I was hoping to do the rest of my fence this year, but holy cow has lumber gotten expensive! That, and you can hardly ever find PT panels/fencing in enough quantities.
Yep. We had our floors refinished as part of our remodel and had matching hardwood added to one room where it was missing. Nickel City told me I actually paid less than cost for the flooring they added in because prices went up so fast after I got my quote and got my deposit down. He said heās never seen it get this bad. I need a ton of baseboard trim and Iām dreading what itās going to cost me.
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Time to invade Canada and strip them of their natural resources!
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Iām in. Thereās enough guns and ammo in NY alone to get it done in a weekend, assuming we all āfindā our stuff that was lost in tragic canoe accidents around the safe act implementation.
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@Bing, can you open the border? I heard if you ask Trudeau nice enough he just says okay eventually.
I almost lolād at the 1st world problem here.
To help with your replyā¦ I bought a used car that gets better MPG than my shitty Envoy, but MB says it needs a minimum of 91 octane. WTF. Its a loss.
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i wish it were open.
i can cross, but definitely not unless i need to.
Thoughts on this COVID Passport bullshit?
Iām feeling a bit revolution-y today.
I think itās bullshit and wouldnāt have really cared to get my vaccine as quick as I did but with my work and the government being the way they are, I already got my first shot so itās whatever to me now. Sounds like my work doesnāt want us traveling outside of state unless we got a shot. Sounds like the US doesnāt want us doing shit unless we got a shot. Iām just not bothering fighting this as Iāve learned it seems whatever they want they get and the people get pushed aside unless itās a race or gender situation now.
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Jr summed it up perfectly for meā¦
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Yeah obviously itās been pushed pretty damn hard to get vaccinated at work being education and all, plus Iāve had 5 teacher friends get covid in the past month now so Iām glad I just got it over with. Iām not thrilled about mRNA and nanolipid particles floating in my body, but whateverā¦maybe itāll be like Compound V and iāll get super powers down the road. Or cancer.
Even being fully vaccinated, I refuse to carry my vaccination card and I will not be installing some bullshit app on my phone to allow me to do something that we all did freely before COVID. I am responsible for my own health. I donāt need a nanny state making sure Iām following their ridiculous rules they arbitrarily created without any semblance of rational thought.
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So Iām curious, aside from traveling to other states/outside the country, what is requiring this passport?
I believe weddings are one thing as I still have our reception to deal with in Oct that was pushed back a year. Thatās either the passport or proof of negative.
Yep, I got vaxād as well. Will be 2 weeks into my first shot (Pfizer) Friday. Iām with you, Iām not 100% comfortable with mRNA but Iām also a bit overweight with blood pressure a little on the high side so Iām not real comfortable with my COVID chances either. The variants tearing through Europe and now starting to become the dominant strains here was what pushed me to go find an appointment. Iām going to have the card so Iāll be carrying it, but I think itās bullshit. I think a lot of things are bullshit though but unfortunately Iām a right winger living in one of the most leftist states so Iāve become accustomed to following laws I donāt agree with.
Iāve heard a lot of rumors that when the US/Canadian border opens back up a vax record is definitely going to be required.
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I could quote this and it would be 100% my exact thoughts.
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This would make me get it 
In the past few weeks weāve had 5 people at work get covid. One of them likely spread it to 2 others through in-office spread. One of those infected employees then went home and gave it to his wife, daughter, daughterās boyfriend, daughter in law and grandson.
My guess is its the B.1.1.7 variant based on how easily it spread (and that it spread to a kid) and the fact that weāre all good about masking and distancing, plus one of the employees infected got 2 negatives tests while showing serious symptoms before his 3rd came back positive (B.1.1.7 is known to cause false negatives in some of versions of the PCR tests because theyāre testing on something from the original strain that is different in B.1.1.7).
So yeah, back to āshould I get it or notāā¦ Iād really recommend it. The more I read about B.1.1.7 the more Iām glad I got the shot. Itās highly likely the increases are all being driven by the variant and if itās not already it will soon be the dominant strain in the US.
This pretty dense, but a lot of good info:
I went allllllllllll pandemic with zero people I know getting it. Last week - 5 close friends got it.
My wife is getting dose one today and Iām glad, I want us to be over this.
My wife got her second dose last week. I got my first dose the week before. Probably should have done it sooner but the effort it took to get an appointment in the early stages just didnāt seem worth the hassle to me. But now that Iāve had to quarantine for the second time in as many months, that is reason alone for me to go forward with it.