For those who have regularly worn their glycine with the faux patina stainless case and bezel, what has been your experience with long term wear?
As the watch endures daily wear, how do scratches show? Does it look odd or bad? Does it work out well and actually get better looking?
Thoughts?
I really like the blue dial of the new Promaster Land GMT. I don't mind the NATO, in fact, I'd love to wear it with one often. I just know that I'd like the option of the bracelet. The burgundy dial is great too, but I know I'd rather go blue.
I don't care to buy the burgundy just so I have a matching bracelet to put on the blue one. So I have been looking for a replacement. More difficult than it seems to find one that gets the brushing to match. Am I looking in the wrong places?
I attempted to contact citizen parts and service. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What a joke that was. Don't waste your time…
We're looking for a new apartment. We currently live in an in-law unit attached to our landlady's home. We've been here for 18 years. Our landlady is not so well anymore, physically or emotionally.
Every application we see wants a current landlord reference. I just don't see how we'll successfully look for a new place without her finding out. We'd like to simply give notice, pay the month's rent, hand her the keys, and eat the cost because we're concerned how she will react.
We can't possibly be the first people to be in this situation. Has anyone navigated this with some modicum of success? What did you do? What did you wish you'd done differently?
My wife and I are considering giving her cousin the gift of a flight in the Cessna for her PhD graduation. She's well off and so is her family, so any material gift we could put together will be underwhelming.
Flight however, is something we are uniquely positioned give. We think she might genuinely enjoy it, so that's why we're considering it. I'm curious if others have done this, and how its gone? I'd be the one flying.
I am soliciting advice because I've been very careful to only offer flying to people who proactively ask me about it. I figure most people don't appreciate the magic and joy of flight in a small plane.
I'll admit I'm a little hesitant, because you never know how someone will react to the prospect of flying in a small plane. She's flown to Europe every year of her life but we all know how a Cessna might feel different to a land-dweller.
While the wife's cousin and I have always gotten along, the circumstances have always been low-stakes. Non-pilots reveal trust and control issues in funny ways with flight. All of these concerns are more general, and not linked to any lingering thoughts we've specifically wondered about with the cousin.
Even so, we're thinking of giving her the option of a sunset bay tour flight or sunset schooner sailing on the bay. The schooner sailing would obviously not be piloted by me 😉.
How have others approached this prospect? We don't want to dismiss the idea because its a wonderful thing to give someone the gift of flight, especially if they are the type that might love it and simply haven't been in the right circles to have had the opportunity.
Thoughts?
A friend passed away last year. The cause of death was listed on the coroner's report as: dehydration. There were no other details.
For sake of simplicity and privacy, we'll say that the date of discovery of death was Feb 4th. The police report indicated that the death may have occurred between Feb 1 at 00:00 and Feb 4th at 10:15am.
Female, late thirties. Hotel room. From what I understand she was in fairly decent health.
Can someone help me better understand what could mean? I don't believe that she simply hadn't been having enough water. I guess my two fears were alcohol poisoning or some sort of drug overdose.
I guess one final question: is dehydration used as a catch-all that when things are unclear but no foul play is suspected, or as a delicate way of protecting someone's legacy?
Thank you in advance for your kindness, empathy, and knowledge.
Update:
It seems like the medical examiner's report is what is necessary to better understand things. I will not be requesting that. I don't care to go down that road as I don't believe it would be helpful for me personally. I might change my mind at some later point, we'll see.
Knowing a bit more about some tangential details that I have not revealed (e.g. how the obit was written, and how the celebration of life was conducted), it seems whatever happened would fall into what those who speak Commonwealth English would call "death by misadventure."
Thank you very much to those who replied.
I plan to get rid of my car through the Bureau of Automotive Repair/CA DMV auto retirement program later this year. Can I register it as planned non-operation and still participate in the program or does it have to be fully registered? Thanks.