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Hi All,

Got a question. My MIL lives in a 700 sqft apartment. She keeps heat maybe 65 during the winter. She is seeing 1,200 kWh of usage on her bill. She lives a pretty minimalist lifestyle. She doesn’t cook often because she’s a cook by profession so she brings home most food. Doesn’t even use a microwave usually. Two LED tvs, lights almost always off. She’s working 8 hours 6 days a week.

Does this seem right? I’m in a 3 br 2300 sqft house and we average between 7-800 kWh a month and we have WAY more stuff running than her place. My only hang up is we use gas for HVAC and water heater.

Am I just naive or does it seem like there would need to be something pretty large running long dura

Hi All,

Curious if anyone here is a member of any of the local shooting clubs and if so, what is the best place to apply to?

Thanks!

Evening!

I am having the hardest time with getting my speakers dialed in. I have a modest setup with 4 bookshelf speakers and a center channel speaker, no sub. Front two bookshelf’s, one center, two rear speakers. PS5 for media source and Epsom home cinema 2150 for projector. HDMI for connection for audio and video.

I can get the front two to play with the center getting audio, I can get the 4 bookshelf’s to play with no center audio. I can’t seem to get them all to play on their respective channels. I’ve tried the easy setups, I’ve viewed user manuals and it’s like another language to me.

Anyone have any experience with this receiver and how to get this set up?

Just posting to see if anyone else is experiencing the same thing. I tried to send about $300 worth of BTC to another wallet and the network fee was $89. Seems a bit absurd, anyone else seeing network fees being astronomical lately?

Evening Y’all.

Got a Sony DH790 a few years ago everything was fine. I’m only running a 2.0 side speakers and center channel since wife hates the sub when she’s trying to sleep.

Everything was totally fine and for whatever reason about 2 months ago the speakers starting acting up. First it was only center channel playing, no surround for music, etc. Now, everything is coming out of side speakers only, center won’t even let a peep out. It only plays audio through the “bi-amplified” setting. Nothing else. I feel like I’m going crazy because it worked completely fine. Sometimes when fooling with the settings I can get it on, but then I switch streaming services and it changes. Do different

Evening all!

I’m running into a weird situation that I’ve posted about before. I have a toilet that was leaking for years (bought the house in 2019 and inspector missed it). The subfloor on the left side is rotted out.

When I called plumbers to replace the toilet they tell me they don’t do subfloors and I need to call a carpenter to fix the subfloor. My question is how does that work? I pull the toilet and they come in a drop in a 2x2 piece of OSB and then the plumber combines behind and resets the flange and PVC piece? The carpenter won’t cut the old flange out and plumbers won’t deal with the subfloor. It’s like a catch 22.

How hard would it be to cut out the subfloor and reset the fl

Hi all,

Just curious if anyone can share some of their mid cook advice. Just got a smoker, but unsure about the “danger zone” in regards to temps for periods of time. Let’s say I put on a pork butt at 275/300 and smoke it for 10 hours. Well, is the internal temp of the pork supposed to hit 140ish within the 2 hour period? Is it ok if it’s at 120/30 for the first 4 hours? I don’t want to get people sick, also don’t want to cook this thing too much. Any advice is appreciated!

Morning All,

I’ve been in my house a few years, discovered the toilet in the master bathroom had a leak and had damaged the subfloor, and now the time has come to fix this issue. Question is who do I call to fix this? Plumber, handyman?

I could maybe fix it myself but I’m worried about the flange and plumbing aspect. I’ve put in new sinks around the house and done that plumbing but I’d be lying if I said I’m comfortable dealing with this project.

Any help on who to call for best bang for buck would be greatly appreciated.

I guess this is more of a question/advice thread.

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Does anyone else feel like they are getting rejected from jobs that are even potentially a step back? I have nearly a decade of sales experience in multiple different industries, presidents club 2 years in a row at a fortune 50 and I am getting denied for jobs that call for 3 years of experience the same day?

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Do most of you guys use a resume review/writing service? I was laid off right when the pandemic started (not as a result of the pandemic) and was provided career placement services where I had someone help write my resume, but still I am getting denied even before an intro call. I am tired of Family First

Hi all,

Had a question on tax implications when using bitcoin for gambling.

When I buy on an exchange and immediately send those coins to the gambling site, is that considered a buy and sell in regards to bitcoin and the IRS?

If so do I need to track and report all of these exchanges to the IRS come tax time?

Do I need to go back and track the exact price I purchased them at and sent to the casino and whatever fluctuation there was in price?

Sorry if this seems redundant to other posts, but I searched and didn’t find anything that pertains to this exact question.

Thanks!

Morning All,

Since there are a ton of seasoned professionals on here I figured I’d ask the question here.

I was laid off from my most recent role in Mid-March. It was from a fortune 50 company and I was a part of their more niche sales team. I’ve got 8 years of B2B sales experience ranging from energy to automotive finance products and finally in group benefits sales. I have been successful in my experience and made leaders (presidents) club every year so I have always considered myself successful or at the very least adequate.

Do you all have any advice on what I can do to switch industries without dropping to entry level? Is this possible? All of the postings I’ve seen want 3-5 years

Hi all,

My back doors trim has ripped off somehow and it turns out it’s completelt rotted behind it which explains why the screen door never wanted to close correctly.

Is there any chance an amateur can fix this? Am I looking at replacing the whole door and frame as well? It’s been exceptionally rainy here this year and I’m worried about water getting into the walls/floor where the door meets the floor.

https://m.imgur.com/a/yAKUo6o

Thanks!

Plenty of fresh meat, bread, pasta, chips. Yes, there is Dew too.

A few small bags of flour, plenty of sugar.

Sorry, didn’t check cleaning or paper products.

Figured if anyone was looking for ground beef, etc.