u/srmcmahon

House is 140 years old and purchased in 2021 (not by me, a family member). Seller disclosure said the roof was 5 years old at time of sale.

There have been leaks and current owner had a roofing company inspect and give a quote. The house is a complicated roofing job because it has multiple sections, including a square tower (roof of the tower section is a pyramid on west side of house, NW quarter has ridge going east-west, east half of house has a ridge going north-south, and there is a one story addition with its own roof. )

The roofing company said the decking of the roof on the original house is boards with gaps and apparently covered with tin sheathing. Tar paper and shingles were put over that. He said under current code the decking would have to be completely replaced.

Would that have been required by code in 2016 when the roof was supposedly redone?

My son got a postcard (he signed it) but I have not. I've seen it discussed on social media. Apparently some people who may well have signed the petition don't recall doing it and sent postcards saying they don't think they did (seems like they could just have them return with signature and then use that to verify the signature provided at the time).

Do they send cards to everyone or is there a sampling process or what?

Edit--I did get a card, I heard about someone who got two. I never was able to find anything saying whether it's a sampling or if they send to everyone. I don't recall having gotten a card for previous petitions, but they were state not city as far as I can recall.

I wasn't listening closely, had it on while doing household chores, but there was a woman guest ( she sounded a lot like the conservative woman on an NPR program I think is called Open for Debate) and she talked a lot about Florida. I heard her pitching Florida as the OJ capital and a big orange producer although people do drink less of it, and NOT ONE WORD about how Florida orange production (and orange juice production) has collapsed since 2000 due to disease and hurricanes. AFAIK a lot of the oranges come from Brazil and Texas nowadays.

Although, it's never been the same since Lynn Rossetto left.

I overslept because alarm didn't go off because power had gone out. The clock had come back on around 7 am based on the flashing time when I woke out. How many people had power go out last night and was it just brief disruptions? I'm downtown.

It was a grating on me that Carter seemed to move on to Wendall without a thought. My understanding of his relationship with Kem was that she was THE ONE--he lost his simmering yearning for Abby. So when he doesn't respond in kind to Wendall saying she thinks she loves him I thought maybe Kem is not written off completely--and then near the end of the episode Kem calls him.

I don't know what happens down the road, but I like to think the two were deeply enough committed to each other and to their purpose in health care that they would stay tgether--there are other dedicated doctors and others who make very long distance marriages work.

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I posted a couple of weeks about this. The idea is a book club, although not necessarily books, more like readings related to history of US democracy, such as extracts from the Federalist papers and Madison's notes from the 1787 constitutional convention, and over time other pivotal writings.

I have a zoom meeting with someone from The Study next week and have been referred to the person who does programming for the Fargo public library. The Study will do things to help organize local study groups.

Hope I will be able to get something organized, perhaps to start in the fall.

This would be in Fargo

So, I took lessons growing up, go through phases when I play and then don't play (I have short fingers and was never that great, but I will pound away at classical pieces). I have an old upright.

This summer I will occasionally be watching a relative's 8 year old. He's poked around on the piano when he's here. Several years ago a friend who stayed at my house for awhile found a phone app for teaching beginners. I don't remember what it looked like except I think it showed a keyboard, labeled the keys, and the keys would highlight or press down on the screen when a note was played. But it also used the phone mic to hear what she played, which allowed her to learn to play a simple melody in minutes.

I have old beginner books (I actually first learned to read the staff and play the right notes by myself when I was 6 or so, but I was the kind of kid who would do something like that).

I don't intend to make a project of teaching piano to this kid, and I don't know how good his attention is, but something like this might be interest him, immediate reward sort of thing.

Anyone know what I'm talking about and able to point me to such apps?

I avoid using chemicals but do need to knock down weeds. Is the wind supposed to taper down tomorrow? Looks like rain on Sunday.

Seems hard to get the right conditions.

We are a small business that has had to shift from being vendors for large corporations providing services to finding our own work. We do have some valuable direct clients who use us. We do not subscribe to any of the services that promise to deliver targeted data. WE've been running for 10 years so we are not amateurs in terms of service performed.

Thoughts on using subscribed services and results? Any you recommend?

Helping a friend. She is disabled. Her wealthy uncle died and the executors puther share of inheritance into an irrevocable special needs trust. She is on medicaid, SSDI/SSI (SSI to cover the difference between SSDI and SSI benefit amounts), SNAP, and section 8 (which apparently is called something else now, but using the term people are familiar with).

The trust receives dividends on some assets. This does not go to her. The housing authority is including the dividends when it figures her income.

Apparently 2024 rule changes intended to make handling trusts easier for people getting HUD funded housing assistance left some ambiguity, and the regs do not lay out specifically that income the trust earns but does not go to the beneficiary are excluded. Her rent is now 60% of her total SSDI/SSI.

I helped her apply for legal assistance but they haven't called her back yet. The people who handle trust stuff (the trust company and a sister) have been inept.

thinking of suggesting to someone I know, anyone have experience with Dr. Aminata Kamara? (doctorate is in advanced nursing practice, not an MD. I know many physicians are not happy about NPs who refer to themselves as docs)

The client would be a millennial male (hates politicians except for Bernie and is socially liberal to give you an idea)

https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/comments/1spb84n/north_dakotagetting_pd_to_refer_matter_to_states/

Original post having to do with a contractor who was paid a lot, did a lot of work at times, but incompetent record keeping and mounting personal problems left projects never started after payment and others started but not finished.

Y'all kept insisting this was a civil matter. Nope. Police were ignoring the statute that provides for criminal charges.

Had to go u the chain but PD is referring to state's attorney today.

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Haven't thought about for years but they disappeared at some point. When and why?

Edit: found a link to the Forum. Everything went into storage the end of 2019, then covid happened. They were hoping to relaunch in 2022 but did not have a partnership to keep it going. (There was a non profit and NDSU student govt had been running it)

A search showed they were sold to Bismarck in 2022.

By 2025 the bikes were the topic of a "historical fargo" column.

A national bikeshare organization had said at one point Fargo's was the best in the country, but only made it 4 years.

the event occurs off camera but it's still quite a show

https://reddit.com/link/1t19rdo/video/54244yd54myg1/player