Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

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Every so often I google myself to see if anything pops up. I’m still pretty much off the grid for most things. Although an obituary popped up for the German dude with the same name and he was born only 12 days after me. Died 3 years ago. Kinda chilling to see that.
 
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Daughter needs a letter from the employer that covers her insurance. Since she is just staying on my insurance plan. They won’t accept her insurance card or an ID. It can’t be a letter from me, it has to be from the employer……………..I’m freaking self-employed and buy my own insurance!! How can it NOT be a letter from me.
Do you have your own letterhead?

Just put this at the top of the letter:

BC Company
Hobo Town, IA USA
900-Hot-Farmer
[email protected]
 
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Daughter needs a letter from the employer that covers her insurance. Since she is just staying on my insurance plan. They won’t accept her insurance card or an ID. It can’t be a letter from me, it has to be from the employer……………..I’m freaking self-employed and buy my own insurance!! How can it NOT be a letter from me.
This experience checks out. Had something similar with daycare reimbursement through DCFSA. Feels like it'd be more productive conversing with a wall.
 
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Every so often I google myself to see if anything pops up. I’m still pretty much off the grid for most things. Although an obituary popped up for the German dude with the same name and he was born only 12 days after me. Died 3 years ago. Kinda chilling to see that.

I should do that. I bet I'm almost invisible now with nothing popping up with the Corps of Engineers or alumni association related stuff.
 

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Watching a show on hgtv that takes place in Florida. 100 days something. Interesting how they do framing down there. They build houses with cinder blocks obviously, but the interior framing is peculiar. I guess they just do things differently down there.
100 Day Dream Home. I've seen bits and pieces. I never really paid attention to the framing. I guess I will have to give it a look
 

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100 Day Dream Home. I've seen bits and pieces. I never really paid attention to the framing. I guess I will have to give it a look
I don't know how much you know about framing, but walls are built with a bottom plate, pre-cut stud, top plate, and tie plate on top of that. Every house I've seen on this show, there's no tie plates on the interior walls so i don't know how they lock them all up.

And since there's no tie plates, the wall height will be different if they use pre-cut studs. So either pre-cuts are different in Florida, or these crews are wasting so much time cutting all their studs.

And of course Google is useless trying to look this up.
 

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I don't know how much you know about framing, but walls are built with a bottom plate, pre-cut stud, top plate, and tie plate on top of that. Every house I've seen on this show, there's no tie plates on the interior walls so i don't know how they lock them all up.

And since there's no tie plates, the wall height will be different if they use pre-cut studs. So either pre-cuts are different in Florida, or these crews are wasting so much time cutting all their studs.

And of course Google is useless trying to look this up.
I did get curious about this and this is what AI says. I guess it makes sense. I did not look into what a hurricane tie is.

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Your name still appears on the Alumni of the Twin Cities page quite often so you aren't totally invisible.

I am one of the admins for that site. To control spam ads we had to take the group private. I decline requests to join almost daily. All of these are fake or spoofed accounts, most with locked profiles you can't review. They amuse me over morning office as I decline them after looking over the answers to the screening questions.

The funniest one was over the weekend form "Milan Moncilovich", who had joined FB that same day and was a member of a dozen or so ISU groups. His profile was not locked so looked and it amusing, works for ISU, lives in NY,NY and is from Tanzania! And still got into all of those groups who are probably overrun with t-shirt ads and such until they delete the account.

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Spammers have been out in full force lately. I've gotten multiple suspected spam calls on my phone the last few days
 

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I am one of the admins for that site. To control spam ads we had to take the group private. I decline requests to join almost daily. All of these are fake or spoofed accounts, most with locked profiles you can't review. They amuse me over morning office as I decline them after looking over the answers to the screening questions.

The funniest one was over the weekend form "Milan Moncilovich", who had joined FB that same day and was a member of a dozen or so ISU groups. His profile was not locked so looked and it amusing, works for ISU, lives in NY,NY and is from Tanzania! And still got into all of those groups who are probably overrun with t-shirt ads and such until they delete the account.

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Jennifer looks promising. Is she on the right or left?
 
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