Random Rants

[popvulture]

Btw don’t get me started on the thermostat. My relationship is pretty much perfect aside from that one thing, but my partner says it’s “freezing” when it’s 75 outside. She’ll put on a coat. Meanwhile I hardly wear my UHFs because I roast in anything much more than a t-shirt

[Tago Mago]

@popvulture I think your wife and mine are related

[popvulture]

@Tago-Mago born in a volcano!

[mclaincausey]

@popvulture My wife and I can compromise on ambient temperature, but my frustration is she seems to think that the thermostat in cars is different than the thermostat in homes. I'm on team "set it and forget it" for thermostats in homes and cars, and she is just for homes. So after she's driven I may find the thermostat set to 62 or 98 with the fan turned up all the way.

It is truly a mild annoyance and beyond trivial, but it just baffles me.

[Jett129]

@mclaincausey I think it stems from basic likes and dislikes about the test product. I totally think/believe/agree that we are pre disposed to liking certain smells and associating them with positive attributes that we want a product to have. I can’t have any fragrance/scent in my laundry detergent and run an extra rinse in the dishwasher to minimize the dishwasher pod scent. It never occurred to me the issues that you have,and I don’t remember that kind of stuff happening when my son was that age.

[mclaincausey]

@Jett129 yep. The case studies in that book are compelling. Scent is a very powerful thing and there really aren’t too many other levers on a product like dishwasher detergent to form an identity on, and no others that I can think of that can potentially form a habit trigger. But for practical purposes in our house, it has the opposite effect, and perhaps the brand I use is exploiting that non-attribute for folks like us.

While I’m in software, we do similar testing of user preferences so I find it all fascinating. I didn’t know you and your wife were in that domain—very cool.

Tonight I’m looking to experience some scents I brought back in bottles from MX

[steelworker]

@mclaincausey said in Random Rants:

@popvulture My wife and I can compromise on ambient temperature, but my frustration is she seems to think that the thermostat in cars is different than the thermostat in homes. I'm on team "set it and forget it" for thermostats in homes and cars, and she is just for homes. So after she's driven I may find the thermostat set to 62 or 98 with the fan turned up all the way.

It is truly a mild annoyance and beyond trivial, but it just baffles me.

@mclaincausey don't get me started.

[mclaincausey]

@steelworker right?? Like wtf haha

[Brian]

Finish food
Everything then goes in the dishwasher, rinsing the crockery etc and then putting it in seems like double dipping

[Matt]

The thought of working tomorrow is very
unappealing to me.

[Mizmazzle]

It’s usually about this time of the day on Sundays when I start taking tally of how many sick days I have to burn…

[goosehd]

...just finished a 10 minute debrief of why the girls were at each other's throats this morning.

[EdH]

@goosehd With a second daughter arriving imminently, I'm tempted to ask.

But I suppose my first question should be "do I want to know?"... your reticence on the detail suggests not...

[goosehd]

@EdH Mom gets mad because the room is never clean and the clothes are never put away...oldest daughter gets mad because she can't find any of her stuff because mom and youngest put everything away...oldest yells at youngest not to touch her stuff but is really yelling at mom...youngest doesn't care...I sit in the corner drinking coffee.

[Karol]

@goosehd

[goosehd]

@Karol exactly

[goosehd]

@EdH ...so to answer your question "do I want to know?"...that was my mistake for asking once the kids had left, were at school, and I wanted to know what was going on this morning.

Some questions should not be asked!

[Giles]

I can 100% imagine Izzy giving the I-don't-care look....

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd said in Random Rants:

I sit in the corner drinking coffee

[northsouthdenimguy]

Started a new project over the last couple weeks. My concrete sub was pouring footings yesterday, and I told the lead guy to make sure the concrete trucks washed out in an area the infrastructure contractor had already trashed with alleyway pours, not a designated washout, but obviously already a big uneven slab of over pour.

What I didn’t do was mention it to the pump truck operator. So he took it upon himself to spray the leftover yardage in his pump over a giant dirt pile that was clearly being protected with a layer of wheat straw. Didn’t hit the whole thing, but iced it like he was frosting the side of a giant cake.

I probably would’ve told him wear to wash out., but he was asleep in the cab when I walked by…

Welcome to homebuilding/GC 101: a masterclass in how unbelievably dumb people can be sometimes.

Edit: not that anybody cares but the pump operator works for the same concrete/foundation company. They own the pump so in my mind, they all work together and should tell each other what the heck to do.