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Commute? **** that noise. The year I lived in Wappingers Falls, spending 1.5 hours each way on the train to / from Manhattan every day, was enough to convince me that nearly any amount of money is worth not dealing with that BS.
The new place is exactly 1.8 miles from work as the crow drives a 17 year old Japanese car down narrow one-way streets.
This is the new Casa de Perez:
Built in 1912, some parts of it are honestly a tad sketchy (the plumbing was installed before women could vote, which I realize that Braineack thinks was a good thing), but at a fundamental level, the bones seem solid.
It's a completely stereotypical "outer boroughs" city house. With mature oak trees and a little glass turtle next to the gas meter.
This is the garage:
Detached, and opens into an alley behind the house, as is the universal custom here.
Yes, I know that by suburban standards it's merely average. By city standards, it's ******* palatial. Like, you could actually park two cars inside of it, and then open the doors of both! Without any BS or hyperbole, that is almost unheard of here.
^^ Looks like some attic storage space there as well.
PS> If you want to increase the weight carrying capacity of that upper storage space, add a whole course (or two) of blocking between those ceiling joists (it's quite a span).
Don't really have any plans for that space, I don't need a lot of storage.
Mostly just want to put better lighting up, build a couple of workbenches, and wire the existing lights such that they are powered the by the door opener. (Or might replace them with LED. It's pretty cheap these days.)
Congratulations! Where does the smaller overhead door access?
The back yard, between the house and the garage.
I'd been wondering "How on earth am I going to run network cable in this place, given that the basement is finished with a hard ceiling?"
Then I found this:
I hadn't even thought of that, but the previously owner apparently had. I've only ever used MOCA for direct point-to-point applications, but apparently you can hub it as well.
Ordered internet service at the new place. I already own a modem, yet they still needed to send me a "self-install kit" via UPS.
I was curious as to what said kit would consist of.
Well, here it is. Comcast sent me one short piece of RG-6 cable and a little card with the same activation instructions which were on both the webpage where I signed up and also the confirmation email.
Make sure Comcast isn't going to charge you a monthly rental fee for that RG-6 cable. :-) About a year after television switched to digital Comcast mailed me a converter or cable controller box. I didn't watch basic cable TV, only got it because the discount package was cheaper. So I called to ask WTH was in the box and they insisted that I needed it to watch their cable TV. Hmm, my brother hasn't had any issues tuning in all the stations with his 47" LED TV. They refused to give me a shipping label or come pick it up as they drove through the neighborhood. It was totally uneccesary equipment that I never requested and they threatened to charge me if it wasn't returned ASAP. We totally cut the cable so to speak and switched to OTA digital TV with a roof antenna. My internet plan cost went up a bit but **** Comcast. I wasn't about to pay to ship it back, or drive it to one of their brick and mortar stores. I called UPS and refused delivery(unopened) and took screenshots of the tracking info to see when and who signed to receive the shipment. Concast sometimes claims people never returned stuff and sends them to collections.
...and a picture of my newly installed, used but refreshed (stitch color was dyed), matching stitch pattern leather shift/brake boots on my 27k mile MSM. See the MS3Pro sitting in the passenger footwell? Earlier this week I started learning to tune and it already feels better than the Nemesis 2.6. Now it's only a matter of tuning the idle (IAC initial values and idle VE) for better stability before I get into polishing the rest of the fuel map.
2004 Mazdaspeed matching brake/shifter boots
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