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Sunoverbeach Offline
#701 Posted: Fri, Jul 29 2022, 4:33 PM EST
Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,681
A made a joke at closing about not worrying about my credit rating if I defaulted since I already had a new house and car at the time. She did not laugh. Neither did Mrs. Beach
delta1 Offline
#702 Posted: Mon, Aug 1 2022, 8:34 PM EST
Joined: 11-23-2011
Posts: 28,819
trials and tribulations of relocation are ending...glad you are settling in and happier MACS...

question...do you really need a china cabinet? I keep looking at ours, filled with stuff we NEVER use...like a museum piece...
gringococolo Offline
#703 Posted: Mon, Aug 1 2022, 8:40 PM EST
Joined: 02-04-2006
Posts: 4,626
Hey MACS. You know I live in Jacksonville. Navy base and VA isn’t bad here. I live in a maintenance free townhouse on Gate Parkway by the St Johns Town Center. Love my hood.
MACS Offline
#704 Posted: Tue, Aug 2 2022, 6:10 AM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
gringococolo wrote:
Hey MACS. You know I live in Jacksonville. Navy base and VA isn’t bad here. I live in a maintenance free townhouse on Gate Parkway by the St Johns Town Center. Love my hood.


You smell that?!

That smells like a herf.
MACS Offline
#705 Posted: Tue, Aug 2 2022, 6:12 AM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
delta1 wrote:
trials and tribulations of relocation are ending...glad you are settling in and happier MACS...

question...do you really need a china cabinet? I keep looking at ours, filled with stuff we NEVER use...like a museum piece...


And you still have it to display China you don't use and because Kelly wants it, am I right?

Adora wants it. She moved across the country with me... she can have it. whip
DrMaddVibe Offline
#706 Posted: Tue, Aug 2 2022, 6:58 AM EST
Joined: 10-21-2000
Posts: 55,528
gringococolo wrote:
Hey MACS. You know I live in Jacksonville. Navy base and VA isn’t bad here. I live in a maintenance free townhouse on Gate Parkway by the St Johns Town Center. Love my hood.



Well....lookie there...A Gringo sighting!
MACS Offline
#707 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 5:47 AM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
Scheduled epoxy for garage floor. Scheduled painting for the interior. Notified shipping company that has my household goods of our new address and that we can receive our stuff 1st week of September.

Furniture we bought here should be delivered in September, too. Hopefully first couple weeks.

Adjusted my date to vacate the AirBnB from 15th of Sept to the 7th and saved some $$$. Garage and painting will be done by then. Hoping we either have the new furniture or the old stuff is delivered so we have a bed.
Gene363 Offline
#708 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 11:02 AM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,852
Great scheduling. Now I hope all involved actually follow the schedule, fingers crossed.
8trackdisco Offline
#709 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 3:09 PM EST
Joined: 11-06-2004
Posts: 60,097
MACS wrote:
Scheduled epoxy for garage floor. Scheduled painting for the interior. Notified shipping company that has my household goods of our new address and that we can receive our stuff 1st week of September.

Furniture we bought here should be delivered in September, too. Hopefully first couple weeks.

Adjusted my date to vacate the AirBnB from 15th of Sept to the 7th and saved some $$$. Garage and painting will be done by then. Hoping we either have the new furniture or the old stuff is delivered so we have a bed.


You Sir, are killing this process. My Brother getting it…. Done.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#710 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 4:05 PM EST
Joined: 08-11-2017
Posts: 14,681
A mere 4 months from conception to almost completion.

Impressive
8trackdisco Offline
#711 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 4:39 PM EST
Joined: 11-06-2004
Posts: 60,097
Sunoverbeach wrote:
A mere 4 months from conception to almost completion.


Some women take longer.
MACS Offline
#712 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 4:55 PM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
HockeyDad wrote:
I’m gonna beat you out of California!

HockeyDad wrote:
The gauntlet has been thrown down.


Huh... I'm thinking since I'm already in Florida and Le HD is still remodeling a bathroom while I'm in escrow on the new pad... we have a WINNAH!

What did I win? Herfing
HockeyDad Offline
#713 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 5:06 PM EST
Joined: 09-20-2000
Posts: 46,169
How about a Bovida Humidor Bag that is locked shut?
DrafterX Offline
#714 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 5:18 PM EST
Joined: 10-18-2005
Posts: 98,566
Sweet..!! ThumpUp
MACS Offline
#715 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 5:28 PM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
You laid down the gauntlet for a boveda bag?

Weak sauce. LOL
Gene363 Offline
#716 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 5:52 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,852
MACS wrote:
Huh... I'm thinking since I'm already in Florida and Le HD is still remodeling a bathroom while I'm in escrow on the new pad... we have a WINNAH!

What did I win? Herfing


Freedom, enjoy.
HockeyDad Offline
#717 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 5:55 PM EST
Joined: 09-20-2000
Posts: 46,169
Gene363 wrote:
Freedom, enjoy.


Yeah….plus you ain’t got monkeypox! It’s rampant out here. You're gonna miss “Two weeks to shock the monkey”.
Gene363 Offline
#718 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 6:13 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,852
HockeyDad wrote:
Yeah….plus you ain’t got monkeypox! It’s rampant out here. You're gonna miss “Two weeks to shock the monkey”.


Don't get caught in travel restrictions.
MACS Offline
#719 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 6:24 PM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
HockeyDad wrote:
Yeah….plus you ain’t got monkeypox! It’s rampant out here. You're gonna miss “Two weeks to shock the monkey”.


Only gotta worry about that if you fall for those "back-door shenanigans".

I don't fall for no banana in my tailpipe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HktV2yGtLv8
delta1 Offline
#720 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 6:48 PM EST
Joined: 11-23-2011
Posts: 28,819
Hope you don't encounter any "Californians Go Home" sentiment...

I remember Kelly and I considered moving to the Seattle, Washington area in the 80's. This was before it bloomed into an economic giant with the rise of Amazon and Costco and Boeing. Homes were a lot cheaper than in CA. We visited and were shocked to see anti-Californian billboards, signs and bumperstickers. My cousins explained that the cost of real estate was being driven up by Californians, either moving in or buying investment property. Locals were being priced out of the market.

At the same time, some of the older Professors at Long Beach City College were saying the same thing about some cities in Oregon, including Bend. Several were buying homes there along with a wave of other older Californians in preparation for retirement and there was a lot of grumbling among the locals about how Californians were ruining their way of life. Ditto in Kingman Arizona, where one of our senior officers bought a house to which he planned to retire the following year. His neighbors didn't exactly welcome him.

Before you get too far gone with your Cali bashing...you DO realize that the high salary and bennies/pension you earned while working in CA was due to the organized efforts of working class "commies" throughout the history of this state. Your compensation as a corrections officer in CA ranks in the top five nationwide compared to Florida's rank of 43rd of 50. Pension payments under CalPERS 3% public safety retirement is among the highest in the nation. Though you didn't agree with those lefty libs, you reaped the rewards that they gained for the working class.

Rant off...hope your transition is a smooth one, and that we'll get to visit your sparkly new place soon.
rfenst Online
#721 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 6:59 PM EST
Joined: 06-23-2007
Posts: 39,383
MACS wrote:
According to that list I moved from #17 to #44 in total taxes. I find those terms acceptable. LOL

I used to think CA had crappy roads. Not compared to Jax. Good grief.

Will be curious to see what my power bill will be like here. I'll be heating and cooling 1000 more sqft... no whole house fan... and I'll need to run the AC 24/7 for more months than I did in CA. d'oh!

Once I get settled I hope we can do a FL herf so I can actually get to meet Rfenst and DMV in person.

One piece of advice to cut down your power bill- ceiling fans everywhere.
MACS Offline
#722 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 7:13 PM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
Al... I don't think the locals were anti-CA. They were anti-CA politics. And they were absolutely correct then.

Look at WA and OR now? It's CA North... liberal run and circling the drain.

A lot of the folks I am meeting here are welcoming. Many are also not from here and moved here for the same reasons I did. I think, at least in the area I am currently in (old Springfield, downtown), they are a bit liberal. And there is currently a project going on to "revitalize" the area called SPAR (Springfield Preservation and Revitalization).

They are renovating older houses, apartments and such and trying to spruce things up. Lots of homeless in the area. Food Pantry line on Tuesday at 3pm and Thursday at 9am has plenty in line to get free food... oh, and bring photo ID. It's there on the sign.

But you've got run-down, dilapidated, craptastic "houses" next to beautifully renovated old houses. You've got houses flying American flags and US military flags (I've seen Navy and Marine... or a southern college like FSU or Auburn) and then the next house has a sign saying "We believe black lives matter, no human is illegal, love is love, blabbity blah, blah, BS...".

Liberal policies make rich people feel good and do absolutely nothing to help the people they claim to want to help. Just the facts...

Oh, and the Food Pantry sign? I'll text it to you if you want me to. Some here have already received that text with an LOL! Racist to require an ID to vote, but you poor folk that need food damn sure better have one or you gon' starve!

Can't make this crap up, man... need one to bank, to get public assistance, to buy booze or cigarettes... but to exercise an extremely important right, it should not be required? Pretty sure protecting the integrity of our voting system is more important than making sure a poor person doesn't get in line at the food pantry twice. Just saying.
MACS Offline
#723 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 7:17 PM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,844
rfenst wrote:
One piece of advice to cut down your power bill- ceiling fans everywhere.


JEA is one-stop shopping, Robert. Power, water, sewer... all in one bill. And the new pad has ceiling fans everywhere. Even on the patio. :-)

And while walking Tank past the food pantry this morning an older black lady says, "Good morning, handsome"... to which I replied, "You talking to me or the dog?" She winked and said... "Your dog is pretty, too."

I laffed.
HockeyDad Offline
#724 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 7:43 PM EST
Joined: 09-20-2000
Posts: 46,169
delta1 wrote:
Hope you don't encounter any "Californians Go Home" sentiment...

I remember Kelly and I considered moving to the Seattle, Washington area in the 80's. This was before it bloomed into an economic giant with the rise of Amazon and Costco and Boeing. Homes were a lot cheaper than in CA. We visited and were shocked to see anti-Californian billboards, signs and bumperstickers. My cousins explained that the cost of real estate was being driven up by Californians, either moving in or buying investment property. Locals were being priced out of the market.

At the same time, some of the older Professors at Long Beach City College were saying the same thing about some cities in Oregon, including Bend. Several were buying homes there along with a wave of other older Californians in preparation for retirement and there was a lot of grumbling among the locals about how Californians were ruining their way of life. Ditto in Kingman Arizona, where one of our senior officers bought a house to which he planned to retire the following year. His neighbors didn't exactly welcome him.

Before you get too far gone with your Cali bashing...you DO realize that the high salary and bennies/pension you earned while working in CA was due to the organized efforts of working class "commies" throughout the history of this state. Your compensation as a corrections officer in CA ranks in the top five nationwide compared to Florida's rank of 43rd of 50. Pension payments under CalPERS 3% public safety retirement is among the highest in the nation. Though you didn't agree with those lefty libs, you reaped the rewards that they gained for the working class.

Rant off...hope your transition is a smooth one, and that we'll get to visit your sparkly new place soon.




Californians are hated anywhere outside of California. I moved from San Diego to Colorado in ‘98 and got a bit of it because Californians were ruining that state. Get the tags off the car ASAP and introduce yourself as a California escapee or refugee.

Interesting thing with California’s high salaries and benefits is that in exchange you get high taxes and cost of living. What matters is can you buy a house and how much money is left at the end of the month. You would be amazed at what it is like in a free state.

You guys both have a vested interest in CalPERS. It is 72% funded. That means it needs to strike gold, raise taxes, or cut benefits. MACS will have to become a socialist and support raising taxes in Cali!
MACS Offline
#725 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 8:00 PM EST
Joined: 02-26-2004
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Calpers needs to just cap benefits at 75% and make the douche-rockets collecting 100% in retirement manage to come up with the other 25%. Especially the big wigs collecting 100+% of a 300k salary with more in their investments.

75% of BASE pay, too... like the military does. After 30 years.

They'll be fine for years to come.
rfenst Online
#726 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 8:11 PM EST
Joined: 06-23-2007
Posts: 39,383
MACS wrote:
JEA is one-stop shopping, Robert. Power, water, sewer... all in one bill. And the new pad has ceiling fans everywhere. Even on the patio. :-)

Can you get unlimited reclaimed water for your lawn and landscape?
Gene363 Offline
#727 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 10:23 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,852
Having moved all over the country and being a native Californian, there is a lot of anti-California sentiment. Right now, you just about cannot buy anything without that BULLSHIT prop 65 warning crap on the box, the online ads, and in the instructions.

Now, as to how we and others I worked with were welcomed, IME, it had more to do with our attitude than anything. No matter where you go in this country there are people born and raised there, even if it's a shithole, don't tell them. Worse, saying something like, "Back in XYZ we had a law/did it better/it was cleaner... etc."

It probably did not hurt that I left on purpose and do not plan to ever return except to visit family.
BuckyB93 Offline
#728 Posted: Thu, Aug 4 2022, 11:28 PM EST
Joined: 07-16-2004
Posts: 14,231
Seven two NINE!
MACS Offline
#729 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 8:14 AM EST
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Whoops... that was seven two EIGHT!
BuckyB93 Offline
#730 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 9:36 AM EST
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Oh, my bad. Mine has it as 729 because I deleted one of my posts (654) which doesn't show up and anyone else's screen.

(note to self: if I want to do further nines on this tread, wait for the zeroes)
Sunoverbeach Offline
#731 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 9:46 AM EST
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That's a strange aspect. Like your own variation of Cbid
delta1 Offline
#732 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 1:42 PM EST
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the weird thing is that it wasn't leftist wild-eyed libs that drove the market up for public service salaries and bennies...

the organized and well-funded Police Unions, filled with far right wild-eyed cons, led the way ...20th century, and beyond, CA Labor Law is filled with successful litigation by Police Unions over City management trying to control costs...thus was born the Peace Officers Bill of Rights...a blueprint for law enforcement line officers nationwide, and eagerly followed by organized labor in other public sectors, including teachers unions...
MACS Offline
#733 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 2:03 PM EST
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You know as well as I do that it's not the cops making piles of cash in retirement. It's the city administrators, school administrators, and state, county and city officials. Usually appointed and not elected.

Transparent California. https://transparentcalifornia.com/

Know their name? Type it in and see what kinda scratch they're pulling down. Or were pulling down. You can search past years.
HockeyDad Offline
#734 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 2:13 PM EST
Joined: 09-20-2000
Posts: 46,169
delta1 wrote:
the weird thing is that it wasn't leftist wild-eyed libs that drove the market up for public service salaries and bennies...

the organized and well-funded Police Unions, filled with far right wild-eyed cons, led the way ...20th century, and beyond, CA Labor Law is filled with successful litigation by Police Unions over City management trying to control costs...thus was born the Peace Officers Bill of Rights...a blueprint for law enforcement line officers nationwide, and eagerly followed by organized labor in other public sectors, including teachers unions...


We defunded them.
8trackdisco Offline
#735 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 2:20 PM EST
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Posts: 60,097
BuckyB93 wrote:
Oh, my bad. Mine has it as 729 because I deleted one of my posts (654) which doesn't show up and anyone else's screen.

(note to self: if I want to do further nines on this tread, wait for the zeroes)


Contact customer service.
Gene363 Offline
#736 Posted: Fri, Aug 5 2022, 2:49 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,852
Saw a meme today:

"When you leave California, remember that you are a REFUGEE, not a MISSIONARY.

Sincerely, Texas"



https://www.fnforum.net/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,onerror=redirect,width=1920,height=1920,fit=scale-down/https://www.fnforum.net/attachments/a1-png.167702/
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#737 Posted: Sun, Aug 7 2022, 3:52 AM EST
Joined: 11-02-2006
Posts: 121,359
MACS wrote:
You know as well as I do that it's not the cops making piles of cash in retirement. It's the city administrators, school administrators, and state, county and city officials. Usually appointed and not elected.

Transparent California. https://transparentcalifornia.com/

Know their name? Type it in and see what kinda scratch they're pulling down. Or were pulling down. You can search past years.



I typed in your name... fvckin' balla.

BTW, I think I owe you a Bheike or two. LMK when you are settled in or at least have a mailing address.
MACS Offline
#738 Posted: Sun, Aug 7 2022, 6:14 AM EST
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Thunder.Gerbil wrote:
I typed in your name... fvckin' balla.

BTW, I think I owe you a Behike or two. LMK when you are settled in or at least have a mailing address.


See, muh fuggas... THIS guy knows how to get me to tell him my addy!
Sunoverbeach Offline
#739 Posted: Sun, Aug 7 2022, 9:27 AM EST
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Posts: 14,681
Well I could've done that, but then you'd be mad at me for lying to you
Thunder.Gerbil Offline
#740 Posted: Sun, Aug 7 2022, 10:34 AM EST
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I'm serious. I seem to recall the one and only time I was on the vherf, that I told Shawn that I would send him some.
MACS Offline
#741 Posted: Sun, Aug 7 2022, 12:50 PM EST
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Posts: 79,844
Serious, eh? Begs the question when it comes to my addy...?

Serious as deek cancer? LOL
frankj1 Offline
#742 Posted: Sun, Aug 7 2022, 10:34 PM EST
Joined: 02-08-2007
Posts: 44,234
tgerbs protects you better than your shpo.
MACS Offline
#743 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 6:08 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
tgerbs protects you better than your shpo.


That he does. Trustworthy brother, he is.

- signed Yoda
corey sellers Offline
#744 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 11:09 AM EST
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Posts: 10,389
I might be staying in Jacksonville on the 16th of this month don't know for sure yet.
Sunoverbeach Offline
#745 Posted: Mon, Aug 8 2022, 11:55 AM EST
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No, you're supposed to wait until he gets in the new place before you try to get the address
MACS Offline
#746 Posted: Tue, Aug 9 2022, 9:57 AM EST
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Posts: 79,844
Text message from furniture store. All the stuff we ordered will be ready by end of August except the Dining room set.

S'awright... I suppose we can wait a bit longer for that. The king size bed and new mattress is what I'ze looking forward to.

Met with the painter rep yesterday. They're going to start right away on the 1st and should be done by the 3rd. He's going to join us on the final walk-through before closing so he can get the color matched.

Need to start perusing patio furniture and get that going.
dkeage Offline
#747 Posted: Tue, Aug 9 2022, 10:06 AM EST
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https://www.amazon.com/Weber-731001-Mountain-22-Inch-Charcoal/dp/B001I8ZTJA/ref=sr_1_3?crid=7GPC97ZDUYAC&keywords=weber+smokey+mountain&qid=1660057524&sprefix=Weber+s%2Caps%2C152&sr=8-3
MACS Offline
#748 Posted: Tue, Aug 9 2022, 10:55 AM EST
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Oh, I'll have another 22" WSM soon enough. Going to fit it with casters so I can roll it around when I need to. Cheaper at Home Depot or Lowe's though... plus a 10% veteran discount. :-)

Edit: holy sheit! The 18 used to be $300 and the 22 was $400!! Good grief!

At least I'll get $55 off.
delta1 Offline
#749 Posted: Tue, Aug 9 2022, 4:43 PM EST
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$55 is 10% of $550
MACS Offline
#750 Posted: Wed, Aug 10 2022, 5:58 AM EST
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delta1 wrote:
$55 is 10% of $550


Yes, I know... which is the price of the damn 22" WSM now. Thanks Biden! Mad
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