How much water is in the bathtub? I realize standing in day (or two) old water is a bit gross, but if it is only ankle deep, you can rinse those off in a sink?
Have you tried a snake? (Not the reptilian kind)
Major anti-rant: I noticed coming home today from shopping that Bell has completed the last stage of the fiber-optic installation. There is now a big loop of fiber-optic cable with a Bell tag on it hanging from the side of the house, and my neighbour has the same. This was the final stage of the entire neighbourhood being wired for fiber.
Everything is ready for me to request high-tech Bell fiber service the next time my cable provider pisses me off, which is bound to happen soon. As a perennial quasi-monopoly Bell is not exactly customer-friendly, but they do have one very strong advantage that the cable doofuses never will: they are competent! For well over a century they’ve maintained a culture of military-style reliability stemming from the importance of the telephone service. Traditional cable providers, accustomed to the relative unimportance of providing extra television channels, have never understood mission-critical services and probably never will.
Many moons ago, I found some nice plastic plates, bowls, and cups at Target. 75 cents! Some were a little worn, so I went to get more, and differing colors. Found only a few. An employee said they were discontinued.
Damn that Committee!
Very not minirant - Another threatening message was found on the bathroom wall at one of the high schools in the district my daughter goes to school. She’s still in elementary school but its absolutely terrifying how many people want to commit a school shooting.
I’m slowly learning: If you like something, buy a bunch.
Because you’ll never find them again…
For us, it was cute medium-size (6") white porcelain bowls. The clean look, the proportions, the feel as you walk around eating cereal out of them, all perfect.
The very next trip to IKEA, the whole display was gone (could they really have sold hundreds of them so fast?).
That was over a dozen years ago, so we’ve checked many many times for them.
Shoes might be the worst, where my favorite Rockport walking shoes SEEM to still be available, but when you try them on in person, you realize they’ve been changed in minor, inexplicable ways.
The Committee only targets the best people.
I’ve been very sleepy all day. I was really looking forward to a nap after work. The time came and of course, I cannot get to sleep.
We just did a road trip, and I was exhausted. Wife took over driving, and I closed my eyes… and opened them to check the time every ten minutes. Why couldn’t I sleep, when that’s what my body needed?
But I discovered that just closing my eyes and relaxing and not thinking about problems* was almost as recuperative as sleeping.
With less drool.
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*I had to listen to an audiobook, so that I thought about a character’s problem’s instead.
I will doze off on the couch while watching TV (fortunately I can always back up the DVR to see what I missed). Then when I go to bed I will sleep for two hours and then wake up and lay there for hours trying to get back to sleep.
Since the fire, I am afraid to go to sleep. And I keep the kitchen light on. May try to ask if they can move me to first floor.
I’m jealous. AT&T came through our neighborhood back in July, after putting flyers on everyone’s door that fiber was coming soon. They dug a nice little hole in everyone’s front yard (about 2x3 feet and 5 or 6 feet deep), ran their rubber tubing that I assume the fiber optic cable will go inside… and then left. Some holes got filled in, some didn’t. Some of the open holes have that orange construction mesh around them, others just have an orange traffic cone stuck in the ground. Some places as you walk through the neighborhood you can see about two feet of rubber tubing sticking up out of the ground. I’m starting to wonder if they’re ever coming back to finish the job. (And I worry about kids getting hurt on Halloween.)
It might not be a case of someone wanting to commit a school shooting, but rather a stupid stunt to get the immediate goal: class cancelled.
Oh definitely. But the fact that some of these threats are credible makes all of them terrifying.
(A teenager was arrested last month or so for credible threats. He apparently had solid plans and materials.)
I dunno’ it’s still scary. I’m really glad my kids aren’t in school in this time, but I worry about my grands. I figure it’s only a matter of time before one happens at any given school. Especially since no one will do shit about it.
My favourite Chinese takeout has always had a very simple tap-and-go payment terminal. During the pandemic they had the whole back end of the store sealed off and took tap payments through a plexiglas window.
Well, today they have a whole new system on their payment terminal. It requires the customer to press a green button multiple times, and also to choose a tip option. A tip? Who ever leaves a tip in a takeout?
The place was busy so the chef himself came out and instructed me very loudly on what buttons to press. I selected “no tip” which was always the default anyway, and he yelled some more in Chinese, but since he was always yelling and it was hard to tell who he was yelling at or what he was yelling about, I took no offense.
But damn, they make great Singapore noodles!
I do, depending. If they take the time to package everything nicely so that it’s convenient for me to take. But not a lot, maybe 5%.
Depends on what I’m getting for takeout and how, let’s say, extensive my order is. At any rate, your local eatery probably didn’t design the payment system, but got one off the shelf and that program includes a tip option.
During COVID I upped my tipping game.
Alcoholic mountain dew.