Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

What is always so annoying is the planning before the project is always pitiful. They put out cones, destroy the road, dig holes, and then sit and wait for something like the new storm drain pipes, or a utility line to be moved. So often in large projects, they get it all torn up, and then sit and wait on something for a month or more.

And bet money within a few months for the project completion, someone will be digging a hole in the new road and do a crappy job of patching so that it is s huge bump for the next 15 or 20 years.

I swear they have two brothers doing the work, and they then have to move to another project and start on that, and only come bake to the big project every other week for a few days.

Oh we don't have new pavement yet but they did move the path of the road and now its a fun little "S" turn where it used to be straight. No you can not take the 911 over at speed cause the pavement is so bumpy I'm sure you would bottom out a few times.

[GH85Carrera]

Moving the service is the only big stick you have.

Call another service provider and tell them what you have and what you pay. See if they will match or beat the price. Tell them about the issues you are having, and you want it truly fixed. If you are not under a contract, bail out and change providers.

I started with a locally owned and operated company. They were bought by a bigger company, and they were bought by a bigger company and then ADT bought them. Now I am suddenly with ADT and I may yet find another local company to switch to.

[GH85Carrera]

We have a road a few miles away with a S curve, but it is a bit bumpy and the local cops like to keep a close eye on it. I just have to use the fun on ramps to the interstate. One near my house gets onto I-35 with a 70 MPH speed limit. The crazy on ramp is a very sharp S curve that is 30 MPH max in the 911, and 20 in the El Camino. Then run to 70 and all 100% legal.

[Porsche-poor]

ADT is what we have after 24 years of a stable system that worked all the time. Now not so much.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning/afternoon. TGIF. Going into another weekend with only 4 weeks till a vacation.

[GH85Carrera]

Weeeee, having fun now.

I am having to do real work, and one of the drudgery parts is picking ground control points. We prefer to fly a project after the surveyor has put down aerial targets, and nice big X marks the spot. There is never a doubt about just where the target center is. The surveyor that ordered the project had some issue with his equipment and we had to fly if before he had targets down. Now we have to use the center of the tip a left turn arrow, or the edge of one chunk of concrete patch. The lines in parking lots and the center of a man hole cover. The surveyor will have to go out and double check the points and data we provide before his puts his stamp on it. It just takes more work on our part and his part. Still better than having to refly it with targets down.

[Porsche-poor]

Morning all. I have just about had it with ADT. The house panel has lost contact with the cell towers 4 times in the last month and 3 of those in the last week. Best they can do is a virtual tech appt. I wonder how they will deal with a virtual payment.

[GH85Carrera]

Are you under contract? I paid for my system myself, and own it. The local company I bought it from installed it, and did great for years. Then they were swallowed up after several mergers. Just find a local company that is not ADT. I bet there are several in your area, and get a price quote.

Then call ADT, and and tell them you are firing them for such poor service and stop paying them.

I am on Cox Cable, and I call the customer retention department once a year and demand a better plan cost, and they always find some package that saves me money for a year.

[Porsche-poor]

That is the plan.

[GH85Carrera]

Golly large images are fun!

For some reason Photoshop is running like this was a really big image or something.

[Porsche-poor]

wouldn't a black sharpie be less expensive?

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, but the real image is a diagonal state highway between two little remote cities, with a plowed field on one side, a wheat field on the other, and just some roadside litter along the road to look at.



Really exciting imagery.

But a client is happy to pay us good money to do it!

[Porsche-poor]

some colored pencils and the right drafting tools one could make that...................NOT!

[GH85Carrera]

The tough part to just draw is the planimetric map, 1 foot contours topographic map, and the orthophoto with 3 inch resolution. The LAS point cloud file is silly big as well.

[Porsche-poor]

oh sure get all technical on me.

[GH85Carrera]

The planimetric map is the coolest part. It is just an AutoCAD line drawing of every object on the ground that is "real" like curbs, street markings, utility poles, fire hydrants, the building footprints, parking spaces, and fences and so on. Temporary items or moveable items like cars, people, litter, or trash cans are just ignored. Trees and bushes get a generic shape to designate where they are, and a tree is a different shape than an bush. Water or ponds and lakes are just a line at the shore line.

The only color is the different layers, so one can make all the building or structures just go away by turning the layer off.

Add in the topographic map and it shows the elevation changes every foot.

The orthophoto is what I was working on and the image is geometrically corrected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthophoto

[GH85Carrera]

We have a dribble (0.10) inches of rain. California keeps hogging all the moisture. They can keep the snow, but sharing some of the rain would be nice.

We have been a weird weather pattern where the gulf moisture comes up from Baja Oklahoma, and mixes with the cold fronts, and forms right over us, and we get a dribble, eastern Oklahoma get a nice rain and it builds as it goes into Arkansas and Missouri and points east. We just seem to be the rain makers and not getting to keep any rain.

[Porsche-poor]

dry here as well. but when it rains it pours, first the alarm now the washer.

[GH85Carrera]

Our washer and dryer are about 30 years old. I had to fix the washer's switch that tells it the lid is open. I used my ohms meter to see that switch had failed. I googled the switch and it is a common failure every 25 years or so. I went to the Matag appliance store where we bought it, and they had the switch in stock. The owner of the store gave me some tips on replacing it. The switch is soldered to a board and a relay and other stuff, but easy to replace. Fixed!

Our fridge is one we bought when we moved into this house. The old fridge was Harvest Green, and one my wife bought for her first house. It worked great, but was kinda ugly and was not going to go in our new house. I gave it to a buddy for his lake house. He sold that lake house several years later and is friends with the people he sold it to. Last I heard, it was still working fine.

[Porsche-poor]

I think ours is 15 years old and is starting to act up. The think would not unlock yesterday with a load inside. I got it open and did some looking online for cause and solution. No real good answers so its going going gone.