably a very advanced driver assist system (sounds like they’re shooting for level 3—we shall see if that flies in the US’s regulatory environment).
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/9/23447288/volvo-ex90-suv-ev-price-specs-lidar-mile-range
7 seats. 300 miles, all electric. Bidirectional charging (!).
Clean design yet not 3/Y too-spartan.
LiDAR! as well as two driver monitoring cameras—presumably a very advanced driver assist system (sounds like they’re shooting for level 3—we shall see if that flies in the US’s regulatory environment).
had my appointment at Larry's today. here are my mallet-like feet, exaggerated as there are two layers of toe caps (neoprene things to make the forefoot thicker so as to pack out more during the heat molding) under my socks
during the quite exquisitely painful heat molding
and then after all that they were still not wide enough. rather than engage in extensive shell-punching-out work I threw in the towel at that point.
might head back there when they get the Fischer One in--bootfitting dude (who remembered my feet from when I got fitted with my Ten.2s in 2015 or so!) said they're the widest boot he's ever seen, and would get in 25.5 and 26.5 ones for me to try to make work at some point.
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The Polestar version look really good too. I think they could have integrated the screen better than the Ipad slapped onto dash design but not a deal breaker for me. I still only have room for XC60 length car so I can still park in front of my garage.The Volvo EX90 is going to do very well in my demographic, imo. Perhaps one can find its way to my garage besides the EQB.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/9/23447288/volvo-ex90-suv-ev-price-specs-lidar-mile-range
7 seats. 300 miles, all electric. Bidirectional charging (!).
Clean design yet not 3/Y too-spartan.
LiDAR! as well as two driver monitoring cameras—presumably a very advanced driver assist system (sounds like they’re shooting for level 3—we shall see if that flies in the US’s regulatory environment).
I’ve posted about the elder kids’ STAR scores before. Of note is that my 2nd grader is now testing only 1.5 grade levels behind in reading to my always-reading 4th grader.
They’re at 50th percentile for the 10th and ~11.5(th?) grades, respectively.
They’re at 50th percentile for the 10th and ~11.5(th?) grades, respectively.
Turns out that it indeed sucked: ran for about 5 seconds then crapped out, repeatedly, let alone actually blowing any snow. Return was a bit of a hassle since it was a 3rd party seller on Amazon but I got them to issue a prepaid FedEx label, packed it up in its original box (that I'd thankfully saved in case this happened!), and didn't throw my back out @stoney -fashion in getting said 150+ lb box to FedEx.
Not going to have FOMO for this one. Plopped $500 refundable to get in line for it. This would replace the PHEV PacHy in the garage, whereas the forthcoming EQB shall replace my beloved Land Cruiser.The Volvo EX90 is going to do very well in my demographic, imo. Perhaps one can find its way to my garage besides the EQB.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/9/23447288/volvo-ex90-suv-ev-price-specs-lidar-mile-range
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