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krazykuda said:
Yep... Corporate America wonders why their sales are low at the brick and mortar stores... When you go in there, you can't get any service from the employees, or even find one... That's the reason to go to one of those stores vs buy over the internet is you want some advice on the products before you buy and you can't find anyone that can help... :mob:

Classic example is Sears.... Before they closed, when you went in there you couldn't get any help... The stores were so empty that you could roll a bowling ball down the main aisles and not hit anyone, especially an employee.... :popcorn:

The mom and pop stores give much better service... The local Ace Hardware stores here have people greeting you as you enter the store asking if you need any help finding anything... The price may be a little higher than the big chain stores, but the service is much better... :D :steering:
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I don’t mind paying a little more at Ace for that reason. But you’d be lucky to find enough lumber there to build a dog house. Lol
 
Ddaddy said:
My daughter has been swimming competitively for the past two years on school teams and in swim club leagues. She is very good at it and takes it very seriously. She is on 3 different teams.

Her birthday is next month and today I bought her some high tech equipment as her birthday gift.

High tech swim equipment? Really?

Hell yeah, welcome to the new world...

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I almost drowned when I was 2 years old... Mom, my brother, and I were visiting a friend's house that had an in ground pool and my brother and I were playing with our plastic bath toy boats on the edge of the pool... Mine got away from me and I tried to reach for it and fell in... Mom had her back to me, but Mrs. Mines saw me fall in and jumped off her lounge chair and yelled, "the baby"... She pulled me out of the water and I was ok... Luckily I held my breath, but cried because it scared the hell out of me... I still remember that till this day... After that mom made it a point not to sit with her back to the pool when we were swimming...


Our parents then signed us up for swim lessons at the local High School and I learned how to swim... Then my brother joined the swim team and when we went to pick him up from a meet, I saw the other kids and it looked like fun, so I joined the next season when I was 4 years old...

I grew up swimming in the age group team at our high school until I reached high school and they rezoned the district for a new high school and I wasn't in the same school as I grew up swimming on... I did join the new high school team my freshman year and swam for most of the season until the coach and I got in an arguement and he kicked me off the team and I quit at the same time... It was a mutual **** you... :icon_fU:

However I was the clean up man on the freestyle relay that set the pool record at that high school... I want to go back sometime and see if it still stands...

I wasn't the fastest freestyle swimmer on the team, but we had good depth for our team then as we had the local high school's age group swimmers along with my old high school swimmers... There was a guy one year ahead of me that was just a little faster at freestyle than I was that was on the old team with us...

The summer I was 8 years old I only lost one race... That was in conference and I was gaining on the guy in 50 freestyle, but didn't have enough pool to catch him... He got lucky... I was so pissed off at ruining my perfect season I hid under my sleeping bag in the pits until butterfly and took it out on them... I beat everybody by 3 - 4 body lengths... :icon_fU:

My strategy back then for 50 free was to pace the first length, then hit my flip turn and go all out on the last length and finish strong... My assistant coach and I worked on my flip turn and I was very fast at it, when most kids that age weren't... On the day of the conference race that I lost, I came into the wall 5th, then hit my flip turn and came off the wall 3rd, passed the next guy for second and was gaining on the first guy and just got touched out... If we were swimming 50 meters instead of 50 yards, I would have had him no problem... :BangHead:

I could do 50 yard freestyle in 25 seconds and 100 yard freestyle in 52 seconds... I could do 200 IM in 2:08 minutes.... I could also do 50 yard butterfly in 27 seconds, but my 100 butterfly was only 1:08 as I needed to work on my endurance as it takes alot out of you... I was trying to get my 100 fly under one minute before I quit the team... One girl that was my age on my old team (Lynette Z.) was doing a 58 second 100 fly then and I always bench marked her and tried to meet her times... She was as good of a swimmer as I was... (Not to mention a decent looking red-head with a killer body)... I could hold my own against her on a 50 yard fly, but didn't have the endurance to blast all 4 lengths of 100 fly...

We went to a large meet in high school and competed against the best in the area... The coach said that if you placed first in that meet, you would most likely be able to place in the top three in state competition... I ended up 12th and was not on my game that day and didn't swim my best times..

I never went back on the team after freshman year as I couldn't get along with the "new" coach... Who happened to be the brother of the coach that I grew up swimming for... The new coach tried to get me back on the team sophomore year, but I refused to go back and put up with his antics and tantrums...

I seriously considered going back on the team for my old coach the summer I was 18 after I graduated, but decided to take the summer off and have fun as I would be going on to college and then most likely starting work afterwards and wanted to have one summer to be free and enjoy myself... I could have gotten my 100 fly under 1 minute...

I sometimes regret not going back and swimming on age group with my old coach (we moved into our grandparents house after grandma died and it was in my old district again) for my 18 year old summer, but I don't regret taking the summer off and going to the beach twice a week and hanging out with my friends... I was right that I would never have that opportunity again...
 
Mopar Tim said:
About 1.5 MBS for Netflix. I have seen it run on 600kBPS but it was iffy. For 4K TV, you need 5K. All Digital TV streams are compressed. The faster the speed at the device, the less compression, and the better the quality. Devices "negotiate" the best speed for service.
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So high compression is slower in internet, but faster in cars... :D
 
krazykuda said:
I almost drowned when I was 2 years old... Mom, my brother, and I were visiting a friend's house that had an in ground pool and my brother and I were playing with our plastic bath toy boats on the edge of the pool... Mine got away from me and I tried to reach for it and fell in... Mom had her back to me, but Mrs. Mines saw me fall in and jumped off her lounge chair and yelled, "the baby"... She pulled me out of the water and I was ok... Luckily I held my breath, but cried because it scared the hell out of me... I still remember that till this day... After that mom made it a point not to sit with her back to the pool when we were swimming...


Our parents then signed us up for swim lessons at the local High School and I learned how to swim... Then my brother joined the swim team and when we went to pick him up from a meet, I saw the other kids and it looked like fun, so I joined the next season when I was 4 years old...

I grew up swimming in the age group team at our high school until I reached high school and they rezoned the district for a new high school and I wasn't in the same school as I grew up swimming on... I did join the new high school team my freshman year and swam for most of the season until the coach and I got in an arguement and he kicked me off the team and I quit at the same time... It was a mutual **** you... :icon_fU:

However I was the clean up man on the freestyle relay that set the pool record at that high school... I want to go back sometime and see if it still stands...

I wasn't the fastest freestyle swimmer on the team, but we had good depth for our team then as we had the local high school's age group swimmers along with my old high school swimmers... There was a guy one year ahead of me that was just a little faster at freestyle than I was that was on the old team with us...

The summer I was 8 years old I only lost one race... That was in conference and I was gaining on the guy in 50 freestyle, but didn't have enough pool to catch him... He got lucky... I was so pissed off at ruining my perfect season I hid under my sleeping bag in the pits until butterfly and took it out on them... I beat everybody by 3 - 4 body lengths... :icon_fU:

My strategy back then for 50 free was to pace the first length, then hit my flip turn and go all out on the last length and finish strong... My assistant coach and I worked on my flip turn and I was very fast at it, when most kids that age weren't... On the day of the conference race that I lost, I came into the wall 5th, then hit my flip turn and came off the wall 3rd, passed the next guy for second and was gaining on the first guy and just got touched out... If we were swimming 50 meters instead of 50 yards, I would have had him no problem... :BangHead:

I could do 50 yard freestyle in 25 seconds and 100 yard freestyle in 52 seconds... I could do 200 IM in 2:08 minutes.... I could also do 50 yard butterfly in 27 seconds, but my 100 butterfly was only 1:08 as I needed to work on my endurance as it takes alot out of you... I was trying to get my 100 fly under one minute before I quit the team... One girl that was my age on my old team (Lynette Z.) was doing a 58 second 100 fly then and I always bench marked her and tried to meet her times... She was as good of a swimmer as I was... (Not to mention a decent looking red-head with a killer body)... I could hold my own against her on a 50 yard fly, but didn't have the endurance to blast all 4 lengths of 100 fly...

We went to a large meet in high school and competed against the best in the area... The coach said that if you placed first in that meet, you would most likely be able to place in the top three in state competition... I ended up 12th and was not on my game that day and didn't swim my best times..

I never went back on the team after freshman year as I couldn't get along with the "new" coach... Who happened to be the brother of the coach that I grew up swimming for... The new coach tried to get me back on the team sophomore year, but I refused to go back and put up with his antics and tantrums...

I seriously considered going back on the team for my old coach the summer I was 18 after I graduated, but decided to take the summer off and have fun as I would be going on to college and then most likely starting work afterwards and wanted to have one summer to be free and enjoy myself... I could have gotten my 100 fly under 1 minute...

I sometimes regret not going back and swimming on age group with my old coach (we moved into our grandparents house after grandma died and it was in my old district again) for my 18 year old summer, but I don't regret taking the summer off and going to the beach twice a week and hanging out with my friends... I was right that I would never have that opportunity again...
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I understand all that...but don’t you agree that these digital goggles are really cool? :D
 
I'm still getting my minimum 30 mbps....

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zkx14 said:
I don’t mind paying a little more at Ace for that reason. But you’d be lucky to find enough lumber there to build a dog house. Lol
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You said lumber and dog in the same sentence...

Where's the pictures of Mitch's dog Gunner.... He always has wood in the pictures....
 
Ddaddy said:
I understand all that...but don’t you agree that these digital goggles are really cool? :D
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I didn't watch the whole ad until you said that...

Yes, they are cool, but how does it know when the starting gun goes off???

It would be cool to see your pace as you swim so you can put out that extra effort...


In the old days you just had to blast as hard as you could anyway... When we went to AAU meets back then where there were more than team and one heat in your event, you were racing the clock more than the other swimmers in the pool at the time... You could beat all 5 other swimmers in that race, and still not place because the heat after you with the faster swimmers could all beat your time and bump you back down... The slower heats swam first and the faster heats followed...

It wasn't mandatory to go to the AAU meets, we volunteered and most of our team mates showed up... It gave us more experience for racing in the big meets like conference where there was more than one heat per race in that age group... The one on one meets with only one team and one heat were much easier to gauge where you stood while racing as you only had to beat all of the other swimmers in the race at that time...

Those digital goggles would be great in an AAU meet where you are racing the clock...
 
Got back wall vertical supports done on tarp shed. Then loaded my manlift on trailer. Then set up welder and generator and dragged out a bunch of tools.
Then proceeded to arc weld flat tabs onto front end wall hoop.
Carriage bolts to hold 2x4’s and its ready for metal.
 
Couldnt take any pictures, phone battery died,and it was pitch black when i gave up.
 
Tooljunkie

You are an ambitious fellow there, making things happen. Good for you, well prepared and Winter is coming on.
 
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dukeboy_318 said:
Unfortunately welcome to 21st century America. I stopped shopping at Home Depot, Lowe’s etc . Local building supply store that’s a mom and pop that has been in business forever not only has better service, but their prices are competitive enough to stay in business. Sometimes they’re a tad higher, sometimes they’re lower, depends on the item.

And I’m not the only one that feels that way cause they are always packed. Home Depot, never more than 2-3 people in line ever
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I have more or less lost it with home depot too. They do not have a single cashier anymore, so they have hired me to do their job. I went in there a couple of weeks ago, greeted myself, and led me to the right aisle, found some, and some I did not know where was. Then I walked back to pay, and told myself, "did you find everything ok, Sir", Yes, I did, I said, I just lied, did not want to tell the poor cashier I had not found everything I wanted. I scanned the parts, and told myself how much I had to pay, and then I swiped the card, and finished the payment, pushed all the right buttons, and when I was done I gave myself the receipt, and told myself, thank you for visiting us, and I was polite and answered sure, and bye bye.
So far so good, but I have yet to get any paycheck for the work I did, and I have not gotten any benefits either. So, I am debating with myself if I want to go back and work for them again.

Bill
 
Bills65Dart said:
I have more or less lost it with home depot too. They do not have a single cashier anymore, so they have hired me to do their job. I went in there a couple of weeks ago, greeted myself, and led me to the right aisle, found some, and some It did not know where was. Then I walked back to pay, and told myself, "did you find everything ok, Sir", Yes, I did, I said, I just lied, did not want to tell the poor cashier I had not found everything I wanted. I scanned the parts, and told myself how much I had to pay, and then I swiped the card, and finished the payment, pushed all the right buttons, and when I was done I gave myself the receipt, and told myself, thank you for visiting us, and I was polite and answered sure, and bye bye.
So far so good, but I have yet to get any paycheck for the work I did, and I have not gotten any benefits either. So, I am debating with myself if I want to go back and work for them again.

Bill
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Lol . . That is a good analogy of the whole deal.

Yeah you go in there as a paying customer and they have 10 rows of cash registers and no one to man them and people are backing up in the lines trying to pay for their stuff. My time is valuable and I want to get out of there.

Same thing with other big stores, all these cash registers and no one to check you out.

No wonder they are loosing all their sales to the internet with free delivery. Even the UPS people smile and joke with me when they are dropping off stuff at my place. They are glad to have the business and a job.
 
George Jets said:
Lol . . That is a good analogy of the whole deal.

Yeah you go in there as a paying customer and they have 10 rows of cash registers and no one to man them and people are backing up in the lines trying to pay for their stuff. My time is valuable and I want to get out of there.

Same thing with other big stores, all these cash registers and no one to check you out.

No wonder they are loosing all their sales to the internet with free delivery. Even the UPS people smile and joke with me when they are dropping off stuff at my place. They are glad to have the business and a job.
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It is going to be a cold society before all is said and done. The few that is left at home depot here have for a long time had the habit of hiding when I need help, and if no one is there to help, and no cashiers, it is not much of a store.

Bill
 
Bills65Dart said:
It is going to be a cold society before all is said and done. The few that is left at home depot here have for a long time had the habit of hiding when I need help, and if no one is there to help, and no cashiers, it is not much of a store.

Bill
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How do you like going into the grocery stores now and they shrink the size of the products you are buying by 25% and then they give you a 40% markup on the same product for all their trouble.

Just shake my head . . .
Less for more money . .
 
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