clayton86

When we bought the house 3 years ago the previous owner had records of everything they had checked and serviced every year. The furnace was one of them there’s a sticker on the side of it where it’s been signed off by the tech that came and checked it over and changed the filter every year. bought the house in 2020 it was built in 1820 so it’s a old solid built house. The previous owner was a lawyer and the old police chief of the town so he had $$$ the roof was done in ‘18 water tanks(2 of em) were swapped 07/09 so they are fairly current I suppose. The furnace was new back on 07 I think it said it was installed. All the upkeep on the house was documented and done but they did nothing to update the house looks wise just the necessities roof, furnace, gas fireplace, electric heaters in the addition, hot water tanks, basement ect. But it was still rocking the old shag carpet in some rooms and ugly floral wall paper haha.

M# TIX1B060A9361AB S# 6482PCA7G date of manufacture 11/2006

It’s a Trane XR90 I don’t see a serial # on it but it’s the XR90 at least that’s the badge on the one door

Anyone on here knowledgeable about hvac specifically furnace pressure switches? Our furnace stopped working a little while back like right when the cold weather was starting to hit us here in WNY. Been watching YouTube videos about diagnosing what’s wrong since I don’t want to pay some crazy amount of money to have a technician come out and tell us it needs a simple part and charge us like 10x as much. So I’ve done a bunch of tests and I’m pretty sure my pressure switch is bad. When the furnace started acting up I could tap on the switch with my knife or pliers and it would kick on and run for a while. Some times a week then a a few days then a few hours of that. It will run if I bypass it also just jump the two connections taking out the switch it runs but I gotta go down and take the jump off when it cycles off because it reached temp otherwise it just blows air with no heat since it won’t light unless I manually jump it when needed. So how do I know what switch to buy to replace it. I’ve searched for it by the numbers on the label and I get like 10 different switches even when I put in the long part number. Ranging from $30-$150 I mean I’m all for buying the cheap one but it looks like the WC rating is what’s different mine is 0.94”WC for the Honeywell P22. So will one close to that rating work? Any help would be greatly appreciated especially since our electric bill jumped $800 this last month with electric heat only since our house has both gas and electric heat.

Been in a few growing up when I was younger I was in 7th or 8th grade I think while fishing actually. Then again when I was older a bar fight in a sense. It was right after a deployment and couple of us that deployed together from the same home town went to the only bar in our town. Was close to closing time and there was a Air Force pair of guys that were talking crap to us and we were just laughing it off basically a fire team of grunts getting crap talked by chair force guys. We went out side for a smoke and so did they then they shoved one of the McDonald brothers into the garbage can to start a fight. The other brother and I then jumped on them and were rolling around in the parking lot duking it out. The bouncer(marine vet) came and broke us up. We stood up shook hands laughed and went in and bought eachother shots and a few drinks haha. All the women there were looking as us funny since we were just brawling and then went inside and were drinking like best friends.

The past week or so I’ve been listening to a lot of pod casts and videos of motivational speakers. Been listening/watching a lot of Jordan Peterson he’s by far the best and favorite. The guy cares more about me than anyone I’ve ever met and he doesn’t even know me. Then throw in some Jocko Willink, Joe Rogan, Tony Robbins, David Goggins a few others that come across Spotify but a lot of them I follow on IG for little doses quick when I scroll the gram. I want to go see Peterson in person at one of his shows or venues what ever they are called but they are all sold out I was all for driving a few states over to see him talk. Any others you guys listen to or follow?

Started wearing glasses when I was around 12 or 13 then moved to contacts a few years later. Had lasik 3 years ago and best $4k I’ve ever spent.

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Was 1 duck short of a 2 man limit today. While old squaw limit since that’s what 99.9% of what we see in this spot lately. NY bumped it from 6 to 3 starting this season and we’ve never seen as many as we did this year. I easily shot 2 boxes of black cloud today and wasn’t hitting a thing. I mean I got a few but man was I missing like crazy today. Was an expensive last day on the ammo aspect good lord I sucked today haha. We managed 5 squaw and 1 buffie today though. Was a little windier than we hoped to do the layout kayak gig but it worked well we had a lot decoy or buzz us offering shots but it worked well to bad we waited till the last day to attempt it. The coot was breasted out not expecting it to be delicious but I also just hunt divers they aren’t the tastiest birds to begin with but they do make ok jerky occasionally I’ll wrap a breast in bacon and whip something up that’s usually bufflehead though. Squaw and scoter what we shoot the most get jerky treatment.

I haven’t seen it yet. My best friend and I grew up obsessed with the first one. Always said when word came out that there was going to be a second we would go see it together and held to that. When it finally dropped this year we were gonna go but life got in the way he’s a newly wed and family got it the way I suppose we made plans then he ended up going to Italy to his sister in law’s wedding and we pushed off going to see it since he wasn’t even in the same country haha. We kept trying to make plans and stuff kept coming up. Now that it’s out we still keep trying to make plans neither of us are busy to rent it and see it together still. Crazy we’re two grown men waiting to see a movie together haha.

Went out this morning it was dead calm Lake Ontario only had 5mph S winds I guess it was. The lake was glass hardly anything was flying. Ended up getting 1 bufflehead and a coot, I’ve never shot a coot glassed it and IDed it then looked up to double check that it was okay to shoot. only have 1 day left of the season here in the western zone in NY. Planning on going out tomorrow for last day hunting off shore if wind will let me since I hunt diver/sea ducks from a kayak.

My fiancé snores loud I fall asleep easy though the first time and am usually hard to wake up. I always wake up in the middle of the night doesn’t matter what time I go to bed can be 830-9 or midnight 99% the time I will wake up 130 2 then again at 330 and so on every hour hour and a half I wake up sometimes I can get back asleep easy other times I will lay awake mind going a million mph in thousand directions. Usually that’s what keeps me up not her snoring but there are times her snoring is unbearable and I usually go to the couch or guest room if available since we always have some one crashing with us.

Been out almost every weekend. beginning of the second split had numbers but no quality birds so just sat and watched them decoy and fly off again. Last weekend was good my taxidermist bill grew A LOT lol. Got a nice stud hooded merganser then around 9 got sick of ducks in my lap pretty much getting a pass because they were hens or juveniles I said to my partner next ducks that come around the break wall if it flies it dies because my daughter and fiancé were making comments how I’m always hunting and not bring anything home. Had a triple hook around the break wall and fly right into the spread giving me an easy 10 yard shot. Heard a drake old squaw do there what ever noise and I instantly perked and focused more zeroing on the long tail and folded him up. Happened again on the next group that came in. So got 3 nice stud drakes that day all headed to the taxi. 2 squaw and the hooded. I also got a hen squaw one handed while out retrieving haha.

I have a Hornady one I use it for reloading and gun parts that fit in it. I use the Hornady solution mixed with distilled water like it calls for.

I like to think I have a strong work ethic. Growing up my mom always said you go to work or school unless on your deathbed didn’t matter if sick or hurt you went to work and school. I’ve held a job since I was 12 so the last 24 years I’ve always had a job. Never late or missed days and always do my best on said jobs it took me getting hit by a truck while on the job to get me to miss work haha. Granted I’ve changed professions a few times in my adult life since college I always jump right into what ever path I’m going down. My boss just said the other day I need to make mistakes that’s how you learn and I’m not making any mistakes. Not that I’m a wiz at doing this new job I just ask a ton of questions and 2nd and 3rd guess/confirm before I execute task so it’s done right the 1st time. My fiancé always tells me to call in when I’m not feeling well or my hips bothering me(see hit by truck haha) but I always go and then hear it from her later when I get home and I’m limping worse.

My Tacoma was built in Texas

What do y’all use to stream or listen to music? I currently use Pandora since my free Sirus/Xm expired that came with the new truck. I either have pandora playing or I buy music on iTunes and have several play lists depending on my mood but that can get expensive. I know a lot of people like Spotify and I’ve been thinking about downloading it.

Blood and needles don’t bother me. I remember in basic and when to my unit in the CLS class I was giving myself IVs and letting others try on me since I had “good” veins. Other people’s blood and what not doesn’t bother me to much. If it’s some one close to me I can handle it at the time it’s happening but it haunts me later I guess. My father for example when I brought him home from the hospital a few days before he passed puked up blood and chunks of something some how when on a liquid diet shortly after getting to his apartment. I asked him if he wanted me to take him back to hospital or call ambulance he chuckled and said no he’ll go the next day when he wakes up which he did. my boys are like me I suppose getting hurt doing young boy stuff and football just shake off the injuries and press on. My daughter on the other hand freaks out haha. She stepped on a tack the other day and it just “hurt” to walk on so she was favoring that foot and we looked at it and she saw it was bleeding a little and you’d swear she was just told she was gonna die had a complete melt down over 1 drop of blood on her foot.

I don’t like any holidays really. Fiancé tried getting the corner we put the tree up in the other day cleared out and started out side decorations but didn’t happen with the tree. I made my comments about not even thanksgiving yet no tree or decorations. Our daughter wanted to do it so I caved a little and went outside and helped stake a snowman thing to the ground and said I would do lights the next day since it was like 9pm when doing all this. Mother Nature been on my side with rain and wind so I haven’t been able to get on the roof to do the lights I’m in no rush till the 7 year old boss brings it up again haha. For me Christmas is by far my least favorite holiday. Thanksgiving is my favorite only because of the food though that’s it.

Drove my fiancés car tonight since we needed room for more kids than my truck fit and her front brakes are howling. I just did her rear brakes about 2 weeks ago and now her fronts are growling when you stop. Sounds like she sheared another pad like she did on the rears. I swear actually I know I do, I put brakes on her cars every year I think the longest she’s had brakes last is 13 months which would be these ones I’m changing tomorrow. It blows my mind she gets the brakes to metal on metal every single year with every vehicle she’s had in the 9 years we’ve been together. I got quite grumpy driving her car out to dinner about needing brakes again and she made the comment how my truck needs brakes also. Which I commented that yes the dealership did mark they were needing changed soon and they were amazed that I’ve got them to last 5 years since it still has original brakes the truck came with in 2017. She didn’t see how that’s any different that I get brakes to last 5 years and she barely a year. Anyone else’s womens vehicles need more maintenance than usual?

Yeah that’s what I told em. They called me the terminator for surviving it haha

Well I got the second job I interviewed for above. They are matching my base pay with loomis for 90 days then moving me up. I shadowed them on a few jobs last week and seemed something I’d really like. They already hired me a grunt so to speak said they hired a 18yr old kid with “a good head on his shoulders” to do all the manual lifting for me. I told them the accident was 4 years ago I’m good now just weather changes bother my hip for a bit when I wake up. They said they want to hopefully make me and the kid a crew doing the installs and what not while the lead guy now does more sales and trouble shooting I guess. this will be my last week with loomis since I’m doing the “right” thing and gave them 2 weeks. They are going against their own company policy though with me still as an AST in one man trucks after giving notice. Once you’ve quit your not supposed to handle any money. They are so short staffed though they can’t afford to make me a driver or just on the vault crew. One guy calls in they have to cancel runs or cram tons of stops on other runs making long days which they avoid at all costs not wanting to pay OT. counting down days to start this new career path. Thursday will be last day at loomis and we don’t work on Columbus Day so short week for me.

My fifth grade teacher was also head of safety patrol or what ever it’s called. Was going over being to our post or what ever on time said “if you show up early your on time, on time your late and if you show up late that’s unacceptable” that’s stuck with me ever since for the last 25 years I’ve always been one to show up ahead of schedule.

Don’t hunt much for game meat anymore. I duck hunt heavily but divers which I turn into dog treat jerky. My one dog won’t touch it and don’t blame her haha the other will eat anything. I keep saying I’m gonna get back into deer hunting especially lately with meat getting expensive and kinda hard to find the selection isn’t what it used to be. I’ve got land I’ll always be able to hunt that’s “family” land my best friend has a farm I can show up in unannounced around dinner time and they will urge me to stay for dinner and make me a plate so I’ve got their farm to hunt. I just get so incredibly bored deer hunting so I haven’t in almost 7 years now. used to pheasant hunt in HS my buddy’s dad used to raise them and release them we’d go out and hunt them. Could always tell the wild ones from released between the tails being considerably longer and they would flap twice and go distance of the field with ease. Released ones would flush and flap wings like crazy and only go a short distance to give you another shot. I remember my mom used to make chicken cacciatore but with pheasant so I guess that would just make it pheasant cacciatore and it was delicious. done squirrels but nothing sticks out about being tasty probably the way I made them as a kid(14). now frog legs if want to consider them those were delicious.

I just use the one it came with I rarely carry the lcp I just have it as an option. Was gonna try doing my qualification with it today but instructor just wanted to hurt up with range portion since we only had 12 shooters and the LCP isn’t a duty gun heck not even a acceptable caliber(.22)