@Snowman I think the "meow" comment was because my cat, Senator Snugglebum, was meowing throughout the video of my siding. He wanted me to pet him. LOL.
I do have siding clips and have some of the cable in siding clips, but some of the cable is no longer in use and needs to be removed. Part of the reason the newest internet cable is not fully in siding clips is because it got stuck up in the tree when we were running it. Once that tree is gone we can properly clip it to the house-- and get rid of extraneous cables.
It's been pointed out to me that the AC people didn't even look for the source of the coolant leak for my AC and I understand why. But I have no idea where to look for it either. he told me he put dye in it and that a black light will show it but shrugged when I asked where to look.
At least I got my brother on board with cleaning while he's unemployed. Although, he lectured me about being "unreasonable" with wanting some of the renovations to be "up to code" and that its perfectly fine if stuff isn't up to code and I told him that no, code is bare minimum and I'm not going to have the work done so badly that it is a danger but he doesn't get that. Apparently our friend said he could fix some stuff but not do it to code and it would be done really badly but up to his standards. Yeah, on his own house that's fine, but I want to have a proper header on my back door and he thinks that is a waste of time/materials. But then, he's always having to fix stuff bc it wasn't done properly in the first place. I don't want us having problems bc of a half-arsed job. Wanting a proper header in a load-bearing wall is not being unreasonable.
Meanwhile, just found out a mutual friend died this morning. She was only 32.
Amish, Oh, I agree that being off her meds and being abused as a child are no excuse for her to repeat the cycle. It might be slightly mitigating in court, but the damning part for her is that the therapist told her that she is dangerous when off her meds and that she HAD to take her meds and that if she didn't she WOULD be abusive to a baby. So if she chose to NOT take her meds while knowing that, then it is on her. She has zero impulse control and goes from being happy to enraged in a split second. If she's been off the meds then I absolutely believe its possible she's the one who hurt the baby. I also think its unlikely that the baby's father hurt the baby given his history of actually taking care of infants and children without incident. But, if he knew she was being abusive and didn't report it, he's on the hook too. but the ex was able to avoid being physically abusive with the oldest infant when she knew people were looking. She would do stuff when she thought no one was looking though. So she knows right from wrong. She has a previous arrest for violence against a minor in the past (although that was self defense bc she was being attacked and the minor was larger and heavier than her) so it won't be a first offense and she's looking at serious jailtime. She was showing signs of growing and improving prior to this so IF she did this then it really sucks that she did that to innocent children & that she essentially threw her life away.