I'm glad you had a good Tahoe experience.  I spent all time there every summer of you youth and love it in summer better than winter.

I'm glad you had a good Tahoe experience.  I spent all time there every summer of you youth and love it in summer better than winter.

 

Blasphemy!  

 

Tahoe in the winter is as fun and as beautiful as anywhere else in California!

 

I hope for more reasons than one that we in California have a VERY wet fall/winter this year. The skiing resorts have been badly hurt by the drought just like everybody else.

Met with another contractor about finishing our basement. This process is just getting depressing.

Met with another contractor about finishing our basement. This process is just getting depressing.

 

... and you think you've got problems (* warning may cause basement envy *)

 

Were you able to reach my guy, Haj?  If so, what was result?

 

I can also ask around, my wife belongs to a Facebook Mom's Group that does this type of stuff all the time.

Unfortunately, the guy you recommended has a ton of work lined up right now.

Good luck Haj. I know how you feel. It took a few rounds but we finally found a contractor we like who is honest, does good work, repairs what we ask him to and does pretty much everything. He's not the quickest communicator but the plusses far outweigh the minuses. Our garage, driveway expansion and landscaping are moving along nicely.

Went to 4 different Post Offices, technically one used to be a post office but is now a construction site but USPS was too incompetent to update their system, trying to track down an Amazon package.  Never found it so they will try to deliver it again to my place of business at 8PM.  When did Amazon start using these assholes for Prime deliveries?

I think it happened a couple months ago, I think USPS was desperate for business and gave them a great deal. The one plus is you can get certain things delivered on Sunday now.

I am not impressed.

 

Colin, kick your Amazon overlords in the nuts for me next time you see them.

I get stuff I order Friday night on Sunday morning. It's brilliant.

**BRENT**

You are wrong.

 

Colin, kick Brent in the nuts next time you see him.

I get stuff I order Friday night on Sunday morning. It's brilliant.

**BRENT**

 

He is right. So do I.

I haven't gotten 2 day prime service in over a year.

I'm not impressed with USPS/Amazon thing either.  IIRC, they've only delivered on Sat/Sun once and rest of the orders didn't get in until Monday or Tuesday (whey they said the orders would be in on weekend).

 

Good luck Haj. I know how you feel. It took a few rounds but we finally found a contractor we like who is honest, does good work, repairs what we ask him to and does pretty much everything. He's not the quickest communicator but the plusses far outweigh the minuses. Our garage, driveway expansion and landscaping are moving along nicely.

Yeah, trying to find couple of more to call now.  We had one place that we liked/trusted, but their estimate was much higher than we'd anticipated (we knew it was going to be high, but the estimate went well beyond it).

Edited May 12, 201511 yr by Salt Peanuts

The postal service fucks delivered me a giant box of Nutella with a few other items in the goo.

SOB......Amazon will stand behind it, but kind of a PITA!  Maybe Amazon will learn from going with USPS and all the complaints and shipping damage losses they're likely to have now....

USPS isn't any worse  than anyone else when it comes to shipping damage.  Amazon gambles with their shipping costs by using the least packing material possible, and assumes that it will generally work out. 

's'truth. ^

 

That looks nasty, Jeff.

USPS isn't any worse  than anyone else when it comes to shipping damage.  Amazon gambles with their shipping costs by using the least packing material possible, and assumes that it will generally work out. 

 

+1

 

That looks tasty, Jeff.

 

FTFY

Nutella is awesome.  I'm going to eat some now.

Shit, piss and corruption, Jeff.

Shit, piss and corruption, Jeff.

 

Nate said it all.

After cleaning 5 pounds of Nutella off of everything, everything but the obvious was salvaged, and Amazon is sending the entire package out again for delivery tomorrow so our Smoothie bar ends up with almost double of everything.