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  1. Nija

    Home Improvement

    I'm getting a fence installed, as I got a new dog. I want an area where I can add a doggy door to the back and he can roam without concern. He does great so far, staying on our land, but I wouldn't leave him outside unattended for some time yet. Just throwing out some costs for people to make...
  2. Nija

    Home Improvement

    I use dynatraps extensively around my property. Including the enormous XL, which probably has about a pound of moths/mosquitos/wasps in it right now.
  3. Nija

    The Sandman

    They are trying to condition us to make this shit normal. It's not normal. Return to older, better media. Or better yet spend less time on entertainment in your off hours.
  4. Nija

    The Sandman

    Even my wife has peaced out on this series. Way too gay, way too much box checking.
  5. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I'm still getting about 10-15 messages a week. Here's one that I'm actually going to talk with. I know it's her hook, but it's a shiny fucking hook. Winner, biggest range:
  6. Nija

    Job Hunting

    Awesome. If you have the right relationships in place at each company, I would be as transparent as possible. Good people appreciate that. I did a similar thing, started full time one place, part time at another, and swapped time commitments after about 3 years. It worked out. My advice is to...
  7. Nija

    Job Hunting

    Good point. My question is this. If I simply put in my resignation, and didn't say shit about an offer... is it really a counter offer? I attempted to NOT play this game. Now I'm conflicted though. I'm going up against two of core traits that I pride myself on... risk avoidance and being true...
  8. Nija

    Job Hunting

    Hmmm this got interesting. I submitted a simple resignation letter Friday, 'please accept my resignation as Title at Company. My last day will be July 1st'. Met with an exec yesterday who wanted to know what they could do to keep me. I didn't try to do the counter offer dance intentionally, I...
  9. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I verbally accepted an offer today with a pretty well known company. This will get me good experience dealing with a lot of traffic and a lot of servers, one thing that I have been missing. It's almost exactly a 33% pay increase from my previous job. I'm at the top end of the pay scale for the...
  10. Nija

    Home buying thread

    I forgot to update the situation on my parents place. The realtor they used was ancient, out of it. The all cash deal they had wasn't "as is" and after getting 5" of rain over a week, he had an inspector out there that found "excess moisture" in the crawlspace. They wanted a $6k sump pump system...
  11. Nija

    Harrison, Arkansas

    I haven't watched this particular video yet, but I went to high school about 30 minutes away from Harrison. It's the outskirt cities that had (have?) the racists. The grand dragon's place had a circle drive, and the dare was to do a loop blasting rap music. I don't know of anyone who took that...
  12. Nija

    Home Improvement

    The battery requirement is what killed solar for me in AR. I was looking at a giant installation (on my shop building, which is perfect for solar) - 64 panels. $70-90k depending on the vendor. Spending that kind of coin on a solar installation that stops working when the grid goes down? That's...
  13. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Classes?
  14. Nija

    Home Improvement

    Around the house, yeah, but it’s mostly in or near the flower bed. The rest is effectively pasture that I mow. House is right in the middle of the 5 acres, so it would be hard to hay and make worthwhile.
  15. Nija

    Home Improvement

    I finally got a break in kids sports to mow. Lanx will hate this image, but this is what my mower at 6”, with a little closer to the house at 4” looks like. It was way overgrown, knee height in most areas. First time it’s all been a uniform height this spring - usually only have an hour to mow...
  16. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Buy an enclosed trailer and sell it at your destination.
  17. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I don't expect them to keep tabs on everyone... but now that you mention it, what else does HR have to do with nobody in the office fucking each other for the last 2 years? I have told a few close work friends that I'm looking, but we talk shit 24/7 and this isn't anything different.
  18. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I turned off my "looking for work" flag last week. I'm going to put forward a medium to high amount of effort to continue pressing the 5 in-flight interviews that I have at the moment. I have had about 40 phone calls, but I've been real picky about who I proceed with. In total 165 recruiters...
  19. Nija

    Job Hunting

    Next update in my potential job change journey... Talked to this recruiter on Zoom. He works directly for the company. About the same age as me, a lot of similar shit in the background of his office. We get along real well. By the end he's talking about the number of shares that hires are...
  20. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Great ideas. I'll pass them along.
  21. Nija

    Home buying thread

    They aren't prepared to move out - I don't think they realized what the market is like right now.
  22. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Yes, as is.
  23. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Accepted the cash offer, which was at $259k, as is, one month closing.
  24. Nija

    Home buying thread

    Yep, very perceptive. They received an all cash offer. I don't know the amounts yet, but they are up to 7 offers total. My advice to them was to consider the cash one first, provided it's not some foreign entity or a company, then buyers who already have funding secured and a known rate locked...
  25. Nija

    Home buying thread

    My parents listed their place yesterday afternoon in southern Missouri. 2k sq ft, 16k sq ft lot, built in the 60s. 4/3. Starting at $240k, they had 4 tours in the 4 hours that it was listed, two offers so far, leading offer is up to 255. 4 more tours were scheduled for today, as of last night...
  26. Nija

    Home buying thread

    They are building every kind of home like crazy here in NW Arkansas. You can barely see the AR average in the top graph from city-data. Also, lol Zillow, I know, but recall I fled CA 2 years ago next month… +350k supposedly since I landed.
  27. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I can start to trickle in updates as I go I guess. I had a call yesterday with a company. Guy on chat gave me the comp ranges for senior and staff positions, 265-475 is the bottom of senior, 475 is the top of staff. That's in my range, great. So I get on the call yesterday with his recruiter...
  28. Nija

    Investing General Discussion

    PUTTIN' MILES ON THIS OLD TRUCK!
  29. Nija

    Home buying thread

    I would look at the cost of losing your apartment and having to find a new one. Paying double, mortgage plus rent, is an easy hedge against the cost of having to scramble to find a place. Most mortgages you start paying the second month, so like if you closed June 4th, you would start paying in...
  30. Nija

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    That's because a lot of people who should know about certificates, actually aren't completely comfortable working with them. It's surprising, because it's normally a perfectly fine engineer/coworker otherwise, but just can't grasp the concepts. Then the other thing is decisiveness. Being able...
  31. Nija

    Job Hunting

    $500. He had a black Friday sale which a friend of mine used, so he paid $250. This person went from a coding bootcamp to Jr dev, dev, to technical project manager in the past 3 years. The TPM role is at over $200k in total compensation (unsure exactly), with this last role being something close...
  32. Nija

    Job Hunting

    I’m using RP Stivers Consulting | and enjoying it so far. I paid a little more to have the main guy do it.
  33. Nija

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    So I went to drop my sign there and help people, not thinking about it. People invading and we’re all holding the giant serpent spears, not our usual weapons. Pretty good idea from the invader side!
  34. Nija

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Yellow circle here. Look for the stairs down into a cellar I guess you could call it. It’s filled with nightmare monsters. Run through and use invincibility frames opening the door and the chest to save you.
  35. Nija

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I think the lore in this game encourages everyone to have some kind of faith. There's seemingly what, 3 types of churches? Good / Bad / Beast ? Does Dragon worship count as another church?
  36. Nija

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Think I'm going to respec and lean into the dex/int life tonight. I took dex way up into the 30s and then proceeded to not get a single worthwhile dex based drop. I'm rocking the Meteor katana, which is physical/magic plus bleed, str/dex/int scaling, have it up to +5 currently. Just got...
  37. Nija

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Very few things live up to hype. I went in being almost entirely media blind, with the exception to watching FExtralife's review on Wednesday night confirming the buy order once preload was available. Incredible. Just incredible.
  38. Nija

    Lost Ark Online

    I keep disconnecting while in the queue to connect. I've gone from 9,000 to 4,000, disconnect... 9,000 to 2,000, disconnect... This may not be the worst, but it's up there.
  39. Nija

    Job Hunting

    Sounds like you could move into a software QA department, any of them, and immediately (and I mean right away) get a 30% pay bump. If not 50%. While being remote. Tech sales is a way, way better option than that. Follow up with @TJT for real.
  40. Nija

    Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

    This looks just as annoying. The joke is played out, move on.