I went to bed alone...

I was 24(M), had been living in my first place alone for about a year. I was working crazy hours, 12 hour days, 6-7 days a week, making more money than I had in my entire life. Basically work, eat, sleep, clean up, rinse repeat. Didn't have time for a significant social life so never had company over.
One afternoon (I worked nights so slept during the day) I woke up, still half asleep as was often the case when I'm exhausted. I had went to bed alone as usual...but I noticed something resting on my arm. Slowly waking up some more I got a clearer picture of what was resting on my arm...it was a hand...and it was a dude's hand. I literally jumped out of bed and was ready to fight, fists up, trying to figure out what the f was going on. But I didn't have "fists" up, I had a fist up since my other arm was completely numb and dangling at my side flopping around. The hand on my arm was my own lol.

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 8 days ago
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Porch pirates...

Porch pirates stole my packages yesterday (~$20 worth of hot sauce and mouthwash). Was pissed, first time they got me. Got online, reordered the stuff, moved on with my day.
Later, noticed a couple packages on the counter...that ended up containing some hotsauce and mouth wash. I live alone, I don't remember going outside and picking up the packages. This getting old thing sucks.

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 20 days ago

Custom parking agreements?

How normal/common are custom parking agreements? Something where the owner allows you to just pop in and park for the night or a few days. Hand them an "Assumption of Risk and Release of Liability Agreement" signed and just hang out?
I know of a bunch of places that are just private unused land or grazing land that would be perfect to just park next to the creek for a couple days but wouldn't want the owners to have any risk.

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 1 month ago

Airfryer grease pour?

My previous air fryer had a detachable inner basket, so I'd pop it out and empty my dinner onto the plate, no fuss, no mess, etc.
Had to replace it with one that doesn't have the inner basket. So if I pull the new fryer's basket and empty it's contents onto the plate, the oil/grease come out also.
Is there a trick to this? I can use tongs or a spatula but that's just one more thing to clean.

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 1 month ago

KFC Popcorn Chicken

I ate fast food daily most of my adult life (stopped about a decade ago). The KFC popcorn chicken was a go to for a while. But it was the original version when first released, buttery, sharp crusty spikes for breading. When they changed it to the chicken marbles, I stopped going.
Got a nostalgia thing yesterday and decided to grab some since they were rereleased. I buy frozen popcorn chicken now, found a great brand that's very tasty in my opinion, so thought I'd compare the two also. Hands down, the frozen ones win lol. KFC is about 4x or more cost wise. KFC has a chalky taste that hide all the spices. Wish they'd go back to the original version, but that's probably a pipe dream.

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 1 month ago

Anya Taylor-Joy as Samantha (Dungeon Crawler Carl)

Just her disembodied head (green screen).
Idea popped into my brain as I am finishing up Bedlam Bride

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 2 months ago

Computer setups

I'm ex-IT and my home computer setup has a solid laptop and multiple big-ass monitors and I'm on it pretty much all waking hours. Do any of the full time van lifers out there have larger scale computer setups? What are the tips and tricks? Can you use it normally or do you have to ration due to power? or did you build your power system with the computer setup in mind? I've seen some videos on the new AR goggles, cool stuff, anyone use them instead of a standard monitor setup?

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 2 months ago

Driverless Cabs?

Just saw a white car, had "Yellow Cab" and "100" on its side, drive in front of my place, pause, and continue. I'm 99% sure it didn't have a driver. Just saw it through my security camera.
Are full driverless vehicles being rolled out around town?

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 3 months ago

Pizza deal options?

Just priced out a large pepperoni pizza, no frills other than delivery.
$36.
Can't justify it (and I've had the pizza before and it's great).
Are there any deals out there still? Days of the week? Coupons? secret codes?

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 3 months ago

I ordered one of those articulating bathroom faucet adapters and installed it yesterday. Works great, can move it to spray water on any part of the basin...and also a lot of places outside the basin! I thought it would be a great prank to point the thing out towards the person using the sink so when they turned it on, they get hosed down. Then I remembered I live alone...
This morning, went to use the bathroom, turned on the sink...and got hosed down. I had left the thing pointed like I was messing around with the prank.

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u/Upset_Assumption9610 — 4 months ago