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Topic: | What did you do today? This thread has 11407 replies. Displaying posts 10951 through 10965. |
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Post 10,951 made on Thursday September 8, 2016 at 18:18 |
goldenzrule Loyal Member |
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Post 10,952 made on Thursday September 8, 2016 at 19:04 |
Audiophiliac Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2006 3,311 |
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I upgraded a client's DirecTV system. We picked up a genie and 5 clients at a local satellite sales/installation company we work with quite a bit. Client is not home and would not be bothered with this anyway, so, using my prior experience with the 1800 clowns, I decided to go a different route.
I had the account #, so I created an online account, logged in, tried the activate equipment process with no luck, so I started a chat with "I bought a Genie and 5 Clients and would like to activate them and deactivate all my other boxes." I expected the usual runarounds. But thankfully, the nice lady stayed online for at least an hour...probably closer to 2...I lost track of time. She got all 6 boxes activated, all the old ones turned off, and never sounded angry or fed up once (gotta love chat vs. phone call....I could imagine her tone).
The things we do for money.
So the C51 clients will not do over 480P on component video or what? It locked up every time I tried setting to 720 or 1080. Guess it is time for some more upgrades.
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Post 10,953 made on Thursday September 8, 2016 at 20:51 |
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme Loyal Member |
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Drove from Idaho Falls, Idaho to Helper, Utah with a stop somewhere for breakfast.
On to Moab, Utah, and Durango, Colorado tomorrow...
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Post 10,954 made on Thursday September 29, 2016 at 20:10 |
goldenzrule Loyal Member |
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Today I woke up at 3:30am to get to the hospital with my wife to ensure we were there before my father-in-law was taken down to surgery. This past weekend, he suffered a small stroke. Thankfully, it was very mild with only some very minor loss in strength in his right arm/hand. However, after a CT Scan, Ultrasound, and MRI, it was determined that his right carotid artery was 90% clogged. They HAD to do the surgery to clear the plaque or he would likely stroke out within a couple weeks.
So we sat with him this morning until they brought him down to OR Prep, and then sat with him in Prep as well. He was very nervous, understandably so. Being that my mother-in-law passed away last year, as many of you know, he has been alone and we did not want him to go through this alone.
Well, we were told the surgery would take an hour to an hour and a half, but after 2 and a half hours we were getting pretty nervous. Finally the doctor came out and let us know surgery went ok, and he was doing well. The surgery was harder than anticipated, as his carotid artery is higher than normal, and a nerve was on the opposite side of the artery than normal, resulting in a more difficult surgery. But, he made it through. He is resting in ICU. In a bit of pain and uncomfortable, but alive and does not appear at this time to have suffered any setbacks during surgery (i.e. another stroke).
The one thing the doctor told us is that they had to clear a lot of clots. He didn't say how many, but I guess enough to term is as a lot. I got to thinking and asked my sister-in-law that is a nurse if the blockage in his artery could have possibly kept the clots from reaching his brain, which would have resulting in killing him. She said yeah, its a definite possibility. So the thing that could have killed him, at the same time, appears to have saved his life.
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Trunk-Slammer -Supreme Loyal Member |
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Wasn't his time....
I think that's just how it works.
Good to hear it all went well..
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goldenzrule Loyal Member |
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Mac Burks (39) Elite Member |
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I have heard stories like that over the years. Someone gets punched in the face and they go in and find out they had a tumor...that was removed easily because it was detected early. Glad to hear he came out on the good side of the operating room.
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joelusi Long Time Member |
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Glad to hear he is doing well.
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Trunk-Slammer -Supreme Loyal Member |
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Spent the morning prepping for the possible arrival of Matthew.
If the storage building blows away, I wouldn't want to be in the area since there is a lot of things stuffed under the building that would take wing in a heartbeat...
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Mr. Brad Advanced Member |
Joined: Posts: | April 2008 934 |
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Bought another NV2500 SL. Waiting for a wrap.
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goldenzrule Loyal Member |
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On October 1, 2016 at 08:30, joelusi said...
Glad to hear he is doing well. Thanks. He is home and acting like his normal self now. Which is not all good. Trying to get him to eat properly is a challenge. He needs to really change all his habits.
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Pukin Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2013 34 |
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I completed my personal AV system interface and program. I just have to wait for the digital media parts to arrive this week and pick out a rack and put it together. This is a link to the interface being tested, [Link: dropbox.com].
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cshepard Advanced Member |
Joined: Posts: | June 2008 767 |
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Really getting into the final phase of a $185k residential project, the biggest of my career. 10 zones 4K video distribution, 16 audio zones, 9.2 theater, video wall, security, central vac, Luxul managed wifi with 7 APs, some surveillance, garage door/HVAC/Hayward pool controller integration, 60 loads of mixed panelized & standard C4 lighting. The smallest TV in the house is a 55" in the master bath. We have a long way to go but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel...I think.
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Mac Burks (39) Elite Member |
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On October 4, 2016 at 21:21, Pukin said...
I completed my personal AV system interface and program. I just have to wait for the digital media parts to arrive this week and pick out a rack and put it together. This is a link to the interface being tested, [Link: dropbox.com]. Not there anymore.
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I'll include today and Friday because they're very much related: Other people's jobs.
Friday: Well, new home project, a pretty decent one (this is backstory). The clients wanted landscape speakers so we wired for them. Once the planters were up around the pool and elsewhere, we ran our wires into them through conduit, mounted up near the tops of the planters so we'd have access to them once the dirt got filled in. Somewhere along the way, some other company pulled our mounted stuff off of the walls of the planters, left it laying in the bottom. We saw it, thought that people would use their brains and put it back up. That was a mistake. Landscape company just threw dirt on top of it. 6 feet worth. Yeah, these were deep planters. So, FINALLY the builder got with the landscape folks and told them they had to dig it up. Yup, that job sucked. The kid (couldn't be more than 20) in charge of that task at first dug one of them up, on the left, we found it. He couldn't pull the whole thing out, didn't want to do the hard work of digging to uncover the stuff of ours that he covered up (well, someone with his company, he says it wasn't him) so we cut the wire and spliced it, wrapped the shit out of it to make sure it wouldn't get affected by water or moisture. (I had to go back and re-do that with the proper wire on Friday). They had done most of the digging for the wire we needed on the right side, but eventually since it sucks, they made the excuse that they were too busy to focus on that. Great. Client asks if we have anyone that could dig for us and I knew what that meant.
So, Friday, knowing we pretty much had no choice, we dug up the other wire we needed. Fortunately it was mostly dug up and only took about ten minutes to dig up. It toned out fine. Since we didn't have to put anything in that planter, we left the dirt out. However, we had another wire on the left side that we wanted to use if we could, and we decided to try and dig it up. Unfortunately, this planter was very skinny, and had an irrigation pipe running through it, so it wasn't so easy. We thought it was drilled through higher, but, nope...it was at the bottom of that planter, pretty much. That one took a LOT of digging. We found it, so that's great, but, we toned it out and it was crushed and didn't work so we had to use the one in the connecting planter to extend to it. Fortunately I had pulled off 20 feet, so it reached. Since we had to put a landscape speaker right there, at the end of our working wire on the left, what did we have to do? Yup, fill it back up with the dirt we just took out so we could place the speaker. It was a lot of dirt. At the end of the day, we were fortunate that we had a wire working on each side (if we didn't have one on each side working, we'd have been in for a lot more work) and it's working just fine. Also, at the end of the day, that wasn't our job to do. Idiots shouldn't have unmounted our shit from the walls and then whoever else shouldn't have freakin buried it. Note to self (and anyone who read that): If you're going into a planter for landscape speakers, drill your hole through the concrete as high as possible.
TODAY: The pool guy's job. We have a client who is great to work for and will just pay his bills when he gets them (very rich). The fiber light tube around his pool wasn't working so he called the pool guys to check it out. They replaced the...unit, for lack of a better word, that provides light to the fibers that light up around the pool and left. It didn't work. He called them back, they couldn't figure it out. He called an electrician, they couldn't figure it out. So, since he likes us, even though it's not what we do, he called us. We went and checked it out. It's amazing what you can learn if you read the instructions from time to time. The pool people who had installed this unit obviously didn't. If you've never dealt with this before, it could be helpful. The fibers come up into a box that shines intense light onto them so it can flow through and provide a cool neon glow around the pool. What the installer didn't know (but he would have had he read the instructions) is that the fibers need to be cut precisely, all the same length, all the same angle, with a hot knife. Otherwise, they're all different lengths, different angles, and the light won't travel through them as they should. Whoever installed it didn't even bother to cut them at all, just stuffed them up through the adapter and called it a day. So, we got a hot knife and went back today, took it apart, removed 4 other tubes of fibers that weren't even being used and/or wouldn't even work with the unit they installed, put the appropriate sized adapter on, cut it correctly with a hot knife to make a nice, even, straight surface for the light to onto and whaddya know? It's working the way it should. You can't tell by looking from afar in the light, but if you get right up on it, shield it and your eyes from outside light/the sun, you can see the light shining and changing colors (spinning color wheel in front of the bulb). You'd definitely be able to see it at night.
Oh and we put up some speaker rings.
Yeah, basically, other people's jobs.
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