Or as we call it in the Southern U.S., "Summer Lite," where the daily high temps are finally at or below 90°F a good bit of the time. We keep getting teasers of autumn, but it'll be a week or two depending on where you live. The heat index in Houston looks to be 105°F today, so autumn is still a little ways off. Ouch.
mascarasnake
joined 2 years ago
One of the greatest!
Beat me to it. I complain loudly and frequently to anyone who will listen.
Septic's unfortunately not an option in that location. It would definitely be much more convenient in the long run.
My (limited) understanding is that they release only a small amount of CO2, using only solar electricity--no propane in my situation. What's left is a tiny bit of sterile ash that can be emptied outside or sprinkled in the trash. And composting toilets sounded promising until I really started researching them. Ultimately, dumping out solids all the time was too much of a gross-out factor for me, and dedicating a space for dumping them out was a big issue. I was really set on the Envirolet or SunMar central composting systems for a while, but even they were a much bigger hassle to clean and maintain, and the outdoor tank takes up too much space to be practical for my setting.
Such beautiful eyes. Great photo.
From the sound of it, his family bent over backwards in order to be the assholes themselves, gleefully thumbing their noses at your every specific request, while going out of their way to blatantly violate each one individually. Then, just to cement the deal, they snuck back in after being kicked out, in order to disrespect you and your every wish even more. They did this to themselves. They knew what they were doing at your wedding, knew how upset it would/did make you, knew they were disrespecting your rules while insisting that you respect theirs. If they didn't expect the consequences that resulted, it was only because they expected you to just roll over and accept their complete, blatant disrespect. Which tells you all you need to know about them, and hopefully validates your belief that you did the right thing. NTA.
You could post (good old-fashioned) flyers around the most visible public places nearby (public library, grocery store, hardware/home center, church, etc.), advertising your IT skills.
Rural folks I know appreciate someone nearby who has even basic IT skills, saving them a trip into the city to a big box store that would charge them an arm and a leg to diagnose and fix the simplest issue.
If you charge less than they do and are conveniently closer, you could have a decent part-time source of income.
Not sure how rural you are, how tech-saavy your neighbors may be, or whether you're hoping to make a bigger shift career-wise, but it's an option that has worked pretty well in my rural area.
Did you perhaps intend to post this to Seriously Horrifying? I'd be scurrying down the center of the street, holding my breath for fear of inhaling the plant oils. Yikes.
Toccata and Fugue in D Minor?
Generation X forgotten once again. Whatever.
(It was kind of expected at the time that the Millennials would be named Generation Y because they followed us, but that name never took hold. So they skipped Y and went straight on to Z, then continued with A.)