Recent content by crinkles

Great photos. I love dams.

Family of 5, about 1 cubic metre per day. thats about 50 gallons per person per day.

Really sad seeing wombats run over next to the road here... They're so slow and large I don't know how people can't avoid them. I firmly believe some (sick) people enjoy hitting them.

Don't be that guy.

Short answer, no. Sorry about the situation you are in. Don't retaliate, we had to move from our previous place due to neighbor issues. As someone else said, trees or hedges won't grow fast enough to make a difference and bad people can simply poison them. A fence would need to be sound...

Love corduroy pants. Not so much when I was a kid, but now, sure. Sadly no one sells it.

Originally Posted by Alfred_B Somebody didn't do a punch list before accepting the building. Don't know how it works there, but even if you can inspect and list defects you are not allowed to pull out or delay acceptance of the building, in all of the contracts I've seen. It's ludicrous.

I'm glad it's just not my new condo! sorry to hear.

Originally Posted by PimTac Originally Posted by Pat in Speedway I can't claim how well this works as we just signed up today, but "Pay with Gas Buddy" gives you $.05 off a gallon at any station. Just tie your checking account to it and they send you a card that pulls it out of your account...

In Australia most service stations you fill up first then go pay inside. As the payment terminal is inside and supervised skimming of cards from pumps is not really a thing. Also paywave/paypass/tapandpay is very common and pretty secure. I use one debit card tied to my single account for...

We routinely use hot dip galvanised steel in geotechnical structures (shotcrete). I've also specified GFRP bar in grouted anchorage.

I know when i came close to failing an course it was a serious wake-me-up. I was able to re-sit the exam and just scraped by. I took things more seriously after that, I just did not want to fail. Maybe it will just re-start the motors so to speak.

Very very nice. Awesome cat. How many acres do you own?

Nothing is new under the sun, however, I do believe something has become very sick in our society in the last 10 years. I see it in neighbours and work, all the time... Frankly I believe it's due to poor parenting from the 60's on. But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to...

Originally Posted by bubbatime Originally Posted by SonofJoe it's shocking how young both the perpetrators and the victims are in some of these killings; 13 to 16 seems 'normal' these days! The most dangerous people in society are 12-17 year old males. They are the most violent, most...