Realtor: “What are you looking for in terms of a house location?” Me:

normie macdonald Whenever you assign an external locus of control in your life and start looking at yourself as a victim of your circumstances, thus diminishing your own agency, you are but guaranteed to fail.

Regarding engineered floor systems: you will save yourself a lot of time and headache with the 16” rule. Minimum height of floor system members is 16”, on 16” centers. Is it overkill? Yes. Do you ever have problems from it? No

Reading ‘Lord Lochinvar’ to my sons, and he: Crashes his ex gf wedding, alone Shes still smitten Tells her dad he could have had more beautiful girls Dances with her despite her pissed off clan Steals her away Gets away, his horse is badass “Faithful in love, dauntless in war”

Checks out. Every banker I’ve met has been a normie that gives me the side eye when I sign their PGs

This is a bs, tired take I live in a top 10 lowest cost of living states A reasonable starter home for a family is closer to the $400k range, which once combined with interest rates is unaffordable for the people who actually live in these areas, making the areas avg salary…

Someone is gonna make a Serial style true crime podcast about Epstein. Reading his emails with some stupid inflection and interjecting personal opinions

Prob 75% of modern protesters attend so they’ll have something to post on Instagram

My grandparents had a house on Holden beach when Hazel hit in ‘54. Grandfather and great uncle swam the intracoastal to check on it. House & land both gone. They found the house sign and a bottle of liquor. Drank the liquor & swam back. Rented ever since. RIP the “SS South Wind”

There’s an interesting overlap in Da Vinci’s assertion that “art is never finished, only abandoned” and an asymptote; always approaching 0 but never quite there. Perfection is never achieved, only approached as closely as possible. I think about this often when finishing houses

In the book of Daniel, he and his boys refuse to eat the kings food, instead eating vegetables & fruit. They looked healthier than all the other men 10 days later. Royal food was prob good, so this is less about how good fruit & vegetables were, and instead a miracle from God

People who work for a living are being overwhelmed by people who vote for a living.

Inheritance tax is evil.

Subcontractor: hey will you text me the address to that job? I’ve forgotten it. Me: goes to text them. It’s the last message I sent them

She was a sister in Christ. Make no peace with these people.

Rural inspector story: I’m building a house for an older man; a former plumber. House is in a 200 acre field with bad driveway due to weather. Inspector goes to check underslab plumbing, but his truck can’t make it down the driveway. My client tells him to just pass it & he does

Gonna hit the local Building & Zoning Dept with “nothing is illegal on stolen land” and see how that goes

Tying up rebar

We need to get rid of DEF next.

70% of my client base