u/Total-Improvement535

I listen to a lot of lore, seen all of the movies, have read the Hobbit countless times, Fellowship once (sue me), and part of the Silmarillion but I can’t figure out quite why Middle Earth feels/is so empty? I know that Gondor isn’t as strong as it once was and the Northern Kingdoms were destroyed by the Witch King.

The way the characters speak, it’s as if all of Middle Earth is “abandoned” for lack of a better word and there are only pockets of civilization cut off from each other ie Rivendell, Lorien, Dale, Minas Tirith, and The Shire to me seems to be the only place that has several towns or communities within close range of each other.

Why is Middle Earth this way? Were the Witch King’s wars so terrible that Eriador is essentially unpopulated except for a handful of small outposts, with Gondor and Rohan being so weak they’re basically only city-states ruled by their capital cities and the lands immediately surrounding them?

I’ve never done it before. The room in my house I am currently using as my bedroom was a one car garage until it was closed and someone hung up wood paneling. Someone then painted over the paneling so it’s just white painted wood paneling and I hate it.

How hard is it to hang up sheetrock? I’m fairly handy but I’ve never done anything like that before. Any tips or tricks or should I just hire someone to do it?

I’m getting a free a/c tune up through my electric company today (yay me) and that led me to a question to ask. Should I turn my temp up to the lowest it’ll go where the a/c will cycle and can maintain the temp or should I just let it run all day? I’ve heard it’s easier to maintain than to lower but I simply can’t think of which would be better.

I usually turn it up to 76° or 77° when I leave the house that way it isn’t running all day and it can maintain that temp, then bring it down to 72° once the sun is down and it can cool, then 68° at bed time. If I put it at 75° during the day, it’ll just run constantly and never get under 76°z

2016 6-speed with 56k miles and both my drive belt tensioner began to leak and my right rear wheel bearing is going out. My extended warranty has covered the tensioner (but not the belt because it’s a “wear item,” even though I argued not in this case and they still wouldn’t listen) and the tech has diag’d the wheel bearing needs replacing.

Are these common issues with these cars? I tend to baby it since I can get 41mpg fairly easily and I’m not hard on it, so it seems strange to me for these to go out at such low miles. Granted, the car is ten years old so I’m not surprised they need replacing, just a little disappointed I suppose. Anyone else had these issues from their ND?

I also had to replace the driver window regulator but I put the top down at least once per drive so that was expected, imo.

Imo, they’re a subset of sports car and absolutely are sports cars. Mustangs, Camaros, first gen Challengers, Corvettes, and Vipers, are all sports cars to me, just different types of sports car.

Are y’all eating before you go in? I have started going in the mornings (once last week, four times this week) so I can actually get some time back for myself in the evenings but it is tearing my stomach up. I hurled yesterday when I was almost done with legs.

I have been eating something light before going in (a cup of greek yogurt, piece of bread) and my noxivol mixed with creatine as preworkout. I do that before leaving the house so it’s about 30-40 minutes before I start working out. I have been drinking AfterShock during and thought that might be the reason since it’s a heavy supplement on an empty stomach. I haven’t had any of it today but my stomach is still turning.

I am thinking it may just be my body not used to working out first thing in the morning and still acclimating to it.

Also, do y’all find you have less energy/power in the mornings vs the evening when you have been up and moving for the full day?

Does anybody else just loathe taking calls on tires? It seems like nobody ever knows what they want or they need.

tl;dr - neighbors I don’t know and only met one of once are a constant noise and parking nuisance. should I report them?

I am at my wits end. I was woken up at 3:02am last night by my neighbors new puppy barking itself hoarse. It went on for 20 minutes before I put foam ear plugs in and was able to actually get back to sleep.

It wouldn’t be such a big deal if it didn’t happen *all of the time.* They have four dogs (two corgi’s, a mutt, and this puppy) that they just leave outside all of the time and let bark whenever they want to.

To make it even worse, they’ve got two small children (I’m going to guess like 7 girl and 9 boy) that they let run around outside all day and until well after 10pm. The boy literally terrorizes both the dogs and his little sister, chasing them around the yard, making all four dogs bark and the girl scream bloody murder. I mean I watched Evil Dead: Rise the other night and nothing in that movie compared to what these kids are doing.

I have only had one interaction with the neighbor since moving in almost a year and a half ago and that was him coming over to ask me if I was going to do anything with the blocks of tree trunk the previous owners left in my ditch and yard. I told him I would and that he was more than welcome to them if he wanted to burn them, since they also like having bonfires well after 11pm on weeknights, with music loud enough for me to hear in my own house.

I don’t know what to do. I would talk to them but I don’t even know who to talk to. There’s like 8 people that live in the house plus it’s fenced and gated all around so I can’t really walk up to the house. They even leave the gate open occasionally and guess what. The dogs walk across the street into my yard to shit and piss because of course they do.

At this point, I am thinking about reporting them for noise violations and letting their dogs run amuck. They also have a tendency to park two cars across the street from my driveway, making it hard for me to get in and out of.

They’re the only people on the street that do this. My next door neighbor and their next door neighbor never make a peep and I am quiet myself. I guess they can’t read the room.

I don’t really care about them getting upset since I don’t speak with them and everyone keeps to themselves. I want to say maybe it’s a culture difference thing since they are the only latino/hispanic people on the block but idk if it’s that or they’re just inconsiderate. What would y’all do?

My grandfather passed away back in August and he left me a 69 Ford 2000 tractor and a custom built trailer that his father built for it. This thing is heavy like HEAVY, heavy. It’s got two axles and the tires he ran are 235/75R15’s. I am wondering what tire pressure I should run.

As far as I can find, the tractor is anywhere between 3,100lb-4,100lb and if I had to guess it’s a 16ft trailer? It’s big enough to carry the tractor, its brush hog, and he comfortably fit an 89 Oldsmobile 88 on it if that is any help.

A guy at work that does hauling and such said start with 65psi and see how it does. The tires I bought for it show a max psi of 80 and can do 2,500lb each at that psi.

Sorry for not having any clearer or more detailed info.