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I'm 42. I have my first real lesson tomorrow... But practicing everyday this past week and I can't seem to go past 20 minutes because of muscle pain (maybe I'm just old). I'll ask my teacher about technique tomorrow, but does anyone else remember it being painful to start their first week?

Like, why are we reading about passover in September? Shouldn't it be part of the easter readings?

Anyways our sermon was on remembrance and everyone's responsibility to bring remembrance forward into the present.

Edit think not thing stupid autocorrect

My gf was on SSI from childhood until about 30... When she got married... Her husband made too much money for her to get SSI... They've since divorced and she's applying for SSI again... both of the parents on her birth certificate are dead... Is it possible to get DAC?

We put a squishmallow on the couch a couple weeks ago and the cat has taken a liking to it... Humps it multiple times a day, where before he could go weeks without doing the sin biscuits... I'm starting to get concerned he might have a uti or something that would make him basically masturbating to make it feel better... Is this vet worthy? Or should I just get rid of the squishmallow?

I made a post in r/espresso just with a pic of today's cappuccino explaining I can't do latte art, but I wanted to show off my foam dot.

A full half of the responses I got were people telling me I could do latte art, telling me it's so easy, or explaining the method of how to do a specific latte art like I'm dumb.

I've watched the videos, I've attempted the latte art to abominably fail. I'm fine with the tasty foam dot.

Then they started down voting me for explaining my disability so they could understand I cannot in fact do what they find so easy to do.

Ugh... Espresso is hard... But they will pry my coffee out of my cold dead hands

Our society in the US runs on consumerism. People make money because other people have money and spend it in their business.

It seems to me that the oligarchs have forgotten this. They think the stock market is the economy.

And businesses are currently holding the stock market up by charging more for their goods and doing stock buybacks. Alongside not increasing wages and laying people off. There's an entire business model for buying up profitable businesses, stripping them down, then declaring bankruptcy.

This isn't sustainable. Once the lower classes stop having enough money to be consumers, no amount of price increases or layoffs are going to be enough to keep shareholders happy.

How often do you pull your shower screen and clean it?

I just know I'm going to lose that screw.

James hoffman said once a week.

But in reality how often are people doing this?

And I got a breville bambino plus, so it'll force me to do descaling and backflushing every once in a while... It's just I'm not that handy when it comes to screwdrivers.

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Now that I've bought an espresso maker and my first online coffee beans, I am getting coffee subscription ads in my Facebook feed... Onyx, trade, and some others...

I personally like finding the right thing for me and then using that same thing forever. So being able to reorder beans is a must.

But I also sometimes like having a new flavor to try out. I've been getting advent calendars for my drip coffee for a couple years now.

Have you tried a coffee subscription? Did you get good coffee out of it? Was the frequency of delivery ok?

I bought a breville bambino plus and it was delivered this morning... Had my first flat white from it, using the pressurized portafilter and my drip coffee grounds from the store... Because the grinder and fresh beans haven't been delivered yet... And it was... Fine? Like it wasn't bad coffee...

Am I going to get my grinder in and the fresh beans and it's going to change my coffee life? Or do I just have the taste of a plebe and all the coffee is going to taste the same to me?

I really do like the automatic milk frother. That's a life upgrade.

Interesting video about price fixing that Amazon forces its sellers to do.

Just got a bill for $250 for the month of July... I used less electricity than last year and am supposed to pay literally double what last year's bill was.

Vote the Republicans out ... They can't run a state.

I'm on medication for bipolar mania that is leaving me depressed all the time.... Combined with PsA joint pain and fatigue and it leads to hopelessness... This is a progressive disease... I'm failing my fifth medication... My next step is infusions... But I don't see my doc again until fall...

I'm wrestling with the utter certainty that, because of disease progression, there will never be a better day than the one I'm having now... And the one I'm having now is pretty shit to begin with.

How do you deal with emotions like this?

I scheduled a tune up a couple weeks back, picked today at noon... Nothing wrong with the unit, cooling fine even in this heat...

Got a text yesterday "hey can we come at nine?" I text back "sure, that'll be fine." No answer.

I set my alarm so I know I'll be up. Nine comes around, no one here.... So I'm like ok, maybe they're running late....

Gets to about 1130 and I'm going hey, maybe they didn't get my response and are going to show up at noon..

2pm comes around and I text them "hey, anyone coming out today?" Get an answer at 230 "we'll be there by 430, things ran over."

Now I come to ask you fine people, is this normal? Did I just choose a bad day? Should I tell them to kick rocks? How would you deal with just the complete lack of communication of timing?

I got nothing done today, because I couldn't start anything, because I was expecting them to show up any minute.

I had a driver only deliver one of two bags, which left me with just my drinks with all the food still at the restaurant... Got refunded for it... Only now I have to have a code, because big refund.

Well I have discovered a perk to the code. I'm disabled, but my house has steps to get in, my back door has a wheelchair ramp but my front door does not. So I put in my directions that they need to deliver to the back door... As I can't get up the front steps... Well now that they need a code, they can't just drop it at front door anyways and leave. They drop it at front door, realize they need a code, hit my ring doorbell, and I get to ask them to come to the backdoor. Which, because they need the code, they do.

There's no fence, and my driveway goes past my house to a detached garage, they can drive all the way up to the back side of my house, they just, don't. Completely ignore the drop off location request most times. Well now that's fixed.

They literally only delivered the drinks out of a fifty dollar order... And before you say tip better, I tipped $10 for a two mile trip.

Reported it to GrubHub and they say they've refunded me my whole order... But my experience is I'll never see that money again.

Drove to the store to reorder and there was bag one of two sitting behind the counter... Instead of paying double to reorder I just asked the associate if I could have my bag and they handed it over... Said they'd tried to tell the driver there were two bags but he just picked up one and left.

Cold food is better than no food. Or paying double for food.