#one video was 4 hrs -SCREECHES-

[guhamun]

Everyone: -done with the story quest in G.e Impact-

Me: -takes 5 yrs-

[johannstutt413]

(now that I have the power you cannot stop me) HoloMyth Comes to Rhodes Island

“ShrimpNGrits, thank you.” It was a normal Donation Reading - an end-of-stream ritual to not only give something back to the fans who took the time out of their day and the money out of their wallets to watch a shark girl play video games or sing or, well, whatever Gawr Gura decided to do that day. Honestly, when you have nearly 4 million subscribers, it’d be harder to find something no one would watch, but just the fact she’d gotten that far sometimes was a shock. Where was she? Donations, yeah. “TakoCat, thank you. Dr. Mobius Loop, thank you. ‘Hey, look behind you, is that a portal?’ thank you. Man, you guys have some weird names-”

*BZZZT* The power went out before she could rag on those weird names in earnest.

‘Well, guess someone’s calling the power company.’ As the shork bumbled around her pitch-black room trying to find her cell phone in the abyss, she found herself tumbling into another. For once, the shrimps had been right: there WAS a portal behind her.

As she yelled like a teapot being hurled from the Empire State Building just after boiling, Gura instinctually clutched for her trident - and found it there, for once. ‘Huh. You haven’t done that since we first became a landlubber.’ “Did ya bring Bloop with ya, too?”

“KICKY RICKY!” A familiar tako’s voice called as Takanashi Kiara and Ninomae Ina’nis swooped into view from…somewhere. “Oh, Gura, did you find the portal I sent you?”

“That was you?! Aw, man, I was about to beat Radahn!” Calliope Mori could’ve been more upset at this turn of events, admittedly, as she glided through the void on Ricky the scythe.

At least Gura wasn’t by herself, but none of what they’d said explained what’d happened. “Why’d you send a portal to my room?”

“Didn’t you get my message?” The tako tapped her watch hand, although she wasn’t wearing a watch at the moment. “Ame needs someone to pick her up from another timeline.”

“How’d that happen?!”

Amelia Watson, hanging onto Ricky with her right hand, asked, “Yeah, Ina, how’d that happen?”

“Oh, hi, Ame.” Wait…Shit. “Wait, Ame?”

“Yeah, I didn’t send a message. Where’s this portal going?” The detective pulled herself on top of her new ride with Calli’s help.

Gura chimed in, “Where are we going, Ina?”

“Yeah, where are we going?” The reaper echoed. “The air smells weird. Like…the Underworld.”

“What’s that smell like?” The shork asked. She smelled blood, at least.

Calli shrugged. “Blood, ash, horn polish - the usual.”

“Alright, I figured out where we’re going!” Ina summoned a tentacle to help her explain. “The message was from another dimension and got accidentally routed to me.”

“Your new laptop really is weird if it’s doing that,” Ame remarked, shaking her head.

The tentacle helpfully thumped her forehead as the priestess continued. “The Ancient Ones mixed up my inbox with someone else’s. It looks like we’re going to a place called Terra.”

“Terra?” The phoenix’s eyes flared. Literally. Smoke and everything. Kind of hard to see through for a second there. “You mean thaaaat Terra?”

“I think so? The message was actually from someone called Amiya, so it-”

Kiara was squealing as the portal-trip came to a screeching halt; five Hololives spilled onto the ground - not quite linoleum, but pretty close to it - from a jagged rift in front of a very confused girl with bunny ears wearing a blue-and-black jacket.

Not too long after they arrived, the Doctor walked into his office to find Amiya conversing with five very confused-looking individuals. “Fresh blood?” He asked, closing the door behind him as he walked up to his assistant/daughter/rescuer. “I don’t remember seeing their profiles from HR, though.”

“We uh…took a wrong turn?” Gura offered in reply.

“Amiya’s name is close to mine, and her Old Gods-” Amelia pointed at Ina “-thought I needed someone to take me back from here to our home timeline, so she grabbed all of them while I was coming back from buying groceries. If I hadn’t seen her message in the group chat, I wouldn’t even be here.”

Calli had to admit, “It was a good pun, though.”

“It was like a 6 out of 10.”

“Um, girls, can we try to look a little more disorganized?” Kiara cleared her throat. “Since we have to wait for the Ancient Ones to send another portal back for us, we’ll be in your care until then, Doctor!”

He, as usual, took all the insanity in stride. “Well, in that case, welcome to Rhodes Island. Since you know who I am-”

“I don’t,” Calli, Ame, and Gura said in unison.

“Where are we exactly? It feels like we’re on a ship.” The shork added. “The air’s not very salty, though.”

Ninomae Ina’nis had been trained for this very moment, but Amiya took the lead. “Rhodes Island is a pharmaceutical company specializing in the treatment of Oripathy…”

The impromptu initiation to the world of Terra - led by Amiya with input from the Doctor, Kiara, and Ina at various points - was enough for the doofus noobs who’d never touched the game back on Earth to get the basics: rock disease killed people, RI didn’t want everyone to die to rocks, trying to find a cure, something something critical player in international politics and staffed with people who ranged from adopted orphans and refugees who just wanted to earn a day’s pay to CEOs, high priestesses, fragments of deities, and a SWAT team from another reality (no clarification given on what that meant, although the words ‘Team Rainbow’ gave some of them an idea of who they meant). There was initially some concern about Amelia and Calli - Kiara, Gura, and Ina could pretty easily blend in as a Liberi and two Aegir - but as they were talking, the priestess’ halo floated over to the detective’s head, and the reaper…well.

“You did say you’d be a ring-tailed lemur,” Ame chuckled from her new Sankta disguise.

“If I yeet you, maybe the Ancient Ones will send Council to pick us up,” Callemur Moringtail replied with a half-hearted glare. It was just a few things - her makeup blending into dark circles around her eyes and a pink-and-black-striped tail - but the rest of Myth knew what’d happened. “And that was a joke, really!”

In a more supportive vein, the phoenix offered, “You can say you’re an Anaty on your profile, at least?”

“Oh, right, codenames! We need codenames.” Yet another moment the priestess had been trained for long ago.

“Is ‘Ringtail’ taken?” Gura asked, earning her a light yeeting as the reaper actually did pick her up and toss her onto the couch. “Oi!”

The Doctor chuckled. “They’ll fit right in. We’ll start with you, Ms. Kiara.”

“UH, uhhmmmuhh…Shit, is there a list of ones that are free?”

“Kiara would work, if you’re having trouble with ideas,” Amiya offered from the Doctor’s desk; she’d started working on their profiles as the conversation had drifted, having just finished putting down ‘Calliope Mori, Anaty, Codename ___. “Would that be alright?”

She shrugged. “It’s better than what I was coming up with.”

“Ooh! Can I be Watson, then?” Ame had hers figured out if that was the case.

“Yes, that’s fine.” The Cautus wrote it in next to “Amelia Watson, Sankta(?)”

Gura, for the first time the rest of Myth had known her, was wistful as she said her codename for the first time: “Atlantis.”

“...You know they’ll get us back home eventually, right?” Watson asked her.

“I know,” Atlantis sighed as Amiya made it official, “but this isn’t the first home I’ve had to leave, you know?”

The detective hugged her shoulder. “Yeah. I know the feeling.”

“Memento? You know, like ‘memento mori?’ I think that works.” Calli had her answer.

“That one has been taken already, unfortunately.” The reaper felt like yeeting Gura again. “The full phrase you said is free, however.”

That would work. “People can just keep calling me Mori, I guess.”

“Alright, Ina, let’s hear it!” Kiara leaned in, nudging Ina’s shoulder. “You’re great at these!”

“Takodachi.”

Amiya innocently typed the entry as the rest of Myth stared at her. “Seriously?” The phoenix asked, incredulous.

“I’m not a human, I’m a tako.” She pointed to her head-flaps with a wink. “Your friendly octopus shrine maiden, Deepcolor’s cousin, the Aegir from Higashi, Takodachi~”

“How do you know Deepcolor? Or anything about our world, for that matter, when your fellows don’t?” The Doctor inquired.

Ina smirked. “Kiara and I have had this world on our bucket list for a while. Anything else you need from us?”

“Right now? No, I don’t think so. However,” he gestured over to Amiya, “if there’s anything you need from us, you can always come by the office, and I’ll probably start you off working with me over the next couple weeks so we can get to know each other better. Do we know where we’re putting them, Amiya?”

“We have room in the southeast wing for all five of them to share a block. I can show them if you’d like?” The Cautus got up from the computer, tablet in hand.

The Doctor nodded. “We’ll make it a field trip. I have a couple other questions before I chain myself to the keyboard, anyway.”

“Then if I may?” Amiya handed him the tablet before standing in front of Amiya, offering her hand. “Welcome to Rhodes Island, Operator Watson.”

“Hololive’s Number One Detective is on the case!” Watson shook her hand with a massive grin.

“Welcome to Rhodes Island, Operator Atlantis.”

“I am here, and I’m starting to get hungry. Can we get lunch when we’re done?”

“Welcome to Rhodes Island, Operator Memento Mori…Just Mori, going forward?”

M&M nodded. “I’m your Mori, and I know I’ll remember this meeting.”

“Welcome to Rhodes Island, Operator Takodachi.”

“Humu humu. I’ve been looking forward to coming here for a while, even if this wasn’t what I had in mind. Your friendly Aegir from Higashi, Takodachi, at your service~”

“And welcome to Rhodes Island, Operator Kiara.”

Tenchou went to shake the Cautus’ hand but found herself hugging her instead. “This is so cool! I have soooo many people to talk to! Ooh, maybe we can do collabs if we can get a longer portal here, Ina?”

“...She’s so warm.” Amiya stepped back from the hug because they had other things to do, but she could get used to that. “Um, shall we be on our way?”

“Sounds good to me. Everyone ready?”

Rhodes Island’s latest squad stepped out of the Doctor’s office and into the wider ship for the first time. For three of them, it was a world far away from home; for two of them, it was an isekai moment the likes of which they’d only dreamed about.

And for the Doctor, who always appreciated when more cute girls joined his organization, it was a slightly more interesting than usual Tuesday.

[stvrwar]

wait out the plastic weather

marauders social media au | 2k words | they’re youtubers bc why not and bc @frxddi is up this trope’s ass | ao3

james potter to tucci gang: you guys see the newest vid

sirius black: you mean the newest video that all of us are fucking in

sirius black: that cideo?

sirius black: *video

remus lupin: the video you uploaded and sent all of us the link to like…twelve minutes ago?

peter pettigrew: I think he might mean that video

james potter: fuck all of you not that video

james potter: and it has a name. it is out cHILD

remus lupin: pardon me, I didn’t realize “getting kicked out of Walmart #4” fit on the birth certificate

james potter: I have small handwriting

remus lupin: my mistake

james potter: ur mistake indeed but

james potter: not our fucking video morons

peter pettigrew: ur unnecessarily mean to us

james potter: lily evans video. The woman of my dreams. The greatest youtuber to ever fucking live

sirius black: now that’s just hurtful

remus lupin: and also why the fuck would we have watched her video?

james potter: now who’s hurtful?

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remus lupin to so pete davidson and ariana grande are engaged and idk who I am anymore: sirius why is this our chat name now

sirius black: bc idk who I am anymore

peter pettigrew: is it bc ur in love with ariana grande

james potter: he loves ariana and he’s in love with pete

remus lupin: I can’t believe you’ve never told us

peter pettigrew: im touched

remus lupin: when’s the wedding?

sirius black: okay fuck all of u she is an icon and he is hilarious

james potter: ur face is hilarious

sirius black: im leaving you for him

james potter: babe no I didn’t mean it

sirius black: u’ve hurt me too many times

james potter: I promise I’ll change for you

remus lupin removed sirius black from the chat

remus lupin removed james potter from the chat

peter pettigrew: this happens like twice a fucking week

remus lupin: so how’ve you been pete?

peter pettigrew: pretty shook about that engagement tbh

remus lupin removed peter pettigrew from the chat

remus lupin: I am an island.

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sirius black to the office season 2 episode 7: yo Walmart 4 is on trending wtf

james potter: !!!!!!!!!

peter pettigrew: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

remus lupin: im not gonna do that

sirius black: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

james potter: what number is it on trending??? Is this twitter or youtube btw

sirius black: youtube and #6

remus lupin: shit that’s our best yet

peter pettigrew: anyone check the subscriber count recently????

sirius black: the marauders are at 3.1 million what the FUCK IS UP YO

remus lupin: im so surprised u aren’t key smashing

sirius black: is it because im gay

remus lupin: no it’s because u have massive thumbs and can’t text to save your life

remus lupin: yes because you’re gay

sirius black: that’s homophobic. Im not gay bc I keysmash

peter pettigrew: ??? neither of you are straight. ????

remus lupin: no you keysmash bc you’re gay

james potter: WE ARE TRENDING WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT THIS LATER

james potter changed chat name to BRAINSTORMING SESSION ASAP

sirus black: porn

james potter removed sirius black from the chat

peter pettigrew: tasteful porn so we don’t get demonetized

james potter: keep talking

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james potter to twinky winky is a great porn parody title why are you booing me: aquarium vid is a goooooooooooo

remus lupin: but the question is, can we live up to Walmart 4 hype

remus lupin: bc that shit is going insane online. People love it

remus lupin: we’re hoodlums, vandals

sirius lupin: loveable vandals and hoodlums

peter pettigrew: I feel like that’s debatable tbh

remus lupin: we as a collective whole have been kicked out of four separate walmarts

remus lupin: do you know how far I have to drive to get my fried chicken at 2 am

james potter: why the fuck are you getting fried chicken at 2 am

remus lupin: I don’t need this judgement

sirius black: so how’s the aquarium vid faring

peter pettigrew: u know what sirius is being the rational one for once and im too focused on the fried chicken to be amazed

remus lupin left twinky winky is a great porn parody title why are you booing me

peter pettigrew changed the chat name to colonel lupin’s fried chicken

sirius black: is it really that rare that im the rational one?

sirius black: jk ik im a messy bitch

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peter pettigrew to three’s company: uh. Guys has james seen this yet

peter pettigrew sent an image

remus lupin: oh fuck

sirius black: well I haven’t heard any high pitched screeching yet so, no

peter pettigrew: she’s got more subscribers than we do, it would be good for the channel

sirius black: she’s a video game streamer what sorta collab are we supposed to do with that

remus lupin: idk, maybe a vid on her channel, a vid on ours? She’s in the same city so like, shouldn’t be too hard, right?

sirius black: welp he’s screaming so he definitely has seen the comment now.

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james potter to chad and ryan were gay fuck you disney: “hey we should totally do a collab sometime! Message me :)”

sirius black: u have sent that TWELVE FUCKING TIMES NOW

sirius black: TWELVE

remus lupin: let the boy live

peter pettigrew: okay but the smiling is a little concerning tbh

remus lupin: @james potter have you even sent the fucked message yet? What did it say?

james potter: “hey! I’m so excited that you wanted to do a collab with us! I love your channel and doing something would be super great for both of us. Anything you had in mind?”

james potter: did I come off as a crazy person?

sirius black: in the best way possible

remus lupin: somehow that doesn’t feel like a compliment?

peter pettigrew: maybe you should use MORE exclamation points

james potter: stfu I am an expert at talking to the most beautiful woman in the world

sirius black: excuse me

james potter: I said woman

sirius black: tell me im pretty

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james potter to little pig boy comes from the dirt: fuck gotta clean this shit up

james potter changed chat name to the marauders group chat

sirus black: ??????????????? wtf

remus lupin: has james been bodyswapped

peter pettigrew: like the movie face/off with nic cage?

remus lupin: I feel like there are better examples of body swapping

james potter added lily evans to the marauders group chat

sirius black: oh fuck now that makes sense

remus lupin changed chat name to little pig boy comes from the dirt

lily evans: from that SNL skit?

lily evans: I fucking love pete davidson tbh even though he breaks in like every skit

lily evans: did you guys hear that he and ariana got engaged? Idk who I’m more jealous of

sirius black removed james potter from the chat

sirius black: she’s our new james

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peter pettigrew to owen wilson saying yeah for 2 hrs: drink every time someone comments about sirius’s appearance on a vid

james potter: “im a simple girl. I see sirius, I click.”

remus lupin: the words that will haunt my nightmare

james potter: the comments on the drag trying vid are…bonkers

peter pettigrew: who even says bonkers

lily evans: wow okay some of these commenters are…creative

james potter: by creative, do you mean terrifying?

lily evans: yes yes I do

remus lupin: I don’t even get it. He’s not that great looking?

sirius black: okay fuck you, u trick ass hoe

remus lupin: like, you cannot be everyone’s type

sirus black: trick ass hoe

remus lupin: im just being rational. You’re also like out. So who is thinking that saying they wanna have your babies is valid

lily evans: surrogacy?

peter pettigrew: sperm donation?

james potter: adoption?

remus lupin: fuck all of you individually and as a unit

sirius black: trick ass hoe

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lily evans to shake shake shake senora: okay just posted my collab vid let’s see how this goes

james potter: what did u end up calling it?

lily evans: “i teach 4 idiots how to play overwatch”

sirius black: harsh but fair

remus lupin: we didn’t do that badly

peter pettigrew: remus die with dignity we did fucking awful

james potter: idk what it meant when lily kept calling me a hanzo main and laughing but it felt hurtful

lily evans: good. It was.

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remus lupin to three rings to rule them all: so has james seen that people are shipping him and lily yet

remus lupin: because we should NOt let him know about that

peter pettigrew: he’d fucking cry

sirius black: theyd be called lames

sirius black: ha

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sirius black to james potter: dude you gotta stop staring at lily when she comes over for pizza nights

sirius black: she’s gonna notice

sirius black: or like stop pretending that she isn’t noticing

james potter: wait you think she’s noticed

sirius black: christ you dumbass

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lily evans to marlene mckinnon: you seen my newest collab with the marauders

marlene mckinnon: we’re roommates, obvi

marlene mckinnon: did u steal my lipstick

lily evans: okay but like. The comments

lily evans: …………………………………..what of it

marlene mckinnon: gonna kill u evans <3

marlene mckinnon: okay wow they really want u to get all up on glasses

lily evans: that one’s potter

marlene mckinnon: they want u to climb him like a tree

marlene mckinnon: do the horizontal tango

marlene mckinnon: netflix and chill

lily evans: these are getting less clever

marlene mckinnon: suck his dick

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peter pettigrew to wwlbd (what would leonard bernstein do): uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh guys we are on tv

peter pettigrew: TV LIKE WE ARE ON FUCKIN TV

peter pettigrew: TELEVISION

sirius black: what

james potter: what

remus lupin: what

peter pettigrew: OKAY like not us but like. Our video. Walmart #4

remus lupin: great now everyone’s gonna know we’re fucking vandals

james potter: im fucking crying

sirius black: IM FUCKING CRYING

peter pettigrew: oh shit now it’s the video with @Lily Evans

peter pettigrew: we are being called charming and loveable with an “adoring” fanbase

lily evans: oh my god??????????? How’d you (we) even end up on tv

peter pettigrew: idfk! Some like...social media segment or something

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sirius black to smonk wed: settle a bet for me

remus lupin: christ here we go

sirius black: I don’t appreciate the tone

remus lupin: christ! Here we go!

sirius black: whatver, acceptable, james wants to bone lily

remus lupin: uh

peter pettigrew: that be known

remus lupin: u know this isn’t the three man chat right

lily evans: uh

james potter removed sirius black from the chat

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peter pettigrew to remus owes me like $20 and some triscuits: who ate all my freezy pops

sirius black: who the fuck calls them freezy pops

remus lupin: who let you back into any of the chats

sirius black: fuk u m8

james potter: he was crying so i let him back in

sirius black: and lily isn’t in this chat so i can say all the shit i want

james potter: i wish u wouldn’t

remus lupin: seconded

peter pettigrew removed sirius black from the chat

james potter: problem solved! peter pettigrew: okay but who ate my freezy pops

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lily evan to james potter: so are we going to talk about it

james potter: about what precisely

lily evans: the revolution of the moon and the fact it’s made of cheese?

james potter: ah yes, it’s swiss btw

lily evans: the moon?

james potter: clearly

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COMMENTS ON “THE MARAUDERS TRY DRAG FT. LILY EVANS (EVANSLY)

Chaitea7: oh my god why the fuck is sirius so pretty im jealous wtf

Janeyloo: okay but anybody else picking up on the tension between james and the redhead??

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                            4marauderssssss: @Janeyloo that’s lily evans, she’s                                        another youtuber and she’s fucking great

                            dva-main3: they are definitely a thing, i agree

                            greektragdy: okay but does this make their ship name                                       lames? LIMES?

thomasthetrainbdsm: is wormtail ever gonna make another appearance? I love that funky little rat

dwightkshroooot: okay but why isn’t lily actually a like...try vlogger like these guys? she outdid sirius which is like. Unheard of.

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                             dianaprinces234: like i never thought id see the day

                             yalldve: she looks so good wtf im shook

dhfakjshdgljdsl: i want lily evans to step on me and i would                              say thank you

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                             honeynutcheetos: p sure james thinks the same thing lmao

                             011000110110000101110100: lmao right???? Im so gay

                            TheMarauders: I definitely think the same thing -James                                     Potter

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How Does a Garage Door Spring Break

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How Does a Garage Door Spring Break

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How Does a Garage Door Spring Break

One of the most common reasons for your garage door breaking down is because of your garage door spring.

The garage door spring is a very important component of your entire system as it is one of the things that make it possible to open your garage doors.

It supports your door’s weight and provides enough torque power to actually open your door.

But exactly how does a garage door spring break?

Most of the time we only know of the different countermeasures to do when the garage door’s spring breaks. Furthermore, we don’t have the reason why this happens.

Giving us a better understanding of the reason behind why our garage door springs are breaking down us will allow us to formulate prevention measures to stop or delay this from happening.

So, without further ado, let us find out together why our garage door springs are breaking down on us.

Reasons why your garage door spring breaks

There are a lot of possibilities as to why your garage door’s springs are breaking down on you. However, below are the most common reasons as to why this is happening to you.

#1 Wear and Tear

The top reason by far up to know as to why your garage door is breaking down is due to wear and tear.

When garage door springs were invented, its creators had somewhat of a lifespan for it in mind. Just like everything else in this world, garage door springs were created with an expiry date on it.

The closer you get to this so-called expiry date, the more issues surface on your garage door – screeching noises, slow operation, etc.

Even if springs were designed to last 10,000 cycles, due to the fact that it is being used day and day to open your heavy garage doors makes its duration a bit shorter than expected.

Disappointing, I know, but nothing we can do about it. When your garage door spring breaks down on you, all you can do is replace it with a new one to keep your garage door functioning as usual.

You may check this video below to help you replace your garage door’s spring if you want to.

#2 Rusting of the spring’s surface

On to number two. Another reason why your garage door’s spring is breaking down faster than it should be is possibly due to rust formation.

Just like every other metalwork out there, rust can speed up significantly the wearing out process of your springs.

The corrosion on the spring’s surface will only serve to weaken the coils further resulting in wearing out more quickly than usual.

To prevent this from happening, you can apply lubrication on your garage door’s spring preventing the moisture from forming on its surface.

Keep it lubricated regularly and rusting will never be a problem for you at all. Not only that, this action can even extend your spring’s life expectancy.

#3 Lack of Maintenance

The subtitle sort of speaks for itself. Just like every mechanism out there, the garage door spring also needs to be taken care of. And the best way to do this is proper maintenance.

Maintenance must be done regularly to ensure that your garage door spring is kept in good condition.

You should never take maintenance for granted and do it diligently. After all, proper maintenance can in the end prolong your spring’s life.

Apply lubrication on your garage door springs as frequently as you can, at least three times a year, and consistently check the balance of your garage door.

Unbalanced garage doors could mean one of your springs is carrying more load than the other. Make sure it is equally balanced. Remember, even simple acts like this can help you with your garage door spring.

#4 Using an inappropriate spring for your garage door

Last but not least is using the inappropriate springs for your garage door.

Each garage door should have a spring in which its specifications are directly proportional to the door’s weight and dimension.

Not doing so will not only apply unnecessary load on the springs itself but as well as to the other components on your garage door.

Make sure that, if you are installing your garage door spring, you have the correct specifications perfect for your garage door.

You can check this video below to help you find the best spring for your garage door.

Conclusion

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Household Experiences on the Salmon River Rafting

Toil as well as water mix on a raft trip; A Salmon River run deals something for the entire family, with berry selecting, campfire singing, cave checking out, even pedicures.

By John Muncie

When the cool, deep shaft of the abandoned copper mine ended in a wall surface of rock, overview Mike Thurbert resorted to the team and said, "Shut off your flashlights."

We had to do with 100 lawns right into an Idaho hill. The lights went off as instructed as well as, in a moment of solemnity, 19-year-old Thurbert silently asked us to contemplate the sensation of utter darkness. For that split second, each of us was an island, alone in the black tunnel.

Then someone made a creepy ooooo-ing audio as well as, to screeches of giggling, all the flashlights clicked back on, the majority of them beaming up under chins, transforming faces into grotesque Halloween masks.

Solemnity remains in brief supply on a river rafting journey filled with kids.

If you're questioning what a stroll in a copper mine involves river rafting, you'll possibly question the very same about blackberry selecting, speeding down sand dunes, Wiffle-ball and also toenail sprucing up.

Our white-water rafting trip on the Lower Salmon River had as much to do with old-fashioned family members enjoyable as it performed with running rapids. It was the warm as well as unclear points-- singing around the campfire, eating meals with each other, developing video games, informing poor jokes, debating big issues with know-it-all teenagers-- we bore in mind long after the white-water thrills faded.

My partner, Jody, and I chose this specific adventure for family reasons. Good friends of ours, the Fullers, had actually looked into the journey-- 4 days, three nights on the Salmon as well as Serpent rivers starting in Idaho with the Outside Adventure River Specialists, or OARS, rafting company-- and asked whether we intended to join them. John Richer teaches scientific research to our 14-year-old kid, Sam, and also Richer's son, Woody, is a chum of Sam's.

Our journey began on a Monday, when we took a bus from Lewiston to the Pine Bar put-in point on the Salmon, 62 miles upstream from our eventual location, Heller Bar. We pushed out into the river around 11 a.m. Our little flotilla contained three rubber boatings, 3 wooden dories, a big paddle boating as well as 3 inflatable kayaks.

Barry Dow, 57, a 30-year expert of the Salmon, Snake and also Colorado rivers, was our journey leader, yet the remainder of the seven- person staff seemed remarkably young. Actually, 3 of them remained in their teens. When we questioned them regarding their backgrounds, we discovered that rafting seems to be in their genetics.

" My mom was pregnant with me when she was on the river," stated Thurbert, whose papa was a river guide. Thurbert, who made his very first ex-utero rafting trip when he was 3, piloted the guest- powered paddle boating on this journey. His directions were both counterproductive-- "Always lean into the wave, constantly favor the rock!"-- and also uncomplicated-- "Listen to what I claim and also, when doubtful, paddle."

Eric Shedd, 19, had a similar story. His moms and dads were river overviews and fulfilled on a rafting trip. "My mommy claims I was less than a years of age when I was first on the river."

The prize for the toughest river ties mosted likely to Zak Sears, 18, who made his initial river journey when he was 6 months old. Sears pointed downriver and also stated his daddy was at the next campground guiding another rafting trip. Then he pointed the various other method, smiled and also stated, "My sis's 250 miles upstream and my brother's concerning 150 miles."

Tossed into the drink

The initial 3 days of our trip got on the Salmon, a 425-mile river that starts in the mountains of central Idaho as well as finishes at the convergence of the Snake River near the Oregon-Washington boundary. The Salmon is the lengthiest free-flowing river left in the Lower 48. For rafting purposes it's separated into the Middle Fork (the upper component), the Key and also the Lower Salmon.

Each has its beauties and its advocates. Depending on water levels, our component, the Lower Salmon, typically has less and much less hard rapids. We dealt with just a couple that count as Course III. (Course IV and V rapids are scarier and much more unsafe; Class VI is taken into consideration unrunnable for a business journey.).

The absence of huge white water may make the Lower Salmon a little tame for thrill-seekers, however it was excellent for our band of youngsters and their moms and dads that intended to obtain them familiarized with river rafting without the threats of big water.

" This is nothing," said expert rafter Jim Eisch, 40, of Tampa florida, Fla. Eisch brought his daughter Kelsey, 8, boy Jimmy, 11, and daddy, Ted, 69. "However I didn't want to make them so scared they really did not wish to do it once again.".

If we could have fast-forwarded a trip tape to the last day, it would certainly have revealed Jimmy grinning widely after his 3rd back flip off a raft and stating, "I don't wish to go house. Following time I'm taking place a 17-day trip!".

With children as young as 8 on the trip, threat was on every family members's mind. Before we put in, the overviews offered us numerous safety and security talks, describing what we were to do if we overdid in a quick-- or "went swimming," as they say in river parlance.

There was a great deal of information to absorb, entailing, to name a few things, head-patting signals, toss ropes, flip lines and also the "La-Z- Young boy" float setting. All of it washed out of our heads when, independently, Jody and I were thrown from our kayaks at the Class III Bunghole rapid on the 2nd day.

Disoriented after getting toppled in the opaque wash cycle of Bunghole, we promptly bobbed to the surface. In much less than a minute we were within understanding of a boating or dory, and also in less than three, we were back aboard our kayaks paddling.

The important points, it ends up, were not just treatments but additionally the vigilance and also unflappable nature of our crew as we obtained tossed too far and also forgot all our lessons. That as well as the bright orange life vests we always used.

The blow up kayaks-- like beach boatings with sides-- offered one of the most heart-pounding flight. It's just you as well as a little bit of plastic careering via the rapids. When the waves of white water huddle and assault, the secret is to paddle hard. "No lily dipping," overview Marci Whittman told us before we set off the first day. "No tea-and- crumpet handling.".

Two days later on Sam wiped out at the start of one of the most technical (river-speak for unsafe) of the rapids, Eye of the Needle, sending him swimming through the spinning water.

At the bottom of the rapid, he gladly climbed up back in his kayak. The guides were impressed. His mother was tense. Sam had a blast. "That was fantastic," he stated.

Yet the very best ride, as far as we were worried, was in the dories. Even Sam and 15-year-old Adam Mowery agreed. "The dories were outstanding," Adam stated.

Since the wooden boats are inflexible, they don't flex to the waves, making the highs much higher and the declines like a tiny roller rollercoaster. And for the best flight of all, the overviews allow us ride the bow. That suggests covering your legs around the prow, getting hold of onto a rope as well as riding the watercraft a like throwing bronco.

Comply with the sun.

Aside from the occasional white water, river days were comforting stretches of lazy rocking and recreation, framed by stunning landscapes of golden hills and also deep chasms. At the beginning, journey leader Dow had recommended we leave our watches behind. The sun became our clock, and also the plaintive note Dow blew on his conch covering our phone call to dishes.

We would pack up as well as press off after breakfast each early morning, after that invest two or 3 hrs on the river, occasionally dropping crazy for a swim to cool down. We would stop at a sandbar for lunch and more swimming or games, then go back to the river for a few more hrs.

We usually pulled up around 4 or 5 in the afternoon, which left a lot of time for onshore activities. The very first day established the tone. A number of papas tried their luck fishing while the rest of the grownups sought remedy for the 95-degree-plus heat as well as the kids horsed around at the water's edge. Later, someone began a Wiffle-ball video game. When wind blew the ball into the river, 13-year-old Amy Richer shouted, "Seventh-inning stretch!" as well as everyone delved into the trendy water.

Eventually, large clouds steamed up, bringing color as well as relief, thunder and also a couple of declines of rain. By early morning it was clear and dry.

The opening night, prior to we came down to the business of family members enjoyable, Dow talked about the threats of onshore life. It was rather tame things-- poison ivy, hornets, the rare brownish monk and also black widow spiders, as well as the rarer rattlesnakes. "This is important," Dow said solemnly. "Don't damage the animals. This is their home. We're visitors." Several of the moms and dads wished the guides' respect for the river and its locals would certainly abrade on their children.

" My youngsters are city youngsters," said Susan Mowery, the Indiana mommy of Adam and his sisters, Anna, 12, and also Abbi, 10. "I want to show them there's more to life than Disney Globe.".

Overview Matty Wilson, 28, aglow in the orange campfire light, took out a guitar and also, with fellow guides Sears and Thurbert, sang people as well as pop songs, some so old that even the parents identified them.

Soon the fire went out, leaving a soft night breeze, the audio of guitars, a big moon attempting to beam via the clouds and a group of pleased parents watching their children do something besides playing video games.

That was simply among lots of special shore-leave minutes. At that camping area, much of us had our toe nails repainted. Whittman, an art educator in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, when she's not a guide, established a salon in her raft. At the backside was a studio where the ladies and also a few of the more youthful young boys repainted rocks and also made sand art. In the center, she repainted toenails.

Having scientific research educator John Richer along on the river journey was an added reward. For Fuller, truths are fun, and also it had not been long after our departure that he obtained journey leader Dow to speak about the river and also its flow. At the time, it was running at a mild 7,000 cubic feet per second, or CFS, yet throughout floods, it ran greater than 100,000 CFS. Dow pointed out driftwood trees high up on the banks and also claimed, "Imagine the river that high. It's like a wild pet.".

Richer's favored minute on the trip, medically at least, came at a blackberry spot just listed below the mouth of the copper mine. He viewed amazed as one overview threw a berry 50 feet right into the mouth of another guide. And also it gave him an idea for a science laboratory, including the physics of throwing grapes (in the absence of blackberries).

There was no need to educate the physics of enjoyable; the kids on the trip were experts. By the second day, progressively certain in their brand-new environments, they were embarking on the plethoras right into the water to cool off. By the third day, they were swimming down a Course III rapid. Water splashing battles routinely burst out.

On Thursday afternoon as we came close to Heller Bar, our location, nobody wanted the trip to end. That night overviews and clients fulfilled for a farewell supper at a dining establishment near Lewiston, although two family members needed to change their travel plans to make it.

During salutes and also endorsements, Dow increased and promoted the overviews, claiming, "We wish the river spoke to you and offered you an unique present, since it does to us.".

As we left the dining establishment, family members were exchanging e-mail addresses and Whittman was painting minority staying blank finger nails left on the little girls.

Months before, when the Fullers had pitched the family rafting suggestion, Woody, with adolescent ridicule, called it "the stupid trip." Later, he had a new name for his rafting journey down the Lower Salmon River.

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How to Run Your Business More Efficiently

1. Time Collapse

Time collapsing is when you take a task or a project that typically takes a set amount of time and you find a way to collapse that time down into just a fraction of what it usually takes.

The best candidates for time collapsing are systems, processes, and tasks that you and your team have done many times before and are already comfortable with.

For example, at the Fit Body Boot Camp Headquarters we’ve been working on time collapsing the process of onboarding a new franchisee. In the past, this process involved an enormous amount of coaching over the phone, where our team of business coaches had to basically walk each new franchisee through the entire opening process by hand.

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We’ve time collapsed that by completely revamping our FBBC University platform with a special program for new franchisees called Ready, Set, Go.

Ready, Set, Go uses videos, images, and professionally written instructions to cover all the repeat questions that our team used to have to cover over the phone. Our franchisees still have full access to our coaching team, but now they can use that time for the big strategic questions that are most important.

That’s the crucial thing to keep in mind with Ready, Set, Go: our franchisees still get the same level of guidance that they did before. If anything, they actually absorb a lot more of the information now that we lay it out in such an intuitive format.

Time collapsing is not about cutting corners—it’s about taking the strengths of your business and refining them. It’s about stripping away the unnecessary details and leaving behind an optimized, easy, enjoyable experience for your team and your clients.

2. Open Up Communication

The number one problem that stops successful businesses dead in their tracks is communication. When you see a company that seems to be shooting to the top suddenly crash and burn, it’s almost never a matter of missing technology or “growing too fast” or any of the usual excuses.

When otherwise successful companies fail, it’s almost always a communication breakdown that is 100% avoidable…if you take the time now to get communication right.

Also, the number one HR complaint that most employees have at their companies is this: they wish they knew what was going on in the rest of the company. They want more open communication and less spin.

When communication problems turn up, it’s always because of the same two causes.

The first cause is department silos. A department silo is when you have a department where teammates only communicate with people in their same department.

People gravitate towards others who are physically close to them and who are working on similar projects, so if you don’t take action on creating open communication, you will naturally end up with department silos. That’s the default state, and to be honest, it’s also the mediocre state.

What you need to do instead is have regular team gatherings where everyone comes together across all departments to discuss what’s going on, give each other recognition, ask questions, and address unresolved issues. You can hold these weekly or even daily, and they don’t have to be any longer than ten or fifteen minutes.

The second cause of bad communication and inefficiency hits a lot closer to home…

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3. Make Yourself More Efficient

If you want your team to communicate better and operate more efficiently, you need to become a better communicator and run your own day more efficiently.

Think of it this way: whatever your communication skills and efficiency are, that is the absolute maximum that anyone on your team is going to achieve.

So how are you doing in those areas?

If you communicate honestly, make your points clearly, and have a ton of charm, that’s awesome! As long as you keep negative people off your team (by firing fast) your team is going to naturally see increasing sales because all of them are able to earn the trust of your clients and over-deliver on their expectations.

If your team is keeping secrets from each other, sabotaging projects that aren’t theirs, bullying each other, forming cliques, and being negative, well…If you have a few bad apples, fire them immediately, but if that’s how most of the team operates, they are not the source of the problem. You are.

Likewise, if you notice people dragging out tasks that should go quickly, or just being lazy in general, keep in mind that they take their cues from you. They are constantly trying to gauge how much work you (or their nearest manager) does in a given day so they know what counts as “a good day’s work.”

Plus, your most highly motivated employees might actually want things to move faster, but they are stuck waiting on resources/approval/advice from other departments or from you!

So, set a good example by driving hard every day, and make sure you don’t become the bottleneck on important processes.

Speaking of…

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4. Smash Open Bottlenecks

A bottleneck is a point along any team-based process where all progress screeches to a halt until one specific person gives their go-ahead or completes their task.

And usually the bottleneck is you, the business owner.

In some ways, bottlenecks are an excellent problem to have, because they show that you and your team and taking your work seriously and holding it to a high standard.

However, if those bottlenecks are holding back the growth of your business, it’s your responsibility to smash them open and unleash that hidden growth.

In some cases, the bottleneck is skills-based.

For example, I used to write almost all the sales copy for my businesses. I knew I was good at it, and in the early stages it would have been far too expensive to go hiring good copywriters, so I did it myself.

These days, I hardly have time to stop and approve sales copy, much less write it myself, so I’m working on training the copywriter on my team up to my level so eventually he can replace me completely in that process.

In other cases, the bottleneck is standards-based.

As you could probably guess by now, I keep extremely high standards for all my businesses and I only allow myself to raise them, not lower them. Yet, as more and more opportunities come my way, I have less time to stop and approve things as they get done.

So if I’m not going to lower my standards, and I can’t review everything myself, what do I do?

Simple: I train my management level team members on the standards I expect from each department’s projects. Eventually, my goal is for them to look at a completed project and immediately know “what would Bedros think of this?”

Of course, there are always going to be projects where I want direct control, such as my brand-new Empire Mastermind program that I’m developing right now. Since that’s a completely new offering, I want to make sure it matches my specific vision.

For everything else, though, it’s a matter of habit. The more I can transfer my own habits to my team and smash open those bottlenecks, the more freedom I have to grow our top line, grow our bottom line, and open us up to whole new business opportunities.

After all, that’s what I consider my ultimate duty as an entrepreneur. I hope you’ll consider that your duty as well and use my advice here to maximize your impact and maximize your rewards.

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