u/smorin13

We had a couple very late fronts, and it cut our normal aple production to a pittance. It was so bad that I didn't bother spraying. I can probably collect 100lbs but I expect them to be very buggy.

This year was to be my fist year using our apples and pears for distilling. We didn't get any pears. How do you more experienced distillery deal with waste fruit. I understand if the advice is to cut bait until next year.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

I have two insurance companies that we will be onboarding. Both are small agencies with standalone machines. Both are currently using GoDaddy-managed M365.

I know they need to defederate their M365, but I also will need to set up their Tenant environment, including Entra ID, Defender, OneDrive, Intune and possible help with SharePoint. We will be doing this along with add our stack, including Huntress endpoint protection, ITPR, mail filtering, RMM, BDR, etc.

These clients know they need to have the defederation and their Microsoft environments built out.

I want opinions and opinions on how to approach onboarding and the additional setup of their MS environment. We typically onboard for free, but this is more work than our typical onboarding.

Thoughts on breaking some items out as a pre-onboarding project, or wrapping these extra items into onboarding and eating it upfront?

I chronically underestimate how long project phases will take, so I cheated and used Copilot to help estimate the time needed. I wasn't surprised when it returned an estimate of 20 hours, which was about double the time I anticipated. There is also some simple cleanup like upgrading a few windows home licenses to pro.

Last year we were buried in projects and didn't focus on growing the managed services side. So, I am definitely feeling out of sync with how best to approach this situation.

Any recommendations or thoughts would be appreciated. I feel like I am stuck in the analysis to paralysis loop.

It is 3:15 am, so I will check any posts when I drag myself from bed. Please forgive and grammaratic and spelling mistakes.

I have a Gorilla Skunk photo clone that I would like to reverse. It is a robust, hard-to-screw-up plant. The mother plant was a beast and as close to stupid-proof as possible.

I currently have the clone in veg, and I managed to break a couple of branches during training, so I am going to delay moving to flower a bit until I get her filled out again. Currently, she needs to be topped and thinned.

I purchased colloidal silver, but I have read it isn't very effective. Can someone give me advice on how to use the colloidal silver or guide me to another approach?

I would do more research, but my company has been on an amazing growth streak, and I need to work smarter. So I am looking for coaching, or at least some guidance on what resources to research. A blind search returns an overwhelming amount of conflicting data.

Thank you in advance for any guidance.

I know this is probably a dumb question, but it is outside my experience or knowledge level.

When making simple pyrotechnics like an M80, is it important that the flash power fill the tube or be tightly compacted.

My experience is primarily from reloading and gun related fun. I tried to research fireworks, but I have found little information about how volume plays into perfy. I see commercial fireworks that are trying to appear like old school M80s, but there is no way the flash power fills the tube. What am I missing?

When I download a paper or widget, I expect a call from the vendor. I do not expect to be called by an obnoxious AI bot multiple days in a row.

If I ever would have considered his services, that ship has surely sailed. Clearly, he doesn't respect our time as much as he values his.

It is almost midnight, and I am watching the news from 10. I am watching the story about two you boys taken at gunpoint by older degenerates to be used to commit crimes on behalf of the older captors.

I don't know the family, but based on what has been shown on the news, the boys mom is a durable force. She was calm, thankful, and understandabo upset about the situation, but she still showed appreciation to OPD, which shows her character. Thankfully, these boys did all the right things. This wouldn't have happened without a rockstar mom. I suspect the boys extended support network also contributed to these boys making calm decisions.

Had one of my kids or grandkids been the victims, I don't believe I could have shown the same level of composure the mother of these boys showed. In the brief news coverage, I got a strong feeling these boys have a boss mom.

I own a small company, and unfortunately, we aren't in a good space to add staff. With that said, if our staffing situation was different, I would love to speak with the boys mom. I suspect she is cap of keeping her eyes on the prize and getting shit done. I may be a fan.

Moms are a force, and challenged moms are a nuclear force.

I hope the mother of these boys see my post and others. She may not do everything right, but who does? When the shit hit the fan, the boys were equipped with the skills to keep themselves alive.

This boss mom deserves our respect and prayers. Thank God two of Omaha's young guns are home safe.

I hope that if I am ever confronted with a situation of this magnitude, I compose myself with the courage and dignity of this mom.

I am heading to bed and wrote this post sleeping pill. Please forgive any spelling and grammar errors. I am not at my best, but I felt strongly that the mother of these boys and OPD deserved to be acknowledged and praised before I forgot.

A side bit of old man wisdom: Don't push momma bears, they are not to be trifled with. In my life, I pitty the dipshit that comes for my kids or grandkids. My wife, daughter are calm, kind and loving mothers, but if someone targets our babies, I will suspect I will need bail money or help hiding bodies, maybe both.

Above all, I celebrate these boys safe return and everyone that made it possible. After the last few days of senseless violence, Omaha needed a happy ending.

Praying all victims from this incident are safe and get the emotional and clinical support they may need.

I have a small insurance company that wants to add physical phones and asked if I had any opinions of Teams Phone service. The pricing looks competitive. This would be my first exposure to Teams phones, so I am feeling a bit out of my comfort zone. Can anyone share their thoughts, experence and or recommendations on the topic.

Just venting.

WTF? I swear they would be just as accurate if the flipped a coin. I can't recall a year where they have missed more.

6 pm weather no significant rain predicted in our area tonight. My dumb ass believed them.

$200 dollar tarp sitting in my truck because my dumb ass believed them.

Meanwhile, the hole in my back yard that should eventually be a pool is filling up with mudd and water, again.

To add insult to injury, we are 20 minutes west of Omaha and the local channels act like we don't exist. Omaha stations will cover a severe thunderstorm storm east of Omaha until it is squatting on Des Moines.