Post Race!

[RobDog888]

I thought that you had a newer mustang?

I do but when the guy installed my headers I think he disconnected the ac line that runs right up next to one of the header bolts on the passenger side in order to gain unrestricted access. Then when he put it back on of course all the freon had discharged. Im hoping that a pressure test will show this by having no leaks and holding hte proper psi. If so then its just a matter of refilling the system with freon and ill be chillin again

[Sitten Spynne]

Hey it's been my apartment A/C that's been acting up. And basically everything else in the apartment. But on the first 100 degree day of the year it totally kicked the bucket.

Then maintenance overcharged it, so while it sort of limped along overnight, by noon I was driving home from work to 78 degrees inside.

Then I came home the next day to a strong chemical smell. I have no clue what freon smells like and the internet apparently doesn't either. Turns out they resurfaced some countertops in the buildings and didn't think that was worth notifying people.

[dday9]

I started a post in the forum feedback, but I haven't really been active on VBForums because the pages continue to time out on me or never load in the first place.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Then I came home the next day to a strong chemical smell. I have no clue what freon smells like and the internet apparently doesn't either. Turns out they resurfaced some countertops in the buildings and didn't think that was worth notifying people.

Well, yeah, of course. It's MUCH easier to notify you once you've all passed out.

[Sitten Spynne]

It was stupid. I went to about 10 different sites, and found 12 different answers. Everything from "odorless" to "like oil" to "etherial" to "like acetone". The smell I was smelling reminded me of acetone, so I was like, "Huh, is this dangerous?"

That was another 8 different answers from 5 different sites. "Perfectly harmless!" "Well, toxic if you fill an enclosed room with it." "If you huff it straight from the can you'll die!" "Very toxic." "Don't set it on fire!" etc.

[dday9]

Crap... my lights just flickered and the weather's getting bad again...

[Shaggy Hiker]

I've only smelled it one time that I know of, and my memory of it pretty much agrees with your finding: It doesn't smell LIKE anything. Acetone is a pretty strong smell. Even a small amount is detectable, whereas Freon has a very weak smell, so if somebody described it as being like acetone, it would only be like very scarce acetone, but I wouldn't describe it that way at all. I do kind of get the oily description, though not like motor oil.

Poke a hole in the cooling tubes in your freezer and you'll be able to smell for yourself. That's what I did, anyways. Of course, then you'll be in the market for a new freezer, cause you won't be fixing that.

[dday9]

Imma need a piroque to get to my parents house!

[Shaggy Hiker]

We're into the summer dry. It's nice right now, but could top 100 by Monday. Chance of thunderstorms later next week. There may even be a chance of rain reaching the ground this time, though it's not looking great, thus far.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Post race has gone to the tortoise.

[szlamany]

Busy season for me. Prepping tax files for print houses and helping with new fiscal year pay raises.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The first part of the second sentence made pretty nearly zero sense to me. On the other hand, my boss just sent me a list of questions regarding fish, so jargon exists in every field.

Sill, I can't tell whether you were making up stuff, or if I just don't know the field.

[RobDog888]

Im compiling my 1st qtr BOE numbers. Only have til the 30th!

[szlamany]

The first part of the second sentence made pretty nearly zero sense to me...Sill, I can't tell whether you were making up stuff, or if I just don't know the field.

I take a file from the county with assessment values and apply some additional math to it. Load it into my tax collection system. Also export a new file to a print guy who actually prints the tax bills and probably stuffs them and mails them (I'm not part of even caring about this part of the process).

During the next 6 months we take payments in all the usual ways as well as big import files from mortgage companies and lock boxes (when you go to your local bank to pay your tax bill - that's a lock box).

Been doing this since 1980's. Not huge income - very consistent though (about a half dozen sites) - same clients forever!

Pay raises are in my municipal payroll system where the new fiscal year starts July 1st. I've got lots of salary tables for all the different union codes and bargaining units - position records for all the employees with grades and steps. We create new position records for July 1st and then use that data to drive creation of new pay rates. Police union changed a very simple rule (very standard in most union agreements) for seniority. No longer will you get the senior rate for 25 years of service, now we will have "two tiers" - first senior rate at 15 years - second senior rate at 20 years. Plus they back dated this change to 2015 (since they just settled a contract that took 3 years to get to).

I am so lucky that I've got just a single GetSalary_Type function for determining how these things pay out...

It's been two weeks of 12 to 16 hour days - and then weekends of doing my regular coding work! I'm busy moving the municipal system to all web based (thus my post about the holy grail of multi-user web apps that got absolutely zero attention!).

Here's my Salary Type function! Note the @15_20_rule flag...

-- 1 SDI25
-- 2 Rate Type
-- 3 Annual Rate Type
-- 4 Rate Type / Force hourly return
-- 5 Top Step
-- 6 SD debug
-- 7 Step Amt
-- 8 Annual Amt
-- 9 Step Amt / Force hourly return
--
-- +100 to use current date - future-cast - instead of 7/1 backdate for 25 year logic
--
-- bit 256 to use Desc access to salary table
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.GetSalaryType_F (@Opt int, @Yr int, @UnionCode varchar(2)
				, @Grade varchar(4), @Step varchar(3)
				, @Hours money, @HoldStep varchar(1), @CDL varchar(1), @UnitType varchar(1)
				, @PayGroup varchar(4), @StartDate datetime, @MasId int, @CurDate datetime)
RETURNS varchar(1000) AS  
BEGIN 
.
.
.
			Declare @15_20_rule int
			Set @15_20_rule=0
			If @Yr>=2015 and @UnionCode='03' Set @15_20_rule=1

			Declare @SDNow datetime
			Declare @SD15 datetime
			Declare @SD20 datetime
			Declare @SD25 datetime

			Declare @PD datetime
			Declare @SD15I int
			Declare @SD20I int
			Declare @SD25I int

			Set @SD15I=0
			Set @SD20I=0
			Set @SD25I=0

			Set @PD=(Select Top 1 PromotionDate From PersonStat_T Where MasId=@MasId Order by Seq Desc)

			If @15_20_rule=1
			Begin
				If @PD is not null
				Begin
					Set @SD15=DateAdd(yyyy,-15,@PD)
					Set @SD20=DateAdd(yyyy,-20,@PD)
					If @PD<'2015-07-01'
					Begin
						Set @SD20I=Case When @PD<=@SDNow Then 1 Else 0 End
					End
					Else
					Begin
						Set @SD15I=Case When @PD<=@SDNow Then 1 Else 0 End
						Set @SD20I=Case When DateAdd(yyyy,5,@PD)<=@SDNow Then 1 Else 0 End
					End
				End
				Else
				Begin
					Set @SD15=DateAdd(yyyy,-15,@SDNow)
					Set @SD15I=Case When @SD<=@SD15 Then 1 Else 0 End
					Set @SD20=DateAdd(yyyy,-20,@SDNow)
					Set @SD20I=Case When @SD<=@SD20 Then 1 Else 0 End
				End
				If @SD20I<>0 Set @SD15I=0
			End
			Else
			Begin
				If @PD is not null
				Begin
					Set @SD25=DateAdd(yyyy,-25,@PD)
					Set @SD25I=Case When @PD<=@SDNow Then 1 Else 0 End
				End
				Else
				Begin
					Set @SD25=DateAdd(yyyy,-25,@SDNow)
					Set @SD25I=Case When @SD<=@SD25 Then 1 Else 0 End
				End
			End

[dday9]

I've been filing claims from the Tropical Storm. We didn't get hit too bad, but we had a lot of flooding to the east of me, and a lot of my book of business is from the Mamou and Basil area (which is what got hit really bad).

[dday9]

Plus I got commissioned to write a huge web and software project.

[szlamany]

Plus I got commissioned to write a huge web and software project.

That's always nice - good luck!

[szlamany]

Im compiling my 1st qtr BOE numbers. Only have til the 30th!

Board of Ed?

[dday9]

Thank you! I'm nearly finished with the web development end, now I'm working on the database and then onto the software application.

[RobDog888]

Board of Ed?

Board Of Equalization aka where you file your state sales taxes

[Shaggy Hiker]

(I'm not part of even caring about this part of the process).

That made me laugh.

Don't you work with schools, mostly? Why don't you come out here. The school district in my town managed to miss-file roughly half their budget. It appears to have been an honest mistake, but it meant that they overran their budget by 100%.

[dday9]

That made me laugh.

Don't you work with schools, mostly? Why don't you come out here. The school district in my town managed to miss-file roughly half their budget. It appears to have been an honest mistake, but it meant that they overran their budget by 100%.

This happens to be the case in Louisiana a lot... though how many of them are honest mistakes is anyone's guess.

[szlamany]

Don't you work with schools, mostly?

In PA, for instance - schools collect their own taxes. They are so rural that being part of a single municipality isn't going to happen. I've been doing this type of software since mid 1980's - PDP/11 and VAX/11 computers for decades! This is all web app now

I used to do mainly Student Admin software for schools - that all got gobbled up by the text book publishers. Too hard to compete when student online testing AND report cards can all come from one vendor...

Along with that Student Admin software I also have Financial, Payroll and HR applications - and that then bleeds into running those financial parts at the town hall side if the school district and town hall are closely associated. You find that tight connection all over CT and MA - it's a New England thing for sure.

I'll do anything that a school district or town needs to do (for money that is - I guess that says something about me!)

I've got a new Health dept package that I'm in the midst of creating - going to use Android devices to inspect restaurants and what not. Phase I is just going live in the next few days...

[szlamany]

The school district in my town managed to miss-file roughly half their budget. It appears to have been an honest mistake, but it meant that they overran their budget by 100%.

You are describing the EXACT type of customer that I DO NOT want to work with!

[Shaggy Hiker]

The reaction kind of suggests that EVERYBODY felt that way. A mistake like that could create a bit of a firestorm, but everybody acted like they were trying to ignore it in the hopes that somebody else would clean up the mess. There wasn't any noticeable bloviating, over a multi-million dollar 'typo'. It was a "he who smelt it dealt it" kind of response.

[dday9]

Drunk David!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Meant to get up and hit the gym this morning...then the shooting gallery started up outside.

The AG stated that it was illegal to sell any kind of firework that left the ground in ID. Or something like that. I forget the actual wording, and it was clearly forgettable. Fireworks in a tinderbox are always a bit of a concern, and rocket type fireworks have long been illegal in this state. However, there was also a loophole that allowed them to be sold as long as the purchaser swore they wouldn't be USED in the state, which made a joke of the law. Closing that loophole was what the AG ruling was about.

For the last few nights, I barely heard any fireworks, so I thought the ruling had a chilling effect overall....and then there was last night. The neighbor on one side used mostly legal fireworks which created fountains of color and lots of crackle. Pretty nice display, really. The neighbor on the other side was firing off rockets until well after 11:00. I gave up on trying to sleep and went out into the street to watch the show.

[RobDog888]

Chicken attaaaaaaaack!!!

Replace the * with a "f"

https://www.facebook.com/9gagwt*/vid...c_ref=NEWSFEED

Is this where Bob went to?

[RobDog888]

Glad I finally have central AC. One of the benefits of marrying my wife. Her house is nice and cool in this 100 degree weather. Supposed to top out over the weekend at 110.

[szlamany]

That is one HOT wife!

[RobDog888]

that is one hot wife!

Yup!

[Shaggy Hiker]

We may set a heat record today, but it only has to hit 104 to do that. That seems kind of low. I remember walking home from the office several years back when the temp was around 115 with a humidity that was darn near into the negative numbers, if that were even possible. It was a pretty strange sensation.

[RobDog888]

[Shaggy Hiker]

Is he shocked because tumble weeds are invasive plants?

[dday9]

@homer - how do you feel about David Ross announcing the Tigers vs. Indians game?

[RobDog888]

Is he shocked because tumble weeds are invasive plants?

Looks like my backyard last week. Weeds 9 feet high! Freakin like trees

[dday9]

Weed in Cali... hmmm....

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah. Sounds like you're starting a second career.

[RobDog888]

Already have a second career, seems like I need a third career. Damn expensive cost of living in Cali

[Shaggy Hiker]

Fire spotter seems busy down there, these days.