Quotes About Maintenance

Men were like cars – they were absolutely lovely until they went wrong.

The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!

Children exhaust us, even the ones we love most. Our solitude is the most valuable thing we have, and we cherish it above most other things and work hard to maintain it.

Keep an eye out for the basics, such as putting taller plants on the north side of the box. Put plants that require a lot of attention, grooming, or harvesting (such as bush beans) near the outside and low-maintenance plants (such as radishes and carrots, which you can plant and pull) in the inside squares.

The average lawn is an interesting beast: people plant it, then douse it with artificial fertilizers and dangerous pesticides to make it grow and to keep it uniform-all so that they can hack and mow what they encouraged to grow. And woe to the small yellow flower that rears its head!

The guy who scrapes boogers off the bottoms of movie theater seats Which

To me, legacy code is simply code without tests.

Remember, code is your house, and you have to live in it.

As the amount of code in a project grows, it gradually surpasses understanding. The amount of time it takes to figure out what to change just keeps increasing.

In a well-maintained system, it might take a while to figure out how to make a change, but once you do, the change is usually easy and you feel much more comfortable with the system. In a legacy system, it can take a long time to figure out what to do, and the change is difficult also.

simple things like taking an aspirin a day, drinking a glass of red wine with dinner, and taking the right vitamins in the proper amounts are quick, easy, and painless ways to make your cardiovascular system healthier.

As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Trump, tenants said, tried to force them out by annoying them. He proposed to move homeless people into at least ten vacant apartments; the city declined the generous offer. Maintenance workers ignored leaky faucets and broken appliances and covered up windows of empty apartments with ratty tinfoil. A tenants' group accused Trump of harassment, but he denied all. "Let me tell you something about the rich," he said. "They have a very low threshold for pain." After

I don't get it," she said. "No rules on anything, and this is the cleanest park I've ever seen. How?" "People care enough to maintain it," he explained as they went outside again, "and any vandalism is gone in less than a day, at the vandal's expense if he's found, so there is a real motivation against damaging things.

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

NEVER install carpet at the front door. Always put some kind of entry foyer–like tile or vinyl planks for folks to stomp and wipe their feet on when entering your rental house.

Always keep Rent as Rent and Repairs as Repairs and you won't go wrong.

Work Orders, Repair and Maintenance Requests are a golden opportunity for your service people to be your eyes and ears because they are basically doing an inspection for you on the exterior of your rental and the interior as well if the item in need of repair is inside their home.

Go ahead and invest a tad bit more and get a good quality, high-rise toilet. It will pay for itself in short order because they can flush bricks and gravel.

BOTTOM LINE on HVAC for Rentals – install the cheapest system. Both cheap HVAC and super expensive energy efficient systems can be destroyed in ruined from a dirty air filter and/or not keeping the system clean.

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches..., you are the same.

They learned that small programs, like small cars, handled better, were more adaptable, and were easier to maintain than large programs.

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.