Above 1200 Sq/FT The Salvage Garage

[Strouty]

We found that out with our washer and dryer. Never again, knock on wood, they are still working.

 

[Richard Cranium]

all the bottom freezer refers are built by one company and they put who ever name on them. Amana is the only one who builds them.

 

[shortykorte]

My mom has the bottom freezer and likes it.
How about a set of those matching freezer & refrigerators that are like 4' wide each. lol


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[Strouty]

It is very apparent to me that I can't multitask very well. Not even sure I can single task at this point...

This week looks like it will be all consulting work and lots of paperwork. Maybe not doing anything in the shop during the week will give me motivation to do something during the weekend? Only time will tell.....................

 

[Orionrising]

Well, paying work is always good to. I was gone for the weekend so did nothing other then put miles on my truck.

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[OccupantRJ]

Strouty, I have a suggestion for you. Try this. Take pictures of most everything. When you are not at the shop, look through the pics and select something you are sure can be accomplished in one shot. Write this down. Do this until you have a work list. Next time you are at the shop, do these things in order, and do not allow yourself to deviate. Do this each time you leave the shop.
I do this when I am chilling in the recliner. Your thought process will be more clear and uncluttered, and you will get things done because you have a defined mission when in the shop. Pretend you are wearing blinders when you go in.

 

[Kev442]

I quickly found out to put a clothespin on my nose when delving into appliances a couple years back. LG and Samsung went on the do not buy list immediately.
I decided to gamble with GE as the previous simple refrigerator lasted 20 years.
GE does freezer on the bottom, thats what I bought. It is small though, so if you hoard frozen food, you will hate freezer on the bottom.
84% US content too.

 

[Strouty]

Today was supposed to be better, we ordered the refrigerator last night, ended up with a Whirlpool that we both liked.

So far I have realized that I am not motivated and even the paying work is at a stand still. Going to have to do a bit of a reboot this week, I can't afford to let this drag me down next week too.

 

[Big Dad]

That pressure washer was built about 7 miles from my house

 

[jakemac]

Strouty - I finally got the doors on the Lista put back in today. The method I described works wonders. Very little fussing and everything went back together fairly quickly. You may need a flashlight inside to find the holes for the screws though.

 

[Strouty]

Great to hear, I used it to pull the doors off one cabinet and it was much easier than the fumbling way we did it originally.

 

[PelicanPines]

Strouty - I finally got the doors on the Lista put back in today. The method I described works wonders. Very little fussing and everything went back together fairly quickly. You may need a flashlight inside to find the holes for the screws though.

That's why I keep a flashlight on my nightstand.

 

[shortykorte]

That's why I keep a flashlight on my nightstand.

 

[dlcwent]

That's why I keep a flashlight on my nightstand.

I truly hope you don't need a flashlight at your age Pines.

Hang in there Strouty, you'll come around.

 

[rmack898]

Before buying any major household appliance, I call the local independent appliance repair service and talk to a repair tech. I don't ask what brand to buy, I ask what brands not to buy.
They will gladly tell you what brands to stay away from and why.

 

[Strouty]

Mac, we did exactly that, all the local techs agreed that Samsung and LG were definitely not a good choice. The best bang for the buck seemed to be anything in the Whirlpool/Kitchenaid/Amana lineup. The Jennair versions were a bit outside our budget.

 

[Strouty]

I learned a new word the other day, I think it defines the solution to the crux of almost all my issues. The word is "satisficing" and the simplest meaning is: to accept an available option as satisfactory. I have the hardest time with this, you all can see it, I can even see it, but I was looking at the problem portion rather than the solution. I am going to try and implement this thought process rather than trying to eliminate the perfectionist in me.

 

[nine4gmc]

needed a good laugh this morning, thanks!

 

[Strouty]

Cleaned in the office a bit yesterday, going to try and finish what I started and make a few adjustments to the workflow and tools (yes I consider a stapler and scissors tools).

I spent a bit of time playing with electronic to do lists. I am trying my hardest to satisfice the decision on one of the four programs. I have set criteria that I thought would be easy to meet, but the ones that I like the most do not meet my most important feature. So I am going to adjust the requirements a bit.

Originally I wanted:

simple to use
support apple watch
sync with iCal (mac calendar app)
ability to import from current app (reminders, mac app)
ability to attach documents, photos, files
ability to use location as reminder
work with apple pencil
integrate with dropbox
integrate with evernote

The one that I thought would be easy was syncing to iCal, but that seems to be a pain unless I stay embedded in an apple only ecosystem. The work around is to sync with google calendar and then sync that to iCal, I am not 100% thrilled with this, but it will allow me to meet most all the criteria if I adjust to allow syncing with google calendar. Since I am now syncing with google calendar, I may add that the program has to work across all major platforms (apple, windows, android).

Apps so far are:

Things

Omnifocus

Nozbe

Todoist


New list of requirements will kill two apps right off the bat (Things and Omnifocus), one I really like (Things), but overall has very limited features and would leave me having to use another app on top of it to fill in the missing pieces.

sync with google calendar
simple to use
support apple watch
ability to import from current app (reminders, mac app)
ability to attach documents, photos, files
ability to use location as reminder
work with apple pencil
integrate with dropbox
integrate with evernote
work across all major platforms (apple, windows, android)

 

[Strouty]

None of these apps are free, so I guess I should look at that as well.

Things is about $80 after buying all the parts needed (one time)

Omnifocus is about $40(one time)

Nozbe is $100 a year or $10 a month

Todoist is $30 a year

I am not opposed to paying for a service, they generally work better than the free services anyways, plus this is an important part of my workflow.

I currently use multiple applications and things get lost in the electronic shuffle often. Just last week I had a huge misstep and ended up not going to an important meeting.

With the current list of projects that I need to do, I am trying to use software to make it a bit less overwhelming and allow me to search through things much easier. My workflow has been erratic for years and I need to tighten things up, I have thousands of notes and to dos that are in limbo or have been duplicated or forgotten. I used to spend some time each week reviewing things, but I have not been keeping up with that lately (nope, for a long time).

 

[PelicanPines]

I use Microsoft One Note... It's pretty cute

 

[Strouty]

I know that one note integrates with the apple pencil.

I am so stuck on getting calendars to sync. I am almost ready to give up. I can see my google calendar, but the mac calendar is not showing up on the google one. Got to love this technology!

 

[jakemac]

I tried to use REMINDER, but it just annoyed me. Now I'll jot things down in NOTES and manually log an event in iCAL later.

First thing in the morning (during 3rd cigarette) - check iCAL
Last thing at night, before going to bed (during last cigarette) - update iCAL

I also make heavy use of the clock/alarm on my iPad.

I need to update the OS on my iMac, so more apps will sync. My current OS has limited syncing.

 

[Strouty]

I have spent over an hour and can't get the calendar app to sync to google calendar. It does go the other way, but I can't get it to upload data to google calendar. It seems to me that sync should be both ways, otherwise all I am doing is exporting the data?

How come it is always the things that are supposed to make life easier that seem to make it much more complicated. I may just go back to my old fashioned notepad, then enter things later. The technology is there, but the yahoos that want the ecosystems to be separate are just stupid. Make the calendar on a standardized platform so they can talk back and forth easily.

 

[PelicanPines]

I keep ONE calendar ... I have many ... but ONE is what I concern myself with ... it is the calendar associated with my Microsoft account... it is visible everywhere. I disabled my Google logon because my phone requires it to log on... so I have to manually do certain things... I just don't like google getting into my business...

Mac ??? that's that fruit company thing... yea... I eat fruit... I don't type with it...

I truly like using one of something... otherwise it's like having two drills... putting the bit in one... and expecting to drill a hole with the other...

 

[Strouty]

I agree, but I can't have a desktop at work, a laptop at home, a tablet and a phone that don't sync with each other, so I have to figure out how to make this work.

I found another app that is great with the calendar, but once again it does not sync to google, just pulls info from it. It is ridiculous that these can't talk back and forth. I have used google calendar before when I had my samsung note phone, when I went to the iphone, the syncing became easy and I don't have to think much about it. Of course this is fine if I never step foot outside of apple again, but I am seriously thinking that if the new samsung notes don't explode, I may go back to one of those.

 

[Strouty]

I figured out how to sync the calendars, it was definitely operator error, but not clear until after more research. Even though these programs sync with google calendar, you still have to select that as the calendar for an item to actually hit google calendar. It was very unintuitive. I thought it would not matter, like it would show up in google as my ical or apple calendar or something. So you need to actually tell the app to put it there, rather than it just being there. I may try and default it this way to see what happens.

 

[Strouty]

All I can say is WOW. I have watched more than a few videos on these programs, these people must be gluttons for punishment. Unless all you ever use is google calendar these programs are ridiculous. It is like making three moves when you could just do one. I think I am going to stay in the apple ecosystem and use Things instead of the other apps, at this point it is more important to have a smooth user interface than anything else and with all the extra steps, it is far from smooth for Todoist and Nozbe. Nozbe and I fought over google calendar entries, it refused to see some of them, no matter what calendar I set them to.

 

[PelicanPines]

I'll say it once... then deny it...

Edit... Redacted information ... is not your friend.

 

[Orionrising]

But Google will always know you said it....

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[Strouty]

I agree, but I don't think that Apple or Microsoft are much better friends.

 

[PelicanPines]

Agree microsoft tries hard but then changes their mind.

 

[Kev442]

I think this page will go down as the most boring page I have ever read on the GJ. You could of at least tossed the word Lista in here somewhere.

 

[jakemac]

Hey, sometimes shop talk isn't about the shop.

 

[BoilermakerFan]

None of these apps are free, so I guess I should look at that as well.

Things is about $80 after buying all the parts needed (one time)

Omnifocus is about $40(one time)

Nozbe is $100 a year or $10 a month

Todoist is $30 a year

I am not opposed to paying for a service, they generally work better than the free services anyways, plus this is an important part of my workflow.

I currently use multiple applications and things get lost in the electronic shuffle often. Just last week I had a huge misstep and ended up not going to an important meeting.

With the current list of projects that I need to do, I am trying to use software to make it a bit less overwhelming and allow me to search through things much easier. My workflow has been erratic for years and I need to tighten things up, I have thousands of notes and to dos that are in limbo or have been duplicated or forgotten. I used to spend some time each week reviewing things, but I have not been keeping up with that lately (nope, for a long time).

Wow the thread had a lot of posts after this one while I was just looking at Todoist and Nozbe. From a quick overview of features to cost, it looks like Todoist is superior to Nozbe. Todoist pricing is reasonable and you gain some nice tools for the $30/yr. Nozbe at $100/yr seems way off the mark to me.

I have a MacBook Pro running OSX and VM Ware Fusion so I have Win 7 Pro on the same machine. I have to have Windows for work and we have corporate provided Android phones, no iPhones. I set it up to keep the two OSs more isolated so I can't drag files from one to the other, but DropBox took care of that and the clipboard is shared, so I can can copy text between the two. It's a 3 finger swipe to go between the two OSs when Windows is running. I flip back and forth all the time during the day.

I made the switch to Android over 5 years ago and at first it was VERY painful, but then I got a Samsung Galaxy S5 and, wow, that made all the difference. Now we're using Samsung Galaxy S7s and I can't stand the iPhone any more. My wife and daughter have them so I get stuck being tech support... The Samsung integrates nicely with Mac OSX, it even grabs my old iTunes music and puts it on my Galaxy if I want it too. I do most of my personal work and fun stuff on the Mac OSX side, but I have a couple programs I use for personal stuff on the Windows side. VM Ware makes it easy and the OSX Time Machine backs up both automatically and has saved my hide twice in 5 years. I think that at least on a Samsung Sx phone, the Android OS is better integrated than iOS/OSX, but I don't use the voice command stuff like Siri so if that is important, I can't help you there.

I just use the calendar app on my S7 and Evernote. The calendar app syncs both my personal Gmail calendar and my corporate calendar so it's easy. The Gmail app syncs all 5 of my personal emails, but I can even use it to send work emails if I needed to in a pinch.

 

[Strouty]

I do use Siri, but not a lot, it is nice for setting reminders. The trouble with it is that it is not a local application, so if you are not in the best coverage areas it doesn't work at all.

I am seriously considering going back to android, I miss my note a lot.

I agree that Nozbe is overpriced, it looks like it has the advantage of being intertwined better with Evernote and Dropbox. It is aimed at corporate settings to use with lots of people working on the same projects. I am running trials of both of them, I will give each a little time before I completely pass judgment.

Another program that I really like the looks of is Devonthink, but it is Mac only and I don't want a program that I can't use on anything.

 

[legenddc]

I use OneNote for work and home, and while it works for me, you have to be disciplined with whatever program you choose. I've bounced through a few of them including Evernote, Wunderlist, etc. but OneNote has stuck the longest.

 

[Strouty]

I am going to try OneNote again, I remember it from the surface pro I had briefly and the handwriting portion was very good.

 

[bczygan]

lista!

 

[PelicanPines]