u/Anarchaeologist

Playing with Real Recruitment. Retrains, units with single turn recruitment, and units that take multiple turns don't progress.

AI search said:

• The Fix: Open your mod folder and find descr_caps_ex.txt (or your M2EX primary .ini config file). Look for the parameter labeled default_recruitment_slots or base_recruitment_slots. If it is set to 0, change it to 1. This forces a baseline slot so the engine doesn't completely choke out Real Recruitment's scripted queues. [1]

Has anyone tried this?

In Western Oregon. This spider looks like a Mygalomorph to my unqualified eyes, and some species of wasp, but I haven't seen them around here before.

Edit: reading about parasitoid wasps in my area, apparently there is a species that preys on brown marmorated stink bugs. I evicted one of those from my kitchen literally minutes before seeing these two. Possibly the wasp was hunting the stinker and the spider intervened looking for a meal,

In-house ITM. A few months ago I noticed some degraded-looking sprinkler heads (dated 1990) in the soffits of a 1 story building we were testing. I asked a coworker to go exploring around to see if there were any valves on the sprinkler system we hadn't tested. He found 2 way back behind air handlers in an attic, and a couple drains above ceiling tiles. We exercised the valves. One broke. They were connected to tampers but both reported the same address as 2 different riser valves we'd tested, which explains why we didn't see the devices on the fire alarm report.

We hired a sprinkler company to test the solution- ID'd as 60% propylene glycol- and replace the broken valve and the solution. When the valve came out it had a plastic bag jammed in it. We replaced the solution with the listed glycerol premix. The system with the broken valve needed an internal pipe inspection which we completed a couple days ago.

1. We drained it, and got about 30 gallons out, which was close to the amount pumped in.
2. The first fitting opened was nearly full of what the sprinkler tech called "sand."
3. The pipe downstream had a lot of sludge stuck to the top.
4. We went to another section of the system and found another drain. We got about 15 more gallons out of it. We opened up and it was clean as a whistle.

Took a sample of the "Sand" and looked at it closer. It's gone out for analysis

It's rusty brownish-colored crystals with a greenish tint if you shine a light through it. If you rub it between fingers it completely disintegrates down to a greasy paste that smells sharply of metal. It doesn't dissolve in deionized water. We put it in the order queue to be analyzed but will have to wait a few weeks until our next batch is shipped to the lab.

Since it was on the side of the system that was drained, I am wondering if the new solution could have reacted with a contaminant or traces of the old glycol, especially since it wasn't present on the side of the system where the old glycol was trapped.

Anyone seen something like this before? I'm wondering if I should be getting both of the systems ready for flushing.

Our AHJ says not to do five-year internals without suspicion of obstruction, so I have to pitch this to management if I want to spend any more money chasing this.