I suppose you already know this, but what kills the elastic waistband is heat. Warm water from the washing is ok, but using high heat in the dryer will ruin the elastic in short order. Of course, this means segregating underwear for a separate load.
I feel for you, but this might be a case of “choose your battles, and find a way to enjoy losing”.
If it were me… what am I talking about, it IS me! My wife’s always been picky, and with some minor health problems she’ll try banning some foods from her diet. I sometimes don’t find out until I announce what I’m making for dinner and she says “Well, I’ll just make myself a salad…”
I’m down to a couple of dishes that I can make and she’ll eat. And it hurts. But I’m trying to look at this as a real time-saver… I’ll find some project I can do while she makes dinner (or watch something only I like). And try to appreciate having a wife who can cook!
(Oh, I will say “Let me know if there’s anything I can do… and I WILL clean up!”)
Yeah, dryer heat can ruin lots of things.
But for segregation, another option is to get some of those mesh zipper bags - they’re usually sold for “delicates” - I use them to keep socks together, it saves a ton of time when sorting/folding.
My rant is that I was doing just fine until I read this article.
Cast iron works best with induction stoves. She’s probably afraid it would scratch the glass. Mrs Magill had the same issue when we first got a glass top stove, until I showed her that glass has a Mohs hardness of 5.5, and iron and steel are between 4 & 5, so glass with scratch iron, and to pleeeease stop using my knives on that glass cutting board.
A few days ago I noticed a big scratch down the center of the hood of my car, which I park in our driveway at night. Today I noticed another big scratch on the right front quarterpanel. I swear it looks deliberate. Part of me wonders if it’s because of the Harris campaign sign in our front yard. Whatever the reason, it’s pissing me off! They look too deep to buff out.
I am not a pro or even amateur musician, and I have only limited experience with transcribing music, but I used this program briefly and was impressed with it:
Have you tried it?
I’ve had good experiences with Hanes boxer briefs for years, washed in cold and hot, dried in normal cycle, not delicate, without any problems with the waistbands losing their elasticity. My $0.02.
I refuse to baby everyday commodity clothing. I usually just dry everything on the “regular” setting. Jockeys can take dryer heat and remain perfectly elastic. OTOH, the 6 I just bought from Walmart were CAD $72, or $12 each. On Amazon, I could get 9 Fruit of the Loom for $29.40, or $3.27 each. Don’t know if Jockeys are necessarily worth nearly 4x the price, but there’s certainly an element here of “:you get what you pay for”.
Don’t think I’ve ever tried that brand. I’m curious how the pricing compares with the two extremes I mentioned above.
I bought 12 for US$34 in July. I don’t know what you’d pay up there in the frozen north.
Thank you for taking the time to provide an option!
With that said, I’m pretty confident that Dorico is the way to go–there is a huge userbase and Dorico is actively welcoming the Finale folks over–and I already bought it.
It’s just painful. I have hundreds of music scores, most of them church hymns, so not really complex, but still. This is like if Microsoft suddenly said “Sorry folks, but we are getting out of the PowerPoint business. We recommend you work with Google’s offerings” It suddenly makes you have to convert tons of documents and learn the nuances of a complex new tool.
Bonus gripe: Audacity just did a new release a few months back, and when I upgraded, suddenly the Compression tool does nothing. I have a workflow I use to postprocess audio in my videos, and it was all working nicely before, but now it doesn’t. Apparently the Audacity team decided to replace the Old Compression Tool with a New Compression Tool.
I downgraded to the previous version and am trying not to think about it much.
Musescore is free and open source, so it won’t cost you anything to try it out.
Looks like a dozen are CAD $55.50 ($4.63 each) at Amazon of the Frozen North. That’s currently just over $40 US dollars. Unlike Jockeys, they’re stocked and sold directly by Amazon Canada.
“Bag policies” at major arenas and sporting events.
You can’t bring in weapons, of course, absolutely agree. You can’t bring in your own snacks or drinks, I get it. You want to search my purse before you let me in, have at it. You want me to put it through an airport scanner? Fine. I can even understand wanting to limit large bags, backpacks and such. But it’s gotten so ridiculous now - most places allow only purses 4 inches by 6 inches by 1.5 inches or smaller, which is basically a large wallet. I’ve been turned away carrying a purse only slightly larger than that. WTF do you think I can fit in it? I can’t get anything more than my glasses, my phone and my keys in there. My wallet won’t even fit, much less anything cosmetic. You need your glasses, keys, phone, a small wallet, maybe a lipstick or similar - well, too bad for you. In the name of “security” you can’t conveniently carry them in one satchel. Stuff them in pockets (which women’s clothes don’t have many of) or don’t bring them. Who cares if it’s uncomfortable or inconvenient for you? Security!!!
Yeah, bullshit. The reason it pisses me off so much is that these policies are pure misogyny. The vast majority of those affected are women. And who are overwhelmingly the ones bringing weapons to crowded venues? Men. Don’t tell me a middle-aged woman bringing a normal-size purse is somehow a threat to the safety of the crowd. It’s horseshit, just performance security designed to make it look like some kind of care is being taken, but all it really does is harass females. If it were men who habitually carried purses and satchels to events, the policies would be a hell of a lot more reasonable.
Interesting backgrounder! They are indeed labelled “Nashville ‘Hot’ Chicken”, but aren’t actually hot at all. The Buffalo wings are both hotter and more tangy; for me it’s just the right balance.
And, venturing out to the grocery store again today for stuff I forgot yesterday, dang, they had Buffalo wings again! I now have a big supply. The Nashville wings aren’t going to waste, I’ll happily enjoy them as just fried chicken, but they’re not what I consider proper wings should be.
I much prefer Buffalo wings to Nashville hot chicken. The combination of heat and tanginess cannot be beat.
Typical email exchange with my boss at work:
Boss: “Velocity, give me the data for XYZ from document ABC.”
Me: (checks) “The document does not contain the data for XYZ.”
Boss: “Velocity, give me the data for XYZ from document ABC.”
Me: (checks again) “The document does not contain the data for XYZ. Here, I’ll attach some screenshots showing that the data is not there. The data does not apply in this specific case.”
Boss: “Velocity, give me the data for XYZ from document ABC. We need this!!!”
Me: checks again - “The document does not contain the data for XYZ. Here, I’ll attach some MORE screenshots and MORE software images/files to show that it’s not there.”
BOSS: “GIVE ME THE DATA FOR XYZ FROM DOCUMENT ABC!!!”
That’s enough to give a person the blues!
Oh dear Og, yes. I hate hate hate this.
I also loathe venues that will only give you mobile tickets. My husband doesn’t carry a phone, so if the venue is one that requires you to show a ticket to an usher to get back into your section, it’s a huge pain in the ass. We either have to both leave and return at the same time or make sure the person leaving has the phone and then the other person has to stay put until they get back.
My rant: I have been sleeping like absolute shit lately. Nothing has changed in my life, I’m retired, I don’t have a lot of stress, nothing has changed medically. WTF body?!? Stop it already.
I sometimes go days or a week without sleeping much. Go to bed early? Nope, wide awake at 3… maybe drift off for a bit at 5.
And know what I’ve discovered?
a) There is NO rhyme or reason as to when it’s going to be a “Crappy Sleep Week”.
b) If I can lie still and relax, it’s almost as therapeutic as sleeping.
c) The only way for me to stay still and relax is to listen to a audiobook (preferably read by a laid-back Brit… no yelling please).
A book keeps me from worrying that I’m wasting time (I’m getting a book ‘read’!), and keeps me from thinking about my problems.
Enteroviruses blow.
About a month ago, I developed the trots. This isn’t unusual for me; what IS unusual is that this time around, it lasted more than day and got worse. After a week, I wound up at the ER, getting IV fluids and a bunch of tests. All reasonable enough, though the ultimate diagnosis was “something infectious, but we couldn’t identify it”. Fortunately nobody else caught it, and I never barfed (never even felt nauseous).
I took a train from Chicago to DC last weekend. 18 hours after arriving home, I ate some soup for lunch… and realized over the course of the afternoon that it was sitting in my stomach like a lead balloon. For 12 or so hours, I alternated belching and running to the toilet. Then things took a rapid, ill-timed and disastrous about-face (and about everything else too…). At least I felt 100% better! I’d been debating trying to MAKE myself puke, earlier on; now I wish I had.
Housemate developed it last night. Oddly, neither my son nor my husband have shown any symptoms of it.
No clue where last month’s bout came from, unless I caught something at the pool (nobody else had been there). This one certainly came either from a fellow passenger, or from the food, on the train.