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Story time I thought ya'll might get a laugh out of. Also, any advice on what to keep an eye out for or suggestions on attempting to maintain my monstrosity are welcome.
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So, I bought a house back in last December. Has an inground pool on the property that is 20x50. Now I was always poor growing up never had a pool nor friends that did so mind you I have not a clue about a single thing about them at this point. Now it looked like the liner of this pool had seen better days but serviceable for a year or three until I could deal with that. Now I'm sure some of you are already cringing but don't worry it gets worse.
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Winter had come to an end started getting warmer, so I decided to start looking into this thing, with some heavy "encouragement" from my young kid. So, knowing absolutely nothing I decide to wait and enlist a local professional to evaluate the situation. The pool guy shows up to take a look and quote me, I go out with him and help remove its winter cover, and thus the horror story begins.
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The pool was virtually empty aside from two to three feet in the deep end. Now I bet you'd think it was a leak and I'm being dramatic, oh no no dear reader, for some ungodly reason the previous owner just...drained it (this has since been tested and irrefutable). Didn't say a word about it. It had water in it at one point while I was looking at the home. Should I have kept an eye on it and known sooner? Probably. Was I naive and was like welp just don't touch it until spring? Yeap. Well, you guessed it from and older already kind of rough liner, the bloody thing shrank. This caused a lot of areas being pulled out from the coping and a pretty rough tear at the far skimmer. I am about to find out how expensive pools are.
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So, the pool guy took a look and assessed the damage. Obviously, I am going to need a new liner and to add to the fun he determined the coping was pretty much shot and would also need to be replaced. He said without digging into it he would estimate it was going to cost me 10k to 13k. Spoiler alert not going to happen this year not even close I am far from wealthy, and this was simply not an option. So, I asked him if there is anything at all we could at least try so my daughter would not be absolutely devasted her summer swimming dream was gone. He gives me instructions and shows me how to pull the liner and use liner lock to hold it in place and then advises me to fill the pool until it's about 18inches away from the lowest spot that will need help and we will see if it'll be remotely possible.
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Some areas worked out. Others, others did not. I wouldn't be writing this right now if it had gone well. Now many other minor areas aside there were three major areas that would obviously need something done about. The liner had shrunk too much. No matter how much I tried every time I got a good amount of water in about a 10-to-12-foot length of liner would pull out of the coping even with the liner lock and would sag down to about 16-to-18 inches at its lowest point. The corner where the ladder would go in the shallow end had the same sort of issue but worse. The corners aren't 90 degrees it is a diagonal slant from wall to wall. This spot ended up being about 8-foot total starting on one wall going across the diagonal to the other wall, about 22 inches at its lowest point. Then to top it off, that tear at the skimmer got worse, but was by far the easiest problem to solve.
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As you would expect, and as I feared he came and looked and gave me the news, there is no saving it. Cover it back up until I could afford to have to have it redone. However, growing up how I did I am quite resourceful and find ways to make things work through some creative engineering. So, with the professional taping out, limited on resources I thought to myself, why not try? What's the worst the happens? The same outcome I already have. It's already FUBAR, it isn't like I can make it worse since my current option is just cover it. And who knows maybe it works and I am my kid's hero.
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After some time doing research (if you could call it then more like plotting like a man who has lost their damn mind), a buddy of mine in tow, and plenty of beer, the plan was put into action. We secured the sagging liner to the pool wall the best we could with some sort of waterproof epoxy type thing that could be removed so wouldn't cause any new permanent damage. I had gotten my hands on some new pool liner vinyl that was large enough to cover all the areas we need. Cut out pieces to size and shape, used vinyl cement initially to secure the piece to the original liner all the way up to the coping. Once secured ran another bit of the vinyl cement along the seam, honestly this idea occurred as a why not, shouldn't hurt? Then just for good measure went over the seam once again with a healthy dose of flex paste. After that we secured the new liner pieces into the coping with liner lock. Also, we decided to leave slack in these pieces with the thought of if there is more stretching instead of tearing or pulling it out maybe the slack would allow it to not end badly. This process was repeated over all 3 of the major danger zones. Now there are some jacked up small spots here and there as well but honestly, I could not care less about them until we discovered if Frankenpool had any hope.
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We filled the pool to about 2 inches below the lowest giant red flag to simulate as much water weight as I could to see if the situation would worsen and if we had any hope. Three weeks on monitoring and taking measurements there was no change, a glimmer of hope. As of this weekend we filled the quilt, I mean pool to its intended water line. As we watched...and waited.....and monitored....no changes in the liner worsening......no water loss. I'm not going to lie I'm not sure about my partner in unspeakable crimes against pools, but I was absolutely shocked. I was expecting some sort of catastrophic failure at our unspeakable "repairs".
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Now I am not stupid, I know this isn't going to last. In fact, it probably has no right to have made it this far. If it makes it the year even if it ends up requiring more minor Frankenstein treatment, I will be speechless. But hope remains....and is only growing stronger. Pump and filter are fully functioning. And beginning the cleaning process.
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If you made it this far feel free to call me as dumb as an idea as I had in attempting this. But also, any advice on how to keep this thing going or what potential problems to watch for although it begs to be put out of its misery, please let me know! Or any questions in what exactly we had done or just questioning my sanity.
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TL;DR
Don't know the first thing about pools. Previous owner set me up for worse failure. Went evil scientist to "fix" the unfixable because why not? Now I have Frakenpool that looks like it's from Fallout. But currently it is working so far.

I’m getting really desperate atm

So she was my first girlfriend and we'd been dating since college started for her and I was a junior in college. We'd known each other in high school but we're just friends until we met up one day in college. She just graduated recently and is moving to her new iob that she starts this summer and we've both been really excited for it even though it meant we would continue long distance dating. Through circumstances we've basically been long distance the entire relationship and I always thought that we could make it work. Since we only saw each other maybe 2-3 weeks out of the whole year I was always trying to get intimate. It was fine at first but she started to feel too pressured to do it and I didn't understand when she tried to communicate it because she would end it with "no it's fine" but to her it led to being intimate feeling like an obligation rather than something she looked forward to. Fast forward some bit and she says that she basically fell out of love with me as a boyfriend and it felt more like we were just friends that she had a sexual obligations with and couldn't see me in the romantic way anymore. It hurts a lot because it's definitely my fault and something I should've recognized a lot earlier than now when she brought it up as part of the reason she wanted to break up. It's the main reason actually and the only reason that's to be my fault because she says I've been a great boyfriend in every other aspect but she has commitment issues and it's scary to look into the future the same way I do. I'm two years older than she is and am established in my career field and have been ready to settle down, we've had the conversation before and it basically would end with she knows l'm ready but since she wasn't I wouldn't propose until she told me she was ready. The part where it felt like she was too pressured leaked to other aspects of our relationship like in this part and the commitment issues she had only got worse because she cou longer see me in the romantic sense. She wants to be single and she says that she wants to be able to be attracted to me again when she's ready to commit to someone. It hurts and I don't know what I can do beyond give her the space she needs and understand that's an important boundary she needs in this time of life because she wants to discover who she is as a person that's not in a relationship and needs the freedom there in order to grow as a person. She wants me to do the same because in other aspects of the relationship she felt that she wasn't fair to me because I always provided more in terms of stuff like being more attentive, emotional support, etc and thinks that I deserve someone better and would probably be happier and I just don't know it because she's my first girlfriend and first love. We've agreed that sometime down the road when I fix my problem in the relationship and she fixes hers we can potentially reconnect but she can't make any promises and doesn't want me holding onto that hope. Until then we both wanter'+ be friends but honestly not sure if I can handle 1 y well or if it would just lead to more heartbreak. Honestly looking for thoughts from you guys/gals on what I should be doing? I don't know how much time Ineed to be giving her before even reaching back out. What other things can I do or keep in mind? Am I wrong to have hope when she tells me she wants to be attracted to me again and just needs the space? She also says that she can’t promise anything because then that’ll just keep the “obligation” part there and she needs to be truly free from obligations.

The engine blew in our 09 Vauxhall Astra - ding dong the witch is dead. I've hated this car since we got it 6 years ago. It always seemed to be in and out of the shop, had an ongoing oil leak that even after getting it fixed, seemed to come back, it caused me to fail my roadtest at one point because of a tail-light that was out (literally just after having been replaced). Not to mention, it was pretty ugly.
For the record, we live in Ireland (and don't want to import from the north) and our budget for a new-to-us car is €5 - €7.000 preferably from 2012+.
His uncle that sold us the Astra before is lending us yet another Opel product until we can get a car (or "buy this one!" which he wants €7k for). I believe he said it's a 2015 Opel Insignia.
I'd really, really like to avoid anything Opel and anything Vauxhall because it seems like this car has caused nothing but issues and has been pretty unreliable (which my husband seems to have conveniently forgotten somehow...).
How can I convince my husband that we should get something that doesn't suck so bad and what would a good recommendation be? I've seen plenty of 2012 Mazda 6s and 2013 Mazda 3s for sale. Are these any good? I'm pushing for a Mazda, Toyota or Honda.
Am I crazy in thinking Opel and Vauxhall are shite cars or is that just because of the experience I've had with the Astra?

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Is there some government agency that cares about this? If so, is it at the city or state level? What kind of repercussions would a restaurant face for allowing their oil to just leak long term into the surrounding area?

Hello wondered if anyone is able to help me, I've tried looking online at HP support pages and Google searching but can't seem to find anything.
My laptop got a tiny bit of water on it earlier that leaked when it was in my bag. It's a work laptop and I'm on study leave until Thursday, uni work is on the laptop so I really need it to work and I can't take it to the office!
The white light is stuck on the Fn key and 2 F keys have orange lights on. The battery light is continuously flashing.
Plugging the battery charger in makes no difference, and I have tried doing a hard reset with holding down the power button. This works as all the lights go off, but when I release the button they all come back on again.
The model is an HP Dragonfly Elitebook.
Any ideas what to do?! Thanks for any advice in advance!

A week ago, my FWB and I were having sex and as we took a break, I pulled out and the condom slipped off. We realized what had just happened immediately and we were able to find and extract the condom quickly. I had not ejaculated yet and wasn't close to doing so, but I had certainly been leaking a fair amount of precum. Long story short, my FWB was not taking birth control at the time and in most cases, we would have just opted for Plan B the following day and slept easy. But my FWB believed that she had been ovulating around this time, which would have rendered the Plan B ineffective. To double check this, we used an ovulation predictor kit the next morning and sure enough, the result suggested that ovulation had happened recently. So we did not avail ourselves of Plan B.
Both of us are in our mid-thirties (not exactly maximum fertility) and we're aware that in some cases, precum might contain small amounts of sperm. When the condom slipped off, it had been over 24 hours since my last ejaculation and I had peed several times since then, before we had sex...which would seem to eliminate or at least lower the risk of any residual sperm left in the urethra getting mixed into the precum. The ovulation factor is the other question mark. If my FWB had ovulated on the day we had sex, that would raise the odds of a surprise pregnancy. (We're hoping maybe the egg was released the day before the condom mishap occurred.) Right now our plan is to take a pregnancy test after Day 10 since we had sex and then wait and see what happens with her period.
From all the reading that we've done, it sounds like the chances of an accidental pregnancy in a case like ours are pretty low but not zero. Until we know if we're actually dealing with that contingency, we're keeping fairly calm and seeing what happens next. But naturally, we can't help but wonder...

Hi all - I need some help (and determine whether I need professional help).
Here’s the facts:
Screened in pool around 12k gallons. Have solar and cartridge filter and salt system. I have a zodiac z3 vacuum hooked up. All was working fine before hand with a small air leak where I could see bubbles in the pump basket.
My pool pump needed to be replaced because it cracked and started leaking. I hired someone off of thumbtack to add a variable speed pool pump. The previous pump was 2HP and the installer said that was too much for my current pool. He installed a Jandy 1.65HP pool pump. Now the pump basket isn’t filling all the way. I called him back to check on it and he said I have an air leak somewhere but not to be concerned. I told him it wasn’t doing this before but he just gave some lame excuse. Also when my solar heater is on the vacuum doesn’t work anymore. Vacuum works fine when heater is off. PSI is in a normal range of 20-30. Lastly, my salt system I can see bubbles in the window on the salt cell which I didn’t see before.
I have a home warranty since I just moved in and has someone come out to look and he said he couldn’t find any air leaks above ground and that the pressure in the system was fine even though the basket wasn’t filling.
I have 2 check valves on the “non suction” side of my system and I don’t see any bubbles it’s completely clear. But when the water hits the salt cell window I see a ton of bubbles.
Dows anyone have any advice? I’m at a loss here and feel like I got screwed somewhere.
Thank you!

I am trying to use Targeted Tokens to prevent color contamination. I found a prompt on civitai that mentions to use this for it's use for it's fantasy prompts. Yet when I look at and try to install the below file from GitHub, it says it is already installed.
https://github.com/hnmr293/sd-webui-cutoff (prevents color-contamination eg. eye-color leaking into hair color)
The whole point of this is, if you type a cute girl, white shirt with green tie, red shoes, blue hair, yellow eyes, pink skirt should make that exact image with no color contamination. But when I type it in, it doesn't follow those parameters. The github link specifies "Select the ENABLE Checkbox" but I don't see a checkbox

https://civitai.com/models/45448/full-feature-character-prompts-fantasy Any help with this and controlling color contamination would be most helpful. Thank you 

It's a site I found with a shit ton of OF leaks

I drive by a truck/camper set up daily that hasn’t moved for the last two years. My wife and I decided we would stop in today and see if the guy would be interested in selling. He seemed a little hesitant, but his wife seemed pretty eager to get rid of it. They are an older couple and don’t use it very much. The truck is a 2001 Tundra access cab. It has the 4.7 v8. I’m not exactly sure which model the truck is. It appears to have the towing package like my current 04 Tundra has. He installed air bags himself and they work fine, one has a very slow leak. He has done regular maintenance and has records of everything. The best part, it only has 73k miles. The camper is a 2013 FWC kestrel. It seems to be pretty base package, but they opted for s few upgrades from the factory. This couple is the original owners for both the truck and the camper. What would you pay for both of these as a package?

Cat Leaking 11 Years Old
Hey everyone! I was wondering if someone had a similar experience or some advice. My 11 year old princess started having bouts of incontinence where she left a little pee on the bed while sleeping. I did a urinalysis on her and it came back negative for UTI.
The vet wants to do blood and X-ray.
I’m worried obviously about potential outcomes but here’s some details.
Fully indoor. Appetite of a power lifter. Lively. Very affectionate as usual.
Would love some or any experience to maybe calm me down.

So, recently hit a bump (thanks Louisiana potholes) due to seeing it last second, steering wheel is slightly turned to the left, feels loose turning right compared to the left side. Inner boot has a leak on it but not dripping. Pulls to the right slightly. Was just gonna go ahead and replace the whole rack with new inners and outers. Nothing is bent anywhere. Anything else I should be worried about? Could I get away with replacing just the inners and outers? I have a 2012 3.8 Auto with 165k and it’s really my only form of transportation right now. Any help would be much appreciated right now as I’m saving up for a rebuild of the whole car anyways