We eat a lot of sandwiches in the summer, and deli meats, at least anything good and halfway decent for you, are absurdly expensive now. But, I can get a top round roast for like $5/lb and I bet that would make awesome roast beef sandwiches sliced thin enough. Same with roast turkey breast, maybe buy a big hunk of prosciutto as well. Anyone do this?
It's some new Sonos receiver. I'm just learning about this stuff, I am no audiophile but I'm sick of BT speakers. I've heard sound engineers use this album to assess their gear, what do you guys think?
I don't think I've watched it since it first aired. This has held up extremely well.
Guy I used to know thirty years ago passed away, and that reminded me of something. I knew this guy because I used to drink with him during the day, when I was twenty three or so and he was about forty. Countless afternoons spent in dusty dive bars, shades drawn against the beautiful day outside. Watch the news and complain, tell dumb jokes., drink cheap draft beer and smoke cigarettes.
And, it occurred to me just now how sad that is. That's no life for a young man. Not even a life for an old man, really. I think about those days and feel really bad for that kid, because there was no one in his life to tell him that was no way to live.
I'm grateful to be here to share this with you. I'm not going to wallow in this, but maybe it's important to acknowledge it.
I went on a Heinlein spree in my early 20s and read probably 70% of his works, excluding the stuff written for kids.
Now at more than twice that age, I am considering revisiting the work for my summer reading list, which I want to have in place fairly soon.
Would love to hear if anyone else has done the same?
Never answered, no voicemail. I'm not trying to harm anyone in any way, I just need to put a live number on a form that never gets answered.
I ask because I just replaced three on my boat this afternoon. It's a pain in the ass, tight quarters, and those things weigh 70 lbs. apiece. The old ones did well for three seasons and limped through last season, so time to go.
I'm already thinking ahead to next winter and what I should do about these batteries. In the past I've kept the boat in a slip all winter with a heater and a dehumidifier running off shore power, but that probably won't be an option next winter.
I've had a couple of pickups over my driving life but not for well over twenty years. Thinking of picking one up used this fall. Why are these things all giant hideous douchecarriages now? How did this happen? I was looking to spend ten grand cash and get something 3-5 years old, basic as they come, standard transmission, a two seater. If there's a sunroof, super. Come to find out that's just crazy talk. My budget isn't big enough by half and all these things have more bells, whistles, and general frou-frou for a truck that will most likely get beat to shit, which is why I buy beaters in the first place.
This is most assuredly not the norm outside the US and I want to know who fucking ruined, even the little Toyota is comically compensatory.
Edit - thanks to those who offered their opinions and knowledge. I was speaking to my mechanic today, I can get a new, warranteed engine put in for $7k. This will also solve a couple of other problems (heat and thermostat) and that point what I have will have a pretty good Jeep with zero miles and I could easily unload it for around 12k if I wanted to...leaning toward doing just that. Funny how this fucked up economy makes something like this make sense, but used Jeeps, trucks, etc. are really expensive right now.
My 2011 Wrangler engine has come to the same sad end as so many of that model.The lifters are hitting and the end is nigh. Almost 200k miles. It owes me nothing, which is what it's now worth.
My intention is to take the top and doors off and drive it until it actually bites the dust for the last time. What can I expect? I assume the engine will eventually seize, but what else might it do? Throw a rod? How much time have I got, Doc?
No, I am not in favor of climate change or anti-science or whatever. The climate is changing. Human activity is likely speeding up what was happening anyway. Different thread.
The thing is, we're predicted to get exactly the kind of weather I like in my region. Slightly cooler summers (they have been getting hotter for twenty years), and lots more storms year round, many with snow. I'm a weather nut who likes storms.
I still support infrastructure and policy changes that will slow or perhaps ultimately head off climate change, which is possible by the early 22nd century based on what I've read, but at least my house isn't going to be in a desert or suffer in 100 degree summers with 100% humidity.
File this under, "I Haven't A Clue What Happened."
Last night I was playing bar trivia with some friends, we have been doing this every Monday for years - a handful of teams, one moderator/questioner/scorekeeper with a microphone running the thing and doling out the modest cash prizes at the end. Our team was eight people last night.
The category for a given question is given ahead of time, with the question following shortly thereafter. One of the categories was literature. And for some reason, my brain fired up and thought, "of course, the answer is Miss Havisham, a character from Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations." Remember, this was before the question was asked. Strange.
The question - "What two cities are the focus of the Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities?'" How odd! That Dickens thought had run through my head but wasn't the answer, but how weird that I had thought of Dickens with no prompt or insight at all?" The answer - London and Paris.
Then out of the blue and unprompted - remember, I had said nothing about my random thought from earlier - my good friend turned to me and said, "This is going to sound crazy, but I knew Paris and London was the answer as soon as I heard the category. Hadn't even heard the question!"
I know this isn't the spookiest thing ever posted here - the middle aged in an Irish pub on a weeknight playing trivia and drinking beer - but it has really been on my mind. What would one even call this sort of thing?
It's Hubspot. As per the title. I can cut and paste them about 25 leads at a time into an AI and it will organize them reasonably well, but given the sum of leads this would suck to do by hand. Any ideas?
As per the title, I just want to boost reception from my home office -
Seem kind of pricey, but simple enough.
edit - I cannot fathom the thinking of whatever benighted churl saw fit to downvote this completely innocuous question. You must have quite the inner life going on there, bub.
He understands about fifty words and he knows the names of family members. But his understanding of cause and effect is evolving as well. Not like we understand it, but like a savage in a jungle cargo cult.
His favorite person is my wife. I'm his boss, but she's his God. He has figure out that she gets home from work around 6 - 6:15 and he stares out the window waiting for her. This is coincidentally when I start cooking dinner, and we soon figured out that when he saw me starting to cook in the kitchen, he knew my wife would be home soon.
We went out to dinner tonight. I would walk from our house to meet here at a restaurant about two blocks away because she would be coming home from work in the opposite direction in her car. This is a 5 minute walk.
So I'm sitting in the living room reading a book at 6:00 and my dog starts talking to me. You know what I mean. He sounds like Chewbacca. And, I can not figure out what the hell he wants. He's eaten, he's been in the backyard for an hour so probably doesn't need to go out, his usual tales of woe. And he looks me in the eye, makes more vocalizations then looks directly toward the kitchen.
He has reasoned that my wife comes home because I start cooking. As I was not cooking, and it was the customary time to do so, he got pushy about it. SO what he was saying was, "Fat boy, go to the kitchen and get busy with the food so my person can come home."
For some reason, I think he has an Irish accent.
Whatever it was. Little radio to take to the beach, stuff like that. Seems like these things were ruined by leaking, corroding, oxidizing batteries a LOT more than they do now. Did they make a change?
Edit - sorry guys, I must be lucky or something but I haven't seen leaking batteries in years and only thought of this because I saw a photograph of some on Ebay earlier. Now I feel dumb.
I bought this iPod Touch (6 or 7 I think) off Ebay years ago and IIRC it worked fine when I set it up initially. It was previously owned. My son then tried to factory reset it to "adopt" it (nice try kid) and I can't seem to get it set up now. Other possibly pertinent info -
I think it's kind of a French thing. I recall that it's used to garnish the French onion soup at this one place I like in Providence. Beyond that, it's rare as hen's teeth.
I'm going to grow parsley this year because it's $1.29 a bunch at the grocery store which is so sick and wrong I don't know where to start.
Friends of friends of mine apparently built their own smoker out of a 55 gallon oil drum, he's a metalworker, so I bet it's pretty cool. But that got me thinking, way back when I think often built their own grills out of oil drums as well. Have any of you done this? Propane or charcoal?
Have you ever had general anesthesia? I did a few years ago. Surgery. I remember quite vividly the anesthesiologist saying, "This isn't the one that puts you to sleep," which of course, I later discovered, it was.
Then I woke up in a different room immediately. BAM. Just conscious all of a sudden, lucid, not like waking up from sleep. Like throwing a switch.
I know I was "out" for about 50 minutes. But that was definitely not sleep. That wasn't even some kind of coma. It was a friggin' blip in my existence as a self-aware life form and the weirdest thing my psyche has ever been through.
Or perhaps, do you even bother leaving someone a voicemail? I'm told by my Millenial kids that voicemail is not a thing, you just see the number that called and call that back. I guess I'm late to the party on this, but I do talk on the phone quite a bit and it ain't going anywhere, so would love to hear your perspective on this.