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Status Updates posted by Sledgstone
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Ok.. I just realized that if you type a colon and start typing the letters of a smilie, the post will auto pop up a list of smilies you are typing.. ":astonished:" 😲
It doesn't work for smilies that start with a letter like "XD"
":nosebleed:"
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I don't know how long this has been a feature but I've never seen it happen before today.
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It's been a feature for a while 🤣
On a side note, was ripped from Trillian back when we all used instant messaging. Now trillian is a business messaging tool you have to pay for with different tiers of features. I was looking at it not too long ago just out of nostalgic interest.
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Omg. I completely forgot about trillian. Its been so long i thought that smilie was from AOL IM.
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Got my pool setup last night. All thats left to do is hook up the filter and order a water delivery. This same time last year we were digging out that pool spot for all of June. I'll always remember that back breaking digging. This year we put a light layer of sand down since the level is good and we wont have to worry about the pool shifting at all. I'd like to get a permanent pool at some point. It looks like buying a new ground tarp and water delivery every year will be roughly $200 a year for expenses. And these intex pools are only meant to last roughly 2-4 years, but the pool was roughly $280 on sale I think. Even then its still cheaper than a $2-$5k pool. I might stick with using these cheap pools for years.
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I'm assuming you need water delivery because the well would be overburdened to supply the pool? Living on city water my entire life, all I've ever seen people do throw the hose connected to the house over the side and and let it rip. Took a long time granted, and no telling what their water bill was for that month, but it was convenient. I guess the ground tarp can't handle a single NY winter? I know people here can use their tarps until the sun bleaches it from dark blue to baby blue so long as a major tropical system doesn't rip it. People anchor those down pretty good.
You also have to consider the cleaning of a legit ground pool. Gotta climb down in there and scrub it out, who knows what can crawl up under that tarp all those months. I guess it depends one which cons and pros you prefer. Either way its more work that ever want to deal with. One thing I have is an extremely solid long term memory. I can remember things all the way back to when I was 3 years old. I remember when I was 5 til I was about 7, I went to a day care that had a pool. I swam in it a few times, but one year I guess they decided it was too much of a hassle and they just filled it in with concrete. That seemed to be the popular thing to do back in the 80s and 90s. I dunno how it is now when you don't want a pool anymore. I guess buying a ton of concrete is cheaper than demolishing the pool, having the debris removed, and the ton of dirt to fill it in.
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Yeah it'll be too much of a burden on the well that and I have hard water. It seemed more cost efficient to order water that is already chlorinated and balanced than slow fill with well water and buy alot of chemicals. Last year the pool test strips I used once a week were all good. The only thing I had to do was keep using chlorine pucks. My friend that lives near me has well water he filled his kids 2x10 foot pool. 2 tests this week and his alkalinity and ph is all super high. He'll have to call a local pool store for the chemicals since we can't find an alkalinity reducer. Looks like he'll have to add a small amount of a specific acid to the water and then a ph up afterwards.
We took the pool down before winter and stored it in the garage.. the ground tarp didn't even make it to winter. I think the weight of the water stressed the tarp because the legs of the pool settled an inch deep with every leg. Once the pool was down that tarp was brittle and wrecked. Lol.
I'm getting my water delivery on monday.
This is what the pool looks like so far. It looks filthy because I read it was best to baby powder it when folding it up for storage so it doesn't stick to itself when putting it back up because it's vinyl. Seemed to work because it unfolded just fine.
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And harbor freight ftw. 19x19 foot tarp for $19 with tax after coupon.
I kept the old tarp. I threw it in the garage thinking I'd reuse it, but man it was beyond destroyed. I need to throw it in the garbage. What's really stupid is amazon sells "pool ground covers" for $89. All it is is a plain blue tarp. Lol. Screw amazon BS listings.
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My dad has stage 4 liver cancer. Its not operable. Hes going to have to start chemo soon. He had colon cancer last year but they were able to remove it. I'm hoping the chemo takes care of it.
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Wowzers, thoughts and prayers.
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this year sucks
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Just when you can't think this year could get any worse. Here's to hoping he can kick it in the ass
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Well my dryer broke after about 15 years and multiple repairs I've done over those years. I had to buy a new dryer. So far so good. I was finally able to get my laundry done again and my bathroom no longer smells like dirty socks and febreeze.
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had to call sears technician to fix our dryer about six months ago. he said he would be back bc he had no tools to do the job right away, waiting for that numbnut turned into a week or two, finally called someone else, turned out a freaking bird was nesting on a vent exit and that was blocking the flow or whatever. fixed it less than 15 mins. i got the hang of air drying for awhile, but back to being convenient
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the sears guy kept delaying and pushed back dated schedule. i knew what he was doing. he wanted an extra cash but didn't have time from his work so he made us wait a week after another week. even if he had attempted to fix it, he already told us he was going to vacuum a vent and probably overcharged us. screw that guy.
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I need some coffee.
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Need sleep.. Playing Black Ops 2 in the morning.
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Its 9 degrees outside. So f*cking cold. x_x
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New Walking Dead tonight!
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Season finale of Continuum is on tonight.
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So busy this weekend. I don't think I accomplished much, but it was all time consuming. The garden looks great and we have a new fire pit!
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I made some of the best ribs I've ever eaten tonight. My smoker is now amazing.
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I watch too much tv.. I need to take a break from shows and catch up with my online interests.
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Lady beat "Last of Us" and now shes moved onto "Tomb Raider" she is kicking ass.
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I mowed so much grass today.. Only 1/3 of what Lady usually does.. f*ck I'm feel exhausted. x_x
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Copy and pasting lately has been pissing me the hell off.. I thought my keyboard was messing up. Turns out it was a firefox bug. If you go to mozilla's site and install the latest firefox beta, it fixes the issue.
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New season of Big Bang Theory starts tonight!
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Looks like I might not be getting a PS4 until I get my taxes back early next year. We had some layoffs at work and I'm a bit paranoid to put anymore on my credit than I already have in case something happens. x_x
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Man that sucks. I remember when our company got bought out and my job title no longer existed. It was nerve racking hoping to pick up a new position.
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Ouch, that must have sucked. I think my position is safe but I'm loosing quite a bit of confidence in the higher management and the lack of future accounts we're currently not acquiring.
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I got the second upgrade for Fidget on Dust.. I think its most efficient when combined with her first power. As long as I spam them all together its a cluster of destruction.
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I ordered the second Berserk movie on blu ray. I hope its better than the first one.
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I still have to get around to watching them, have all three downloaded just been to lazy and too busy to watch them. Is the first one bad? Haven't really read anything about it.
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It was good, but too fast paced.. and the CG seemed a bit off compared to the rest of the animation. It definitely felt like the first part of a story as opposed to being a good standalone movie. I still haven't seen the second or third one yet but I heard its best to watch them all at once in a marathon.
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I finally redeemed all the steam codes I've been accumulating from random game bundles. I always redeemed the games I wanted to play but now I added the rest. I now own 231 games.
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I've been playing Uncharted 1 almost all day. Fun game, reminds me a lot of Tomb Raider. I think I'm about 3/4 done with it, so I'll probably beat it tomorrow.
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I never did play any of the uncharted games. I'll probably start with the next.
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I beat it today. It was fun, but it felt like a really basic version of Tomb Raider. Then again, the game is 6 or so years old and the newest Tomb Raider was an amazing game with huge areas to explore. Uncharted took me about 14 hours to beat. I have Uncharted 3 from PS+, now all I have to do is borrow Uncharted 2 from my brother and beat it first.
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Looks like the PS4 share doesn't want to upload a video over 8 minutes correctly.. I can't get this bomber video to upload.. I guess I'll hold onto that clip until I can upload it directly to youtube.
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It's probably a Facebook thing. My longest is 5 or 6 minutes, so it must be that 7 or 8 min mark that's the magic number.
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Thats a good point. I have a bomber video thats just over 5 mins and it uploaded fine. I tried uploading the 8 minute video twice. Even though it uploads completely, it won't post to facebook and the video shows in my PS4 whats new feed, but the video fails to load.
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I f*cking hate snow. I am so sick of shoveling. And even with my good boots that have been great all winter, my toes are starting to kill me on my left foot.
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Been buzy this last weekend. At least my taxes are done. Yay money. Once I get that I'll pre-order Destiny.
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I'm cooking some pulled pork on the smoker today. Apple wood all the way.