Trouble Maker

Ah, this is all you've done together? My wife had 30~40 when we got together, and I was at 20~25. We've probably done 30+ together, some overlapping our previous trips before. Her last was Hawaii and we went there for our 10th anniversary. I really did like it there. But for me just liking a place isn't enough to make me need to go back soon, I have to love it. Because there are so many other places in the world to visit that I haven't been to yet. I'd rather go to a new place than some place I just liked. I really want to go to Alaska but want it to be my last state. I spent around 15 years going to Northern MN every winter for work, I really should have taken a day and went over to ND/SD at some point. What I imainge is there's just not so much to draw someone to visit the area, and things are also really far apart. So you may need to make a trip just to go there, which doesn't seem that appealing. It seems like you almost have to drive there, and it's far, so there's another time suck. Just lots of little things that seems like it's hard to go to the area. No so much hard but when I think about doing a trip there VS somewhere else, the other place wins out.

Awesome looking trip! Zion's still one of my favorite parks. I'm at 47/50. Will probably try to get to ND and SD this year, then hopefully Alaska next year too, and that would be all 50! We may go to Japan in 2023 which would push Alaska to 2024.

I might have been someone money a (non garage queen) GN with a stock turbo on it no longer existed. Cool car!

Trying to look at this from outside. So, you're basically asking a 'friend of a friend of a friend' to give someone a car at below market value? That class/size of car's only going to be even more inflated right now due to tater's emotionally reacting the fuel prices. I did a quick AutoTrader search of just Civics. I imagine you might have more luck with the others due to possibly higher depreciation. There are Zero on AutoTrader in that area. Only half a dozen in Columbus area and they all look like they are at (shady?) used car lots. https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/all-cars/cars-under-20000/honda/civic/portsmouth-oh-43214?dma=&searchRadius=50&priceRange=&location=&startYear=2017&marketExtension=include&maxMileage=50000&isNewSearch=true&showAccelerateBanner=false&sortBy=relevance&numRecords=25 This one could be a deal, but Alpha Motorsports sounds like Denny Dotson... maybe worse if the owner imagines themself as an Alpha https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/vehicledetails.xhtml?listingId=629951921&allListingType=all-cars&maxPrice=20000&priceRange=&makeCodeList=HONDA&modelCodeList=CIVIC&city=Columbus&state=OH&zip=43214&location=&searchRadius=50&startYear=2017&marketExtension=include&maxMileage=50000&isNewSearch=false&showAccelerateBanner=false&sortBy=relevance&numRecords=25&dma=&referrer=%2Fcars-for-sale%2Fall-cars%2Fcars-under-20000%2Fhonda%2Fcivic%2Fportsmouth-oh-43214%3Fdma%3D%26searchRadius%3D50%26priceRange%3D%26location%3D%26startYear%3D2017%26marketExtension%3Dinclude%26maxMileage%3D50000%26isNewSearch%3Dfalse%26showAccelerateBanner%3Dfalse%26sortBy%3Drelevance%26numRecords%3D25&clickType=supplemental I had an EX-T MT of a similar year (and an Si a year or two later) and really liked it. The base car get's a 2.0L n/a and the 'upgarde' is a 1.5L turbo, noticeably more power and better MPGs.

Let's go!

http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=744&pictureid=6098

You can find the size of both of them at this link.

I'm not crying, you're crying.

Didn't really mean to say HQ, or realize it was moved to CA, just that they have a presence there. Everyone I've known to go there seems to be moving out to CA, so makes sense the HQ is there now. A buddy I worked with who's in CA w/Rivian now posted he used one for holiday vacation trip to see family in FL, so seems like it's a thing they are doing.

If they don't get Owen Wilson for commericals I'm going to be disapointed.

Rivian's HQ is in Detroit, their plan is in Normal IL (old DSM plant), and quite a few from the auto industry in central Ohio went to work for Rivian. From what I can also gather, they seem to be allowing some employee's to use/drive the cars on long trips, probably as a kind of test. I think they are going to use the Electrify America chargers, so I imagine they are seeing how long distance trips with their cars on that network work. Not too far fetched to think someone is back in Central Ohio who worked in the auto industry here is now working for Rivian and back visiting friends or family.

By the way, when he mentions Functional Safety this is (very likely) what he's talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_26262

No worries, to be fair you could always use the 'I didn't start it' defense here.

How did you know my plan?

So when is it actually closing, might the carts be open in the spring? Would be fun to go there one last time and just wreck into each other since the employees probably won't care.

Craig, thanks again for walking me through your process! I really appreciate the call. Went to the local commission meeting and it was also interesting. There were 4 garage variances brought up at the zoning and variance committee last week, 2 were recommended and 2 weren't (voted down). However after that they all still go to the local commission. They all passed pretty easily at the commission meeting yesterday. My local commissioner did voice his opinion that he doesn't like the taller garages, however he did still vote 2 of them up. So that could be a hurdle. He did seem reasonable so I hope with our story, why we are doing what we are doing VS some other way that wouldn't need a variance, we can win him over. I could follow them to the BZA but I don't imagine they'll see any issues there.

So, I'll preface this and say all people should be treated with respect and make a livable wage. However the reality is those people where snowboard/ski bum lifties with little more than a high school degree. Not in the same realm as someone skiing down a 40-50 degree slope with explosives on their back, placing them and running away from the avalanche they just purposefully created.

Nobody on ski patrol there makes any money, it's all volunteer. Your friend is either an idiot or lying, but probably both. Ski patrol anywhere is basically a losing proportion from a cost/pay standpoint. Ski Patrols all over the west have been fighting with companies (Vail mostly?) over pay. These people can out-ski most people on the planet with a toboggan behind them, have life saving skills and often some other third significant skill like avalanche control using explosives or munitions. One place out there is fighting for starting pay of $17/hr and the company offered $15/hr. All of that skill for $15/hr in a place where $1million might get you a shack.

Thanks! That's no joke. If it were just the code and city I wouldn't be so concerned. My experience with permits and inspections has been really good. But so far these committees and commissions seems much closer to HOAs than I care to admit. Finally while I get the appeal of country living, especially in this situation, I'll still take these hurdles and limits since it means I can walk to bars and restaurants. Additionally I think/hope the city codes will catch up to the reality of Columbus becoming and needing to be more dense, reflect the need for increase flexibility us use of space for things like ADUs soon.

Perfect, I'll include this in my conversations with other contractors.

That'd be awesome Craig! Sending you a PM with my #.

Understand, I agree it makes sense to use you all for what you are comfortable with. Is your image to do everything past somewhere around framing, sheeting or house wrap/roof felt? I'll talk to the companies I'm going to have conversations with to see if they are comfortable with doing the first 'half' of the project and you all do the rest.

Probably lots of people in UA trying to do habitable space; an apartment with kitchen(ete). Similar issues here, usually not allowed detached. Worries of ADUs (accessory dwelling units) turning into apartments or worse... gasp... Airbnbs. With both house and garage being low sloped roofs and only 1.5 story, to get the spaces to connect, best case we would have to move the garage forward about 15' which starts to cause some real problems. Namely too short driveway at only 35' total, but that's especially an issue on the left side not having enough room to pull into with the tree there. The tree is a beautiful mature Japanese maple that I might chain myself to if someone tried to take it out. At any rate I'm not trying to make habitable space, but it could be a backdoor to more space regardless of how classified. I'm going to keep mulling this one over to see if there's some way to make it work. Edit: By breezeway do you mean elevated connected walk walk or kind of enclose (or not) porch connecting at ground level? I'll have to check but I don't believe the code 'cares' about breezeways other than probably calculating yard coverage% and getting some taxes out of it. What I mean is I believe it doesn't then work as an attached garage, maybe other than needing fire rating on the connecting wall (just a guess). I imagine it may only work if the 'habitable' spaces were 'directly' connected, which in my last paragraph is what I was referencing about connecting at the 2nd story. With a connection at ground level this also won't work with our current image, the 'habitable' spaces wouldn't be connected. It's not so much about cost, of course at some point it always is, and this is already going to be an expensive project. Likely closing in that lower left half would be relatively inexpensive. But it's much more about code and what we can get variances for. Code is <15ft high, <720sqft. We'll already be asking for a variance on (probably) both of those. But if you want 15.5' and 721 sq ft they probably won't bat an eye, but if you want 1500 sq ft. 20' roof and fully habitable space it'll very likely be rejected. The variance and zoning committee approved 2 garages that were mostly height variances, but the two that also had significantly more space and plumbing were rejected. Of those one was only a bathroom for office space, which seemed like overreach by the committee to me. That committee is not the final say, the commission meeting is on Thursday and I plan to attend it to see if any of the rejections get accepted. Additionally I'm kind of getting stuck on that being outdoor kitchen space to match our future image of how to build that backyard space out. I know you've only been to our place once, but if you remember the back of the house is the renovated dining/kitchen and the back right is the French doors. So my 'master' image is to essentially connect these spaces for when we have people over. Phil, meant to reference this image last night but was winding down for the day. http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1090&pictureid=9932