Finally started paying someone to do the tough work

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Screw it. Living as a pauper all your life eventually pays off -- when you get to the point of not minding to pay other people to do shit jobs.

The point of the story.

Except for the fact that I haven't truly lived the life of a pauper.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

Appreciate this perspective, but at the same time, one needs to protect their own castle.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by LATB

I would not like to live where security cameras are felt necessary. No disrespect to Datawiz.

Matter of fact, I hate this whole camera thing. Too many are pointed at neighbors and in neighbors backyards/property. And although it is legal, I disagree with the law.

Wow, yes. Security where I live is a non-issue -- despite me having guns all over the house. My neighbor told me he has over 100 guns although he's not quite sure of the exact number, lol.

In 2020 I was a bit concerned, although living 40 miles from the riots in Rochester, but I am the eternal pessimist. But I knew "the gang" would never make it past my neighbor's.

I'm where the red dot is in the 2nd pik:

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[simpleman68]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

New 700 HP engine will be in the 2008 in 2023.

Sweetness

I'll be down pretty soon and we're also shooting to do a family reunion at the house for Easter.
Scott

[snide]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

I will definitely max out the 16 that this unit can support, but I have to admit that I'm running out of unique places to place them. Having said that, the very high mounted cameras suffer from the ability to capture detail. The lower mounted ones fill in. Again, my total investment in all 16 cameras, supplies, and now contractor time, is less than $5k. It's a one time investment, and I felt it was worth the investment.

Christ, sitting here in my office with my 18 monitors, I can't see out my front window, but that's where the monitor sits where I'd look out the window, now it has all of the cameras, so I can see everything.

Point a camera out your front window, and have that display on that one monitor. Duh.

[snide]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

Appreciate this perspective, but at the same time, one needs to protect their own castle.

This spring, I'll be installing a moat around mine.

[UniqueDoug]

deja vu

[Big bob]

What did you do for lightning protection?

[Frankie the Fink]

All of my houses except the townhouse in Wash DC didn't require "extra" surveillance and security. My Florida house on a lake in the middle or orange groves we built 25 years ago didn't either. The developers greased enough palms to get zoning changes, the northern refugees from cold/crime/taxes moved in "en masse" and now the spike in crime has changed things for the worse - sorta sad.

And yeah, I remember my house in Maryland where I was 3 stories up with a circular saw sliding around on asphalt shingles at a steep pitch cutting holes int he roof for skylighs - I was younger but even so, what the hell was I thinking ?

[6spdC6]

I invested in a alarm and camera system on my house a few years ago.

As far as doing most work now I hire it out. I still do my own lawn mowing and raking (AKA leaf blowing) as my lot is loaded with serious leaf producing trees. (for you people that hate leaf blowers I live rural and the noise bothers no one)

Have a 4X4 pick up with plow and NH tractor with bucket so I still do my own plowing, some limited shoveling for snow control.

As a now long time retired construction worker I spent a lot of time climbing, on roofs and on ladders and scaffolding but now due to vertigo I no longer do..

Have some medical problems and surgeries done that precludes me from doing a lot of things I did all my life. Tire changing, oil changes and most other vechicle work for one. Its much easier to hire a good local and get other serious house maintenance done. Going to get the whole outside of the house painted in the better weather.

As a former very strong and competent do most anything mechanical type of person it sort of hurts, but time waits for no one. I'm lucky in the fact I have a good pension and SS and can afford to get the work done.

[87 Ragtop]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

Been putting security cameras in for the past 8-9 months. I did the first 8, but I have a new electrician who has added the next two, and also altered the location of 4 others so the wires are hidden. I have 6 more cameras to install to max out the DVR.

I finally realized that I, (at my size and age), don't need to be the one climbing in the attic, and paying someone else to do it is a good use of my resources. I personally struggle with that decision, as I like to do as much of the work myself as I can.

So is your plan to install 1 camera per monitor on your computer setup? LOL.

I'm thinking back many years where you posted what I think was a 16 monitor wall?? You've probably just reached the VR status at this moment and don't even need them.

[snide]

Originally Posted by 87 Ragtop

So is your plan to install 1 camera per monitor on your computer setup? LOL.

I'm thinking back many years where you posted what I think was a 16 monitor wall?? You've probably just reached the VR status at this moment and don't even need them.

18.

[Datawiz]

Originally Posted by 87 Ragtop

So is your plan to install 1 camera per monitor on your computer setup? LOL.

I'm thinking back many years where you posted what I think was a 16 monitor wall?? You've probably just reached the VR status at this moment and don't even need them.

18 monitors, 16 cameras, but no, only one monitor shows the cameras. I will take Snide's advice and plug in my 2nd web cam and point it out the window so I can see better what's going on just outside of my office window.

Had to take the screenshot a 2nd time because one of the windows had my Merrill Lynch accounts up. STS would have shit himself and never called me the "Loan Baller" again.

Edit: Shit, Windows couldn't even take the full screen shot correctly. Monitors are not in the correct order as they are physically.

Edit2: fixed image

[Egnalf]

I dont blame you. I had my assistant decorate the house for Christmas this year. it was worth it.

[Datawiz]

13 down, 3 to go.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Datawiz

13 down, 3 to go.

Fascinating.

[MadInNc]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

Fascinating.

STFU

Ironic that coming from you, Mr. “I took a shit today”

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Yep. I quit doing most mechanic work some years ago, although I still change the oil on my Vette (I'm 72). Brakes, regular maintenance and all that crap, nah, done with that.

Getting up on the roof is a bit scary at my age, although I still clean my chimney, usually in early December when I switch from wood to coal.

About 5 years ago the ladder blew down while I was up there -- long story, no harm done as it turned out, but a bit scary for an hour or so. But it could have been much worse, maybe fatal. Now I take my phone with me.

I plumbed my entire house when I bought it in 1981, including running a well line to it with the pump, pressure tank, etc.

But I hired a plumber last fall for the first time in my life. I wanted to change the bathroom sink fixture, and I'd bought a new one in January 2020 but it just sat here. Crawling around on my back on the bathroom floor, then getting up countless times to get another tool didn't appeal to me, so I kept putting it off. So I had the plumbers do that, change my shower fixture, and replace the beads in my water softener.

Screw it. Living as a pauper all your life eventually pays off -- when you get to the point of not minding to pay other people to do shit jobs.

My story is the same. A lifetime of living under my means and fixing ALL my stuff to save money, but also, so it was repaired or installed correctly. Just in the past couple years I've paid for services I used to do myself, and it feels weird. I guess I'll have to get used to it. Agree with getting up on roofs, etc. My balance is not what it used to be and I personally know two guys who fell off of ladders. One died, the other had a long rehab. Both early 60's at the time. The one who died fell less than 6 feet.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

STFU

Ironic that coming from you, Mr. “I took a shit today”

You got a hair across your ass today?

[Big bob]

Originally Posted by Yadkin

You got a hair across your ass today?

What the hell does that even mean?