Had one in our old house. It was never used as a bathtub (maybe for a shower a few times) in the 7 years we lived there. Seems like it would get cold really fast (no insulation around it) and we had hot water issues in the place to begin with.
Plus, I didn’t trust that floor to hold the excess weight of all that water.
I think Bombardier made at least some of the DC Metro system trains. Maybe it’s a matter of scale of the train? I don’t know much about that market, but I tend to think of Bombardier as slightly “lighter” in terms of product compared to Siemens, which makes anything ridiculously big huge and complex. Different segments of a relatively small market.
Not that this doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have made sense to work with a local company to grow them into handling the market, but that’s politics.(Of course, from my brief research Bombardier is Canadian and the Train business is headquartered in Germany, so…)
The name is the founder’s last name, right?
Sprint has an ad on their site about “Taking control with Autopay”.
So you take control of your bill by giving control of your bill to a computer.
I don’t do any autopays that originate from the biller. Just don’t trust 'em.
I have one or two where the biller has the OK to pull the funds from my account, but I have to tell them to do it every month. Everything else gets scheduled & pushed out from my online bill pay.
Yeah, I did that once for one bill for about 6 months. I had been able to set a regular amount previously, but when they switched to e-billing it was suddenly unpossible. Now, I do as you do @dakboy. I run up a surplus for half of the year and use it during the other. I use more power in the summer for the A/C and more gas in the winter for the furnace. I know roughly how much per year each will cost, so I send them in a regular amount each month and have never been caught short.
Of course, you have to keep an eye on it and manage it carefully …
Don’t they offer a budget plan where you pay the same amount every month? My utilities are set up so my payment is identical every month, I’m in the red in the winter but make up for it in the summer. At the end of the annual cycle, if I’m ahead they cut my bill for the final month and if I’m behind, they charge me extra that month. Then they adjust the budget for the next year.
On the latest year, I got 2/3 of the final month “free” (was way ahead of the curve), and my monthly bill is now about $20 less than last year.
I’ve run into this before. If you do e-billing, some companies insist that they can’t do the equal payments budget plan. Sierra Pacific, of which I was a customer, did this. It’s bullshit, but there isn’t any way to fight it.
Like I said, I started out with a regular plan with a fixed amount. Then, they changed the terms so that they could take out whatever they wanted.
Fuck that noise.
Now, I just have an auto-transfer of what I think I want to pay them. It amounts to the same thing, just push instead of pull.
Yes, it does work.
OK, I admit it. I watched Fuller House on Netflix. Child of the 80s, every week was TGIF on ABC, I felt like it was an obligation to my generation.
Only watched the first episode so far. I’m hoping that they got everything out of their systems with all the old catchphrases & references back to the original, because I can’t take an entire season’s worth of it.
Jodie Sweetin got some terrific post-meth dental work, I have to say.
My wife’s kindle bit the dust last Friday. The screen just stopped responding. So I call and go through the support kabuki and get a $10 refund on a new one (Her’s was three years old or so, out of warranty). Then it turns out there is a sale on the new 8" kindle, I buy her that for $69.99 and it shows up with her new case on Wednesday.
Saturday we’re at a bee keeping class and she throws her travel up in a bag with my kindle, my daughter’s kindle, and both our phones. A travel mug that just happens to have no o ring in the lid. So my stuff is fine, her phone is fine, my daughter’s kindle is a little goofy, and her kindle is a total write off.
It wasn’t even 72 hours old.
I put it in rice when we got home, and I can get it to turn on now, but only when it’s plugged in. And there is water in the screen. We bought her a new one Saturday and it showed up Sunday but the sale was over, full price for this one.
Ouch, not a good start to the year for the electronics in your house!
Here’s hoping you mounted the TV to the wall with extra extra long screws 
I just got a summons to jury duty. This is like my worst nightmare: I’ve become an adult!
And Amazon will refund my money on the Kindle. I’m still out some cash, since I replaced it at a non sale price on my own, but I would have bought one at that price in the first place.
My wife just got a huge bonus from work, I’m not concerned about it, I just didn’t want to pay $70 for a brick.
It’s really sad when I get a “new recommendations” email from Amazon, and they’re all things I’ve already bought for my dog.
How the hell do clothing manufacturers get away with this crap? $35 for a cutout muscle shirt, when I can make my own from a $4 t-shirt? This crap is getting insane.
RSA has grown since the last time I was there. I spent a lot more time there than I intended to because there was just so much to see at the expo.
I wonder, if I tick the GiftAid box on the bottom of my Argos slip, will I be the first person ever to have ticked the GiftAid box?
(Argos is a warehouse outlet, GiftAid is where you give a portion of the tax from your purchase to charity).
“It’s not like I normally bring you kale and radishes.”
I’m teaching Exchange Server next mod. I’d better get studying. 0_0