GlimpseOfUs

Father, Family Historian, Woodworker, Cook, Traveler, and Hokie.

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Introductions

I’ve become much more active on X/Twitter since Elon Musk bought the company, so I thought that I’d introduce myself.

My name is Justin and I’m a few weeks away from turning 51 years old. I grew up in the cornfields of rural Northern Illinois, and I have lived in Virginia since 1990. I’m a proud Hokie. I founded a boutique consulting business about 15 years ago which is how I earn a living. I have two children from a previous marriage. I have a fantastic and beautiful girlfriend named Debbie.

I’m looking to make connections with cool folks. I like traveling and the outdoors, from-scratch cooking, fine woodworking, camping/RV’ing, and gardening. I write about my occasional adventures from this interesting life I live, which is quickly transitioning to a life with adult children.

Thus the handle: “Glimpse Of Us”

Have any questions? Ask away!

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@N3QEH It helps to understand how a lock works, too. I learned to rekey my locks instead of paying the locksmith.

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Update: I gave up for the day.

I broke the torx (star) tool trying to remove the first bolt on front rotors.

I moved to the rear brakes. I don’t feel like I’ve lost my strength, but I could not get the caliper bolts off. There’s just no room to get more leverage.

I might just pay someone. I’ve changed brakes and rotors about 18-15x on various other vehicles but never had these problems.

A little disappointed, but I may retry tomorrow.

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@BrotherBoaz @augustagarei I chose neighborhood peace over getting involved.

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@0nly1Melo @ill_Scholar @augustagarei Yeah, you got it, it’s a tough situation.

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@PunkyCovfefe @ThinkAppraiser Crown Jewels getting squeezed. He may need something for the pain after that experience.

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@denisebparsons @augustagarei Guy on Right bought home sight unseen and had no idea where the property line was located until this feud started.

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Ok, here’s the full story. Left’s property line goes all the way to Right’s driveway and in front of Right’s house. Until I understood the whole story, I said that I wouldn’t have done that. But Left’s septic system is positioned near Right’s driveway, and they couldn’t run the fence across the septic field, so Left had no choice but to follow his property line.

In Left’s defense, he did discuss the fence installation and the issue of the septic and where the fence would be routed with Right. Right didn’t raise any issues until after the fence was installed and the neighbors got involved. Neighbors didn’t want any fence and lashed out at Left. Right played victim. It’s still a sore spot.

Both are great guys. They would have worked it out had the neighbors stayed out of it.

You can see the routing of the fence posts in the photo.

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@ill_Scholar @augustagarei Left did nothing wrong. Right’s feelings were hurt.

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@Create_Profit It’s 1999 all over again.

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@rossiadam Did you hear about the Ashburn neighborhood marketing as a group their homes and community for a data center payday?

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@myersbradley I was just talking with my wife about the crazy valuations for this IPO. With -$5 billion in losses in 2025, my accountant brain cannot process a $1.75 Trillion valuation.

Reminds me of 1999 and the dot com days.

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No one ever believes me until I show them the evidence, but my ex wife used to drop $5,000/month at the grocery store and $3,000/month at “Walmart/Target”.

It used to drive me crazy, because it never made sense. She never could explain it, but she was also protective of her grocery shopping.

Once we divorced, my grocery bill dropped to about $600-800 per month for two teenagers.

To this day, I cannot figure out how she could spend that much.

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@myersbradley @DeItaone It’s good to see someone else who can see through the BS in both parties. It’s actually a rare quality.

At least with Trump you know who makes the call. With Biden, I could never tell.

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@wbridgefa Amazing they’ve taught themselves some very complicated stuff.

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@Breaking911 Call in @rossiadam to assist! Me? No thank you!!

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Similar experience:

My cousin’s husband retired Jan 2025. They went on a cruise! Fun. We he returned, his ribs hurt and eventually went to the doctor. He had broken ribs! How did that happen??! Cancer. He died a few weeks later.

Don’t wait to do the things you love. You just never know how much time is left.

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I’m very active today, but my 20-year-old son has been weightlifting and has inspired me to get back into it (just maybe not as heavy as I once did). Very much looking forward to that. We also love to travel (just returned from a trip to Norway with my two adult children and my daughter’s friend), and have a bunch of travel plans in the works. I have an RV that makes US travel inexpensive. I also have a rich family history that no one of my generation and younger knows anything about, so I started to write it all down a few years ago but I’ve barely scratched the surface in terms of all the history. I figure between fitness, travel, family, and writing, that should keep me very busy in the near term.

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I bought my first home at age 28, and 25 years later I still live in the same home.

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@myersbradley How is retirement treating you? Any tips?