He hasn’t won the MVP since 2013. 2nd in voting 2020, 3rd in 2016, 2015. 10th in 2022. 13th in 2021. He just isn’t the same player or as clutch as late as Kobe was. He has the most playoff buzzer beaters in NBA history, but that’s all 20+ years.
According to this, he’s the 17th clutch player this year:
People who misuse the word “ambivalent”.
Ambivalent <> Indifferent
Oh, while we are at it, let’s add the word “peruse”. No, it does not mean to skim or quickly review.
I’m ambivalent about the word peruse.
Please clarify and expound on your feeling of ambivalence. Thanks. 
He would, but it’s a mute point.
(figured I could slip in one of my own pet peeves as well)
I wish had some mute points… specifically tranquilizer darts, preferably the blow dart variety.
Those could come in handy, especially if I get any kind of warning of certain individuals getting off the elevator and heading my way.
I would even provide a little Kindergarten blankey and a pillow, and milk and cookies for when they wake up.
This may be mute, but feeling ambient is kind of a background thing. 
haha…we have a few funny peeps here. That’s funtastic!
I have nothing to say, that’s my mute point.
I’ve mentioned it before in this thread, but it bears repeating. Finding anyone to either bid on or actually complete home repair or renovation work is absolute nightmare right now.
With my oldest getting her license soon, we’re looking at pouring a concrete pad so she has somewhere to park the car. This isn’t a small job, and would involve tearing out the entire east side of my yard and pouring around 2,500 square feet of concrete. I’ve now called 10 places to get estimates, and have had ONE call me back. He did give me a bid (that about made me choke) but I have nothing to compare it to and can’t get anyone else to come give me a comparative bid.
As part of this project, we’re looking to have a large section of our vinyl fence moved from the front of the house to the back. We also need to replace two gates, one 4’ gate that broke in half during a windstorm and a larger 12’ gate that will open to the backyard. I’ve called or left messages for a dozen fencing companies and again, ONE called back. He came out and gave me a bid last week, letting me know that I’d need to schedule the job quickly to avoid price increases due to tariffs. I called, texted, and e-mailed him on Tuesday to get the work scheduled…still haven’t heard back yet.
I’m literally trying to give these companies my money to do the work they’re in business to do, and they all make it nearly impossible to do so. Maybe they’re all just SO busy with other work that they can’t be bothered, but that doesn’t seem likely.
I’m frustrated beyond belief.
And then when you do finally get someone to do the work, often they start and then disappear for days at a time, leaving your job in limbo.
Where are you located? I might have someone in North SLC for you.
I hear you. Our shower pan failure and subsequent restoration job began on Halloween and finally ended with the last payment to the prime contractor, who actually hadn’t been doing any additional work since January 4, last Monday. Their main sub was a classic case of inefficiency. He’d do some work, run off to look at another job, and maybe come back. He had to do three serious reworks. He would do things like grout tile, not clean it up immediately, leave for a couple of hours, then have to work five times as hard cleaning up the now hardened excess. The cash management of the prime blows me away. Why would they want to spend the money but not collect it? It’s crazy.
Since we have rentals it’s essential to, “have a guy.” We thought we’d found a good one for painting. He did the main floor of our house before we moved in and did great. He and his crew did the exterior of our 3plex last year and did a significantly better job than CertaPro did five years prior. (There’s a hint there on why we’re not CertaPro fans.) Suddenly he’s vanished. His cell phone isn’t working and his business FB page is gone. Guess what, he had a whole crew of Hispanics. I have no idea of any of their immigration statuses, but we can assume that’s a factor.
Expect this problem to get a lot worse.
Skiny, I hear ya. Everyone I know who has dealt with contractors has industrial quantities of frustration to express, including me: one and a half years to get a 2-week job completed.
I’m over it now, but in hindsight, maybe - just maybe - we too often make these things more complicated and aggravating than they need to be.
This all started with needing an extra parking spot, right?
There’s a super simple solution, one that also has the significant benefit of protective virtue signaling, in case society unravels: Just park on the front lawn.
I’m with you, I’m not wired to do that, but maybe millions of years of hunter-gatherer pragmatism is seeping through my DNA.
I don’t drive very much, so she can park in the driveway behind my car (in the garage) for now until we can find someone to do the work.
South Jordan, just east of Daybreak. Definitely open to any recommendations.
I’ll add another recent example. In mid-Nov we had a garage door break at our 3plex. We called a guy we’d used before, but he’s now hooked up with one of those broker-like companies that routes work to whomever is available. Nice guy comes out, says he can just replace the top panel, but it must be ordered so that’s a three week lead time. Three weeks go by, no word. We call to ask and the girl on the phone says she’ll check and call back. She didn’t. Call again a week later, and the girl says it’s on order. Three or four days later we get an email saying they’ve placed an order for the part and it will be in in about three weeks. Part comes in early January and they come to install it. The panel doesn’t match the bracing, so now they say we need a whole new door. Lead time is four weeks. Finally the last week of February a different garage door company guy shows up and gets the new door installed in about 90 minutes.
In my opinion there are some basic causes of clusters like this. Incompetent routing middleman companies, for one. You are never talking to someone who actually does work so you never get a straight story. The other is just-in-time supply chains. Nobody actually carries inventory any more. You always have to wait on parts. Buy a new washer at Lowe’s? That will be a week to ten days out. A standard size garage panel? Three weeks?!? Tile for our bathroom project was two weeks. Shower fixture, two weeks. Glass shower surround, six weeks and dependent on tile being done.
The country seems to have lost the ability to do anything well, and we’ve done it while claiming we’re more efficient and better than everyone else. SMH.
They are putting in Google Fiber in our neighborhood. Before they started digging they came around and put fliers on everyone’s doors giving you a number you can call if there are issues. When they dug the hole in my yard they didn’t cover it up when they did all the rest of the holes in other folks yards. So, I called the number. It wasn’t local, and they had no idea what was going on, they said they would get back to me and never did. I finally flagged down one of the workers who was in another part of the neighborhood and he came and fixed the problem.
Just sent you a DM.
Sometimes a good handyman can do jobs like those.