3/2: ...other fella works harder than he does.
It's weird how there's not a shortage of folks who seem to believe that they are owed patronage, and I'm glad they're countered by people who practice the Fair Price for Fair Labor/Goods and whose hustle isn't hustling people out of money.
I called my dude, and he's booked up for three weeks. His son's also now working with him, and he's booked out a bit, too. I'm now slated for his son to come clean the deck on 17 August.
2/2: Fella takes 1.5 to 2hrs. to clean and rinse the deck, and it's spotless. That's $60. Plus the cleaner, that's a total job of $130, and it's less than half the cost of dude pressure-washing.
Dude says, "But it takes longer." I reply, "It does just as good a job, and it's less expensive." He says, "Well, I paid for a good pressure-washer, and I gotta make a living." I reply, "That isn't my responsibility."
He said I don't appreciate The Workin' Man. I ribbed him and told him that the...
1/2: I do not understand how people who fancy themselves "independent businesshumans" do not understand economy, supply-and-demand, basic mathematics, and the nature of business and capitalism.
A dude charges $300 to pressure-wash a 15'x30' deck in 30-45mins. I counteroffer $100. He balks and tells me I am insulting him. I tell him rather than pay him, I'll get the fella who cleaned the deck last year:
$30/hr. + ~$70 to buy the cleaner. I already bought the bristled heads and the mop handle.
: Locksmith came and rekeyed all three doors to the house. He had to replace one deadbolt because it was fakakte. Now I've new locks and all on one key, which is nice. I also have my industrial doorstops.
Dude's coming back in a week-ish to put the new door into the basement. There's a door jam down their to the under-porch storage room, and the room is rough and offers no block to humidity, which I do not want in the basement.
: Folks up the block are having a cow. During the night, someone put Biden/Harris stickers all over their car.
I can understand. The car's a 1955 Chevy 210 the guy spent years restoring.
Their dogs are cool, and they let me hang out with them on the porch on days it's not a frickin' EZ Bake Oven outside.
: We may know what Oumuamua really was/is. Mayhaps.
#CoSoScience #CoSoAstronomy #science #CoSoMuamua #objectlesson
: S3 looks... fascinating. ๐ฝ
"Waterloo"
Broken Peach
I really like this band. A lot.
2/2: I think they're irked, somewhere down under the identity, that a non-Hillary woman
-- and a non-white woman at that -- has momentum and has it without their prior approval. In shirt, Actual Progress is something they don't much really like now that it's showed up.
As the fella said, "That's just my opinion; I could be wrong."
54 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.